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On my Dell Optiplex GX-260 - Intel 845G Chipset (Promise SATA 150 TX2 Plus) hwids.txt

From your desktop, right click on the taskbar at the bottom and select PROPERTIES. Check the box that say "Show SMALL Icons on the Start Menu" (or something similar -- I'm at work on Win 2k Pro, so I don't recall exactly how it shows in Win XP). Hope that's what you were after.

The more robust syntax would be: MOVE deadAIM.ocm "c:\Program Files\AIM\"

Try this: Go into Services and STOP Task Scheduler and then DISABLE it. Go to your Windows folder and delete SCHEDLGU.TXT (I could be off a letter or two on that filename). Now set Task Scheduler back to AUTOMATIC and START it. Post back if that worked. Good Luck !

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects

Assuming you have all of your data backed up, are you booting from the WinXP CD and allowing it to reformat C drive which it should recognize as Partition 0 ?

Where are you installing it from ? Did you download the redistributable from MS ?

My first guess would be to find that reg key and propagate the modified key to each user's registry.

OK, well, I don't know how much risk you're willing to take. After backing up my registry, my tendency would be to see if I can hack the registry key for a given service to prevent it from restarting despite your setting from services.msc. That hack could be key deletion or maybe setting the startup value you want and then changing permission on that reg key to prevent it's modification. These are just speculations on my part and I haven't tried any of this, so BEWARE, you're on your own with the outcome. That being said, if anybody comes out of the woodwork to criticize my brainstorming, just save your breath.

I believe Black Viper intends to revamp his services guide once SP2 is officially released. Suggest you read up on Cryptographic services at either of the following two links: Black Viper: Win XP Services Guide Elder Geek's Services Guide Also, Check BV's recommended Gamer setup too ! HTH

Amusing analogy but not relevant to anything I've said. I've allowed that it MAY or MAY NOT conform with the MS license agreement for the brother to remove XP from his machine, transfer ownership of the software to IP, and for IP to install it (as the new owner) on his machine. PERIOD. I've explained this by e-mail to gamehead200 and I've explained it here. If you don't get it, kmf, TOUGH ! Your next victim should be tofumonzter. No doubt THAT would be illegal, not to mention stupidly ineffective (as gamehead200 pointed out). I'm not wasting my finger cartilage on it any more.

My approach, but perhaps not the best, would be to write a batch file (with a shortcut or "hot-key" that runs it) that loads registry key values that implement what you're talking about. Then, of course, I'd have another batch file to reverse the changes. Don't have time for specifics but if someone doesn't have a better way, I'll check back in later and discuss further if you like. Food for thought at the least.

CLARIFICATION: I said MORE legal (still not necessarily legal), but I failed to mention I was thinking in terms of transferring ownership ! Actually, I don't know if transfer complies with this particular license agreement. But I believe many licenses allow removal from one machine and installation to another. I'll acknowledge what Game Head said before he revised his post and say that the upgrade path to XP from Win 98 can have its problems, some of which I experienced. In any event, I've since done a few reformats and installs from scratch and I think that's gotten rid of potential Win 98 garbage. I think the price difference from upgrade to full XP has gone down but when I upgraded a year and a half ago the price difference was on the order of $100. To reiterate: I don't condone piracy and perhaps I fell short of making that clear above, thinking of it as a kind of "civic" duty. Sincere thanks to Gamehead for reopening the thread and letting me help avoid any readers' potential misunderstanding !

I'm with Zuig on that. HOWEVER, opinions are like "you know what" (everyone has one) and can be passionate too ! Check this if you care to: http://help.lockergnome.com/index.php?showtopic=18905&hl=

Another alternative would be REGMON from sysinternals.com. It's free (not implying InstallWatch isn't, I've not checked).