"Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤" <Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤@dac..com> wrote in message
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You have hardly any productivity apps and some of your software is crap.

You are not a power user. I know we were all n00bs at some stage, but we
didn't all shout out about it from the rooftops.

ss.

"Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤" <Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤@dac..com> wrote in message
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Let me guess... AutoCAD. That was the app of yours that I singled out as
the most shit.

Do you realise how much of a piece fo shit that program is? It's a crappy
drafting program. Anyone with a brain has moved to much better 3D apps.
What field are you working in? Mechanical or Contruction, there are much
better apps.

ss.

"Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤" <Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤@dac..com> wrote in message
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I despise the widespread use of AutoCAD in architecture. It's just a 2D
drafting program with an awful interface. It's old fashioned in the way it
works, as you would expect from a barely evolved DOS program. I use
ArchiCAD which is much better. When Autodesk realised that there 3D AutoCAD
called Architectural desktop was crap, they bought Revit. Now with
Autodesk's marketing muscle they will make Revit the market leader, and I
hate that, as it is not as good as ArchiCAD.

Maybe AutoCAD suits your field, but maybe something more advanced in 3D
parametrics like Autodesk's own Inventor program would be better.

ss.

Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤ <Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤@dac..com> wrote in
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You are truly a peculiar case. Since you seem to appreciate
opinions (at least your own) let's see how you do with someone
else's opinion of you collection.

7-Zip 4.42
Unnecessary, winRAR does it and all the other formats, better
and faster.

Adobe Reader 7.0
Bloated useless piece of crap from one of the evil 3. Fox Reader
beats it by miles.

AtomTime Pro 3.1d
Sounds OK, but I bet it's 2 or 3 MB's. I have used D4 for well
over 10 years and it's 320 KB installed, and probably better.

Audacity 1.2.4
I've heard good things about it.

AutoCAD 2007
No problem here, but I believe by now there are others just as
good.

avast! Antivirus
No idea. They can all do only as much as the user's intelligence
or stupidity will let them.

AxCrypt
I haven't bothered with any encryption apps so I don't know.

BookmarkBridge 0.76
Probably useful, probably bloated.

CCleaner
NF. Some cleaners are good, some are not.

CDex extraction audio
Used to be the best. I think by now many others have matched its
quality.

DeepBurner v1.8.0.224
Tried it, crap.

DeepRipper v 1.1
NF, but probably as above.

EVEREST Ultimate Edition v3.00
No idea what this is.

FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
Never heard of it. May be great. But I bet it's 5 megs.

Forté Agent 4.0
Well, at least you don't use IE/OE for the Usenet.

Free Download Manager 2.0
There are many, some great, some crap, most spy/adware. I use
FileHound.

IrfanView
I don't like it, but millions do.

JGsoft EditPad Lite 6.1.1
I used EditPad 6 or 7 years ago. There are thousands of those,
and I found three much better ones, all free and each with its
own set of features not found anywhere else. (I did NOT try
thousands, I did try over 50.)

Mozilla Firefox (2.0)
I use Opera and OffByOne, but at least you don't use IE.

Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5.0.2)
As above.

NTREGOPT 1.1j
NF, some are great, some are crap.

OpenOffice.org 2.0
Fine.

Opera 9.02
Fine.

Peter's Ultimate Alarm Clock version 2.0.8
Why would anyone need a fucking alarm clock on their computer?
Let alone "ultimate"?

PhotoFiltre
No idea what this is. Not exactly a descriptive name.

PowerShell-XP3
Sounds like you are not happy with XP defaults. That's a good
sign.

QuickTime Alternative 1.69
Fine.

Real Alternative 1.48
To real player? Fine.

Robust Internet Speed Booster 4.2.0.0
None of those do anything.

Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4
Fine

The GIMP 2.2.12
Congratulations on not using PS.

Tweak UI
Anyone who doesn't have this is beyond help.

VCW VicMan's Photo Editor 7.99
You already have GIMP and Irfanview and Photofiltre (whatever
that is...)

Wallpaper Master v2.14
I think I tried it once, I prefer Wallpaper Changer.

Winamp 5.3
Boo.

Windows Media Player 10
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

XQDC X-Setup Pro 8.1.110
No idea what this is.

