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I don't get the screensaver option when I type it in my version of FARR (2.00.138). I'm guessing a shortcut under the scripts folder of FARR installation is missing.I didn't add anything extra, I do use dcupdater to update plugins as well --cemole (August 15, 2007, 04:13 PM)
amongst these merging faceless blogs i feel left out. i know deep down that someone created the blogs, they must be important - crucially, they must be more important than me. i need to write a blog just like them - it's unavoidable, i have broadband - i won't exist until my online inane ranting is recognised by at least 3 complete and utter strangers.-nudone (August 15, 2007, 01:23 PM)
| Starting with version 3.10 it is possible to load plugins to backup/restore the settings of specific programs. A plugin is actually an XML file that once imported in Backup4all adds a predefined backup. For instance, a backup plugin for Mozilla FireFox, when loaded, will automatically add in the Predefined Backup list an entry for Firefox, so when defining a new backup job if that is selected the FireFox profiles will be added as source for the new backup. Backup plugins recently added: - Mozilla FireFox - WinRAR - WinZIP - LimeWire - Opera - Yahoo Messenger - Trillian - Spybot Search & Destroy - NOD32 - FileZilla Server - ICQ - MSN Messenger - Mozilla Thunderbird - eMule - Alcohol 120% - Adobe Photoshop CS2 - BearFlix - Windows Scheduled Tasks - Windows Media Player - Windows Explorer Toolbar To download these plugins visit the Plugins section of our Knowledgebase at: http://www.backup4all.com/kb/15 Each article contains information on how to download and install the plugins. We will add soon information on how to create a plugin. For questions and suggestions email us at: [email protected] The Backup4all Team http://www.backup4all.com |
I seem to remember that there was a hot key to force Screen Saver NOW (e.g. to blank your screen in a hurry) similar to the "preview" button on the Display Properties page. I still haven't found it - does anyone know??-BigJim (August 15, 2007, 10:24 AM)
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Edit 2: It has been added into the program, along with a little info if you forget what it is asking
I've been using firefox for a while, about a month now and found that the 'minimize to tray' addon and the 'minimize to tray enhancer' addon are speeding up my browsing a lot. In the options of these addons are tweaks that can help. And it doesn't use a lot of resources either. Take it from me who is still on a pentium 3 machine.sounds great, very helpful for my old maching too - will try
The main one was that I was hitting X instead of the minimize arrow, until I found the tweak to have the X (close) button minimize firefox to the tray-cmpm (August 13, 2007, 04:02 PM)
Firefox's recent history cache is still both slower and much more memory hungry than Opera's. I've tested this by opening Google Image Searches for Picasso, Magritte and Dali (20 images per page). Then navigation through ten pages (thus 200 images per tab and 600 images total). Firefox fails after 5 (default settings) back navigations in total. Opera can render *all* of the 30 pages and 600 images immediately using some 40% less RAM!-nontroppo (August 13, 2007, 04:37 PM)
)Hi Tom -
I have one physical drive that I had partitioned in three about two and a half years ago. Initially I had a big partition for My Documents and user settings (like Outlook and IE), a small (@2GB) partition for my Paging File, and a medium sized partition for Windows and Programs.
