You are visiting a web site and all of a sudden your screen begins to fill with boxes advertising. It’s happened to almost all of us at some point in our Web surfing experience.

It is called Pop-up ads or popups. Pop-up ads or popups are a form of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to attract web
traffic instead of static advertising banners.

So how to block the Pop-up’s ? Here is how..

Internet Explore Broswer :  Windows XP Service Pack 2 now includes a built-in Pop-up blocker. You can adjust these settings so that Pop-up Blocker works the way you want it to, in the following page - Block Pop-up Windows with Internet Explorer: Windows XP SP2

Firefox Browser : Firefox allows you to control both pop-ups and popunders through the Content panel in OptionsPreferences. Pop-up blocking is turned on by default, so you don’t have to worry about enabling it to prevent pop-ups from appearing in Firefox. - Firefox Pop-up Blocker Options

Until several years ago, running multiple monitors usually required a desktop PC equipped with a video card for each additional monitor. But things changed now.

Here is the guide from Microsoft on how to run multiple monitors using the Dualview feature in Windows XP, making an old laptop as a second monitor by using some third-party software that works with Windows XP.

[ Guide from Microsoft - Using Multiple Monitors with Windows XP  ]

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to restore accidentally deleted files.

Undelete Plus recover files that have been

• Emptied from the Recycle Bin
• Permanently deleted files within Windows using the Shift + Delete
• Files that have been deleted from within a Command Prompt.

Undelete Plus is FREE Software for general non-commercial use.
Undelete Plus allows the following tasks to be performed:
- Recovery of deleted files from NTFS/NTFS5,FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 volumes.
- Restoring deleted files on Windows 2000, Windows XP,Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2003, Windows Vista.

[ WIndows Undelete Plus ]

Files in your laptop or desktop computer would be lost if the PC crashes(for most after the Blue Screen appears !!)

You can use Backup all of the data on your hard disk to storage device, such as a hard disk or a tape to you protect your data if your hard disk fails or if you accidentally delete files.

Windows Backup Utility
Use the Backup Utility in Windows XP

SyncBackSE
SyncBackSE is a utlity to backup and synchronization the files, which also has Profile Wizard to create a backup or synchronization profile.