Posted 05/14/2007 at 12:36:30am

With the security of Firefox and it's extensions in question: www.FirefoxMyths.com. Why would you not mention Opera which has a much better security record?

Posted 04/07/2007 at 12:45:54am

Please stop recommending cleaning the Prefetch folder. This is a Myth!
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XP Myths

CCleaner Cripples Application Load Times

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The Prefetch folder is self cleaning at 128 entries and old Prefetch files do absolutely NOTHING but take up a ridiculously small amount of disk space. Windows XP efficiently cleans the folder based on information stored in the prefetch (.pf) trace files to determine the most used ones and will leave the 32 most used files. CCleaner irresponsibly deletes prefetch files based on the NTFS last access date which if disabled will delete the entire folder! There is absolutely NO REASON to use this option in CCleaner.
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Prefetch Resource Links:
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Windows XP: Kernel Improvements Create a More Robust, Powerful, and Scalable OS

Kernel Enhancements for Windows XP

Benchmarking on Windows XP

Windows XP Performance

Misinformation and the The Prefetch Flag - Ryan Myers Microsoft Windows Client Performance Team

One more time: do not clean out your Prefetch folder!

Beware of Bogus XP Advice

Tip of the day: Don’t clean out the Prefetch folder

Posted 04/07/2007 at 12:43:44am

XP Myths
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Windows automatically removing unneeded DLL’s from cache memory AKA AlwaysUnloadDLLS Tweak = Myth in Windows XP this does not exist and does nothing.
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Forcing Windows to give up default 20% bandwidth reservation AKA QOS Tweak = Myth in Windows XP the full bandwidth is always available and not "reserved" unless a QOS enabled application is using it.
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Preventing Windows from sending user/kernel mode drivers and code to page file AKA DisablePagingExecutive Tweak = Myth in Windows XP this can reduce performance on low end systems and is only recommended for Servers.