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To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (29727)	10/23/2002 1:41:40 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Marty, I can address one of your questions: Zone Alarm shows up on my 'add/remove programs' list, so should not be hard to remove. Many here have used the free version for some time. After your learning curve where you decide on settings, ZA is trouble free and unobtrusive. PS: I have a hardware firewall as well. Gottfried

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (29727)	10/23/2002 1:54:27 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Marty, EndItAll 1.0 works with W2K Pro and XP Pro. I'm not sure about 2.0. XP isn't mentioned here: pcmag.com but 1.0 was written before XP existed and it works fine with XP so 2.0 probably does too. This site says it does: www2.whidbey.com

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (29727)	10/23/2002 1:56:36 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

ZA has its own uninstaller. I have used it and it worked fine.

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (29727)	10/23/2002 6:52:40 PM
From: thecow	Respond to of 110653

Martin AdAware vs. Pest Patrol: Have heard that AdAware is spyware itself and that Pest Patrol does a more thorough job and is safe to use. Anyone with any experience? I use both. At times one finds something the other doesn't. I've never heard the bit about AdAware being spyware itself. The real edge I would give Pest Patrol is the updater. You have to go searching for the most current list of offenders with AdAware while the latest updates with PP are one click away. Registry Cleaners I use this one and have never had a problem with it. vtoy.fi

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (29727)	10/23/2002 10:35:28 PM
From: KayCee	Respond to of 110653

On a system nearly identical to yours: I have changed to XP from 2000. Both are very stable but XP is a little easier to use for the administrator and has some nice refinements, I love it. I have stopped using NTFS file formats as it really does slow the hard drives down. I do heavy video work and the difference is very noticeable. Registry Cleaners: Jv16 Power Tools was good download.com.com but I now use RegScrubXP which is nearly bomb proof. download.com.com Optimizers: I have registered Diskeeper. It is the best I have used with XP. I do not believe AdAware has spyware, I use this and SpyBot Search and Destroy. They compliment each other. I use hardware raid but not NTFS so can't comment here. For disaster recovery I suggest Ghost or Drive Image for the system files and an external HD for data. This system works well if your system files are on a partition by themselves, program files on another partition or disk and data on a third disk. I think Drive Image now handles NTFS Just my views. KC