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Another Reason to Hate ZoneAlarm

I must admit that I have never liked ZoneAlarm, despite its position as one of the most popular Windows firewalls. Whenever I used it a couple of years ago, I would find myself quickly uninstalling it, turned off the benefits of firewall protection by ZoneAlarm's blinding traffic light lookalike interface (entirely too much bright yellow). [...]

Running Windows 2000 with 32 MB RAM & Lots of Viruses

OSNews points at Daniel Iversen's page, "Windows 2000 on old computers with 32MB RAM." Since Windows 2000's minimum memory requirement is 64 MB, this is impressive, but not anything amazing (like getting Windows 2000 to run on your refrigerator). I assumed that Iversen's page would contain a number of technical tweaks to make Windows run [...]