Tarun

Funny but so fake. You can tell it's photoshopped.

Thanks! I'm not claiming to be an expert or anything. I admit, I am learning. I do make mistakes like every other human, but I try my very best. I have one of the best pc techs in the world teaching me. If I feel unsure, I ask him. I think it would be great to work with other techs to further my education. I'm going for a degree in End User Support and I find it fun to help people clean their pc's like that. I love the idea of working with people and I would love to be involved in that forum if it comes to be.

Everyone knows that malware (spyware, adware, viruses, etc) plague every user out there at some time. Well, why not have a forum to have support and help people get it cleaned out of their computers? It's not hard to do at all, but to the common user this can be a terrible plague. It'd be nice for users to have a place to seek help to get rid of that crap. To safely post their Hijack This logs and know that only a certified Msfn staff can handle it. (Msfn approved that is). So, that's my proposal. Hooah! Hope it comes to be. If not, just point them to Lunarsoft and I'll take care of them. Best regards, Tarun

Just something simple, but have you tried to defrag?

If you're viewing the frontpage however, all you see is "Ooo Ooo I Have A Questio..." My post was to help you learn the rules. Learn them, read them. They're there for you as well as others. Also, you can change the tag under your avatar in your control panel. There was no need for you to attack me because I informed you of the forum rules.

Blah, double post. Stupid timeouts. lol.

Try and contact MS, explain what happened. It's not warez if you have a cd legally, along with a license key. If you have indeed bought the Windows ME before and have a legal cd key, let me know. I can tell you where to look to find it without hassle.

EVEREST Beta 0298. Again, no one else has it (cept Lunarsoft)

Just so you know for future reference. You can see them here.

Try http://www.locias.com/ works with phpNuke, CPGNuke and many many others too.

Diskeeper is an automatic disk defragmenter that features scheduling and a high level of configuration ability, and can defragment even critical system files. Fragmentation occurs during normal Windows operation, as files are broken up in pieces and saved on different parts of the hard disk. This increases the amount of time it takes to access single files, and bogs down system performance. Diskeeper Professional 9.0.524 Diskeeper Server Standard 9.0.524 Diskeeper Server Enterprise 9.0.524

I wouldn't trust those pages at all. Companies pay the people who do the reviews to make their products appear "better".

Nah, the forums essentially use no bandwidth at all relatively speaking. It's the 30MB files being downloading 5000+ times (last time I checked my logs, I had over 5000 downloads of CAB files from my site this month and over 7000 exe downloads) that uses up the bandwidth <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Have you checked into seeing if your host can enable "Anti-Leech"?

My ME machine was an 800MHz AMD Athlon, 60GB HD, 256MB RAM, 128MB GeForce4 Ti4600 that still rocks quite well.

Right click the desktop and you can browse for new icons under Appearance.

That should be because AIDA-32 went and became Everest since Lavalys bought them. But the sad part is that AIDA-16 was abandoned. Now there's no equivalent of Everest, for DOS. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I could swear I read somewhere that EVEREST was around when AIDA was. Not like it matters though, still a great piece of software and far better than Sandra.

If you have 4GB of RAM you don't need a big pagefile. Faster using pagefile? No. Hard drive's are the biggest bottlenecks in terms of speed. This will only slow you down. I have 2Gb of RAM on my system, and since I use Photoshop I need that pagefile unfortunately. You can set the min and max easily too. I personally set mine to 256MB/256MB and my system has been fine since. Right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced tab > Performance section click the Settings Button > Advanced tab again > at the bottom is Virtual Memory where you will click Change > Select your Drive > Click Custom Size > Enter your values and click Set > Reboot as needed. With 4GB of RAM, I'd say you could safely set it to 256MB/256MB, though I don't know what all you need it for fully. If you use Photoshop you need a pagefile (sadly enough) and some games also need pagefiles.

I actually looked for your post to add this update to it. I was unable to find it (yes I searched ) so I made the new post. I find this software to be the best possible freeware available since AIDA32.

