Andavari

What do you mean by clean install? The only thing I can think of is your talking about the Emusic add-on which is an optional install, although I could be wrong since I don't visit the Winamp forums and haven't for years. When a Winamp installer has winamp###_full.exe it usually means it doesn't come bundled with other optional to install add-on's, the only expection being when it came bundled with get AOL crap that put links all over the damned system -- which as a reason I wrote an app called KILLAOL many years ago.

No, since you said you were logged on as the Admin I don't understand why it wouldn't remove the invalid data. Someone else had a problem with issues not being removed.

When dealing with any lossy audio codec once the original source (cd) is ripped and encoded to say an .mp3, .wma, etc., the audio codec is throwing bits of information away to achieve a particular quality at a set bitrate. Trancoding ("converting") a song 96kbps or any bitrate to a higher bitrate such as 256kbps won't achieve any better quality than the already encoded lossy source, and has the potential of loosing even more quality in the process. The reason the 256kbps encoding sounds better when directly encoded from an audio CD is because at 256kbps the encoder doesn't throw as much information away. Once encoded into a lossy audio format there is no way of introducing better quality -- you're stuck with whatever quality you choose to encode a song with. Now lets say you had some higher quality .mp3's or whatever audio codec fits your needs encoded at a higher quality bitrate such as variable bitrate ("VBR") with a bitrate ranging from 180-220kbps; those higher quality already encoded files are more suitable for converting into lower quality bitrates such as 128 kbps or lower for portable usage. The only way to negate losing quality for converting purposes is to use a lossless audio codec. Whatever you do I'd highly recommend keeping the original encoded files if you no longer have the original audio cd's!

Be careful when talking about DRM'd music and ways of circumventing it because if someone feels their intellectual property rights are being abused they can and very well may sue people.

Come up with an outrageous price from which you can profit significantly from and sell it on eBay or something similiar.

I also prefer the GUI of avast without the skins, it makes it very easy to use without it looking like some media player. The only problem I've had with avast is the resident shield has never worked with Win9x systems I've installed avast onto, which is the reason why I'll never put avast on a Win9x system again and instead use AVG for those systems. As far as detection goes between avast and AVG I'm not sure, however I have used AVG Free for years on my Win9x system and not once has a virus got though -- comfirmation scans were done with Trend HouseCall.

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Freeware CD rippers (neither contain any adware or spyware): Exact Audio Copy (EAC) Make sure you configure it to use Secure Mode for accurate ripping without ton's of skips, etc. EAC can disable the cache feature of modern CD/DVD drives which will allow for more accurate audio extraction without undetected errors slipping by. It will allow you to auto-configure Secure Mode during the first program launch. Make sure you have an audio CD in each CD/DVD drive before you start it the first time for the auto-configuration. It also contains a built-in Wav Editor, and can write audio CD's if you download the package with CDRDAO. CDex Make sure you manually configure it to use the Paranoia Full ripping method. Note: The Paranoia Full ripping method is completely useless if your CD/DVD drive caches audio, however I often use CDex to rip a problem disc that EAC's Secure Mode would choke on.

At 96kbps you're probably going to have to play around with a few settings to minimize quality loss since you're planing on using the low bitrate wma's to transcode into low bitrate mp3's. In order to achieve this you may have to encode the mp3's at a much higher bitrate than you might expect. Re-ripping the cd's to the mp3 format would be my best advice to minimize the quality loss, of course that is time consuming, however I think you'd have much better results -- quality-wise that is. For mp3 encoding your best option would probably be to use LAME 3.97 (don't let it being a beta turn you off) with a average bitrate ("ABR") encoding setting. References: What is ABR? What is Transcoding?

