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By default, when you hold your mouse over a Start Menu option such as All Programs, the related submenu automatically appears. Some people find it difficult to maneuver the Start Menu when submenus continuously pop up. A quick change Start Menu settings and you can have submenus appear on click instead.

You can configure submenus ‘to only appear when the option is clicked,’ instead of when your mouse pointer is hovered over an option. To configure this, right click the Start button and select Properties. From the Start Menu tab, click the Customize button. Select the Advanced tab and clear the check beside the option to Open submenus when I pause on them with my mouse. Now it will take a mouse click for submenus to appear.

Dependency Walker is a free utility that scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module
(exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent
modules. For each module found, it lists all the functions that are exported by
that module, and which of those functions are actually being called by other modules.
Another view displays the minimum set of required files, along with detailed information
about each file including a full path to the file, base address, version numbers,
machine type, debug information, and more.



Dependency Walker is also very useful for troubleshooting system errors related
to loading and executing modules. Dependency Walker detects many common application
problems such as missing modules, invalid modules, import/export mismatches, circular
dependency errors, mismatched machine types of modules, and module initialization
failures.



Dependency Walker runs on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista. It
can process any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module, including ones designed for Windows
CE. It can be run as graphical application or as a console application. Dependency
Walker handles all types of module dependencies, including implicit, explicit (dynamic
/ runtime), forwarded, delay-loaded, and injected. A detailed help is included.

Dependency Walker is completely free to use. However, you may not
profit from the distribution of it, nor may you bundle it with another product.

scripting related information:






• several scripting languages: batch files, JScript, KiXtart,
  Perl, PowerShell, Rexx, VBScript ...
  
• some language reference material
  
• regular expressions
  
• lots of sample scripts
  
• scripting techniques and best practices
  
• undocumented features, tricks and work-arounds
  
• links to more scripting info
  
• downloadable tools and utilities
  
• titles of relevant books on scripting