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1. 
   Review - Eusing Free Registry Cleaner

   1.25 (Dec 26, 2006)

   Good, but would be better without nagscreen.

2. 
   Review - Flock for Windows

   0.7.9.1 (Dec 20, 2006)

   Very similar to FF, runs cool on Windows 98 SE.
   For those who like this classic OS:
   http://www.ourtweaks.com/articles/98/98.html

3. 
   Review - WinRAR (32-bit)

   3.62 (Dec 4, 2006)

   I tried all available compression programs and I chose it, and only use Winrar since I tried it. Winrar is fast, reliable, has a high compression rate and gives you optimal results in batch mode. Thanks for keeping it open to Windows 98 SE, my old companion and favorite OS.

4. 
   Review - Opera for Windows

   9.02 Build 8573 (Sep 10, 2006)

   Taking into account that there are almost no web pages "optimized" for Opera, it would be good to implement a better "chamaleonic" pattern to assume as own pages created for any other. For first users the initial page should be more simple (only one row of buttons), and include as buttons history, links and downloads. There should be a better solution for downloads, to avoid stopping them by simply closing the program. In spite of all this I give it a 5 because none of the existing alternatives is perfect.

5. 
   Review - Opera for Windows

   9.01 Build 8509 Beta (Jul 2, 2006)

   I use Windows 98 SE since 1998. It is no dobt an excellent product. As many hundreds of thousands old users around the world, I feel at ease forgetting computer worries and only repairing the machine when needed, as you do with any other home appliance.
   
   I wont leave Windows 98 SE core for as long as I can, but I must leave Internet Explorer and Firefox according to Microsoft and Mozilla decisions.
   
   That's why I tried Opera. Surprisingly I have found it is clearly the fastest of all three.
   
   Welcome Opera. I suggest some minor improvements:
   
   1- Bug: When you adjust the width of web pages the right side is cut.
   
   2- Too many options for beginners. It would be a great improvement a modular installer.
   
   3- The default configuration is too complex (only one toolbar to begin with, please).
   
   Many Thanks, Opera, for your excellent work.

6. Comment - Windows 7: Don't upgrade, says FSF, your civil rights are in jeopardy

   9.01 Build 8509 Beta (Aug 29, 2009 - 7:25 PM)

   "When two people say they think the same way, they don't think what they say or they dont say what they think".
   
   Well, there are always different ways of seeing the same things.
   
   And remember it is not me who says that MS is "twisting people's arms" but FSF. I simply think they may be right, just in this point but not in the rest of their manifest.

7. Comment - Windows 7: Don't upgrade, says FSF, your civil rights are in jeopardy

   9.01 Build 8509 Beta (Aug 29, 2009 - 4:51 PM)

   Dear extremelywell:
   
   In the late eighties I used IBM machines, and in the first nineties I personally experienced as a proffesional the incredible change which meant the introduction of the first OS of Microsoft. Since then I love Microsoft and I'm sure I'll never change to Linux or Mac. But I don't have any interests in defending them when I think that they are doing anything wrong.
   
   My life and my interests today are very far from the computing world, but I enter in this appreciated forum very frequently simply because it is a very proffesional one. It is objective, documented and has a pool of excellent cultivated members. It is no doubt one of the bests of its kind in the world.
   
   I say my sincere opinion here only when I think I have something to say. Maybe I'm right, or maybe I'm wrong. Nobody is infallible. But I enjoy doing it and that's all my interest.
   
   After reading your appreciations, which I totally respect, I'd like to remark these points:
   
   1.- Nobody is gonna downgrade from Vista or from Windows 7, unless he is mad. Simply won't upgrade, or will buy Linux units for simple workstations. This is a bad economic moment.
   
   2.- I wonder what's the difference between a "symbiotic relationship" and a pool to force users to buy by not providing spare parts and withdrawing the drivers for working old products from the webpages.
   
