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yeah in using it with luna element black i just turned down the saturation a notch cause its a little too bright at times

Ive never sent his little app before but basically it lets you alter your windows theme by adjusting HSB and RGB values (and change fonts and such ) I decided to make a real Zune theme (but it looks more like Ubuntu Chocolate if you ask me) as you can see, it has a few issues (doesnt alter shellstyles, and the interface could use some work) but it works well http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.551...lorer-tools.htm

I've never seen more than 1 link there and that guy failed to back that claim up so im gonna go out on a limb and say its not possible you can still do it but it will replace the Dell logo

In my experience yes. You gonna need a version that had an original volume label of WXPOEM_EN, XRMPOEM_EN, X1APOEM_EN, or VRMPOEM_EN (assuming you want english - i know zilch about other versions) Known Windows XP RTM (SP0) CD Labels Known Windows XP SP1 CD Labels Known Windows XP SP1a CD Labels Known Windows XP SP2 CD Labels

Unknown Devices from halfdone should allow you to see the manufacturer and sometimes model for a given piece of hardware but it wont find the drivers for you. you can run it from within windows If the machine is an OEM built machine, (Dell, Gateway, etc) id recommend checking their site for drivers (even if it didn't ship with win 2k)

http://www.opensourcecms.com/ is pretty helpfull for comparing i used to use http://www.dragonflycms.org/ but now i code almost everything by hand

would this do the trick? table.special tr.special td.special { color:#222222; background:#ffffff; text-align:center; font-Family:sans-serif; }

reminds me of "...and they'll finally put me behind bars with a real short sentence since i am a star..."

You can add a link below the run on the 'new' start menu (usually used by manufacturer) LOL i googled for it and it ended up pointing me right back here (just gotta know what to search for ) http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=51830

Glad you got it working. I thought about this after I posted and I had an idea you could use and encrpyted runas file to run just that program as an admin: (posted just for future reference) http://www.robotronic.de/runasspc/

theres alsoDirectory Opus (Commercial) doesnt replace the shell -just the file explorers

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Games...forWindows.aspx Now while it doesn't say 12Gb on the c drive, thats prolly what its gonna need because of a s***ty installer I see 2 options (beside the one you specified) 1. Move 12Gb of data to another drive and move it back after installing GoW (even an installed game -as long as you move it back) 2. get process explorer and/or Filemon, run it/them, run your installer, see what path its trying to dump files into, use Junction to created a junction point to another drive at that location (ex: junction.exe c:\Documents and settings\user\local settings\installsheild\notenoughspacehere g:\bigolharddrivewithtonsofspace) #2 may not work but itll give you something to try while moving 12gb off of c: to another drive

Just a stab in dark here but i dont think anyone has had to convert their documents. for 2007 there hasnt been a need for it IMO. You might just have to take the plunge and try it alone. if you have a specific problem with the conversion, someone might be able to help but I dont think anyone here has experience with what your attempting to do.

well there is a such thing as in over your head. whether you buy a top of the line or a middle of the reaod upgradable machine, follow the old construction rule of measure twice, cut once. Actually it would prolly be best if no cutting was involved -unless you buy a 20$ case then i can guarantee there will be cutting -and prolly blood involved (cheap cases aren't know for their rounded edges) best advice i can give: Buy a good case -Antec is my personal favorite (Sonata series are my favorites) A quad core for a first build is a bad idea -the CPU itself is 279$ and if you insert it wrong, shock it, or mount the heatsink incorrectly, wrecking a 279$ piece of equipment would probably make you sick (it would make me sick) A Core 2 Duo starts around 120$ and if you kill it, it would be easier to stomach Other than that the gigabyte recommendation, i agree with everything else puntoMX recommended (though i will admit, i haven't dealt with a gigabyte product since my P3 600Mhz) I recommend getting the parts from http://www.newegg.com/

ok sorry for having such a short fuse why not just use 7zip?

you may find your current OS more functional than Windows ME. At least you could learn something from trying to fix WinXP 64 but seriously there are a few things i would like to point out: if you cant get into the bios, boot off a floppy, or you have a keyboard problems at the bios level, that has NOTHING to do with the crashed OS Last Known Good Configuration loads a backup copy of the registry so I doubt its a registry issue alone You may be able to recover this installaion by doing a repair install from your XP64 CD (i dont usually recommend repairs but since a full reinstall of XP 64 would kill your copy of word it might be best to try that first) As far as what you should reinstall, If you can run XP 64 you can run XP 32 and its a lot easier and more compatible. but installing Windows ME isn't just taking 2 steps back, its like taking 100 steps back. seriously its terrible. If you just don't have another OS available other than ME, try http://www.ubuntu.com/, or any other linux distro for free. Hell, i wish i could legally give you one of our licenses of XP 32. Id do ii just to know that there was 1 less person out there using Windows ME.

