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@glent, Remember that this is a fully silent installer, so you would see no sign that the installer is running. So if you are testing it out, you can launch the installer with start /wait so that you'd know when the installation would finish. Or you could open the task manager after clicking the installer. You should see a couple of extra programs running. When they are done, you know the installation is over. Check your start menu for the icon. @screamer, Try this alternate mirror instead: Mirror1 Version1 Mirror1 Version2 (alt) @orustom, Sorry, its by design actually. I've noticed that very few people actually use those buttons on MSN, and its more of an unwanted thing for most people.. So I removed it. If there are others who think that the Inbox button is essential, then I'll gladly include it Btw, if you really want the Inbox button, then you could use Version1 instead.

@ terrypin, I think you are using the program's internal cache, which is why you would be getting the same reg entries again and again. Either update the internal cache, or avoid using the cache itself. Personally, I dont use the cache, as RegSupreme is fast enough. You can start off by deleting the \Cache folder in Regsupreme's folder. When RS starts, do not use the cache (Press the 'skip' button)

@SolidasRock I just used WinINSTALL to make and edit the MSI file. This is not a repack, nor does it include the original MS file, but I made from this from scratch. I perfer this as it gives me more flexibility, localizability and ultimately smaller file sizes, which I always aim for. I opened the original MSI from MS, and simultaneously created a new MSI. I just copy pasted all the properties (for eg, the Installer-ID, product-ID, etc) to make it look exactly like the original MSI so that no other program can differentiate between this and the MS installer. This is to maintain high compatibility. Also, I made my own bootstrap.exe, which launches MsnMsgs.msi silently, and waits for the setup to get over. The installer SFX in turn launches bootstrap.exe, and waits for it to finish. @Tarun Nope, dont worry. No MessengerPlus spyware included. This is a very clean install with absolutely no crap included! @Screamer Try disabling your download manager. Not necessary, but some DL managers might not pick up the file. @RougeSpear No, you dont need to register at all with RapidShare. Just click on the upload button to upload..

Jeremy, I dont think there is such a utility because its not needed. Because there is no such software that can reverse the changes made to a file without monitoring what changes were made to it. I mean that when you are deleting entries from the registry, you aren't actually deleting stuff, you are just modifying the physical files located on your drive. You still have your same old SAM, SYSTEM, SECURITY etc files, only now, they are modified. No software can undo that. So rest assured, when you are deleting stuff from the registry, it remains deleted for good. (PS: just so that you should know, it IS possible to manually erase parts of the registry. All one would need to do is access the registry files (SAM..etc) directly (and not thru any reg editor), decrypt the hives, search for the necessary keys and keep overwriting them. This of course cannot be done under XP, so one would have to make a tool similar to CHNTPW..)

NTregOPT doesn't remove any registry entries. It only rebuilds, or rather, compacts the registry so that blank spaces in the registry are removed. This is extremly useful after you remove a large number of registry entries (after using a reg cleaner), so that you can have a smaller and more efficient registry. As for the behaviour you observed, I dunno, its very strange indeed. Which version of RegSupreme are you using? Im using the Pro version 1.3.0.32, which was btw, released todaty itself (a bug fix) http://www.macecraft.com/downloads/RegSupremePro_setup.exe Do try out this version and see if you are facing the same problem. -- I too use Norton Windoctor btw, but unfortunately WinDoctor has a tendeny to fix the entries rather than remove them entirely, which I dont personally like- I always follow the principle that as long as stuff goes out from the Registry...

Btw, in addion to copying msnmsgr.exe, also copy the msgslang.dll file.

Your registry's size is quite normal, nothing to be concerned about. Btw, I would recommend using RegSupreme or RegSupreme Pro in addition to System Mechanic; RegSupreme removes FAR more entries than System Mechanic and is quite fast at it too.

If its a trivial file (ie you dont need secure deletion), you can use my program ForceDelete. Just run ForceDelete and try to delete the locked file. ForceDelete will intercept your attempt and delete the file for you. If you want to securely delete the file, but its locked, then you can use Unlocker first to unlock the file; then you can wipe it with any of the above programs.

