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I can also confirm Health tab works, for me. 3 drives (1 SSD, 2 HDD) (plus an annoying floppy drive that kicks into life whenever you select another drive - but that's another known issue)

so either someone else uses the PC and wasn't as careful or you had too many Bundies that day and plain missed it

hmmm, to what end.... surely this has been done by any number of the larger museums, galleries, art collections.

they start off by giving us what we needed - without us even knowing we did. eventually they pump out what they think we want.

any chance it snuck in via a pre-ticked box on the back of another software package. similar to how google chrome wants to sneak in with CC.

you couldn't be more right ! no argument there.

quick guess would be an adobe plug-in

you have to cut Microsoft a bit of slack. it's not many companies where the only way one department can increase sales is by having another of their own departments decrease sales. Office 2010 only goes up if Office 2003 goes down. Win8 gets more market share if Win7 loses ground.

if you left the default settings as is, then as you say in your post, they are ticked and therefore excluded. but it sounds like you are still seeing them in your Defrag anyway. that would indicate windows/registry is 'broken' somehow. if nothing else untoward is happening with your system, just try and add that folder to the Exclude list. normally you don't need to do this with the exclude restore point file ticked, but it would appear your system is not 'normal' (and that is another matter altogether).

perhaps you refer to this one http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=37605&hl=%2Bfavourite+%2Bfile+%2Bmanager

Personally, I think Win8 is OK, maybe not great but Is it an improvement over Win7?, Yes. In almost every benchmark you can name. Having said that, Metro sucks, and why oh why remove the Start button. But it's only a short learning curve to overcome. (thanks to Win + X and Taskbar, I don't even miss the Start button now) Win8 seems to be suffering the same fate as Vista, nothing wrong per say with the OS, just a couple of glitches the media has jumped all over and given the whole OS a bad name. Reducing the price of Win8 just makes it look like an OS that's been put the in reduced bin for a quick sale to get rid of old stock. @Keatah, agree - nothing wrong with Win7 or XP, but you can say the same for 98 or 2000. we have to live with the fact that Windows, Mac, Linux etc will change for change sake. doesn't mean we won't go kicking and screaming into the next OS though ! less than 400 days now till XP officially dies. will there be SP4? - almost definitely not. will Win7 be extended? - based on popularity and sales, you'd have to say yes. will Win8 be 'changed'? - they will have to if only to get sales up.

if you did the restore point to back up those temp files in case if went pear-shaped and you wanted to get them back, you would have been in for a nasty surprise indeed. System Restore does not touch personal files, temp files, program files, it doesn't 'backup' the system. it only touches, snapshots, a very limited set of essential system files. the sort of ones it would need to rollback to in order to start the PC after a wayward installation. I assume that when you say you never do backups that you also never insure your car or house? All I can make from that is you would not care if all your digital life was erased ! In my experience, you live or die by your backups. But... each to their own.... (as you may have gathered, backups - or lack of - are a bit of a bug-bear for me)

i'd be happy if it just listed the last time it was ran. would only need an extra entry in the .ini file, or maybe a reg key, and could be displayed in the banner at the top of the program. no bloat at all...

are those better done by an INCLUDE rather than by winapp2.ini? especially Event Logs.

not so much "look what I built !" more like "look what I can cut off and still have this thing work" the spanner wasn't his friend - the oxy torch was. wonder how many ANCAP stars he'd get

I've seen those gobbly-gook named folder before, usually leftover from an installation. if I see them I blow them away, most a 'locked' and you have to go into the Security Tab and give Ownership/Auditing/Permission to the Everyone user. I'm sure there is an easier way, but the one works for me.

looks like i'll give SWB a crack and see how it compliments my other security progs.

thanks Hazel. I have this foggy memory somewhere that, back in the days when Spybot S&D came out (and that one I loved) there were others that were just plain bad. they weren't a fix, they just got rid of the competition and made themselves king of the adware/spyware heap instead. It obviously wasn't spywareblaster, but something similarly named, so I guess between Spybot and MWB (which I replaced it with) I haven't gone looking/needed more protection.

I started using it and liked it, especially the 'clean' look. no ads is great. and no more pages of results, it just keeps scrolling down - very nice! the More settings and the such don't interest me - can't use them anyway as I always have my browsers in private mode. but what really won my over (and tickled my fancy) was when I saw DDG uses I'm feeling Ducky - cracked me up ....

Just changed from Bing to DDG and was wondering what others thought of it? Pros, Cons, Tips/Tricks? (thanks to login123 for refering to it in previous posts)

how would you rate it to say, MalwareBytes?. does anyone use the 2 in conjunction?

sounds to me like the HD your Win7 OS lives on is failing? how old is it? unless you let the check drive for consistency do a test, you will always get that message at startup of the Win7 OS. (unless you use the chkntfs /x DOS command) you seem to have a backup of all your data, if not, that should be your first priority. if it was me, I would schedule a scan at boot-up of all my drives (chkntfs /d). then it would be up to you if you are happy to live with the drive and carry on, or do a pre-emptive strike, replace the drive and reload Win7.

yep, give it some time and we'll be seeing more and more software houses bring out metro skins. CC v4 next ??? not that I don't like it, it's new and different after all, a change is a good as a holiday and all that. it's nice eye candy. i just fail to see WHY they think they need to change it in the first place and when they do, they follow the herd instead of pioneering something new (like metro did).

Ouch, that's gotta hurt your company profile. (but there is that old marketing adage - no such thing as bad publicity) Does anyone know if there has been a SkyDrive equivalent?

my apologies if you already know, but with us all being relatively new to Win8, in case you don't know, or for others for future reference. to get into RegEdit as Administrator (or most things for that matter) hit the Windows key on your keyboard just start typing regedit, it should find it in the apps right click it, then down along the bottom, select Run as Administrator