or maybe i should say:

:)

my no-frills tastes; I was perfectly happy with the look and feel of DesqView!

DOS+QEMM+NDOS/4DOS+DESQView was the most productive system I ever had...

love the way you laid out the images scruffdaddy!! how did you do it?

2nd question - hahaha you are using both find and run robot and slickrun?!!? don't they do the same thing? i think you better tell me what slickrun has that find+run doesn't have that makes it still nescesary because whatever that thing is it must be something good

that's useful to know..
i think you can do what you want if you create an alias called d
and have one entry there, for digg.com.

and make sure farr is configure to "launch first entry when pressing enter"

that should let you type d and hit enter to do what you say.

id be interested to hear if you can get it to work and what further suggestions you might have about making it easier and cleaner, as i can definitely see why that would be something that one would want to be able to do quickly and easily, and there is no reason farr shouldnt be made to fulfill that purposes.  maybe a nice simple wizard would be useful to help people make aliases..

Then I used imageshack http://imageshack.us/ to host the pictures.

you know you can attach pictures to a post (just select the Additional Options choice at the bottom of post screen), and than insert them anywhere in your post (see http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1996.0 for how).

Sadly, I've spent a FORTUNE over the years on various applications that claim to do either of two things: clean my registry or optimize my RAM. I don't run any of them anymore. I've been uninstalling fluff from my systems and am in the ongoing process of carefully evaluating what I have running/installed. Part of that process includes thinking hard about the real benefits that I have seen from using the application. With both classes of applications I can't think of any! In the case of registry optimizers, the only effects that I remember are those times when I had to run system restore/restore a disk image because the registry cleaner was overzealous in scrubbing my registry and renedered my system unstable or knocked out an application. I certainly can think of no time when performance was noticeably improved following a registry clean and reboot.

With RAM optimizers, I've come to realise that I became addicted to the little graph/numerical display in my system tray telling me how much RAM I had free and the "thrill" of seeing the amount of free RAM increase. I guess it gave me a sense of control over my system. That's about it, though. Thinking hard about the benefits - the improvements in performance - I just can remember any. Before uninstalling the latest of the RAM optimizer I spent a week experimenting with running it or not and finally came to conclusion that really the only thing that it did for me is to make me fixate on how much RAM I have free! Whether I have 600 MB or 250 MB free doesn't seem to make any difference in performance and I don't miss running an optimizer at all. In fact, I feel released from the constant visual report about the state of my RAM. Never think about it now...

My final point isn't really a point. Here's a link to what Fred Langa has to say on the subject of memory optimization:

http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2004/2004-12-16.htm#2

and a teaser for Mark Russinovich's opinion here (unless you have a subscription to windowsitpro):

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=41095&pg=2

Registry cleaners are ho-humm too. Registry lookups are very efficient in NT because of the way the structures are stored, so you won't get much performance just because there's "fewer keys to look through" (even if this was the case, consider that you'd probably remove only a few hundred of the many thousand existing keys).

What you can really benefit from, though, is to make sure your registry is 100% defragmented... oh, and there might be some benefit related to COM object cleanup too...

Actually you can get rid of that annoying shield...
Open it up and click on the last option in the left hand side's little box, and uncheck all the boxes (3 of them). Ta-da!

thanks, actually you're the 2nd person to point out to me, after Veign..

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You're right, Hirudin - we don't share a single systray app in common (and the only one that I actually have on my machine that your run in tray is Process Explorer). Interesting, but as you say, to each his or her own!

Hmmm... A very interesting selection there and I will definitely have to investigate a few of those.

For me, I like CLEAN... No extra crap. I like lots of RAM available and lots of CPU available and I use it all! (I regularly have way too many windows open, and managing them is hellish already - Now where was that Explorer window for the screen shots I need???)

While I really like ScreenCaptor and use it daily, I would not recommend it for most people. For those of us that work in software, it's a MUST though.

I'll heavily second Free Ram. That's almost a no brainer. For everyone.

I didn't see anyone recommend PureText:

http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/ ;

That's a MUST for everyone. It makes life so much easier. It lets you paste TEXT. Almost stupid, but so necessary.

This discussion is very similar to this one.

In my post there, I gave a list of what I have that goes along with this scary image:

PS Tray Factory let's you choose the order, what icons show and which are hidden, and lets you put things in the tray that would normally be cluttering up your desktop and/or taskbar.

It's what I use to shove console windows in my tray.

Personally, I don't really like hidden icons, hidden files, hidden folders...or anything else that tries to pretend it's not there. That's why my tray seems to look very cluttered.