Aethec

Gmail has had infinite aliases using the '+' character for a long time...MS was quite slow on that one.

I live in Switzerland, and we have all the chocolate we want here

That's weird. The only difference between Slim and Normal builds is in the installer

Just so you know, as long as you uncheck the Chrome/Google Toolbar checkboxes, it's exactly the same thing as the normal version...

This is a very old bug...it seems they haven't found a way to fix it

This is impossible, sadly. There are two major things in .NET: Libraries and the Common Language Runtime, or CLR. The CLR is responsible for transforming CIL code (the code in which all .NET language are compiled) into native code. Libraries contain methods to do things, and are compiled for a specific CLR version. .NET 3.0, 3.5 and 3.5 SP1 only added libraries - huge updates (WPF made its appearance in .NET 3.0) but they were compiled for version 2 of the CLR, and thus the CLR itself remained unchanged. Which is why installing .NET 3.5 SP1 installs .NET 2, 3 and 3.5 too. .NET 4 has not only new libraries, but also a new CLR version, which means all software compiled for previous .NET versions will not work on it (the opposite is true, too; a .NET 2 program cannot run on .NET 4). Thus, it does not install previous .NET versions since they are not needed. A nice touch in .NET 4 is that the "Client Profile" is exactly that - a client profile, containing all basic libraries. If you need more, you just have to install the Extended Profile. In .NET 3.5 SP1, the Client Profile was a huge mess - you couldn't install anything on top of it to get the full .NET framework, which made it useless.

Same here (Win7 x64) except the dialog just vanishes, no ugly trace left behind

Please read the last post date before answering... That's more than three years old

Put the phone somewhere and come back every fifteen minutes to say "could you please tell me more about that?".

.NET programs will only work on a given version of the .NET Framework. If you don't use software written in a .NET language, there's no need to install the .NET Framework. Installing 3.5 SP1 (~250 MB) will install .NET 2 and 3 and too, however installing .NET 4.0 will not due to technical reasons. .NET 4 comes in two profiles : Client and Extended. Most software only need the Client part (~40 MB)

And then people say UAC is bad...

I'd say keep your existing setup. The Windows Firewall isn't as bad as people want it to be - if you want to have some fun, type "firewall" in the Start Menu search box and click on the "Firewall with advanced security options" (or something like that) result. The GUI is not user-friendly, but you can do anything you want.

The "Defrag" button is disabled when viewing the File List tab - if you want to defrag the drive, go back to the first tab. If you only want to defrag the fragmented files, tick the checkbox in the top left corner of the File List tab and the "Defrag" button will become "Defrag checked" and shouldn't be grey, I don't know whether this is by design or a bug...

No problems here...I wonder if this isn't again some compatibility issue with some badly-written software/drivers. I don't want to be too much of a MS fanboy, but last time there were reports of WU fails, it was because of third-party drivers...

Empty your Recycle Bin. If it's empty, enable system files/folder view from Windows Explorer's Folder Options and delete them from C:\$Recycle.Bin

This is a problem with Defraggler itself - those strings are always in English no matter which language you choose.

Another way to hide data is to use NTFS's Alternate Data Streams (ADSs). However, doing so without programming is pretty hard since common command-line tools such as "copy" don't work. You can still hide text easily though: notepad myfile.txt:hidden.txt will open a Notepad window which will edit the "hidden.txt" alternate data stream in "myfile.txt". Save it when you're finished. (You can create an ADS for a directory, too) If you hide a 10 MB ADS into a 10 KB file, Windows Explorer will show the file as being 10 KB. You have to remember the ADS's name, however

Happy Birthday Dennis!

This shouldn't happen...sometimes the screen about the Google Toolbar (or Chrome) takes a little while to appear.

This isn't currently possible...it'd have to be added in CCleaner itself

Yes (IE8 for Vista has enhanced security features that XP does not allow). Check whether you have a 64-bit version (hit Windows key + Pause/Break key). http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx << Select "Vista" or "Vista 64-bit", and run the setup.

IE8's bugs causing extreme slowness and other weird stuff have already be fixed I'd bet the IPBoard developpers are aware of that bug but don't want to fix it since all IE7 users could update tom IE8.

IE 8 is extremely similar to IE 7, from a user's point of view - apart from the speed increase, obviously. If you are using XP, here's the download link: http://www.filehippo.com/download_internet_explorer_xp/ You shouldn't lose your "Favorites" list (unless there's some sort of serious bug)

Why don't you update to IE 8?

Yes...as always, even if 0.001% of people install it, that means tenths of thousands of people... MS updates alway come in the .msu format anyway