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Because:plan a better HDD partitioning scheme (assuming you don't use a SSD).-tslim (March 30, 2013, 10:52 AM)
I've been trying to work out the last part of the comment, why do you make a distinction for SSD's?-pilgrim-online (April 01, 2013, 04:49 AM)
Disk space has never been an issue to me in relation to the registry and I do not know what you consider to be the 'practical implications'.
You are right when you refer to how it 'feels', I know a lot of people are very much against registry cleaners and I would not try to change their minds.
I also know that you can do a lot of damage with them, some more than others.
My personal view is that provided you make backups, I use ERUNT, and get to learn what you can and cannot do with a particular program you should not have any problems.
Do they actually make a difference?
On XP my answer would be yes, especially over a period of time.
On 7?
Certainly not as much but then again on the computer I have 7 installed on it would probably take quite a lot to slow it down compared to those I have XP on.
I also defrag the registries once a month, on XP that makes a very noticeable difference (on XP Mode as well), again not noticeably on 7.
I have followed this practice for years, using the same programs for most of that time, and never had a problem because of it.
Would I advise others to do the same?
Not unless they knew what they were doing and were prepared to take the time that I did to test whatever program they chose to use, as well as taking adequate precautions against the possibility of problems.-pilgrim-online (March 30, 2013, 09:51 AM)
Tinman57: I'd agree with that back in the Win9x days - not so for NT. I honestly can't recall a "registry cleanup" having effect on speed ever since I moved to Win2k, and with a (granted, somewhat superficial) idea of the on-disk and in-memory data structures used for the registry hives, as well as caching optimizations done, I can't see why it would, either.
Now, there might be some specific situations that can be fixed which could cause slowdowns (references to network shares, system startup items that can be removed, et cetera) - but for a normal system, I'd be surprised to see any quantifiable performance effect just by removing "unused" registry keys/values. And some of the "clean up" too much for their own good.-f0dder (March 29, 2013, 10:31 PM)
Took a quick sweep over their feature-list, and it seems like a somewhat mixed bunch - I'm not too thrilled seeing a file/free-space wiper being combined with anything else, since it might give the impression those "other things" will also be secure wiped (i.e. IE history, removed registry keys, ...) which I kinda doubt. But I guess it makes sense from a marketing viewNo, I am not specially impressed by those wiping functions.-f0dder (March 29, 2013, 10:42 PM)
OK, that gives some protection against the residual plaintext problem. But are you sure your RamDrive product uses nonpageable memory? Otherwise you might be (slightly - depending on ramdisk size) increasing the risk of residue in the pagefile.I am not knowledgeable enough to see whether the ram drive memory is subjected to Windows paging system, but I can show you this:-f0dder (March 29, 2013, 05:15 PM)
Now, #2 is questionable practice, but #3 by itself is enough that I'd recommend people to stay the heck away from this program. It's insecure design, and if something as basic as this isn't done right, one has to guess what else isn't in order.Man... you have scared me...-f0dder (March 29, 2013, 05:15 PM)
Afaik RAR uses AES256 encryption - if you use a strong passphrase, the RAR archive should be safe enough (given that they haven't made any stupid security bloopers). This workflow means that you'll be extracting the files temporarily, working on them, and RAR'ing them back up - that would make the data very easy to retrieve if somebody stole the machine or its harddrive.-f0dder (March 29, 2013, 03:53 PM)
I know this isn't what you want to hear, but: use TrueCrypt or don't bother at all.
Pretty much anything else won't be anything but a false sense of security. And if you only want a half-hearted solution, why bother doing anything at all?-f0dder (March 29, 2013, 01:44 PM)
Absolutely agreed.-skwire (March 29, 2013, 03:27 PM)
Pretty much anything else won't be anything but a false sense of security. And if you only want a half-hearted solution, why bother doing anything at all?-f0dder (March 29, 2013, 01:44 PM)
WinKey+B for system tray access and navigation via the left/right arrows.Man... why not you tell me this earlier...-Josh (March 19, 2013, 09:04 PM)
Just discovered this last week:You have successfully made me open notepad and try press F1 to F12... What a joke.
Open Notepad, and hit F5.
It pops the time and date.-Edvard (January 23, 2013, 10:24 PM)
A project is a keyword that limits Listary's search to a single drive / folder or a collection of folders.Where do you find the above info: use the same keyword to group entries?
Example: I like to search my music collection which is spread over 2 drives in 3 folders. I add an entry for each folder in the projects view and give them all the same keyword "mu" as an abbreviation of "music".
Then I search "mu jackson" to see only files and folders from my music collection (the 3 folders defined earlier) that contain the word jackson.-Ampa (March 14, 2013, 08:49 AM)
Yeah, but I keep hoping that someone finds one!I suppose hotkey is something you press so often until you can't forget.
Jim-J-Mac (March 11, 2013, 04:15 PM)
I have nice experience with Genie Timeline Pro and actually it has saved me many many times in the past two years.I have Genie Timeline as part of my tool stack, I want that story!Well, start by reading here.-iphigenie (March 09, 2013, 08:21 AM)-f0dder (March 09, 2013, 08:57 AM)