[Start - All Programs Notification]

Try this tweak:

 

You can disable those annoying balloon tips that keep popping up in Windows XP with the following Windows XP registry hack:

 

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Name: EnableBalloonTips

Type: REG_DWORD

Value: 0 disables tips

 

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[Browser security test]

Test your browser for vulnerabilities: http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/

 

Scanit's Browser Security Test automatically checks your browser for various security problems.

 

Just ran a test with my Opera 9.22. It did 40 test and 0 vulnerabilities found.

[Harry Potter 7]

Not a Potter fan either. Never read the books and never watched any of the movies.

 

 

Yes, same here.

[Update your Firefox to 2.0.0.5!]

Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 is also now available.

[Desktop Icon Problem]

I don't like clear type, makes the text look slihghtly blurry to me.

 

Same here, i don't like it either.

[Desktop Icon Problem]

Those icon text "boxes" are blue because you got blue desktop under wallpaper. You can change boxes to transparent by right clicking My computer, selecting Properties, then go to Advanced tab. Click "Settings" on Performance area and check "Use Drop Shadows for Icon Labels". Hit OK and OK.

[MS DOS 6.2]

I right-clicked and went into Explore, and a whole load of icons appeared. But none of them would work when I tried to click them

 

Could you give a screenshot of those icons/content of that CD?

[New Opera version]

Yes, i'm also mentioned it here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showto...iew=getlastpost

 

Btw, funny co-incidence. I wrote that Opera message today 09:43 AM and this message 09:43 PM .

 

EDIT: hazelnut, it's always good to give link to official download site. http://www.opera.com/download/

[Spell check for Opera]

By the way, final version of 9.22 is now released: http://www.opera.com/download/

 

This release is a recommended security upgrade.

 

Changelog

[Who believes in GHOSTS !]

No, but i believe HOSTS file.

[Online AV scan from NOD32]

Thanks, gotta try it.

[MS DOS 6.2]

I don't understand what you mean by changing drive.

 

Take a look at this screenshot from Command Prompt: http://xs217.xs.to/xs217/07286/Clipboadsrd01.jpg

 

I have first changed drive letter to match my cd-drive. With command cd <folder name>, i can access sub-folder (if any). With just command dir, you see what files are in the current drive/folder, i.e. H: dir. If there's in example file demo, you can start it just using that file name.

[Disappearing hard drive space.]

I don't got that "EnableAutoLayout" value in registry. XP SP2.

[MS DOS 6.2]

The way to run the program is to insert the CD, and then it should run automatically. ...I don't know what the program is called so I don't know what to type.

 

So you can't browse that cd by double clicking CD-drive?

[MS DOS 6.2]

Hi CeeCee

 

I'm a bit confused. The program I want to run is on the CD.

 

So?

 

EDIT: Did it worked?

[MS DOS 6.2]

Try to launch program via command prompt. Start -Run, type cmd. If it doesn't open with cmd, use that DOS 6.2.

 

In cmd, you first have to change drive to your CD-drive, typing in example e:. If software is in sub-folder, type cd <name of the folder> (i.e. cd features). Then type name of the program you wanna start, i.e. demo.

[Dangerous Java flaw threatens virtually everything]

I just upgraded from 1.6.0 to 1.6.0 Update 2 few days ago.

[Disappearing hard drive space.]

I probably will go into system restore and really cut down the setting for how much space it can use.

 

1% is enough. Though, i got SR disabled completely.

 

As for the page file I have not touched it. It's at default or whatever it sets itself at when Windows is installed. This machine has 1.5 gig of ram.

 

As it says in site what hazelnut posted:

 

Setting the "Initial size" and "Maximum size" to the same values increases efficiency and performance since Windows does not have to manage re-sizing the swap file.

 

Disabling pagefile is even better, because then Windows don't have to read and write to hard disk all time, but keeping all the data in system memory. This requires that you got enough system ram.

[Disappearing hard drive space.]

Isn't there a formula you can use to work out the best size for your swap file?

Thumbrule is to set pagefile 1.5X of your system memory. So if you got 512Mb of memory, you set pagefile to 768.

[Disappearing hard drive space.]

It can be deleted during shutdown/restart...

 

However disabling it or setting a particular size "may" also cause some problems... Well at least that's what I experienced in the Windows 98 days...

 

It can be cleared, not deleted.

 

Well, 98 is whole another story... I haven't got any problems with pagefile disabled in my XP. I got 1536Mb of ram.

[Disappearing hard drive space.]

It could be the swap/paging file too.

 

Yes, it could be that too. It might be in variable size. It's good to lock pagefile to one size to increase performance. Even better to disable it completely, if you got plenty of ram.

[Disappearing hard drive space.]

So chkdsk didn't helped?

[Disappearing hard drive space.]

If you got XP, run chkdsk. Right click target drive, choose Properties, go to 'Tools' tab. On 'Error checking' click "Check now", then check first option and hit Start. If prompted to reboot, do so.

[Virus Scans]

...it doesn't really affect anything.

 

Scanning puts drive under little stress, so it (maybe) can affect your hard drives health and age.

[Virus Scans]

I have AVG scheduled to run a scan once a week on my desktops.

 

Why so often? Do you use real-time protection? Do you scan with other AV-apps or online-scanners?