No more wire worries.

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No matter how ultrasophisticated a computer, home theater, or sound system looks from the front, the back is another matter altogether. Dangling from the myriad components invariably is a rats' nest of wires that are near-impossible to unsnarl if repairs have to be made and, even if you can, often present a mystery as to which one goes where. End this frustrating problem immediately by tagging the various strands with ClarkCable: The Wire Identifier from the Westminster Division of Zelco Industries, Inc., Mt. Vernon, N.Y.

A half-dozen plastic tags come with thread-through straps--similar to those that seal bread and other packaging on supermarket shelves--which tighten around individual wires. Each tag is a different color to make that wire instantly identifiable, and for even greater clarity, there are 12 picture labels--computer, keyboard, monitor, printer, scanner, mouse, speaker, stereo, CD, VCR, video, and phone--and four blank ones to write IDs on. For a...