Thanks for the heads up, I will try it at once...
For some laughs Im reposting the 12 ways to make vista fast
1. drop it off the empire state building, you will have g accelaretion minus
air friction. Use an aerodynamic case.
2. Stuff it inside a nuclear cannon and pull the trigger.
3. Place on top of a Saturn 3 stage rocket and hurl it into space
4. Place it inside the CERN particle accelerator
5. Send it inside a black hole where it will accelerate close to the speed
of light
6. Place it inside a small time machine, so that its time continuum is
faster than ours
7. Take your vista and install it on the computer from the crashed Roswell
UFO that is a trillion trillion teraflops,
it will probably slow it to a crawl, but the dead aliens wont care much.
8. Freeze all humanity in hypothermic stasis using cryogenics until vista
finished loading a program, then when its finished, thaw them. Vista will
not really be faster, but at least you wont die waiting for it.
9. Kill yourself and let your ghost use vista, as a ghost time has no
meaning,
10. Collide vista that is made of matter with anti-vista that is made from
antimatter. The result will be an explosion were all matter is converted to
pure energy in the form of gamma rays traveling at the speed of light.
11. Place Vista on top of a Tesla coil and step up the voltage to 100
million volts. An electrical surge of all the static electricity in the
stratosphere will surge through it and send it to the 5th dimension creating
a teleporting effect similar to the one in the Philadelphia experiment.
12. Install XP and make it into a fake vista with themes and wallpapers...
it will be 100% faster than the real horrid thing.
-thank you
"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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> This is mainly of interest to people that use Agent as their news
> reader and download multi-part large files. I have used Agent for more
> years than I can remember and till yesterday haven't upgraded for a
> long time. Shame on me.
>
> Geez... boy, did they improve it!
>
> I heard good things about version 4.2, (tuned for Vista) so had to try
> for myself, only $15 for a upgrade. They totally redid the interface
> from what it was years back, but added a lot of really cool features
> like support for multiple threading within a single instance.
>
> I have broadband and I use a premium news server, so your results may
> not be as super.
>
> Under the old version of Agent I thought it was smoking if it even
> just rarely ran at about 35 MB a minute, which is pretty fast file
> transfer over the Usenet even with broadband since the premium news
> server I'm using typically has 25,000 or more connections going.
>
> Today I set a new speed record, a whopping 1.1 MB a second! That's
> right; over a MB a second transfer speed, in part since Agent now will
> do multi-threading with just one connection, so it was doing up to
> nine downloads off the same news server (they allow up to 10
> connections) at once without me having to run multiple instances or
> set anything special up. That delivered a blistering fast 64 MB a
> minute download speed meaning it took me just a tad over 3 minutes to
> download a 19 minute movie weighting at about 170 MB. Not bad
> performance. ;-)
>
> Just curious... anybody getting similar performance with other news
> readers/news servers?
>
> http://www.usenetserver.com/networkstatus.html
>
> Of course it don't hurt if the news server farm is outputing close to
> 20 gbps.
>
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