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<title><![CDATA[By: Pradeep]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have downloaded this one and installed in my Winsows XP2 OS system. I am not getting fullversion facility with this as it only corrects upto 20 only. Is this mean Give away of the day?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:13:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Ray]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nice piece of sotware]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:00:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Reality Check]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@ #21 be weary?  and just how would being weary help anything :)) I think you mean WARY, not WEARY :))

Seems there's some exaggeration in your post.... obviously your computer is still in good enough condition to be able to post a comment!

One good freeware to download and have on hand for major rescue attempts is the UBCD for windows.
http://www.ubcd4win.com/

UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool.



original Linux version here
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:56:38 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: J.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[re: #41, Lulu: You mentioned that you had a machine that never really had anything on it, yet a "Registry Scan" was done, and showed something like 98 "Red-flagged" problems...

 I'm surprised it was only 98! That's the first time I've heard of under a hundred!

 After building several new PCs from all-new, brand-name parts, etc., with internal HDDs that I had to cut out of their anti-static plastic, (so after the factory had tested them, then "wiped" them "clean", there was NOTHING on the "data" area of the drive), I did a "sterile-clean" install of the current-at-the-time version of Windows...

 Years ago, I'd been told that a "clean" install of anything Windows from W95 on up could be expected to have a LOT of Registry Errors, despite being "absolutely, positively new", so I dug out an old "XT-Class" Machine-level monitor device, (it plugged into the old modem port), that I'd had since dirt was new...

 ...and I plugged it into the "brand new machine", &amp; plugged a "standard RS232 Teletype-monitor" into the monitor's "output" port, so there was no chance that anything could get onto or into that machine...

 And I located the Registry file &amp; looked at it, and I saw more errors that I could count; (I stopped counting after that first hundred);

 That was on a machine that was BRAND-new, and had never even had a modem connected to it, &amp; the only disc put in it was the Windows 95 Installation disc!

 Whoever had told me that "a fresh install of Windows 9x on up will have hundreds of Registry errors" was correct, no doubt about it, although I have NO idea WHY...

 So, unless something's changed drastically, your "only" having 98 errors, (IF they were indeed errors, as I also have seen most "Registry Scanners" come up with "false Positives" &amp; even "bad files or links" that don't exist in the Registry at all), the program that did the scan may not have been "lying to you".

 (Of course, more often than not, they'll find things that are "wrong" that don't even exist, so keep that in mind, too)

 Just thought you may like to know about that, although to this day, I can't explain WHY that happens, (even with the best Reg. Scanner), or especially when checking every Registry entry in a "just-built-it" machine "by hand", and finding things that shouldn't be in there, or are otherwise "wrong"...

 Could it be that Microsoft is just plain "sloppy" when it comes to "an Encoded, Encrypted database which tells Windows how to run", or that even THEY left mistakes in the "Encrypted, Encoded" instruction set for their own OS?

 ...You betcha!  And it IS, 'cause I stopped counting at 101, and I wasn't even through the first Hive yet, (and there are more than a few Hives in the Registry);

 One BIG problem, when you want to back up your Registry, is that there are (I think) at least two complete Hives that can't be backed up, at least not while Windows is running;
 So if you ever find a Registry Backup &amp; Restore program that runs from DOS, before Windows has ever started to run when you cold-boot the machine, grab it &amp; hold on for dear life, because I've never been able to find one "on the market"; Only a "onesey-twosey" type of thing, where the person who wrote it is who had it, and they weren't even interested in selling anyone else a copy;

 Maybe nowadays, someone who writes something like that would be willing to make a fortune with Commercial IT Dept's, but "back in the day", anyone who wrote something like that saw it as "Job Security", and treated it like most PC makers treated their Operating Systems;

 (Except Atari, who'd sell anyone their OS for the cost of printing a copy and mailing it in a 3-ring binder; Guess who had more software than any other single home computer maker available from "3rd party programmers"? If you say "Atari", you're right!)

