Anthony A

Here is the portable version of Google Chrome. You can try it out with out having to install. http://lifehacker.com/5045439/portable-chr...our-thumb-drive

Glary Utilities also has an empty folder finder and deletes them if you want. I never do it though.

No problem with paying for software but Norton you couldn't pay me to use. AntiVir on most machines and Avast on another. I much prefer AntiVir though.

When you install the Portable Apps Start Menu on your thumb drive several files and folders are part of the install. One of the folders is called "PortableApps". That is the one to put your apps in so they show up on the start menu.

Have you tried putting the portable versions of Piriform's programs in the Portable apps folder? Most portable programs show up on the Portable Apps Menu if you put them in the right folder. Here is a shot of my USB Thumb drive using the Portable Apps Start Menu. As you can see from the pic CCleaner integrates perfectly with it. Most of the apps you see listed and many that are out of view are not in the official Portable Apps format. Many programs make portable versions and they will show up and work perfectly from the Portable Apps Start Menu. Just unzip them to the folder. U3 is a different thing though. The programs must be in U3 format to use them with the U3 Start Menu.

I used the uploaded file from Humpty and it said the security provider WAS corrupted and I applied the fix and it worked. So the file works if you don't feel like registering at their forum.

What do they mean by "Your Security Providers value may have been corrupted"? What security provider are they referring to? My AV or what?

I still don't see why people are installing SP3 if you have a fully updated SP2. What exactly are you accomplishing? There is nothing significant in it other than an a accumulation of all the updates since XP was released. Great for reinstalls. No real reason to risk Billy butt jammer Gates completely screwing your computer if you have SP2 fully updated.

You think people would be used to Billy butt jammer and his mary band of f_ _ _ ing idiots messing up your systems. I dread patch Tuesday every month.

Download the installer on your friends machine and put it on a USB thumbdrive. Copy the Avast installer to your machine and install as normal. Than update Avast and your good to go. You have I think 90 days to register and get your free key which is than good for over a year. This way you install Avast without having to go online to download the installer which you said you wanted to avoid doing.

Chrome has it's own Task Manager built in so you can see what each tab is using. This speed test shows Chrome is much faster with Javascript than the other browsers. http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-100308...tag=mncol;title

They make no secret they borrowed heavily from Mozilla. I think it's the most interesting new browser in a while. It's definitely different and has loads of potential.

It's too early to to know what it will include when it's done. It's also open source so there will be many addons I would imagine.

Yeah thats better.

Ha Ha Google has a 38 page comic book outlining the features of it's new browser "Chrome". If they get a nice community of addon developers this will be very nice. The page loads slow but it's there. http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

Pics have already leaked out before the official release. There was some video to but they killed those quick. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/first...-google-chrome/

The default setting is "Extension List" and thats where I left it and have no issues. "All Files" would slow you down.

I like playing with browsers so I like to see a new one. Plus I like so many Google products, Gmail, Google Reader, Calendar, iGoolge, Google Tool Bar to name a few. They usually do something interesting so it will be fun to see what they come up with. They need to do something unique to set themselves apart from the other browsers out there. I won't be testing the beta but I look forward to some reviews and screen shots from those that do.

Thanks that what I wanted to know. I have not updated to SP3 as of yet and don't know when I will but want to patch the UXtheme on one of my SP2 machines and wasn't sure about what would happen when I finally did go to SP3. So just update to SP3 and than repatch UXethme again.

There have been rumors for a few years now of a Google Browser but they denied they were even considering one and now here it is. This is going to be interesting.

Thanks I will check it out.

Thats what I need to know. If you have patched UXtheme in SP2 do you need to undo the patch before you install SP3 or what?

What is the best UXTheme Patcher out there? There are many but what one seems to be the least troublesome? This one works well with SP2 http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enh...e-Patcher.shtml but I don't see a version for SP3. If you have patched the UXtheme file do you need to unpatch it to upgrade to SP3 or does SP3 install fine and undo the patch requiring you to repatch again?

I find All In One Side Bar does not work as smoothly in FireFox 3. I set it to autohide so I just have to move the cursor to the side of the screen and the side bar opens but it's clunky with FF3.