1. Look Ma! No Hands! 03/18/2003 Presented by Chris Smith Marshall County Information Services e-mail: csmith@co.marshall.ia.us

2. Look Ma! No Hands! Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes During this presentation we will look at some free and inexpensive tools that could help you make your computer network more powerful. You will see samples of real situations where these tools can be used.

3. The Tools - An Introduction KiXtart UltraEdit 32 Beyond Compare Regedit

4. The Tools - An Introduction KiXtart Website = http://www.kixtart.org/ $50.00 per organization should be given to a selected charity

5. The Tools - An Introduction UltraEdit 32 The text editor · Disk based text editing - supports files in excess of 4GB, minimum RAM used for multi-megabyte files · 10,000 word spell checker · Syntax highlighting - configurable, pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, and Perl Cost - Free to try and $35.00 to buy Webpage- http://www.ultraedit.com/

6. The Tools - An Introduction Beyond Compare Comparing files and directories Beyond Compare is a utility for comparing things. Things like text files, folders, zip archives, and FTP sites. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate CD copies. Beyond Compare can create a snapshot of a live directory structure, and compare it against the live copy at a later date. Cost - 1 - 4 $30 per user 5 - 9 $17 per user Webpage- http://www.scootersoftware.com/

7. The Tools - An Introduction Regedit Editing the registry When Windows 95 was born the registry suddenly became very important to us. Many times we have to go into the registry to see what is going on behind the scenes. Cost - Free - Part of your operating system package