Cant recomend commodo firewall enough, requires a bit of knowlage on firewalls etc but tiss free.

http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-sec ... rewall.php

install without the virus protection and use AVG or your fave virus scanner

Spyware... spybot

All free

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/09/google-on-chrome-eula-controversy-our-bad-well-change-it.ars Think this is what Bullet is on about, but I will say the speed and ease of use crome is a great app. But it runs update checker as a service that cant be disabled (2.x not tried 3.x) and I ...

Only thing I don't like about chrome and other google apps/tools are the services they run in the background that you just cant disable. If you do try and disable them they re-install/re-enable them self.

Have to go with plusnet, had virgin and had big problems also had zen internet which were great! But zen does cost a bit. If you go with plusnet go for the gammers package your get better latency with games etc etc. Also if ya go with PlusNet put me in as a referrer thundercat71, Ill get 50p off my ...

We run with Blackboard, have to admint its a love hate thing.

One tip with blackboard Ive just found out is you can design a normal webpage (dreamweaver etc) compress it to a zip file and upload that to BB. Then BB will serve that as a normal webpage. Kinda cool.

Not sure if this is your answer on speed Q1: CPU-Z reports my CPU running below its clock specification or the clock speed is varying. A: This is the effect of the CPU power reduction mechanism : C1E (Enhanced Halt State) and/or EIST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology) for Intel CPUs, Cool'n'Quiet...

Anyone know how to uninstall 'InstallShield' not the MS version but the version from http://www.acresso.com/products/is/inst ... erview.htm that gets installed by XFire! Its erm a resource hog ya see.

Seems to be windows Shocking hey!

If anyone else suffers from lag spikes on their wireless but not on their wired connection try this thread, explains it rather well and points at many fixes.

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Wireless ... 01910.html

Hi guys (n gurls) anyone offer some tips on lag spikes? Im using a DLink Wireless G Desktop Adapter (DWL-G510) to connect to a wireless router DLink (DSL-26040B) connecting at 54mb with full signal strength but every 2mins or so I get a huge lag spike for a second. Tried using windows and Dlinks own...

Not used em in a while but was very happy with

Tight VNC
http://www.tightvnc.com/

Not saying its the best but it did the job for me and its free.

OOps just posted in the L4D forum....

but look at http://www.l4d.com/ its already changing to L4D2 lol talk about a cash cow.

You mean a TV card with remote I take it? One I used to own was a nebula freeview card http://www.nebula-electronics.com/ but be warned most of theese TV cards are single tuners so you can only watch what you are recording :( The nebula card also acts as a webTV so you can watch TV over the lan on y...

The only way this could work is if its some sorta VNC player for games but that would be just shit as it will be mr MPEG and hell standard DVDs are bad enough when it comes to action parts. If its just downloads..... well dur Steam... been there done that pissed off with it already. Cant play games ...

K-Lite codec pack + mediaplayer Home cinema (both free and gets a thumbs up from me for watching all your online TV etc etc). Gotta remember WMV AVI etc etc are just file standards but can be compressed in diffrent formats due to codecs, WMM has build in codecs and decoders while MP relies on extern...

Good work nice find