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Giveaway of the Day Forums » User Favorites: harpo2448 5346 Giveaway of the Day Forums » User Favorites: harpo2448 en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:15:25 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 hotdoge3 on "My system needs help. I was hoping Memory Washer would give it" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7115#post-74612 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:45:40 +0000 hotdoge3 74612@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Please note that the trial version cannot recover files. Thank but no Thanks it still works & I will take it off kill it for good. hotdoge3 on "My system needs help. I was hoping Memory Washer would give it" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7115#post-74602 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:10:49 +0000 hotdoge3 74602@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Its no help takes 3 MB & get 2 MB back try with Firefox free up 80 MB but it go back fast so it wast of time, all run out of memory windows say we fix it & Memory Washer not like this in the end need to kill it & this is on XP sp3 qwqw on "My system needs help. I was hoping Memory Washer would give it" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7115#post-74093 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:08:07 +0000 qwqw 74093@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ ths . i cherished it to my own foleder . harpo2448 on "My system needs help. I was hoping Memory Washer would give it" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7115#post-73474 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:45:00 +0000 harpo2448 73474@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ RE: Giveaway of the Day - Memory Washer, a smart memory and process manager tool... <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/memory-washer/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/memory-washer/</a> The link posted by #23, Boyd, is a very good article covering popular "performance tweak" advice (thanks Boyd!). Here is another article related to Windows memory boosting: <a href="http://www.bitsum.com/winmemboost.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitsum.com/winmemboost.htm</a> It may help shed light on the techniques used by various memory performance enhancers. #27, PeneloP, "My system needs help": You probably aren't the only one with that problem, but since my comments about your performance issues are somewhat "off topic" (since they don't discuss today's offer), please see my comments on the General Discuss pages of the GAOTD forums (as "My system needs help. I was hoping Memory Washer would give it" -- original title, eh?) on things you can try. If you haven't done any system maintenance for a while, it sounds like you need to perform a scan for malware/spyware, followed by something to clean the clutter out of your system's temporary file folders (and Registry), then maybe a defragmentation of your hard disk drive. Be sure to "Create a restore point" (using System Restore) between each set of actions (unless otherwise instructed NOT to do so by the malware cleanup tool(s) you choose) in case something goes wrong. Also, don't do everything in one big session -- it is better to take small steps you can easily recover from -- so restart your system at least after each major step, say, between the malware cleanups, the temporary files/Registry cleaning, and the defragmentation. That should help you detect steps gone wrong, as well as better re-initialize/prepare/stabilize your system for the next action. There's a decent listing of links to several free, reputable, major-brand online and downloadable virus scanning/detection/removal tools towards the bottom of this Acrobat PDF file: <a href="http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/removal/avc_removal_2009.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/removal/avc_removal_2009.pdf</a> After reading the other reports on that web site, you can decided for yourself which anti-virus products are worth using. (Interestingly, if I read the test results correctly, Microsoft's own anti-virus is one of the best at actual malware REMOVAL (if not DETECTION, which surely has to be most important), but perhaps that should not be surprising because who better should know how to get around Windows intricacies?) (I'm not trying to endorse any particular brand's products as there are many fine ones, and they seem to trump each other's features and effectiveness every few months or so. However, I have had pretty good experiences with the following free ones:) That listing does not include (among others) either Spybot S&D or Lavasoft Ad-aware, since they are not billed as mainly anti-virus products, so you might consider installing and scanning with the free version of either or both of them to remove and protect against resource-consuming ad-ware/spyware. (These both seem to work OK simultaneously on my system, but be sure to only perform a "scan" with one product at a time to go easy on your disk drive! The same advice goes for scanning with any of the anti-virus products as well: one-at-a-time!) CCleaner is available for free from Piriform, which has other relatively-safe-to-use products as well: <a href="http://www.piriform.