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| Thread ID: 80127 | 2007-06-12 17:02:00 | Registry cleaners/PC boosters,optimizers/DL managers | rob_on_guitar (4196) | Press F1 |
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| 558608 | 2007-06-21 21:37:00 | I can only report on what my computer does for me and I hate going against what Speedy has said - but this last week my "WILD PIG" (pet name for my desktop) was more of a LAZY SOW. Absolutely crawling along. So I used REGISTRY MECHANIC and the difference is amazing. She is back up to speed again. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 558609 | 2007-06-22 14:47:00 | Just thought I'd mention that if you have Opera it's built in download manager supports pausing and resuming etc. hmm, maybe I should change my name to WinOperaGuy? :P |
Faded_Mantis (79) | ||
| 558610 | 2007-06-22 15:37:00 | Theyre all crap. Besides some DL Managers. Most ram booster programs wouldn't do anything. Get more ram. People have to use common sense. If its too good to be true, it probably is. Before u get anything like this, look it up and see if it installs malware or whether it'll do anything at all (I doubt any of these programs would ). Some of these programs can make things worse, and even install malware on your system. Then you'll have something to worry about. Dont just download a program coz it says it can do and this. Think of the consequences, if you're WRONG. Are you saying that the likes of adaware and ccleaner are not the bees knees? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 558611 | 2007-06-23 11:37:00 | PC Boosters are rubbish software if you got one. Free registry cleaners or unknown cleaners are just a load of rubbish as well. Get something like Registry Mechanic or System Mechanic to do those jobs. DL manager, never get FlashGet it's an Ad-Ware program which means my BitDefender blocked me from using it. Try Mozilla Firefox it works fine. |
PedalSlammer (8511) | ||
| 558612 | 2007-06-23 12:16:00 | Download managers are a mixed bunch. Some work great, others not so great and half of them are adware/crapware. | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 558613 | 2007-06-23 21:30:00 | Just thought I'd mention that if you have Opera it's built in download manager supports pausing and resuming etc. hmm, maybe I should change my name to WinOperaGuy? :P Yea Im ccurrently using Opera, but I switched back to explorer for dls. For some reason Im finding Opera is a tad slower for Dls. :confused: |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 558614 | 2007-06-23 22:07:00 | Are you saying that the likes of adaware and ccleaner are not the bees knees? Ah no I meant the other programs that do nothing but infect your system with crap. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 558615 | 2007-06-23 23:47:00 | A clean, nag-free download manager I can recommend is LeechGet 2007 (www.leechget.net) (sounds shady but is pretty good). There is a paid version so the push from the free version is it’s limited to 5 active downloads with others being queued which isn’t so bad. Also compatible with the previously mentioned Firefox add-on, FlashGot. It used to be my staple DL manager but nowadays if I'm downloading via HTTP I usually use wget if I don’t think via the browser is going to cut it. I don’t mind giving CCleaner a twice over now and then for a taste of that snake-oil either. I find its nowhere near as good as manual registry editing lol, how manual are we talking here. |
sal (67) | ||
| 558616 | 2007-06-24 12:05:00 | Yea Im ccurrently using Opera, but I switched back to explorer for dls. For some reason Im finding Opera is a tad slower for Dls. :confused: Hmm, I hadn't tried the 2 side by side Rob. I find that for example I might be connected and downloading a certain file at 160kbyte, and then i pause it and resume it, and it might only make it to 100kbyte, and then another time it might reconnect at 200kbyte all on the same file. Could that explain the speed difference you're seeing? |
Faded_Mantis (79) | ||
| 558617 | 2007-06-25 02:33:00 | If your DSL connection drops (which seems to often happen on Telecom network) or if your browser crashes, then your download usually goes with it . I've found the download manager in Firefox/Mozilla to be of no real use at all other than listing everything you've downloaded which slows things down once it gets too large :) I can't queue up a bunch of downloads at once, use multiple servers to download the file (if it's supported), use more than one download stream so the file will come down quicker . As far as I know, you can't pause the download, shut down your PC, and resume it when it starts back up . If you can cope without one, no problem :) Me? I download a lot of files and it's much easier to have them all queued up and leave the manager to it . Give the downThemAll extension a try - I find it quite good . It is a download manager built into firefox . All the other download manager extensions I found just offloaded the download to an external download manager |
Greven (91) | ||
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