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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by Curt on September 01, 2007, 04:58 PM »

I think we should revive this thread. PS Tray Factory, True Launch Bar, Desktop Icon Toy and Earth Watcher:


GIF, 256 colours, 1024x768:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good programs for helping you manage what programs start with windows?

« Last post by Curt on September 01, 2007, 03:06 PM »

I know it has been mentioned here before (but not in this thread)

Startup Delayer (http://www.r2.com.au...&show=startdelay) gives control over the startup process - you can delete entries you don't want, add new entries and also time the startup of applications so that you can introduce a delay during startup if you have a lot of apps trying to load all at the same time.

-Carol Haynes (July 23, 2006, 09:55 AM)

  Yes, Startup Delayer is soo easy to use:
Click the green plus, navigate to the program file, click OK. End of story!



Edit: Startup Delayer is offering: "Pause Startup Delayer until this application has closed"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why choose XP PRO (NT 5.1) over XP Home?

« Last post by Curt on September 01, 2007, 02:54 PM »

Hmmm; wonder why he said the other thing. Well, maybe it was a mutual misunderstanding; we were talking about several operating systems. But we were not talking about Media Center (MC). Do you think XP Home will consider a MC installation CD to be an upgrade, and accept it? Maybe the reason my XP is unstable is not a hardware issue but a registry thing, so maybe I can save the 400 apps from my (unstable) Home constellation by upgrading to MC - hoping it will become stable this way??

So, do you think XP Home will consider a XP Media Center installation CD to be an upgrade, and accept it (of course keeping what is already installed)???

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why choose XP PRO (NT 5.1) over XP Home?

« Last post by Curt on September 01, 2007, 01:18 PM »

Thanks a lot for the link to Paul Thurrott's winsupersite - I had long forgotten about it.

In the end of the article it says that it is posible to upgrade from Home to Pro. My dealer said it isn't. What do you say; can I upgrade my XP Home version to XP PRO ??

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General Software Discussion / Why choose XP PRO (NT 5.1) over XP Home?

« Last post by Curt on September 01, 2007, 12:24 PM »

I was running Windows 2000 Professionel for more than six years, so when I was looking for a new PC  I said to the dealer that I of course wanted a PRO version again; this time XP PRO. But the only reasonable priced PC he had was OEM installed with a XP Home version, and any Pro version would be a full price disc on top of the >PC + OEM XP Home< price! I didn't have the money he asked for, so I said Go Home...

During the following six months I have eagerly been waiting for the weaknesses of my XP Home to show up, but have not yet found any (except that my PC is unstable, but that may be some hardware problem), and now I am wondering why any private single home user would choose XP PRO (32-bit NT5.1) over the much cheaper XP Home?

What am I missing, that I have not yet discovered? 

PS: The homepages for XP have almost been deleted, they are nothing but adds for Vista!
- can you even buy a new XP disc?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Free computer help online (tune-ups, customization, etc)

« Last post by Curt on August 30, 2007, 09:45 AM »

Download here: http://cid-7f064ff43...ontrol%20Install.exe

-wreckedcarzz (August 27, 2007, 08:56 PM)

Wow; 9.6 MB - this new baby sure is "not tiny"! However, the first time I clicked this link I was taken to Windows Live which required me to tell when I was born and where I live, so it should not come as a surprise if someone will cancel the download, leaving you with fewer testers...

-

I have been puzzled by the buttons EasyChat and EasyHold, and more, but so far I have refused to push those buttons, because I know no programs with such names. Now I see that your new DC signature is linking to those programs, but maybe you should tell a little here about these apps? Edit: I for one will never follow a link unless some text first made me interested.

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 29, 2007, 09:56 AM »

@ Carol, Oh, I would really like to have a Pioneer drive... oh yes! However, the  DVD RW  that came with the machine half a year ago, is (was) of reasonable quality (though made in China). I guess I will save my money and go for a new duo/quad core PC.

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 29, 2007, 09:33 AM »

No, at least five persons have to block a mail before it is blocked in general. And then they may still recieve it, but in the SPAMfighter folder, so they can accept it (or not) if they want to. You cannot block me from mail I want to recieve.

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 29, 2007, 01:30 AM »

You can bet that I will let you all know....   