In my experience, Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool is ill equipped to remove real world spyware. Malicious Software Removal Tool is kinda like bringing a knife to a gun fight. I recommend using Hijackthis!, Icesword, Process Explorer, Rootkit revealer, RKunhooker, CCleaner, Smit*Fix, etc. They arent nearly as pretty (in fact some are downright ugly) but they can do the job faster and better than any of the MS tools.

try reinstalling or repair installing using the installer for the old product (8.1) first then uninstalling it.

if your gonna link software i suggest that: 1. make it an actual link -dont take out characters -this isnt a warez site 2. link a website that actually contains the product in question http://free-backup.info/justzipit.html

MSFN has a free software list too http://www.msfn.org/board/MSFN_s_Official_...ist_t70784.html

If it doesn't exist then you should create it and if it doesnt override the one in HKCU the remove the one in HKCU --edit-- stupid imageshack auto resizing

here this one should do everything @echo off echo ------------------------------ echo Stopping "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" sc stop SharedAccess > nul net start | find "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" > nul if errorlevel 1 echo "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" was stopped successfully echo Disabling "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" sc config SharedAccess start= disabled > nul echo ------------------------------ echo Stopping "Security Center" @sc stop wscsvc > nul net start | find "Security Center" > nul if errorlevel 1 echo "Security Center" was stopped successfully echo Disabling "Security Center" @sc config wscsvc start= disabled > nul echo ------------------------------ echo Uninstalling MSN/Windows Messenger... (choose no if asked to reboot) RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove echo Uninstalling Freecell... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection FreecellUninstall 132 games.inf echo Uninstalling Minesweeper... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection MinesweeperUninstall 132 games.inf echo Uninstalling Solitare... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection SolitaireUninstall 132 games.inf echo Uninstalling Spider Solitare... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection SpiderUninstall 132 games.inf echo Uninstalling Hearts... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection HeartsUninstall 132 games.inf echo Uninstalling Pinball... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection Pinball.Remove 132 pinball.inf echo Uninstalling Zone Games... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection ZoneUninstall 132 igames.inf echo Removing Games Folder from Start Menu rd /S /Q "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Games" echo ------------------------------ echo Press any key to close . . . pause > nul Just remove the last 3 lines if you want the window to close by itself

@echo off echo ------------------------------ echo Stopping "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" sc stop SharedAccess > nul net start | find "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" > nul if errorlevel 1 echo "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" was stopped successfully echo Disabling "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" sc config SharedAccess start= disabled > nul echo ------------------------------ echo Press any key to close . . . pause > nul Once you do that Security center will start nagging people that no firewall in turned on so id run this too @echo off echo ------------------------------ echo Stopping "Security Center" @sc stop wscsvc > nul net start | find "Security Center" > nul if errorlevel 1 echo "Security Center" was stopped successfully echo Disabling "Security Center" @sc config wscsvc start= disabled > nul echo ------------------------------ echo Press any key to close . . . pause > nul and this will kill MSN messenger and games @echo off echo Uninstalling MSN/Windows Messenger... (choose no if asked to reboot) RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove echo Uninstalling Freecell... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection FreecellUninstall 132 games.inf echo Uninstalling Minesweeper... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection MinesweeperUninstall 132 games.inf echo Uninstalling Solitare... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection SolitaireUninstall 132 games.inf echo Uninstalling Pinball... (choose no if asked to reboot) Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection Pinball.Remove 132 pinball.inf echo ------------------------------ echo Press any key to close . . . pause > nul just put 1 or all of those pieces of code into a .bat file and have your lady run from an administrator account

what is netpker -i didnt see anything on google about it

I dont believe you can use an luna(XP) theme on vista without additional software. some one will correct me if i am wrong but i thought windows blinds will allow you to use a luna(XP) theme on vista http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/