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1 TB is OK for FAT-32. However, you'll probably need at least RLoew's SATA patch, in addition to SP3, to be all set...

A general clean-up and reseating does work miracles more often than not. It's always worth giving it a try.

I've tried swapping all three memory sticks (3x 1 GiB DDR 400 @ 333 MHz) by other three actually older sticks, but known to be good. And it just worked! Turns out the original RAM sticks I removed were all right, too... They were probably just badly seated, or too much oxidized, or both. They survived unscathed to 24 h Memtest86+, followed by 24 h Windows Memory Diagnostic v. 0.4, without presenting any errors at all, after having their contacts cleaned with a soft white pencil eraser and moving to another (A7V600-X) motherboard, in which I've run those tests. This post is just to tell what happened, to those interested. Thanks again for the replies and suggestions! You all rock!

Sure. You can trust the AGP slot voltage key, all right. And no, the 6xxx are not a problem. The 8xxx, on the other hand, remain beyond reach. See my index thread, which is among the stickified ones.

And I think the last series to have reasonably easy-to-find AGP cards is GeForce 6x00... both 6800 and 6600 are findable on eBay, but the 6600 probably provide the best cost/benefit ratio overall. Of course, these are just my 2¢.

Sage words, my friend!

The sooner Facebook goes down the memory hole the better. People deserve (and require) privacy, even if they don't quite realize it, nowadays. What I really miss is good old usenet, like it was before eternal september. Nowadays all that remains is a brainless spam flood...

Yes. Just one. Do it before going to sleep one night, and check in the morning to see whether it progressed and finished starting windows or if it remains at the STARTING WINDOWS 98 message, and report back.

Which tool are you referring to Andre? Win7Exp4Win8 or FxxkMetro?

Merry X-mas, happy Holidays && New Year to you all && all your significant ones!

Isn't the latest actually v. 7.6.7600.257 ?

That's an undocumented behaviour, in any case... I mean, whether removing old timezone updates actually removes/unmodifies the registry keys they added/modified or not. It would be necessary to experiment, using Regshot 2.0 Unicode for Win XP to compare the registry before and after adding such an update and then before and after removing such an update. AFAIK, nobody ever did that, so we really don't know.

Yes, I do. I currently use the classic 3.6.32 on my main machine (which CPU is an Athlon XP Barton). As of now I also have Opera 12.16 (which I rarely use), IE8 (used mostly for manual, custom Microsoft Update access) and FireFox ESR 24.2 which became necessary because all the 3 others were becoming somewhat old and unable to depict correctly some sites. Pale Moon 3.6.32 is really great, and very reliable, but unless one is using a non-SSE2 processor, I'd recommend using the newer version of Pale Moon. The above refers to use on Win XP SP3, of course.

No need for a full rebuild, I think. jaclaz gave you the solution... did you read this thread?

Sure. I think web-mail rocks and is actually also safer (because you only transfer back to your machine things you specifically select consciously, with reading and previewing happening at the host, not at your machine, so most infecting things never leave the host and are his problem to deal with). That said, my take is that Outlook 2003 will be somewhat more dangerous than those clients under MS support, but I wouldn't use any of those without a reliable 3rd party antivirus solution with real-time scanning, specific for Outlook, being active on my machine at all times Outlook is actively working. All local clients are dangerous, and all must have real-time antimalware active to be safe enough... IMO. YMMV, of course.

In any case, if you are on the States (or in Brazil) and you local time and Summer time, what difference does it make to you whether your desktop fhas got a misconfigured Mid-Atlantic time (I think it has been deprecated, BTW) or, say Sumer day-light saving time (was there ever such one... BTW, did the sumerians have clocks)?

OK, but... how do you then feed the custom CSS to your browser? With proxomitron?

Yes, but not for the reasons you may imagine. What I really loved to do was to telnet into the mainframe and then use pine from there. This was the best way to keep one's e-mail accessible from wherever one might be, but worked well just for 7-bit ASCII e-mail (and I stuck to it until nobody wanted to provide e-mail in this way, anymore). I never actually used Outlook 2003, just Outlook Express (the one that came with XP) for a short spell, then Eudora, for an even shorter spell. Then on to remote web-mail and never looked back. Keeping the client remote also affords some real anti-malware protection, but that was never my main concern, in this matter. By far, most malware problems are due to PEBCAK, anyway, IMO.

I use Office 97 on some machines and Office 2000 on others. The ribbon is evil and should be avoided and forgotten. I won't move on to any newer Office, nor will I stop using XP SP3. Why, if I still use 98SE in this day and age (although not every day anymore), why would I bother with April 2014 (98SE's support ended July 2006)? Then again, I don't use Outlook, since 2003, when I did use Outlook Express for a short spell... and moved on to web-mail for good. MS has the right to stop supporting OSes and software it supported for so long... just as one has the right to say "so, what?", and keep using them. That's my 2¢, of course, so YMMV.

It's OK! Don't worry... you're good. Unless you did go chasing and deleting entries inside the registry, whatever you've deleted is no problem. The MSKB text is crystal clear you oughtn't to delete any key_related to timezones, however old that might be (then again, to determine the date of a registry key is not an easy task, so...).

You sure you've read the Rules?

Thanks for the heads up! I wasn't aware PNY already offered such big pendrives. Was it this one, perhaps? If so, it seems a real great buy.

Thanks for the offer, Andre! Believe me, I would gladly, if I had any. That is one of the three machines I have, which have a 4 GiB Gigabyte i-RAM hardware ramdisk on one of the PCI slots, with a system managed pagefile in the ramdisk and none elsewhere... And, since I've never found a way to coerce Win XP to create dumps (neither mini nor full) without a pagefile in the system partition (= C:), it's configured to generate no dumps at all...

A 128 GB one? What is it? Kingston? Patriot? There aren't many brands that size out there, yet.