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.piriform.com/</a> (One caution I noticed with CCleaner (and others) is that if you have a JAVA-based application (like, say, "Phelix", a duplicate music-detection product previously offered here by GAOTD), it may get cleaned out with the other "temporary" JAVA stuff mostly accumulated from simply surfing the Internet. CCleaner will first scan and then present a listing of what it will delete or fix based on your settings, so inspect the lists carefully.) MyDefrag, a good, free, hard disk defragmentation utility that works great in its screensaver mode is available here: <a href="http://www.mydefrag.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydefrag.com/</a> If you perform just one "slow optimize" (quite time-consuming -- run it overnight, and not very often or you may prematurely wear out your hard drive!), then choose the MyDefrag screensaver to perform "fast optimize" maintenance passes, you should notice a fair difference in file loading times after just a couple of days. (The MyDefrag screensaver still allows you to choose and run your other screensavers after it finishes its own run, a nice touch!) For additional performance, consider adding a process "priority manager" which will help prevent CPU-hogging processes from reducing your system's responsiveness. "Process Lasso" is a very good one that continues to perform its basic functions for free after the trial period expires: <a href="http://www.processlasso.com/prolasso.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.processlasso.com/prolasso.php</a> A similar function is built into Anvir Task Manager (a previous offer by GAOTD) as can be seen on its options page "Performance" "Balance CPU Utilization". I don't know how well it compares to Process Lasso which is used by many professionals for web site servers, gamers, etc., but I would think it is better than none at all if you already have Anvir (which is otherwise a very good "swiss army knife, do-it-all" system utility). Also, if you don't use the built-in "Windows Search" feature (otherwise known as "Indexing Service") to search the text content inside your files, yet you somehow activated it, you can disable it to gain a fair amount of system responsiveness. (Just Google for help how to do this.) Finally, if your "Winsock" is messed up from obtaining or getting rid of ad-ware/spyware/etc. the following MAY help if you suspect you have network connection issues (slow or non-functioning connections to the Internet or to other machines on your LAN, etc). (Amazingly, it also affected the functioning and responsiveness of several other things as well on my system.) Read about the issues and repair safely/easily using "Winsock XP Fix" and "LSP-Fix": <a href="http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html</a> <a href="http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm</a> (DISCLAIMER: I don't have either Vista or 7, so I don't know about using these on those versions of Windows -- your homework is to Google to find out! But I repeat, be sure to create your own "restore points" often using System Restore, or use the various tools' built-in feature to do so if available (enable the option in CCleaner and others) before performing each of these major actions, and you should be OK.) Personally I'm baffled why the OEM-load of software on pre-configured systems is not better optimized out of the box (locations on the hard drive of the swap file and oft-used files/folders, etc.), but you may be surprised to discover how much more responsive your system can get without new RAM upgrades or faster hard drive or processor. I even took an ancient 128 MB RAM, 1GB drive PII system that was taking about 5 minutes to load Windows 2000, and by using the above-mentioned tools (including MyDefrag) improved that to a 45 second startup time, making the system usable once again for basic surfing, word processing, etc. -- not a bad salvage project at all. Hope this helps you or someone else! harpo2448 on "TweakRAM 6.2 - access violation errors under Windows ME" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3224#post-28373 Sat, 03 May 2008 18:47:24 +0000 harpo2448 28373@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Probably the same experience as Dave Creek, #40 (Windows 98SE) in the comments for the day it was offered. I uninstalled a previous GAOTD version, Elcor TweakRAM 5.8 Build 10.13, to install this newer one on my Windows ME system. This was a mistake, a step backwards! At least the previous version, which displayed the wrong memory and cpu usage among other issues, would run "politely". Upon launching this new version I got a never-ending series of identical windows titled "TweakRAM - application error": "Access violation at address 70042B14. Read of address 70042B14." They popped up about once a second, so I could not successfully click on the "close" button of the main application window to exit it. Eventually I had to terminate it (CTRL-ALT-DEL menu). The same thing happened even after restarting, then stripping the system down to the minimum number of processes before launching TweakRAM 6.2. I tried uninstalling it, rebooting, re-installing, but had the same result (again, on a minimally-loaded system, no anti-virus or other non-essentials running). I guess I can live without it... harpo2448 on "Almeza MultiSet - ERROR when run on Windows ME system" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1988#post-12248 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:27:40 +0000 harpo2448 12248@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Also, I did directly e-mail the company's tech support address with my