All Issues of Karen's Power Tools Newsletter

New Issues

April 22nd, 2019
- Please don't click SPAM.
- Windows-Key Searching
- Disabling Web Search
- Karen's Directory Printer v5.4.3 Released
February 18th, 2019
- Shift Right-Click
- Replicator Updated
- Text-Only Newsletters
January 16th, 2019
- Font Explorer Updated
- Replicator Performance Boosted
- Unicode for Directory Printer
- Thank you, Earthlings
December 8th, 2018
- WhoIs whom?
- Karen's WhoIs v2.7 Released
- Karen's Replicator v3.7.1 Released
November 16th, 2018
- What is Karen's Replicator?
- Karen's Directory Printer v5.4.2 Released
October 4th, 2018
- Karen's Replicator v3.7 Released
- Replicator Workboard
July 26th, 2018
- Karen's Hasher Updated
- Thought Experiment Correction
June 27th, 2018
- New Power Tool: Karen's Traceroute
April 24th, 2018
- Power Tools Update
- Copying Dialog Box Text
- Windows 10 Compatibility
- Seeking Beta Testers
- Free Desktop Wallpaper
March 12th, 2018
- Where is Karen?
- Who is Joe?
- When will that CD drop?
- How to Verify Downloads

Past Issues

2011

April 25th, 2011
With Great Sadness

2010

March 17th, 2010
Daylight Saving Time · Time Zone Troubles · Zone Manager

2009

December 10th, 2009
My New Connection · Good Old LAN Monitor · Speed Check · Patrick
October 21st, 2009
Version Browser · File Attributes · Handwritten Signatures · Digital Signatures

2008

October 8th, 2008
Version Browser Revisited · What the Version Browser Knows · Version Browser's New Tricks
April 16th, 2008
Replicator Failures? · Splitting the Log · Windows Speaks
March 19th, 2008
Where Did I Put Those Settings? · Along Came Vista · Getting Along

2006

February 10th, 2006
When Good Data Goes Bad · Error Detection · Shortcomings

2005

October 13th, 2005
WhoIs Renewed · Domain Name Data · IP Address Info
August 4th, 2005
Cookie Ingredients · A Pinch of Spice · Calculator Keystrokes
July 26th, 2005
Yum! More Hash! · Almost Certainly? · Verify and Associate
June 30th, 2005
Olden Days · Web Progress · Cookies
June 15th, 2005
Infinity · Adjustable Precision · Limits
June 1st, 2005
Little World of Big Numbers · Windows' "Approximator" · Karen's Calculator
May 12th, 2005
Awakening · Startup Folder · Karen's Once-A-Day!
March 24th, 2005
Faded Memories · Finding Slackers · Taking Up Slack
March 15th, 2005
More Discombobulation · What Is WhoIs? · Doin' The WhoIs Shuffle · Regional Registry Roundabout
March 3rd, 2005
Programming Puzzles · Running In Circles · Breaking The Code
January 25th, 2005
New Directory Printer! · Making Hash · Higher and Deeper

2004

December 16th, 2004
Protocol Stacks · UDP and TCP and ICMP. Oh My! · Higher and Deeper
December 8th, 2004
The Internet Protocol · IP Address · IP Datagram
September 21st, 2004
Marking Time · Big Iron · Little Iron
July 29th, 2004
Lost in Cyber Space · Preview the Future? · New Arrival!
May 20th, 2004
VB at the Movies · A Note about .NET · A Look Ahead · An Experiment
April 27th, 2004
Times, They Are A 'Changin · Time Zones · Karen's New Zone Manager!
April 8th, 2004
Exotic Entomology · Homegrown · Less is More, Sometimes
March 12th, 2004
New Directory Printer! · Making a Hash of It · What's in a Name? · Made to Order
February 27th, 2004
Print Logger In Focus · Priorities · Help! :)
February 10th, 2004
Print Logger At Home · Make It Your Own · Long Distance Logging · Another Cool Setting
January 16th, 2004
Learning to Share · Spooling · New Print Logger

