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  1. No! And if I did the translation the whole of France would laugh me to death.

     

    You misunderstood my first post, I was merely trying to translate your first post so that English speaking members could understand what you had wrote, as it seemed significant and important.

  2. They were saying on a news channel today (don't remember which one) that if it hits New Orleans the city could be under water for six months, and that every building would have to be inspected to determine if they'd still be safe or a total loss.

     

    Ocean weather conditions (hurricane, typhoon) and other ocean related catastrophes such as the Decemember 26, 2004 tidal wave's are a wake up call to people living around the coastline's of the world.

  3. Try thinking of spyware and then it all fits together.

     

     

     

    That's happened before with rip-off's of Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, CDex, etc. It can also be because someone is lacking in the ability or creativity to create something completely unique so they instead copy bit's and pieces from another app's look. Copying or should I say mimicking isn't just a software issue as it has been going on for decades with automobile manufacturers, electronics, etc., now there's insecure people on T.V. who are willing to get plastic surgery or whatever else it takes to look like their favorite movie star or rock star.

  4. I will try all this out over the next few days and let you know how it goes.

     

     

     

    Please do! I'm very interested in your results and comments since I tried three different hardware type components over the past 1 1/2 years to convert VHS to DVD however all three components failed miserably as each one crashed my system, which was the reason I then bought a JVC home DVD recorder which unfortunately turned out to be ultra buggy, but nonetheless I was able to convert my most favourite VHS tapes.

  5. I tried that HostsMan program and really didn't like it, to each their own I suppose. It made my beautifully alphabetized hosts file a mess, good thing I make backups.

  6. Well in any event it looks like Mr.G should protect the .exe and .dll files of CCleaner so they can't be so easily ripped off. Of course this would increase the download size a bit, and cause the program to load slower, however I would gladly put up with a bigger setup file an slower loading to stop rip off artists that are essentially just rewording a program and making some quick modifications.

  7. thanks...should I delete them using hijack this or from the task manager start up items? Or the CCleaner?

     

     

     

    I would personally disable what Tarun stated was safe to disable via the Task Manager, that way if you want to undo the disabling of an item you won't have to figure out what a startup parameter exactly is such as "nwiz.exe /install", this can eliminate having to reinstalling an application that may not necessarily have a way to configure it to start when Windows does.

     

    Note: If you have a more than basic/standard Microsoft Mouse such as IntelliMouse Explorer, etc., disabling point32.exe "may" or "will" disable some of its functionality, e.g.; the extra buttons, however if you don't use those extra functions it won't harm anything to disable it.

  8. Question two: How can I check for drivers for my Geforce FX 5200?  It seems like nothing changes when I update.  I play Guild Wars (Prae Ttor [DsR]), and recently it's a bit choppy.

    Get the drivers from the graphics card manufacturer website for the newest driver version. Drivers listed on your PC manufacturer website, Microsoft Update/Windows Update will most likely be late to have the newest version. One important thing though is save an old stable version setup file that way if a particular new version is giving you problems you can always go back.

     

    I don't know what the install recommendations are for your display drivers, however with ATI it has always been to uninstall a previous version followed by a reboot before installing a new version.

     

    Question three: Is there an application that will show me where my disk space usage is going to?  Seems like I don't know where 15Gb of space has gone to.

    EasyCleaner has a built in space usage tool. It has a pie chart in the middle, and the directory/folder size listed on the right.

    Question four: Can Media Player 10 play streaming music?  (Shoutcast input too, would be nice).

    Like any modern media player yes, it'll stream formats it supports such as mp3, wma, etc. The Shoutcast bit I don't know about.

  9. 1. Open Internet Explorer.

    In the menu click Tools->Internet Options->Advanced tab make sure you have enabled "Use inline Autocomplete" then click OK to save the setting if it isn't already selected. Note: The setting isn't selected with Internet Explorer's default settings.

     

    2. Open CCleaner.

    In Cleaner Settings->Windows->Internet Explorer uncheck "Autocomplete Form History"

  10. I write-protect mine which isn't necessarily securely locking it which Microsoft Antispyware does (I think).

     

    I only started write-protecting mine because a few years back I noticed when visiting a popular website run a member on another now thankfully dead forum we got into an argument about advertising, I gloated too much about blocking ad's and other sites with the HOSTS file and with CookieCop and not two days later visiting his website cause the HOSTS file to get wiped clean as well as my CookieCop blocked sites and cookies. (good thing for backups), that assclown.

     

    I make multiple backups, one with SpywareBlaster which encrypts the backup, one being in the same directory as the HOSTS file which I save as HOSTS.BACKUP, and the other being in a zip archive that gets put onto a floppy and a CD for later integration into my other system.

     

    If you're talking about antispyware programs adding their blocked site entries to the hosts file, such as Spybot SD I think it can already handle that since it has the option to lock it, while at the same time it will also create a backup of the original if you add it's entries.

     

    Edit: Forgot to answer your question. Yes lock it, it can keep you from unknownly getting hijacked or having blocked sites deleted from it.

  11. Mr. Clean is an idiot and needs to be banned. He keeps posting bogus advice and links to key code sites.

     

     

     

    I already reported him multiple times when I noticed multiple links to one illegal serial code site. It's ironic that he called Mike Rochip a "spammer" all Mike Rochip was wanting to know is if the advise worked, since many people will get something fixed and poof disappear altogether. It actually looks like Mr. Clean is the spammer, along with posting some idiotic b.s. and using abbreviates and slang that seem like nothing more than warez talk.

     

    I'm done venting and talking about him and will try to ignore his future posts if he isn't already banned.

     

    Edit: Basically ignore him, e.g.; don't feed a troll!

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