JDPower

Or spamming, just adding 'I agree' to every thread

Thats very funny. I am not a Sony fanboy as you put it, I simply buy the best console with the best games. X-Box is not that. Why would anyone buy a console which is basically a PC without the PC functions?!?! I have yet to see an X-Box 360 game that has impressed me, I am not anti X-Box just don't see anything new with it. At least Sony are attempting to push the limits with PS3.

By your logic HD-DVD is better than Blu Ray, therefore HD-DVD is the equivalent of Betamax and therefore HD-DVD will succeed. Unfortunately I think you'll find Betamax was better than VHS and died!

Nope, thats exactly what it will look like. There were silver and white versions too but these have been dropped. The version with hard drive has a little bit of silver trim too (about $100 more). Note the controller is the same shape as the PS 2 version (the boomerang shape was dropped) but has no vibration(motion sensitivity instead). Apparently the actual cost of the ps2 (not the price it will be sold for) is around ?900, it will therefore be sold at a massive loss (as most PS console have been). Also I am pretty certain DRM will not be included, all I have seen regarding this is scare mongering, not actual facts. Err, if you say so. (360 plays HD Blu-Ray games does it?)

s**t, you had to go and put the frighteners on us didn't you I'm sure thats complete bollocks. But, just in case, GOOD NIGHT!!!

Its quite simple, CCleaner overwrites 1, 3 or 7 times. Eraser overwrites 1, 3, 7 or 35 times. Your choice, 7 passes is plenty secure enough for the average user. If you're worried about withstanding a forensics scan then I suggest this is the least of your worries.

http://www.game.co.uk/ps3

You mean the bookmarks on the bookmark folder I assume (not the tabs). You can also reduce the font size and padding round the button to fit more on with a simple userchrome code. This is what I have in mine: /* change bookmark toolbar font */#personal-bookmarks .toolbarbutton-text { font-size: 7pt !important; font-weight: !important;}/* change space around bookmark toolbar icons */#personal-bookmarks toolbarbutton { margin: 0px 1px 0px 1px !important; padding: 0px 1px 0px 1px !important;}/* decrease space between bookmark menu items *//* main menu - folders */menu.bookmark-item > .menu-iconic-left { margin-top: -1px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;}

Now I understand, you mean the 'Compress old files' in disk cleanup. There is not one individual folder as the files are old files all over the disk (they are not moved to a compressed folder, they are compressed where they are). If you've got an NTFS formatted hard disk you can tell what files are compressed as the file name turns blue (if they are not go to Control Panel>Folder Options and under the 'View' tab tick the box 'Show compressed NTFS files in color'). A quick Google found this, may help you understand:

Yup, just got the official update notification. Quite a minor update it seems, hopefully Firefox 2 won't be too far off though.

Alternatively go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Disk Cleanup then under the 'More options' tab in disk cleanup you can click clean up in the system restore section to remove all but the most recent checkpoint. (BTW this removes restore points, it doesn't "erase your computer" ) Don't think thats necessary, I'm pretty sure a new restore point is created automatically when you turn system restore back on.

Not officially it isn't so I'll wait I think.

Why do you want it to scan for compressed files, CCleaner cleans junk files, compressed files are generally not junk. Can you be a little clearer about what you are trying to do, your posts are a little confusing?

Well there is some merit to this project IMO. If you'd checked the site you'd have seen the programme is not trying to find cures for illnesses, it is actually analysing the structure of the human genome, which would apparently take 1,000,000 years of computational time on a single up-to-date PC. It is the information gained from this that they would hope to use to better understand certain illnesses and aid the search for cures to those illnesses ('in some lab' as you put it). If I remember rightly the mapping of the human genome, completed in 2003, also used this type of shared computer resource system. At least check something out before writing it off as 'pure bulls**t'

Also, slightly unrelated but, just noticed your version of AdAware is out of date. You're desktop pic shows AdAware 6 which is no longer supported, you should download the latest version here: AdAware SE Personal

I'm far from an expert on HJT logs but that appears to be at least part of the problem. 177a is a browser hijacker. You should run a full virus scan and dowload and run Ewido (ideally run both in safe mode with system restore turned off) see if they remove it. Then post a new HJT log in the Hijack This thread HERE I'll let the more knowledgeable members analyze the log a little more fully.

Well I have always had the old prefetch box ticked but having read THIS extremely informative page, linked to on the above site, it is now unticked and will stay that way. Thanks to klumy for bringing up the topic for debate.

I have tried that and although its great for viewing running processes it still ends processes the same way as ctrl-alt-delete it seems and still have to end each one singly. I guess what I really want to know is am I going to cause any problems regularly killing a background process (ones which I know are safe not running eg spoolsv etc) or is the Windows warning just overly cautious? And as the Windows warning states that by ending a process it will "...not be given a chance to save its state or data before it is closed", is there a way to end a process so that it will be able to save its state and data?

Sounds like Sandboxie to me. And thats completely free.

Are there any programs out there that I can use to safely end certain running processes in one go (instead of ctrl-alt-delete>end process, which Windows complains about)? I'm trying End It All 2 at the moment but although it ends the processes I want to end with a couple of clicks, it basically does the same as ctrl-alt-delete>end process to close them, which is not a good thing to do according to Windows (I don't want to permanently disable them, just be able to quickly kill the unneccesary ones before running certain resource hungry programs)

Considering how long a free space wipe can take I think I'd rather wait the few extra seconds for CCleaner to do a secure delete of what it finds (and use Erase instead of delete when deleting anything sensitive).

Site appears to be down at the moment, try Download.com - Eraser 5.7 if you want it while site is down.

It does clean the run box. Just tick the box 'Run (in start menu)' in the Windows Explorer section. Although what you described clears the recent documents list, which CCleaner also clears (Recent Documents tickbox under Windows Explorer)

Care to elaborate?

Thanks for the replies. I had already tried what Tarun suggested (from the MS website) and all those settings were already as described. Agumon, your suggestion seems to have sorted it, thanks alot. Don't know why it changed, the only thing I had done was a safe mode defrag then it started asking for password at startup. Very strange