They are not technically science books, but if you can lay your hands on some original Tom Swift Jr. hardback books by Victor Appleton, they can really inspire a kids mind!

The one I switched to when Vern Buerg dropped the ball on a Windows version of his program "list," is called "V." You can find it at fileviewer.com, and it's very inexpensive and works very well. I've been using it for more than 15 years. Rick

Intertec Data Systems Superbrain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbrain CP/M and SuperDOS Z80 @ 4Mhz! 64k of ram! Dual 340k floppies! Learned to program on this machine using Leor Zolman's BDS 'C' Compiler! Those were the days! :-D Rick

Either you have a really old version before the drivers were bundled, or you have a corrupted distribution. Nowadays, the drives are included as resources embedded in the .rsrc section of the executable and the correct driver gets extracted at runtime. Try downloading it again... http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/debugview.shtml[^] Rick

Have you considered the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000)? http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmsde/html/msderoadmap.asp[^] Rick

Demolition has its appeal as well!:-D

I would probably go back to school and become a pyro-technician. I would love to blow things up as an explosives special effects artist or make fireworks. Rick

Better yet: computer programming is delivered via download from this web site at a special introductory price of $14:wtf:

Check out this site: http://www.philkaplan.com[^] Phil Kaplan is a consumer advocate who enjoys spreading the truth about dieting fads, as well as a fitness expert who can teach you how to take control of your weight. I have struggled with weight most of my adult life, and have found his site to be very liberating. While he does hawk his own products, he does it in a very low-key manner. Rick

Download and try EasyRecovery professional from Ontrack. http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/ Search for "Trial Edition" on this page. This software reconstructs the MFT in memory and then allows you to copy files to a different drive. Works very well. If that doesn't work, Ontrack's data recovery services are unmatched. Rick Howard

I called 800-327-BAND and they are closed for the day. I'll try tomorrow. Where was the bird found? (Country, city, etc...) Rick

Sorry for the misunderstanding. You are definitely correct about "A" still being selected. The point I was making is that Explorer displays properties for "B", not "A", which is what I was trying to achieve. Thanks, Rick

Many thanks, David. I was able to use GetNodeAt() in the MouseUp event for the tree to reset the selected node to the proper item. Thanks again, Rick

I have to disagree, at least w/respect to how Windows Explorer works. If I left click Folder "A" in explorer to select it, then right click on folder "B" and select "properties" I get a property page for folder "B", not folder "A". This is the behaviour on Windows 2000. If I were programming with pure Win32, I would just do a hit-test on the item under the mouse cursor, but I can't find an analog in C#.NET. Thanks, Rick

Why is it that when I right click on a tree node and my context menu pops up, the item that is returned by the treeView1.SelectedNode property is not the item that was right-clicked on, but whatever tree node happend to be selected before the right click? i.e. Folders _________ |FolderA| <-- Currently selected tree node --------- FolderB FolderC <-- Right click here treeView1.SelectedNode returns FolderA, not FolderC, even thought the selected node highlighting box temporarily moved to FolderC. Scratching my head... Thanks, Rick