Andavari
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McAfee SiteAdvisor 1.6.0.23 for Internet Explorer works fine, I didn't find any problems with it.
Dr.Web's Internet Explorer plugin causes "soft crash" in Internet Explorer but doesn't cause IE to fully crash, but does trigger Dr.Watson with an error dialog, therefore I won't use it in IE. The Dr.Web Firefox extension works flawlessly.
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Looks very interesting, I'll try it out today. And no defs are needed to be installed, it's all via Dr. Web's servers.
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Thanks for the warning!
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From now on just visit the official CCleaner download page located at http://www.ccleaner.com/downloadbuilds.asp and download either the Slim build (English language only), or Basic build and you won't have any Yahoo! Toolbar. If you don't want the Toolbar on your system just uninstall Yahoo! Toolbar from Add or Remove Programs.
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So DVD will still stay a long time to come...
Yeah and the price will possibly continue to drop. I remember when I got my WinXP system in December 2003 and was shocked at the price for a DVD burner I had seen at Staples $399.00 USD while a 10-pack of DVD+R's also seemed overpriced, now that isn't even an issue as a good quality DVD burner like a LITEON can be got for around $40.00 USD if shopping online at places like Newegg.com.
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Great to hear!
Keep in mind that some say that running at 16x runs the risk of burn errors. So if you find that you're getting problems you may want to turn it down a bit.
The burn speed can effect media very easily, and burning at max speed is a bad ideal which can be verified using software like Nero or PlexTools (requires a Plextor drive) to check the C1, C2 errors. I personally don't burn any CD-R's over 8x speed anymore regardless of the brand. Also if someone buys s**t quality discs like those made by CMC expect allot of errors even at slower burn speeds. The most important thing is buy good quality discs, e.g.;
Taiyo Yuden, Sony, Verbatim (warning: some drives puke on their blue CD-R's).
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I think the whole dvd region code thing is pure b.s. and shouldn't even exist on computers. And only getting 5 times to change the region code in the drive is a farce, although I don't ever watch dvd movies on my system. There are ways to make a drive region-less.
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go to Administration > Security > Second Tab > check "Block Active Code" or whatever it was called. go to Groups and select "Allow Active Code". now put in some website that you know has a flash file on it. go back to Security's second tab and then next to the checkbox, select "Allow Active Code". Go to that website and try to see if the .swf files will be blocked. i've tried this and it doesn't work. it ALWAYS blocks flash no matter what you do. well, except if you uncheck the Block Active code
Well allot of the changes that take place in it can only be activated by:
1. Pressing Allow All (which disables the firewall)
2. Then re-enabling it.
Aside from the problems I had with it disabling it and re-enabling it didn't sound like a good ideal to me.
Also I was wondering if it was really "free" as I seem to remember it as a commercial application somewhere, yet the website stated it as free. Who knows.
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it had quit reading the blue discs that the early ps2 games were on.(btw what were those? Are they just blue dvds?)
They are CD's. And "adjusting" the unit to read them isn't really necessary and could be risky. When I had a few of those (ended up selling them) from a game pack I bought (4 games for $39.99) I found out that the trick to get them to load correctly was to:
Go into the area that shows the memory cards, load the disc or reload it from there until it shows on screen as being detected, and then click the disc to start the game.
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Regardless of the disc format the one drawback is still the possibility of damaging the disc. Well hopefully they will create the discs with the new self-healing plastics which are supposedly not too far off from making it into consumer products.
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However, back when the PS2 came out there was an rumor where the DVD reader would go bad because people were playing DVD movies with it. Well, those geniuses who said that didn't realize that the games you play in the PS2 were also on DVD media, so it made no difference at all.
That's because many people didn't know about disassembling it (will void the warranty) and lubricating the DVD drive mechanism two metal rails so that it can slide back and forth smoothly without high friction. It however highly depends upon how much usage the system gets before it's a noticable problem, the longest I've went is one year before having to service mine. I lubricate the rails when I notice cleaning a disc doesn't remedy loading problems, and it has always solved that particular and only PS2 issue I've ever had 100% of the time.
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So it is generally accepted as being a reasonably good/safe trustworthy software then, I vaguely remember some doubts on here about it when it first appeared.
It is a legit anti-spyware application. I've had it installed since the member Humpty on here mentioned it and I immediately checked it out - first looking on the web to see if it was legit at SpywareWarrior.com, etc., and the results led to me to downloading, installing, and using it. I however won't let it touch my Win98 machine since the processor is slow which results into scans taking over one full hour - I'm not that patient, however on my WinXP machine a thorough/full scan takes 25 minutes which is o.k.
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I must say though I like ewido better than it, or any other anti-spyware app.
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I don't think it needs any drivers or anything. Just unplug the Pioneer and put in the NEC.
Exactly. Those OS requires on CD/DVD burners are for the included software not the drive itself, and btw the included software is usually some crippled version without all the bells and whistles of the commercial version. You can use any burning software you wish, browse the Freeware thread to find one to your liking as there are many posted in there with good descriptions, I personally use Burnatonce (freeware)
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But I will continue to use it as part of the war on terror . . . whoops spyware.
Not far off, some malicious software is seen as Cyber Terrorism!
SUPERAntiSpyware I've found is best on a system with a good amount of processing power hence try it on an old Pentium II @ 400Mhz and you might as well eat a full course meal, and then walk the dog and it will still be scanning, that is if you've chosen to do the thorough/full scan.
