Over the years Cool Tools has reviewed a number of Enthusiast Sources. Here are a few to give you an idea of what we aim looking for. (Don't bother submitting these since we already know about them.)

Peaceful Valley -- Serious small farm and large garden tools and supplies
Chinook Medical -- Medical supplies for first aid and search and rescue
X-Treme Geek -- Tools for techies
Eagle Optics -- All scopes, and binoculars
Small Parts -- Unusual materials in small quantities
Micro-Mark -- Model-makers and miniatures
Plastruct - Materials for models
Elemental Scientific -- Chemicals in small quantities
Ben Meadows -- Heavy duty forestry supplies
Tire Rack -- Automobile tires
Fire Mountain Gems -- gems, beads and jewelry
Cabela's -- Outdoor recreational and outdoor living gear
Gempler's -- Outdoor work gear
Uline -- Industrial, janitorial, and maintenance supplies
Harbor Freight -- Cheap tools
Lehman's -- Old-fashion household appliances and tools
Gohn Bros. -- Amish clothes and goods
Dick Blick -- Art supplies
Japan Woodworker -- Japanese woodworking tools

-- KK

Windows: How to set default folder view for all folders

January 21st, 2010 Daniel Buonocore

I stumbled upon this reg key a few weeks ago. If you want to change the default folder view for all users on the local machine use HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. If you want to change it for a single user then use HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
“WFlags”=dword:00000000
“Status”=dword:00000000
“Mode”=dword:00000004
“vid”=”{137E7700-3573-11CF-AE69-08002B2E1262}”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
“WFlags”=dword:00000000
“Status”=dword:00000000
“Mode”=dword:00000004
“vid”=”{137E7700-3573-11CF-AE69-08002B2E1262}”

Here are all of the possible “mode” and “vid” values that can be set:

Name	Mode	VID
Icons	1	{0057D0E0-3573-11CF-AE69-08002B2E1262}
List	3	{0E1FA5E0-3573-11CF-AE69-08002B2E1262}
Details	4	{137E7700-3573-11CF-AE69-08002B2E1262}
Thumbnail	5	{8BEBB290-52D0-11D0-B7F4-00C04FD706EC}
Tiles	6	{65F125E5-7BE1-4810-BA9D-D271C8432CE3}
Filmstrip	7	{8EEFA624-D1E9-445B-94B7-74FBCE2EA11A}

Step 1: Format the Drive
The steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility. [Be warned: this will erase everything on your drive. Be careful.]

1. Plug in your USB Flash Drive
2. Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”
3. Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window:
   diskpart
   list disk
   The number of your USB drive will listed. You’ll need this for the next step.  I’ll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1.
4. Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number “1” with the number of your disk below.
   select disk 1
   clean
   create partition primary
   select partition 1
   active
   format fs=NTFS quick
   assign
   exit
   When that is done you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.