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Chung – Definitely not too confusing, in fact, enlightening. It’s nice to understand those subtle differences.

FWIW, I use a static IP on my NAS device (mapped from the NAS). Why? Because the documentation said so. Everywhere else I use DHCP. First ethernet networked computer is sitting in a box waiting to be set up and I expect to use DHCP and print to it by name unless I find a reason not to.

Thanks everyone for a fun topic.
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George – I’m guessing for dg1261 the green plastic casing which directs the fan output gave it away that it was a Dell tower (plus the words Dell on the power supply)

You asked which text file – the answer was any text file you create. You’re just trying to ensure that a file you created after the backup/image does not exist after the restore.

I’m not having this problem and I use a number of extensions. But possibly to make it slightly easier, you can first do the big test by starting Firefox in safe mode and see if you have the same problem. Then you’ll more quickly know whether or not the problem can be attributed to extensions.

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FYI – Chrome creates a separate process for each active tab.

As noted, there are many ways to bring up a new window (ctrl-N, the tools wrench start/programs/chrome, click on shortcut or quick launch toolbar, etc.) but no matter how you bring up a new tab/window, as soon as there is content, a new process is created.

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Remove the Adobe Download Manager. That program is terribly insecure. It will reappear each time you update Flash Player or Flash Plug-ins. And the Manager also installs an insecure Active-X Control, which uninstalling removes in most cases.

I avoid the Adobe Download Manager debacle by downloading my Flash versions at http://filehippo.com

There’s always a link to the latest flash player for IE. If the latest version is a beta I browse to “Old Versions” (link to the right). There you’ll find the latest Flash download. It’s usually around 1.7 or 1.8 mb download.

Then for Firefox (and others) scroll down to the section/link called “Related Downloads” and you’ll see a link for the latest Non-IE versions. Follow the same instructions as above to get to any version you want.

There you have it – no Adobe Download Manager involved. Sweet.

Now if only someone could tell me how to install Quicktime without iTunes

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Rather than going through a whole “uninstall/reinstall” I use the “Open Folder” option in Secunia to find and then just delete the offending file. I hard delete it (Shift-delete) so it doesn’t even go in to the recycling bin.

Note that I’m using the Advanced Interface of Secunia.

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Gizmo wrote:
My favorite nearly-universal mouse shortcut is to hold the Ctrl key while clicking a link to open the page in a new tab. I use this combination dozens of time every day.

Clicking the wheel on a link also opens the link in a new tab, at least it does in IE8 and FF 3.5.6, with my mouse (Intellimouse). I don’t recall that I’ve set anything up differently to make it happen.

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