Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-14 Thread Tom Johnson
rthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > > > > > > - Original Message - > *From:* > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Sent:* 11/13/2009 5:01:14 PM > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] dr

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: 11/13/2009 5:01:14 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] driver detective Does performance improve when the network is disconnected? When connected, but not doing much, run taskmgr.exe, go to the networking tab, does the graph show more than nearly no traffic? If you

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread gregortroll
Does performance improve when the network is disconnected? When connected, but not doing much, run taskmgr.exe, go to the networking tab, does the graph show more than nearly no traffic? If you computer seems too "busy" when you aren't doing anything, then your computer may be a botnet zombie.

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Douglas Roberts
MORE likely is that your Windows box has become a node in a spam botnet, Nick. --Doug On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, wrote: > A more likely reason for slowness (since your drivers have always been your > drivers... why would they slow things down now?) is registry fragmentation. > > You may w

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread gregortroll
A more likely reason for slowness (since your drivers have always been your drivers... why would they slow things down now?) is registry fragmentation. You may wish to use the free Auslogics Registry Defrag. PS: Note that it is in DD's best interest to report as many drivers "out of date" as

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Tom Johnson
I have Driver Detective -- yeah, it does change you for the updates -- but I use Driver Robot. -tj On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective > for a year at 30 bucks. > > My c

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Roger Critchlow
logy, > Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > > > > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Roger Critchlow > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexi

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Sent: 11/13/2009 2:34:13 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] driver detective On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective for a year at 30 bucks. My computer runs like doing aerobics in a swimming pool full of

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective > for a year at 30 bucks. > > My computer runs like doing aerobics in a swimming pool full of molassas. > DD's free scan says i have 5

[FRIAM] driver detective

2009-11-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective for a year at 30 bucks. My computer runs like doing aerobics in a swimming pool full of molassas. DD's free scan says i have 59 out-of-date drivers and offers to fix them. I assume that if I allow a piece of software to