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One that you downloaded? If so - that's illegal and can't be discussed here. Topic Closed

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Or use Windows Updates Downloader to download all the required hotfixes since SP2 (and some other extras as well).

Thread Cleaned Last warning everyone... more discussion like that and this topic gets closed.

SmartPlacement groups files based on how frequenyly a file is modified, not last access. The two files may have been modified at differnt times, and therefore be regarded as "different" by PD.

PunBB is what I just installed on my website - it's small, fast, and clean. I like PunBB so far... Zxian's Forum

7E60E4646F5A90ACAA71252A80FC789C I'm really not sure why it's not working for you... It's got basically no code in it... #include "stdafx.h" #include "ScanSpoof.h" int APIENTRY _tWinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPTSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { }

Odd... I've added the MD5 sum of the version I've got on my computer (which runs without problems). I've also given it to others who haven't had troubles with it. Maybe you got a corrupt download?

Ha - My friend's got all of you beat... - 4785m

I made a simple blank C++ project in VS2005 today, just to get around the MSN Safety Scanner. Scan Spoofer v0.1 MD5: F26AB41ED86E7E0FEE991555DF7278A2 It's nothing special, but I figured I'd share for others who don't want to install the Windows Live Safety Scanner. To use it, just extract the file to any location. I use the WLM install directory - C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger. Then set MSN to use ScanSpoof.exe as your "virus scanner". (Tools->Options->File Transfer) I hold no responsibility if you get an infection while using this. This is no replacement for safe computing practices. Enjoy!

I think you mean... Bitcomet is the best [b]fragmentation[/b] software.

The list needs to be made by someone. If you want to make it yourself, you can find information on the format of the UL files here. You're probably best off taking an existing file and editing the contents to your needs.

4040m - Challenge me Proof - 4040m Update!!! 4326m B) Update 2!!! 4375m B)

UltraTagger is the best I've found... it's not free though.

Silence is a relative term... if you've got your "quiet" computer sitting next to your fridge, then yea - most computers can be pretty quiet. When the whirr of your hard drives is the only thing you hear from your computer, then that's a quiet computer. B)

You got it.

Question about Outlook should go in the Microsoft Office forum - not Windows XP. Please post in the correct section next time. Moved to Microsoft Outlook

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@Everyone - Please stay on topic. Personal comments will be removed in future. Setting the startup type of a service to manual simply means that if the service is called upon, it needs to be started before you can use it. It doesn't change the amount of resources that are used when it is in an idle state (i.e. it's not doing anything). For example, change the "Network Connections" service from manual startup to automatic startup. The resource usage of your system won't change much.@TheTOM_SK - The DNS client won't help your ping times in internet games, since most online games rely on direct IP communication to the server. The game will record the IP of the server you want to speed up access, so that the game doesn't need to wait for DNS lookups to occur. The big difference will come from loading a webpage with multiple images all based on the same server. Without a DNS cache of some sort, your browser will need to re-request the DNS information of every image on the page (www.msfn.org/image1.jpg, www.msfn.org/image2.jpg, www.msfn.org/image3.jpg, etc). A DNS cache will tell your computer "Instead of asking the DNS servers where www.msfn.org is, just go to 69.16.212.140." That information is stored in RAM, and is much faster to access than from your ISP.

DNS Client - Keep it. It'll make your internet browsing faster. Your computer will look in the local DNS cache for DNS entries before requesting them from your ISP. Since most DNS entries don't change that much (Google's been the same for ages), you'll save some time when loading large pages. System Restore - I don't know the exact number on the resources, but it's never been enough for me to notice it. Creation of a restore point is very quick, and usually happens before you know it.

The SuperFetch "tweak" is a registry key found in Windows Vista, but does absolutely nothing in XP. The key is never referenced by the NT5 kernel. My rule of thumb about the prefetcher - leave it as it is. Microsoft did actually get it right the first time around for this one.

Logical Prefetcher Once again: Do not clean out your Prefetch folder!

@Andromeda43 - It's his opinion that the rd command can be used to replace deltree. Are people not allowed to have opinions on the forums anymore?

A pure rules based firewall like the one you've described would then be MUCH less secure than an application based firewall. You're basically saying that a piece of malware running on your system as "blah.exe" could do anything it wanted on port 80 (or whatever ports you've got open). A proper rules based firewall (like Outpost) does things the way I listed.And installation size means absolutely nothing. Look at AutoPatcher. It's what... 300MB total download? Go and download the updates with WUD - they're about 150MB (including the "extras"). So where's the extra 100-150MB going to? They both do the same kind of thing, but one is much bigger than the other. So which is better? (to install the updates that you've downloaded with WUD, you need a very very short batch file) Just because you've found one rules based firewall that is small, and one apps based that is large, you can't make generalizations. Kerio and Sygate are 7.44MB and 8.8MB installers, respectively. When they're running, both of them use very little resources. Exactly - You and TheTOM_SK run very customized systems, and I'm sure that you've put a lot of time into making them the way that works for you, but there comes a point where the return-on-interest falls off. For you, that's probably a lot lower than it is for me (i.e. I don't find it worth it to put in another week of testing to get another second off my boot time, but you might).I took the time to give the reasons why I keep the services that you found unneeded. Hopefully, it'll give others some idea of the differences between highly tweaked setups, and not-so-tweaked ones. Ati HotKey Poller - Needed for PowerPlay, which adds another hour and a half of battery life Automatic Updates - Does what it says Computer Browser - I do have a lan, and I store most of my files on my desktop server Cryptographic Services - Needed for AU, like you said Distributed Link Tracking Client - Keeps network links up to date. If a network share has been changed, it gets updated automatically Error Reporting Service - Can help with finding fixes for software, or fixing rare bugs. Help and Support - Useful when you're still learning how to use certain software (Office in particular) Network Location Awareness - Needed to udpate the system tray of network status changes Protected Storage - Also needed for network passwords. Without it, you need to re-enter a user account on a networked computer when accessing the shares. Security Accounts Manager - Same reason as above Server - Needed for cetwork shares Shell Hardware Detection - Autoplay, and updating the status of disc drives in My Computer Task Scheduler - Needed for prefetch, and yes, I have scheduled tasks. I backup the My Documents folder daily using SyncBackSE. Wireless Zero Configuration - Needed for wireless Workstation - Needed for network shares. Your english is fine. I've seen others with way worse language. @Andromeda43 - Services that are running, but not doing anything don't use any CPU cycles! Sure, they might sit in RAM (unless Windows has paged them out), but they're not eating up tons of resources by not doing things.

I think he means "standalone" - which is different than On-Demand. On-demand scanner means that you tell the scan to run. Standalone means that you can run it without installing anything on the system.