I need a freeware registry cleaner, THAT IS NOT going to tell me that I
need to pay to repair the registry and/or, force me to buy some other
product I don't need(which is a devious way of making someone pay for
something that is claimed to be free).
I asked on Yahoo Answers(BSOD question
Quoting Christopher Range lcms0...@comcast.net:
I need a freeware registry cleaner, THAT IS NOT going to tell me that I
need to pay to repair the registry and/or, force me to buy some other
product I don't need(which is a devious way of making someone pay for
something that is claimed to be
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote:
And I suspect it'll be increasingly harder to find people who have *no*
experience with computers. So I would expect that most would have enough
experience to get *started* using a computer.
But what is the right computer OS
Ya, ccleaner is the way to go
(http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/). But note that, while
you should probably have it installed anyway, cleaning your registry
isn't likely to solve any system problems you may be having. I rarely
ever run the registry cleaner, preferring to just let the old
I use Wise Registry Cleaner (under Vista). They have a pay-for pro version
and a totally free one. No obligation of the latter to the former.
http://www.wisecleaner.com/download.html
Another one you can check out that I have also used very easily and without
problem is TweakNow
I suspect this is like anything..why can't they learn both? There are MUCH
larger problems with our eduction system than which OS to learn. I'd much
rather have them at a very young age begin to learn other languages, a more
broadly based education in general will help them in many areas.
On
On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Tony B wrote:
But note that, while you should probably have it installed anyway,
cleaning your registry
isn't likely to solve any system problems you may be having. I rarely
ever run the registry cleaner, preferring to just let the old junk lie
quietly where it
On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:10 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
But what is the right computer OS to learn? Should school systems
teach students to use Windows and associated software because that is
what is preferred by most businesses? That seems to currently be the
case as schools appear to be
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Here is the WSJ take on this whole subject.
Stewart
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I think most kids will learn how to use both - at home and with friends,
not so important at school anymore. More important at school is
learning how, why they work. For too many people, computers are magic,
like cars. Therefore, when something behaves incorrectly, they have no
clue.
Thank
On 12/18/2009 7:30 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
Do you have a broken registry, or do you just want to tidy up a bit?
Have you looked a Crap Cleaner? It'll tidy up without cost. I don't
know that it'll fix a broken registry. It'll also do a bunch of other
stuff.
Sorry. Don't have a link, but The
And they rant and they rave about how awful the machine is. Not
realizing it is something they did to make it behave that way.
I have that occur around me all the time.
My simple answer is stop what you are doing. Unless you want to
learn how to fix it yourself, stop the ranting and the
I sometimes wear a tee shirt I got years ago from Sun that says, No, I
will not fix your computer in bold lettering.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
And they rant and they rave about how awful the machine is. Not
realizing it is something they did to make it behave that way.
Do you lean towards a specific one?
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:27 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Tony B wrote:
But note that, while you should probably have it installed anyway,
cleaning your registry
isn't likely to solve any system problems you may be having. I
I can't recall seeing that happen since the old Win9x days. As I
recall we had this discussion back then - to wit, if [this or that]
registry cleaner is so great, why does it keep telling you more and
more things need to be cleaned? Either that item needs to be cleaned
or it doesn't. It's absurd
phartz...@gmail.com escribió:
And I suspect it'll be increasingly harder to find people who have *no*
experience with computers. So I would expect that most would have enough
experience to get *started* using a computer.
But what is the right computer OS to learn? Should school systems
On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Tony B wrote:
I can't recall seeing that happen since the old Win9x days. As I
recall we had this discussion back then - to wit, if [this or that]
registry cleaner is so great, why does it keep telling you more and
more things need to be cleaned? Either that item
On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:55 AM, mike wrote:
Do you lean towards a specific one?
I have used several over the years, including a free one that M$ used
to make available. They all seemed to do the job well enough.
Currently I use Registry First Aid, which is not free.
The idea is that there is a massive web of interlocked registry items,
depending on how adventurous you are will determine how deep you want to
clean. Some registry cleaners will inform you that xx number of items are
not linked to ANYTHING and can be deleted, and xxx number MAY be linked to
I've been around enough IT managers and departments to know that this is not
some huge conspiracy, it is only the mac faithful who believe they are
locked out of business because of IT departments trying to secure jobs.
This is ridiculous..I'm not saying it never happens, but it's not rampant.
On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Rev. Stewart A. Marshall wrote:
Title: WSJ.com - Officers Warned of Flaw in U.S. Drones in 2004
Headline: Wingnuts Unite to Distract America from Health Care, Climate
Change, and Greedy Bankers.
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:20 PM, mike wrote:
I've been around enough IT managers and departments to know that
this is not
some huge conspiracy, it is only the mac faithful who believe they are
locked out of business because of IT departments trying to secure
jobs.
