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91248	2002-10-20 22:12:00	A new version 6.5.1.2 of the Avant Browser (formerly known as IEOpera) has been released with the following changes: Clear All Records. Three Bugs Fixed. Added Groups Support. Improved Multi-Proxy Support. Improved customizable toolbar. New Window Control Panel. Three Buttons Added: Text Size, Encoding and HTML Editor. Avant Browser version 6.5.1.2 released (www.avantbrowser.com) How to Setup Windows 95/98/Me on a Windows 2000/XP system Bitbenderforums has posted a new guide for all newbies out there on how to set-up a dual boot system. Here's a snip from the article: I love Windows XP. Best version they've come up with yet, in my opinion. It makes setup of new computers and networks a breeze. But, it does have a few problems running some older programs that can't be solved by running them in compatibility mode. I did a quick search of Google, but was unable to find a definitive list of programs that have known compatibility issues. I did find 2, both utilities - PowerQuest's "Partition Magic 6.0" and Norton's "SystemWorks 2001". The program that I couldn't get to run in XP was "Easy CD Creator 4.0". The solution for me was to either buy upgraded software, or using the tools I had on hand, create another partition on my hard drive and install Windows 98 on that, in order to run the older programs. Not wanting to spend money to upgrade software that had worked well for me before, and having plenty of hard drive space, I chose the second option. Check the whole guide out here (www.bitbenderforums.com). Xp-erience has posted up a pdf file for download from a bloke called moonboy and created by Daniel Keller on how to optimise your Windows 2000/XP audio. Here's a clip: "Windows defaults to continual logging of Input and Output data to your hard drive. Disabling this will free up some resources. To disable performance logging, go to the Start menu and select Run. Type in diskperf -n and hit Okay. Write Behind Caching Windows defaults to write-behind caching, holding data in a memory buffer before writing it to disk. Disabling this function will increase your system performance by writing data immediately to disk. To disable this function, right click on My Computer and choose Properties, or open Control Panel and select System. Select the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button. Click the 'plus' sign next to Disk Drives and select a drive. Choose Properties and uncheck 'Write Cache Enabled'. Repeat for all drives in your system." The guide covers heaps of important tips and tweaks. Optimizing Windows 2000/XP audio (www.xp-erience.org) VIA has released some new integrated VGA drivers for the CLE266 and KL133/KLE133/PLE133/MVP4 chipsets. The CLE266 drivers are for Windows 2000/XP and Windows 9x and are WHQL certified whilst the KL133/KLE133/PLE133/MVP4 drivers are for Windows 9x/2000/XP/NT and do not have WHQL certification. New integrated VGA drivers for some VIA chipsets (www.viaarena.com) Diskeeper Lite, the freeware disk defragmentation utility for home PC's, version 7.0 build 418 has been released. This new release has the following changes: Changes to the main Diskeeper display to provide quick access to the Diskeeper scheduling options. Changes were also made to enable the Diskeeper installation to detect and correctly handle previous installations of Diskeeper Lite 7.0 Diskeeper Lite version 7.0 Build 418 out (www1.execsoft.com) A new version of FlashFXP 2.0 Final Build 902 is out with the following changes: When using the schedule to exit FlashFXP an error occurred preventing FlashFXP from closing. Loading the queue via the command line didn't automatically start transferring when combined with -tray or -min. If the left local view is set to My Computer, the right local view would not highlight the folder when changing to the parent. When changing to the parent, and the parent is My Computer, FlashFXP will now properly select the drive you came from. When first using FlashFXP a predefined window size was assigned to the Site Manager. This predefined size was too small when using large fonts or a DPI other than 96. New installs will not use a predefined size to eliminate this problem. FlashFXP uses a predefined window size when accessing the File Exist rule dialog via the Site Manager, as a result the window didn't display correctly when using large fonts or a DPI other than 96. If an upload is aborted FlashFXP may fail to resume the file after abort. You can load multiple queue's via the command