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  1. Maybe these will help.

     

    http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-1...ms-problem.html

     

     

    http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/clear-re...-recent-folder/

     

     

    http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft...start-menu.html

     

     

    I have encountered another problem with the Recent Items folder in the past. I have used a registry cleaner and it changed something in the registry. The Recent Items folder is still there is the Start Menu, however nothing will be listed in it even if I have opened quite a number of files. I tried enabling and disabling it too by going through Properties/Customize/Advanced menu but still I had that problem. I was able to fix the problem by doing a registry tweak but I can't remember how that was done really, since it was a bit complex.

  2. Hi Kwmitch,

     

    I had exactly the same problem ie max 25 cleaned, a further ?24.99 to clean the other 1330 problems!!!

     

    After much headscratching and puzzling, i realised that i had clicked the LARGE 'Download Now' tab on the left of screen. This is actually an ad for another registry cleaner. The one you want is much smaller & at the top of a list on the RIGHT hand side of the screen. (says Download ccleaner now)!!

     

    I clicked and downloaded the correct free cleaner & ran it and fixed my problems. I then used the ccleaner to uninstall the registry cleaner i had inadvertenly downloaded!!

     

    Sorry such a long winded reply but sure this will solve the mystery for you!

     

     

    Tell us what was the exact name of the other registry cleaner you downloaded??? And maybe give the link of the page where you clicked that large download now button. Maybe the guys here can investigate that.

  3. Has anyone experienced this situation where Windows Live Photo Galley gets too slow in generating icon previews of pictures??? I hate it this way and its been going on for a number of occasions. There are images that it can show but most of the images, well they look like numb thumbnails, not showing previews of the real images in small size...

     

    They would show the real image when I click at them, that is when I had to edit them in some way but in the Gallery view, they can't be seen. All I see are these dull thumbnails.

     

    The Windows Photo Gallery that came with Vista actually worked much better in showing those images in the gallery view.

     

    Is there a tweak that can resolve this???

     

    Here is a screenshot..

     

    http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp80/Bi...g?t=1265898229/

  4. Nice try to get me to make free icons but I'm not that nice. :lol: So the answer is no I'm not going to be making icons on request for anyone. I'm no pro at it and only do it casually for myself, but if I were better at it I'd have a commercial site and charge to make them.

     

    I use two freeware programs for all my icon making/editing those are:

    * IcoFX

    * Paint.NET which requires Icon/Cursor Paint.NET Plug-in by Evan.

     

    You're watering can you need is probably a common icon, look on deviantART, Iconspedia, KDE-Look, etc., or search for it.

     

    There's so many free icon sites out there that are bound to have something available.

    I have tried this Paint. net last year. I think you can actually download that from Filehippo. I also used Google Scetchup which I got from the very same website. I did a 3D model of a house with it actually.

  5. I have no claim on talent - but he was failing to recognize some simple effects that another member had done. I'm not saying that you have to create something as good as these people's work to be considered an artist, but his ignorant comments about what the program can and can't be used for are what set me off. I realize abstract art is art in it's own right - I respect it for what it is. I prefer certain types of art, but I can still see art for what it is - a creation that can be interpreted by both the creator and viewer - and having different interpretations is one of the pluses of art.

     

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    AJ

    You ain't kidding there, having read that thread, I was surprised of how arrogant that guy, Bill turned out to be. Maybe he was afraid that his work might get overmatched.

     

     

    I still appreciate things around here that people show more than what was on Youtube.

  6. I read through that topic - that guy Bill is an idiot. Go to youtube, search drawing a car in paint, or drawing the Mona Lisa in paint, and it can be done, it's just SUPER time intensive.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU...feature=related

     

    That bill guy is a full of fail.

     

    AJ

    Well maybe he is not an expert and maybe you can't do anything better than what he did in your own thing so we can't just judge him like that.

