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You've done well posting here. Over the fifty in 2 weeks, not bad. I'm not a n00b (hint: don't call that loud). If you're skilled enough you dust do your thing by posting and yes: Keep the good things up Question: Is it still such cold in California? I've red it whas there about 4 to 5 degrees Celsius and the camelions where falling out of the trees by mass.

Welcome here Just I post another new user about Dutch forums and you here says the same as me. Typically I like it here after 51 post and I hope I could be helpfull to many of you and you to me on the time needed. I don't fit on many forums because the mentallity here is far from healthy and every country have it's own cross (If you know what I mean, my grandma said). That's the reason I'd choosen a English forum which spreads around the whole globe. I'm curious about the things in another countries and waht kind of systems they use there. I'm curious about the users out of another countries and so on. This makes this forum a unique one. Have a nice time here

Hahaha, the third on a row out of America who I wish a warm welcome Now, I hope you can get satasfactory on the daily Vista use and do you have questions? put them here on MSFN. I saw that I've one star today and that feeling is nice. That means I'd like it here because on most forums I never get 51 posts nor 10. Dutch forums where helpless and here in Holland it is a testcase of your personality. Maybe, my English is far from perfect, but I can read everything and understood it. My mission is to beam up my English skills here and for the second: this is a serious forum and if something is serious I too (on the positive manner). Í feel the same here. I talking with the whole world from users out of China to users out of America. I like that seriously and you hopely too. Have a nice time here

Yes, good motivation The same feelings here. I'm here to help and hopely to being helped on the time needed. Welcome here

I'm really glad to hear that best boy And yes, you don't get always a reaction, but the feedback by searching things on this forum where helpfull even for me as systemoperator. Yeah, right, systemoperator. Maybe it sounds great and famous, but even I don't know everything. Even not after 18 years of computerexperience. Sometimes I encounter a post which is far too difficult for me. The strange thing is that I never seen such a class of knowledge on a single forum. Yes, my boy, I'd like it here too

Download Hijackthis.exe version.2 and post a log. Rename hijackthis.exe to comegetsome.exe or whatelse and run it. Spyware is not an exception.

Maybe some natural human behavior? Ever heard about early adopters or pioneers? Without them there's no final product Without them there's no Windows patch on the world Without them you've a lot more work to do so you could programming your own OS by example

Maybe you're looking through an empty pull after so many? Can you explain why? Have some arguments of a kind of?? Not a very usefull remark, sorry

Due to a hierarchy lay-out of Vista some items cannot be removed from the OS partition. It is due to smome CLSID's in the registry and no one knows the one to change than Microsoft himself. The only possibility is calling Microsoft or a much cheaper sollution is to do a in-place upgrade/repair. It all has to do with security PS: Try to fix it in a superadmin account, but take knowledge of the risks.

I don't like blinking harddisk led without my activitiy Vista directly using my machine.What can i do about that? Harddisk activity? Not a problem after using this tip: Vista will be neglectable slower and gaming behavior like lagging reduces. It takes care out not to load the cache full with must used data. Once opened Internet Explorer by example it already resides in th ecache. Superfetch or not. Superfetch is not much functional on gaming systems is my experience. Though, computers are my daily work. Let me know if you find it usefull

Really? *Is looking to Vista desktop, is it unusable? Hmmm? Games works the same as in XP with SP1 RC1 and I've had not one issue with Vista. So terrible mistake I'd never make. Sorry, but you and me cannot decide Windows Vista should be bad. Still millions of people use it with full satisfactory like me and can you explain why is it so terrible mistake? Yes, it is loaded and heavy, but we talk today. Should we talk tomorrow in the days of SP1 and new high-end hardware?

Right. Ever tried to run Windows 98 on a Core 2 Duo and with PCI-E II? For the fun I've had seriously tried to get Windows 98 se on my machine last spring and it won't work. It never boots up and it will hang on the networkcard. I couldn't solve it. XP is bloated, we know, but what is bloatware? On this earth there're millions of people who wants XP to run. For every individual human there are another wishes in using a Windows version, rather the version doen't matter at all. The term bloatware is in your eyes not the term for someone else or reversed. If Microsoft has a huge server with all the components on it and you install Windows, then connect to that server I ask how fast it is. On every day the're millions of new fresh setups and that server should be a huge one. That is the reason XP came with some 'usefull' applications. We don't talk about Vista. At this day Vista is become a standard and, yes, know we may use the term bloatware. There're enough open source sollutions available in 2008 and neither in 1995, 1998 and 2001 or? I use Vista here