This is ridiculous..I'm not
Watch out Tom, the wingnuts on your socialist side like Dean are screaming
about voting down the HCR bill. And than there are the wingnuts in Russia
who say their climate data was deleted from the reports...and those greedy
bankers? Yah...the big O paid em off.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:41 AM,
I thought you originally were in IT when you worked with mainframes?
db
b_s-wilk wrote:
And it's not complicated for you... you have long been an IT who
loves to learn this stuff. The fact that IT people think and expect
everyone else to be like them is the big geek disconnect that the
rest
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:23 PM, mike wrote:
The idea is that there is a massive web of interlocked registry items,
depending on how adventurous you are will determine how deep you
want to
clean. Some registry cleaners will inform you that xx number of
items are
not linked to ANYTHING and can
Case in point of rabid mac fan bois...
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:20 PM, mike wrote:
I've been around enough IT managers and departments to know that this is
not
some huge conspiracy, it is only the mac faithful who believe they are
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:20 PM, mike wrote:
There is also the fact of changing from windows to mac is huge and
difficult
MYTH!
IT keeps insisting that everyone will have to learn to speak Swedish.
Even when shown that the Mac works right out of the box they continue
to blather on.
Right...just install that software you had built to run your million dollar
business on that mac...oh wait it's windows only...hmm
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:55 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:20 PM, mike wrote:
There is also the fact of changing from windows to mac is
People think completely differently and have patience and time for
different kinds of things.
I am constantly seeing hoards of people who are in the ditch with
their computer as soon as anything departs from the narrow path they
have for email, browsing, uploading their pics to the camera
That is why OS's need to and will eventually get over their
proprietaryness and look and work essentially the same.
db
phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote:
And I suspect it'll be increasingly harder to find people who have *no*
I'm talking about environments that use massive databases, RAID'd servers,
hard enough to build something fast enough when it's local...cloud would be
insane at this point.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
What he is talking about and what
The young will learn both and as they do proprietary designs will become
meaningless and disappear like vestigial organs.
The power of proprietary designs is dividing the market for market share
purposes. Once they don't accomplish that mission they are just an
expense to be unnecessarily
Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) wrote:
I think most kids will learn how to use both - at home and with friends,
not so important at school anymore. More important at school is
learning how, why they work. For too many people, computers are magic,
like cars. Therefore, when something behaves
Faulty logic...we all know how to drive cars because we want to go places.
Not because they are all the same. By this logic everyone should know how
to change the oil or a tire...but they don't.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:46 PM, db db...@att.net wrote:
Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) wrote:
I think
Yes want is involved but in a society where you are disadvantaged and
uncool etc to not compute, it's not the determining factor.
We can afford to pay for the oil or tire but few can afford to pay for a
driver.
Likewise with a computer. Few can afford secretaries but they can
afford to
If their gains in the market is 'shooting themselves in the foot' God give
me that kind of gun.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:56 PM, db db...@att.net wrote:
Yes want is involved but in a society where you are disadvantaged and
uncool etc to not compute, it's not the determining factor.
We can
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:34 PM, mike wrote:
I'm talking about environments that use massive databases, RAID'd
servers,
hard enough to build something fast enough when it's local...cloud
would be
insane at this point.
Running such on anything other than UNIX would be insane.
Watching IT try
I want to convert some .wma, .wav and au files to mp3. Any
suggestions on a utility to get this done? Thanks.
Bill L'Hommedieu
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On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Stewart Marshall wrote:
But at present much specialized software is only available for
Windows machines.
And you are still insisting that it won't run on a Mac? WFBs still
living back in 1999.
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:23 PM, db wrote:
That is why OS's need to and will eventually get over their
proprietaryness and look and work essentially the same.
WFB paradise? WFBs dream of the day when Joe Stalin will rise again
and command Soviet-style uniformity. Mac users will huddle in
OS?
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Bill L'Hommedieu lhomme...@comcast.netwrote:
I want to convert some .wma, .wav and au files to mp3. Any suggestions on a
utility to get this done? Thanks.
Bill L'Hommedieu
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You've already shown in the past you have no experience in this area, why
continue to pretend you do? There was no version for OS X or Unix or
Linux. The software costs were high, and it came with half a dozen in house
support staff for implentation/training. I'm not talking about a ten user
If it's for windows, I use xilisoft...
http://download.cnet.com/Xilisoft-Audio-Converter/3000-2140_4-10580994.html
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
OS?
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Bill L'Hommedieu
lhomme...@comcast.netwrote:
I want to convert some .wma,
Funny how the lefties like Tom who really *did* back stalin push him off on
others...
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:54 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:23 PM, db wrote:
That is why OS's need to and will eventually get over their
proprietaryness and look and work essentially
On OS X I've only used SoX...but I hear mplayer is good. Google will guide
your way..
