Here's a trick that I use to quickly find and download files from
Microsoft without going through their annoying registration
process every time I want something. It's a lot faster as well.
First use your Web browser or FTP client to go to:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib
Download the index.txt file to your local PC. (If you did this from a Web browser then right-click on the file and choose "Save Link As" to put a local copy.)
Open this file in WordPad or another text editor. Now you can search on the file descriptions. When you find the file you want to download, use this syntax in your Web browser:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/mslfiles/filename
Substitute the name of the file you want for the "filename" portion of the above URL. Follow this procedure and you'll be spending far less time digging around on Microsoft's Web site and more time doing what you want to do.