2003

November 5th, 2003
Look Who's Talking · Sharing Secrets · Your Computer's Calling
October 9th, 2003
New LAN Monitor! · Connections · New URL Discombobulator
September 25th, 2003
A Byte is a Byte is a Byte, Right? · Mega-Confusion · The Power of Two · Gibibytes?
September 17th, 2003
More Drive Info · Really Big Drives · Quotas
September 3rd, 2003
Clear Windows · I See Hidden Windows! · Windows within Windows
August 28th, 2003
An Instance · Wakeup Call · Not So Fast
August 13th, 2003
Site for Sore Eyes · Land of Lost Packets · When Good Packets Go Bad · Haste Makes Waste
July 31st, 2003
Test Them All! · Ping · Ping Problem
July 22nd, 2003
Standing Watch · Proxies · E-Mailer II Update
July 15th, 2003
It's About Time · Tick Tock · Epochs
July 9th, 2003
Days of Our Lives · Command Line Fun · More Neat Stuff!
July 1st, 2003
A Simple Request · Unraveling · Two Days And Two Nights
June 24th, 2003
Profile Grows Up · News You Can Use · More Cool Stuff
June 19th, 2003
Bus Review · Bus Drivers · New Profiler
June 12th, 2003
Mass Transit · Port Problems · Bus Tour
June 3rd, 2003
Software Roll Call · Profiler Update · Finders Keepers
May 27th, 2003
Seeing Double · Get Organized · Synch Tips
May 20th, 2003
Colorful Logs · Take Command · Put It On The Desktop
May 13th, 2003
Replicator Grows Up · What NOT To Copy · When NOT To Copy
April 29th, 2003
Talking To Computers II · Command Lines Today · Command Line Detective
April 17th, 2003
Talking To Computers · Cellulose Solutions · Plastic and Glass
April 3rd, 2003
Recycle Bins · Karen's Recycler · Take a Shortcut
March 18th, 2003
Show Stopper · Task Groups · Tasks
March 11th, 2003
Startup · PWShut · Two In One
February 19th, 2003
Sound of Silence · Multiple Drives · Five Alarm Fun
January 28th, 2003
Shutdown Types · Show Stopper Extras · Scheduled Shutdowns

2002

December 18th, 2002
Countdown Timer II Update · Now You See It ... · "Show Stopper" Sneak Peek
December 12th, 2002
Power Toy Gallery · New TLDs · WhoIs Update
December 4th, 2002
Old E-Mailer · New E-Mailer II · New Playmates
November 21st, 2002
Karen's Mailbag · Power Toy Gallery · E-Mailer Tips
November 14th, 2002
Karen's Baby · New Tricks · Everyone's a Comedian
September 12th, 2002
It's About Time · Time Cop · Mail Server Update
August 22nd, 2002
Is Your Agent Calling? · Take Control · Choices, Choices, Choices
August 7th, 2002
Runtime Fun Time · Runtime Files · New Font Explorer
July 24th, 2002
New Font Explorer · Font Files · Fun Font Facts
July 12th, 2002
Compression · Hashes and Fingerprints · Collisions
June 25th, 2002
Locale Sweet Locale · Local Customs · New Profiler
May 23rd, 2002
IP Addresses · ICANN, PPP and DHCP · MAC Addresses
May 3rd, 2002
Chatty Computers · Network Interfaces · Packet Packaging
April 10th, 2002
Winchester 30-30 · File Systems · Updates
March 20th, 2002
Replicator Update · Tags Are It · Profiler Update
March 13th, 2002
It's About Time · Real-Time · New Profiler
February 20th, 2002
Karen's Baby Grows Up · Folder Overlap · Power Tools Store
January 30th, 2002
Replicator Tips · Lights Out · Replicator News
January 10th, 2002
Karen's Replicator · What's A Job? · Breaking Barriers

2001

December 20th, 2001
File Filters · Wildcards · New Subscription Center
December 13th, 2001
New Directory Printer · Associations · New Version Browser
November 28th, 2001
Directory Printer Sorts · 'Net Monitor Tip · Karen's CD Goes International!
November 6th, 2001
New 'Net Monitor · Updated Power Toy
August 8th, 2001
Around The World · IP Addresses · Regional Internet Registry · Karen's WhoIs version 2 · Karen's CD! · All of Karen's "Power Tools" · Subscription Information
June 27th, 2001
From The Top Down · Who Owns What? · Karen's WhoIs · All of Karen's "Power Tools" · Subscription Information
June 6th, 2001
Picking Names · Top-Level Domains · Second-Level Domains · Registries · All of Karen's "Power Tools" · Subscription Information
May 30th, 2001
Country Codes · Non-Country Codes? · Discombobulator To The Rescue!
March 13th, 2001
Autorun History · Autorun Misery · Autorun Control
March 6th, 2001
Flying Folders · Step By Step · Tell Your Story
February 27th, 2001
Picture This · It's a Start · Fresh Start · Tell Your Story
February 20th, 2001
Digital Memories · CD Flavors · Coloring Books
February 13th, 2001
Audio Automation · Non-AutoRun · Auto Accessibility
February 6th, 2001
Autorun · Autorun.inf Editor · Saving to Disk
January 31st, 2001
Under The Hood · Why Software Lies · Driver Dilemma · White Lies
January 22nd, 2001
Stacks · Pointers · Bad Pointers
January 16th, 2001
Saving Daylight · Time Warp · Profiler Time
January 9th, 2001
Frank Lloyd Wright Inside · CPU Architecture · More New Computer Profiler Features
January 3rd, 2001
Computer Profiler · CPU Information · More Neat Stuff

