TOK

Well, speaking from the very forefront of the latest Internet technology.....

Yeah. No problems. :-)

And if you want to check your other programs out for 'up-to-dateness', I'd recommend downloading the Free Update Checker from:

http://www.filehippo.com

and from where you can download just about every program update, inluding IE8 for XP.

(after clicking on the link to filehippo.com, see the link to the Update Checker at the top RHS of the web page)

If you want to check your hardware drivers out for 'up-to-dateness', I'd recommend a Free program called DriverMax. You can get that here:

http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/

The people who do DriverMax are a bit aggressive with their marketing so do take care. I think their 'aggression' is why you don't see it available on FileHippo.com. By the term 'aggressive', you will see they push to make you have other things too, and they do this far too pushily. So pushily, it makes you a bit suspicious. Nevertheless, Driver Max is a truly excellent program. But there's no real need to use it really frequently. Just 'now and again', I feel.

Excel: Many thanks for all of that. Busy evening coming up. TOK

I've gone over to IE8, and the only site I've had any issues with is Bloglines, which opens in Edit mode rather than read, for some reason.

I too are now on IE8,
just upgaded to vista 64 with 4 gig ram,was thinking must be faster then xp,
IE8 is slower to load pages,it maybe AVG internet security doing this,

when you open a page or open in another tab,is it instant,i have to wait a few secs befor it loads,
i like the way when you highlight a arrow comes up,click on it and it shows some programs that you can use,like highlight a place and you can go to a map,

firefox is faster with general stuff but iam so used to IE,

Scussy

You would be better upgrading to Windows 7 Beta x64 which is much better. the RC release is out Tuesday.

iam in 2 minds opty,
i liked vista home,so went x64 for the extra mem,i think its IE 8 thats slower,
now using firefox which is much faster,this is on my laptop,xps m1710,

i now have my trader PC to upgrade and my Gamming PC,both going 4 gig mem,

i have seen and heared good thingsabout windows 7,the thing is
when the release comes out in sept/oct will i have to clean install again,
thats a bit of a pain,and i norm wait for the 1st service pack to come out before i upgrade,so all the bugs have been sorted,and i dont fancy paying 180 x 3 in 6 months,

is there any differance beteen vista business x64 and vista ultimate x64
apart from media center,

Scussy

You are correct that Vista Business is almost the same as Ultimate. It's worth getting one of them if only for the disc encryption.

As regards Windows 7, the current beta version appears better and more stable than Vista SP1. The release candidate is out on Tuesday and I can't believe that that that will be any less reliable than the beta.

You can upgrade Vista to either the beta or RC version but not beta to RC, although there is a workaround. I'm not sure about upgrading XP.

Win 7 will also have an XP virtual mode (Business and Ultimate) which should cater for any old apps. I don't know whether this will be in the RC.

A google killer? Wolfram Alpha

I tried IE8 yesterday after another format, and eventhou it was faster it stopped me visting a lot of sites, and these were norton, trendmicro virus sites for online downloads couldnt find an option so quickly went back to 6.5 and now IE7

If you can tell me why or how to stop it from blocking them in the future I might give it another try

Also I've been looking for reviews of the best virus checkers free or pay, basically over the last week or so, the ones I've tested seem to pick up some more than others

RG

The bereviewd st virus checkers, as of a few months ago, are generally rckoned to be Mcafee with Norton a close second. I always found Norton good but it took a lot of resources. I will no longer use it because they swindled me on a renewal and refused to communicate with me. I haven't tried Mcafee, I'm using Panda at present which is cheap and appears to work well.

RG

The bereviewd st virus checkers, as of a few months ago, are generally rckoned to be Mcafee with Norton a close second. I always found Norton good but it took a lot of resources. I will no longer use it because they swindled me on a renewal and refused to communicate with me. I haven't tried Mcafee, I'm using Panda at present which is cheap and appears to work well.

Edit

Your experience is very different from mine, I rely on a less than top rated AV program, a very good external firewall and always patch the OS. I doubt that I have one virus warning a year yet I run a network of computers that are theoretically liable to pass viruses between them but this has never happened. I'm as sure as I can be that they are not going undetected.

Is it possible that some of your alerts are generated from the virus signatures in your multiple AV programs?

I have used Mcafee and found it to be the most hungry of resources of all the ones I have tried. I currently use Avast.

RG you found IE8 faster,hmmm i found it much slower,
i think its slower then IE7 because more checks on the sites,
for the less salubrious part of web,they prob block them,

been using AVG for a few years now,not so keen on thier internet security,but the more checks you want the hungry the programe,they now have a new one,ID checker,
-avg-internet-security

I want to speed up the booting from cold with my Samsung Q1 Ultra that has Standby but not Hibernate.

Has anyone any experience of this:-

http://www.asrock.com/feature/InstantBoot/index.asp

Or any other suggestions?

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

TP

TP

I did a very quick search for Q1 Ultra and hibernate. There were some refferences to people using hibernation.

I recall that Win XP did not support hibernation untilit was enabled which at the time was difficult to find how to do. Could this be the problem with yours? Would a BIOS update help?

The other thing to try is to upgrade to Windows 7 which I suspect will vastly improve the machine.

I use Hibernate but I read somewhere that it fragments a lot of files.
You enable hibernation from the power options under control panel. Then when turning off your PC, when Turn Off Your Computer shows, Press shift key & Stand By button turns to Hibernate.

Bolshi,

"Press shift key & Stand By button turns to Hibernate."

You are a star. I thought that when my Control Panel offered me Hibernation and then said it was not available on all computers....that was what it meant.

I had not realised it meant ask your chums on MoneyAM.

Thanks again.

TP

TP
iam using on my laptop, Vista x64 biz,just started using this

when i want to leave the laptop it goes after a time into sleep mode,
now in vista,you click start and there is an icon next to it like the shutdown (on/off) button,it says something like,
puts your pc in low state mem,so you can quickly resume working,
i now use this all the time instead of closing down or sleep mode,
when you come back for another session,its allready waiting at the welcome screen,
one click and its up and running,checked on temps to see what the CPU and Gpu are doing,
speed fan tells me both CPU's at 23c and GPU at 30c,so just they are just ticking over,
norm/heavy work the temps are CPU 40c - 50c and GPU 70 -80 c

I'm looking for a 152-bit random WEP key generator that I can freely download to use on the desktop.

All of the ones that I've found so far seem to be web based. Does anybody know of one please? The best I've found so far is 128-bit.

edit: Should also say that I'm looking for HEX output, not ASCII.

Hilary

How random do you want it?

I use an Excel spreadsheet that will generate any sort of string that you want, It uses the random function in Excel so it may not be totally random but then nothing is.