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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:28 pm
by 117

650 errors found

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:58 pm
by fac51
never heard of registry first aid, bet its nowhere near as good as reg mechanic

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:00 pm
by 117
nowhere near as good based on the fact that i didn't fork out 20bucks for it?
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:05 pm
by fac51
nowhere as good based on the fact reg mechanic is fecking brilliant
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:08 pm
by mr mixin
guru wrote:on a side note i spend a few hours on sundays doing maintenance on my pc such as reg clean, virus adware scans, defrag (perfect disk 7.0 is fecking excellent for defragging), use ashampoo win optimizer for crap removal etc etc and doing it always keep's my pc running nice and smooth.
And i do the occasional virus scan every month when i remember to do so and my PC runs fine

Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:11 pm
by 117
mr mixin wrote:guru wrote:on a side note i spend a few hours on sundays doing maintenance on my pc such as reg clean, virus adware scans, defrag (perfect disk 7.0 is fecking excellent for defragging), use ashampoo win optimizer for crap removal etc etc and doing it always keep's my pc running nice and smooth.
And i do the occasional virus scan every month when i remember to do so and my PC runs fine

ditto
meanwhile, back at the ranch.....
kev has uninstalled ff and removed the ff directory completely, run Registry First Aid, reinstalled ff and now images load properly
now time for a mammoth resetup of ff
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:13 pm
by fac51
there are different levels of fine though, i use my pc for gaming more than anything so want it in tip top shape and not full of clutter and massively fragmented hard drives. im sure your pc wont be running as fast as it could. having a decent pc housekeeping program cannot be considered as a bad thing surely?
so complete uninstall and reg clean worked then, so there you go
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:08 pm
by fac51
Back up Firefox bookmarks
Firefox stores your bookmarks in a file called 'bookmarks.html'. Where it keeps this depends on the operating system you're using - in a worst case scenario, you should be able to search for the file by name, find it, and take a copy to save in a different place - that's your backup done.
jobs a good un

Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:31 pm
by MaThIbUs
this ain't no firefox-only "trick" --- hell, it even works in IE --- but i didn't know of it 'til i accidentally discovered it:
press space to scroll down
that's it.
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:40 pm
by fac51
never knew that

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:22 am
by fac51
117 wrote:Profile Folder
Firefox stores your user data in one of the following locations:
Windows 2000, XP Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
source
sweet as, backed up my bm's as above and replaced the files on my fresh install and it worked sound as a pound

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:27 am
by 117
anyone know how to change popup settings for a particular site, after you allowed popups? I allowed popups on a site i didnt mean to and now i cant change it back

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:52 am
by fac51
tools/options/web features then hit allowed sites
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:29 pm
by 117
cheers ed

just checked my allowed list, and there's a site listed as allowed popups with a url of
vod.vs3.com ??? i've been on the site and all it is is the word
rob written in the corner

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:28 pm
by Eamonn
Anyone find that FF becomes really unstable when Tabbrowser Extensions are installed?