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[cricejun]

good article

[dr_ml422]

I put this here since it's free. For those of you who haven't received the results you've wanted w/Paragon's stuff I strongly recommend this Acronis True Image WD software. It will do all you really need for cloning, imaging etc... This is also a tip btw.

http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp

Don't worry it'll work w/other manufacturers drives as well just in case you wondered.

[MilesAhead]

I haven't experimented with a lot of registry defraggers. The only one I use is NTREGOPT. It's by the same programmer as ERUNT and it's free. I think Registry is one of those things where you don't get that much by "optimizing" it, but risk a lot by messing with it. I'm more interested in backing it up than pruning or cleaning or defragging it.

Anything like that I would certainly recommend having image backups where the restore mechanism has been tested on the particular PC(as in, you did a restore from the recovery boot CD and it worked without a glitch.)

If you know you can recover then you can take a bit of a chance here and there.

As for the particular utility I haven't used it. Experience is usually superior to theory so I'll bow to someone who has actually used it repeatedly.

[doctorhardware]

It is a nice idea, but if it fails. The OS could be toast, where you might not be able to recover from. I personally would not use it.

[ger@co]

@ MilesAhead

Miles, what do you think of the current Giveaway? "Registry Defragmentation 9.1"

Do you advise using such a program?

[MilesAhead]

To add to what Soup said, I've done a few of the Paragon giveaways and they will accept a hotmail address to get the registration info. You don't need to give out your ISP email if you don't want to.

[soup]

You just click on the link & if you happen to like that days giveaway, you follow the instructions to download & install it. Nothing to fill out.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

[HenrySoren]

How does this work – do I have to fill out some forms and give away data to get the software?

[ukreplica]

thanks for providing such a nice site

[PurpleDemon]

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[PurpleDemon]

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[greenmatter]

Good to know, thanks

[MilesAhead]

skwire spruced up his program a bit. Now called PlayTime, it calculates total play times of media files dropped on, also total time for selected files is shown on status bar. Double click an entry plays the file with the associated player.

http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/...=17353.new#new

skwire has updated PlayTime to v. 1.1.4
Now it has most of the info avail. via MediaInfo. The leftmost column is the base filename of the media file and the column width is automatically set to the longest name. All other columns are selectable. Plus you can drag the mouse to position the columns and the program remembers window and column positions and sizes. Here's a direct link to the latest version:

http://skwire.dcmembers.com/apps/playtime/PlayTime.zip

edit: btw I think now I'll take MediaInfo "sheet" gui out of my Free Commander favorite apps and put PlayTime in that slot. The context menu is more flexible. You can select one or multiple files or folders and it adds all media files in one go.

[MilesAhead]

Someone on www.sevenforums.com recommending this disk partitioning freeware:

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

I haven't tried it myself yet. It claims to support XP,Vista and W7 both 32 and 64 bit systems. On Softpedia it's given a rating of 5 out of 5 by 6 users which usually indicates a good find. Just thought I'd pass it along.

[PurpleDemon]

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