Opera 10-10.01 problem

I started using Opera 10, then upgraded to 10.01 in hopes it would fix
itself.

Opera does connect to sites, but I just don't have the time to wait,
for it .

I'll open FireFox and be on the site, while Opera is still trying to
connect (tcpview shows it's still trying).

I completely removed any trace of Opera and reinstalled it, same
problem.

I would start using FireFox but I would very much miss my personal
bar, speed dial, and my bookmarks - have bookmarks that are very old,
importing them to firefox it doesn't take them all, and they show up
in a sub directory of a sub directory.

Is there something wrong with this version of Opera?
Or some setting involving the new Turbo??

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>
> I started using Opera 10, then upgraded to 10.01 in hopes it would fix
> itself.
>
> Opera does connect to sites, but I just don't have the time to wait,
> for it .
>
> I'll open FireFox and be on the site, while Opera is still trying to
> connect (tcpview shows it's still trying).
>
> I completely removed any trace of Opera and reinstalled it, same
> problem.
>
> I would start using FireFox but I would very much miss my personal
> bar, speed dial, and my bookmarks - have bookmarks that are very old,
> importing them to firefox it doesn't take them all, and they show up
> in a sub directory of a sub directory.
>
> Is there something wrong with this version of Opera?
> Or some setting involving the new Turbo??
>
There's your probable answer at the end: Turbo. Try disabling it entirely.
Web accelerators are problematic and always have been. AOL used to cache
pages and use keywords to increase speed and decrease their internet
traffic costing them so much. Problem is they just let their users loose
of the net. The best internet performance you'll ever get are the
simplest and least complicated means. Nothing at *all* running in the
background, ftp, no browser at *all* but command line. Granted that's a
bit much, but the point is still there: the more you have your computer do
aside from grabbing data, the slower the data's going to come. The fact is
that compression slows *down* data flow as it's got to be compressed at
one end and then decompressed at the other. All it does is decrease the
amount of data sent. In some cases - such as archive files - by a
miniscule amount if anything at all.


It's just a gimick that sounds good is all.

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chuckcar

chuckcar <> wrote:

>> Is there something wrong with this version of Opera?
>> Or some setting involving the new Turbo??

>There's your probable answer at the end: Turbo. Try disabling it entirely.

I've enabled it, disabled it, and turn it to auto, I agree turbos are
problems.

This opera also has a sync, in other words you sign up for it, and all
your web pages go to opera, when you go to a site it checks opera for
the page first.

Nothing new, just why? They have started to grab just too much
personal info (your surfing habits) for my good, I need something that
is close Opera, or a real possibility is drop back to 9.24.

- I changed OS's and it's working fine for now so it's a system
problem that just affects Opera for some reason, I plan on
reinstalling my OS's this weekend or in about two seconds whenever
the time is right, or I get mad enough.
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> I started using Opera 10, then upgraded to 10.01 in hopes
> it would fix itself.

What was wrong with 10? I use the USB version and I have no
intention on upgrading for the foreseeable future. AFAIAC, they
(with a little help) finally got it right. Don't mess with
what's not broken.

> Opera does connect to sites, but I just don't have the time
> to wait, for it .

As others said, it may be the Turbo feature, it may not. I have
no problems connecting to anything except dead sites. Of course,
OB1 is still 10x faster, and I use it for everything unless I
need a "full featured" browser - my choice for which is
OperaUSB. F**** and Kakameleon are history. IE never entered
into the equation needless to say.

> I'll open FireFox and be on the site, while Opera is still
> trying to connect (tcpview shows it's still trying).

Doesn't make sense. Wait, it /could/ be the safety feature which
checks every site against Opera's list. That can be turned off,
as I mentioned in another post today. And it's hard to believe
it would cause /such/ slowdowns.

> I completely removed any trace of Opera and reinstalled it,
> same problem.

So it's NOT Opera. I suggested months ago it might be something
in your system ("no opera.dll found" etc.

> I would start using FireFox but I would very much miss my
> personal bar, speed dial, and my bookmarks - have bookmarks
> that are very old, importing them to firefox it doesn't
> take them all, and they show up in a sub directory of a sub
> directory.

You should get URL Organizer from Edward Leigh (my favorite,
there are many others) and forget about browser-specific
bookmarks. They are trouble by definition.

