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Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Nvidia 196.75 Drivers (WHQL) – Update

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Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 196.75 available for XP, Vista, & Seven.
Download page seems to be having issues. Hit the Nvidia forum post for download links.
FWIW – I tried them and although I notice no issues my error log contains the following:
Service Control Manager Error 7016 – “The NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service service has reported an invalid current state 0.”
I’m going back to the previous version.

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*edit 05MAR10
It seems there are issues with this driver. From the forum post:
“To users reporting fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers from nvidia.com. Until we can verify and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our website.“

Finding Or Creating Windows 7 Start Orbs

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Place to find Windows 7 Start Orbs / Buttons:
DeviantArt (narrow search to just “orb“)
Windows Seven Forums (see the “sticky” posts)

Awesome guide on how to make a start orb / button using Photoshop on YouTube: How to make start button for Windows 7

StartOrbz is a program for creating and applying start orbs. I have not used it.

I use Windows 7 Start Button Changer to change my start orb.
( See here for how to use it: http://kishan-bagaria.deviantart.com/art/Win-7-Start-Button-Changer-1-0-153001999 )

My attempt at making a start orb (no after effects (click), just hover)
It should be noted that all my desktops / taskbars are dark (black / grey) so I’ve no idea how they look on other colors:
Black Orb w/lightning (I used the Black Start Orb form here)
BlackOrbLightning1
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Metallica Ninja Star Start Orb ( I used the star from here)
MetallicaStart

Anyone is welcome to use them, just right-click > save as. (Please use proper credit if posting them)

If you make one and want to pass it along post it here.

I would appreciate any good links on this subject.

CCleaner 2.29.1111

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Download CCleaner (slim)

Version History
* v2.29.1111 (25 Feb 2010)
– Improved speed when loading Cleaner screen.
– Improved Registry Cleaner speed when displaying issues.
– Improved Registry Cleaner performance when fixing issues.
– Changed Wipe MFT Free Space to run before Wipe Disk Free Space.
– Improved Include and Exclude screen when browsing for folders and files.
– Added Recursive support to Custom folders in Include screen.
– Added support to specify multiple file types for Custom folders in Include screen and INI files.
– Improved how Language Resource DLLs are loaded into memory.
– Improved application detection algorithm.
– Improved internal communication between process threads.
– Improved file scanning when scanning system folders.
– Improved Windows 7 and IE8 support.
– Minor GUI text changes.

Thunderbird 3.0.2

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Mozilla has updated Thunderbird to v3.0.2. Download it or update from within the program.

New in Thunderbird 3.0.2:
* Several fixes to improve stability and security, see the Security Advisory.
* Fixes for Thunderbird 2 users upgrading to Thunderbird 3.
* Several fixes to IMAP.