I've found the sollution for my system and maybe it is usefull to you all. Many users uses serial ATA instead of IDE and I still use an IDE setup with 2 harddisks and a fast 16x DVD writer. Nothing about it, or? I've maintained my system by cleaning out all the dust in the chase and te system works like never before. What happend? This is the old situation: PRI-IDE Second harddisk for dumpfiles, images and the 1st line back-up (out of 3, The USB key is the second line and a back-up on DVD also remains) SEC-IDE The burner as slave and the main harddrive as master Far from ideal and I thought the difference between the location of the devices don't matter, but the master should be the last on the cable. New situation: PRI-IDE Main harddisk (no install needed) SEC-IDE The burner as Master and the dumpdisk as slave. No WDMxWMI error seen after this action and the system boots up properly (It did, but my system restarts itself twice before BIOS information is seen. It is solved) So it whas the controller what creates this error in my cirumstance. Figure out of everything is set perfect on the IO controllers!

Hello I'm experimenting which is faster. 1. Windows X64 on a single NTFS partition created by the sutup routine or 2. Windows X64 on two volumes with lining out partition by Paragon Partion Manager? 1: Normally people will install their version on a NTFS partition and rather they use the inbox defragmenter. It don't matter how you optimize it, but this case is a daily situation. 2. Harddisk in 2 partitions. Partition one is an 4096 MB FAT16 partition with 64Kb chunks. On this partition only the bootfiles and the pagefile exist. In total 9 files in 2 GB. The second huge partition is created by PPM and has 16 KB chunks instead of 4 KB and a far smaller logfile (4 MB vs 64 MB). On this partition Windows exists and another software managed by O&O defrag. This is NTFS. On the second harddisk another data remains like the 1st line back-up (I use the 3-line back-up strategy, dataconsistency highly assured ) I seriously asks which is faster? Why? I know that the FAT of the first partition remains in memory and is only 128 KB in size (65536 units * 2 bytes). So by Microsofts wallpaper FAT16 ought to be bloody fast. So that's the reason I park the pagefile on it. On the first partition there are only 9 files in 2 GB, so there's neglectable slack). My system is not brandnew and I want the most out of it. I've paid for it I'll edit this post: Research shows a performancedrop of 17% on accessingspeeds when the pagefile resides on an another partition than the Windows own partition. I don't understand it properly because FAT16 ought to be faster as NTFS like searching the pagefile, but is isn't. I was wrong. I don't know exacly why, but the pagefile on the same partition as Windows XP is fastest. Many other circumstances will fail in approaching the performance when reside on the systemdisk and not on the Bootdisk or somewhere else. I thought I've had found something usefull to you all, but not this time

I've downloaded this file Thanx in advance

That same system is still up and many, many kind of these errors later, not any hazzle. Strange

Is this a personal experience or could you explain me why? Thanx by the way This is a really good question from topic starter. Just for my knowledge. All my hardware runs fine under X64 except the AKA0110 device. I don't know exacly what it is, but my system runs fine without it . the only thing I know is that there's in Vista a fix for it and for x64 not. It is a motherboard device, but the function of it is still unknown by me I ment it has something to do with ACPI, but the sleep function in X64 works excellent.

Nice links, so thank you also Windows X64 has many advantages on my 25 month old system with 2048 MB of RAM, an AMD64 3800+ and a X1950XT. 1. I like UT2004 and UT3. UT2004 is patched with the 64-bit patch and plays like a charm so smooth. I don't know if UT3 is also 64-bit, but is works flawless on X64. 2. Many utilities like 7-zip comes in 64-bit and the boost is noticable. Also more complex options for maximum compression. 3. 64-bit Internet Explorer. To be honest; at these days virussus can do nothing with 64-bit code. By another words: IE64 can do nothing with 32-bit pug-ins and most spyware so not all spyware is 32-bit. (or am I wrong?) 4. The superior kernel patch from Windows Update make it most hard to get access* 5. Far more advanced DEP technologie. 'Errorsafe' malware will stuck in it. 6. Cache can grow beyond the 1 GB boundairy which for games is a must have issue. 7. More stable. The 64-bit IE never locks up and the 32-bit regulairy (2 times a week) 8. Even with 2048 MB I saw the advantages clearly *KB932596 [2007-08-14]