But it all begins with repairing the CD drive. A CD "exploded" while playing, and there are thousands of little pieces of the disc preventing the door from closing - and so far I haven't had the courage to open the tower, in order to fix it.

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2007, 06:36 PM »

I was merely referring to the installation CD's folder, C:\WINDOWS\I386
- which I used to reinstall SP2

CPU Name : Intel Celeron D (Cedar Mill-V)
Vendor String : GenuineIntel
Name String : Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.33GHz

Thanks, Darwin, for hoping 

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2007, 01:44 PM »

Yes, you are right, Darwin, your memory serves you well. I bought this machine February the 24'th, but from day two I was disappointed with it. However, I expected that I had installed too many programs for the memory to handle (150 apps on the first day), so I delayed my reactions, thinking that the problems would go away when I purchased and installed some more RAM. As time has gone bye, I have come to realize that memory alone will not do the trick. There is something basically wrong with either the hardware or the i386 (reinstalling XP didn't help), but I haven't got a clue of what it may be - I can only tell about the symptoms. The situation has of course been worsed by my poor understanding of secure behaviour for Windows users. You know; "do you really want to delete this backup file?" and such. Well, I didn't actually delete a backup file, but the principles are just about the same, I guess; very often I am too hasty to act, and too slow to react (sorry): too slow to undo, and such.

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2007, 12:19 PM »

One other thing I did when I got worried about security/fed up with spam was switch from Outlook Express to Outlook. It's not to bad a learning curve and I could never go back now. I dimly recall you talking about having switched in the other direction, Curt, ...

-Darwin (August 28, 2007, 11:39 AM)

Yes, I have been forced to replace my darling Outlook with Outlook Express (my Office 2003 will not repair / re-install) until I manage to repair this XP or get a new PC.

I have been told that the auto-preview is a security risk?? For this reason I only had the feature enabled in subfolders (in Outlook), and don't use it in Outlook Express. But I do miss it, along with a lot of other features...

As for newsgroups, I was using RSS Popper in Outlook, so I never needed Outlook Express.

The problem is that a number of legitimate and useful newsletters are sent from different email addresses for each issue

-Carol Haynes (August 28, 2007, 11:52 AM)

- that would of course be a problem. Only, I have never heard of such newsletters. Are they for some closed circle only? Sorry for asking, it really is no concern of mine.

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2007, 11:18 AM »

  - don't waste your time trying to stop this at the source as you will be wasting your time (sorry, I realise that this sounds defeatist!) -

-Darwin (August 28, 2007, 10:06 AM)

I "SPAMfighter-blocked" the spam mail (from the initial post in this thread), and then tried to send a mail from me to me. The first one was blocked by Outlook Express (OE), so I told OE to mark mails from me, and then I send off another mail from me to me. This one went all through. But I will of course have to wait and see if "he" (the guy I wanna hurt) ever sends me another mail (from "me"), before I know if the trick has worked the way I am hoping.

Thank you all for the advices! 

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2007, 10:55 AM »

I don't know what app you are referring to, Carol, but it is not SPAMfighter. Once you have clicked "allow", the sender will never be deleted no matter what others may think of it.

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2007, 10:33 AM »

To classifiy SPAMfighter as "useless", is not being serious.

SPAMfighter is of course just another anti-spam filter -
(and I really don't know or care what technique it is using):

When a new e-mail arrives, it is automatically tested by SPAMfighter. If it's spam, it will be instantly moved to your SPAMfighter folder. ... >

 - but SPAMfighter is firstly and most important a community:

> ... If you receive a spam mail that is not detected, click on a single button, and the spam mail is removed from the rest of the 3.739.694 SPAMfighters in 217 countries in seconds.

- and if the anti-spam filter is saying "this mail is spam" and you think 'not', then it is extremely easy for you to get the mail anyway: just open the SPAMfighter folder and have a look! Many of the apps recommended here will not give the user any chance to evaluate the mail that has been rejected by the filter - and I find such behavior unacceptable.


