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That has seemed to be somewhat normal behavior to me. MS seems to have sped up the display of the desktop to give the user a warm fuzzy feeling from a quick "boot", but it's still not completely ready to do all tasks. But 3 mins does seem a little long. You might check out this - http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140247-trace-windows-7-bootshutdownhibernatestandbyresume-issues/ - and see if MagicAndre1981 can give you any help with your power up speed. Cheers and Regards

If you have a desktop icon for the app, that works, you should be able to right click the desktop shortcut and select properties and find out where it is pointing to. If that doesn't work for some reason, I would install the Everything search engine - site is here http://www.voidtools.com/ - and use that to search your computer to find anything you want that is anywhere on your computer. If it's there, it will find it. FAST Cheers and Regards

What the OP said was: So if I understand, the built in functions to play CD/DVD without the OS running still seems to work, but using the drive to read/install anything fails. He then said: which I interpret to mean that he took the drive out and put it in another laptop and it worked perfectly normally. All this seems very weird if it is true. It definitely needs some clarification. Cheers and Regards

You'd still have spaces in "My Documents" and before that in "C:\Documents and Settings" and probably in what follows. But I personally don't think spaces are the problem, rather the total length of the path and file names (which is a Windows problem, not nLite problem). I agree on all counts with Ponch. Again, short path names at the root, such as "C:\SlipFiles", avoids all those issues regardless if they are due to problems in nLite, Windows, or any other program you might run. Why ask for trouble when it's easily avoided? Cheers and Regards

LOL Absolutely! You are indeed correct. No offense was meant in any way whatsoever. Sorry if there was any confusion. My comment was meant for the the OP's benefit. Thank you for adding another reason for not having the "SlipFiles" folder on the desktop. Cheers and Regards

Regardless of the reason, it is "safer", ie less likely to cause problems, to put your "SlipFiles" folder at the root rather than on the desktop, especially if you are choosing to use nLite. Remember, nLite has not been updated in years and will most likely never be updated again. Cheers and Regards

The only times I've had IDE cables go bad was after many unplug/plug cycles I managed to loosen the wire part of the cable from the connector part due to pulling on the wire part to unplug the connector, which is not a recommended practice. Sometimes I could get them reseated and sometimes not. So anyway it was always my own fault. Cheers and Regards

If you ask nicely in that thread, rick will reup it for you. Cheers and Regards

The desktop location has caused problems for others in the past due to either the spaces in the path name and/or the length of the path, similar to the folder within folder problems you had earlier. I recognize that you are not having problems at the moment with both the location of your "Slipstream Files" folder and with your Anti-Virus running, and that's great, but in general it is advisable to have that "SlipFiles" folder, note no space in the shorter name, in the root of a drive, eg "D:\SlipFiles", and temporarily disable your Anti-Virus, after you have scanned all the files involved of course. Since all files have already been scanned and been declared "clean" there should not be any risk to speak of, especially if you have used the files involved before and/or gotten the files from a trusted source who has also used the files successfully. Not only will the shorter path with no spaces and no Anti-Virus running minimize the possibility of problems with your slipstreaming and integration efforts, but I think you will be surprised at how much quicker the process will be. At least I have found that to be true, but that will also depend on your system's capabilities. Oh, by the way, I was the one to suggest integrating the divers last. Cheers and Regards

Amen.

Very easy. Click-and-Drag to highlight the box of code, then either Ctrl-C or right click and "copy", whichever your preference. Yes it's a little less convenient than simply clicking the Copy link, but you don't have to deal with IE and it's variations. I think that 95%+ of all nasties can indeed be avoided through caution and common sense, which you seem to have in great supply. Personally, I find Opera faster than IE, but I think it really depends on a combination of your OS, hardware, and preference settings (such as javascript) along with what you are used to. All of the various browsers have their strong points and fans. Cheers and Regards

But he was only asking about moving the user files (ie C:\Users) to another partition. That is perfectly alright to do. That's what I do as well. Cheers and Regards

Sounds like all the disks the OP is discussing are warez. Just my opinion. Cheers and Regards