> Is there something wrong with this version of Opera?
> Or some setting involving the new Turbo??

Not qualified to answer. Happy as a clam with Opera10USB.



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thanatoid

thanatoid <> wrote:

> wrote in
>news: :
>
>> I started using Opera 10, then upgraded to 10.01 in hopes
>> it would fix itself.
>
>What was wrong with 10? I use the USB version and I have no
>intention on upgrading for the foreseeable future. AFAIAC, they
>(with a little help) finally got it right. Don't mess with
>what's not broken.

USB version is great, I used it as my browser for awhile, then
installed Opera to the OS - the USB version is still on the USB Pen
Drive.

>> Opera does connect to sites, but I just don't have the time
>> to wait, for it .

>As others said, it may be the Turbo feature, it may not. I have
>no problems connecting to anything except dead sites. Of course,
>OB1 is still 10x faster, and I use it for everything unless I
>need a "full featured" browser - my choice for which is
>OperaUSB. F**** and Kakameleon are history. IE never entered
>into the equation needless to say.

Your running Opera did you notice there is a sync option to 10.01?
another words you check opera.com's cache first to see if your page is
there "saving" time - old feature, new for Opera (you have to sign up
for it). Still almost as worthless, just an old trick used to speed up
modem access.

Turbo features can be and are a problem, not sure (haven't read up on
it) how the Opera version works. I never saw a difference, but don't
run it. (disabled)

>> I'll open FireFox and be on the site, while Opera is still
>> trying to connect (tcpview shows it's still trying).

>Doesn't make sense. Wait, it /could/ be the safety feature which
>checks every site against Opera's list. That can be turned off,
>as I mentioned in another post today. And it's hard to believe
>it would cause /such/ slowdowns.

Think I figured this one out, AVG 9.0 (registered) checks webpages to
see if they are safe, google something and AVG will of checked every
site listed as they have an icon after them.

Opera always calls home first, if you have fraud protection on
(sitecheck2.opera.com) - AVG was trying to check that site out, and
who knows what tangents it takes from there. Firefox doesn't do this
(I don't use FireFox so no plug-in's).

I can't turn AVG off, I disable the services, yet half of AVG is still
running on a reboot, which I disable with the task manager - it really
slows down a game. - and you can't disable the file scanners.

I really don't care for AVG, it's disabled so often it might as well
be off.

I'll reinstall NOD32, when I reinstall my OS's

>> I completely removed any trace of Opera and reinstalled it,
>> same problem.

>So it's NOT Opera. I suggested months ago it might be something
>in your system ("no opera.dll found" etc.

Just a month or two ago, I reformatted two partitions and installed
New installs, The XP Home recovery CD's didn't work, so I dual booted
with a XPCDSP3 (slipstream) someone sent me (trusted file), and I've
had nothing but problems since, big things, small things but
nuisances. And I swear it's because I followed the rules, this was the
first time I had created an admin account and a user account. While
Admin, I'm told I don't have admin access, and the list goes on.

You always complained about Windows Explorer being a single pane, I
didn't know what you meant as mine were always dual pane - after these
installs, I got these single pane windows, and needed to hit the menu
icon "folders" to get back to two, I couldn't figure a way to fix it.
(windows classic, themes disabled).

I used Total Explorer for awhile, getting ready to install MW2, and
clean the HD, (stick all my data to DVD's) - Total Explorer kept
asking if I was sure I wanted to delete the file I wanted to delete,
I'm sure it's an option, what I was doing wasn't going to take long,
so ignored it - delete press yes, delete press yes, became so
repetitive I deleted my torrent directory by mistake <sigh>, and I
wasn't sure what I had back'd up. So needed to recover the directory.
It being on a separate partition I had all the time I needed, nothing
was going to be written to it.

Downloaded Recuva, but it sucks it only finds files, not directories
and get's a thumbs down from me. Plus it's got a freaking wizard,
which walks you thru what type of info you wish to recover! How about
I see what's there and select what I want!

So just used a recovery program from the Hiren's boot CD - took
awhile but everything was recovered.

Tweak UI will give you the dual panes.

I'm prepared to reinstall both OS's again, I reinstalled the XP Home
recovery partition (I deleted everything to use the 4 gig dir as my
Agent dir <Grin>) figured the CD's would work.