2000

December 27th, 2000
Speech Recognition · Command And Control · Dictation
December 19th, 2000
Show And Tell · Can't Focus · Time Shift
December 11th, 2000
Tags · More Tags · Text Files · Speech Recognition
November 27th, 2000
Power Toy Two · Make It Happen · Advanced Features
November 20th, 2000
Lingering · Stale Cookies · Great Cookie Hunt
November 13th, 2000
Too Much Time · Too Much Time Two
October 30th, 2000
Cookie Viewer · It's About Time · Cookie Viewer 3.0 · The Future Of Time
October 23rd, 2000
URL Discombobulator · EBCDIC
October 9th, 2000
Cookie Hunt Update · Unicode · 'Net Monitor
October 2nd, 2000
Cookie Hunt · The Search Is On · Downloads
September 25th, 2000
Changing Size · By Proxy · Stopping Time
September 19th, 2000
New 'Net Monitor · Memories · More Features
September 11th, 2000
RECALL · What Happened · How It Happened · What Will Happen
September 5th, 2000
Shortcut Cutoff · About Time · High Speed
August 28th, 2000
Internet Blues · 'Net Monitor · Setup Swamp!
August 21st, 2000
What's In A Number? · Mystery Zeros? · New Version Browser
August 7th, 2000
Sectors · Clusters · New Slack Checker
July 24th, 2000
Whistler · Win64 · Scrolling Countdown Timer
July 10th, 2000
The Good Old Days · Barriers · 32-Bit Barrier · File Sizes · 64 Bits
July 5th, 2000
Right-Click Trick · HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT · Do It Yourself · Take Command · Let Karen Do It
June 26th, 2000
Directory Printer · Upside Down · File Types
June 19th, 2000
Mail · File Types · Monica Mixup
June 12th, 2000
More News · Outlook Security Update · Pros · Cons · Digital Signing
June 5th, 2000
Type Mismatch · Data Types · Surprises
May 29th, 2000
It's A Setup · Registry Pruner · Alligators · Components
May 22nd, 2000
Tale of Two Outlooks · Executable? · Email Embargo · Directory Printer
May 8th, 2000
Control Codes · ASCII III · De-URL
May 1st, 2000
DiscomBUGulator · ASCII II · More URLs
April 24th, 2000
Hexed · ASCII · A Clue
April 17th, 2000
Take A Number · Dotted Quads · Hexed
April 10th, 2000
URLs · Proper Protocol · What's In A Name
April 3rd, 2000
Straightening Directory Printer · Old Programmer's Trick
March 13th, 2000
Registry Ripper Switcher · GUIDs · Do It Yourself · Mistaken Identity
March 6th, 2000
Registry Ripper Redux · Countdown Timer Update · One More Cookie Crumb · News From Adaptec
February 28th, 2000
Adaptec + Win2000 · Registry Ripper! · One More Cookie Crumb
February 22nd, 2000
So, You Want To Be A Programmer? · One Last Cookie Crumb · Early Adopter · Late Adopters?
February 14th, 2000
CRCRLF · MSIE vs. Netscape · Mystery Files · Kill All Cookies?
February 7th, 2000
Netscape Cookies! · Backup Details · Un-Text · More Gotchas · New Stuff
January 31st, 2000
Delete Button Deleted? · Yuck! Bugs! · Cookie Dispenser
January 24th, 2000
Cookie Cutter · Missing Ingredient · Y2K Thanks
January 18th, 2000
Cookie Viewer · Cookie Jars · Eating Cookies
January 10th, 2000
20/20 on 1900 · Font Explorer Update · Character Set & Weight · Printing Specimens
January 3rd, 2000
Pieces of the Puzzle · Directory Printer Update · Heads Up

1999

December 27th, 1999
A Bit on Bits · A Word on Words · A Handle on Handles · Bigger Windows
December 20th, 1999
Karen's First "Power Toy" · Don't Lose These Instructions! · More Email News
December 13th, 1999
The Missing Link · Punching Holes · Mailing Woes
December 6th, 1999
Directory Printer Update · Snoop Scoop · Countdown Timer Too
November 15th, 1999
Deja vu · More Timer Tidbits · Squeezing Time · Emailer
November 8th, 1999
Timer Tips · Timer Around The World · Am I a Registry Hypocrite?
November 1st, 1999
Countdown Timer Returns! · Time After Time · Y6K · Bug Swatting
October 25th, 1999
Orphan Files · Trick or Treat · Registry Pruner Plus
October 18th, 1999
Registry Pruner · Letters
October 11th, 1999
It's About Time · FTP Downloads
October 4th, 1999
A Little More Window Watcher · Version Browser
September 28th, 1999
A fond farewell to WINDOWS Magazine, and a new beginning · This month's new "Power Tool", Karen's Windows Watcher