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41 Replies Last post: Dec 26, 2007 11:51 AM by Catmoves   1 2 3 Previous Next
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Before They Spoiled the Software

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1. Oct 2, 2007 5:00 PM in response to: PCWorld
Before They Spoiled the Software
iTunes isn't bloated and WMP is??? I just opened my task manager after simply OPENING both iTunes and WMP (both the most recent versions) and iTunes is taking 266,168 K of my memory... WMP is taking 18,508 K. That's almost 14 1/2 times as much.... we must have very differing interpretations of the word 'bloated'...
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2. Oct 3, 2007 5:41 AM in response to: PCWorld
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Author Preston no longers uses MusicMatch or Itunes Jutebox Plus, which I'm now using since the change. What program are you using, Preston?
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3. Oct 3, 2007 9:17 AM in response to: PCWorld
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Try Media Monkey Jukebox. Free but missing a couple of features which they're working on. Too bad they boogered up Music Match, it was great..
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4. Oct 3, 2007 12:23 PM in response to: PCWorld
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I'd like to nominate Norton for this list. And Windows Vista. Oh, and don't forget Shockwave. Talk about bloatware.
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5. Oct 3, 2007 4:00 PM in response to: PCWorld
Before They Spoiled the Software
Another product you can add to the list is the freebie ZoneAlarm. What ever they did to this last version is so slow that I have to turn it off in order to get to my web-based email account! If the freebie is THAT BAD, who'd want to risk $$$ on their paid version???
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6. Oct 3, 2007 5:33 PM in response to: PCWorld
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My Siteadvisor warns about possible malware on the old-versions site. But, both OldVersion. com and oldapps.com were not flagged as such, so beware. And shame on you PC World for not mentioning this, where's your Editor?
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7. Oct 3, 2007 5:58 PM in response to: PCWorld
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just because they mention apple in this, there are 60 thumbs downs...
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8. Oct 4, 2007 3:11 AM in response to: PCWorld
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Any and all Internet Security Suites... and "Catmoves" if you think Norton is bloated try CA's Internet Security Suite, I got if free with my Road Runer account and lordy it loads 9 programs and 6 updaters for those programs at startup, you can turn a few off like antispam for Outlook, (which hasn't been on a Comp of mine since 1998) but if you even turn off the auto updaters for some of the progs it shuts the whole nine yards down and you get warnings and popups that your at risk and out of date. I'm looking for a Solution as I type cause I know several individual progs that get the same job done with alot less bloat. and yeah "cfisher83" your right iTunes is BBBBBBBBBloated for sure.
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9. Oct 4, 2007 6:25 AM in response to: PCWorld
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You left out MS Money 2007. Money 2003 was easy to use, intuitive and overall great. Some months ago I "upgraded" to Money 2007. It is the buggiest version I have ever seen. Space won't allow me to list every screwy thing it does, but its inability to hold a screen position when you manually update portfolio is one of the biggest aggravations. It scrolls to the bottom of the screen with each "enter" command. Then you need to manually scroll back up to make the next entry. Microsoft knows it's an issue, but, so far, no fix.
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10. Oct 5, 2007 7:21 AM in response to: PCWorld
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Hmmm, no mention of word processors, spreadsheets, etc. I still hear people say, "WordPerfect 5.1: the last-best word processor".
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11. Oct 5, 2007 10:03 AM in response to: PCWorld
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Wow, WMP gets thrashed, MM Jukebox and Winamp get thrashed, then I see iTunes, and I'm expecting the same treatment but instead the author states ,"In the case of iTunes 7, bloat isn't the problem." Excuse me, bloat isn't a problem?! Bull crap. I remember I used to love to use iTunes; it would play music and videos just fine, albeit in apple's format. Then came iTunes 7.0 and all my videos broke. It also became a bigger resource hog. So i got rid of it. I went ahead and downloaded it a few weeks back and nothing has really changed. Still has problems playing my movies, which by the way are in .mov, and its still a huge resource hog. WMP is just fine by me however, so im sticking with it.
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12. Oct 8, 2007 9:56 AM in response to: PCWorld
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What?! Itunes is not only bloated, it's buggy as heck especially on a PC! And quicktime is just as bad? It's exactly why they have the popular quicktime alternative freeware, along with media player classic and other alternatives. th one bloat that hurt me the most has been winamp - used to be so great...
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13. Oct 8, 2007 11:17 AM in response to: PCWorld
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You know I gotta agree XP was nice, can't wait until the new update. The one with all of Vistas's DRM and such, what a joke. Why in the heck MS didn't put DX10 into the update...... oh yeah they are really driving people to Vista. Drove me to Linux lol.
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14. Oct 8, 2007 11:43 AM in response to: PCWorld
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Packrat was a popular PIM in the early Middle Age of Windows shrink-wrapped software, when software apps cost >$200 a pop. But Version 5.0 had so many bugs and attempted bugfix patches that they were in danger of running out of space in their versioning scheme. I think they were up to 5.0w give or take a few letters. The app's rep never recovered. The intro of MS Outlook didn't help their survival.
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