I agree most of them are crap, actually all of the freeware download managers I've tried and used over the past seven or so years have all been crap. I assume for people with high-speed connections a download manager isn't of much use unless there's a need for queuing a large list of downloads. However for people like me who won't spend approximately twice the money on a high-speed connection and instead use a relatively inexpensive dial-up connection a download manager with resume functionality in many cases is the only way to get larger downloads (10 MB and above) to complete successfully. Without a download manager I wouldn't even attempt to download a 10 MB and above file since I know the failure rate is rather high. Opera 8x versions can resume broken downloads but unfortunately unlike a download manager Opera can't queue a download list, nor does it automatically resume broken downloads which must be done manually. Hopefully Opera will improve upon the resume capability by making it automatic without manual user intervention.

It indeed sucks! .mp3 is good (LAME vbr encoded that is), however for lossy I lean more towards .mpc and .ogg since they have gapless playback. I don't buy any DRM'd music because many years ago after buying just one .wma and after a disk format I could no longer play the file. I also don't use .wma or any other audio codec that may accidentally have DRM enabled. The whole DRM thing is a reason to just go to a record store and buy the audio CD (which under current terms means you don't actually own the audio CD, you have only purchased a license to use it an unlimited amount of times). I also stay away from copy-protected/copy-damaged audio CD's which is just more DRM b.s.

Be careful with RegSeeker, if you don't look at it's undo files you can wreak havoc on your system. To keep it from detecting CCleaner input the following into RegSeeker's exlude.ini file: 1|Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\CCleaner 1|Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\CCleaner\Options

Another possibility is an installed firewall going stupid. I only say this because last night I couldn't access any site because ZoneAlarm decided to block everything, a system restart fixed that.

Make sure you're logged on as an Administrator! If you're logged on with limited-user privileges CCleaner won't be able to remove what it finds under the Issues button in the system registry. As a safety standpoint I'd recommend letting CCleaner deal with the invalid registry data. --- Edit: Forgot to mention: Keep running the Issues scanner until it no longer finds any invalid data.

No, they used to update it all the time before 2002, however it seems as though development has freezed. Although no updates may seem like a "problem" the program has no bugs that I've ever encountered, it works flawlessly on my Win98 and WinXP system.

Cleaner->Applications->Applications: Uncheck Office 2003 Now CCleaner will no longer mess with your settings.

Ha ha, that's what I'm doing with Netscape, the software is only needed to activate the account after that it can be removed and the connection can be made using MS's Dial-Up Networking. I already know about NetZero, I used to use them as a secondary ISP when I used AOL back in 2000, that's one ISP I don't trust at all since it will download and install anything it wants to.

Someone else posted a thread about ActiveSync in http://forum.CCleaner.com/index.php?showto...7&hl=ActiveSync, they too couldn't find the .reg file so perhaps it was an old thread/post that got removed during a cleanup period.

Personally the only one I have ever liked is a commercial one which is Download Mage. The only problem is Download Mage hasn't had a new release since Feb 2002.

Have you clicked the option in CCleaner, screenshot:

Under the large Cleaner on the left nothing is backed up, hence it's all junk. Under the large Issues on the left it offers you the choice to make a backup, it's up to you to select a location to store the backups. Possible a good place to store the undo files for the registry cleaning could be: C:\Undo CCleaner Registry Cleaning or C:\Program Files\CCleaner\Undo Now if you ever wish to undo what was removed from the registry you just double click the undo .reg file. I've personally never had to use a backup of what CCleaner has cleaned out of the registry!

A red X would indicate that some component needs updating "I suppose." Whatsmore to install eTrust EZ Antivirus you must have an active Internet connection since it will download additional components and the signature files.

SideStep is also detectable in Spybot SD under PUPS.sbi, whatever "PUPS" is I don't know since searching for it didn't product any explainations.

Proper spelling in a program is essential, it eliminates confusion, and is serious since people will generally always report improper usage of their language within an application. Also since the CCleaner installer is the only way I know of to have the language file updated it's an important update, and if you don't think it is then run CCleaner, click Options->Version History and you'll see that updates to translations are included in the list of changes.

Should've made a backup beforehand! Live and learn I suppose.