Jeremy

It's not annoying pop-ups, it's an IE setting.

I'll second that.

I'd suggest you post this in the nLite sub-forum. Nuhi is the developer, so he'd be the one to know if that's possible. If it is, it will probably involve replacing some INF/DLL files. If not, reformat, reinstall. The hard truth.

Yes, it is. And I have actually sent an e-mail to Raxco, received a response, but it was mostly biased as I expected it to be, even quoting exact references from both the program and the website. I also found it strange how they represent perfectDisk, but were explaining to me how Diskeeper functions and how it doesn't do anything as good as PerfectDisk. I told her that if all she would give me was biased statements, than I would not require anything else from her.

Oh, you know, "Opera is trying to access the Internet, would you like to allow it?" *Clicks "Yes." .... Why can't I bring up Google?

That's an issue with the registry entries for that program. I've encountered the same issue with Paint before. Google Search 'Class Not Registered'

That's very interesting. I was browsing the web on my friend's laptop, could surf fine. Installed Outpost, clicked Yes, couldn't browse. Closed the GUI and stopped the Service, could browse again. So obviously you're not the expert here. I'm not saying I am, but I know what should be happening and what is happening.

Knowing of what and how they infect is important, though.

What I'm saying is that a firewall program shouldn't immediately prevent the Admin from browsing the net, even after clicking "Yes, this is ok" for everything that pops up within Windows. The firewall should adapt to your needs, not interfere with them.

So what? Of course you can with healthy and normally working HDs. But it sounds like the drive needs to be formatted again, which LDM could help him achieve easily within Windows.

Yes, Kasp and NOD32 are the best of them all, clearly, but some people want freeware, which is why I suggested Avast. @DigeratiPrime, I just reformatted and installed Kaspersky and it says the license key expires April of next year. AOL? www.av-comparatives.org

Yes, myself and many others are very aware that companies will say anything about products to sell it to consumers, no surprise there. As for system cleaners, the ones that are payware are trash, just copies of each other, same features. CCleaner is THE best because it is freeware and not only removes all Windows junk/cache/temp, but allows you to add folders to remove, has recognition of dozens of third-party tools, allows you uninstall things that don't show up in your Add/Remove, even lets you rename them! Also has a very safe registry cleaner which I use as well. You do emphasize on how some companies use false-advertising and how most system cleaners are junk, but there ARE good ones, and that's what I like to do... tell their story. I use nLite to remove a lot more than just Services, and just last night I spent an hour going through every component, Googling things and totally revamped my removal selection. I have kept about 50 MBs worth of files compared to what I kept a year ago, including several Services. I don't agree that defragmenter Services are 'unnecessary'. I use Diskeeper and it adds only one Service, which is set to Automatic. Diskeeper monitors the overall fragmentation level of the harddrive and kicks in the defrag on the fly in the background. The impact this has on system performance is negligable, especially for my system which has 2 GBs of RAM. Considering that, I wouldn't say the Service is useless. PerfectDisk adds two Services (PDAgent.exe, PDSched.exe) and both of them can be set to Manual without affecting the functionality of PD at all. I'd like to remind everyone who is paying attention to these topics that regardless of how we all feel about these defragmenters, we really don't know how they are coded and how exactly they interact with Windows. Also, you're statement here is opinionated and biased. It would be nice if someone actually came up with a way to compare defragmenters. See, I've noticed the opposite when using PerfectDisk in the past. It has actually made my system seem faster. Yes, as stated above. Again, your opinion, not fact. Zxian says his PC seems faster over a period of about a month after using I-FAAST. Sick idea? How is it sick? Monitoring does go on, as I've stated above, and it has a negligable affect on system performance, at least those with high hardware specs. Sure, for you, but not for the typical Joe Blow general user. lol, you call it s*** and the best at the same time. That's not confusing or anything. You can configure Diskeeper to either use I-FAAST or not. It's not a feature that is started automatically and gives you hassle to stop/disable, unlike Norton. PerfectDisk is the same way. Diskeeper stops once the job is finished. Question, are you speaking only from what you have read from other people, or have you actually tried PD and DK? It just seems to me like you're not solid in what you say.

Hey if you have any funny pics like that, feel free to post them.

Don't forget PowerISO, lol...

Kill Norton and switch to either NOD32 or Kaspersky. If you want freeware, I'd suggest Avast.

Well, that's not WFS's fault now is it? You have to make sure your security settings are good enough as well.

1. A porgram like Driver Genius will be able to backup your drivers as they are currently installed. Keep a copy of them on CD or flash drive. 2. If you have the xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx Windows product key on the bottom of your laptop, than that will be what you use. 3.As long as you have all your hardware drivers backed up, you should be fine. 4. You don't *need* to remove components if you don't want to. Just slipstream SP2, RyanVM's Update Pack (for the latest updates), your drivers can also be integrated. Put your product key in the Unattended section of nLite.

WTF?!

Windows Installer Cleanup Utility and CCleaner.

Well, you could just enable Automatic Updates and tell it to download and install everything without asking you, then you get stuff you might not need... like Java.

I use nLite and you don't hear me badmouthing it, do you? Wise...

http://unix.rulez.org/~calver/pictures/stu...ers/sct024.html Help me... please.... I beg of y... *passes out*

Grow up.

Firefox is the one whose bunking with M$ for "support" lately, not Opera. And just go grab the plugin for Flash and you're all set.