Keeping Your Computer Clean

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Originally Posted by numbersalone

LINUX IS MOST DEFINITLY NOT SHIT FOR GAMERS.... WINe is an AMAZING program for linux so you can run windows games.... also alot more software manufactures are making linux base games, quake4 was put out for linux, same with doom 3, you can find copies, just waiting for the other gamer companies to do the same... but really, WINe does it all flawlessly for me, running knoppix...

fuck a Doom 3, i get down with the original

edit: and you're right about wine...thats what i use to run my windows online poker program and it works great, it will not work for the latest PC games though

[Ars moriendi]

^ that takes me back

[Digit]

Originally Posted by popsson

one word... FIREFOX..!!!! since i got that i haven't had ad ware at all!!!!!!

it's not the best tho... good lord! there were some people still using ms explorer then!

[skidoo]

Originally Posted by Digit

it's not the best tho... good lord! there were some people still using ms explorer then!

Firefox leaks memory like a bucket full of holes, but it's a fun toy. I just keep wondering...what's the point? IE works great.

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Originally Posted by Digit

it's not the best tho... good lord! there were some people still using ms explorer then!

best browser= Opera or Konquerer

[agg_town]

Originally Posted by Le Grenouille

I just want to add, AVG Free Edition is all the Antivirus most users need, and Norton is utter crap; it misses a lot of stuff.

CleanUp! is a useful tool, also, as it converts all the deleted temp files etc into free memory.

i got avg its a piece of shit it misses alot of stuff and goes REALLY SLOW

[skidoo]

Originally Posted by agg_town

i got avg its a piece of shit it misses alot of stuff and goes REALLY SLOW

You've got some configuration issues or something, dude. I use AVG on a bunch of machines, and it runs great. It's got a much smaller footprint than Norton or McAffee's bloated asses.

[Ars moriendi]

try kaspersky on any norton or avg protected system ...I've had norton protected systems spit back well over 1000 different browser redirects trojans adware

I couldn't stop laughing at the stoned mofo he had no idea how much personal data he had let slip and on top of that he was too baked to care

[sincityusa]

I like going to lava soft.com and download.com have many tools you can use to protect your p.c.

[MrBurgerking]

Use Firefox. It used to have a memory leak but now that 2.0 is out, it's been fixed. You can also use Opera. For all you Wii lovers, that browser is Opera bases. Avant is also another good browser. Pretty much avoid Explorer and the next worse is probably Safari.

Also, avast! is a nice, free virus software and it even installs a screen saver that is like the asteroids one but it runs a virus scan every time your comp goes into screen saving.

Adaware is quite good, as well, but hardly necessary with firefox.

Empty your recycle bin often (right click on it and click empty recycle bin).

Defragment your hard drive. Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter. First select the hard drive you want to defragment (most of you probably only have 1) and analyze it. It'll analyze for a little while then it'll tell you if you need to defragment. If you do, which you probably will if you have never done this, click defragment. If this is your first time defragmenting or you haven't done it in quite some time, it'll take a while, so go do something else. This deletes all the fragmented files in your hard drive and organizes it so it can access things easier and faster.

Look at it this way: You've got a whole bunch of different kinds of weed and your friends come over and they want to smoke your northern but you have all your weed in a big box along with various stems and stuff. It'll obviously take you a lot longer to find your northern but when you defragment, you take all those stems and throw them away and you put all the different kinds of weed in different bags in alphabetical order. Some the next time you want to smoke your AK, you'll know exactly where to find it.

You can also access disk clean-up the same way except instead of clicking disk defragmenter, you click disk clean-up.

If you're know what you're doing, you can go through your hard drive and delete specific files you know you don't need, but this is risky. You really need to know what you're doing.

[laxgoal100]

Dude macpro dual interface is amazing. if you got the dough get parellels. its mad crazy

[Elk]

Originally Posted by Rasta_Man

Linux is shit if you're a gamer -- trust me, I'd love to use anything but windows, if I could.

qft, I would SO use linux if I wasn't a gamer.