Lantec

Lantec

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Reply to Keep Those PC’s Clean! in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I have to drag my desktop into the garage and turn loose the air compressor on it about every 3 or 4 weeks. The HAF932 moves a lot of air and the dust builds up quick. I regularly do my laptop as well but so far I haven't pulled it apart to do it. [quote who="k10w3" reply="14" id="3074472"]No one ever does -- cat's own people. People don't own cats.[/quote] so true

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Reply to IconPackager 5 Beta Bug reports in Icons WinCustomize Forums

Set icons to Windows default > uninstall IP > use fix suggested in item #2 HERE > if all goes well, then reinstall IP Helpdesk used to have a file called IPfix or something similar that would take care of this problem but my link turns up a 404 now.

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Reply to Looking For Disk Defrag Help in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="14" id="3060481"]I have many movies and tv shows that are in the 2-8GB range, and they can take a very long time to defrag - especially if you are rather low on free space. [/quote] Another Smartdefrag user here. I have it do a scheduled "Defrag & Fully Optimize" overnight on Sundays and run the automatic defrag on all but my backup disks You can set Smartdefrag to skip files over a size you specify via a slider in settings.....backup fi

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Reply to Browser ‘heads up’–Firefox and Pale Moon in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="tazgecko" reply="1" id="3055713"]I wouldn't use x64 of Firefox/Pale Moon for the simple reason they always had issues with plugins and addons ... x32 works just fine[/quote] I've been using WaterFox which is the best Windows x64 version of Firefox and I only have one plugin that doesn't work and it's the Google Chat plugin that lets you make and receive phone calls from google voice. They (google) have been promising an x64 version of the plugin for a while

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Reply to I used to live on this forum... in Community WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="PoSmedley" reply="19" id="3054527"]Okay. Just to mix shit up. I feel the same way V does but I have given this some thought (cause I have that kind of time these days). Some of the stuff in the WC forums has just gotten stale. If I weren't so afraid we'd have 20 more 'Your Banned' threads pop up in their place, I'd say let's clean house and remove them all and start over. But there is no realistic way to control the threads that would

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Reply to Who is running 64-bit Windows right now? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Are you running 64-bit Windows right now?[/quote] yes [quote] If so, do you use your system for gaming?[/quote] I have a number of high end games, but it's mainly for work. [quote]Would you be more likely to buy a game that is 64-bit aware?[/quote] yes

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