March 10, 2009:

• Optimize2 and CCleaner

  A week ago I, on impulse, purchased PC Pitstop’s Optimize2 (one year subscription). I know my drive is sluggish with lots of old unused files. So, yes it works, cleans up files and does some internet tweaking. The file clean seemed ok, the internet tweaking may have given trivial increase, I think I might be […]

August 4, 2005:

• Ewido trojan scanner

  Ever since the otmaker problems of last month, it seems a good idea to do more comprehensive checking. I’ve had good advice to run the Ewido trojan scanner. However, someone forgot to tell me it won’t run in WIndows 98, so I have to reboot into Windows XP.
  It finds a massive number of traffic cookies, […]

August 3, 2005:

• CCleaner

  CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
  Running this can find some very strange things. I found file extensions (which should be typically .com .exe .html) as complete sentences of meaningfull text. Either […]

July 28, 2005:

• XP Failure

  With no warning signs of any failure, the system will no longer boot into Windows XP correctly. No icons, no desktop and no taskbars appear. This makes it very hard to use.
  Tried a few suggestions to fix this.for example run sfc /scannow to repair from the CD - no luck. Tried to go back to […]