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I stumbled on this guide when my computer kept on breaking. I hurriedly search for a simple solution to stop Dr. Watson from making debug reports coz it repeatedly broke my computer. Heres what I found using google search.

Dr Watson is a utility that is on all versions of Windows and provides an analysis of why your machine crashed - more commonly known as a debugger. A feature of the utility is to create a dump file. This dump file can be quite large - 100s of mb is not uncommon and the file it creates is useless to most people.
It is possible to turn off Dr Watson and there are two ways that you can do this.

Registry Method

Start the registry editor and go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug” and edit the key “Auto” by double clicking on it. Change the 1 to a 0. Press OK and close the registry editor.

Graphical Interface Method

Click on Start, then Run, and enter “drwtsn32″ (minus the quotes).
In the utility that is displayed, the two options you want to change are “Dump all thread contents” and “Create Crash Dump File”. This will restrict what Dr Watson logs and how much disk space it uses.

- A -
A2Scan - a good spyware cleaner but it has problems preserving its detection sig.
Active Ports - i use this to locate open ports and identify which app is using it.
Adobe Reader - a pdf reader
Apache - i had problems installing this server software. eventually, i did manage to install it manually
Arovax Antispyware - a tiny antispyware.
Audiograbber - i cant decide which one i’ll keep. EAC or Audiograbber?
Autoruns - cool app. it detected 20+ unnecessary startup dlls

- B -
Buddy Spy - my mom uses this for her chatting needs.

-C-
Ccleaner - my fave cleaning tool along with Easy Cleaner.
ClamWin - a decent antivirus i paired with AVG
Converter - a simple tool for converting units
CWShredder - detects specific spywares on IE

-D-
DynDNS Updater - my dynamic ip solution

-E-
EAC - abbrev. for Exacr Audio Copy - it converts cda files to mp3
Ewido Security Suite - supposed to be cool only if it didn’t embed itself as a Windows service

-F-
Flashget - a good download manager. not freeware tho’
Foobar 2000 - been using this since AOL bought Winamp
F-Secure Backlight Rootkit Eliminator - a tool for the Sony scare?

-G-
GameGain - it claims to improve my gaming experience
Gimp 2.0 - a good alternative for Photoshop only that its free
Grisoft AVG Antivirus - a decent antispyware with easy to use functions and fast updates.

-H-
HDValet cleaner - a sturdy file cleaner
Hydra IRC - cool irc client tho’ it lacks some basic functions

-I-
IPNetInfo - a tool for IP add lookup

-L-
Lavasoft Adaware Antispyware - a trusted antispyware

-M-
Media Player Classic - a light media player.
Mozilla Firefox - a simple web browser tho’ its not memory efficient
mp3utility - it scans for erroneous mp3 files
Microsoft’s Extensible Counter Listing Tool - i use this to disable counter entries

-N-
Net Tools - h4x0r tools ? maybe if you can make it work correctly..
NvU - a webpage authoring tool.

-P-
Polybytes Polyview - a free image editor

-S-
Sysinternals Pagedefrag - good tool for users with less 1k swap file.
Sysinternals Process Exporer - lets you know what process are running on the background.

-Q-
Quickstart - instantly execute programs
Quicktime Alternative - plays .mov files even if you dont have a quicktime player installed

-R-
Resthief - ???

-S-
Sandboxie - a tool for sandboxing untrusted programs
Serif Pageplus SE - a business card maker
Speedup Reader - speeds up adobe reader by eliminating unused functions.
Spybot Search & Destroy - a decent antispyware..even better if you pair it with Adaware
Spydefense Antispyware - this will be included in my watch list

thats all for now..to be continued…

Somebody from digg’s comment page wrote this cool new firefox tweak that actually worked. So I tested it on my own computer running windows XP SP2 using Firefox 1.5.0.1

from the users mouth:

This site says to go to “about:config”, create a new boolean value called “config.trim_on_minimize”, and set it equal to “true”. Whenever you minimize Firefox, the memory usage will go down considerably. Mozilla knows about the problem and agrees with this solution. I tried it and it worked.

Heres the memory usage BEFORE I applied the tweak.

When Firefox is maximized with 5 tabs opened but no page loaded. (no page because im offline when i wrote this entry)

When it is minimize

Heres the memory usage AFTER I applied the tweak.
The result is impressive!

When Firefox is maximized with 5 tabs opened but no page loaded.

When it is minimized. Look how the memory plunged down.

summary: from 13,360 K cut down to 2,004 K of memory usage.

Im no IT expert but I know what im seeing…

This is what I get after 4hrs of browsing the net…

I think this animal needs more workout to loss excess baggage…

avoid the meat Firefox! eat more veggies.. lol

Got this simple tweak from google. Credit goes to whomever authored this guide.

How to Clean out Yahoo Messenger Folder

1. Go to My Computer.

2. Go to Program Files (or wherever your Yahoo Messenger Folder is installed).

3. Click on Yahoo Folder and open it.

4. Open Cache Folder and delete the Contents.

5. Close cache folder when done.

6. Click on Profiles Folder.

7. Open a Profile Folder and delete messages and conferences folders.

8. Remember Boot Codes are stored here.

9. Do this to every Profile you have.

10. Close Profile Folder when done.

11. Open IMVcache Folder (if you have one).

12. Delete the contents.

13. Close IMVcache Folder when done.

14. Open IM cache Folder (if you have one).

15. Delete the contents.

16. Close IM cache Folder when done.

17. Check the Ypager log note pad for boots in it. Clean them out or delete all if you want.

18. Your finished cleaning up.

19. Do this at least every other day or when you have login problem