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  1. Right Click Start Button -> 'Select Properties' -> Goto 'Start Menu' tab -> Click 'Customize' on whichever start menu you are using -> scroll down and check 'Run Command' -> Click 'OK' twice

    you now have a run command on your start menu. alternately you can press WindowsKey+R on the keyboard and get straight to it.

    now as for your original question. I believe you are referring to the navigation pane in windows explorer.

    Click 'Start' -> 'Computer' if you dont show the tree view on the right, click Organize -> Layout -> Navigation Pane

    -X- and Andre, typing "expl" or "explorer" into the start menu search box will just open the games explorer if you type explorer into Win+r then you get windows explorer

  2. Id say its prolly some combination of these 3 things:

    1. Your IT dept thinks its users are stupid and cant tell the difference between song.wav and song.wav.exe
    2. Your IT dept is stupid and thinks everything that cant be explained by them "must be a virus"
    3. Your IT dept thinks you dont "respect their authoritay" and so they are punishing you with stupid rules.

    • no fan control in the BIOS (yet), thus the fan is running at 3400 RPM all the time. and having that thing in the box on my desk, it gets on my nerves.

    you could buy a fan like this one:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16835192007

    anything will do. it doesnt have to be this one -just find one with a variable switch (they have some that operate on a heat sensor that changes the rpm automatically too)

    you dont have to use that fan just splice in whatever fan you want and mount it in a PCI thats just the first one o found that had a rpm switch

  3. i second gamehead200 on this. A machine that shipped with a 64 bit OS will run a 32 bit OS as long as you have drivers for that platform. check you manufacturers site

    since this is regarding 32bit XP and not XP 64 ill move this topic to the standard windows XP forum

  4. But when a post like that comes to the 9X forum, it's left there.
    we moderate posts of that type regardless of the forum.
    Hopefully this can all be worked out so that the 9X area stays open.
    were throwing around ideas and well find a way to make this work for everyone if we can.
    We're regularly put in the position of having to defend our choices.
    yeah if only there was a way for me to know what that was like (page 3 post 45) :rolleyes:
  5. May I suggest then that a regular there be made moderator with mod action only on that forum and have the other mods wash their hands of that forum if it's too much work.

    dencorso was made moderator of that forum in an attempt to appease the users of that forum.

    Going with this argument, I might be ok with this idea if Windows NT and Office 97 get the same treatment. I.e. archive the merged nt4/2000/2003 forum and start fresh as the 2000/2003 forum (same for the merged office 97/2000/2002-XP/2003/2007 forum).

    im fine with that but honestly there isnt much NT activity in the NT/2000/2003 forum these days and the entire office forum is deadsville as it is so splitting it up would just clutter the main category page.

    Live and let live

    ...You used to say live and let live

    you know you did 3x

    But if this ever changin

    in which we live in

    Makes you give in and cry

    Say live and let die :)

  6. Because many users are still browsing with it. We don't want to alienate ~15% of our users.

    Thats roughly what our % is but I know our webstats for IE6 are unusually high because currently, all of our XP machines on the network usually have IE6 by default and can opt to install IE7+. but a few clicks in WSUS and I could fix that (deadline IE7) but i probably wont do that until right before the end of its lifecycle even though its tempting to do it now :)

  7. [OT]
    (Okay, yeah, she's spoiled but isn't that what daughters are for? :D)

    This statement makes me feel uneasy. I hope you're joking.

