Webcam Timershot Lets you take pictures at specified time intervals from a Webcam connected to your computer and save them to a location that you designate.

HTML Slide Show Wizard: Helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures, ready to place on your Web site.

Microsoft pulled Power Toys for WinXP to de-bug them, and re-released them on April 23, 2002. This time, these proggies are available seperately which is a good thing.:

Don’t forget IE Powertoys, a cool collection of enhancements designed for IE5.x but which work beautifully with IE6.x. Find it on the Internet page. Useful, fun and the price is right.

Hide Recycle Bin

Yes, there’s a registry or ‘inf’ file hack for this, but why? Download TweakUI, above, change the Recycle Bin to a folder (so you can move it off the Desktop, like into My Documents), eliminate the icon and revel in your pristine desktop, without an icon to be seen (if you choose). Hey, your wallpaper looks great!

Remove ‘Shortcut to’ prefix and arrow

See TweakUI, above. Don’t hack the registry unnecessarily.

Dig into the system

While there is a code that can be entered at a command-line prompt (ipconfig) which will display or allow configuration of ip information, but a sweeter solution is the GUI goodness of the familiar winipcfg from Win 9.X/Me. Download it from Microsoft, install it, then just hit, Start/Run, type winipcfg and hit ‘Enter.’ You’re so clever.

To access information on your entire system, including hardware, installed software application info and more, hit Start/Run and type winmsd. To access more information as well as change default startup items (harmlessly), try Start/Run msconfig.

Task Manager in WinXP is a versatile tool which displays running applications and processes (ala Ctrl/Alt/Del in Win 9.x/Me) as well as graphical display of Performance items like CPU, Page File Usage and Networking information. Right-click on the Taskbar and select ‘Task Manager (keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Shift/Esc), Try it & see.

To configure virtually any aspect of WinXP hardware, software and behavior, hit Start/Run, type gpedit.msc and hit ‘Enter’ to access the Group Policy Editor. This is where you can turn off ‘Autoplay’ for CD-ROMs if you wish. Have fun in there.