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I have a WinRAR backup profile set to auto-magically backup all the Firefox settings on my system to a .rar archive. That's how I used to backup Opera's settings too, works like a charm. A batch file would work (albeit all the copying info has to be entered spot-on perfect) to copy the files to a mirrored folder with the same directory structure or to an external medium like memory card, USB key, floppy diskette, etc.
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I just installed the Firefox Extension Backup Extension ("FEBE") and whoa, it kicks my backup method straight in the balls being that it can backup the whole profile, and even better restore it too. Thanks for the link to that!
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This may be helpful for people who maintain a collection of HOSTS files.
I use three rather large hosts files; my homemade hosts file, hpHOSTS, and MVPS and to combine all of them, and install them, and reboot Windows (although I use my own written restart program), I do this via a command prompt:
This is just how to combine them:
copy "my hosts file.txt"+"hpHOSTS file.txt"+"MVPS hosts file.txt" "HOSTS"
This of course works with other files as well, e.g.;
copy "text file a.txt"+"text file b.txt" "text file.txt"
I believe it also works on mp3's according to some old audio forum discussion from years ago, but immediately afterwords you'd have to rebuild the mp3 header information in something like foobar2000 or vbrfix.
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ERUNT is a registry backup program.
Some more info/usage of it:
How to restore the ERUNT registry backups:1. Open the folder with the date you want to restore the Windows registry to.2. Run the file named ERDNT.EXE from that folder.3. You will be asked to restart Windows, do so immediately when prompted. When your computer starts the registry will be restored.----------Why use the ERUNT and the ERUNT registry backups?- Backup is simple and very fast.- Restoration is simple and very fast.- You'll have a known good backup of the registry.- Completely restoring the registry is an easy way to get rid of problematic software.- Allows you to try out trial software for a few hours, then uninstall it, followed by restoring the registry. This way you can try out software and completely remove it's traces from the Windows registry.- Windows XP System Restore doesn't necessarily completely restore the registry to a previous point, hence it takes into account certain changes. If you've installed some software that has really caused you severe problems, System Restore "may" or "may not" help.----------How many ERUNT registry backups should I keep?- It's recommended that you maintain at least five to seven backups, as it can take several days before you realize an installed program is causing problems on your system.- You should create a backup everyday if you don't have ERUNT configured to automatically make daily backups on its own.----------How big are the ERUNT registry backups? To find out right click a backup folder and select properties. Since the Windows XP registry is huge even if you don't have allot of software installed the backups will use allot of disk space really fast if you create too many backups.----------How do I remove old backups I no longer need? Right click the folder containing the backup you no longer wish to keep and select delete. The backup will be sent to the Recycle Bin where you can permanently delete it.----------I don't want to delete the backups, but how canI make the backups smaller? Use your installed ZIP software right click each folder individually and ZIP them, this will greatly reduce the filesize. You can then delete each of the raw uncompressed backup folders. To restore the registry using a compressed backup just extract it into a temporary working folder such as C:\TEMP and then delete the extracted files after ERUNT restarts your system after restoring the Windows registry.
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I don't use opera myself but wondered if this was of interest to any users
I don't use it anymore either, I'm a 100% Firefox user now after Firetune seems to really be working with the new version.
Even with an Opera backup it has the ability with new versions to mess up settings which is one thing I started to not like about it, that and it won't even use my adblocking software anymore.
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Seems not so much new stuff...
Think of it like a Porsche 911 which has incremental improves, however nonetheless it improves little by litte.
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That's the reason I have automatic updates set to notify instead of being fully automatic because I've seen far too many times where the updates fail to install, and being on dial-up I don't have the patience to keep re-downloading the updates. When automatic updates notifies me of an update I launch IE and visit MS Updates which has only failed to install two updates over the last three years which of course I had to download manually from MS Downloads.
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Doesn't the board automatically edit those 4 letter words?
Hell no!
Well at least some four letter words which really aren't even considered "swearing" anymore, this ain't the 1950's.XBox 720? What happened to the other 719?
360x2=720
I would hope that gaming consoles would at least be able to double their power in five years. But then again in only a few years the PS3 is what 20x more powerful than it's predecessor the PS2.
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Downloaded and upgraded! Thank you MrG!
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Quote:
"but at the same time it's a concern about the quality of [Microsoft's] code."
More than a concern, MS must be cursed but then again Windows is the most used OS worldwide. If it were some little known OS only used by say a few hundred thousand people the holes would probably go unnoticed for several years.
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Yeah and the funny thing was when updating on Tuesday I noticed just about every updated had the exact same description which I thought was rather odd.
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Lord knows we dialup users have a whole lot of unused bandwidth!
Although meant to be funny there is unused bandwidth (albeit I wouldn't say allot for us dial-up users), for instance when reading a webpage that takes some seconds to some minutes thus the bandwidth isn't being used. However that "Background Intelligent Transfer" is slower than anything I've ever seen, at least on dial-up it is.
Well at least some four letter words which really aren't even considered "swearing" anymore, this ain't the 1950's.
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I think it would be useful if it would:
A: Do things like it currently does e.g.; it quickly loads the list with no delays.
B: Had a button to click that would show the extended info you guys are requesting.
C: If it could hide things that are justs sub-components of an application not the whole application, e.g.; for instance Kodak EasyShare software installs allot of components/drivers that CCleaner lists as uninstallable. These sub-components are of course uninstalled by the main Kodak EasyShare uninstall program. Windows own built-in uninstaller doesn't list such sub-components.