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this program is god. everytime i make a screenshot, i just set up my desktop, click on the dock(WinSnap's place on the dock), and the screenshot is. ready. all i have to do is just upload to imageshack and i'm done. this program is a life-saver.

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yes there is a way to get rid of the files. find the folder(s) and delete them. it's the uninstaller's fault for leaving behind those files.

did you stop the windows update service?

there are a number of possibilities that could have been in effect. your internet could have been chocked or Kaspersky's servers were slow due to some server-side issue. does it still happen?

the first one is better because the second one leaves the installer files on your comp(which you don't need after installation)

that is an issue with DirectX 9. reinstalling DirectX 9 could solve the problem. here are a few links. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en <-- if you are a genuine windows user http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en <-- if you want all of the instalation files to be on your comp. i personally like the first link because it's faster, but if you have a slow internet connection, it sucks. if you do have a slow internet connection, then probably the second link is better.

you would need to hack the iexplorer.exe using ResHack to acomplish that

are you talking about the bootscreen?

link to wallpaper?

Bonjour

i believe you would have to make a dll which can interact with explorer.exe . but i have no knowledge of how to make one.

agreed. his was the best

meh. the RAM that's showed on the Task Manager tab is nothing. a lot of programs can use up a LOT of virtual memory. Process Explorer shows Opera using at least 100MB memory . edit: here's an ss of that i mean

300-400MB here. it mostly uses closer to 300MB though. if i have no open programs(well the non-important ones), it gets down to about 100-200(closer to 200)

probably, don't bother installing the .net framework and making it hidden so that it doesn't bother you? the .net framework is pretty much useless unless you have a program such as nLite that depends on it. but if the only .net program that you use is nLite, then you can use the alternate runtimes and not bother with the .net framework. btw: is it the .net framework 1.1 or 2.0?

this is probably a bad suggestion, but you could use nLite to create and ISO with SP2 inside it. i haven't tried it but theoretically it should work.

here it is. took me a while because of deviantArt's new and gay layout that doesn't even load properly. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32944678/ also, you might wanna check out the guy that made it. all of his wallpapers are very good.

updated wallpaper on this one. i really like this one Messy: Clean:

yeah alternatives are always better

you could try either a system restore or a reinstall

there's a new format called JPEG2000 which has support for lossless compression. it also compresses files MUCH MUCH better than PNG. an average screenshot with advanced doo-hickeys is about 900KB while with PNG you get 1.5-2MB. it's kinda sad that it's not widely supported though.

yeah but the only downside to that is no unicode support

Dirty: Clean:

the great thing about GNOME Office is that it's cross-platform. the GUI for AbiWord kinda sucks but it works like a charm