line.. FlashFXP.exe queue1.fqf queue2.fqf queue3.fqf The alternative fxp routine has been replaced with a new method that is now compatible g6/bpftpd. In v2.0 View File was added to the local view popup menu and assigned the shortcut ctrl-v, unfortunately this shortcut conflicts with the standard explorer ctrl-v (paste) shortcut. In this build ctrl-v will paste and not view file. There is no shortcut assigned to View File in the local view. FlashFXP version 2.0 Final Build 902 released (flashfxp.ws) CuteFTP Pro version 3.0 beta has been released for download with fixes for the following list of issues: Launch Pro GUI from TE icon in systray not working Tile vertically of remote panes only shows logs A few minor icon, graphics and wording issues TE sometimes crashes when using ATI All-in-Wonder® MMC Column sizes aren't remembered between sessions Browser Tag Tips aren't remembered between sessions SSH2 connections to Cobalt RaQ4 server fail if data compression is on. Occasional problems creating folders on VShell servers Certain sequence of events when scheduling a file for transfer and cancelling it can cause a crash Some SUN OS5 parsing issues remain Server cookies are not set when working with HTTPS Certain conditions cause a GPF when stopping active uploads over SSL or SSH2 Certain extensions won't upload to VSHELL SSH server (mpeg, xls, and perhaps more) Very large HTTP uploads will sometimes fail Issues when sending the raw ftp command "LIST" where a CWD to the parent dir occurs "retry without socket disconnect logic" not always adhered to Properties button on SSH Certificate Manger is non-functional Smart Keep Alive commands don't function on SSH2 sites Sometimes an error occurs when backing up user data, if certain files don't exist Size columns right aligned but data isn't Non-admin users installing on a system that has never had an InstallShield installation performed will receive vague "iKernel error." Workaround: Install while logged in as Administrator. If you want see the substantial list of all the new stuff go here (www.globalscape.com). CuteFTP Pro version 3.0 Beta 2 released (hnhttp.skycn.net) WinDVD Tweaker, the program that allows users of the WinDVD to enable hidden settings, version 4.06 is out for download with the following changes: Some massive aspect ratio improvements. More special settings, that windvd doesnt save are now saved. Improved region setting. Improved Autorun disabling. WinDVD Tweaker version 4.06 out (www.majorgeeks.com) WinDriversBackup is a utility that identifies all of your Windows driver files and saves them to a secure location, making it easy to reinstall the driver for a particular device because or the whole operating system. The tool works with all OS's. WinDriversBackup version 1.0 (www.jermar.com) How to install nVidia drivers in Mandrake 9.0 3dgpu has posted up a small guide on How to install NVIDIA drivers in Mandrake 9.0 (www.3dgpu.com rt=2) for all those new to Linux and are having a bit of trouble getting through. Faster Windows XP gaming I think I have posted this before, but it can never go astray to speed up you XP gaming and with the number of people switching over it will come in handy all over again. NVNews has posted up a little tweak that will the mouse acceleration problem that plagues XP. This tweak will remove the problem once and for all and make your gaming experience that much better. Here's what you do: Click the Start Button, go to Run and type Regedit. From there go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -] [/url] Control Panel -] [/url] Mouse. Find the SmoothMouseXCurve: and SmoothMouseYCurve: strings. Here under the binary SmoothMouseXCurve you'll want to change your value's to look like this... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 And change the "SmoothMouseYCurve" values to this... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 66 a6 02 00 00 00 00 00 cd 4c 05 00 00 00 00 00 a0 99 0a 00 00 00 00 00 38 33 15 00 00 00 00 00 After making those changes, reboot your computer. Now load up your favorite FPS game and you should notice you can 'frag' a lot easier! Asus have more new beta BIOS files for download for the following boards: Asus Bios P4PE 1002 - 01 Beta Asus Bios P4GE-V 1002 - 02 Beta Asus Bios A7S333 1005 - 02 Beta Asus Bios A7V8X 1008 - 03 Beta Asus BIOS updates (www.asuscom.de) LiteOn have released some CD-RW firmware updates for the following drives: Lite-On LTR-48125S ( 48X/12X/48X ) CD-RW Firmware R481S05.zip 2002/10/17 Lite-On LXR-40122 ( 40X/12X/40X ) CD-RW Firmware XR407S07.zip 2002/10/17 