JDPower
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That's not good!
However, my virus & spyware protection have not come up with anything . . .
Would everyone recommend switching to FF 3 or should I just go with what I have?
Purely from a security point of view I would recommend updating yes. Plus it's been around long enough now that most irritations can be sorted, whether by tweaking or extensions. I am intending to get round to it asap (although I've been saying that for ages lol).
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As long as I know Mozilla is supporting it I'm sticking with what I have.
But technically they're not, they haven't been releasing security updates for it for some time.
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Has everyone upgraded to FF 3?
Not yet, deliberately held off for a while but have been intending to for a couple of months now, just haven't got round to it (clean install followed by all that messing about setting it up how i want, updating extensions and finding alternatives for those that don't work etc etc
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Big congrats to you and new wife
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I noticed a Register button in the screenshot on their site, and then when clicking Register on their website it looks like they want $9.95 for it. So how is it "free" then I wonder.
The main program is free (I just tried it out) but you have to register for access to the secure delete functions. Didn't really offer much additional cleaning to CCleaner though did find an additional Flash Player folder that it cleaned that CC doesn't (C:\Documents and Settings\****\Application Data\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache)
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Wipe
Wipe - is a free, easy and powerful tool to clear user browsing history, clean index.dat files, remove cookies, cache, logs, delete temporary internet files, autocomplete search history and any other tracks that user leaves after using PC. No user documents deleted, just tracks that computer records about your activity without your permission!
Wipe includes DODD 5220.22 (Gutmann, Russian GOST) algorithms that makes deleted tracks unrecoverable. Even more! Wipe will shred file names of deleted items so noone will be able even guess what you did on your PC!
So basically the same as CCleaner then
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If CC would just have a dedicated backup folder and could handle those backups internally it would be a vast improvement.
100% agree with that, can't believe it still handles the backup location the way it does.
Also agree that double clicking in the uninstall section should run installer not rename entry - it is the uninstaller section after all, not the rename section. Its something I'd never noticed before as I don't use that section but does seem a strange choice of behaviour.
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I actually tried that a couple of weeks ago and it didn't work here but good idea for those that use the sites alot when it does work.
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I don't often use my gmail account but think in the two or so years I've had it I've only ever received 4 or 5 spam emails at most
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This is the log of my "Analyze", which seems to indicate that the cookies are deleted during "Analyze", which I also thought was not supposed to happen.
That is a minor wording bug with CCleaner that has never been corrected. Those cookies are NOT deleted, and neither is anything else, just running analyse (as you would see by running analyse again and they will still show up). If they show up when you run analyse they should show up in CCleaners 'Options>Cookies' section
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"Eusing Free Registry Cleaner" has found an additional 300+ faults?
so is CCleaner Missing Something or does Ccleaner Registry tool need a long awaited update?
This gets asked all the time - the answer is that CCleaner is a safe reg cleaner, just because another cleaner finds more allegedly invalid entries doesn't mean those entries are safe to remove (in fact usually quite the opposite)
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Well, I am sometimes noted for my melancholic disposition.
Lol, thats a good way of putting it, I normally just get called a miserable sod
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I tend to agree with augeas here.
Take people with wireless for example. Not every one is computer smart. It was only a few weeks ago i was asked to repair a laptop, the women was in a panic and all it was she had disabled the wireles on startup.
Would also disable any antivirus/antimalware/firewall, definitely not a good thing.
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Good thing you have a freeware version otherwise I would've removed the link.
You're more forgiving than I would be
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Can I suggest removing your email address, its not a good idea posting it on an open forum.
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This has been discussed before, feel free to use the forums search function. The compress old files option will not improve your computers performance in the slightest, in fact quite the opposite as compressed files are slower to read from disk (and as far as I know windows doesn't actually uncompress them if they do get used). That option is only there to free up some disk space but if you are running out of disk space far better buy a larger hard drive, or move any unused files (music, videos etc) to CD or external drive.
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Why on earth would they release that, surely no-one would bother buying it (unless by accident in which case they'll be pretty pi$ed off)?Starter edition is a crippled version of Windows that only used to be available in developing nations. It's crippled in that you can only run three applications at any one timeAccording to this ComputerActive article Windows 7 could be released in October:
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computerac...n-drawn-windows
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Thanks. I did a Google search, but didn't come across that page. Now I just have to decide if I should finally switch from Sygate. I've used Sygate for ~5 years, and it's so simply and extremely light on RAM and system resources, so I'm still undecided.
I still use Sygate too - still passes all firewall tests I throw at it and, as you say, is light on resources so have no intention of changing for the time being. Besides the thought of spending weeks teaching a new firewall what to allow and block is not something I wanna deal with unless I have to
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Anyone note how someone is trying to compare a "free" program to a $60 program? You get what you pay for folks.
You reckon? So if you won a Ferrari in a competition it would be a worse than if you'd just forked out a hundred grand on one?
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Thanks, I don't usually disturb so much.
No problem
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Do you see PC activity when deleting the last point?
(usually the orange or red light in the "tower" indicates hard drive activity)
I really appreciate you trying it on your system.
In answer to your question - yes there is disk activity when deleting the restore point and I used JKDefrag's analyse to check the system volume information folder contents had gone.
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Yes, I have windows XP.
I didn't mean Windows deleting all restore points.
I clearly said you (in this case me) deleting all restore points.
I'm sorry I didn't specify that I use TuneUp Utilities to do that.
I don't use Windows Disk Cleanup anymore.
As I said before, when I delete them all Windows automatically creates one.
The point is that CCleaner is not deleting that last restore point,
it is just deleting the date (or time stamp) and Windows renaming it.
Not sure I entirely understand, all I can say is that no restore points are created here using CCleaner or disk cleanup to delete restore points. If you are saying that is what normally happens when you use TuneUp to delete restore points then it is probably TuneUp that is automatically creating the new point when deleting them all, not Windows.
And CCleaner does delete the last restore point on my system without a problem, doesn't just rename it.
(Apologies if I'm misunderstanding what you're saying)
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Every time you delete all restore points, Windows automatically creates one.
What OS? That certainly isn't what happens on XP, Windows just deletes all but the most recent one so there is always one restore point left (don't know how Vista handles them but doubt it's much different).
And on that point I think this is how CCleaners handling of restore points should work IMO (ie not allow deletion of newest restore point), do we really want a stream of angry CCleaner users with problems and unable to do a system restore because they'd used CCleaner to delete ALL restore points?
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Try clean installation of Avira 9.0
It was a clean install, it was replacing AVG
Just because you don't have an issue doesn't mean no issue exists.
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(Although given the past history of rival product posts being deleted I wouldn't be surprised if the post disappears soon anyway)
Foxfire 3
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