     

    And you have to consider the possibility that what you see on Youtube can be fake. You see that they have shown those videos on fast forward and notice how straightly they made those lines? Applying paint layers, barely using the magnifier tool to make a fine coloring. If I was using an average mouse to draw, I can't do that for ten to a hundred years.

     

    I believe that an artist is an artist in his own will and you don't need to make a Mona Lisa to prove that. Mona Lisa is originally by Da Vinci without those fancy fast forward showoffs. If you make a Mona Lisa, it may seem UNORIGINAL so that degrades artistic sense.

     

    Look at abstract painting for instance, you can't immediately find out what takes shape, you need to create your own definition of what that image means and that for me is art.

  7. Go to Options in CCleaner, then you see Settings, click it, it should show you behavioral settings in CCleaner, scroll down and you can see checkboxes for the drives you want the Wipe Free space operation to execute. Just check the drives you want wipe free space to run on although this will take a lot of time if you have all of them checked. Look at the screenshot.

  8. Its looking like something went wrong with the registry. Give more details please and have you made any backups of the registry fixes you did with CCleaner if you did any????

     

    Pinballs come preinstalled with Windows XP and that is not the kind of game that you usually install using installation disks.

     

    Maybe a screenshot of the problem will make things clearer.

  9. I don't even think CCleaner has a "full" version since its free and not paid. I would say, a standard version has the toolbar installer for the Internet browser and the installer for the program itself.

     

     

    Slim version does not have the toolbar installer, I think.

     

    Portable versions are built for USB's. They come in zip packages that you unzip then extract to your USB so its gets installed there. But I have not yet seen a table that compares all the CCleaner builds at least to this point.

  10. A thousand errors, wow that seems so much. On an average PC that has never had registry cleaning, CCleaner would normally detect a few tens or a few hundred errors but I have never used CCleaner on a computer that it detected more than a thousand errors. Perhaps another registry cleaner with a much deeper registry cleaning feature can detect that much however they are usually paid.

     

    CCleaner is free and is perhaps the most widely used and most famous utility software out there in the Internet right now and could it be that someone made a counterfeit of CCleaner, modified some of its features, took advantage of its popularity, then made a paid version out of it so that they could get the proceeds for themselves??? Anything is possible. And this crook right now might have found a way to distribute the fake product into the trusted site where you download CCleaner. Quite an alarming situation, if you ask me.

  11. Imageshack is not really welcomed here for screenshots as it slows down the page loading.

     

    It's really bad for our dialup users.

     

    I thought that this is what our monthly desktop thread was for. Some users have made their own adjustments to photos etc for their desktop post.

     

    Where's you artistic image then lshi?

    Well as I said before, you can post any fancy image you like.

     

     

    OK, lets write off Imageshack. I have samples of my work..... Sorry, I seem to run out of space for thumbnail attachments.

     

    http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp80/Bi...pg?t=1265797927

     

    http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp80/Bi...pg?t=1265798061

     

     

    Mine is making my own icons, and fixing or modifying icons for use on my system. I'm not going to bother posting any though.

    What I'm trying to do is something like what's in this forum. Follow the links and see some examples..

     

     

    http://forum.the-west.net/forumdisplay.php?f=54

     

    http://forum.the-west.net/showthread.php?t=32137

     

    http://forum.the-west.net/showthread.php?t=16986&page=2

     

     

    If you like making icons, then show them here for us to see.

  12. Hi, in response to February Desktops, I want to see some people show off their artistic talents by posting images of graphical material made by themselves. The subject could be anything as long as it is modest and is made or designed by yourselves using any image creation or rendering software out there you can use. You can also edit existing images as long as the design concept is yours originally.

     

    You can also show images that were not made by you that you think is fancy and will attract attention but you have to state where you got it from.

     

     

     

    It can be in thumbnail, Imageshack or Photobucket.

  13. Maybe there is still something in your computer that needed those keys. However, they seem malicious to me. As long as they don't slow down your PC in a significant way, they probably won't be a problem, unless of course they are some viruses that have attached themselves to the registry. Why don't you do a virus scan???

