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[GTX2GvO]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(_r.u.s.s. @ Aug 20 2007, 11:24 PM) [snapback]305755[/snapback]</div>

dont you just want to install a new version of alcohol? has no bugs for me
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It didn't had any bugs on my side as well till just a few week ago.

So Considering the Current State of the program now (completely gone). It Could be safe again to reinstall it.
It's just that I don't need the entire functionality of alcohol anymore.

I used to NEED all those 19 Virtual Drives for CD images I had on my Hard drive.
But since I removed nearly ALL of them from it was useless for me to have 19 Virtual CD-Rom's hanging around.

About the burning capability. I have Nero for that now. And It already proved itself being a good program for me on another machine of mine.

About the Cluttered registry.
I have an Overall Tweak tool on my machine Called: "TweakNow PowerPack 2006"
I use nearly ALL of the by me known functions it can give me. Including Ram optimizing, registry cleaning, TempFile removing and overall performance optimizer. (and some fun System Tweaks)
It's good enough for me.



Well, for now I'm off DeCluttering my Hard Disks, Defragmenting them, optimizing my registry and what else more I can think of that I can do to save me some Bytes of Data Storage.

I thank you guys for the Very quick and functional help (Which I could never expect on HotU :angry: ) and I'm glad my system is getting Back on the Right track now. k:

[dosraider]

May be deleted, sorry, was answered above.

[_r.u.s.s.]

enogh, cause i dont have eny registry backups :P

[Japo]

OK glad to hear your machine is fine again.

Why do you need 19 virtual CD drives? Daemon also supports multiple virtual drives but there's usually no actual need for more than one, if you want to mount another image just do it in the same virtual drive, it's the virtual equivalent to putting another disc on a real tray. Only when you need to access two or more images simultaneously you need several ones mounted at the same time. But 19 sounds like excessive.

Well if you already use a registry cleaner I guess you just have many programs installed. Good thing about old games and DOSBox is, they're self-contained just like in the good old DOS days.

And by the way, since you said the suite you're using includes RAM optimizing, I'll tell you that as far as I know that's a bad idea. Windows manages your memory and any other program will interfere with it in a way that it looks like it works, but actually hurts overall system performance. Remember that you don't have any use for free memory itself, you only need it available for running programs. Windows may leave some RAM occupied to allow faster operation; but if another currently running and active program needs more memory and there's no free one left, Windows itself will free it realizing the higher priority. RAM optimizers only unload from memory things that you may need later, and they do it when you have no need for the RAM, and when you do Windows allocates it just fine. And of course the optimizers use resources themselves (a little of RAM and what's worse processor time). Of course you needn't take my word, but take a look at this (they link to some good Windows sites too with some good advice about what to tweak and what not to):

http://forums.comodo.com/general_discussio...s-t11293.0.html

[GTX2GvO]

About the 19 V-CD's. Blame it on Lazy. I don't like it to put in the CD's themselves time after time and I think the same about the Virtual Stuff.

About the Ram Optimizing. The program mainly resides in my tray, informing me about the amount of free Ram. (which I find the Most important part)
Only when that amount drops down drastically it will free up some.

I use the optimizing, cause I HAVE a lot of stuff starting up with windows. (which can reduce free ram considerably)
Just think of the 112MB reg backup <_< (which till needs to be reduced by a reg cleansing )
This program only frees up the needed Ram during Startup and during High use events.
When the moment of Window's Ram-freeing would be too little too late.

But basically It's what I'm used to use and old habits die hard.