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General Software Discussion / Re: programmes that use little system resources.

« Last post by tomos on June 12, 2006, 01:41 AM »

hey, thanks everyone for all the help & advice

I'm downloading stuff as I write.
I have the Atlantis nova, def. have a Acrobat 5 on disk somewhere. Using processexp myself, (didnt realise no taskmanager in 98)
Going to try the Offbyone browser, wont have to worry bout flashblock with that! Reckon its fine for a beginner

Happy to get the links for portable stuff - Floppy office has an email client as well, super!
anyone know what portablepolyedit.sfx.exe is? found something in Russian bout it ...

Ultimately you'll probably have to make some sacrifices to get decent functionality with low resource use these days. For example using Wordpad for all document editing - very basic, but hey it works! If this is acceptable then all should be well. Otherwise tell 'em to spend just a couple hundred bucks and upgrade.

-JavaJones (June 09, 2006, 06:34 PM)

True for ya!

Yeah, re-Office, i find it very slow - use wordprocessers very little myself but its always nice to find smaller faster programmes no matter how much memoryetc. you have. (I find myself struggling at times with 512)
thanks all again,
tom

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General Software Discussion / Re: programmes that use little system resources.

« Last post by tomos on June 09, 2006, 06:08 AM »

thanks!

I downloading Atlantis, looks good!

Also:
I forgot to ask about an email client??!!

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General Software Discussion / programmes that use little system resources.

« Last post by tomos on June 09, 2006, 05:02 AM »

hi
I'm trying to help someone with an ancient computer (64MB ram, dont know bout processer, Win98)
Well, they're learning to type at the moment using some note programme, but also want to go in internet.

What I'm looking for is recommendations for programmes (preferably free ) that use little system resources.

Came out with AVGantivirus after reading this thread:
https://www.donation...40.msg25840#msg25840

am using foxitreader for PDFs -
Wondering if its better in general to use "portable" software - eg if using Firefox, would portable version be leaner?

With browsers was thinking K-Meleon might be lighter than FF. Opera is bigger programme size but i guess that doesnt mean much?

also wondering about "writing" software. Openoffice is very slow to start on my computer i find, but it might be better if I just installed the write part. Then theres Abiword. Any othr ideas there ?

Will prob just start trying things out but would be very happy to hear any recomendations
thanks
tom

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Living Room / Re: Photoshop Tutorials

« Last post by tomos on June 06, 2006, 09:41 AM »

heres a link for Select Edges FREE plugin which is great for sharpening fotos where you want to keep noise levels down (I use it on almost all fotos, its esp good if you have noisy camera or want to enlarge foto)
I'm using an old version of pshop (5.5), so it may not be necessary in newer versions(?)

the image is selected between 0% (flat areas/colour) and 100% (edges) and you then sharpen as you like it.

http://www.reindeerg...d=201&Itemid=147

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General Software Discussion / special virtual desktop wanted

« Last post by tomos on May 26, 2006, 09:20 AM »

Hi y'all

what I want to have~do are a selection of desktops with different shortcut icons on each

say

1 Graphics, Photo
2 Tools
3 Notes, Office stuff

ideally maybe to be able to change them with a hotkey

I've downloaded a couple of Virtual Desktopmanagers(?) but they seem to concentrate on people with 20 programmes open at the same time and each desktop shows progs from a particular group in the taskbar.
I think these programmes can possibly do what i want but the're complicated (Virtualdesktop) or Forums in German (Dexpot)
Just found VirDsktop forum so will try post there as well

But i wondering for what i want is there a) a way, or b) software anyone can recommend
thanks,
tom

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Uninstallers (a very short look at what I've tried!)

« Last post by tomos on May 26, 2006, 03:17 AM »

has anyone tried out MyUninstaller
www.nirsoft.net
which doesent need to be installed and is free
Ive just installed it (well, opened it...) but havent used it yet & probably wouldnt know anyways (how good it is!)

Gives a huge amount of info about installed progs,
after reading above will prob close other programmes before trying it
 can let you know if anything noticably exotic happens

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Living Room / Re: Anyone actually use rewriteable media?

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2006, 03:41 AM »

I'm actually using CDRWs     Well amongst others!

Im interested to hear how other people backup stuff cause Ive learnt to use computers myself & at times can be plain ignorant of, oh well, lots !! - I'll tell you my situation:

I work on maybe 100 drawings at a time, ends up being a lot more files cause as I correct them I save as a new file.
These I back up on a couple of disks of which I try to keep at least one fairly current copy "off the premises" (you never know ..)

I use nero (express I think its called - Im not at home now so cant check) Its the simple interface anyways (came with the burner)
I either simply click on make "datei Disk" (literally "file" - its in german) & it updates\synchronises data on disk with equivalent on harddisk. 
Or I save contents (nero) file after burning & open that for next backup.
I dont know how trustworthy these are, esp. the second option.
Every now & again I copy disk to regular CD for "snapshot".

Are there other options?
Software, hardware ??
as I usually work on the one computer Ive never gotten a USB stick - are they fairly dependable ? - could be an option for "current work". (in the past Ive used a zip drive, I guess stick is just much more convenient version of  same).
I usually have finished jobs or "jobs on a break" on DVD or CD anyways.

The CDRWs I use are Octron (ancient by now) & intensto & I dont have many - (keep reusing them (!)) mostly without problems - if there is a problem i just use a different disk for that backup  & format the problem one (~ 45seconds b.t.w.)

thanks for any advice tips links etc, tom