Andavari
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For me, IE is the safest
I'm curious, how long have you been on the Internet to come to that conclusion?
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Whomever told you to download CCleaner should have given you better instructions, however since you're here we'll help you. Please note, CCleaner has a safe registry cleaner, therefore it probably isn't going to correct a hardware problem that may reside in the registry where hardware settings are located.
1. Run CCleaner. On the Cleaner icon de-select the following as it has a bug in it:
Cleaner->Windows->Advanced->Hotfix Uninstaller
2. If you have Microsoft Office installed you may want to uncheck that under the Applications tab as leaving it checked will wipe out preferences in Word and some other Office programs. The rest of the settings should be o.k. to leave checked.
3. Removing junk files: Close any open applications including web browsers and then click the Run Cleaner button. Depending upon how much junk is on your system you may have to wait several minutes.
4. Cleansing the registry: Click the Issues icon, then click Scan for Issues. Once all issues are displayed click Fix selected issues and when prompted create a backup and save it somewhere that's easy for you to remember such as My Documents.
5. Important keep re-running the Issues scanner until it no longer finds anything.
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P.S. Good luck getting an HP ScanJet to work on your Win9x computer, I had one and eventually gave up.
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CookieCop from PC Magazine, however it's not freeware. It can also block cookies and sites for example from ad servers.
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Correct Link:
http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=4432
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Registry cleaning programs can border on playing it perhaps a bit too safe and not finding anything in the registry at all (yes there are those that aren't even up to par with CCleaner's safe registry cleaner), or being a total disaster that needs to have a large amount of exclusions.
The most important thing for users that do go the route of a more powerful registry cleaner is to make sure they've backed up their registry beforehand (System Restore, ERUNT, WinRescue) before ever trusting the backup a registry cleaning program does.
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It's beyond difficult to explain, so here's a Google search to more than a plethora of references. And a Wikipedia reference.
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If you need a DVD drive right at this very moment and can't wait I'd suggest going with a DVD Reader Writer drive because the prices are relatively good, either shop locally or online.
I would however go with a drive that supports writing of both + and - discs; DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW hence you won't be stuck with just using one of the two. If you get a drive that supports writing of both + and - you're drive won't be disc format handicapped from the get-go.
If you can however wait, wait for the next incarnation of DVD that will have allot more capacity, etc., however the price will be the deciding factor when they are released as they'll most likely be expensive.
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What about rounding errors? Since digital after all has rounding errors.
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The one and only thing that ever had me on an every six month or if very lucky yearly cycle of formatting+reinstalling Win98 was due to the VxD bug that would all of a sudden go kaput and essential cause Win98 to jump off the highest virtual bridge it could find to splat itself at the bottom. Luckily the VxD bug fix was released that not only staved off Win98's eventual killing of itself but also made it much more stable.
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...also if your speakers have to be plugged into a wall outlet for electrical power you may need to unplug the speakers from the outlet and then plug them back in. I had a pair of Altec Lansings that wouldn't work correctly if there was a lossage of electrical power during a storm. Other than that the only thing I'd suspect would be the sound card drivers, or the sound card itself.
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Are you using Windows Defender? If so read this thread.
Note: You don't have to be as drastic as deejay was if it is Windows Defender; meaning you don't have to uninstall it, just temporarily disable it's real-time protection to download and install CCleaner.
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Perhaps, and I know I'm not the only one sick of the toolbar discussion.
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Mine is automatically enabled via the BIOS as well.
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Agreed! What would Mike's OS be called though?
Funny OS 2006, ROFL OS 2006.
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I'm unsure if registry backup files being saved as .txt are the fault of peoples systems such as an improper registry setting, or if it's the fault of CCleaner. The only way to really test this is to run some other cleaning program that has a built-in registry cleaner to see what it saves the registry backups as.
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... merge? ... instructions? What instructions?
Meaning he either double clicked the CCleaner backup .reg file, or opened RegEdit and imported it.
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So is it safe to delete, or does it actually serve some purpose?
I don't know. If the xerox folder is deleted it will just re-appear therefore I opt to just ignore it. Those xerox searches done by RegSeeker actually have the xerox reference embedded (the only word I can think of) in those registry locations therefore removing them would most likely be unwise.
Sometimes after you run Disk Defragmenter, you get a message saying that Windows could not defrag some files, and it asks you to view the list of files that didn't defragment for more info.
Try Sysinternals Contig. If you need a right click shell add-on for it I can send it to you.
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Constant rebooting shouldn't be necessary. Although I doubt running programs would cause that many entries to stay intact you may want to cleanse the registry in Safe Mode so that running applications can be ruled out. Note: Scanning in Safe Mode will take significantly longer.
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and i thought outpost wasnt even made for win xp
I assume your thinking of the old freeware one which isn't intended for WinXP, however people use it anyways. It wouldn't make much sense for them to have a commercial program that doesn't fully support Microsoft's current OS.
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I had way too many problems with ZA therefore I don't use ZA at all anymore, and I shredded the installer that I had on my system.
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Offtopic:
I'll have to give picasa a try since you regard it highly.
I've personally been in an image editing rut of having to switch back and forth multiple times to edit an image using MS Paint, Paint.NET and then finally save with IrfanView because it can maximize png compression before I run a PNG optimizer on my png's.
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I hadn't even heard of the Google one until this thread, but then again all I use Google as is a search engine and nothing more but solely because it's search function is built into Opera.
It's nice to know Opera has antiphising built in, which is something I knew nothing about, and strangely on this forum someone links to a site in their signature that Opera barks about on the URL and refuses to load it - whatever that is.
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I do not take my PC security/health lightly.
I don't either. But with software-based firewalls they can be disabled, have files deleted and be silently removed if someone crafts a malware that can do that, they can also be circumvented. Which is the reason I'll be getting a hardware firewall in the very near future and use it in conjunction with a software-based firewall.
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Well I have that xerox folder and I have an ATI display card, so I'd think it isn't nVidia related.
Hmm, this is new my xerox folder now has a folder in it named: nwwia
Although not all that interesting from a RegSeeker full registry search I was able to find references pointing to xerox (the bagmru is probably just some junk references though) that seem to be hardware related, notice the PCI reference:
And nwwia shows up in two bagmru references.
Update:
I did a Google search for nwwia and it seems as if some people got rid of the xerox folder using Sysinternals Process Explorer.
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Windows Messenger is easy to remove, however it just requires a bit of manual removal steps as well.