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@Famer: I hope I PM'd that invite correctly. Any guidelines?

Strange how double %% seems to work... @crahak: Also, sometimes the descriptions seems to be the opposite of what it is Eg, seems to actually mean ...It does make sense if you look at it that way, but still.....

sorry for triple post, but I don't like long posts. Does: dword:00000001 mean "yes" or "no" (enabled or disabled) 2) ;----- ;----- Disable Background Intelligent Transfer Service ;----- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS] "Start"=dword:00000004 Doesn't Windows Update require BITS to be active?

since this is going with the canadian dot-ca version, the rest should be dot-ca as well. (customize to fit your country) ;----- ;----- Add Google As Main Start Page ;----- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Start Page"="http://www.google.ca/" ;----- ;----- Add Google As Main Search Page ;----- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Search Page"="http://www.google.com" "Search Bar"="http://www.google.com/ie" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL] ""="http://www.google.com/keyword/%s" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search] "SearchAssistant"="http://www.google.com/ie" ;----- ;----- Search with google from the address bar instead of MSN ;----- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\G] @="http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" NUMBER 2) Here's a set of customized entries, can someone tell me what that last line mean? ;----- ;----- Set autocomplete to full off ;----- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoComplete] "AutoSuggest"="no" "Append Completion"="no" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Use FormSuggest"="no" "FormSuggest Passwords"="no" "FormSuggest PW Ask"="no" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows] "PopupMgr"="yes"

also, I'm pretty sure that ;----- ;----- Disable Windows File Protection ;----- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "SFCDisable"=dword:ffffff9d should be ;----- ;----- Disable Windows File Protection ;----- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "SFCSetting"=dword:ffffff9d

Still no sign of 2.0 Final at Invision today.

XP reinstall?

invite PM'd @prathapml: I meant how many people stopped reading the post in question after the first time I typed "3"

There's always alternatives

I mean a new release of the file pack with all the necessary reg patches, readme files, etc.

3 available left here, 3 "reserved" for myself, 1 wasted. POLL: How many people tuned out after the first 3?

Windows XP SP2 "marks" downloaded files to be "dangerous". That's why if you tried to launch the file you would get a warning.

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IMPORTANT: Unfortunately, I forgot a reg patch for the sfc_os patch. Please read the following instructions carefully if you want it to work. YOU MUST DO THIS FOR THE SFC FILE! Don't worry about it if you aren't using that file. Use this reg file: http://www.mantrasoftware.net/disable_wfp.reg

uxthemes.dll allows UNOFFICIAL themes (non-M$) to work. Sfc_os (the WFP file): see this page: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/wfp.htm

I posted something like your post a while back. Now I'm just scared to send invites.

Oh yeah... ;D

How about pieces ofMcDonalds'?

any sort of text description for those us (read:1 in a billion googol) without a sound card?

eBay bought homegrown Internet player EachNet in two bond transactions for $180 million over the past two years, and the auction giant now owns the company outright. Since sealing the deal a year ago, EachNet has gradually been integrated into eBay's worldwide system--a process that will be complete with the Friday launch of a mirror EachNet site (at www.ebay.com.cn), said EachNet chairman Shao Yibo in an interview at the company's Shanghai headquarters. "There are a lot of worldwide features (on eBay) that are not in China that would be useful locally," said Shao, who at 31 is a throwback to the Internet bubble wunderkinds of the 1990s. eBay Eachnet, as the unit is now known, had 6.9 million users who traded $63 million in goods during the second quarter. The number of users was up 25 percent from the first, and the number of dollars spent up 28 percent. New listings for the quarter grew 38 percent to 4.2 million. Shao said those growth rates were generally in line with recent increases, but he declined to give any projections. "In the long term, becoming part of the global network will help our growth rate. But it's harder to say in the short term," he said. EachNet controls an estimated 60 percent to 70 percent of China's online auction market, worth an estimated $232 million (1.92 billion yuan) last year. It is the only one of the country's three best-known players to charge fees. Two newer sites, a joint venture between Yahoo and Chinese online media company Sina, and Taobao.com, operated by homegrown Alibaba.com, both offer services free of charge as they seek to build their businesses. Shao said eBay EachNet charges sellers a fee for listing, a sales commission and an optional fee for making listings stand out from others. Buyers pay no fees. He said that payments for goods--often considered a stumbling block in a nation where credit cards and checks are relatively rare--was receding as an issue because more people are getting credit cards, and banks have started allowing online money transfers. The rise of express delivery and alternatives to China's post office have also boosted the medium. "Five years ago when we started, we encouraged local trading and estimated (that) 95 percent of (actual goods exchanges) were done in person," he said. "Today, over 70 percent of transactions happen between users in different cities. Of the remaining 30 percent, many don't meet in person. The spy movie (scenarios) are very few and far between now. They still exist, but users are very resourceful." Source: C|Net http://news.com.com/eBays+China+site+to+jo...html?tag=cd.top

