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CeeCee

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  1. They (NG) have now made a correction:

     

    CORRECTION (January 4, 2008): An earlier version of this page implied that Finland is home to wild polar bears. However, the only polar bears in this northern European country are in captivity.

  2. the videos don't show for me

    When i posted that message, it didn't work for me either. I now disabled Ad Muncher to see it. I based my message to local afternoon paper news. After i now see the actual video, i have to make this correction: Video clip let's you understand, that there's wild polar bears in Finland, but actually we got them only in Ranua zoo.

  3. Settings in CCleaner should be in that way, so that beginners don't get any bad surprises on their first usage.

    That's true. Most (avarage) users just hits the "Run" button, without furthermore knowledge (or interest). But in my opinion, i.e. cookies and browser cache are very important to delete, at least every once a while.

     

    And also... I can't understand, that Windows build-in cleanup utility let's you delete "Downloaded Program Files" by default... DPF are not temporary files, for example Java- and Flash ActiveX components. It wouldn't be nice to reinstall those components, after every time you have ran the cleanup utility.

  4. -I suppose these remaining Symantec and Norton entries aren't hurting anything in that regard. But, should they still be there?

     

    -Is it appropriate and safe to delete those folder and "string" entries that have the words "Symantec" and "Norton" in them based on my registry search? Or should I leave well-enough alone and not worry about it?

    -Well, most likely they won't hurt, but it's still good to delete them.

     

    -Yes it is, if don't got any other Symantec or Norton products on your computer, where those registry entries could refer to. You should leave them alone, if you are not sure are they safe to delete. You can also make a backup of the key, just in case; Right click the key, that you're about to delete and select "Export".

     

    I bumped from time to time entries, referring to programs, that i have already removed. Registry cleaners are not able to locate all the invalid/unneeded entries.

  5. Why not! It costs nearly nothing to do with what CD-R prices are now. Also you could play the backup instead of the original and get it all scratched up, or lost and still have the original stored away safely.

    Hmmm... Maybe it's not an bad idea after all... You could take a backup CD, if you want to take the CD with you somewhere and not worry about, if it get lost.

  6. Looks like the font in those programs is in bold. Right click your desktop, select properties, go to the 'Appearance' tab and click 'Advanced'. Then check there whether any of the window text sections have bold font selected.

     

    I have already offered that suggestion in my first message.

     

    I think it's a font problem. Your font, especially title bar font seems to be a rather big. Right click your desktop and select Properties, go to Appearance tab and click Advanced. You can change your font sizes there.
  7. What happens if you disable Themes service? Do what i said in my second message, but this time double click the 'Themes' service. Then change 'startup type' to "Disabled" and hit the STOP button. Finally hit OK to exit. After that Windows classic theme will show up. Check if the problem still occurs.

     

    To get XP blue theme back, change startup type to Automatic and hit the Start button and ok.

  8. That tweak just disables prefetch - Windows only recognises a value between 0-3 (0 = Disabled, 1 = Application Launch Prefetch, 2 = Boot Prefetch, 3 = Prefetch All)

    I was about to say the same thing in my earlier message. If you think a little, setting the value to 5 makes no sense, since there's only values 0-3 to play with. I don't think, that Windows really recognize values above that.

  9. ...memory optimizing software and prefetch hacks don't do much.

    I agree, especially those prefetch registry "tweaks". They don't do a s*it. I have tried those tweaks back in the day, but ended up to disabling prefetching completely. Benefit of prefetching is really minimal (IMO).

     

    Same applies to connection optimizers also. I tried some "optimizer" with my previous 98SE machine and connection came terrible slow. This is also just my opinion, basing to my own experiences.

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