I've since gotten rid of the small paging file partition altogether and have placed my paging file on the windows/programs partition. It's set to 1.5 times my RAM (so 1536MB) and is fixed in size. I don't have a paging file at all on the My Documents partition. The setup works well and is more stable than the previous one.-Darwin (August 12, 2007, 01:00 PM)
| Should the file be left on Drive C:? The slowest aspect of getting at a file on a hard disk is in head movement (‘seeking’). If you have only one physical drive then the file is best left where the heads are most likely to be, so where most activity is going on — on drive C:. If you have a second physical drive, it is in principle better to put the file there, because it is then less likely that the heads will have moved away from it. If, though, you have a modern large size of RAM, actual traffic on the file is likely to be low, even if programs are rolled out to it, inactive, so the point becomes an academic one. If you do put the file elsewhere, you should leave a small amount on C: — an initial size of 2MB with a Maximum of 50 is suitable — so it can be used in emergency. Without this, the system is inclined to ignore the settings and either have no page file at all (and complain) or make a very large one indeed on C: In relocating the page file, it must be on a ‘basic’ drive. Windows XP appears not to be willing to accept page files on ‘dynamic’ drives. NOTE: If you are debugging crashes and wish the error reporting to make a kernel or full dump, then you will need an initial size set on C: of either 200 MB (for a kernel dump) or the size of RAM (for a full memory dump). If you are not doing so, it is best to make the setting to no more than a ‘Small Dump’, at Control Panel | System | Advanced, click Settings in the ‘Startup and Recovery’ section, and select in the ‘Write Debug information to’ panel |
| Can the Virtual Memory be turned off on a really large machine? Strictly speaking Virtual Memory is always in operation and cannot be “turned off.” What is meant by such wording is “set the system to use no page file space at all.” Doing this would waste a lot of the RAM. The reason is that when programs ask for an allocation of Virtual memory space, they may ask for a great deal more than they ever actually bring into use — the total may easily run to hundreds of megabytes. These addresses have to be assigned to somewhere by the system. If there is a page file available, the system can assign them to it — if there is not, they have to be assigned to RAM, locking it out from any actual use. |
| How big should the page file be? There is a great deal of myth surrounding this question. Two big fallacies are: * The file should be a fixed size so that it does not get fragmented, with minimum and maximum set the same * The file should be 2.5 times the size of RAM (or some other multiple) Windows will expand a file that starts out too small and may shrink it again if it is larger than necessary, so it pays to set the initial size as large enough to handle the normal needs of your system to avoid constant changes of size. This will give all the benefits claimed for a ‘fixed’ page file. But no restriction should be placed on its further growth. As well as providing for contingencies, like unexpectedly opening a very large file, in XP this potential file space can be used as a place to assign those virtual memory pages that programs have asked for, but never brought into use. Until they get used — probably never — the file need not come into being. There is no downside in having potential space available. For any given workload, the total need for virtual addresses will not depend on the size of RAM alone. It will be met by the sum of RAM and the page file. Therefore in a machine with small RAM, the extra amount represented by page file will need to be larger — not smaller — than that needed in a machine with big RAM. Unfortunately the default settings for system management of the file have not caught up with this: it will assign an initial amount that may be quite excessive for a large machine, while at the same leaving too little for contingencies on a small one. How big a file will turn out to be needed depends very much on your work-load. Simple word processing and e-mail may need very little — large graphics and movie making may need a great deal. For a general workload, with only small dumps provided for (see note to ‘Should the file be left on Drive C:?’ above), it is suggested that a sensible start point for the initial size would be the greater of (a) 100 MB or (b) enough to bring RAM plus file to about 500 MB. EXAMPLE: Set the Initial page file size to 400 MB on a computer with 128 MB RAM; 250 on a 256 MB computer; or 100 MB for larger sizes. But have a high Maximum size — 700 or 800 MB or even more if there is plenty of disk space. Having this high will do no harm. Then if you find the actual pagefile.sys gets larger (as seen in Explorer), adjust the initial size up accordingly. Such a need for more than a minimal initial page file is the best indicator of benefit from adding RAM: if an initial size set, for a trial, at 50MB never grows, then more RAM will do nothing for the machine's performance. |
- in the past, I've tried setting a harddrive partition aside and putting the PF there, but PF usage and disk activity were elevated.-Darwin (August 12, 2007, 10:46 AM)
Well... as I understand it, there are some apps, such as Adobe Photoshop, that insist of swapping data to file, so if you're running anything that requires it, not running a PagingFile will be a liability.re photoshop,
| When your system does not have enough RAM to perform an operation, Adobe Photoshop uses a proprietary virtual memory technology, also called the scratch disks. Virtual memory is disk space used for storing data during a work session when the amount of RAM is insufficient. (This scratch disk space is not a Windows swap file [swap file = paging file?] or Mac OS virtual memory, but is used only when working in Photoshop.) ... The amount of free space on the scratch disk must be greater than or equal to the amount of RAM you have allocated to Photoshop. To ensure good performance, Photoshop writes the entire RAM contents to the scratch disks during idle times. If the scratch disks run out of free space, Photoshop quits taking additional RAM—regardless of what you have allocated to the program. This means that if you’ve allocated 60 MB to Photoshop [1999 standards ] but you have only 10 MB of free space on your scratch disk, Photoshop will use only 10 MB of RAM. |
)When AutoInstalling, AutoCleaning, AutoOptimizing, or EasyMaintaining, you will NOT BE ABLE TO CONTROL YOUR COMPUTER.
