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- simplenation, on 10/12/2007, -17/+751. copy and paste a high rated digg post to a blog
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give credit where credit is due:
http://digg.com/software/What_software_slows_Windows_down_the_most#c4934881
thanks zirtbow - SniperX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45Firefox as a SOLUTION to memory hogging applications? ... I love Firefox just as much as the next geek but let's be real.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34utorrent?
- ryan4477, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29finally someone who mentions opera!
good list. - rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Good list, but I'm pretty sure everyone on digg has these replacements.
- malhtiek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Real Player does have crapware, thats why the article recommends Real ALTERNATIVE
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Firefox is *way* more system-intensive than IE.
Hell, FF takes up 100-400mb RAM consistently. - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Irfanview
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Haha, he put Firefox in a list of software designed to replace "memory hogs". Opera, yeah; Firefox? Hogs more memory than Internet Explorer and Opera combined.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Real Alternative isn't made by Real, just to let you know.
- mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@mikewhite314
Yes, and if you read further down the comments you'll see that I CLEARLY said I was taking everyone's suggestions (including my own) and putting them into one list for convenience. - BadassCheese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Word never slows down my computer even with 20 docs open (combining notes of entire books). Sure it uses RAM, but no major hit on performance (1.7 GHZ pentium M, 1GB RAM)
- pingviini, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Opera with 32 tabs open = 88 megs
suck it firefox - 13thfloor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Well, the article does say for Windows XP...
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Ubuntu.
There, happy now? Now bugger off. - kutza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Call it what you want. It still sucks.
- IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Firefox? You're kidding, right?
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It bogs down on bigger digg pages. Trying to watch streaming video on one window while browsing digg on another reveals a single-threaded application; for shame.
- ioannusdeverani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7What?????! I stopped using OpenOffice (among other reasons) because it was so slow! I love MS Word 2007, because it is extremely fast, and it has great features.
- InsaneMachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I say the security benefits are worth it. Besides the memory hole is a feature, not a bug, and yes you can turn it off cause it is ridiculous. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1327586/posts
- airmind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I usually find the opposite, Word is very fast to start and has all the features without much performance hit, and I'm talking about my Celeron 766 here. OpenOffice is much heavier, and AbiWord is not really compatible with all my documents.
- natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9No K-Meleon? That thing is FAST.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7'etc.' (et cetera) is used for objects
'et al.' (et alii) is used for people - PhantomZmoove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I like Firefox and all, but that was damn funny.
- mikewhite314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@mbthompson
My apologies, I should have read further down in the comments. Actually, I should have read the whole article description... - truck87bp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Tell that to the poor school teacher that faces 40 years in jail. That software just sucks.
- slythfox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8For word processing, I recommend Abiword, as it is much lighter than MS Office or OpenOffice.
- skylights, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You'll find tons of memory sippers and downright small programs on these sites:
http://www.oldversion.com/
http://www.oldapps.com/ (even bigger site than oldversion)
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/index.html
http://portableapps.com/
http://www.tinyapps.org/
I noticed nobody mentioned µTorrent as a replacement for the memory-hog Azureus. I suppose most Diggers know about that already, but did you know about miniaim? It's the µTorrent of chat clients, weighing in at a very svelte 81k: http://miniaim.net/ - XISUPERMANIX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I heard Real player has crapware. FF is great but some people are stupid and add too many plugins which eat away at your RAM. Opera is great I added so many things onto Opera but it never slowed down.
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm a firefox fanboy, but even I disagree with that being on this list. Firefox 2.01 is currently using 200 megs of RAM and virtual RAM on my computer. It's worth it for me (mostly because my 1 gig of RAM is more than enough to spare)
- dotdan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well, compared to running an IRC client, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ at the same time, yeah, it is lighter.
- smb3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Definitely Irfanview
- deadlikeoscar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Avast runs around 10MB of RAM for me. I hardly call that a resource hog.
- playerslight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Seconded, Trillian is a definite pig if you're using more than one service.
- polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7great! let's now compile a list of apps that slows down Linux the most :)
- brasso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Use Miranda IM then, great piece of software.
- ryan4477, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4HA! you're funny!
- PRlME, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@simplenation your dam right this is the problem with people now. do give credit to the original diggers
- schnikies79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@XISUPERMANIX
Real Alternative is not made by Real. It lets you view Real media files in media player, or whatever player you want.
Hence "Alternative" - JernejL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Quote: "Edit: Almost forgot, if you don't want to change software, you can always try FreeRAM XP Pro to free up system memory."
ok, get serial, how many times do i have to explain you that this doesn't actually do anything useful? all these ram optimizers are totally idiotic programs which just bash stuff from sysram into swap file, you don't actually gain any memory, and the system is going to work slower after that, since it will hawe to swap everything what it needs back from swap file into ram...
- kutza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow, I missed it when it was first posted. About time such a list was compiled. I used my own benches, tests, and reviews for quite some time, and use AVG, Comodo, Foxit, Adware, Spybot and firefox.
Thank you to someone actually putting it down online... - MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmm. Word 2007 warm starts in less than a second and eats up 9 megs just sitting there. When I open a 6 page report, memory usage jumps to 16megs....I'm sure if I was to deal with graphics and things it would start to skyrocket, but memory usage isn't that bad on it.
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Try "Tiny Office 2003", only 71MB. It's from the guys who did TinyXP.
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5No one ever mentions mplayer.
- deadlikeoscar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Firefox with 32 tabs open = 158MB
IE7 with 32 tabs open = 316MB
That is with both browsers having an actual page loaded not with a blank page holder. I have themes and extensions installed on Firefox as well. So it kind of depends on how you use it. - brotherfranciz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3lol
It's Ad-Aware... not Adware... - grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3pdfcreator (sourceforge.net) lets you create it from any app.
- pHr34kY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Half of those run on Ubuntu anyway!
- pHr34kY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Real Alternative isn't made by Real, just to let you know."
I think the codec itself it Real's codec, it just isn't packaged by Real. i.e. It has been hacked to work as a standard windows codec. Same as the QuickTime Alternative, it should perform just as well as the proper version, just without the rogueware that attemps to steal your system. - srudes2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3for creating pdf files I recommend the free version of cutepfd..... it works great for me. You just print to the cutepdf printer and cutepdf asks you where you want to save the file an voila there you have your pdf file
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