No other website (even the beta forums of EVEREST) has this yet. EVEREST Home Edition 2.00.293 A new beta build of EVEREST Home Edition with the following improvements since Build 281: CPU related: - identification of new Athlon 64 (aka San Diego) - identification of new Athlon 64 FX (aka San Diego FX) - identification of new Sempron (aka San Diego-256) - identification of Pentium D (aka Smithfield) - identification of Pentium Extreme Edition (aka Smithfield EE) - fixed: lockup on Intel P6 class processors - fixed: CPU multiplier detection for Athlon XP Mobo chipset related: - basic chipset information for OPTi chipsets - improved chipset information for ULi/ALi M1631 - improved chipset information for VIA Apollo Pro Series - improved chipset information for VIA CN400, PM800, PM880 - improved chipset information for VIA K8M800, K8N800 - extended chipset information for ULi/ALi M1621, M1631, M1632 - improved Intel/VIA/ServerWorks/SMSC/ATI SMBus code stability - improved SMBus support for ICH6, ICH6-M, ICH7, ICH7-M - fixed: chipset information for VIA KM266, KN266, PM266, PN266 - fixed: chipset information for VIA P4X400, PT800 Mobo sensor related: - motherboard specific sensor info for Abit NF7-S2 Series - motherboard specific sensor info for Abit VA-10/VA-11 - motherboard specific sensor info for AOpen AX45-8X Series - motherboard specific sensor info for ASRock P4i48 Series - motherboard specific sensor info for Asus A8V-E Series - motherboard specific sensor info for Asus P4S533-X - motherboard specific sensor info for DFI CS32 Series - motherboard specific sensor info for ECS P6IWP-Fe - motherboard specific sensor info for Gigabyte 7NF-RZ Series - motherboard specific sensor info for MSI MS-7032 - motherboard specific sensor info for MSI MS-7125 - motherboard specific sensor info for Soltek K8TPro-939 - fixed: motherboard specific sensor info for Abit NF7 Series - fixed: motherboard specific sensor info for DFI nF4 Series GPU and video adapter related: - detection of ATI Catalyst 5.3 driver - detection of ATI Radeon X850 Pro AGP (R481) video chip - detection of ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP (R481) video chip - detection of ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP (R481) video chip - detection of nVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI video chip - detection of nVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 video chip - detection of ELSA GLadiac 620, 620TC video cards - detection of ELSA GLadiac A660, A660GT video cards - detection of MSI NX6800 Ultra-E video card - GPU information for 3Dlabs Permedia 3, P9, P10 - GPU information for ATI Mobility Radeon X600 (M24) - GPU information for ATI Mobility FireGL V3200 (M24GL) - GPU information for ATI Radeon X850 AGP Series (R481) - GPU information for nVIDIA Crush - GPU information for nVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI (NV41GL) - GPU information for S3 Savage/IX, Savage/MX - GPU information for S3 Trio64 UV+ - GPU information for Trident 3Dimage 975, 985 - GPU information for Trident Blade3D - extended GPU information (Die Size for select nVIDIA chips) - improved ATI GPU I2C code stability - GPU sensor information for National LM82 sensor chip - video card specific sensor info for Leadtek WinFast Titanium - fixed: detection of nVIDIA GeForce 6800 PCI-E Series video chip - fixed: GPU information for nVIDIA NV17 and NV18 Family - fixed: GPU sensor information when NV40+ I2C bus is disabled - fixed: GPU sensor support for multiple GPUs (e.g. SLI) Misc: - fixed: incompatibility with Windows 95 Retail - fixed: physical drive -- logical drive association issues Beta software! Use only at your own risk!

It's worse for people around the smoker than the smoker themself too.

Check your startup (MsConfig) for the following: Name: ATIPTA Path: C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel\atiptaxx.exe Location: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Status Name Command Description U atiptaxx Atiptaxx.exe U AtiPTA Ati2ptxx.exe U AtiPTA Atiptaxx.exe U AtiPTAAA Atiptaxx.exe Control panel for the ATI series of video cards allowing access to such features as display resolution, colour depth, etc. Available via Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Display. Some users may need it if they have optimised their settings

It was given from my standpoint, then what most others would use it for. This was taken into consideration.

Haha, we both agreed! Let me write this on my calendar. ;D It's insane how messy making the conversions are. It's just.. blah! NTFS is great for security and all, but wow I'd hate to try to convert and risk losing/corrupting all that data.

You realize that Hibernation is available on ALL versions of XP and such, correct? It's also on Windows ME. I believe it can be found on Windows 2003, and so forth. I don't use it so I couldn't tell you. Now, what perks do you gain from Hibernation? Mmm, let's see. You might gain a whole two seconds as you boot up your pc. Whoooa, that's just so much faster. Look! My Winamp song will resume EXACTLY where I left off! I can resume at 3:12 on my song! (Yeah, I'm really going to remember what they were singing about there. I'd rather restart the song and hear it in full.) Back to reality... Wow, that was thrilling. I can save the space on my hard drive, regain resources by not using Hibernation. It's a lot better to save your work, than to power down. You run the risk of losing data to bad sectors on the hard drive anywhere. Now, you're going to tell me that you may take up 2Gb (generalized number) of data on your hard drive to let you boot up a few seconds faster and let everything "pick up" where you left off. Yet you can just as easily save those 2Gb by disabling Hibernation, saving your documents etc (this wouldn't even take up the 2gb of space or however much Hibernation designates to take up). By taking up the lesser space you lessen the risk of data loss to bad sectors. See where I'm going with this? Hard drive's are probably the worst piece of hardware inside of a pc. They are the largest bottlenecks in terms of speed and such. Even with a WD Raptor HD you still won't really know what a high end processor with lots of RAM installed would really FEEL like. According to my computer, on a 160GB SATA WD hard drive it would take up 2,046MB of space to use Hibernate. I've used Hibernate before. I found it totally useless and a waste. It's a joke. I have yet to hear a tech say that Hibernation is a good feature, that it's useful and more. The perks only apply to mobile computing, pretty much. Desktops shouldn't really waste their time with it. In the past, Windows' Hibernation and sleep abilities were always so limited, buggy, and dangerous (ME is a perfect example pending on what you had running). XP kind of does ok, but it really only matters in mobile computing. You can shut the lid of your laptop, unplug the power cord, not having to worry about the battery draining all fast. Then moving to your new location, set up, open the lid, and resume where you were in much slightly less time than starting all over again. Though standby with laptops only takes 1% of the battery every 6 hours. That sounds far better than Hibernation to me. Just having the lid closed puts the system into standby as well. Most mobile systems tend to boot pretty slowly (in XP). This is why you'd want to tweak your system and remove unneeded items, stop certain unnecessary services and more. Macintoshes however have flawless power management and hibernation support (as they should, since the OS, drivers, and basic hardware are from the same mfr - Apple!). There may have been bugs in the past, but OS X is flawless about it. But this is for Windows, not Macs.

Look into CCleaner, that helps clean junk from your pc. I've seen people get 2+ gigs back from this software.