I have an old XP pro SP2 slipstream I found and will use that, as the
dual OS.

It's just a matter of when I get around to it.

>> I would start using FireFox but I would very much miss my
>> personal bar, speed dial, and my bookmarks - have bookmarks
>> that are very old, importing them to firefox it doesn't
>> take them all, and they show up in a sub directory of a sub
>> directory.
>
>You should get URL Organizer from Edward Leigh (my favorite,
>there are many others) and forget about browser-specific
>bookmarks. They are trouble by definition.

Oh, these bookmarks are old.

The first time I used I.E. I selected yes download a game, and instead
it started to install it (I didn't get a chance to look at the file to
see if it was good or what it was), so I turn off the machine.

Used I.E. the next time to download Netscape and have rarely ever used
I.E. or ran ActiveX since (on purpose).

Used Netscape for a long time, then Opera when it wasn't free but
fast. Don't know why or when - guess I just liked Opera. Opera
imported the Netscape bookmarks but as you mentioned wasn't perfect,
the entire list is in a separate directory. Being so old most links
are no longer any good, but a history of my browsing, kinda neat
really - I figure over 10 years (450K) worth of links.

I tried a bookmark manager it didn't work out.



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> thanatoid <> wrote:
>
>> wrote in
>>news::
>>
>>> I started using Opera 10, then upgraded to 10.01 in hopes
>>> it would fix itself.
>>
>>What was wrong with 10? I use the USB version and I have no
>>intention on upgrading for the foreseeable future. AFAIAC,
>>they (with a little help) finally got it right. Don't mess
>>with what's not broken.
>
> USB version is great, I used it as my browser for awhile,
> then installed Opera to the OS - the USB version is still
> on the USB Pen Drive.

Not an answer

<SNIP>

> Your running Opera did you notice there is a sync option to
> 10.01?

I am leaving well enough alone and I would /assume/ the sync
option has to do with the USB stick. I have Opera10USB installed
on the computer, I don't own a USB stick and in fact I have
NEVER used the USB ports on my computer.

If it'something else, I don't care. I used Opera 7.23 for AGES
and never a problem. But once so many sites started going
Flashit, I had to look for alternative and spent a good few
months in great suffering. Fortunately, then Opera10USB came out
and my problems are over. I still op3en everything with OB1
first and only go with Opera if OB1 can't handle the site.

> another words you check opera.com's cache first to
> see if your page is there "saving" time - old feature, new
> for Opera (you have to sign up for it). Still almost as
> worthless, just an old trick used to speed up modem access.

That's why I have it turned off, especially now that my ever-so-
****ing-generous ISP cut the price by 15% AND upped me to 1 from
512. They are pure heart. It still only costs twice what a 7.5
MB connection costs in the normal world. Anyway, I used a 33.6
modem for years and years and I don't really care about speed.

<SNIP>

> Think I figured this one out, AVG 9.0 (registered) checks
> webpages to see if they are safe, google something and AVG
> will of

WILL HAVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! JEEZ!!!!!!!!

> checked every site listed as they have an icon
> after them.

You should be able to turn that off. There is paranoia and there
is pure all-out insanity.

> Opera always calls home first, if you have fraud protection
> on (sitecheck2.opera.com) - AVG was trying to check that
> site out, and who knows what tangents it takes from there.
> Firefox doesn't do this (I don't use FireFox so no
> plug-in's).

That can be disabled - I have it off, I know where I am going
most of the time.

> I can't turn AVG off, I disable the services, yet half of
> AVG is still running on a reboot, which I disable with the
> task manager - it really slows down a game. - and you can't
> disable the file scanners.

Have you tried "start up changer 2000" or another "turn off crap
which always runs automatically at startup but shouldn't" type
program? It HAS to be able to turn it off - and if it can't,
won't or the damn things "come back", DUMP THE PROGRAM. It's
useless if you can't control it.

> I really don't care for AVG, it's disabled so often it
> might as well be off.
>
> I'll reinstall NOD32, when I reinstall my OS's

It's the best.

>>> I completely removed any trace of Opera and reinstalled
>>> it, same problem.
>
>>So it's NOT Opera. I suggested months ago it might be
>>something in your system ("no opera.dll found" etc.
>
> Just a month or two ago, I reformatted two partitions and
> installed New installs, The XP Home recovery CD's didn't
> work

Big surprise, huh?