originally-posted info, and got this polite reply: "First of all, thank you very much for your interest in Almeza MultiSet! My name is Alex Abramovsky. I am a project manager in Almeza Company. OK. We will fix this problem..." However, I don't know if that means I or anybody else will then receive the "fix" for our installations that are subject to the "no updates, no new versions" rules. I hope we do. If he directly sends me some kind of general procedure to follow that should work for everybody, I'll post it here. Maybe they'll do like some previous companies and repeat their GAOTD offer with an improved version (although I don't want to wait 6 months for that). harpo2448 on "Almeza MultiSet - ERROR when run on Windows ME system" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1988#post-12247 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:13:19 +0000 harpo2448 12247@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Agreed about Windows 98/ME; but yes, I also have Windows XP systems for all "new stuff". However, would you believe that some businesses (like one where I recently was working) are not permitted to change ANYTHING about their government-regulated FAA-certified manufacturing/test setup, including some designs that date to the 1950's? Among them they have several "legacy" Windows systems they are not allowed to update. No Windows XP/Vista for them. So I thought I'd evaluate this software myself, then recommend it to them if it (eventually) works OK. Lee on "Almeza MultiSet - ERROR when run on Windows ME system" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1988#post-12246 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:31:02 +0000 Lee 12246@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ You Windows Millennium users have got to get away from WinME. Get to XP at least, or invest in a new system with at least 2gb r.a.m. when Vista SP1 arrives. You will have Vista pre-installed. You are leaving yourself open to a lot of problems and security issues from the net using WinME. bennie33 on "Almeza MultiSet - ERROR when run on Windows ME system" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1988#post-12243 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:27:28 +0000 bennie33 12243@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I too got the same error on Win ME when installing MultiSet, re:NETAPI32.DLL:NetWkstaGetInfo. I downloaded the netapi32.dll, thinking mine was corrupt or missing, however I have one installed and is the same version as the one I downloaded. Then I looked up NETAPI32.DLL:NetWkstaGetInfo on Google, and apparently you can get this on a Java update to version 6, however, this update is for XP, and not available to Win ME users. Also Sun Java is not supporting Win ME and under anymore. The Almeza website and program maker obviously did not actually try their program out on Win ME/98/98SE, and should not have said it would work on all Os's. Irresponsible advertising! harpo2448 on "Almeza MultiSet - ERROR when run on Windows ME system" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1988#post-12210 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:38:23 +0000 harpo2448 12210@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Yes, I suspect they probably have abandon support for Windows 9x/ME-based systems (as have so many others). However, I did send a message with the same info directly to the address listed on their technical help page. Hopefully I'll actually get a reply (although it will likely confirm that MultiSet should NOT work for 98/ME anymore). Maybe there's a fix that won't require an attempted GAOTD-activated re-installation which will be expired by then... BuBBy on "Almeza MultiSet - ERROR when run on Windows ME system" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1988#post-12209 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:04:20 +0000 BuBBy 12209@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ The Giveaway page states that the requirements are only Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista However I notice there is a mention on the multiset website that the program should also run on Windows 98 and Windows ME. I suspect someone is not telling the complete truth.... harpo2448 on "Almeza MultiSet - ERROR when run on Windows ME system" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1988#post-12202 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:21:28 +0000 harpo2448 12202@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Almeza MultiSet v4.5 installed and ran without problems on an XP system (as expected). The download page states that it should run on Windows 98 and ME. However, on attempting to install it on the Window ME system I had errors when attempting to run/launch it. Two dialog windows popped up at the same time (and the program never ran): ------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Error Starting Program SYMBOL: (black "!" in yellow triangle) MESSAGE: The MULTISET.EXE file is linked to missing export NETAPI32.DLL:NetWkstaGetInfo. BUTTON(S): OK ------------------------------------------------ TITLE: C:\Program Files\AlmezaMultiSet\multiset.exe SYMBOL: (white "X" in red circle): MESSAGE: C:\Program Files\AlmezaMultiSet\multiset.exe A device attached to the system is not functioning. BUTTON(S): OK ------------------------------------------------ The install itself appeared to have no problems. I'm hoping for a reply with a fix in time (today) before the one-day GAOTD "activation" period expires.