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  1. That is strange that it's only antivirus products that won't update. Are you sure your system is currently clean without any hidden malware infection stopping the updating process? What version of Sygate are you using? I ask because for many months they had a very buggy v5.6 available which many people couldn't install because the installer would fail (according to their forums). Hmm something strange, just noticed the last version of Sygate I used was v5.5 now it's the same with ZoneAlarm again another v5.5, all due to bugs though.
  2. 160 GB, which is a pain with so much lossless music. I'm planing on building a system for only playing music with a small LCD screen somehow mounted to the case or embedded into it for my entertainment room. It won't have any Internet, browsers, av, firewall, basically no b.s. to slow it down. Could just be your hearing, not everyone can hear a difference however you'd have to conduct a double blind ABX test to disprove or prove to yourself that you can't really hear a difference. I've completely given up on PC speakers altogether and now very rarely turn mine on which was a waste of money with my now 2 year old system. I now solely use headphones. Rather inexpensive about the price of a new audio CD to moderately priced about the price of a PlayStation 2 (not a rich guy so I don't buy rich guy headphones) the headphones I've used have been better in my situation than any speaker system.
  3. I'm saying it has some bugs that make it rather difficult to put up with on a daily basis, whatsmore I watched it slowly rot and reveal even more bugs on my WinXP system and Win98 system. ZoneAlarm isn't perfect, it does contain bugs of its own however if you use ZoneAlarm version 5.5.094.000 (forget version 6.x) the bugs it has aren't as annoying as those in Sygate. Well to install eTrust EZ Antivirus you must first have an open Internet connection because parts of the program and the signature files have to be downloaded during setup. I'm not sure about having two trial licenses, I don't know if that would cause you any grief or not. About them not answering your emails, well I'm in the same boat they never replied to a support question I had. "Possibly they're bailing out of their support" for the free one year trial, so they can deal with actual paying customers.
  4. I'm thinking it's just Sygate -- if it isn't well then it's something else that's the cause. No other firewall I've tried has ever had such a behavior which was present on both of my systems. If you're using Windows XP make sure you enable the Windows Firewall for testing purposes to see if the updates will work, it's too risky to be unprotected without firewall protection.
  5. This is just temporary until all of Opera 8 is added into CCleaner. Instructions: 1. Open Notepad and paste the below text into the empty window: [Opera 8 (Single User)] LangSecRef=3027 Detect=HKCU\Software\Opera Software Default=True FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile|COOKIES4.DAT FileKey2=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile|cookies4.dat.sbsd.bak FileKey3=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile|GLOBAL.DAT FileKey4=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile|OPERA6.ADR.SBSD.BAK FileKey5=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile\CACHE4|*.* FileKey6=%ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile\cacheOp|*.* 2. Save the file into the CCleaner program folder as winapp2.ini. If winapp2.ini already exists just paste the cleaning routine into it. The next time you run the cleaner portion of CCleaner it will remove the already detected Opera files that CCleaner takes care of and those listed in the cleaning routine listed above.
  6. I dealt with that behavior of it for over a year with Apple QuickTime (now using QuickTime Alt), when trying to access the Apple website, and some other websites such as Staples Rebates website. I had originally thought it was just a problem on my WinXP system until I dusted off my old Win98 system, installed AVG and found via SPF's logs that it was blocking AVG from updating, so I removed SPF and put good ole ZoneAlarm on the system for an instant cure.
  7. Possibly the result of an unregistered DLL, if it is I don't have any ideal which one it would be. Sounds like a question DjLizard could answer in a nanosecond.
  8. By the way those left-over remnants of F-Secure that won't delete can be removed using Unlocker, or in the HijackThis "Misc Tools Section->Delete a file on reboot".
  9. I'd have to guess that is the cause of having Sygate Personal Firewall ("SPF") installed. The final nail in SPF's coffin for me was it wouldn't allow all programs to update via the Internet. If you're using Windows XP completely disable SPF, then turn on the Windows Firewall and try one of the free antivirus products that you liked and see if it will update. If the antivirus product updates with SPF disabled you'll know the cause is because of SPF. If it's SPF's fault uninstall it and download another free firewall such as ZoneAlarm version 5.5.094.000 (don't get any newer version they're very buggy).
