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Yes they are. Option 2 checks for bad sectors too, so it's much longer scan.

Yes, quality of the saved images, is not the best possible, but otherwise IrfanView is good program. Quality is good enough for me. Mostly i use IrfanView for pasting and saving screenshots, resizing- and cropping images. It's also my default image viewer. Btw, if you save to GIF format, image is not so blurry, than when saving to JPEG format. Though quality is not perfect in GIF format either, but like i said, less blurry/messy.

Do you run it on all your hard drives (if you got several), or just on one where OS is?

You should run a registry defrag, if lot of entries are removed from the registry. I.e, if you remove some program and it leaves a lot of leftover reg. entries, that you delete after running a registry cleaning software. Otherwise, there's not so big need for registry optimizing. From 'Free Registry Defrag' site: ...when information is deleted from the registry, holes are left which fragment the data within the registry. Registry compacting optimizes your registry by removing gaps and wasted space... The improvement (%), depends what and how much registry entries is removed. Some entries left more slack space than others. Comparing NTREGOPT to Free Registry Defrag, FRD is better, because there's analyze option.

Hope you don't mind, that i ask this question here? So, how often you folks run a chkdsk (error checking) on your hard drives?

For EpoX MB's, there's a utility called USDM. http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/utility_software.php?page=2

Yes, i.e. JKDefrag being so good and popular, i don't see much need for this new product. Atleast for those who already uses JKDefrag. But i think that there's a place for this new product also.

locate dead pixels more easily on your LCD monitor: http://www.laptopshowcase.co.uk/downloads.php?id=1 This is a dead pixel test program. It allows you to easily test your LCD screen for dead pixels.

My new desktop:

DennisD: Wow, what a scenery. So peaceful and relaxing.

Great news (not so new) for Opera users: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/kestrel-is-coming Opera 9.5 will contain many cool new features, improvement of existing features... If you like speed, we've got good news for you! Opera 9.5 will be much faster...

Yes, it's great. Light and simple, but very practical at the same time. Here's a little trick for Opera users: http://www.aimwell.org/Help/Tips/tips.html#Graphics Screenshot from my Opera: http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07290/operaview.jpg

IrfanView: http://www.irfanview.com/

Otherwise nice, but all those icons on desktop kinda ruins the general look. Make a folder to desktop and put some icons there. Keep most used on desktop or put to quicklaunch. My current desktop: http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07296/dektopdragon.jpg

It's maybe old, but it atleast shows if your 3rd party firewall is working correctly (warns about and blocks outgoing connections).

Glad to hear!

Test that your firewall doesn't leak: http://www.grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm When you start a test, LeakTest program tries to connect GRC.com Web Server. Your firewall should right a way warn about this outbound connection. Just do not allow that outgoing connection and LeakTest is successfully finished. You should always have a decent firewall, that warns about outbound connections too. Let say you i.e. got a virus on your system, that takes connection to hackers server. You don't wanna that to happen.

Try to use command prompt to launch that "setup" program. Open cmd (Start>Run>cmd). Then type d:. After that type setup. Of course you have to press "Enter" after all typed commands.

It's kind of funny, that in my language Piri is a "nick name" for amphetamine.

Strange, i think it should be excatly opposite. Spin slow first and when computer heats up more, then spin faster. That's normal behaviour on some case fans. I got fan that always spin at same speed.

Direct link to image is this: http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image1rz0.jpg When you double click that "setup" icon , does installing DOS prompt come then?

Glad that you solve it, but it basicly made my help useless.

DennisD, yes you can do it with many programs, but it's so easy and fast to do via registry and you don't have download any programs for one simple reg tweak.

Are you sure that you go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER and NOT to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? When you find it, double click EnableBalloonTips and change value data from 1 to 0 and hit Ok. Then close registry editor. You maybe have to reboot computer to make changes affect.

How come so long?? How much stuff you got in My documents folder?