Warning: once installed, there is no option to uninstall. Be sure to make a system restore point before installing (tho' one should be created automatically.) As to why I removed IE 9: it forces ClearType on in IE and other programs like Windows Live Mail, and there is no way to turn it off. I can't read webpages when they're displayed as a blurry mess. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft understand the awful irony in the word "ClearType"?
"DOSBox is usually used to run old MS-DOS games for Intel x86 PCs that can't run modern operating systems such as Window XP, Vista, Linux, or FreeBSD."
Not quite. DOSBox is used to play old MS-DOS games ON modern operating systems. Those old games expect to have things like direct access to old Soundblaster hardware complete with IRQs. A modern OS can't provide that, so DOSBox emulates it.
I haven't checked in a couple years, but last time I tried running OS/2 in a VM it did not work in VMware, but it did work in VirtualPC (from Microsoft. Go figure.)
My laptop takes an incredibly long time to boot and shutdown, even with 1 gig of RAM. Hibernation is much faster. Also, one of my desktops has a nifty feature: the BIOS detects when the PC is coming out of hibernation and will skip the POST checks to make it even faster.
For setting ClearPageFileAtShutdown there's a safer way than mucking about in the registry:
1. Open Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy
2. Navigate to Local Policies/Security Options
3. Enable the option "Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile."
And lastly, for Frank Denton: Open the Power Options in the Control Panel, go to the Advanced tab and check "Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby."
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Makes you wonder
I mentioned Netflix having more traffic than Bittorrent to a friend, and he said "You'd think it had porn."
Mine's the one with the hood (I thought it was supposed to be spring by now?)
Windows Update overloaded?
It's running really slowly for me, and a few times it has stopped altogether. It took a couple of hours to get my home machines updated.
Blurry ClearType is blurry
Warning: once installed, there is no option to uninstall. Be sure to make a system restore point before installing (tho' one should be created automatically.) As to why I removed IE 9: it forces ClearType on in IE and other programs like Windows Live Mail, and there is no way to turn it off. I can't read webpages when they're displayed as a blurry mess. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft understand the awful irony in the word "ClearType"?
DOSBox
"DOSBox is usually used to run old MS-DOS games for Intel x86 PCs that can't run modern operating systems such as Window XP, Vista, Linux, or FreeBSD."
Not quite. DOSBox is used to play old MS-DOS games ON modern operating systems. Those old games expect to have things like direct access to old Soundblaster hardware complete with IRQs. A modern OS can't provide that, so DOSBox emulates it.
I don't get it
Why are they talking about system slowdown while doing MANUAL scans? You'd expect it to be slow then...
OS/2 on a VM
I haven't checked in a couple years, but last time I tried running OS/2 in a VM it did not work in VMware, but it did work in VirtualPC (from Microsoft. Go figure.)
Thunderbird?
The 2.0.0.8 Thunderbird update doesn't seem to exist - their website still shows the latest version as 2.0.0.6.
Vista?
What's the take on Vista? That part of the story seems to have been cut off.
Not quite a rootkit
"One Reg reader has compared all this to the infamous Sony rootkit fiasco. But we think that's a little much."
Perhaps, but it seems a bit ironic that SuckyROM is owned by Sony...
More hibernation love
My laptop takes an incredibly long time to boot and shutdown, even with 1 gig of RAM. Hibernation is much faster. Also, one of my desktops has a nifty feature: the BIOS detects when the PC is coming out of hibernation and will skip the POST checks to make it even faster.
For setting ClearPageFileAtShutdown there's a safer way than mucking about in the registry:
1. Open Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy
2. Navigate to Local Policies/Security Options
3. Enable the option "Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile."
And lastly, for Frank Denton: Open the Power Options in the Control Panel, go to the Advanced tab and check "Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby."