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Just stumbled across this topic myself but admittedly I have not yet used this. Do you perform chkdsk before the defrags?

XP also performs much faster when you're running NTFS. It's a bit odd that Microsoft didn't do like they did with Vista and force NTFS to be the primary file system on XP. Vista enhances security in many ways, this is why you can only run NTFS. For anyone still running FAT/32 on your drive and you're on 2000 or XP, just do this: convert C: /fs:ntfs You'll see a huge change as your entire system will perform much faster with reads/writes.

You may find this link useful.

I've never actually used this program (ShadowSurfer), but it is still free: http://www.msfn.org/board/ShadowSurfer-free-t80337.html

Another vote for Comodo, though I only install the Firewall and leave Defense+ out (annoys me far too much and see no use for it).

InterPic? I mean sure, you've got the Internet. Internet + Pictures = InterPic.

It's no problem and it's a valid question, and I believe it to be acceptable to bypass the filter for the sole purpose of asking the staff a question about the word in question. xper or Martin L would have to answer why it is censored however.

Fixed the title to clarify that it's about a new uploaded they have added. I know VirusTotal has been around for years, though this is a welcome addition.

If words are coming up censored then there is a viable reason. Use common sense and do not attempt to bypass/circumvent the bad word filters.

Since a Vista DVD contains every edition of Windows Vista, you could easily use that along with your product key. No need to create your own unless you really want to. If you want to though, you could use ImgBurn and create an ISO image from the Vista DVD. This could help you make an unattended install or whatever else you may like to do. As far as Gateway is concerned, if you like call them back and speak directly to the supervisor/manager. Tell them you never got any working restoration media, including drivers for your system, etc. They should ship it out to you. -- I recently had to do this myself when I had to replace a hard drive that was starting to go bad. They priority shipped the restoration media to me for free. It was overnight and I had it within two days. If you're under warranty they cannot charge you for the restore media. I dislike their "restoration media" and made my own vanilla Windows install. The only things I needed were my Windows XP SP2 OEM cd, an ISO/image creation software (ImgBurn does this brilliantly and is free!), and a blank CD. With the drivers, I just used a CD-RW or flash drive to put my drivers on and installed them after I reloaded the OS. If you need help figuring out what you have, there are great programs like SIW, EVEREST and a few others to gather the information you need. And if you have an unknown device and do not know what it is, you can use a program called UnknownDevices to help identify those unknown devices. You'll have much more control in creating your media using the Unattended Guide. It's much nicer to know what you're doing and how things function than to have some program try to automate the process for you. I prefer the hands on approach rather than risking nLite/vLite which can remove a lot of necessary things or worse, break functionality. As for Doctor Who: A tech friend of mine who made Dial-a-fix, DjLizard; is the one who introduced me to the show. I'm a huge fan of the current Doctor, David Tennant. I was also really surprised when my friend puntoMX told me about an upcoming Doctor Who game for the PS2, PC, and DS.

I'd be thrilled to have a 24" monitor. I've been using a 17" for years. I need to get a new monitor with DVI on it too

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This page should contain what you need.

No issues here on Windows XP in IE7 or Firefox 3 Beta 4.

I believe you can install just Vista with the Vista restore DVD from Gateway, though it will still have a few junk files installed. If I'm correct, Gateway has an OS Recovery cd/dvd and the Applications and Drivers cd/dvd. What I did was use the OS cd only when I had to reinstall. You could always get your Product ID to determine what version you have. Most likely it'll be Windows Vista Home Premium Royalty OEM.

Perhaps provide more information. How did they die? Did SMART show any signs that the drive was failing? Was there a grinding noise? Was there a clicking noise? Did the drive have any bad sectors? Were the drives brand new or were they refurbished?

Yep, I own and maintain http://lunarsoft.net/ I used to have another one for gaming but it was rarely used. When it was used it was for GW and WoW.

What did you sub with, cluberti?

It really depends on the habit you want to break to know of the best method to break it. A quick google found this: http://www.ehow.com/how_13319_break-habit.html

The Windows XP forum is not the nLite forum nor does it deal with anything about nLite. Moved to correct forum.

I've seen one bug but it was so minor I honestly don't recall what it was.

It was hacked again? How? Give some details.

Have you tried froogle?

justin, you may want to try Malwarebytes RogueRemover to get rid of all traces of Adware Alert. For real time protection against spyware, try Spybot S&D's TeaTimer or Windows Defender. Both work very well in the fight against malicious software.