Posted 10/13/2009 at 02:03:24pm

BS.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/monitors/2009/02/06/the-dark-side-of-overdrive/1

Posted 06/15/2009 at 02:34:48pm

I'm confused... the only users who should have this setting enabled are those running a legacy os with an older processor -- and those running XP, Vista, or Windows 7?

Posted 09/22/2008 at 06:05:18pm

1,000 to 10,000 writes? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive) How long is that gonna last me? I'd be a lot more willing to purchase something like the X25-M if I weren't looking at a limitation like that.

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15433/3

Posted 09/18/2008 at 03:34:43pm

I also purchased a Westinghouse 37" HDTV in mid-2007. It had a strange problem where the backlight would go out, and it was very difficult to get it to come back on (sometimes had to leave the TV off for a long period of time). Westinghouse agreed to fix the problem for me, but *I* had to pay to ship the TV to them. It cost about $75. They would not reimburse me for that charge. It took about two months for me to get the TV back, and it has worked fine ever since. But I still think it's ridiculous that I had to pay an extra $75 for them to fix a manufacturing defect!

Posted 09/18/2008 at 10:15:04am

There are all kinds of registry cleaners out there, and CCleaner is among the safest. I've used a few other registry cleaners, and I'll share my subjective opinion of their relative safety and depth of cleaning using CCleaner as a baseline of 100%.

Registry cleaner in Advanced System Optimizer 2 - Safety: 100%; Depth: 105%

RegOrganizer 4 - Safety: 70%; Depth:  200%

UniBlue RegistryBooster 2 - Safety: 90%; Depth: 150%

RegSeeker 1.55 - Safety: 40%; Depth: 400+%

I should also mention that RegOrganizer and Advanced System Optimizer offer an option to defrag/compact the registry, and RegistryBooster 2 has the capability of rebuilding registry keys that they believe should be in place, in case an aggressive cleaning wiped them out.

Here're a couple of lists of registry cleaners:

http://registry-repair-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

http://lists.thedatalist.com/pages/Registry_Cleaners.php

Posted 09/15/2008 at 10:55:31am

Of course I want one, if the price is right. Like... $100.

*Stops holding his breath*

Posted 08/19/2008 at 03:29:25pm

I've had some good experiences with a number of registry cleaners (in XP):

CCleaner - free, very safe

Advanced System Optimizer 2 - $40, very safe

Registry Booster 2 - $30, safe, rebuilds registry keys too

RegOrganizer -  $40, safe for the most part, relatively thorough

RegSeeker - free, thorough, a bit risky

Advanced System Optimizer and RegOrganizer both have registery defragging/optimizing functionality as well. 

I think registry cleaning can go a long way toward making an old XP installation speed up quite a bit, but ultimately there's no substitute for reinstalling Windows every so often.

Posted 08/18/2008 at 10:38:25am

As soon as they get 'em down to the size of a DVD+-RW drive, i'll buy one! If they're cheap enough... yeah, not gonna happen anytime soon.