Lite-On CD-RW firmware updates (www.liteonit.com.tw) nVidia NV28 and NV18 (AGP 8X vs AGP 4X) shoot-out DarkCrow has published a short shoot-out between the the old NV18 (AGP 4x) chipset and the NV28 9AGP 8x) chipset that has just been released to see if 8x times is better than 4x. The site is in Korean so you will select the english version to read the results. Overall though its a pretty even battle with the 8x just edging out the 4x, but not by the margin you would expect. Check the shoot-out here (www.darkcrow.co.kr). Lavasoft, the makers of the Ad-Aware program have posted a warning that someone is using a trojan under the guise of an ad-aware download. Here's the warning: It has come to our attention that there may be a new virus and/or Trojan masquerading as a legitimate Ad-aware download. This file or software is called aware.exe or some variation of this. We have also been informed that there may be someone out there who is actively using pop ups that seem as though they are from LavaSoft. Please be sure to only download our products from the official mirror sites listed on our downloads page: contd. Lavasoft posts up an Ad-aware warning (www.lavasoft.de) This includes ONLY the following sites: Mirror Sites: Mirror Sites (www.majorgeeks.com) www.pcworld.com Mirror Sites (www.pcworld.com) Mirror Sites (download.com.com) Mirror Sites (www.winsite.com) Mirror Sites (http://www.wyvernworks.com/) Mirror Sites (http://www.networkingfiles.com/) Mirror Sites (http://fileforum.betanews.com/) Mirror Sites (http://www.cheetaa.com/) Mirror Sites (http://www.exaltedhosting.com/) Mirror Sites (http://www.mentaldimensions.com) Mirror Sites (http://www.bagpipes.net) In the interim, we are aggressively investigating these reports and are looking at every example of them we can locate. If you suspect that you have been infected with a virus of this name or are experiencing pop ups that look as though they came from LavaSoft or seem to advertise any of our products, please contact a Moderator or Administrator immediately and we will investigate this. You can also send information to the following address: urizen@lavasoft.de Clawhammer to be called Athlon DT 3000+ Tom's Hardware have gotten a hold of the AMD roadmap for next year and it appears that the new clawhammer processor is going to sell under the name Athlon DT starting at a rating of 3000+ and due for release in quarter one 2003. To followup on this they have posted up a review of sorts of one of the first hammer boards. Here's a bit of a sneak look: Even though we're currently unable to show you a complete Hammer platform, we nevertheless bring you the very first motherboard with the VIA K8T400M chipset. However, we still hope to present the first tests of the ClawHammer before Christmas. Most of the motherboard manufacturers have samples with a clock speed of 1.6 GHz, labeled unofficially as "XP 3200+." Check out the whole story at. Tom's Hardware (www4.tomshardware.com) nVidia NV30 to use DDR II memory clocked at 1GHz TheInquirer has dug up some info detailing that the NV30 GPU will be running DDR II memory with a memory clock speed of 1Ghz. Here's a snip of what they have dug up: Many thought that Nvidia will use 700 MHz to 800 MHz memory which is not true, at least for the fastest implementation of chip, as we expect several cards based on same core. The fastest NV30 will work on the nice round number of 1000MHz, bringing graphics memory to a 1GHz speed for the first time in history. Read more at the TheInquirer (www.theinquirer.net). Asus has released a new 31.42 version of their own Detonator drivers for Windows 2000 and XP. The drivers support the V3800, V6600, V7100, V7700, V8170, V8200, V8440, V8460 and V9180 series of cards. Asus Detonators 31.42 released (ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/vga/Liveupdate/Win2k/Win2KXP_3142.exe) Apple has released a small update for Quicktime bringing it up to version 6.0.2. There is no word on the changes in what appears to be mainly a silent update. You can update using the update facility from within the player itself or download it from the link below. QuickTime 6.0.2 is out (www.apple.com) DAEMON Tools 3.23 is now out for download with the following changes: Some blacklists have been fixed (e.g. UT 2003). We also added a lot new MDS-Files for a lot of the latest games protected by the new Securom. Get more info and download from the link below. Daemon Tools 3.23 out (www.daemon-tools.com) cheers monty (www.ozquake.com)	tweak'e (174)
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