spelbynder

what would that air hostess make of our Alf "flamin' heck!" Stewart from Home and Away then!

Sorry to burst your bubble there fireryone - spelbynder is actually a shameless reference to my once-fantastic SPELLING prowess (ie, English class)

Esperance, Western Australia - south-east of Perth

Last week I acquired a new computer, specs thus: Intel Pentium 4 631 [3.0ghz 2M L2 800FSB 512mb DDR2 RAM 160 7200rpm SATA HDD (X1) 128mb Integrated Sis Mirage 3 Graphics Accelerator 17" LCD monitor running Vista Basic, although I have since discovered it can run Premium, I just need more RAM, which I am in the process of acquiring. It comes with Vista pre-installed, plus there's a separate 9gb-odd recovery partition, plus Norton 2007, McAfee 2007 and others. In place of a floppy disk drive, are several Pixma slots... which I'll never use Now, I'm not sure if it's the computer itself, or the programs I'm running, or whatever, but it's a bit of a slow runner at start-up and shutdown, and the couple of tweaking programs I've used haven't done much to help those response times. And I would like to know, what's up with the 50+ running processes?????????? Unfortunately for me, after a month of various computer troubles (mostly relating to the absence of my old XP computer which has been waiting for a part to arrive for this amount of time), I settled on this new machine which was the only desktop available at the retailer I visited, and I've purchased it on a three-year rental... yes, I've sold my soul for a computer which is worth AUD$1499 @89.05 per month, costing me by the end of the 3 years over $3200 The company which approves rentals, does so to practically anyone and everyone, and you don't have to pay application fees or a deposit, plus the first month is rent-free, and it was delivered for free too. Also unfortunately for me, two other major computer retailers in town have brought out their latest catalogues, and the machines they have on offer, are far better than this one and offer more of what I want, ie Core 2 Duo processor, 2gb RAM, larger harddrive, etc. From what I understand, there is an escape clause from my current contract, in which one pays 80% of the total cost of the monthly rentals in the first year. I was soooooooooo over Win XP and I was realllllllly wanting to get on board with Vista, and I really hope Premium is far superior to Basic... and if none of this turns out right, I may just go back to bloomin' WinME! The things we do......................

Not the listing of the browsers et al, the way they're cleaned is what I mean - instead of listing every item in the Opera and Java caches, summarize them as has been the case with IE, Firefox, Mozilla, ie 10mb or whatever.

- cleaning of the Opera browser - cleaning of Java cache - such as has been done for IE and Mozilla/Firefox yes?

I was an occasional poster on the old CCleaner.com forum, and when Piriform took over I thought I had to re-register and all that, so I didn't... until a short while ago, and that was when I discovered I couldn't use the username I wanted, as it was already used - by me! So anyway, here I am... hiiii

Another claim to fame - I notice that RC1 of Vista is already being sold on Ebay!

compliments slips? you know, the kind that say "with compliments...

In my opinion Webroot should stop updating Spy Sweeper and release a version 7.0 of Window Washer. I don't have it installed atm and when I do, only as a trial. Version 6.0 still only cleans Firefox below 1.5xx, and the fix they gave me for it (months ago) doesn't work. They need to update it to include the other new browsers including Opera (which they've ignored since 2001), and all the other new software... anyone else feel the same?

I sang the praises of both IE7 and Firefox 2.0 when they were released, but I've dumped both of them now and gone back to the previous releases. The trick to putting the menu bar back to where it should be in IE7, is to click on (if i remember this correctly) Tools and select Menu Bar - quite simple really! (although I had to google it )

there ya go kiddies, a prime example of WHY you shouldn't install software when it's still in beta testing stage!! (says he, who briefly did try Office 2007)

From what I've seen (so far), CCleaner is the only software of the tracks cleaning genre, to include Seamonkey and Flock in its list of applications to be cleaned... and I see I myself was asking back in February whether Seamonkey would ever been included by CCleaner, and many ppl have asked since. Handy to know, as currently I'm not using Seamonkey or Flock but may do sometime in the future!

