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Lol! I knew that was coming... Personally, I like Mozilla Firefox.

That does suck. You might try Adaware as well. Spybot could have missed some stuff. Other than that, I don't know... I hate Internet Explorer anyway. Do you use AIM? http://www.infopackets.com/freenewsarticle...ng+messages.htm

also, try unchecking "Display a notification about every script error". It's right below "disable script debugging"

Try hitting apply, then okay, then relaunching IE.

In Internet Explorer, click on Tools, Internet Options, then click on the Advanced tab. Under browsing, check 'disable script debugging'. Click OK

I was bored so I made a quick and dirty batch file that will extract the default themes. @echo off set cdrom=d: mkdir Themes mkdir Themes\Luna mkdir Themes\Luna\Shell mkdir Themes\Luna\Shell\Homestead mkdir Themes\Luna\Shell\Metallic mkdir Themes\Luna\Shell\NormalColor expand %cdrom%\i386\CLASSIC.TH_ "Themes\Windows Classic.theme" expand %cdrom%\i386\LUNA.TH_ "Themes\Luna.theme" expand %cdrom%\i386\LUNA.MS_ "Themes\Luna\luna.msstyles" expand %cdrom%\i386\HOME_SS.DL_ "Themes\Luna\Shell\Homestead\shellstyle.dll" expand %cdrom%\i386\METAL_SS.DL_ "Themes\Luna\Shell\Metallic\shellstyle.dll" expand %cdrom%\i386\BLUE_SS.DL_ "Themes\Luna\Shell\NormalColor\shellstyle.dll" echo. echo Finished Extracting Theme files. pause Copy the above to a text file and rename it theme.cmd. Make sure you set the appropriate letter for your CDROM at the begining of the file. (example: set cdrom=d: ) Place your XP CD into the drive and execute the batch. When you run this file, it will create a directory called Themes and extract the appropriate files to their proper directories. The new Themes directory will be created at the same location the batch was executed. Its structure will be identical as that found in Windows\Resources\...

My guess would be to curtail the sending and receiving of warez.

Try this: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

You probably need to copy it during runonceex. If it's copied over at the very beginning of the installation, then it's getting overwritten by the install process itself. edit: Actually, runonce exe wouldn't be a good idea. During cmdlines.txt would probably be a good time to copy it over.

Copy an edited boot.ini during the installation.

Try searching the manufacturers website. What model camera is it anyway? I've used bootvis before but recently I've stumbled upon this article: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/syspe...ot/BootVis.mspx I'm guessing that bootvis will probably speed up this process somewhat but Windows XP will due this automatically over time. 4 minutes is much too long for any normal boot of Windows XP. 4 minutes plus the normal boot time is even worse.

If that doesn't work, copy your boot.ini to that same floppy disk which has ntldr and ntdetect.com. Try booting your computer with the floppy. I'm curious to see if you will be able to get into Windows that way. When you boot with that floppy, ntldr will load from the floppy and then the rest of the boot process should continue from your hard drive. If it works, that means something is amiss with your hard drive. Most likely the problem describe here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;320397

That's what I meant. The drive in which windows is installed. I just don't know what to suggest now. Those files are present. Your boot.ini is as it should be. I suppose if the ntldr is corrupt and it didn't get copied over correctly when you used the recovery console, then maybe that could be the problem. Or else the hard drive is faulty. I can't really say. Try copying ntldr and ntdetect.com from your XP CD to a floppy. Boot up with bartpe and then copy the files from the floppy to c:\. I don't have very much hope that will work but you never know...

Great! I love Bartpe. It's a great tool. I've never used BartPE for network tasks so I'm not sure about that. As you have already tried replacing the ntldr with the recovery console, I'm not sure that would accomplish anything. You can always try it again, however. On which drive does your broken installation reside? Is it C:\ ? In the root directory of the Installation you are trying to recover, see if the files ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini are present. They are hidden files so you might need to enable show hidden files. Also, open the boot.ini file if it's there and post the contents here. If the boot.ini file is missing, you can recreate it. It's just a text file.

Try this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoComplete] "Append Completion"="no" "Use AutoComplete"="no" "AutoSuggest"="no"

I don't know. *shrug* You might try searching for other audio file types; wma for example. Any strange programs listed in Task Manager?

Well, that is a weird problem. I thought I've heard it all. I don't know what to suggest other than checking your system sounds and possibly a google search. In your search try alternate spellings of 'Areko'. Try searching your computer for wav/mp3 files to see if that turns up anything strange. A Spyware/virus scan might turn up something although I've never ran across one that would explain this.

Hmmm, strange. Does it happen when you do certain things? Like a system event. Are you sure it's not saying, "Your friends are with you, Aragorn."?

Well let's see. 1) You tried using the recovery console to fix the mbr and you also manually copied the ntldr from your XP CD. That didn't work. 2) You tried a repair install. That didn't work. The next thing I would try is reformatting and re-installing. Before you do that, making a WinPE CD in order to back-up your files is a good idea. There is a forum here dedicated to WinPE. If you are unable to get WinPE, BartPE is a good alternative. WinPE/BartPE will let you boot your system from a CD. It gives you a 'Windows' Like interface for preparing a system for OS installation or troubleshooting an existing installation. You can also check your hard drive for errors. If doing a clean install of XP doesn't solve the issue, then I think checking for hardware problems is the next step. For additional information see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=320397 A google search for "ntldr is missing" may turn up other things you can try. Other than that, I don't know what else to suggest.

Go to the Content tab under Internet Properties. Under Personal Information click Auto Complete. From there you can adjust the settings.

You can either use the program mentioned earlier in this thread or you can make a shotcut which launches media player at a specified priority. You can then drag and drop a file onto the WMP shortcut. It's not a perfect solution. Someone else may have better alternatives.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;EN-US;315341

Since that didn't work, the next thing to try is a repair install. You don't have to format and you won't lose any data on your drive. Just follow XtremeMaC's instructions in this thread. You will need to re-install any service packs (unless they are slip-streamed on your cd) and windows updates. Again, a repair install will not erase your programs and data that you currently have on your drive.

Here's a good site for Reg tweaks: http://www.winguides.com/registry/ Here's a free* program called X-Setup Pro. Over 1700 different settings can be controlled. With the addition of an ever increasing list of plugins, which can be downloaded from their site, even more settings can be accessed. It also sports a 'record mode' which will export changes you make to a reg file**. * free for non-commercial use ** Actually, it saves the changes to a text file. A minor annoyance considering you can easily rename the file.

Check out these threads: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...=0entry137049 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=19838&st=0& You'll probably need to come up with a script To randomize the files. Perhaps the program in the second thread will do that.