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It might help if CaTaLinU more fully explained what it is that he is trying to do, and why. Assuming that we're talking about Half-Life Dedicated server (HLDS), what is the problem with it showing in the taskbar? (I'm not a gamer so I'm sure there are aspects of game play that I don't understand.) It would also be nice if CaTaLinU would say Thanks at least once for our efforts, even if they are not exactly what he was looking for. So far, in all the threads he has participated in he has made requests then said that our response was not good enough and asked for more. That doesn't inspire me to want to provide any more assistance. [Jaclaz must be rubbing off on me - I'm getting grumpy.] Cheers and Regards

I've always been very happy with Cooler Master products. (I also use the HAF912) Cheers and Regards

@west117wolf, If I understand, you uninstalled the kb2529073 update then reinstalled it. But if I understood Andre correctly, and I'm not sure I did, I think he meant to uninstall it and NOT reinstall it before installing SP1 I'm sure Andre will correct me if I misunderstood. Cheers and Regards

I'm currently using the Netgear N300 WNR3500L, but I have not had any need to use much of it's wireless capabilities. Cheers and Regards

Well he did say: And apparently not in Windows 7 either. (And I assume not in Win8?) Cheers and Regards

[barely resisting the urge to simply answer your question "Yes, have a nice day ] @ECHO OFF (Set "addr=95.76.53.219") FOR /F "skip=10 tokens=4 delims==" %%G IN ('Ping %addr%') DO ECHO Your connection to %addr% is %%G Pause This does no error checking at all and assumes that ping returns the standard response and does not time out. Reference: http://ss64.com/nt/for_cmd.html Cheers and Regards

Thanks tomasz86 for spelling everything out. But I, and I'm sure others, can hardly wait until you are able to include all the above, or as much as possible, into a single updated SP5.2, or at least as few pieces as possible. I think you are right that those who still wish to use Win2K these days either want to have ALL updates and hotfixes (both official and unofficial) and ALL other components like Silverlight, .NET Framework, etc, ie EVERYTHING slipstreamed, or they want a minimal FDV files approach. Cheers and Regards

That looks correct. I did not try and download the files, but it looks like they are there. Cheers and Regards

Now that you have made the zip files, upload them to the free online file host of your choice, such as SkyDrive, Dropbox or mediafire.com, and post a link to the files here so that we can download them, examine them, and hopefully give you some advice. Cheers and Regards

Yes, many Thanks, mimo! Even though I don't use HFSLIP that much any more, I'm very glad you are keeping it up for the community's benefit. OT - Hey Kiki! Long time no see. Glad you are doing well. Cheers and Regards

No problem and you are quite welcome. Don't worry, you did not upset me at all. I'm glad you were able to understand my examples. The approach you plan sounds good. Good luck to you and please keep us informed of your progress. Who knows? The code you post here might help someone else. Feel free to ask questions if you get stuck. Cheers and Regards

Like most tasks, especially when learning something new, it's usually best to break the task down into smaller pieces. I would think the first step is to decide you need to end up with two scripts - one to back up the files and one to restore them. The second thing to remember, especially at first, is to use ECHO a lot, substituting it for other commands so you can see what would happen if you used the real command instead of ECHO. I would suggest just trying to figure out how to copy the Firefox profile files somewhere else - say for example into a folder located next to where your test.cmd is located named the same as the unknown folders in the profile. Create an empty folder at the root of C: - C:\test. As before, create a file test.cmd in that folder with the following code: (Change file1.txt - file3.txt to be the names of the three files from the profile that you said you wanted to save.) @ECHO OFF & SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION (SET FFProfile="%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles") FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /B /AD %FFProfile%') DO ( ECHO MD %%G ECHO copy %FFProfile%\%%G\file1.txt %%G ECHO copy %FFProfile%\%%G\file2.txt %%G ECHO copy %FFProfile%\%%G\file3.txt %%G ) Open a command window and run that code and see what happens. It will just echo to the command window the exact commands that would be used if ECHO wasn't being used. Then delete "ECHO" from the four lines inside the FOR loop, leaving: @ECHO OFF & SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION (SET FFProfile="%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles") FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /B /AD %FFProfile%') DO ( MD %%G copy %FFProfile%\%%G\file1.txt %%G copy %FFProfile%\%%G\file2.txt %%G copy %FFProfile%\%%G\file3.txt %%G ) Run this code and the folder(s) will be created inside the test folder and the three files you were looking for will be copied there from the Firefox profile. Read the reference sites as necessary and practice with this simple example until you understand what it is doing. Build on this code to include another piece of what you want to do. Keep building until you have the whole task accomplished. Now it's your turn. Either tell me how wonderful a teacher I am and that you understand it completely and you don't need my help any more, or post code that you have written explaining what you wanted it to do and what it is actually doing instead and what you don't understand. Either I or one of the other guys who like to play with batch will try to edit your code and help you learn - IF you do YOUR part. Cheers and Regards

