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Best Free Stuff Online

As e-commerce takes hold and more Web sites begin charging for content that used to cost you nothing, good free stuff is getting harder and harder to find. For our third annual guide, we scoured the Internet, tossed aside the dreck, and found worthwhile downloads.

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Best Ways to Personalize Your PC

Desktop Decorator

It's time to decorate your Windows 95 or NT desktop. And whether your tastes run to sports superstars, great art, natural wonders, or cult movies, here you'll find a theme for you. Though the site's TV-style user interface is more clever than functional, it provides access to volumes of wallpaper images, sound clips, and icons, ranging from I Love Lucy to Grand Canyon themes. theme.simplenet.com

Foiled! Cursors Again!

You don't have to see the same arrows and hourglasses as everyone else, and this collection of 154 animated cursors is as good as it gets. Many classics are included, such as the self-peeling banana, running dinosaurs, rolling eyes, and impatiently drumming fingers. It's just one of dozens of cursor compilations available at PC World Online. <1 min. 154anis.zip, 136KB, www.pcworld.com/software_lib/data/articles/desktop/4334.html

What Color Is Your Wallpaper?

With Randomizer loaded, you'll never know what wallpaper will appear on your screen. That's because this simple DOS program, added to your StartUp folder, copies a random .bmp file into your wallpaper each time Windows loads. <1 min. rndomize.zip, 12.6KB, www.gumby.org/downloads

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