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:05 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
If it's for windows, I use xilisoft...
http://download.cnet.com/Xilisoft-Audio-Converter/3000-2140_4-10580994.html
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at
Unless you buy an emulator and then buy another OS no it wont.
At that point totally uneconomical.
Stewart
At 03:46 PM 12/18/2009, you wrote:
And you are still insisting that it won't run on a Mac? WFBs still
living back in 1999.
I thought you originally were in IT when you worked with mainframes?
I was an art major in college. I took programming [Fortran--Cobol might
have been better for Y2K] because it looked like plotting and drawing
would eventually be done on computers, and because artists are
independent
On Dec 18, 2009, at 5:02 PM, mike wrote:
OS?
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Bill L'Hommedieu
lhomme...@comcast.netwrote:
I want to convert some .wma, .wav and au files to mp3. Any
suggestions on a
utility to get this done? Thanks.
Bill L'Hommedieu
10.4.11
Don't forget the good open source audio editor Audacity. However, it
may be more trouble than you want just to convert a bunch of files.
But if you need to edit the files at all it's actually quite good.
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Don't think audacity does batch conversions.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't forget the good open source audio editor Audacity. However, it
may be more trouble than you want just to convert a bunch of files.
But if you need to edit the files at all it's
iTunes will convert .wav files to MP3. I do not know if Flip4Mac can
convert or save a .wma as an MP3, but that that is where I'd look for that.
Steve
Bill L'Hommedieu wrote:
On Dec 18, 2009, at 5:02 PM, mike wrote:
OS?
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Bill L'Hommedieu
It is limited.
I have an Olympus digital voice recorder and it makes compressed WMA files.
Audacity cannot open them.
I can use Nero wav editor and edit them, but not audacity.
Stewart
At 09:44 PM 12/18/2009, you wrote:
Don't think audacity does batch conversions.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at
On 12/18/2009 8:25 AM, Tony B wrote:
Ya, ccleaner is the way to go
(http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/). But note that, while
you should probably have it installed anyway, cleaning your registry
isn't likely to solve any system problems you may be having. I rarely
ever run the registry
On 12/18/2009 10:27 AM, tjpa wrote:
My experience is quite the opposite. After cleaning the registry the
PC starts up faster, the desktop draw faster, explorer windows appear
faster, and there is a sweet fragrance in the air. I once had a
Windows PC where files dragged into the trash would
On 12/18/2009 12:29 PM, Tony B wrote:
I can't recall seeing that happen since the old Win9x days. As I
recall we had this discussion back then - to wit, if [this or that]
registry cleaner is so great, why does it keep telling you more and
more things need to be cleaned? Either that item needs to
My friends who are scientists at a large [unnamed] chemical company in
Delaware were doing research using Macs. Then IT said they wouldn't
support Macs any more. Wouldn't buy replacements when they requested
more powerful computers. Everybody had to use Windows, even though the
software they used
Quoting Tony B ton...@gmail.com:
I can't recall seeing that happen since the old Win9x days. As I
recall we had this discussion back then - to wit, if [this or that]
registry cleaner is so great, why does it keep telling you more and
more things need to be cleaned? Either that item needs to be
I think most kids will learn how to use both - at home and with friends,
not so important at school anymore. More important at school is
learning how, why they work. For too many people, computers are magic,
like cars. Therefore, when something behaves incorrectly, they have no
clue.
Do
Maybe. But that doesn't excuse anything. Nor does it justify anything.
A better question would be: Did you see a marked, measurable
improvement in something after you did it?
Except that just the other day it took three passes on a machine at work for
CCleaner to find no more problems. WinXP.
Yes want is involved but in a society where you are disadvantaged and uncool
etc to not compute, it's not the determining factor.
We can afford to pay for the oil or tire but few can afford to pay for a driver.
Most of my friends when I was in high school could change oil or change
a tire
On OS X I've only used SoX...but I hear mplayer is good. Google will guide
your way..
mplayer is good, but easier to use inside the GUI of FFMPEGX or several
other GUI wrappers for Unix tools if you're planning to convert more
than one file. http://ffmpegx.com/
I also use QuickTime Pro
VirtualBox is a free emulator and works well. There are versions for OS
X, Windows, Linux, Solaris. I installed WXP Pro in VirtualBox on my
MacBook. It's just as fast as last year's Compaq. I used an installer
disk from a dead Dell.
Unless you buy an emulator and then buy another OS no it
I've had fine experiences in mixed and non mixed environments. I'm
wondering...how would the scientists run their software on machines that
didn't run their software? This is precisely my point, this point has
nothing to do with windows or os x. Did they fire everyone and replace the
machines
In addition to the other suggestions, you can look at switch audio
converter:
http://www.nch.com.au/switch/
It comes in a free and a paid version, and the free version
will do batch conversions to MP3 I think, while the paid one
gives you a number of additional conversion options.
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