[FRIAM] driver detective

[Nicholas Thompson]

Thanks, everybody

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, 
Clark University (nthompson at clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]




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To: The Friday Morning 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 computer seems too "busy" when you aren't doing anything, then your computer may be a botnet zombie.

~~James

On Nov 13, 2009 6:53pm, Douglas Roberts <doug at parrot-farm.net> wrote:
> MORE likely is that your Windows box has become a node in a spam botnet, Nick.
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> --Doug
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> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, gregortroll at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A more likely reason for slowness (since your drivers have always been your drivers... why would they slow things down now?) is registry fragmentation.
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> You may wish to use the free Auslogics Registry Defrag.
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> PS: Note that it is in DD's best interest to report as many drivers "out of date" as possible.
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> ~~James
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> On Nov 13, 2009 4:06pm, Nicholas Thompson nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> > Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective for a year at 30 bucks. 
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> > 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  DD's free scan says i have 59 out-of-date drivers and offers to fix them.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 correct 59 drivers on my computer, the chance that it wont work when it is done are pretty high.
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