That is exacly what most people disturbs.... We call it "bloatware" I understand you completely. The Vista folder with SP1 integrated consumes nearly 10 Gigabyte spread about 50.000 files and 10.000 folders. The perfect recipient for a huge job of loading Windows parts or let them superfetch. Examples: 1. Superfetch is 'really' nice, but if you start a huge game, the superfetcher can start by the beginning when closing the game 2. Windows Vista runs the best on a solid state disk. I've done a test with XP to install it on my USB key and it works, but it is not functional due to the size of my stick (2 GB). But it is fast. Never seen such a blazing bootup. 3. When applying by example 30 updates, the system has a lot of work to do. The same as XP with 90 patches. 4. Servicepack 1 for Vista needs 47 minutes to complete. SP2 for Windows X64 takes not yet 3 minutes! A difference or? 5. When monitoring disk activity in Vista compaired to XP; I see a really huge difference in accessing needs. Yes, do you need Vista really likes his Aero interface and another beautifull things? Yes! If you have a brandnew system go for Vista. On most older systems Vista is not really an option. Vista is good on it's own, but not for everyone. Vista can only reveal his real power on a soled state disk or on a very fast U320-SCSI disk. Just my opinion, no offense anyway.

Hmmm, why wasting your precious time here to guts it out? There is one thing what people forget all: Windows Vista should work on every x86 structure system and there are many, many kind of configurations. Not for every system is a sollution possible. Microsoft is not a real wizzard! For the most system it should work fine and one kind of commentairy is the fact only the people who dislike it will bring up the mass to a negative view of Vista's real power. The millions of people where Vista works fine won't reply and neither they make a rush in the media. That balance is everything but fair. Can you understand it? It is not personally, but this is the same compliement as in 2001 (release of XP). Hot discussions. Should I stick with Windows 2000 or should I consider an upgrade? The way of Microsoft is simple but fair and I hope you understand it properly Alpha's: First test of OS. Reasonable stable, but still not good enough for presentation. Beta's: Second fase. more stable, far faster and more functions. The bugs rapported in the Alpha where fixed. Release Candidates: Nearly finished and all functions are now implemented and can't be changed. Read the name well, twice. RTM: Retail To Manufactor (the store you bought it). This version is ready for the mass, but far from errorfree. Most bugs could only be rapported when the mass use it. That are these updates that takes lot's of time and an reboot as last. Exacly the path Windows XP has walked

Never talk that way to me! I will help you and I continuing it, but why not on a far less rude manner? Well, That fix is not used by me and I never use a fix which is not ordenair supported bij Microsoft. By another words: It is a hotfix and not an update! Taste the sense, so it is only recommended in specific circumstances. Try it by appying it on your local system and create a restorepoint béfore doing it so you can roll back. Second, try using several drivers for your soundcard/chip. For me personally I discoverd that the Packard Bell drivers suits the best and my system isn't a Packard Bell, but the nice thing is Packard Bell uses the same motherboard for several systems so the driver suits perfectly. Not any problem here, but the original drivers are hopeless, inferieur! Note: Asus A8R-MVP (does not matter, but the next matters!) and an adi1986a chip. What chip do you use? Can you reply it to me so I can help more specific. Yes, I'll help because my remark to you is a hint and not an attack!

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Well done! :thumbsup: Not that bored 800x600 picture with a nasty blurr in the downsection. Too low quality JPG. Keep the good works up! I work always at 1680x1050, but then it looks good. So not a cheap JPG. Bravo.

It was just a joke about the monitor It is an 22 inch model at 1680x1050 and that suits enough for me Thank you for the compliment. I always turn my systemchase 90 degrees so the longest side is against the cold wall. Because all is black the desktop looks clear, but not always If I have a printjob to do, a huge laserprinter fits on the large free room and the office is one out of 1942! You can jump on it without any damage taken. Pure iron, heavy weight covered with tarpaulin, the same as on my floor. Very cheap sollution, but it looks nice, more people visiting me says this. It's so easy to realise If you look good at the left side of the picture, you discover 2 free USB plugs. One is for my digital camera and the other for the printer. PS: If you're satisfied about your monitor and you can do what you must do, everything is fine? I began with a 15 inch CRT monitor and this one already stands on the attic and that very old thing still works fine and with a very crisp view. A small thing, but always easy to have in stock in case of .

Sounds intresting. After a resume which fails you reset the PC and everything goes blank in text. Try this, prioritysteps 0. Never put the PC in sleep again until the problem is known. 1. Recover from another restorepoint 2. Do an in-place upgrade of Vista. Should work. 3. BIOS parameters correct? (the same words as in Dutch) 4. BIOS upgrade Analyze it step by step after a possible reïnstal aka in-place upgrade. Something in your computer deny Vista from resuming. My system have no problem with sleep and I used it almost. The only thing I measure is sometimes another keyboard lay-out than teh fysical one. Very nasty. But fixed in SP1. This install is possibly lost.