> so I dual booted with a XPCDSP3 (slipstream) someone
> sent me (trusted file), and I've had nothing but problems
> since, big things, small things but nuisances. And I swear
> it's because I followed the rules, this was the first time
> I had created an admin account and a user account. While
> Admin, I'm told I don't have admin access, and the list
> goes on.

I don't know what XPCDSP3 (slipstream) is.

I have TinyXP Platinum (Pro with SP2) installed as an
experiment. I hate all the redundancies and 5 versions of same
files all over the stupid place and all the idiotic user
accounts. WHY didn't they give you an option to ONLY have a
single admin account and NOTHING ELSE? (Rhetorical question,
it's MS.) But I think I will try XPLite on it and see if some
more crap can be removed.

TinyXP's are easily found with a torrent search site, BTW.

> You always complained about Windows Explorer being a single
> pane, I didn't know what you meant as mine were always dual
> pane

The two panes have to be identical in functionality and
appearance if so desired - in WE the left pane is a directory
pane. If - as many people do - you have only C (no virtual
drives) and want to copy or move something, it is often almost
impossible because of the size of the tree, and depending on
where you want to put it.

And the two panes /must/ be able to show the view you want - a
2-file *\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\subdirectory among
200 directories in the root, OR the whole directory tree, or the
BRANCH view - ie EVERY SINGLE FILE ON YOUR DRIVE, **EVERYTHING**
in /whatever order/ you want.

From what I have tried, only XTree (DOS) and Total Commander can
do that. And these two features are ESSENTIAL. (ThumbsPlus can
do it too, but it is an image-targeted program so it's kind of
dumb using it for the Branch feature, still - impressive, and
useful, since it allows you to quickly find duplicates and
perform other functions.)

Need I mention that if I want two tree panes on both sides of
Total Commander I /can/ have them? I also just discovered TC is
the only program which can rename, modify or otherwise change
the text case of /directories/ "en masse". Etc., etc. etc. etc.
etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

That's why Total Commander RULES.

> - after these installs, I got these single pane
> windows, and needed to hit the menu icon "folders" to get
> back to two, I couldn't figure a way to fix it. (windows
> classic, themes disabled).

Well, you know how I feel about WE and that I never use it so I
won't even attempt to guess what it could be. Still, the subject
comes up occasionally, so I have written a little blurb about
how I feel about WE. It's quite elemntary in some ways but it
was written for "wow, just paid 3 grand to write badly spelled
emails and go on facebook" type peoploids. I hope you enjoy it
anyway.

==================

Contrary to popular belief, Windows Explorer is NOT a file
manager.

It is a torture device whose primary function is to prevent a
new computer user from understanding the basic principles of
file and directory organization, to keep him/her as ignorant as
possible, and to allow only the most basic of functions, the
execution of which is designed to be as troublesome as possible.

BTW, files are now known as documents and directories are now
known as folders.

Files are files, not documents.
A photograph or a song are not documents. An article, letter, or
printed book chapter /are/ documents.

A folder is a folded sheet of light cardboard used to hold
papers, photographs, newspaper articles, manuals, candy
wrappers, etc.

A /directory/, OTOH, is a uniquely named and located area of a
computer's given storage device (most often the hard disk) which
can contain /files/ of various types.

A directory can have a practically infinite number of
subdirectories. Among other reasons to avoid confusion, all the
directory trees on a given computer should be divided and
located on partitions, AKA virtual drives, which allow for fast
and trouble-free directory and file management and organization,
depending on the user's willingness to spend some time in
setting them up properly.

This is where real file managers/computer storage organizers
come in. They allow the user to create, delete, move and/or copy
directories AND files with a couple of keystrokes - or mouse
movements if desired.

As I said at the beginning, Windows Explorer is /not/ a file
manager. It is a torture device designed to permit the least
possible with the most trouble possible, and to keep the user
both intimidated by and ignorant of his/her computer's data
storage and filing structure.