 Unfortunately, the old saying that "Those in power will rise to their highest level of incompetence" was true, especially back then, and Sam "Shlamiel" (our nickname for him, then-CEO of Atari, long after Nolan Bushnell had sold it while they still just made games), turned his back on the US market to court Europe, so if you were in West Germany (when there was still a wall up), and you asked someone if they had a "home computer", then if they DID have one, they'd proudly lift the dust-cover off of their Atari computer, since that was THE machine to have; (It may have been the ONLY machine you could GET, for all I know!)
 Unfortunately, Sam left his back turned on the US market too long, and when we Americans were buying the new Ataris by mail, since there weren't any stores left that carried them, we couldnt' even find anyone still writing software for the newer Ataris, and so we succumbed &amp; got the "new IBM PC" (or the much cheaper PC-"clones");

 Know why Intel stopped using numbers for their CPU chips &amp; started calling the first one with a name the "Pentium"?
 They were tired of doing all of the R&amp;D work, then releasing a new CPU, starting with the 4004, the they went to 8-bits &amp; the 8080, then the (embedded) 80c186, (which most people never knew existed, unless, like me, you had to work with them), then the next one to go in a PC, the "80286", then the "80386", (which were being called "the eighty-two-eighty-six, eighty-three-eighty-six), the "80486", (eighty-four-eighty-six), and all of the "clone-chip-makers" were using the same numbers too, because Intel couldn't get a copyright on a number...

 ...so when it was time for the "80586" to come out, instead of "The all new 586", (they'd long-ago stopped calling them "The Eighty-86", and so on, because it was confusing), rather than calling it the "586", they called it "The Pentium": "Penta" for "5", which was next in the series. And they immediately filed for a Copyright, and got it. The "Clone-chip-makers" quickly faded away, and Intel stock finally went up to where it should've been years before.

 No new CPUs are "numbered", (although they usually have an "in-house number" that's still in-line with the old sequence, until the modern CPUs started coming out more &amp; more specialized, like the "Xeon" for servers, and so on, &amp; now it's "Core-2", "Dual-core", "Core-2 Duo", "Centrino", etc.; Anything that can be protected under copyright.

 Can't blame them, really.

 But, as for your 98-error Registry, that's a pretty good low number! Really!

 Enjoy, and remember, when things seem like the machines are "out to get us", they just may be, but one thing seems to remain eternal (or almost):

 "Ain't Technology Wonderful?" © 1984-2009 J. Fine  (I'm no fool!)

 Peace!  :) 

 J.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:48:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: J.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hardware: Acer Aspire 8930G, Intel Centrino Dual-core, 2.0GHz, 4Gb DDR3, 500Gb HDD, (hardware supports 32- or 64-bit OS, or multi-boot);

 OS: Vista Home Premium x64 SP2 (64-bit);

 Installtion: Very fast, then gave about 6 identical errors in a row, "Error 005D5400"; and as soon as these boxes were closed, a "DEP-Triggered" notice came on the screen.

 Tried Activation anyway, "just in case":
 Also went very fast, indicated Successful Activation, then 4 or 5 Error boxes, all showing Error 00440000; As soon as these were closed, "DEP-Triggered" notice was again shown on the screen.

 Unable to verify the installation at all;
 Due to the program or some aspect of it, "triggering" the DEP in the CPU/machine, it was impossible to even determine which module or sub-section of the program was causing the DEP-activation &amp; subsequent closing of the program, and so it was not possible to localize any one module or section of the program &amp; set the DEP to "exempt it" from scrutiny, long enough to scan it &amp; ensure that it was "clean".

 Result: After the program had first appeared to have installed, it immediately opened a browser page to the Publisher's site for that product;
 I went to the "Contact" option &amp; reported the DEP-activation, (since most s/w publishers DO want to know about something like a DEP-triggering event, which is an indication that something's doing something it's NOT supposed to do;

 This was last seen with an Audio-Video Format Converter I obtained from GAOTD recently, and only triggered when I activated the "Convert" function, so the conversion module of the program was located &amp; "exempted" from further scrunity by the DEP system, scanned &amp; found to be "clean", and the program has since remained working very nicely;
 (A machine-level monitor indicated that it's most likely accessing some of the audio-video data in a "protected address space", which will trigger DEP, and the programmer should've used either a "vector-table" if one is available, or used the data in another "mirrored" location, or otherwise accessed it by issuing a request to the System to send the data to a Non-Protected area for conversin processing by the program).

 In any case, since the Premium Booster 3.0 caused repeated DEP-triggering upon startup, there was no way to determine what, if any, part of the program was actually causing this, and so I wasn't about to turn off a very basic "hardware-level protection", which a properly-written subroutine wouldn't have caused to trigger to begin with, and certainly not without some function or option in the program being called by the User.

 Summary: Had to uninstall the program, using first "the usual" uninstall methods, and then going back through &amp; using the Data Recovery app I got through GAOTD a short time ago, to see if there was any trace of anything left that would cause problems, (THAT app is amazing!), and then using a freeware "remover" ("Remove-It", available from many sites, I got it from "MajorGeeks.com"), followed by IObit's Smart Defrag &amp; Disk Cleaning functions of the Advanced System Cleaner, available from a link that's (seemingly) always available on GAOTD, as well as "the usual other freeware sources", (both the Freeware version &amp; a "Pro" paid-version are available), and finally running a "system cleaner" meeting current DOD-specs; (I use the "low-security" 37-iteration setting, since more than that would keep even this "workhorse" machine tied up for more than a day or two, and 37 times is about 30 times more than enough for my needs).

