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Pinpoint Net connection snafus and slowdowns; ten utilities that wipe annoying banner ads off your screen.

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Set Default Web Editor

You can specify an HTML editor by choosing Start, Settings, Control Panel, double-clicking Internet Options, and clicking the Programs tab. But, you may not find any editors available in the drop-down list--even if likely candidates are installed on your system. Choose View, Folder Options, File Types in Windows Explorer (Tools, Folder Options, File Types in Windows 2000), select the HTML document entry in the list of file types, and then click the Edit button and assign a new program to the edit action.

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