From the 7/30 Lockergnome Windows Daily comes this handy tool: ShareWatch lets you continuously monitor who’s using your network shares… Read more Who’s using your network shares?

ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) is an LDAP directory service that can run on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003… Read more Microsoft’s LDAP that runs as a user service

SecureIE from Winferno Software can supposedly help lock down IE and help keep you from the nasties out there. Lesse… Read more Securing Internet Explorer

Found this in kbAlertz: MSKB article 825750 tells you how to disable DCOM. Why would you want to do that?… Read more How to disable DCOM

And, of course, it happened at the worst time and I didn’t take the time to record the error information.… Read more ZoneAlarm Pro died yesterday

My 30-day eval period for Tiny Personal Firewall V5.0 beta has expired. Now, who ever heard of a company applying… Read more On to ZoneAlarm Pro

Got this from the Windows XP mailing list maintained by Sunbelt Software (great mailing list, BTW — there are lots… Read more What port is what?

Shure In-Ear Earphones reviewed here. Seen those things stuck in performers ears at concerts? Those are “monitoring devices” that, apparently,… Read more Performer-class earphones

Woody Leonhard does it again. In this issue of Woody’s Windows Watch, he discusses the truth behind the story circulating… Read more Woody de-hypes the Windows password debacle

This is all over the ASP.NET weblogs. MSDN has put up this page that lists some VB weblogs. Here’s Duncan… Read more MSDN site lists VB weblogs