   3.- If the old Microsoft software were available, it could be preinstalled for simple needs which now are satisfied using Linux.
   
   4.- Competitors can't annihilate Microsoft by using old Microsoft products. If the hardware providers pay for the preinstalled product licenses, according to law, Microsoft would keep earning money. The price of licenses is always in their hands. Piracy exists and will always exist, but the buyers of preinstalled machines are never pirates, and there is nothing bad if you want a computer with preinstalled XP or Windows 98, even knowing that you do not enjoy the support of Microsoft.
   
   5.- IMHO the reference to civil rights made by the FSF is accurate only in one point: Microsoft has totally clear than almost 70 % of his customers will keep using Windows XP, and for that reason they fight against them using as instrument the life-cycle policy and their pool with hardware manufacturers. No doubt they expect a complete victory as it happended in their fight against Windows 98. But the use of these means could eventually kill their hen of the golden eggs.
   
   Well, that's how I see it.
   
   Of course, I respect your opinions, which I'm sure are a fruit of your own experience.
   
   Please allow me to have my own opinion as a fruit of my own life.
   
   Thanks.

8. Comment - Windows 7: Don't upgrade, says FSF, your civil rights are in jeopardy

   9.01 Build 8509 Beta (Aug 29, 2009 - 4:09 AM)

   Not having the possibility of editing the precedent post I would like to add the following lines:
   
   Microsoft has the blindness and deafness characteristic of those who have too much money. Their eyes and ears are very small. They pay no attention to what users want, forgetting that they are the ones who paid the money they've got, and for this reason it is sure that they will keep having repeated losses.
   
   Microsoft does not manufacture anything. They create designs, just the same that Leonardo Da Vinci once did. No work is perfect, the same way as no human is perfect, and each of their designs has its advantages and disadvantages. And support is a very different thing: any product can be sold "as is", and the buyer must know that in all cases.
   
   When you buy a pair of shoes you examine many different models and choose afterwards the one which best suits to your taste, to your budget and of course to your feet. Similarly, if you need a computer for repetitive control tasks the best for you can be any of the old Windows operating systems, or Linux instead, but never Vista or Windows 7 or any other even more sophisticated future one. Everyday you can find hundreds of thousands of such cases all over the world.
   
   Machines are made by other people, in most cases far from America, and their interests are only centered in forcing users to throw away anything they have, doesn't matter if they need it or not. And Microsoft surrenders again and again to their interests. Unlike the Italian designer, and also unlike any animal, Microsoft kills all his previous children when their last one is born. They are killing the hen of the golden eggs.

9. Comment - Windows 7: Don't upgrade, says FSF, your civil rights are in jeopardy

   9.01 Build 8509 Beta (Aug 28, 2009 - 2:20 AM)

   Reading what FSF writes makes you laugh because they clearly exaggerate a lot. We all all over the world already have a Microsoft computing culture which is difficult to change, and on the other side there are many things that until today can not be done with free software.
   
   It makes sense however their reference to the life cycle policy (they use the concept but not the words). There should be no pool between software and hardware providers, using the end of the life cycle as starting point for withdrawing spare parts from all stores and the existing drivers from the webpages.
   
   They should not only mind their own interests, and be more respectful towards old customers who use their computers for simple tasks and therefore don't feel any need to update or upgrade at all.
   
   The lifecycle policy, together with the software/hardware pool, are a constant threat and pressure to all users to force them to periodically buy new software and hardware for doing the same things, no matter if they need it or not, and the reference to civil rights may be accurate in this point. They should keep selling the old operating systems even without any support, doing the neccesary advertence of it, and let them die a natural death.

10. Comment - What is the Microsoft Lifestyle?

    9.01 Build 8509 Beta (Aug 22, 2009 - 2:57 AM)

    The Microsoft Lifestyle can be defined in three expressions:
    
    Recommended Security Update
    
    Upgrade!
    
    WOW!