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Yes I think it would be game specific, and even the registry may not help you.
You could run games in a sandbox using Sandboxie (you can google it). This will prevent games from *writing* to your hard disk (but the files are saved inside the sandbox, and appear to be written to their intended...
lol too good to be true I guess...keep us updated.
Good discounts can be found by getting student editions of things...I believe Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 was going for $50-60
Could it be that your network registry settings could do with being changed? (I thought this was one factor that causes a noticeable difference across different OS's and OS versions). I'm talking about MTU, RWIN etc.
Is it just me or do bigger versions of DirectX seem to be less effcient? I get lag viewing 2d menus in some games - admitedly on a low end machine...but they're menus!!
I suggest maybe trying to get portable apps! Keep these separate from your OS (perhaps a different partition) as well as your data (documents etc.) so it is easy recover if your OS fails you.
The portable apps site is good...you can get portable apps for different uses, including an antivirus...
I would have said that the only way to ensure you can remove infections this serious without reinstalling is to turn the machine off and fix the files on the hard drive using a different clean machine/partition/OS..but of course this probably has no advantages over reinstalling. (As was said...
I too would be interested to hear an answer to this question...
Without researching it I would think about trying...
1. Defragment your hard drive with a program that places startup files and drivers in a continous section on your hard drive.
2. Check the drivers/modules that get loaded. I'm...
I have recently released a patch to quickly fix the "cannot scroll up using certain touch pads" issue for Google Chrome (until Chrome is fixed officially).
Just run chrome_patch.exe. It will patch chrome.dll to fix the issue.
You can download/read about it at...