The Mozilla Foundation has fixed 10 security bugs in its open-source Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox browsers and Thunderbird e-mail reader, with the release of new versions of all three products this week. Some of the vulnerabilities could allow attackers to run malicious code on a user's PC via a malicious e-mail, a specially crafted vCard, or a malformed graphic on a Web site, project leaders say. Advertisement The bug fixes accompany the release of the Firefox 1.0 preview release (PR), a nearly-finished version of the project's next-generation browser. The Mozilla team is hoping recent security concerns about Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer browser will spur adoption of Firefox 1.0, when it is released, as a safer alternative. Fewer exploits exist for Firefox and Mozilla, partly because the browsers are far less widely used than IE. The bugs are fixed in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0PR, and Thunderbird 0.8, released this week and available from the Mozilla Foundation's Web site, the organization says. An advisory from Danish security firm Secunia says the flaws are "highly critical," the firm's second-highest rating. Worst Flaws Yet This week's patches, detailed on Mozilla's Web site, are the most serious to affect Firefox so far, according to security researchers. The only other highly critical bug in Firefox so far was a flaw in the browser's libpng component (also patched in Mozilla and Thunderbird), revealed last month, that may have allowed an attacker to take over a system via a malicious graphic. Secunia maintains a list of Firefox 0.x vulnerabilities. The worst of the bugs are problems displaying vCards and bitmap image files, and an error involving malformed links. An attacker could cause a buffer overflow by sending an e-mail containing a specially crafted vCard and then potentially execute code, but only if the e-mail were displayed in the preview pane of Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird. An attacker could trigger an integer overflow in the browsers or e-mail readers via an overly wide bitmap image in a Web site or an email, also allowing the execution of code. A link using non-ASCII characters in the hostname could be exploited via a Web site or an e-mail to trigger a buffer overflow and execute code. Source: PC World http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117779,00.asp

According to web analytics firm Websidestory and a report published by eWeek, Microsoft's Internet Explorer suffered the most significant drops in usage in more than eight years. Microsoft's browser has dropped by 1.8 percentage points over the past three months to 93.7 percent of the market, Websidestory said. One of the benefcators was Mozilla's Firefox browser which is recorded comined with AOL's Netscpae browser. The software has gained 1.7 percentage points since June and now is used by 5.2 percent of Internet users. Opera's browser rose 0.1 percentage points to 1.1 percent. After releasing PR 1 of its Firefox browser yesterday, the Mozilla foundation announced record download figures of more than 300,000 within 24 hours. That level of downloads represents 10 percent of Firefox 0.8's total downloads over its first four months of availability, Decrem said to eWeek. Microsoft said that it was not concerned of a major shift away from Internet Explorer. Source: Tom's Hardware Guide http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20040916_174915.html

Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. AOL cited "tepid support" for Microsoft's so-called Sender ID technology, which seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses, a common technique for hiding their origins. Thursday's announcement came on the heels of a recent decision by Internet engineers to reject a preliminary proposal from Microsoft because of its patent claims. The decision decreases the likelihood that the industry would converge around a single mechanism for authenticating e-mail. Yahoo Inc. already is exploring its own system, known as Domain Keys. In a statement, AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said the company's objections had nothing to do with Microsoft's patent, but that "AOL has been especially concerned at the lack of acceptance for Sender ID among the free and open-source online community." Open-source proponents like the Apache Software Foundation had objected to Microsoft's plans to prohibit software developers from further licensing the Sender ID technology to others even though the initial license would be free. A working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force, which is in charge with setting technical standards for the Internet, is currently working to develop a way to let software developers decide whether to opt for a non-patented alternative. Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall described AOL's decision to back the alternative as consistent with those efforts. AOL still plans to submit lists of its mail servers' unique numeric addresses so that other service providers may use the Microsoft technology to verify that messages carrying AOL addresses were actually processed by an AOL server. But for incoming mail, AOL will use a different, nonproprietary method of checking. Source: Forbes.com http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/.../ap1548532.html ---------------- comment1, posted here to avoid double-posting: *sarcastic* that's a surprise...

Microsoftz SP3: download at warezsite.com/sp3 "Bad Guy" Accent: This will goodie patchie your flawie spie sytemey

IBM has begun using new security hardware from National Semiconductor in its desktop PCs in an effort to fend off viruses and hackers. National Semiconductor's SafeKeeper Trusted I/O devices add to its existing chip design a "trusted platform module" (TPM), a microcontroller that stores passwords, digital certificates and encryption keys. The devices conform to the TPM specifications developed by the Trusted Computing Group, a 2-year-old standards body for hardware-based security technologies backed by IBM, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. The idea behind hardware-based security is that information stored in a PC's firmware is less vulnerable to attack than data protected only by software. TPM-stored data can, for instance, be used to authenticate a computer on a network, providing identity information in a way that's harder to forge. National Semiconductor's desktop SafeKeeper device is priced at US$5 each for volume orders. Toward the end of the year, the company will release a notebook version expected to sell for US$7. IBM, which has used TPMs in its PCs for the past five years, said the devices are being used in ThinkCentre models featuring its IBM Embedded Security Subsystem. Source: An Australian site that calls itself "PC World Magazine" http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id...999;fp;2;fpid;1