Jeremy

Bad timing and you're blaming everything on PerfectDisk, which is not responsible for your problems.

Well, if you want everyone to see that, than create the screenshots yourself and post them...

I've had 3 Logitech's in the last 5 years, so you know what I'd tell you.

You're the Hardware Guy, you tell us.

You doubted correctly. I'm finished in this thread. You win or whatever. Congrats. It's friday, I'm trying to maintain a good mood for the weekend, I have no desire to keep this crap going. Cheers. You have the statistical info in those screenshots I provided. If you want your browser to make sandwiches, get Firefox. if you want to use Mouse gestures without downloading an extension, get Opera. As Crahak stated, it's your choice to make. Firefox Rules!

Yet, you have no problems expressing your personnal opinion about Opera being inherently more secure than Firefox as a fact (hint: it's NOT). As for customizability, that's actually one thing I despise about Opera - it hardly has any compared to Firefox - it doesn't even compare. With Opera you've got a handful of options under "settings" or such. Under firefox, look under about:config and it's ALL there, and there are extensions to tweak even more things (be it the tabs, the download windows, etc) which you can modify yourself, or even create your own. And while there may be some pointless extensions (and pointless to you might still be useful for somebody else - not everyone has the same needs), there are countless VERY useful ones, that have no equivalant (or poor imitations) on the Opera side. I haven't really seen anyone have problems with extensions so far (with the exception of not understanding mouse gestures - which doesn't matter if it was thru an extension or built-in, it's the concept they didn't grasp. That and some people not understanding tabs much seemingly.) Saying it's a steep curve sounds like a ridiculously biased opinion to me (I have yet to see someone have issues like you mention with extensions - it's no worse than plugins for any app or such) Opera uses a bit less RAM, a bit like Zxian said... Perhaps it does matter on very old systems (a minority), but pretty much all browsers work just fine on average PCs. Opera is a bit faster, but Firefox is way more customizable/extendable. *sigh* One of these again... Ok, fine, I do not know for a 100% certain fact that Opera is more secure than Firefox, it is just something I have heard from numerous people who I have great respect for. if 5 people who you had respect for told you the same thing, would it not be drilled into your head? If you've even read any of my posts throughout my time here on MSFN, you'd know that if there is anyone to preach about people having different needs, it's me. But, I meant that if there are 1000s of extensions, isn't that a bit excessive for what an Internet Browser? Like, what are you looking for in a browser with that many extensions? You want it to make you a sandwich (I've been requesting this for years, btw ) and tuck you in, tell you how cold it is outside and what Google stocks are, or what? Bottom line, 1000s for a web browser does seem excessive. Uhm, as for customizability, uhm, have you ever seen the Opera Wiki? In regards to old systems being a minority, maybe everyone in your area has a 10 pound heatsink and SLI, but there are a lot of people out there with old systems. Edit - Actually iirc, I heard some people saying they got spyware with Firefox and I've never heard of this happening with Opera.

Onboard Intel Extreme Graphics?

PS/2 baby!

Why don't you just allow all traffic for that application instead of allowing individual ports? You're probably missing some.

Well, there's a line between the extensions that are truly useful and ones that are utterly retarded. Also, extensions that do essentially the same thing but in different ways. Someone will always dislike a particular extension, create their own one for that exact purpose and throw it out onto the net. Like its been said many times, particularly from -I-, you either want lots of extra custom functionality, or you want everything out of the box. I'm an out-of-the-box person, and I prefer security and customizability and Opera does that better than Firefox.

I went back to Diskeeper though, because PD8 still doesn't defrag in the background. I used the 0 value for fragmentation threshold and left it on for a day or so with downloads going and it didn't kick in until the scheduling told it to.

Jealous because it's him and not you? lol... just messin' with you.\ The only thing I could think of right now is if the webcam used its own port, you could block outgoing traffic for Yahoo Messenger on that port. I use Outpost Firewall and it allows for the most specific rules to be created.

Nice one on replying to a topic from nearly a year ago... bored?

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=82069

o_O??? I'm using v9.01.8552 (latest) and I upload to ImageShack almost daily... @-I-, Excellent post there. That essentially sums up the thread, along with the statistical info I provided with the comparison of the two.

I really wish people wouldn't express their personal opinions as if they were facts... but that's just me.

I like having 0 infections.

CCleaner (Junk) jv16 PowerTools (Best Registry Cleaner) The reason why I feel this is the best registry cleaner is because it is constantly improving throughout development. The program receives cache updates that make the registry cleaner safer and more effective. Some of you may remember long ago when I did the Registry Comparison topic. I might update that and sum it up with the best ones from that list. I've very interested in Registry Cleaners in general. Diskeeper (Defragmenter) O&ODefrag, PerfectDisk, and Diskeeper are all good in their own ways. However, since I can't be bothered to manually defrag anymore, I use Diskeeper, despite feeling that PerfectDisk does a better job at defragmenting. I don't trust "All-in-One" software, personally.

rotmmflmmfaopmpomfglolol *ahem*

I use AdMuncher to block pop-ups and ads. Works excellently.

Well, it's not so much a "negative" effect as it does not affect system performance whatsoever. If you only have 4GBs of HD space in total, than I can see why it would be a concern at that point. If you have 100GBs... I'd say let it go.

A total of 8172 users who completed the survey on AV-Comparatives.

Yeah, but only if it wasn't hard to deal with, bloated, a resource hog and had the kind of features that other AV programs are being praised for.

www.av-comparatives.org - Comparatives - On-Demand for August 2006 1. G DATA Security AntiVirusKit (AVK) (99.68%) 2. AVIRA AntiVir PE Premium (99.51%) 3. F-Secure Anti-Virus (99.07%) 4. Kaspersky Anti-Virus (99.06%) 5. (Below 99%) Of course, the amount of total viruses it can pick up isn't the only factor to base your decision upon when choosing the ideal anti-virus solution for you. There's also: - Other security enhancing features that distinguish it from other AV products. - Is it just aimed towards anti-virus, or is an "all-in-one"? (Which will affect the below factors in turn) - Memory footprint. - Number of processes (F-Secure wins that hands down, lmao). - Free or payware. - GUI appealing or not. And despite all that, you still need to think of it in "real world" terms. You need to ask yourself: What is the likelihood, given my experience and knowledge thus far, that I will run into a virus that ranges within the 0.32 - 0.94% that the above anti-virus solutions do not protect against? If that does happen, what will I do? Boot to a CD and restore my harddrive? Reformat my OS? try and tackle this unknown virus myself and use tools like FileMon, Unlocker to try and fight it? Take a while to think about all that.

http://www.jv16.org/ Head over to the forums and see what other users are requesting as added features for the new version! This software is super feature-packed, very straight forward and non-fancy GUI and low memory usage. I can't wait to see what their 2007 will be like.