IOW:
disk
partition/virtual drive
root
tree
branch
directory
subdirectory
file

==================

> I used Total Explorer for awhile, getting ready to install
> MW2, and clean the HD, (stick all my data to DVD's) - Total
> Explorer kept asking if I was sure I wanted to delete the
> file I wanted to delete, I'm sure it's an option, what I
> was doing wasn't going to take long, so ignored it - delete
> press yes, delete press yes, became so repetitive

If you can't set "ask before delete" as an option, the program
is worthless. If you are too lazy to look for it, well, you
suffer the consequences...

> I deleted
> my torrent directory by mistake <sigh>, and I wasn't sure
> what I had back'd up. So needed to recover the directory.
> It being on a separate partition I had all the time I
> needed, nothing was going to be written to it.
>
> Downloaded Recuva, but it sucks it only finds files, not
> directories and get's a thumbs down from me. Plus it's got
> a freaking wizard, which walks you thru what type of info
> you wish to recover! How about I see what's there and
> select what I want!
>
> So just used a recovery program from the Hiren's boot CD -
> took
> awhile but everything was recovered.

Hiren's IS a butt-saver. But there are a couple of free recovery
programs on this site. I haven't tried them, so can't comment.

http://freeware.intrastar.net/

> Tweak UI will give you the dual panes.

Huh?

<SNIP>

>>> I would start using FireFox but I would very much miss my
>>> personal bar, speed dial, and my bookmarks - have
>>> bookmarks that are very old, importing them to firefox it
>>> doesn't take them all, and they show up in a sub
>>> directory of a sub directory.
>>
>>You should get URL Organizer from Edward Leigh (my
>>favorite, there are many others) and forget about
>>browser-specific bookmarks. They are trouble by definition.
>
> Oh, these bookmarks are old.

So are the vast majority of mine, and a good argument can be
made that since Google there is no more need for bookmarks -
still, I do use URL Organizer and I HIGHLY recommend it.

> The first time I used I.E. I selected yes download a game,
> and instead it started to install it (I didn't get a chance
> to look at the file to see if it was good or what it was),
> so I turn off the machine.

Not a good idea

What, you have the extensions turned off or something? And if
it's a link to an exe, you should have it commented as such *in
a bookmark manager*.

> Used I.E. the next time to download Netscape and have
> rarely ever used I.E. or ran ActiveX since (on purpose).
>
> Used Netscape for a long time, then Opera when it wasn't
> free but fast. Don't know why or when - guess I just liked
> Opera. Opera imported the Netscape bookmarks but as you
> mentioned wasn't perfect, the entire list is in a separate
> directory. Being so old most links are no longer any good,
> but a history of my browsing, kinda neat really - I figure
> over 10 years (450K) worth of links.

Yes, I have a very similar archive - most of the links are dead,
but some ARE useful and since they are not "popular (like
archives of DOS and 3.1 programs which still beat anything new)
- they are not easily found with Google, which goes by the
lowest common denominator.

> I tried a bookmark manager it didn't work out.

What does that mean?

TRY IT:

http://www.urlorg.com/urlorganizer2/

You can try the simpler free one to get a taste
http://www.urlorg.com/freeware/index.html

They store everything in a TXT format file which CAN be edited
by hand, although you have to be a little careful. It will open
any link in any browser you want, in any windows you want. It is
a marvel. And ver. 2, more useful features, is only $10 which I
was GRATEFUL to pay.


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thanatoid

"§nühw¤£f" <> wrote:

>>And I swear it's because I followed the rules, this was
>>the first time I had created an admin account and a user account. While
>> Admin, I'm told I don't have admin access, and the list goes on.

>Tried booting Safe Mode and checking (twice) the privs of the accounts?
>Always possible to just delete the offending account and try again.

I dual boot to prevent entering safe mode, Win95 taught me, you enter
safe mode you rearrange your icons. Even tho I use PowerPro and it
will put the icons back where the were. - I still have to go back and
change the fonts back to how I like them and other visual tinkering.

There is a little more to it as well, The system is slower that it
used to be and this I noticed with nothing else installed but XP.

And only one OS, the other which just happens to be my backup works
just fine, and as fast as it did prior to the install.

Also when installing XP Pro both times, I encountered an error I've
never heard of before:
"MBR error, booting from boot sector"
and it did boot up.

This after it's copied all the files it needs and reboots to install
them. (just one error message per install).

