Just a warning for the curious who might, despite it all, want to try these modifications: Some of the software recommended (as mentioned in passing by SBGK) can do unwelcome things to your computer - for example, the browser homepage change made by default by Fidelizer is reported to hardwire the developer's homepage into the Windows registry. One user lost dozens of open tabs in their Opera browser, as the registry change caused Opera to start up with the new homepage, discarding saved tabs. It was claimed by the developer in the Fidelizer forum that this was due to a "bug", but in my opinion such practices are bordering on those used by developers of malware.
As a general point, I would advise against installing any such "eccentric" software, especially when the source code is not available: even if you can't read the source code yourself, open source software is an open book to the world in general, which tends to prevent it from doing nefarious or stupid things. As regards making manual registry changes, as recommended above, be very careful, you can make your computer unusable. In fact, I would go as far as saying that if you don't have a deep understanding of what you are doing, then just don't do it. In any case, you should have a full backup of your system, and be prepared to spend the hours (at least) which it would take to use it, should things go wrong. -- darrell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13460 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93257 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