  14. Please don't get me started on Metal hence I'll defend it until the bitter end of time, being a Metal musician and all. ;) For those that don't understand it haven't a clue of just how technical it can be, and it isn't all noise, shouting, and screaming.

    Oh yeah, then what will be the other things in it then???

     

    Having heard some of Andavari's music I can vouch for this :)

     

    How or where did you listen to Andavari's music???

  15. Switch over to the dark side and listen to Metal.

     

    Matters what artists of today you're listening too, however most of the stuff nowadays is just uninspiring crap in my opinion. The popular music of today just makes me wanna hurl.

    Metal is for the hardcore and that very strong noise and shouting, screaming kinda degrades the fine musical quality.

     

    If you hear something like the Bohemian Rhapsody, that is what I call music.Its a classic. It has 35 million views in Youtube. No doubt the greatest rock songs were written in the 60's and 70's and the greatest rock bands and musicians lived in those eras.

  16. You have to say that 36GB is small size in today's standards. Maybe if you want more space, you can get yourself a new hard drive. If you are using Vista, the space consumption would just be massive and freeing space would soon be filled again anyway. Vista also has this automatic backup feature I guess which may be turned on by default. Its on the Control Panel. I wouldn't fully recommend disabling that.

     

    A lot of consumed space could be from Windows Update. Its there in the Control Panel under Programs and Features. You can view installed updates from there and uninstall them but you have to be careful of this. Better disable automatic updates if this is the case.

     

    Also, I suspect you might have two or more installed drivers with different versions for just one particular hardware. I suspect this could happen if you have automatic updating turned on. Just correct me on this one.

     

    You may also consider removing files and programs that you no longer need.

     

    There are more cleaning options in CCleaner under the Advanced category which are unchecked by default. Better have a go at them, however wipe free space will take some time. I do remember using CCleaner on a computer whilst I have those checked and it freed more then 1GB!!!!

     

     

    There is this cleaning feature in CCleaner that says, Wipe Free Space. Better check that and run CCleaner. With the size of your hard drive, it should take maybe 10 minutes to complete. I remember using this feature once and I freed up some space which was a lot bigger than I expect when I was using Vista. I don't recall CCleaner notifying me that such a space was freed at that particular time but whether or not its connected there, I can't be sure. Just uncheck the wipe free space option again when you are done.

     

    However, there is a free program called Advanced SystemCare 3 which has a disk cleaner function. It has this Utilities button that shows you a number of tweaking tools. The disk cleaner function that does some deep cleaning ability which is safe in my view. It should also free some space. Better Google search this one.

     

     

    There is also another free program called Eusing Free Registry Cleaner which I used while I was still using Vista to clean the registry and it freed up a few hundreds of MBs worth of space. However this tool is less safe in my view.

  17. lol Ishi, i think you might of miss understood him/her they want a checkbox at the top of each list

     

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    "better check all the boxes under Mozilla Firefox but you have to do this once you want to end your session at the end of the day."

     

    And if they wanted to keep saved passwords they would be screwed. Also no one has confirmed this to me yet, but i believe compact data base is to do with urlclassifier3.sqlite

     

    Deleting this every time is pointles according to FF.

    Its better when you delete saved passwords so when someone else uses the PC and the same browser, they won't get the passwords. The compact database option just came a few versions ago. I don't know what its for really.

     

    LOL yeah, maybe I missed :lol:

     

    Sorry.

  18. That's a sad story. I agree with the yard sale. However in terms of jobs, I think many people in the US are suffering from unemployment.

     

    However, you should know your expertise and maybe based from that you can get a simple job that does not require much rather than going to a lender and increasing the debt even further. Another tip is of course to be thrifty on the expenditure of things. Get only what's necessary.

     

    There are also jobs in the Internet if you have the skills of course but there is no telling whether they are scams.

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