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Mar 12, 2010 | 06:39 AM

#391

DieselCamper01

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Off to work I go. See y'all later

Mar 12, 2010 | 06:42 AM

#392

sddesigns

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Originally Posted by DieselCamper01

Good morning Steve and Mike. No rain here at the moment but overcast.

Steve, I think your computer tip helped. It is a slow computer anyway but seems better.

And good morning Troy.

Morning Jay, your welcome, now go download a program called CCleaner, it will clean out all your dead registry files and temp files.

The other programs are good too, plus they are free and they work.

Piriform - Download

Mar 12, 2010 | 07:15 AM

#393

Skattracker3

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Morning everyone. Trying to rain here.

Troy, Steve & Jay, you guys were busy last night. I must have started somthing with the post comment. Great, now I am going to go out and buy a Blackbury just so I can keep up with all of you.

Mar 12, 2010 | 07:26 AM

#394

sddesigns

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I work at a computer mostly all day, so I'm usually always around, except for meetings and when people have problems that can't be fixed remotely.

Mar 12, 2010 | 07:35 AM

#395

Skattracker3

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Any of you guys have or have tried a Scan Gauge II? They look pretty cool.

Mar 12, 2010 | 07:50 AM

#396

sddesigns

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I know one guy in the Excursion forum that has one, his name is William_04_X
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/member.php?u=436040

Mar 12, 2010 | 09:16 AM

#397

bigdummyford

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Thanks for all the words of encouragement but I havent heard of a single Tacoma with issues so lets all cross out fingers. I do have one lil boy with her but i think that it's only a matter of time before he ends up with me. maybe with him I've found something that lasts longer than a powerstroke

Mar 12, 2010 | 09:20 AM

#398

fordpower88

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Hey Lee yep its your fault we were up so late last night posting!! lol Yeah I just got the BB a couple weeks ago. I wasnt going too but my wife wanted one and we changed our plan and for only about $25 more a month we got both of have them and internet. So we will see how it goes. The phones were buy one get one free too! Pretty fancy phone for a redneck like me.

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Any of you guys have or have tried a Scan Gauge II? They look pretty cool.

I think a few of the guys up in the 99-03 7.3 section have them and like them. I myself dont have any exp with them.

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Mar 12, 2010 | 09:26 AM

#399

DieselCamper01

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Hey Steve. I do actually have the cookie cleaner program loaded but I forget to use it regularily.

Having a child is something I missed out on with my wife Miles. She already had two kids and at one time I did not want any. When we both decided we wanted one together it never happened. My one main regret in life...

When I am up for a new phone I think I may go the Crackberry route although I have internet on my current phone and never use it.

No experience with the scanguage either

Mar 12, 2010 | 09:38 AM

#400

sddesigns

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Jay the cookies are only part of it, the temps files and unused dll's and registry entries no longer being used can bog the system down too, especially older machines!

Mar 12, 2010 | 09:56 AM

#401

DieselCamper01

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Gotchya. I will remember to run it this weekend and more regularily then.

Mar 12, 2010 | 10:15 AM

#402

sddesigns

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it should improve somewhat if you keep up with the clean ups, if it's used alot and left on it builds alot of temp files and it needs to be booted every once and a while too!

Mar 12, 2010 | 10:28 AM

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Skattracker3

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Well Steve, If you are offering free computer advice, than, does going into the control panel and internet options and deleting temp files and cookies do the same thing?

Another thing for everyone to watch out for I caught a virus on Tuesday night. My anti virus tried to warn me and asked if I wanted to allow win security central to have acces to download. Well it was not a windows update it was a virus. Watch Out.

Mar 12, 2010 | 10:32 AM

#404

DieselCamper01

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Thanks for the heads up Lee.

And thanks for that other link Steve. Do you use the other items they offer? Any thoughts on the basic paid version of AVG?

Mar 12, 2010 | 10:53 AM

#405

sddesigns

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Originally Posted by Skattracker2

Well Steve, If you are offering free computer advice, than, does going into the control panel and internet options and deleting temp files and cookies do the same thing?

Not everything is cleaned out, you still have windows temp files, and other programs create temp files also!

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Originally Posted by DieselCamper01

Thanks for the heads up Lee.

And thanks for that other link Steve. Do you use the other items they offer? Any thoughts on the basic paid version of AVG?

AVG is good, I like it because it doesn't pickup my hacking tools as viruses like Symantec and McAfee does!