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#1 OFFLINE   acooldozen

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Posted 18 July 2005 - 03:24 PM

;) Hi all........Perhaps most of you are familiar with this but.......a great site for keeping all your STUFF up to date. Cheers, Lyle

http://www.dozleng.c...hp?act=calendar
..........and Make yourself a Great Day! Cheers, Lyle
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http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index.php?

#2 OFFLINE   Ben

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Posted 18 July 2005 - 04:22 PM

I've seen quite a few of those spread across the NET. Not that one in particular though I have to say.

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Posted 19 July 2005 - 09:28 AM

The best way I found to stay up to date with all my programs is become a member of FileForum which is free you can then search for a app on there site and click "Add to Watch List" you then receive a email whenever there is a update to that specified program.

My current tracked program list which is every program I have. Today I received email about a update to Autoruns, Peerguardian & Firefox. Yesterday there was a update to nLite.

7-Zip
Ad-aware SE Personal
America's Army
Autoruns
avast! Home
BitComet
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) :-)
DAEMON Tools
DriverHeaven Driver Cleaner Professional
Dup Detector
DVD Decrypter
Easy CD-DA Extractor
Eraser
ERUNT
Event Log Explorer
Filemon for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Folding@home for Windows NT/2000/XP
Foxit PDF Reader
HijackThis
Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition
Media Player Classic for Windows 2000/XP
Microsoft ActiveSync
Mozilla Firefox for Windows
MSN Messenger for Windows
Nero Burning Rom
nLite
NTREGOPT
nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows 2000/XP
NVTweak (formerly Coolbits)
OpenOffice.org for Windows
PeerGuardian for Windows 2000/XP/2003
Picasa
Power Defragmenter
Process Explorer for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
QuickTime Alternative
Rainlendar
Real Alternative
Regmon for Windows NT/2000/XP
RegSeeker
RK Launcher
SETI@home
Spybot Search and Destroy
SpywareBlaster
SyncBack
TMPGEnc
Total Uninstall
TUGZip
Ultimate Boot CD Full
XMPEG

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Posted 23 October 2007 - 01:11 PM

View Postacooldozen, on Jul 18 2005, 11:24 AM, said:

;) Hi all........Perhaps most of you are familiar with this but.......a great site for keeping all your STUFF up to date. Cheers, Lyle

http://www.dozleng.c...hp?act=calendar

Calendar of Updates has moved to a new Server and its IP address has not propagated out to the DNS Servers so until it does then this is a good board to see application updates.

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  • WinXP Home SP2 on my 2.4GHZ P4 system
  • WinME on my 500MHZ Pentium III system
  • Windows Defender on my 2.4GHZ P4 system
  • WinPatrol I was so impressed with the Scotty watchdog I purchased the PLUS upgrade
  • AVG Free anti virus it has never found anything
  • HostsMan and HostsServer to manage hpHOSTS and MVPS HOSTS files
  • APC Battery backup for my P4 system as there have been a few 10 second power blips here
  • MWSnap for screen captures

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Posted 23 October 2007 - 05:28 PM

Apart from my AV and spyware apps, I'm not really that bothered about updating the rest.

Before I switch off my PC at the end of the night, I run CCleaner and then go through my security programs one by one checking for updates. It takes about a minute, and is part of my "getting ready for bed" routine.

I always disable any auto update features. Call me paranoid, burt I hate applications just connecting at random (or otherwise) to the net without my explicit permission. Apart from anything else I might not want the update. No different than windows updates.