I have 6 partitions, 5 FAT32, and the last one NTFS for those 4 gig
files. - I did this to another partition before, then changed it back
to FAT32 using Partition Magic 8.0, later I converted H:\ drive to
NTFS (a different partition than the first).

Seems the MBR doesn't know what type of partition H:\ drive is
Fdisk and almost everything else shows it as being a RAW partition, XP
sees a NTFS file system, go figure.

I backed up the MBR when I first got the system, then used Partition
Magic to slice up the drive into 6 partitions, then backed up the MBR
again. This next time I'm going to change H:\ drive back to FAT32,
then replace the MBR with the second backup.

Anything can go wrong, but it needs to be taken care of.

Almost everything of importance has been backed up and cataloged
(Whereisit), so as mentioned I'll reinstall again when I feel like
spending a day doing it. This time I expect XP Home to install.

And only two accounts the default admin account and mine as an admin-
screw the hype, it's worked well for me since day one.
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thanatoid <> wrote:

>I don't know what XPCDSP3 (slipstream) is.

Slipstreaming is a way to incorporate the Original CD with the Service
Pack. so you just have one CD to mess with.

>I have TinyXP Platinum (Pro with SP2) installed as an
>experiment. I hate all the redundancies and 5 versions of same
>files all over the stupid place and all the idiotic user
>accounts. WHY didn't they give you an option to ONLY have a
>single admin account and NOTHING ELSE? (Rhetorical question,
>it's MS.) But I think I will try XPLite on it and see if some
>more crap can be removed.

There is a file out called COFEE, it's illegal to have in your
possession. ( I cite the article)
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...ofee-leaks-web

You put it on say a USB Pen drive and give it to a stupid cop, they
can boot from the USB drive and it will scan your computer for
anything that can incriminate you.

I know someone who has 99.4 % of the file, but now being blocked from
only that file.

>TinyXP's are easily found with a torrent search site, BTW.

I just found that under my %userprofile%\application data\Utorrent
directory - all the torrents trackers I've downloaded are stored
there, even tho I save them to my Z:\ drive (a ram drive).

Yes, if it's one thing windows does other OS's tend to avoid, is copy
everything you've done to a multitude of places. Some MRU's in the
registry are even encrypted with ROT13, Microsoft can also be cheap
(use public domain).
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Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov

wrote in
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> thanatoid <> wrote:
>
>>I don't know what XPCDSP3 (slipstream) is.
>
> Slipstreaming is a way to incorporate the Original CD with
> the Service Pack. so you just have one CD to mess with.

Yeah, I looked it up a little later. Technically, isn't that an
illegal thing to do?
Shouldn't you have the original OS and then get the update CD's
(or DL them and burn a CD - I don't know what people do, I use
98SELite and the most recent MS file on my system is from 2002
IIRC).

>>I have TinyXP Platinum (Pro with SP2) installed as an
>>experiment. I hate all the redundancies and 5 versions of
>>same files all over the stupid place and all the idiotic
>>user accounts. WHY didn't they give you an option to ONLY
>>have a single admin account and NOTHING ELSE? (Rhetorical
>>question, it's MS.) But I think I will try XPLite on it and
>>see if some more crap can be removed.
>
> There is a file out called COFEE, it's illegal to have in
> your possession. ( I cite the article)
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...43/microsoft-c
> ofee-leaks-web

Glanced at the page. I didn't bother looking into the details
since I don't care, but forensics programs have been around for
years. I am sure this one is just dumbed down like everything
else that is coming out these days. Even the ESET NOD32 XP
version has a stupider interface than the 98 version. I am
really beginning to hate all this.

> You put it on say a USB Pen drive and give it to a stupid
> cop, they can boot from the USB drive and it will scan your
> computer for anything that can incriminate you.

What does this have to do with your Opera problems or with my
TinyXP (Well, aside from the minor fact TinyXP is technically
illegal, but so what? I sometimes wonder if there is a SINGLE
person out there who does not have at least one strictly
speaking illegal/pirated program on their machine. In my case,
there is a great image utility - THE best of all, I tried a
dozen or more - which is no longer made, I have done everything
possible to find the author and pay for it and he has just
vaporized, as has the link to the pay/register service. So what
the hell am I supposed to do?

> I know someone who has 99.4 % of the file, but now being
> blocked from only that file.