What exactly are you doing to disable and restart it manually now? If nothing else you might be able to script that with a shortcut on the desktop to make it easier/quicker to do. Also, once you have a script that functions correctly, then it's just a matter of figuring out how to trigger it after xx minutes of inactivity. Or an extremely simple manual fix, since you don't want to PC to go into standby, unplug the LAN connection when you are not using it. THAT disables the connection. LOL Cheers and Regards

It would seem you'd have the same problem even if there was a SendTo option - you'd have to navigate to the desired location. You could put a shortcut for the target on the desktop so it would always be available. Unless someone else has a better idea. Cheers and Regards

If it takes restarting the PC or router then I don't know if disabling the software end of the connection will really help. Are you currently disabling it manually before you leave the PC so you know for a fact that this will indeed help? And speaking of screensavers, have you tried changing your power settings so that after some amount of inactivity that the PC goes to sleep? (Disable any wake on LAN) If your particular PC can wake up gracefully that might solve the problem. Cheers and Regards

Easiest way then is just right-click-and-drag and select move. Why use a special SendTo? Cheers and Regards

I'm confused. If it's a line problem (external to your PC) doesn't the PC automatically reacquire the signal when it becomes available again? If so, what's the problem? And if not, then why will disabling the connection during inactivity help the situation? Cheers and Regards

You mean move instead of copy? Cheers and Regards

I believe that some versions of .NET are part of the Vista OS, I think 2.0 and 3.0, so if that's all the nLite needs then you're good to go. I'm not sure about the viability of building an XP disk on Vista, I've never tried it. Cheers and Regards

For a motherboard that old, and I have some of similar vintage myself and older, double check to see if there is a jumper or switch to set for using PC100 vs PC133. You'll need to check the manual to be sure, but usually if there is one it is around the memory sockets somewhere, and it will be small and probably not well marked. If you have such on that motherboard, and it's setting doesn't match your memory, especially if your memory is a mix of the two, you could get unpredictable results. Good luck and let us know how it turns out. Cheers and Regards

I understand what you are saying, but if I were you, I'd ask. Kel's post you quoted was over two months ago, Lego has allowed 22 requests since then and has not locked the topic. He plans to work on a lot of the outstanding requests during these next few weeks while his school is getting ready to start up. The worst he can say is "No". If enough people make the same or similar requests, he will probably either figure out a way to do it, or clarify what he can/will do and what he can't/won't. It can't hurt to ask. If you add - "and usability" - I think you can add even more people who would agree with you, especially as long as the removals are optional and under the user's control. Cheers and Regards

I would assume it's not a matter of what you've done, but rather a case of what you haven't done. There are very many extremely helpful people on this site who are more than willing to HELP you solve a problem or give you recommendations. But not do all the work for you. Besides, you need to learn so that you can do it yourself next time, or even help someone else. It's not clear to me what you are expecting us to do. You asked whether z68 with K CPU allowed overclocking, when you could have looked that answer up yourself. You asked how to overclock and were given several links to show you how to do it, though google could have helped you there as well. So, what have you done? What have you tried? What happened, or didn't happen? This is your system. Read, try things, experiment. Then come tell us what you did and ask for clarification for what you don't understand. And tell us explicitly what you want, and, if necessary, why. Help us help you. Don't just keep saying "Now what?" It get's very tiring, and it's not our system. If you want someone else to do all the work so you can just use it, then take it to your favorite computer store, give it to them, and pay them to do it for you. Then they can also fix it for you and upgrade it if necessary. I'm sure there are lots of places out there that will be very willing to take your money. Cheers and Regards

Another option would be installing a wireless access point and a wireless adapter for your other PC, if it doesn't have one already. Then comparing the cost of all the options mentioned so far, you might decide that pulling a long Ethernet cable might be "feasible" after all. (Cable is cheap after all.) Cheers and Regards

SoLoR's list which 5eraph mentioned is specifically intended for use with Win7 sp1. If you search on MDL for S0L0R's list, look in the Windows 7 section for Windows Hotfix repository, the thread for it has an install script and even a script to remove outdated hotfixes from your local store, both by burfadel. The thread is quite long, but post your specific questions about it there, since we can't answer them directly here. Cheers and Regards