It just seemed to do the best job with the simplest user interface. And, when I had to have my HD reformatted and then a complex job of reinstalling XP, it did a good job of finding some relatively obscure XP drivers for my VISTA-appropriate machine.
-tj On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, everybody > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > Clark University ([email protected]) > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* <[email protected]> > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group<[email protected]> > *Sent:* 11/13/2009 5:01:14 PM > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] driver detective > > Does performance improve when the network is disconnected? > When connected, but not doing much, run taskmgr.exe, go to the networking > tab, does the graph show more than nearly no traffic? > If you computer seems too "busy" when you aren't doing anything, then your > computer may be a botnet zombie. > > ~~James > > On Nov 13, 2009 6:53pm, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > MORE likely is that your Windows box has become a node in a spam botnet, > Nick. > > > > --Doug > > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, [email protected]> wrote: > > > > A more likely reason for slowness (since your drivers have always been > your drivers... why would they slow things down now?) is registry > fragmentation. > > > > > > You may wish to use the free Auslogics Registry Defrag. > > > > PS: Note that it is in DD's best interest to report as many drivers "out > of date" as possible. > > > > ~~James > > > > > > > > > On Nov 13, 2009 4:06pm, Nicholas Thompson [email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective > for a year at 30 bucks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My computer runs like doing aerobics in a swimming pool full of > molassas. DD's free scan says i have 59 out-of-date drivers and offers to > fix them. I assume that if I allow a piece of software to correct 59 > drivers on my computer, the chance that it wont work when it is done are > pretty high. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] "Be Your Own Publisher" http://indiepubwest.com ==========================================
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