XYplorer 5.40
No idea what this is.

Zero Assumption Recovery Version 7.9
NF with this one. Probably fine.

You are missing a real file manager. You obviously do not
consider MS programs to be much good, and you are absolutely
correct. Why you use Windows Explorer is beyond me. Maybe you
just left a few programs out. Your list appears to be the
contents of your add/remove window ("remove only" !) and not all
programs show up there, especially many small utilities of which
I have dozens and which are among the most valuable programs I
use.

You also do not appear to have registry/file change monitoring
programs or a disk imaging program or a real undeleter.
Essential.

You also do not have a dictionary/thesaurus. OTOH, you did not
misspell anything in your post.

As you can see, I have WAY too much time on my hands.

thanatoid <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote:

This is the free version http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
and very nice to have available

It's ok, but install all the plugins http://www.irfanview.com/ for the
full effect, it plays about anything, including sound files.

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thanatoid wrote:
Teatimer comes with Spybot S&Destroy and if enabled notifies user of any
registry changes-or rather-attempts at changing the registry and asks if you
allow or deny.


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Ellis_Jay

If I don't respond to this thanatoid post, the terrorists win.

I would disagree. 7-Zip isn't signicantly slower than WinRAR,
doesn't have WinRAR's incredibly annoying habit of extracting
anything and everything within a folder (even if you pick one file
out of 100 to be extracted, it still brings the folder with it),
and has the advantage of being FREE.

Besides, the 7z format is just as good as RAR, IMHO.

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"thanatoid" really posted this and did it in
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"Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov" adds this
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From your link:
"Limitations: Lavalys has discontinued the free edition.
This is unsupported."



And you can pick and choose your file associations when you install.

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Fiction and fact and everything in between...
Plus some things I can't even remember -
all rolled into one big "thing."

This is "truth," to me.

If I don't respond to this Ponder post, the terrorists win.

It is relevant because Rar creation is the only thing WinRAR can
do that 7-Zip can't.

Besides, OGG format being better than MP3 is a matter of
preference. And how many users will have the equipment or ear to
hear the difference? (And if you're talking compression rates,
OGG still lags behind the far-more widely used and compatable WMA
format for that)

Betamax had superior picture quality to VHS but suffered from
Sony's desire to control the market* and unwillingness to compete
directly with VHS' strengths (It's size, price, and availablity
advantages)


* An ill-fated desire Sony suffers from to this day. (Y HELO THAR
MiniDisc and Blu-Ray!)


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No it isn't.

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"ellis_jay" <ellis_jay@firstbase.coma> wrote in
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Correct, and it'as good feature, but I handle the issue
differently.

So I never use tea-timer. I like to have as little stuff running
all the time as possible. And AFAIK tea-timer doesn't monitor
file changes.

Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤ <Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤@dac..com> wrote in
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YOUR collection. FUCK!

Heh heh... Of course. But since D4 is great, I saw no point in
even trying anything else.

That is Bloat Supreme. YUCH!

I have free Bookmark Wizard from Moon Software (they write some
GREAT programs, like the best (and free) font viewer/*loader*
(NOT installer) I have seen etc). The entire directory is 640
KB.

All url's are the same format (well, maybe not the new IE's),
you just need to use a real file manager to see them, not the
weirdo browser. I have used BW with Opera and OffByOne AND IE
(in the dark old days when I used version 3). Worked fine.

FWIW, IMO Google has almost eliminated the need for bookmarks,
although I still have thousands (some from 10 years ago) backed
up somewhere. I KNOW I will NEVER use them - and that if I did,
most would not work any more.

I use Advanced Registry Optimizer from systweak and I think your
Reg Cleaner is the Joni Vuorio one (which I also have), right?
Neither EVER fucked anything up.

I exaggerated, but it seemed to have minor problems and I like
small programs. www.goldenhawk.com. Money VERY WELL spent.

Don't need it, nor am I am interested in finding out whether my
system is 2% or 79% slower than yours. ;-)
(It's probably like 300 times slower since it's a 9 year old
P166MMX with 64MB RAM running Win95B).

Bloat!!!!!!!!

As you can see by my headers, I use Xnews. Before yEnc I used
NewsXpress.