SPAMfighter also is:

SPAMfighter Exchange Module (SEM), is the easy-to-use anti-spam solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, 2003 and 2007.
Read about SPAMfighter Exchange Spam Filter

SPAMfighter SMTP Anti-Spam Server is the easy-to-use anti-spam solution for SMTP Servers for anyone from small businesses to service-provider.
Read about SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server

SPAMfighter Hosted Spam Filter, is the easy-to-use anti-spam solution for companies, organizations and individuals that have their own domain name and want a hosted solution.
Read about SPAMfighter Hosted Spam Filter

SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server, and Hosted Spam Filter support the following mail servers: ArGoSoft, CMailServer, CommuniGate, Courier, DynFX, GroupWise, IMail, Kerio, Domino, MDaemon, Merak, MERCUR, MS SMTP MAIL Service, Netscape Messaging Server, NTMail, Postfix, QMail, Sendmail, Winmail, Winroute, WorkgroupMail, XMail and more.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Appget - user-run software update program

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2007, 09:07 AM »

Darwin, your post confused me. I have Secunia running ("Secunia PSI is monitoring your software"), and I also have 1 'end-of-life' program installed. Secunia will tell me when I ask it, but it has never been "botherin me to uninstall".

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2007, 08:36 AM »

I have no garantee if he was sending to me only or to many, but Yes, he is sendning mails to at least me using my email address in the "From" box - see image in initial post.

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2007, 08:16 AM »

Thank you, friends, for all the advices; I really appreciate it. 

However, if you please will forgive me saying so, In my little mind you are all kind of missing the point, because I gave too little informations. I have SPAMfighter installed, and it is so good that less than ONE spam mail per day or even per week will get through the filter (sensitivity: Normal)- I receive some twenty to thirty mails a day + DonationCoder + RSS. You have suggested little improvements, if any. How does one block a mail that has my own email address in the "From" box? I am not going to block my own email address (my email address may of course be blocked, but not ME, if you know what I mean, I still wanna be able to mail myself), and I am not going to have some third party filter decide what kind of content I can send to myself!

Edit: I must admit that I didn't understand what iphigenie told me to do.
What is SPF?

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 27, 2007, 07:07 PM »

What do you call the "titelbar" (see image) in Outlook / Outlook Express (- and what is it named in Danish...) 

I was thinking that it must be posible to block my own email address this way. Understand me right; I do not want to block myself, as I sometimes are mailing myself, but mails from myself have my full name in the titelbar, not my email address, so I was thinking that maybe I can stop it by blocking mails that have my email address in the titelbar?

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Living Room / I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by Curt on August 27, 2007, 06:12 PM »

Right now I am very upset, very indignant: I have just recieved an email from myself!! Damm it, how do you block a spammer who is using your own email address as sender? I have never before been into any kind of contact with www.magicvalleyaeroclub.com or www.leximot.net - Oh, could I get my hands around these people's necks.... Let me be honest with you: I wanna hurt them! Where is the address to some Internet police?

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

« Last post by Curt on August 24, 2007, 10:55 AM »

- and do you like it? Anything special to remember?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dumb question re Website Watcher

« Last post by Curt on August 24, 2007, 10:16 AM »

I have the UpdatePatrol, but was not able to configure it to my liking - it kept telling me about increase in number of members and such.

Did anyone compare WebsiteWatcher and UpdatePatrol, and have a say?

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

« Last post by Curt on August 24, 2007, 10:07 AM »

A virtual solution still might be a better solution. 
(...)
BufferZone has a FREE version for the Internet browser and the email client.
The BufferZone PRO version is on offer at $30.

-Curt (July 12, 2007, 04:52 PM)

... - the virtual world is quite new to me - but I did try BufferZone, and for the ease of use I would prefer PRO over FREE.

-Curt (July 13, 2007, 04:39 AM)

BufferZone PRO is the GiveAwayOfTheDay today, Friday 24'th of August 2007

--

Edit: Remember to register at http://www.trustware...r/store/giveaway.php

Edit2:
The GiveAway offer is reflected if you want to upgrade to the supported version: 50% rebate!

BufferZone Pro offer:

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General Software Discussion / Re: BufferZone and other virtual machine like safe program executors

« Last post by Curt on August 24, 2007, 10:02 AM »

BufferZone PRO is the GiveAwayOfTheDay today, Friday 24'th of August 2007

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

« Last post by Curt on August 23, 2007, 06:01 PM »

I have been a member at Wilders since August 2006, but I have not been posting much.