  10. A question for you. Does PeoplePC dial-up have any adware or spyware? I'm asking because I'm either going to switch to PeoplePC dial-up or Netscape dial-up since $19.95 per month with my current ISP InterLink is too much for a turtle paced connection.
  11. Movies and music are one of the two quickest ways to fill up an hdd. I was watching a Gateway computer presentation on HSN over the weekend and they stated the included 250 GB hdd could hold a certain amount of hours of digital video.
  12. Lossless is lossless is lossless, it would be no different than burning a .wav file onto a CD in data format (not audio cd), it would still be the same if you copied it back to the hard disk. If you create an audio cd from a lossless file it will sound identical to the original ripped .wav file. You can use a lossless encoding to encode to a lossy encoder, rather it's considered transcoding or not is up to the individual however you have to remember lossless to lossy is as if you were ripping the audio cd to a lossy encoder to begin with. The reason lossless is important is because if the original source audio cd becomes damaged or unrippable you'll have an identical backup without any quality loss. The reason lossless is the way to go (if hdd space permits) is because it will end the endless chore of re-ripping audio cd's when a new codec comes out. I went that path with mp3->ogg->mpc, now I just rip to lossless and then use the lossless file to encode to whatever lossy format I want to use. Of course in order to insure you're really ripping everything correctly without errors, skips, etc., a secure audio cd extraction program is needed namely Exact Audio Copy ("EAC"). EAC however has to be properly configured to rip the audio cd in EAC's secure mode, which is an option it will allow you to configure during installation. However; if lossless is out of the question due to not having enough hdd space then Musepack (mpc) is the ideal lossy codec to use, hence using it's quality 5 (standard profile) you can/should generally get tranparent encodings, while at the same time having a slightly smaller filesize compared to a vbr mp3. The only drawback to mpc is that it isn't widely supported (e.g.; portable devices, hardware), however as long as you have a PC it really wouldn't matter.
  13. No. A. I don't want anyone accessing jack s**t on my system (sorry for the language). B. I don't need or want a lawsuit from the RIAA.
  14. I recommend you read up on what I've discovered over the years on Hydrogenaudio.org, I'm not advertising the forum or anything, it is however the best information about anything audio. Your mp3's were unfortunely not recorded using a high quality variable bitrate (vbr) proven to be transparent, e.g.; undistinguishable from the original audio CD with the LAME Encoder. In the past the recommended vbr switch with older LAME versions was "--alt-preset standard" ("--preset standard") however with LAME 3.97b and up that has changed to "-V 2". All CDs were legally bought from either local music stores, or from music clubs like BMG or Columbia House. Live recordings ain't my scene, too uncontrolled and I can't standing fan chatter, and I say this after making several recordings with various area Black Metal and Death Metal bands. The only downloaded crap I have came from mp3.com in its hayday before lawsuit's and various buyouts, and iuma.com when the site used to load. The only online music site which offers free mp3 downloads I'd even consider downloading anything from now is BeSonic.com. I'm not an audio expert by any means, I just found various sites, forums where myths were squashed like a bug and only truth prevailed. 1. WMA lossless is propriety meaning you'll need some version of MS Windows for playback in order to access your encodings. It's at least lossless meaning you won't loose any quality while at the same time saving some disc space. I personally don't use the WMA lossless format and I've only played with it without any serious content another bad point is it doesn't support Replaygain. For conversion the audio software on the dBpowerAMP website can convert a boat load of formats. There's other lossless formats such as: WavPack, FLAC, OptimFROG, Monkey's Audio, etc., .Google search for Lossless Audio. You can download a good number of lossless codecs from RareWares.org, along with other audio codecs and utilities. 2. I won't talk about circumventing copy protection, companies will sue like there's no tomorrow giving out such information. Sorry bro! Burning them and re-ripping them would be considered transcoding, and the resulting encodings would sound worse. 3. I use WavPack and have been for the last three years. It supports Replaygain which is necessary for how commercially available audio CDs are created these days with loads of clipping. --- I'm thinking you should move our two posts to a new thread so this thread doesn't get completely off-topic.
