skippy
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Well, I used IEradicator from http://www.98lite.net/ to rip all traces of IE from my W98SE DAW, then used the fixit4.0 utilities from http://www.ontrack.com/fixit to completely clean and defrag the registry, and finally installed the Opera 6.0 browser instead (from http://www.opera.com/ ).
What a *difference*. It is pretty amazing what carving all the unnecessary fat from a machine will do for performance. The DAW runs better by a sizable fraction (50% lower CPU load on the Cubase performance meter). But, unexpectedly, browsing is _much_ faster (and more reliable) with Opera than it was with IE: this site flat screams along! I've since gone through and ripped IE out of all 3 of the Windows machines here, and replaced it with Opera. Holy _cow_, what an improvement.
If you haven't tried Opera, you seriously might want to give it a try: the non-nagware version is $39. Kudos to the Bluelife Audio Zone for the pointer to 98lite and Opera, and to John Sayers for the pointer to the fixit utilities, which are also worth their weight in gold. After trying the evaluation version of that software that John posted the link to, I bought it right away, for the princely sum of $45: good software vendors deserve our support...
What a *difference*. It is pretty amazing what carving all the unnecessary fat from a machine will do for performance. The DAW runs better by a sizable fraction (50% lower CPU load on the Cubase performance meter). But, unexpectedly, browsing is _much_ faster (and more reliable) with Opera than it was with IE: this site flat screams along! I've since gone through and ripped IE out of all 3 of the Windows machines here, and replaced it with Opera. Holy _cow_, what an improvement.
If you haven't tried Opera, you seriously might want to give it a try: the non-nagware version is $39. Kudos to the Bluelife Audio Zone for the pointer to 98lite and Opera, and to John Sayers for the pointer to the fixit utilities, which are also worth their weight in gold. After trying the evaluation version of that software that John posted the link to, I bought it right away, for the princely sum of $45: good software vendors deserve our support...
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