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Living Room / New Blog From Microsoft

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 26, 2007, 05:10 AM »

New blog hackers @ microsoft

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General Software Discussion / Re: Seeking opinions about combination antivirus/firewall products

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 25, 2007, 08:58 PM »

BTW guys visiting AVASt! forum in the last 24-48 hours should be careful, apprently the forum was hacked and it was trying to infect people via a iframe and security exploit...

http://www.wildersse...wthread.php?t=183634

Do a full scan just in case.

-Lusher (August 25, 2007, 03:05 PM)

Thanks Lusher. BTW, only ie (+ie clone) browsers were affected.

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Living Room / Re: Problem Windows Genuine Advantage

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 25, 2007, 08:35 PM »

This is possibly a more recent update from the source linked above.

Update: Word from Microsoft is that this problem has been fixed, and all users affected should revisit the WGA site and re-validate. There's no explanation as to why Microsoft was originally telling people to wait until Tuesday, but the good news is that the problem has been solved.

-http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070825-windows-genuine-advantage-suffers-worldwide-outage-problems-galore.html

Thanks for the heads up Cpilot.

-Eóin (August 25, 2007, 08:02 PM)

Correct. Read Microsoft Technical Support Furum.

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Living Room / Re: A joyful addition..

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 25, 2007, 09:19 AM »

And remember, who needs sleep anyway?

-cranioscopical (August 25, 2007, 07:58 AM)

Babies... But only when we're not sleeping: they have a natural reaction to parental sleep which is to either become wide awake and/or be discomforted by something or other

-Perry Mowbray (August 25, 2007, 08:26 AM)

The secret is to sleep when the baby isn't looking. 

-JennyB (August 25, 2007, 08:39 AM)

Sounds like an experienced mom.

Congratulations lanux!

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General Software Discussion / Re: WindowsUpdate_80073712 WindowsUpdate_dt000. Problem.

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 25, 2007, 09:10 AM »

See Microsoft KB or google for it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: imaging & partitioning queries

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 24, 2007, 08:24 PM »

Could someone explain the difference between HD cloning and imaging software and what's considered better for backing up the HD. Thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Kantaris Media Player

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 24, 2007, 11:17 AM »

OK guys I have installed kantaris and ... uninstalled it. Yeah, beautiful interface, awesome visualizations and all that but with 38MB memory usage and 12-18% CPU usage it's heavy on resources compared with VLC usage of 12MB and 1% respectively (I only played a mp3). More important though, kantaris setup calls home and to another remote address (did not check the ip yet) and the same happens upon launching the program. There is no option to disable this behaviour. The program also connects to Audioscrobbler - "a database that tracks listening habits". Again no option to disallow that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Kantaris Media Player

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 24, 2007, 05:57 AM »

No I have not. I was hoping one of you guys have... I guess I should install it on a backup machine and see how it performs. Thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Kantaris Media Player

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 23, 2007, 08:31 PM »

Has anyone of you DC'ers tried Kantaris Media Player? I found about it through VideoHelp.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Seeking opinions about combination antivirus/firewall products

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 23, 2007, 07:09 PM »

Same here, a frequent lurker at AntiOnline, DSLReports, Wilders Security Forums, Subratam and Gladiator Security Forums

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Save icons for specific filetypes...

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 23, 2007, 05:43 AM »

sorry, just found out that IPhile is no longer available.. you might be able to google for it though..

• https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9685.0

-lanux128 (August 23, 2007, 02:31 AM)

I've just posted an alternative download link for IPhile in the other thread.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IPhile is gone!

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 23, 2007, 05:09 AM »

IPhile Download Link

Here's another link (scroll down)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Skype trouble

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 22, 2007, 03:38 AM »

The saga continues... Skype apologizes to paying customers with contract extensions

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General Software Discussion / Re: Skype trouble

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 21, 2007, 06:26 PM »

Here's what Microsoft had to say on Skype's outage...

Microsoft'a response to Skype's Outage

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Living Room / Re: Does my future pc suck ?

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 21, 2007, 12:06 PM »

Re monitor:
I was asking in a german "flatscreen" forum (PRADA)

-tomos (August 21, 2007, 11:57 AM)

PRAD ProAdviser is an excellent resource - Reviews, Comparisons, Advise...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Firewall for registry

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 20, 2007, 08:56 PM »

Any similar programs dor processes? Which will block/allow processes to be executed?

-philip2005 (August 20, 2007, 07:06 PM)

Check out Castlecops Wiki resources mentioned in this thread.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CastleCops Wiki - A complete malware resource

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 20, 2007, 10:37 AM »

@Lusher
 Thanks for that. Blink Personal Edition is listed as freeware but it's not.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Firewall for registry

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 20, 2007, 05:10 AM »

Yes, there are quite a few programs that do that. I use RegDefend (freeware version). I have also used DiamondCS Registry Prot (freeware) and Spybot Search and Destroy Teatimer (freeware) before. Here is a link to an excellent thread on this topic.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mouse software

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 19, 2007, 08:28 PM »

True X-Mouse Gizmo for Windows and KatMouse.

Ooops, TXMouse was mentioned in your post. Anyway, I'll leave the link.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CastleCops Wiki - A complete malware resource

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 18, 2007, 10:08 PM »

Thanks Lashiec. The Parasite Fight is another great resource page.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Smart PDF Viewers for Windows

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 18, 2007, 09:36 PM »

Not sure what you mean by "reload files automatically when they are updated" but have a look at PDF-XChange Viewer (Free). It's a light weight alternative to Adobe's Reader with some great extra features including Annotations, Comments and "Typewriter" tools.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a (freeware lightweight) flyout Start Menu

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 18, 2007, 09:00 PM »

H-Menu might do what you want. I haven't tried it myself yet but it looks highly configurable. I downloaded H-Menu 6.0 from A+ Freeware.

Here's a description from Virtualplastic: "H-Menu is a fully configurable launcher, yet it remains invisible until activated with the mouse. (...) Animated Toolbars appear on contact with the screen’s edge, up to two per side. H-Menu also supports the use of Cascading Menus and Multimedia capabilities. (...) The number of Buttons per Bar and their size can be configured and you can use your own bitmaps as backgrounds. Also you can create many sets of Buttonbars under different user names and groups, then navigate between them with links on each of the Buttonbar groups." Loads of options "

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a (freeware lightweight) flyout Start Menu

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 18, 2007, 08:55 AM »

PKApps - Scroll all the way down to "Other thingies" section and download the .zip file. Unzip and look for PKMenu and PKLauncher (inside "2006-september-7_PKAppsFunpack.zip"). Both could do what you are after and are highly customizable.

Ooops, I forgot to mention QuickMenu (Discussed here). Click to download an English version.
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General Software Discussion / Re: how do you write a .chm file?

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 18, 2007, 02:43 AM »

1. MSHelpWiki see Available Tools and Software Reviews.

2. CHMTools

3. Check out Microsoft's Office Resource Kit (Browse to Creating Custom Help for info).

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General Software Discussion / Re: The software awards scam

« Last post by PhilB66 on August 17, 2007, 09:45 PM »

What about Zaine's Great Software list? Anyone got a URL for that?

-Deozaan (August 17, 2007, 09:36 PM)

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