Please do not shout. It will not get you help any faster, it will just p*** everybody off annoy everyone. Are we able to help you? Yes. Will we? Hmmmm We would much rather help you learn how to do this yourself than do it for you. I have no idea at all how capable or experienced you are, but you finally seemed to describe what it was you wanted to do. It seemed to me that you just didn't know how to handle the unknown, variable folder name situation. To help you learn how to handle that, try creating a simple test.cmd file with the following code in it: @ECHO OFF & SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /B /AD "%AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles"') DO ( ECHO %%G ) Open a Command Window and run test.cmd. You should notice that %%G will have the value of whatever the unknown folder name(s) is/are. Within the FOR loop you can do whatever you like with that name such as assign it to another variable to use later, etc. Does that help? Two reference sites I would suggest to help you learn all the ins and outs of batch scripting are: http://ss64.com/nt/ http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batchfiles.php Try some things yourself and let us know how it goes. Post the code you tried and the results you got and ask us questions regarding what you don't understand. Cheers and Regards

Tried that with Iron (Chrome), Opera, Firefox - all no joy. Then tried IE and that worked. Thanks. Cheers and Regards

Here's a link to a new unit that I believe is similar to what puntoMX is talking about - http://www.meritline.com/vga-to-tv-converter---p-40917.aspx I don't see that it has the ability to convert wide screen to 4:3, but maybe puntoMX can provide a link to one that does? (I doubt it would be 15$USD though, but I could be wrong) Cheers and Regards

Could you please re-up the ERDLogon to mediafire or Dropbox etc? With the above link I just end up at the home page of freehostia.com since I don't have an account there. Cheers and Regards

I saw an avatar over at RyanVM's forum that I thought you would appreciate Larry - Just thought I'd pass it along for your amusement. Cheers and Regards

Is it possible? Yes. But you'll need to give more complete examples. You say "move a file to one or two variable name directories" Meaning move the file to one or the other, or move to either one or both? How will you decide which directory you're moving the file to? is it based in the file name? How? How are the variable name directories named? Based on what? Cheers and Regards

Can you share how we can all achieve those results? Cheers and Regards

And can you provide the link to that web site? Cheers and Regards

Ah - an oldie but goodie! Thanks allen for the memories. Cheers and Regards

That's a shame. If there doesn't end up being a way to add support for interacting with ReFS from Win7, I guess that might be how MS hopes to force the use of Win8 on Enterprise users, unless I misunderstand the purpose of ReFS. It will also be one of the very few file systems that Win7 does not have a way to interact with. The other thing I was talking about was what little I've read about ReFS reminds me of WinFS, originally demonstrated by MS in 2003, planned for inclusion in Vista, and shelved in 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS I guess if Win8 is as poorly adopted in the enterprise as is anticipated, that the same fate might befall ReFS. Cheers and Regards

Can you add support for ReFS to Win7 in a similar manner? I assume that ReFS is what originally began as the file system that was supposed to be added to Vista but got pulled? Just curious. Cheers and Regards

Not that that was the most polite way you could have asked for help, and assuming you are asking regarding XP SP3, which you didn't say, I believe the answer is both. From mimo's site http://mimo.zxq.net/updatelist.htm: Cheers and Regards

The best way for folks to understand what Splinter is, is to watch the demo videos that you posted, though I can't put my finger on the links at the moment. Interesting concept. If I understand it right, it's not a theme, it's more like an interface or a menu system. A very flexible and customizable one. But of course if you added custom sounds, cursors, and icons to it it could become a full theme if you wanted that. Personally, I'm glad in a way that all that is not included since OS updates often tend to mess all that up anyway. I also like the fact that Splinter is designed to be added to an existing OS, if I remember right, making it easy to test and add to any system. Also, as Kel has mentioned elsewhere, redistributing a fully customized OS would be illegal, but providing the downloads and tools so that folks can customize their own OS is perfectly fine. And the fact that you are giving away both the backgrounds and the character and vehicle images to use anywhere else that anyone would like, even though they were designed to be used with Splinter, is very kind of you. I guess you knew that there are always people who would do that anyway, so giving them permission ahead of time makes it your idea so you end up as the good generous guy. Smart. Good luck to you. Cheers and Regards