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It's a mockery of Salad Fingers. LMFAO!! Episode 4 is Godzilla music in the opening theme! HAHA!

If you decide to go for a remote webhost just for a higher uptime, etc. http://netrulon.com is a great free host from what people tell me. If you want to pay a small fee, check out http://www.locias.com. PHP Nuke is good for generating a site, but not secure at all. CPGNuke is awesome, and version 9 is coming soon.

I believe I -might- have this on an old archive backup cd, or my old pc itself. Give me time to find it (within the next few weeks) as I recall seeign those ina desktop theme.

Will you have a webhost or will this be locally hosted on your machine?

I was just reading along... got to this part and... ...oh dear.

Start > Run > regsrv32 <insert path to shlwapi.dll here> Often resolves a lot of errors.

I have no idea, nor do I really care. There's way to many to go through. o.o (Yay ADHD!)

By george I think he's got it!

McAfee ahs never let me down and it always finds more viruses, faster. Norton misses a LOT of viruses.

If you have recovery cds and a cd burner. Burn all your data you want to back up, then swap the old drive for the new drive. Format and FDISK it, then use the restore cds to create everything and load your backups.

I did maybe 2-3 tweaks and my ME system was stable as ever. I removed PCHealth, System Restore, and added an AlwaysUnloadDLL to my registry.

From the Spybot S&D Help File: What is the Resident TeaTimer? The Resident TeaTimer is a new tool of Spybot-S&D which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated. It immediately detects known malicious processes wanting to start and terminates them giving you some options how to deal with this process in the future: You can set TeaTimer to: - be informed, when the process tries to start again - automatically kill the process - or generally allow the process to run There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process. In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either "Allow" or "Deny" the change. As TeaTimer is always running in the background, it takes some resources of about 5 MB. Why does Resident TeaTimer terminate the application before asking? Because threats like toll dialers are time critical - they cost from the first second they've connected. In order to protect you, these have to be terminated at the moment they appear before they can connect at all. Why is the TeaTimer called "TeaTimer"? As we used to forget our tea, when we let it brew, we built a small tool with a system tray icon to remind us. We called this tool "TeaTimer". When we started to develop the Resident tool for Spybot-S&D, we also needed a system tray icon for this. As we do not like having too many icons in the system tray, we decided to put both tools together and kept the name "TeaTimer". The next version of the Resident tool will also have the functions of the original "TeaTimer". You can find the Resident TeaTimer in the tools section.

Get EVEREST Home Edition, that often helps see exactly what card (including model number) you have. Ironically, the above post is not a good solution. I'm on Win XP Pro SP2 and the drivers I downloaded from SoundBlaster's website for my Audigy 2 ZS reports that "there is no Soundblaster Audigy 2 card on this system".

Firefox and Thunderbird would be your best and safest bets.

There's actually a tweaking guide you can read here for Firefox 1.0 Tweaks. Helps a ton. As for the having to click a lot, it's like a timeout issue or something. Dumb but weird.

Just was wondering about this... From EVEREST Home Edition. Field Value Sensor Properties Sensor Type Unknown (SMBus 2Eh) Temperatures Motherboard 30 °C (86 °F) CPU 56 °C (133 °F) Aux 46 °C (115 °F) Cooling Fans CPU 709 RPM System 833 RPM Voltage Values CPU Core 1.32 V +2.5 V 1.46 V +3.3 V 3.25 V +5 V 5.05 V +12 V 12.06 V Here's a link to the case and information about it. BTX Technology About the PC... Field Value Computer Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional OS Service Pack Service Pack 2 Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 (IE 6.0 SP2) DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c) Computer Name MAIN User Name Owner Motherboard CPU Type Intel Pentium 4E, 3400 MHz (17 x 200) Motherboard Name Intel Corporation D915GSE Motherboard Chipset Intel Grantsdale-G i915G System Memory 2048 MB (DDR SDRAM) BIOS Type Insyde (11/16/04) Communication Port Communications Port (COM1) Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1) Display Video Adapter RADEON X600 Series Secondary (128 MB) Video Adapter RADEON X600 Series (128 MB) 3D Accelerator ATI Radeon X600 (RV380) Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (1448595) Multimedia Audio Adapter Creative Audigy / Audigy 2 Audio Processor Storage IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801FB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2651 IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 266F Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive Disk Drive WDC WD1600JD-22HBB0 (149 GB, IDE) Disk Drive eM Bay Reader USB Device Disk Drive eM Bay Reader USB Device Disk Drive eM Bay Reader USB Device Disk Drive eM Bay Reader USB Device Optical Drive TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552B SMART Hard Disks Status Unknown Partitions C: (NTFS) 147103 MB (137911 MB free) D: (FAT32) 5503 MB (562 MB free) Input Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard Mouse Microsoft PS/2 Mouse Network Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8050 PCI-E ASF Gigabit Ethernet Controller Modem SoftV92 Data Fax Modem with SmartCP Peripherals USB1 Controller Intel 82801FB ICH6 - USB Universal Host Controller [B-1] USB1 Controller Intel 82801FB ICH6 - USB Universal Host Controller [B-1] USB1 Controller Intel 82801FB ICH6 - USB Universal Host Controller [B-1] USB1 Controller Intel 82801FB ICH6 - USB Universal Host Controller [B-1] USB2 Controller Intel 82801FB ICH6 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [B-1] USB Device USB Mass Storage Device It has run between 130 - 145 degrees. Any time it gets around 140-145 the fans kick on and cool it quickly. Get this, you have to burn your own recovery cds (Yet they give you six blank cds. HOW LAZY CAN THEY GET MAN!). It comes on a pre-existing partition. When I tried to burn it kept having an error writing a file. Turns out, 16kb of this new comp's hard drive is bad sectors.

