[long login times -- need explanation]

Thanks for all the replies, all. Still no idea on my end what's going on

[ATI or Nvidia for gaming?]

Well, after looking around on pricewatch.com and some others, I cannot find a single vendor with stock on an X800 XT Paltinum Edition. Does anyone in here know of any vendor with stock selling these boards? I think I want an Asus brand, but I think they're all the same.

Thanks.

[long login times -- need explanation]

Check local group policy and see if anything's been changed from the default.

This can be accomplished by start->run->"gpedit.msc" without quotes.

I'm in there, but I have no way of comparing the values to the defaults unless they are published somewhere or there is a util that will inform me of a change...?

[long login times -- need explanation]

Dont double post.

Thanks for the tip dude ...do you acutally think I did it intentionally?

[long login times -- need explanation]

Any ideas what would cause XP to wait 30-40 esconds after entering the pasword to login? Nothing in my event log to indicate an error. This happens when connected to my home LAN, or when disconnected.

[How do I hack the TCPIP.SYS file?]

netquik is right... I found this link but it's unclear to me what exactly to do or even what a good freeware hexeditor might be..I assume that hex position indicates where to change the values and what to change them to, but I'd like to see it written from someone who knows. I'm also wondering about the CRC question netquik asked.

[How do I hack the TCPIP.SYS file?]

Sorry guys... I searched and found this thread. I did find the thread you refernced; however, it doesn't describe how one can edit one's own tcpip.sys with a hex editor. Just that here is the edited file and copy it to here... Also, thought I was in the WinXP forum.

[How do I hack the TCPIP.SYS file?]

Anyone have a link that describes the process of editing the tcpip.sys manually? I haven't used a hex editor before, but I'd rather do it myself then download a 3rd party file.

Thanks!

[SP2 Build 2180 Went Gold @ 10:08 PDT]

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=23549

...you can't wait a few more hours for fixes?!

[SP2 Build 2180 Went Gold @ 10:08 PDT]

Thanks... must have missed the post you made before that gave that info.

[SP2 Build 2180 Went Gold @ 10:08 PDT]

this it?

I d/l from that link but I'm wondering....

Hmmm... anyone have an md5 sum for the official file?

[DCOM error - long time to log into WinXP]

4 machines behind one router... thing is when I do a clean install of windows, login happens in under 5 seconds and that **** DCOM error wasn't present. After a while it gets muchslower.

[DCOM error - long time to log into WinXP]

I seem to be having a problem logging into WinXP. It takes my machine about 45 seconds from the time I hit enter to the time I see my desktop. I looked in my Event Viewer>System log and found this error:

DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service ImapiService with arguments "-Service" in order to run the server:

{520CCA63-51A5-11D3-9144-00104BA11C5E}

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Any ideas on how I can fix this? I suspect this is causing the delay logging in.

[New NForce Drivers 4.24]

Very cool, thanks for the link. How can I add these to my unattended CD?

I made a directory called:

C\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\000_Chipset

Also, extracted them there... but there is a setup.exe

Is there a way to make this install automatically without doing a cmdrunfirst or adding it to my batch_file.cmd

Thanks

[thunderbird 0.6]

What switches should I use to install Thunderbird 0.6 with all the default options and no prompts? I will be using this in an unattended XP install CD. With Mozilla 1.6, I use:

mozilla-win32-1.6-installer.exe -ma -ira

Thanks.