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20-Feb-2006, 07:53 PM #61
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Originally Posted by GoJoAGoGo
Based on your reply of calling a member a rude name, is this normal procedure for a TSG moderator?
Read up on the basis for it or but out...

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Originally Posted by aarhus2004
I am happy enough to have had the thread tidied.

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20-Feb-2006, 09:29 PM #62
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Read up on the basis for it or but out...

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I'm not quite sure where to read up on the basis of the quote you posted but I really think name calling by a moderator is not something the administrators would agree on.
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21-Feb-2006, 01:39 AM #63
aarhus2004

You go ahead and put your example back in if you wish.

Maybe you really didn't want the thread "tidied" after all.

Silly me for thinking your example should have been put in one of the two threads you started on the issue.

http://forums.techguy.org/site-comme...word-wrap.html

http://forums.techguy.org/site-comme...anagement.html

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21-Feb-2006, 06:09 AM #64
Thanks for the invitation, buck52.

I think I went overboard in using the entire page as a demo of the consequences of choosing the wrong tags. Instead I have modified my post above and included another gif which shows what can happen.

I did want the tread made tidy - I was appalled when I first found it. And I remain grateful to you guys for resolving the problem.

I saw your resolution as another 'Tip or Trick', and, as such, one best posted in the forum of that name and why not in the thread where the poster made the tagging error. A thread in which I have some investment.

Cheers, buck.

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15-Mar-2006, 10:18 PM #65
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Hello WinME Users,

I think it regrettable that this Tips and Tricks forum continues to attract folk with questions; folk who are seeking a tip on how-to or why, and who begin a thread here seeking information - but it seems inevitable, and this in spite of the forum's name sub-header:

"Share the tech-related tips and tricks that you've come across." the word SHARE tells the story.

That said (and I admit I always feel better for having said it ) I urge you to read and act upon this POST:

http://forums.techguy.org/3434493-post1.html

In spite of any views of mine expressed in this thread regarding security in general (and since it appears inevitable that we must use the product which is the subject of the above link) I concede that having an installed freeware which is found to be faulty is foolish. So do fix it. The fix is easy and goes smoothly.

Cheers.

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16-Mar-2006, 12:01 AM #66
Thanks Ben. Are you a musician?
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16-Mar-2006, 05:50 AM #67
Talking Musical Gifts.
Hello Mike,

Nope, but you sure as heck are. Very happy to find the link to the Old Guys website and do some listening. I found pleasure (lots of it) and look forward to taking more.

Thanks to the "Old Guys" for the great gift.

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16-Mar-2006, 10:21 AM #68
Thanks Ben. One of the reasons I haven't been around here as much lately is because
we're finishing up our latest project. Hope to have it on the site soon.
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02-Apr-2006, 10:25 PM #69
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Hello WinMEers,

This may be of interest,

Cheers.

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12-Apr-2006, 12:22 PM #70
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Hello fellow WinMe user,

Got todays update? It's a Critical!

Cheers.

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12-Apr-2006, 04:37 PM #71
I was just reading this thread again and in particular was interested in the "TWEAKS" you had made to your system and whether or not you had done any benchmarks to see if they had any effect on system performance at all? A lot of people spout on about tweaking their system with not actual proof that the tweaking is actually doing anything or making performance worse. Post some before and after benchmarks and we will see if the results are worthwhile.
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12-Apr-2006, 10:43 PM #72
That's a good idea Rockn. I've been reading a number of these tweaks and I've been
implementing a few. I have an extra ME machine here so I'll try to get that information.
I've already got some good benchmark stuff..
It might be a couple of days, though, for some reason business has been busy.
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14-Apr-2006, 10:26 PM #73
Benchmark testing for Tweaks and Geeks!
Hello,

Rockn and Ekim68, good idea. I will be very pleased to have you undertake such 'testing' and grateful if you add your findings to this thread. Regretably such a thing is well beyond me.

Cheers.

Ben.

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For what it is worth.
As I recall, when I do a format/install, these are some 'things' I do immediately:

MenuShowDelay
Expand Control Panel
Re-establish the Swapfile on D drive (Virtual Memory Management)
Enable DMA - all drives
Install: Delindex, RegSeeker, jv16pt, ScanDefrag, PurgeIE. Startup Control & Monitor, HiJackThis and Spider
Reduce my startup items to 6 (see HJT 04 group)
Disable Active Scripting in I.E.6 (Internet zone)
In Display Properties/Effects tab (load reduction)
Full disablement (2 settings) PCHealth
Update WinME.
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15-Apr-2006, 01:20 AM #74
Spider, eh, haven't used that in a while. I still have it.
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15-Apr-2006, 08:01 AM #75
The Realm of the Spider!
Hello Musical Mike,

I know what you have been up to lately - me? well I have fallen for the bassoon as played by Michael Sweeney of Toronto. I even put out some dubloons to buy his record. "From Mozart to Way Beyond".

Glad to hear someone else has Spider. I use it to check on Purgie cos on a few occasions that particular software misses a bunch of those pesky index.dat files. Spider never misses a trick.

Cheers, Mike.

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