That was already posted a while back here.

Sounds like you fell victim to Dell's "universal parts". Sounds to me like you may have been hit with that. Go Dell... *eyeroll*

Even though I'm using ME right now, I have a new computer on the way that will be running Windows XP Pro SP2. So I voted XP Pro.

No harm at all. If you want run MSConfig and uncheck them then reboot. I can still play AA:SFV and other games and such with no problems at all by having those entries removed. Btw, they might get after you about your sig. :\

EVEREST Home Edition can tell you everything you'd ever want or need to know on your PC.

I pulled it off. I got more for less. Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 550 (3.40GHz) with hyperthreading 2GB (2048MB) DDR SDRAM PC3200 (400MHz), Dual Channel CD/DVD Burner (4-in-1) 7 USB ports, 8-in-1 media card reader with Floppy, 2 Firewire ports FPD1750 17" LCD flat panel display analog (17" viewable) (12ms response time) 160GB Serial ATA100 7200rpm hard drive ATI RADEON® X600XT Pro PCI-EXPRESS with 128MB DDR Video Memory, DVI and TV Out Sound Blaster Augidy 2 ZS Dual Channel sound card (with Dolby!) GMAX 2100 2.1 Speakers with Subwoofer 56k Modem 10/100/1000 Ethernet card 5 expansion slots, 4 available, 2 PCI Express slots MS Work Suite 2005 (Word, Encarta, Money, Picture It, Streets & Tips, Works 8) Windows XP Pro SP2 2-Day FREE express shipping Parts can be seen here: Monitor Speakers Software

Thus far they've gone with everything I've wanted. I've been touching up on my research with P4's with hyperthreading and sone of the overall speed benchmarks due to pipelining etc is amazing how much faster it is than AMD.

Primary uses will be programming, gaming, chatting, etc. Still tweaking around and may get it for less. I've researched the vid cards and it's a PCI-Express card. May try for the X600XT Pro. As for the RAM, I want the higher RAM to handle the intensive multitasking I tend to do. I figured I'm going to wait and try to haggle the price down to $1800.00 or less. Also, why I'm going with Gateway again instead of Dell. Dell used to be #1 in support, now people would like to #1 on their support. They also suck because they had the audacity to rewire their parts to be incompatible with 'universal' parts (see here, which is just one of many examples), and then their parts cost 300% more to order from them than a 'universal' part would have. For instance, a $40 power supply costs over $120 from them. You may want to have a look here at customer and employee experiences of Dell: here. As for other computers... well, Dell has gone from good to bad, and others have gone from bad to good. The latest eMachines are rocking a**, and so are the Gateways. The HPs leave much to be desired, however. Despite the incredible price fixing they do, there is nothing that beats building your own computer or having a local OEM computer, because of the quality of parts, local support, and universal nature of the parts. I hate to be all... holy war-ish about big name computers... but I really can't put any faith behind any of them. I was quite impressed at the parts and quality put into the latest eMachines and latest Gateways. Especially the latest widescreen Gateway laptops, they're awesome. I'd still try to build it myself, though I need to learn more. Despite the savings of those cheap a** Dell computers, they're cheap for a reason

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I'd like to know what people think, if this is a good deal or if I can get a better price. Gateway PC: 3.2GHz P4 w/hyperthreading 2GB RAM @ 400MHz Dual Channel CD/DVD Burner (4-in-1) 7 USB ports, 8-in-1 media card reader, 2 Firewire 17" LCD Flat Screen/Flat Panel 160GB HD ATI Radeon X300SE with 128MB DDR Video Memory, DVI and TV Out Sound Blaster Augidy Dual Channel sound card GMax Speakers with subwoofer 56k Modem 10/100/1000 Ethernet card MS Work Suite 2005 (Word, Encarta) Windows XP Pro SP2 2-Day FREE express shipping $2,026.50 with tax and if I order by 11PM (Dec 17, 2004) EST I can get it for $30.00 less.