↳ Forum Notices, Questions and Suggestions.FORUM RULES, HOW-TOs and FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.Simply put, I think the T60 has much more than enough power to run all this stuff, sure I can go without, but then what's the difference between the new T60 and my 4-year old Toshiba? Almost unnoticeable drop in performance for general use is a good tradeoff for the functionality that I got from these 'extra' softwares (I mean the first two). Preference is on PowerISO simply because it has better context menu integration. While checking email.įor iso reading or CD/DVD burning, either Alcohol 120% or PowerISO do the job pretty well. Which I got while I'm on a dial up connection. I used to believe that I can avoid all viruses by behaving rationally and not running stuff that I don't trust. then again I got free license from school, so I can get all the updates no problem. Other uses includes foreign exchange rate monitor, news reader, etc.Īs for AV, I really don't find Symantec to be a resource hog. Speaking of emails, Google Desktop search is also useful if you have crapload of emails that you want to, well, search. Google Desktop also do email notification if you have gmail, similar to push email notification that you'd get if your email account uses MS Exchange server. Google Desktop slows startup quite a bit, but I like to use its calendar/todo/scratchpad stuff that I don't really mind the slowdown (not to mention that I usually restart only once a week or longer). Granted, you can browse photo as well using Windows Explorer, but I like Picassa's interface better, and it has some simple editing capabilities which I found very useful. To avoid Picassa from slowing your bootup, just go go msconfig and uncheck the 'Picassa Media Detector' startup item, it still works as usual for browsing photos. files on my hdd, imported from previous comps, all the way back to '96). Contrary to most people, I actually find Picassa2 and Google Desktop to be useful (got lots of photos and misc.

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