July 1995 / Reviews

Weeding Windows COMPARING UNINSTALLER FEATURES Cutting an Application's Tentacles Third Time's a Charm The Windows 95 Question Round 'Em Up, Registry	The latest uninstallers employ new technology and clever tricks to track the installation habits of even the worst-behaved programs - by Stan Miastkowski
Short-Order Internet Access COMPARE: SIMPLE VS. FLEXIBLE Betty Crocker Couldn't Make it Easier Instant Internet: Easy as 1-2-3 Cyberspace Proxies	Netra and Instant Internet connect LANs to the Internet - by Ben Smith
Windows to the Internet HIGHLIGHTS OVERVIEW BROWSING AND MAIL FEATURES CONNECTION PROTOCOLS AND UTILITIES Internaut Will Make You an E-Mail Juggernaut Who's On Third...No, It's Chameleon With Spyglass You Get Mosaic but No Eggrolls NetCruiser Beats Cruising the Mall Super Highway Access is an Excellent Navigator	They may be friendlier than Unix shell accounts, but these five front ends have some rough edges and problems handling quirky connections - by Scott Higgs
The Power of X for Windows NT WHAT'S NEW DISK-SPACE REQUIREMENTS OF EXCEED MODULES X Windows Performance Under eXceed for NT X Marks All the Spots	Hummingbird's eXceed combines the look and feel of Windows NT with the networking muscle of X Window System - by Steven Baker
Color and a Pentium To Go Index Comparison Awkward At Any Speed	Quirky design mars the well-equipped Toshiba 4900CT - by Rex Baldazo
A Whole Other Galaxy SELECTED FUNCTION CLASS MANAGERS A Power Toolkit for Large-Scale Applications VRE is a Very Resourceful Editor One Planet in the Galaxy	It's big, expensi ve, and learning-intensive, but Visix's development environment is cross-platform and object-oriented without compromises - by Barry Nance
A Less Wobbly Wabi THE 24 WABI-CERTIFIED WINDOWS APPLICATIONS Not Obi Wan Wabi Yet	Unix gets Windows-friendly: Wabi 2.0 is faster, runs more Windows applications, and now supports OLE 2 - by Doug Tamasanis

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