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CeeCee

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  1. I have had Compaq PII, but i sold it, when i bought this current (custom build) computer. I bought that PII as used back in 2003. It was my first decent, real PC (and with internet connection). I really can't call my 386, which i still have (in my closet), a real PC.

  2. I was going to say from your member profile info, however you don't have it listed.

     

    Maybe Davey is psychic. :)

    I wanna know how davey knows that, since i don't have it listed here. I have mentioned that i'm 30 on "how old are you" topic, but didn't mention when my birthday is.

  3. Steven Gibson's tiny utilities help with these:

     

    DCOMbobulator http://www.grc.com/freeware/dcom.htm

    Shoot The Messenger http://www.grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

    UnPlug n' Pray http://www.grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm

     

    Test your ports https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

    Note: Your router or hardware firewall will block these probes.

    Yeah, but that WWDC is also good, and comes with "all in one". It's also just one single file and 50,0kt.

  4. One good thing to do, is close some of Windows pesky ports, that you don't need anyway. Like these ports: DCOM, RPC, Universal Plug N Play and Messenger (has nothing to do with MSN Messenger). You can close all those ports with this utility: http://www.firewallleaktester.com/wwdc.htm (Compatible : Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 server)

     

    But NOTE: Do not close NetBIOS, because you can lose your internet connection. Use this method instead: http://irt.stanford.edu/security/howto/disable-netbios.html

  5. Here's the programs I mainly use:

     

    Opera, Thunderbird, IrfanView, BitComet (0.70), CCleaner, TeraCopy, BSPlayer (1.38) and UltimateZip. And when ever I need; for burning: Nero and ImgBurn.

     

    Avast, Sygate and Ad Muncher are running all the time in the background. I also use SpywareBlaster.

     

    For audio/music I use Winamp, but I don't use it that often nowadays. Also sometimes use Nokia PC Suite to transfer stuff from my phone to PC or vice versa.

  6. Thanks again Andavari.

    Eli

    If you haven't ever defrag your registry, I would defrag that 4%.

     

    After that, you don't basicly have to defrag, unless you remove a lot of stuff from the registry (uninstall a lot of apps, and so on). Some registry entries wil leave more and bigger gaps than others. Registry defrag programs removes those gaps left by removed registry entries and that way compacting the registry.

     

    Edit: This is very important when using registry defrag programs; Reboot your computer right away after defragging, because other wise the registry might get corrupted.

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