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Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

This seems like overkill for a HTPC. The MSI Media Live DIVA 5.1 AM2+/AM2 AMD 780M HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail is about $170 after rebate. A AMD Phenom 9350e Agena 2.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 65W Quad-Core Processor - Retail is also about $170. With this morherboard and processor you don't need a video or sound card. http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/st...htpc-video.aspx

These are the ones I use. Note you only need the latest Cumulative Security Update. If you look in the KB article it will tell you if a patch replaces another patch. For XP SP3 IE 7 MS07-050 (IE7-WindowsXP-KB938127-x86-ENU.exe) patch shows that it replaces MS08-045 (IE7-WindowsXP-KB953838-x86-ENU.exe), MS08-045 replaced MS08-031 (IE7-WindowsXP-KB950759-x86-ENU.exe), MS08-031 replaced MS08-024 (IE7-WindowsXP-KB947864-x86-ENU.exe). MS07-050 : Vulnerability in Vector Markup Language Could Allow Remote Code Execution (938127) IE7-WindowsXP-KB938127-x86-ENU.exe http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/MS07-050.mspx MS08-058 : Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (956390) IE7-WindowsXP-KB956390-x86-ENU.exe http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/ms08-058.mspx You may also want to install the following. When you use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to a terminal server, PNG images do not appear in Internet Explorer 7 during that RDP session http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935560 Print queue shows incorrect number of pages when you print a Web page in Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889333

Create a vb script (I called it t.vbs) On Error Resume Next const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10 const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20 set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\CIMV2") set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk", "WQL", wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly) for each objItem In colItems WScript.Echo "Found " & objItem.Name & " " & objItem.Description if objItem.Name = "D:" then WScript.Echo "Drive type is " & objItem.Description if objItem.DriveType=3 then WScript.Quit(0) 'This is a Local Fixed Disk else WScript.Quit(1) 'D: is not a Local Fixed Disk no need to continue end if end if next WScript.Quit(1) Call this from a batch file and use the return value. @echo off cscript -nologo "%~dp0t.vbs" if not errorlevel 1 ( echo Moving my documents to the D: drive ) You could also modify the script to use WshShell.Run to directly call a batch file. set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run(strCommand, [intWindowStyle], [bWaitOnReturn]) Note: You will also need to modify the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Personal" registry key so Windows knows where you put the My Documents folder.

You can use 'tasklist /v' to display a list of all programs loaded into memory. Use a program like AutoRuns to disable programs that are running at startup that you don't need. You can download Start_ups.exe which lists most application that run at startup and what they are for. Also it wouldn't hurt to run a program like CCleaner to clean you hard drive and Wise Registry Cleaner to clean out the registry. You can also use Eusing Registry Cleaner to clean out the registry. Run a spy ware checker such as Ad-Aware 2007 or Spybot - Search & Destroy. If none of this works you can upgrade the memory in your computer.