My thoughts on Crazy Explorere

[Guest]

I was really beginning to like using Crazy Explorer (here after CE) when it started showing usuall sign of slowing down page download time. Increasingly slowing down download became too much, so I did what I usually do. I closed CE. I could here my harddrive furiously deleting (I'm guessing) temporary data.

When my harddrive had quieted down, I re-opened CE, made it off-line mode, and returned to Lit. (I was unaware at this time that making CE off-line mode had made Outlook Express off-line as well. My usual IE5 could go off-line mode without making OE off-line)

I was turning Lit GB pages some, then clicked on OE to bring it to full screen. Bang! An error massage telles me CE had performed an illegal move. In addition to my disappointment and horror, I've found OE had stopped downloading and gone off-line mode.

I wanted to make sure it was just an accident, so I re-re-opened CE off-line (i.e. my modem is not connected), turned some pages, and clicked on OE. The same again. An illegal operation. I figure CE has an issue with OE. No big deal.

I returned to IE5, went off-line mode. Double wham! Thanks to CE, IE5 started to behave like CE, meaning when I make IE5 off-line mode, OE goes off-line as well. Fuck.

I have a question for you. Does anyone's OE has issue with CE? To be honest, I'd like to be able to use CE, but if it crush with OE, I have to scrap the idea. Does anyone know a fix? By fix, I mean a few things:
1 - How to make IE5 capable of going off-line mode without making OE off-line once again.
2 - If it were possible to solve CE/OE conflict, can I make CE go off-line mode without making OE behaving badly?
3 - Does anyone know why my page download time gets slower and slower. I've asked this before but the advices I got didn't help much apart from making OE not comress data in background.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Lancecastor]

MS is like GM and the feds...they'll never tell you the truth and they are fine with the consumer debugging their products and getting mediocre service at best. Poor quality organizations all.

IE gets progressively slower in sessions. I simply close it and restart it after flushing everything every so often.

It's just big fat lazy code, probably because it has a rich daddy.

 

[Angel]

CV, I've had no issues with CrazyBrowser conflicting at all with OE. I haven't even experienced the slow downs you've described.

I have a pretty shitbucket system over here, since my mom destroyed my computer and I'm using her craptastic celeron Hewlett Packard.

I hate this stupid computer, but CrazyBrowser is one of the few things that hasn't given me problems.

Actually, Glass2k didn't even give me a problem, and I was surprised.

I've only been using it for two days though.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Lance for the tip.

CV, I've had no issues with CrazyBrowser conflicting at all with OE. I haven't even experienced the slow downs you've described.

I have a pretty shitbucket system over here, since my mom destroyed my computer and I'm using her craptastic celeron Hewlett Packard.

I hate this stupid computer, but CrazyBrowser is one of the few things that hasn't given me problems.

Actually, Glass2k didn't even give me a problem, and I was surprised.

I've only been using it for two days though.

See, this is what bugs me. some people have no prob, but me!

 

[The Heretic]

CV I am not quite sure what is going on with your system, but here are a few observations:

1) Internet settings have for some time been shared between IE and OE, take one offline and you take the other offline. Same with security settings, etc. I wish it wasn't that way, but it is.

2) I suspect your disk thrashing is not a fault of IE/CB, but rather something else going on with your system that is just now becoming apparent. CB does not really change the way IE works - it is mostly an appearance thing, putting a better user interface on top of IE (despite what the author claims). It uses all the settings and logic of IE for anything of real consequence except the user interface and the fact that it provides multiple tabbed windows.

I would check several things:

1) Make sure your file system is functioning properly. RUn a file system diagnostic and fix any problems that finds.

2) Check to make sure that you don't have any settings turned on that do disk or database maintenance in the background. Both Windows Exploder and OE have settings like this and you generally want them turned off.

3) Check to make sure that your windows swap files are large enough, the you have enough RAM, that you have enough free disk space, that the temporary files settings in IE are large enough.

All of the above can cause disk thrashing.

 

[Guest]

1) Internet settings have for some time been shared between IE and OE, take one offline and you take the other offline.
Not with mine, it wasn't. I did uninstall OE, and re-installed it from a different CD albeit the same version. Could this be the reason why I could, till today, seperate IE5 and OE?

1) Make sure your file system is functioning properly. RUn a file system diagnostic and fix any problems that finds.
I do scan almost weekly due to a sad fact that my muter often freez. There, apparently, is not problem in the file system. I do difrag, too.

2) Check to make sure that you don't have any settings turned on that do disk or database maintenance in the background.
What could they be? The hard drive is making a lot of noises when I'm typing on Lit, like, right now.
Both Windows Exploder and OE have settings like this and you generally want them turned off.
OE's compress data in background is turned off. I have no clue for IE5.

3) Check to make sure that your windows swap files are large enough, the you have enough RAM, that you have enough free disk space, that the temporary files settings in IE are large enough.
I've only got 16M RAM. Temp file is set 40M.

All of the above can cause disk thrashing. [/B]

Okay. Macfee found no viruses. OE is off. Macfee's internet guard dog and FlashGet is working hard. I'm using Crazy Browser since OE is asleep right now. I do understand that downloading is slow because it's sharing with FlashGet, but why does my harddrive is making much noise as I type my posts? Or when I scroll for that matter?

What exactly is thrashing?

 

[The Heretic]

What exactly is thrashing?

Your problem probably is that you do not have enough RAM. Thrashing is often caused by trying to have too many things going on in too little RAM all at the same time. One process needs to do something so the OS loads it into RAM from the swap file on disk and it does its thing. A second later another process needs to do something and it goes through the same disk to RAM load. This happens when you don't have enough RAM to hold both processes in RAM at the same time - they get loaded and unloaded from memory to disk, back and forth, back and forth, over and over again.

Add more memory or have fewer things going on at the same time.

 

[Guest]

Ah, I thought so that much. Does anyone know what is Loadwc.exe? Macfee let me stop it loading at the boot up. However, If I do Ctrl/Alt/delete windows shows me Loadwc in the list of programs running. Strange. The same goes for loadqm.

Loadwc.exe is a file from microsoft and it seems its something to do with Y2K.

I've closed Macfee Internet guard dog, since I'm not going anywhere away from Lit. Well, it made Crazy Browser freeze. I checked and it's because a Macfee file named Nakia is not responding. Duh.

Since Dog is a sleep, and I re-started IE5, my harddrive is quiet and content.

IE5 is running okay as I type.

P.S. Laurel, thanks for 1,112 cookies. Happy Halloween!