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To reiterate though, that's not really the point. SourceForge need a smack.

That's correct; good point.

Glad you're sorted

Yep, it is; just another attempt at censorship I guess.

Whether or not it's technically credible, it's the principle that irks me.

Glad you found it useful Tasgandy Nirsoft have some good utilities ... it's worth spending some time having a look though their 'inventory' if you haven't come across the site before.

You'll find a lot of software these days requires it in order to be able to run. Particularly if you're installing software from disk media, it will often be part of the deployment and it will be installed it if it's not already on your system. The framework itself is a free distributable. You may also find different versions of the framework installed at the same time; they work perfectly well side-by-side. These days there isn't so much of a requirement for the older v1.1. You'll find much more software written for later versions: 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. You can check what versions you have installed by looking under this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\InstallRoot. Although you may find entries in Add/Remove programs this isn't a reliable way of telling which versions have been installed. If you get an update to an installed version of the framework (as opposed to downloading a framework for the first time) through Windows Update then you should always install it because it will likely contain security updates; though these are very infrequent.

Nooooooooo!

3.1 emulator ?!!! I daren't look ... takes me too far back!

Ah, just done a reverse look-up on that IP and it comes up: 216.146.35.99 is nx-redir.dyndnsinternetguide.com. I use dyndns' dns servers ... ignore my previous post methinks! I can't find any look-up info for that domain.

Really? I can ping it at 216.146.35.99, for which whois lists contact info as Manchester UK. Edited: but a few minutes later I can't ping it at all!

Yes ... under the View menu

Yeah, tell me about it ... he'll probably get snapped up by some company and make a tidy sum.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/pl...cked_wide_open/

An interesting move. And in my view both a wrong one and a cause for concern ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/26/so...ress_filtering/

Nirsoft's free reg scanner http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html is an ideal way to search the registry. It's very fleixble and lists all your search hits; unlike regedit which can only go to 'the next hit'.

Can you go into EASEUS and do a screenshot of the 'picture' of your partitions? Might be easiest to go from that for starters.

Ah, sorry Bill - I think I've misunderstood your OP.

I don't know, but either of those tools should give you a way of just moving the D partition across (e.g. drag-n-drop in the GUI or similar) thus giving you the room to enlarge C. Those two actions would then be executed in that order.

@wonderwrench - maybe you've already fixed the majority of discrepancies, and the new software you've been un/installing is tidying up after itself properly. You say ".... prove what's wrong ..." but there may well be nothing wrong! It's certainly not worth an OS reinstall.

There is a link at the bottom of this page under the last paragraph 'Builds' ... http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download ... which points here ... http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds ... from where you can download the other builds. I agree it's not very conspicuous!

No wonder the patch came out so quickly ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/au...t_known_months/

I'm not very familiar with these tools but ... If I understand you correctly you have already successfully managed to reduce D by 9Gb? If that's the case, then (and apologies if this is an obvious question but I don't know how familiar you are ) did you reclaim the space on D by moving the beginning of the partition? I.e. you haven't just taken 9Gb from the end of D, thus leaving C unable to expand? If that's the case you also need to 'slide' the D partition to the end of the drive this leaving space for C to expand. I'm assuming with your comment on Paragon's behaviour this isn't the case, but just wanted to check Additionally, I notice you have Pro versions of these pieces of software. Do they have paid-for support or support forums that you could take advantage of?

I doubt it. Some apps (or more particularly certain types of apps) run much quicker as 64-bit, others less so. Much of CCleaner's activity is disk I/O.

Like Andavari, I keep all of my installers. It's just easier to redeploy (onto a different machine sometimes) and sometimes I'll uninstall something only to decide to use it again months later. As you point out, one of the problems that a tool would face is identifying installers in the first place - msis are straightforward but not exes and those in zip containers. And it would have to scan the entire machine, potentially. And yes, often even when you find it it's not clear from the name what the installer is. I have my download manager point to a specific download directory and everything goes there. But of course that doesn't solve your problem ... I guess all you can do is educate after the event