The Windows Secrets Newsletter brings you essential tricks of running Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Windows Update, and more.

The following topics appear in the free version:

INTRODUCTION
Two search engines help you find Windows info
Query our content or all Windows sites

TOP STORY
Flash ads bearing malware plague popular sites
Just opening the page puts you at risk
A permanent fix is a long way off
What you can do to protect yourself

WACKY WEB WEEK
The U.S. election process, in a nutshell

You get all of the following in the paid version:

LANGALIST PLUS
Three fast, thorough, easy-to-use disk cleaners
De-junkify your drive for little or no money
CCleaner super-scrubs your drive
Remove locked files with Cleanup Assistant
DTweak Pro cleans well but has rough edges
Readers suggest even more disk-cleaning options

PC TUNE-UP
The best — and worst — personal firewalls
Firewalls that pass the leak test
The ultimate Windows boot CD
Make Windows XP look like Vista
Reset a lost Administrator password
XP SP3 and Vista SP1 aren't available on CD

PATCH WATCH
.NET Service Pack 1 creates a tax-season .MESS
.NET 2.0 SP1 wreaks havoc on tax deadlines
Un-botching a botched .NET update
How do you know whether you need .NET?
Installation problem hits VBScript and JScript
Internet Explorer patch may block all Web access
A Vista update knocks out mice and keyboards

About the editors


Brian Livingston, editorial director of WindowsSecrets.com, is co-author of "Windows Vista Secrets", "Windows Me Secrets", and nine other books in the Windows Secrets series. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 6th annual Internet Content Summit in New York City on May 8, 2006.


Fred Langa is editor-at-large of the Windows Secrets Newsletter. He was editor of Byte Magazine (1987 to 1991) and editorial director of CMP Media (1991 to 1996), overseeing Windows Magazine and others. He edited the LangaList e-mail newsletter from 1997 to 2006, when it merged with Windows Secrets.

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