You mean he torrent'd 99.4% and can't get the rest? Strange, but
who would want the program anyway? I know what's on my computer
and any cop who wants to is welcome to have a look as well.

>>TinyXP's are easily found with a torrent search site, BTW.
>
> I just found that under my %userprofile%\application
> data\Utorrent directory - all the torrents trackers I've
> downloaded are stored there, even tho I save them to my Z:\
> drive (a ram drive).

I have been finding more and more of this **** even under
Win98SE. In my case, it's in "C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\uTorrent". And there are several other apps there which
also keep track.

It's pretty easy to make a batch file (I've had one for years,
but mostly to move stuff from various directories to a
"safe/backup" and delete cookie files etc.) which will delete
this info, but it is annoying and verges on incomprehensible,
especially in a torrent program's case. They explain their
reasoning in the help file, but it should be easier to find
those files and/or have them deleted automatically than it is
(it has to be done manually). Nothing in "preferences" about
this, you have to read the WHOLE help file to find out - or just
run across it accidentally like I did.

> Yes, if it's one thing windows does other OS's tend to
> avoid, is copy everything you've done to a multitude of
> places. Some MRU's in the registry are even encrypted with
> ROT13, Microsoft can also be cheap (use public domain).

Well, ROT13 is easy to read, and I have not noticed anything in
the 98SE registry - but maybe I have seen it and it never
occurred to me that it IS ROT13'd. But I check my MRU's and
streams fairly often just because I am anal-retentive about
(among other things) keeping my registry as small as possible -
so for instance before making an Acronis image I will remove all
MRU, "recents", "last used", all streams, and a bunch of other
things.

Man, it really makes you nostalgic for the pre-internet days,
just using a nice little DOS word processor trying to be a
writer or something. Sigh.

AFA "other" OS's, I can't afford to go Mac and once I found out
there's no mp3 in Linux, that pretty much killed it as an option
for me.

This is all getting SO tiresome.


--
There are only two classifications of disk drives: Broken drives
and those that will break later.
- Chuck Armstrong

thanatoid

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<SNIP>

> I dual boot to prevent entering safe mode, Win95 taught me,
> you enter safe mode you rearrange your icons. Even tho I
> use PowerPro and it will put the icons back where the were.
> - I still have to go back and change the fonts back to how
> I like them and other visual tinkering.

Safe Mode is hell. I have used maybe three times in my life and
then I will do ANYTHING possible to not have to. Resetting
everything (IF it were only the icons, I have had the system
stay on 16 colors!) is not my idea of "safety". Not to mention
the Safe Mode never really solves anything. If you /have/ to
resort to it, you might as well call a tech. Thank fubar for
Acronis.

> There is a little more to it as well, The system is slower
> that it used to be and this I noticed with nothing else
> installed but XP.

For reasons TOTALLY beyond me, TinyXP is noticeably faster than
Win98SELite on this same machine.

> And only one OS, the other which just happens to be my
> backup works just fine, and as fast as it did prior to the
> install.
>
> Also when installing XP Pro both times, I encountered an
> error I've never heard of before:
> "MBR error, booting from boot sector"
> and it did boot up.

That is a weird one.

<SNIP>

> Almost everything of importance has been backed up and
> cataloged (Whereisit)

Funny, I just installed and tried it yesterday - have had it for
ages and never tried it. I use Catfish. With thumbnails, the
Whereisit test directory catalog file was almost 100MB. That IS
14 times smaller than the source but not exactly my idea of
small and fast (basic requirements for anything). I'm going to
try a directory with no images at all and see if it allows for
text search inside files which AFAIAC is the only shortcoming of
Catfish.

> so as mentioned I'll reinstall again
> when I feel like spending a day doing it. This time I
> expect XP Home to install.
>
> And only two accounts the default admin account and mine as
> an admin- screw the hype, it's worked well for me since day
> one.

I am going to look around and see if there is SOME version of XP
which allows you NOT to have all the damn other users or guests
- it is just ridiculous. Fortunately, the ONLY reason I am even
trying XP is because I may want to do some video capture of old
videotapes, and then XP can go to hell where it came from.


--
There are only two classifications of disk drives: Broken drives
and those that will break later.
- Chuck Armstrong

thanatoid