J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
My paradigm for years has been Macrium Reflect. Its GUI is highly
intuitive, it does what it says it will, it's avoided bloat-growth
to a large extent (? strangely worded phrase to describe what I
was trying to), and it's very unobtrusive. And one other point; it
is excellent at keep you fully abreast of what it's doing, how long
it's got still to do it, in both percentages and time. It never
jerks the green line across the screen from, say, 10% to 21%.
Never that I've seen, anyway.
I agree re Macrium. I also think IrfanView has resisted bloat well (its
basic install file is still only slightly larger than one floppy's
worth!). I'd also include the utilities from SysInternals and NirSoft.
The very antithesis of that is Win10 OS. And I don't mean just the
notorious update secretiveness. I include things like copying large
files, uninstalling large programs, and lots more. It jumps from 10
to 21, tells you nothing, sometimes moves the line steadily, then
jerks, then stops. And some functions just tell you nothing until
they're done.
There is a little of this even in Win7. But not to the extent of
Win10. The latter gives me the impression that it doesn't care
about letting me know where it's at.
The progress (or not) bars that _really_ irritate me are the ones that
don't tell you _anything_, but instead have a short coloured section
that passes uselessly across its progress-bar-like surround. These
started to appear (I think) in XP.
Ed
Progress indicators are a "hard science" :-)
I don't think they teach this in the Comp Sci degree program :-)
Obviously, the Macrium guy went to Graduate School :-)
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Paul
What annoy me most are the forecasts of completion times; starting
with 2 hrs 18 mins, quickly replaced by 1 hr 8 mins, then a gradual
descent to 38 mins, until it grinds to a halt and starts upward again.
I'm currently setting up a new Win10 system. God stand by me!
BTW, if anyone knows where I can get Daemon Tools Lite & Imgburn
without bundled malware, please let me know.
Ed
I use version 2.5.0.0 of Imgburn and turn off updates.
The later versions are "slightly larger".
http://www.oldversion.com/windows/do...mgburn-2-5-0-0
Over a few days last week, I found both oldversion and oldapps have been
poorly: the front ends were working, that is the pages that told you all
about the versions available, right up to the download link, but the
download link itself was timing out.
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I was trying to find the earliest version of ZoneAlarm that will work
with W7 32 bit. (OldVersion and oldapps disagree: OV says various
versions work with W7, OA says they only work up to Vista [and I think
is correct in that].) I specifically _don't_ want a "security suite",
which the latest version of ZA seems to be; I just want a firewall.
Ideally, one that works like the late lamented KPF 2.1.5 - i. e.
whenever anything tries to move data in or out, I get a popup, and can
choose to allow or not, with the option of remembering the choice,
building up a list of rules which I can later examine and edit. I
_don't_ want fancy graphs (BitMeter2 gives me a little one of those
which is more than I need), or _any_ other complications. (I was trying
ZoneAlarm because an 80-year-old friend has a version of that which
_does_ behave as I want - popups to ask, option of "remember choice" -
but I don't think she'd be up to telling me what version she has, and
for some reason she can't connect to TeamViewer at her end so I could
look. [Also she has 64-bit 7, if that makes any difference.])
I have another place to get an Imgburn.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090815...p?act=download
ImgBurn v2.5.0.0 (2,119 KB)
Released: Sunday 26th July 2009
CRC32: 39CD6FC6
MD5: F3791CFACDAC03B9E676E44AA2630243
SHA-1: E07BCC23B495D0A966BAE359EA9E0E3A11888454
*******
Zonealarm apparently has release notes.
https://www.zonealarm.com/software/r...ry/zafree.html
ZoneAlarm version 9.2.057.000
Includes Microsoft patch for Windows 7 systems:
ZoneAlarm version 9.1.007.002
Windows 7 operating system compatibility
I don't know if that's going to make the search any easier though.
You would have to be pretty lucky to have the download URL
archived on archive.org .
Paul