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The BAD part about this is that if something DOES go wrong (
a) let it go
b) shut off the system power
c) run around in a circle and hope for the best-wreckedcarzz (August 11, 2007, 05:52 PM)
I'd like to see CHS replicate ClipStep's copy & paste interface.is there something in FARR now that replicates that-skywalka (August 12, 2007, 02:26 AM)
??IE7 save target as function saves it as cmyk_test.jpg while Opera saves it as .png-PhilB66 (August 12, 2007, 06:43 AM)
Would it be of interest to make a pre-complied, ready to go zip for USB drives (somewhat like the PortableApps.com setup)? I was thinking about doing it (just got a Geek Squad 4GB drive) but don't want to make something no one will use. Thoughts??
-wreckedcarzz (August 09, 2007, 08:57 PM)
get called upon by my familyAnyway, hope the system is going to suit your needs - apparently you won't be assembling it yourself, otherwise I'd have orderedYou'll probably get a picture anywaysyou to take pictures of the process.
-f0dder (August 09, 2007, 08:44 AM)
"the proud owner wit his nice new black puter"EDIT: I almost forgot. Don't forget about loading that thing with fans (I remember you said you were going to do it, but just as a reminderehh, I might be posting again at that stage...-Lashiec (August 09, 2007, 08:50 AM)
looks like a good computer, congratulationscheers!-mouser (August 09, 2007, 08:50 AM)
| CPU: Intel core 2 duo e4400 tray 2048kb, lga775, 64bit 100,60 € Mobo: Msi p35 neo-f, intel p35, atx 90,75 € CPU fan: Arctic freezer 7 pro sockel 775 14,17 € Memory: 2048Mb-kit ddr2 mdt , pc6400/800, cl5 70,91 € Box: Coolermaster centurion5 schw. Cac-t05-uw no PSU 44,49 € PSU: Atx-netzteil corsair vx450w 450 watt 65,00 € Graphic card: ASUS GF-7100GS Silent, 128MB, Nvidia 7100GS, PCIe 36,50 € Harddrives: Samsung hd321kj 320gb serial ata-ii, 7200 upm, 16mb 60,40 € Samsung hd321kj 320gb serial ata-ii, 7200 upm, 16mb 60,40 € DVD burner: Samsung sh-s183l bare schwarz 35,38 € Floppy Laufwerk 1.44 Mb,3.5" Schwarz 4,99 € Sound: Terratec aureon 5.1 Pci 16,40 € Modem: Devolo microl. 56K pci (bulk) pci 11,55 € Building: Rechner - zusammenbau 9,99 € Sum: 621,53 € delivery etc (COD, "Logistikkosten") is €15.66 in total Total: €637.19 |
| Asus gf-7100gs silent, 128mb, nvidia 7100gs, pcie 36,50 € EDIT: thats the passively cooled one Club3d x1550, 256mb, ati radeon x1550, pci-express 40,35 € Club3d 7300le nvidia 7300le, 128mb, pcie 41,68 € Xfx geforce 8400gs 256mb ddr3, pci-express 43,50 € Asus gf-7300gs td, 256mb, nvidia 7300gs, pci-express 46,60 € Gigabyte gv-nx73g128d nvidia 7300gs, 128mb, pcie 49,72 € |
good luck with it -"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." -- Albert Einstein-app's sig