Well boys and girls, it would seem that the current version of CCleaner isn't as great at secure file deletion as it should be! I've been using the new Opera 9 and, until recently, I wasn't able to clear its tracks under WinXP using Tracks Eraser Pro, more about that shortly. So I set the secure deletion to 1 pass and CCleaner cleans up X-amount of megabytes of Opera junk. Later on, I'm using Opera again, and then I think, Hey, I'll look at the cleaning path of Opera in CCleaner and transfer that to Tracks Eraser Pro and maybe that will help me... so, as you may know, under WinXP, the Opera cleaning path is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\cache4 ... which TEP doesn't automatically detect, you have to set it manually. Anyway, after I've finished using Opera and everything else I do a test erase with TEP, and waddya know, it brings up some 270-odd megabytes of junk! Most of that was the Opera tracks, I believe... with a "proper" erase it was over 250mb, still mostly Opera... which leads me to conclude as per above: ccleaner really doesn't clean as well as has been hyped! HOWEVER, I still use it, as well as Disk Cleaner and TEP, as they each clean up the tracks that the other has missed. *sits back and waits for the refutations to flood in*

*does pick up the tracks of Netscape 8, although it doesn't officially appear in the Applications panel *doesn't pick up the tracks of Opera 9 beta 2 or others and, curiously enough, it didn't pick up on Opera 5.01 when I installed it briefly recently *it also didn't pick up on the new AOL Explorer browser also, everyone goes crazy/nutso over the whole Prefect cleaning deal; well, Prefect files have showed up precisely twice in the whole time I've used ccleaner, and that was during the first clean I had after I reinstalled Windows - after that, no Prefect files show.

Mozilla is still actually being continued, version 1.7.13 was recently released and there may be a 1.8 on the way in the future...

I had the same problem recently, when I updated Adobe Reader from 7.0.5 to 7.0.7. An error message kept coming up saying "this patch package could not be opened..." Tried to physically uninstal 7.0.5 - wouldn't let me. Tried reinstalling 7.0.5 via CD then uninstalling it - wouldn't let me. Eventually, after a quick search on Major Geeks I came across Your Uninstaller! 2006, which can and does uninstal any difficult application very easily, plus searches for and displays invalid registry keys for the software in question. So I finally removed my 7.0.5 and some 156 registry keys and all is good You can find/download the above software at www.ursoftware.com

How many of you have been caught up in the scandal surrounding Stormpay in recent weeks? More to the point, how many of you have LOST MONEY? Towards the end of last year I invested in a few autosurfs (Rainsurf was the first, and at least they paid me once before they ran away) and HYIPs, with the obvious intention of getting rich quick... and then Stormpay has to go and get all greedy coz they're not the solo choice of payment processor for 12DailyPro and others, plus profits4investingtoo goes down and with it, millions of dollars. I personally lost over $2300 with P4I2 and can't see them ever paying out, and Stormpay is holding on to maybe $540 from my autosurfing... Yes, playing with the autosurfs and HYIPs is akin to gambling, and you do lose out when you gamble - just not this much, I thought!!! Opinions on the various money-making forums range from "sucked in!" to "oh, give stormpay a chance" to "P4I2 was a scam from the very beginning", and there are conspiracy theorists everywhere - dunno who to believe. This was going to be *my* year! I haven't given up yet though.

The biggest bugbear for me about IE, is the lack of tabbed browsing. In the past I've installed the msn toolbar, and I downloaded IE7 beta 2 preview, and both of them DON'T do what the other non-MS browsers do: open ALL new tabs, not just some, in the same window. "Security reasons," IE says. Pfft! Until all tabs open in same window, I'm sticking with Firefox, Avant, Opera, Maxthon, etc.

You're absolutely right rridgely I thought I'd give Seamonkey a go, just to see what it was like - in my opinion, it's just another overglorified version of Netscape 7. I am a happy Firefox convert and do use Opera occasionally.

Will the current version of CCleaner work in cleaning up Seamonkey, or is that coming in the next version?