http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/wugnet.mspx is the web site of
WUGNET. On this site are the Microsoft picks that demonstrate the highest
standards available today in shareware for Windows XP. Just for the record,
freeware is free and shareware is generally free to try but you are on your
honor to send the compiler a fee or a contribution. Yes, you can use them as
long as you please without sending a nickel for them but I encourage you to
support the persons who unselfishly provide good shareware programs. A number of
the programs will develop into large, well-known products or become incorporated
into new system programs. To cite a few old examples that did so: PKZip,
Brother's Keeper, Checkit, XTree, and TweakUI. I purchased these as shareware
programs a number of years ago for five dollar each. To the credit of the
shareware compilers, their programs have continued to operate from Windows 3.1
thru Windows XP. So, for the most part, they are good investments.
Twenty-five of the best picks for Win XP are featured with links to downloadable
sites. Everything from utilities to games. I was intrigued by one called
Ink-Saver. It adjusts the amount of ink flow from cartridge to printer and
causes those expensive ink cartridges to last a little longer. Check it out for
dependable sources that have MS approval.
Bettie Cummings Cook is Newsletter Editor of the SW Indiana PC Users Group, Inc.
(SWIPCUG). The above article appeared in the January 2005 issue of the P-See
Urgent, SWIPCUG newsletter. Permission is granted to other non-profit computer
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