  15. A complete guess would be approximately 900 GB in lossless music, but I haven't encoded all my CDs to lossless as of yet so it'll only get bigger. Add onto that the lossy versions encoded as mp3's, ogg's, and mpc's, and you'd have to add another 150 GB or so. I currently don't have the hard disk space for all of it, which is the reason I have a mile high stack of DVD's it's all recorded onto. I primarily listen to lossless music on my PC, whilst I listen to mp3's on my home DVD player only because it doesn't support any lossless format.
  16. 300 GB and 1.145 TB isn't overkill to me and some of my other music comrades. I have a huge music collection that could easily feel up some of the largest hard drives or combination of hard drives you guys can think of because I ripped and encoded my audio CD's to a lossless audio format, WavPack to be precise.
  17. I generally do all mine in metapad, or Notepad. However if I want to do something a bit more complexed than my skills allow for in metapad or Notepad I instead use Mozilla Composer which comes with Mozilla Suite.
  18. I'm not sure since it's been awhile (years actually) since I've been in DLL HELL but perhaps unregistering mfc42.dll will allow you to install/reinstall a good copy. Here's how to unregister it: regsvr32 "%windir%\system\mfc42.dll" /u If it doesn't work try it without the quotes, or input the path: regsvr32 %windir%\system\mfc42.dll /u regsvr32 c:\windows\system\mfc42.dll /u If this doesn't help, ask DjLizard on his forums http://djlizard.net
  19. One way which is free is to make sure your PC tower isn't inside of a computer desk PC tower shelf, even with port holes in the back of those desks I feel as though they still starve a system of efficient air. Air has to be drawn into the front of the tower, and it has to be unobscured in the back.
  20. Then try http://www.ati.com/support then click Knowledge Base.
  21. Yes it's only for your own usage on your own disks/discs, doesn't just have to be your hard disk. Nobody else can access it. I use it for launching programs with help .HTM files that must be ran from the original CD. I also use it with an autorun frontend called CDStarter to load a Winamp generated HTML playlist to see all the music (mp3, mpc, ogg, wv) tracks on a particular CD or DVD.
  22. mfc42.dll is a file that can be commonly replaced by many programs and is one of the files I pay close attention to what version is installed on my Win98 system. I've even seen some very crappy installers downgrade the installed version which was the reason I archived a known good version for usage on my Win98 system, however I haven't encountered the problem as of yet on WinXP which is probably due to system file protection. Some antivirus scanners may replace the file as well. Installing the file can be done in Windows via System File Checker (Win98) or MSCONFIG using Expand File (WinXP). I think you stated you use Win2k oli, however for Win2k I'm not sure how the reinstallation would go since I've never used that OS, however there has to be a built-in Microsoft utility for extracting files from the Windows setup disc, etc. Regardless of the Windows OS mfc42.dll should be registered using: Start->Run->type in: regsvr32 "%windir%\system\mfc42.dll" __________________________ Edit: I didn't notice the text under the topic name it's for WinMe. If System File Checker is available in WinMe (start->run->sfc.exe) you should use it to install the file rather it's from a floppy, download folder, setup disc, etc., and then reboot.
  23. Let it send the crash data to ATI or Microsoft if it that's what it's trying to do. Of course it can also be related to something else, e.g.; a faulty display card, not compatible with some installed running software or game, etc. The solution "may" already be available in: ATI Support->Knowledge Base->Troubleshooter At the bottom of that page you also create a problem report via a downloadable utility.
  24. Yeah. WinXP's Automatic Updates, and/or Microsoft Update is good at finding updated modem drivers if they're available.
  25. Well for Mozilla Firefox you'd need to uncheck: Cookies, and Saved Form Information Of course you're going to have to re-input everything after it was initially deleted.
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