I use Metapad too but the Lite version. It ignores the "typist's
curse" - the fucking insert/overwrite key. It's its best
(undocumented) feature. Since it does have a file size limit, I
also use edxor and NoteTabLight.

I have it on my 2nd non-internet computer so I can read .chm
help files (again, WHAT THE FUCK WAS WRONG WITH .HLP FILES,
MICROSOFT???)

You never know, I suppose.

Very good.

Most people who like Java, Flash, scripts, popups, auto-
redirects etc. won't touch it, but - just for the hell of it -
try OffbyOne. Fastest and 1000% safe - NO bells and whistles AT
ALL but very intelligent and compact design.

I was kind of joking. I know it can be useful for real people (I
am not one of those anymore).

That makes sense.

And at $500 (or something) less. Fucking Adobe.

HUH???

FWIW, I use STP from www.tinyapps.org.

Probably wise. But visit www.litepc.com.

Oh yeah, tried it once ages ago, but found that while it can do
an astounding amount, I had already tweaked the things I needed
tweaked and the rest was overkill for me.

Heh heh, the title tells it all, it's just that there are at
least a dozen or two of those, so I don't know HOW good this one
is.

Since I paid good money for Total Commander (and actually got a
letter of thanks, a shortcut card, and more in the mail
afterwards!) and I can not IMAGINE any file manager doing more
(check it out), I don't even want to know (That is exactly what
I usually call a stupid and close-minded approach, but everyone
can be stupid once in a while).

Actually, I probably will check it out just out of curiosity. We
can then compare it vs. TC (which used to be called Windows
Commander but guess what happened).

Well, I'm sure for the registry TeaTimer works fine. File Map by
BB is very good (http://www.dogkennels.net/filemap).

For disk imaging Acronis True Image. Since I have had it (it
came FREE with a British computer magazine) I have been able to
dump the dozen programs I relied on before when things got fubar
(and the hours it took to use them to fix things). It's the most
important software one can own.

Usually people recommend "restoration" for undeleting, and it's
very good and free, but when I needed something better, I found
active@undelete (my other computer is off so I can't check the
EXACT name right now) and it is AMAZING.

I like standalone programs. I don't like all-in-ones. The 12-
year old (came on 7 floppies) Webster's I have is excellent. I
tried a newer version and it's the same with shit bloat graphics
and a complicated interface. I wouldn't touch the MS suite for
anything. Wordweb is very nice, but its best feature is the
("fun with") anagrams.

For a guy who wrote one of the weirdest posts I've ever seen,
you are very intelligent and perceptive.

I'll look at a couple of the programs you mentioned and post in
a while.

Regards
t.

Freezer <freezer88@hotSPAMTHISmail.com> wrote in
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As "compatable" as your spelling of it.

Sony invented VHS, dumped it because it did not meet their
quality standards, and then made Betamax. JVC bought VHS from
them, claimed *they* invented it, and spent about 5 years making
it more or less work. It won because it was cheaper and because
most people can't even properly adjust the color on their TV's.

Betamax was resurrected in the last great Sony product, the pro
Betacam.

Ctrl¤/Alt¤/Del¤ wrote:
Teatimer does not slow your machine down-well it does in the sense that all
apps and processes and services, modules, and tasks running take a piece of
the pie-but does not cross the threshold of awareness to your machine or to
the user. It is simple to enable inside the program. Some registry changes
you may not want when downloading a program or using an app or a program.
For example, some programs will change the registry to automatically start
on boot. And will do this every time you use it, like Quicktime. I know I
don't want Quickime to be a start up item on boot. Do you? Teatimer can
block the change. Same for new downloads. I don't want global startup on
most things, do you? Teatimer can stop that kind of thing with programs
from sneaky or overt legit programs. I also use regprot from Diamonds. It
works well with Teatimer. I also use Scotty from winpatrol dot com. All
three work well together. I figure no one approach is enough and I hope
those three apps can protect me, along with my firewall and AVG.

But I use other apps and programs as well as on line scanners for security.

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Ellis_Jay

"ellis_jay" <ellis_jay@firstbase.coma> wrote:

Thanks for that, I've got regprot running now. Very nice stand alone
program.



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