    [/OT]

    LOL if you have problems with people that spoil their children then youll love this:

    post-158212-1250027835_thumb.jpg

    Thats my 6 year old son sitting at his PC at his desk. (watching wipeout on Hulu)

    His PC specs:

    Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.6

    4GB Ram

    250Gb HD

    DVDR/W Drive

    MS Intellimouse Explorer & Spongebob Squarepants Keyboard & Mousepad

    22" Acer monitor

    Windows Vista Home Premium (cant have him using an OS thats older than he is thats just not right)

    Also pictured:

    UB Funkeys

    Nintendo DS

    Mess

  8. It made my computer at home faster! Of course only the first time I ran it, which removed about 7 years of "crap" so that makes sense. I say, run it every five years, presuming you can keep your OS healthy that long. That way you'll see the performance increase you've heard about so much. :lol:

    lol yeah ive run it on on some old slow machines i needed to bandaid back together for a few more months of use that were like that but the oldest i can think of was 5 years so you might have a record amount of crap removed there.

    speaking of collected crap, I use hijackthis! on my pen drive to remove a ton of spyware from literally hundreds of machines. you know that folder called 'Backups' it creates that everyone deletes? Well i dont delete mine mine is 163mb and one day an XP install is gonna p*** me off badly and im gonna restore all the malware ive cleaned for the last few years all to the same machine. I dont know what would happen but im sure the machine will be sorry it messed with me. BWAAHAHAHAHA!

  9. How many extra visitors will you get on your website by adding a fancy feature?
    My primary goal is not to drive traffic to our site. My goal is to assist my visitors while they are there. sometimes "fancy" features such as ability to navigate the page without obscure errors nagging my visitors while breaking my design are required.
    I prefer sites which display fine in Internet Explorer 5.5.
    well if my sites display correctly in your browser great but if they dont, I wont be investing time in correcting the problem. I simply dont have the time. Here are the stats from the site i had the above problems with:

    this is the breakdown of IE versions from May 1 to Today (IE accounts for 73% of our visitors):

    7.0	66.47% 	
    8.0 16.86%
    6.0 16.64%
    5.5 0.04%

    5.5 is hardly worth worrying about and IE6 will fall into the same category likely by the end of the year.

    The reality of Drudge report is they are nothing more than a link aggregator which relies on real websites to provide the content that keeps people coming to their site (which looks like a 5 year old threw it together in 10 minutes in frontpage) people often use the google main page as a example of minimalism success stories but google success is in their results not their main page. The people that pay me to maintain their site expect me to place a huge amount of content on the main page but still have things be easy to find. that and they hired me because their site looked like a 5 year old threw it together in 10 minutes in frontpage so i dont they theyd like it if i gave them a site that looked like drudge just to satisfy 0.04% of their visitors.

  10. In my earlier posts I was a little indifferent about IE6. My position has changed dramatically since my last post here. What has changed my position from 'Meh' to 'OFF WITH ITS HEAD!!' you ask? I wont bore you with the details but lets just say it involves me, a webpage Im paid to maintain, Virtualbox, IE6 and repeated use of the F-word and its friends.

    I cant help but question my own sanity when i spend 5 minutes verifying that things work in FF/IE8/Chrome only to spend 10 minutes testing in IE6, 20 minutes locating and implementing the workaround when it inevitability renders wrong in IE6, then another half hour getting the page to render the way it was in FF/IE8/Chrome before the IE6 workaround code was added then another 8 hours trying to forget the pain in the a** that is righting code that degrades well to a browser that was replaced 3 years ago that for some reason people want to cling to even though there are far superior browsers out there.

    The anti-IE6 move followed reports last month that Google's YouTube was doing the same, that Digg would soon curtail support for the ancient browser and a petition on Twitter collected nearly 10,000 signatures supporting the effort. Facebook has been prompting IE6 users to swap out their browsers since February 2009.

    thats a quote from the linked article not me -hench why i put it in quote tags (and thats not my handle either)
  11. ok first off the "music" in the first clip sucks - i muted the audio on the second one because i couldnt take another s***ty techno track (or whatever that s*** was).

    but is this really that big of an issue? Even if this is a MS issue and not a Driver issue, Personally i rather see MS focus on real world issues like better multiple monitor support fixing the abundance of mapped network drives issues ive had than fixing some minor graphical glitch thats only a minor nuisance (and Maybe a slight performance hit) yes i saw the taskmgr graphs but people said the same crap about Vista "OMG look at how much memory it uses" this "problem" looks like one of those that will just fade away as vid drivers get updated.

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