 Does the program work? Unknown, but some part was written in a way that starts it before anything is even started to appear on-screen, which is "bad form", to say the least, and the "DEP-triggering" is an indication of either poor programming, or "someone didn't RTFM" when writing the initialization coding.

 Personally, I'd avoid this one; It's not written "by the book", and while there are some programs that can "get away" with that, (DEP can be turned off for the offending module without any problems), anything that's going into the Registry should be "Strictly by the book" or not at all; There's no excuse for "cutting corners", especially with Windows, an OS known for major changes during it's relatively short version-lifespan;

 At worst, it's asking for trouble in the form of a re-install of Windows or a full-restore from your current backup set, (unless you can still get your System Restore Point to work, if you have a version of Windows with that feature);

 At best, the programmer should finish "Computer Sciences 202" before even thinking about going anywhere NEAR an Operating System's "Instruction Set", which is "layman's terms" for just what the Registry actually IS.

 Thanks anyway, GAOTD, we'll give it a try again next time.

 For those who need a good Registry Cleaner/Optimizer right away, (and don't want to, or can't, "do it by hand", and I don't blame you a bit)...
 ...I personally prefer "NTREGOPT", in the "ERUNT" package, from the SysInternals bunch of utilities, since Mark R. works/worked for MS when he wrote that stuff;

 If you have a reasonably fast link, just get the entire SysInternals Suite, {supposedly recently updated}, still free, now from Microsoft, formerly from Mark Russinovich, and that one's also available on the "usual sources", (and I was recently told that it's also now on Microsoft's Downloads site, too)...

 (I just got a fresh copy of the "SysInternals Suite" to put on my machine, from "MajorGeeks.com", since they have a 2nd Mirror that can keep my incoming pipe full throughout the download)

 J.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:34:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Bobby]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/premium-booster-3-0/#comment-98445</link>
<description><![CDATA[Premium Booster became one of my favorite Giveaways with its debut.  Since that time, it has run flawlessly on two laptops (XP), two desktops (XP &amp; Vista) and one iMac (XP Pro on virtual drive).

In particular, I like the 'inoculation' feature protecting against various types of spyware and malware; also, the one-button optimization feature turns a complicated process into a relatively painless procedure.  With so many computers, some of which are for my grandchildren's use, I have come to rely on this program.  Premium Booster performs its functions so well that I trust it ..a compliment I have not given to other Giveaways to date.

While it offers comprehensive protection, cleanup, repair and defrag, the program is so well designed that it has never crashed one of my computers ..that is more than I can say for pricey Norton products.  Still, given Windows inherent faults it is always a good idea to backup a system before using such a program.  

**The Giveaway project is designed to showcase indie developers' software by offering programs to the public in return for testing and review.  There are only so many indie developers, so programs may be repeated from time to time.  Instead of whining about a giveaway, may I suggest writing to your favorite software developer and inviting them to the Giveaway project?  By doing so, the Giveaway project will expand and continue to thrive and we will be able to experience some truly innovative software.  If you want help with letters to developers, post a comment on the forums.  One of the Giveaway users (myself included) will be happy to assist. **]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:24:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: jgsookram]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/premium-booster-3-0/#comment-98444</link>
<description><![CDATA[I tried installing this program on my XP computer several times but kept getting an access violation error:

Faulting application premiumbooster.exe, version 3.0.0.9000, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.1.2600.5781, fault address 0x00012afb.

Will leave this to the computer wizs to figure out

-Joel :(]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:15:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Shak]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/premium-booster-3-0/#comment-98443</link>
<description><![CDATA[I COMPLETELY agree with Donnie O'Neally!  Anyway, i downloaded it and i realized that this is quite similar to WinUtilities...which was one of the offers a couple weeks ago i think?  I was really hoping for something unique...especially not a converter! :P  Thanks, anyway GOTD.  I'm still counting on you for tomorrow! :D]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:09:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Roblou]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is there a registration code?  I wanted to register it but I have no code and I don't want any situations to arise later on about it.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:57:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: justme]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[#1 Ashraf:
I downloaded Tune Up Utilities 2009 Trial Version the other day and when I uninstalled it with Revo Uninstaller, I found out that the uninstaller that comes with TuneUp Utilities left a whole bunch of files behind. Lucky for me I had Revo....]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:51:39 -0400</pubDate>
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