I'm a huge supporter of Firefox (when 1.0 was released, I actually burned 100 Firefox CDs and distributed for free!) But I had always used Opera- way since Win 3.11. In fact, although Firefox is set to my default browser, when I normally surf, I use Opera. I dunno why, but I guess its because Opera, inspite of including 100s of features (and inventing most of them along the way), still remains to be small, fast and light. It has a very 'smooth' touch and feel to it, like the feeling you get when you know you are using a quality, branded product. And no, its not the skin/theme. Its something else, and I'm not quite able to pinpoint it... The integrated mail client (with Gmail like features), nice RSS aggregator, IRC etc have become an integral part of my daily usage, and it would be quite difficult to do without them. Basically Opera acts as an excellent all-in-one solution; it does it well and it does it good. Of course, I know that Firefox can do all that with extensions; or I can even use the Mozilla suite. But I still resort to Firefox when I need to 'get down and dirty'. For eg, for modifying/manipulating HTTP headers, debugging web pages, etc, Firefox is quite handy in that regard. Things like the Smilie pack, BBcode plugin, AutoCopy and many more are amongst the plugins I use frequently. And about the speed, well I've tweaked Firefox (using Firetune and manually) and page loading is as fast (if not faster) than Opera. But still, starting Firefox takes a lot more time as compared to Opera. I know I can of course tweak all that and do this that and make Fx load faster; but I think the reason why I prefer Opera is that it works out of the box. It just works. Now weighing the pros and cons, both the browsers have their fair share of advantages and disadvantages. Also, quoting numbers in this regard is quite useless. In the end it boils down to the users choice. We can't dictate people what to use and what not to. What matters is that we have quality alternatives available now. So Firefox and Opera fans, lets come together, stop fighting amongst ourselves, and lets KICK SOME IE BUTT!

You can actually make your own little 'program' for erasing. Just a little thing I made for fun Just copy paste this in notepad and save it as (All Files) erase.bat ren %1 § echo ................................................................ > § del § Now copy erase.bat to your windows folder so that it will run anywhere. And you can further add it to your right click menu by applying this .reg file (copy paste to notepad, save as something.reg) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Erase\command] @="\"C:\\WINDOWS\\erase.bat\" \"%1\"" Now this ain't going to protect you from the FBI , but atleast it protect ur privacy quickly

A quick and dirty way to prevent any program from creating new files/folders would be to create a folder/file with the exact same name! Confused? For eg, if you want to stop the creation of _vti_cnf, then create a blank, empty file with the exact same name, ie, _vti_cnf, in the same location. Now neither you, nor any program can create a folder by the same name! The same applies to files also. If you want to prevent the creation of a particular file, just delete the file when its not in use and create a folder by the exact same name This is a trick from the good'ol DOS days btw, which suprisingly still works, even on NTFS FileSystems

GoldWave does exist and is updated regulary too, and I still use it. However the voice seperation may not work very well for all songs. Your best bet would be googling for the instrumental or midi version of the song. An alternative would be to convert a song into a midi file using software like AudioToMidi.

Cheap & Effective A/v : Kaspersky or AVG Firewall : ZoneAlarm Ad Blocker: Ad Muncher (Not free, but well worth it) btw, read the stickies to get an idea

Messenger 3-in-one switchless silent lite: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * MSN Messenger 7.0.813 * MSN 7 Universal Patch / Mess.Be Patch * Messenger Plus! 3.52.130 Tweaks: - No IE Toolbar, No reminder baloon, No Homepage, etc Patched: Version1: - Polygamy, No Banner Ads, Tabs, Action Pane, Search, etc Version2: - Polygamy, No Billing Information, Idle/Away Distinguish, No MSN Spaces, Mess.be Custom Games, Multi-line Nicknames, Systray Sign-In Status, No MSN Logo, Messages > 500 chars, No extra Buttons, No Gleams, No Search bar, No Advrt Bar, No Premium Services, No Search Button, No Text Banner... Download (Version 1) (6.6 MB) (English) Mirror Download (Version 2) (6.6 MB) (English) Mirror

Hey, Thanks XPero! But does the latest XPize-UAE also include these new changes? Or will you be updating it later on?

MHz, it works absolutely fine here. However, if you solely want to delete locked files/folders (automatically), you check out my program, ForceDelete. You can leave ForceDelete running in the background. Whenever you try to delete locked files, ForceDelete will automatically intercept your attempt, unlocks the handles, and deletes the file/folder for ya

You dont need to use the installer at all. Install Ypops! normally and configure it according to your needs. Copy your Ypops! folder to the location where you want to do all silent installations. Open regedit and export the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\YPOPs!\YPOPs!\Settings. Save it as say ypops.reg Now just add the following commands to your unattended.cmd ECHO Installing Ypops! 0.7.3... XCOPY SOURCE\YPOPS C:\YPOPS /Q > nul REG IMPORT YPops.reg > nul Of course, you may also the include the .reg file for starting Ypops! on system startup, or copy the shortcut to your startup folder.

Perhaps you could make a second .cmd file and CALL it from the first one? And you could also try using PsKill instead.

New: Updated the installer to include the 7.0.1 Update! Sorry for the long delay, I am just tooo busy for all this See the main post for the new DL link!

Try looking here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;303089

1) Extract the contents of the original SFX into its own folder 2) Replace the Rarreg.key file 3) Make a new solid SFX in WinRAR as usual 4) Add all the files from the SFX folder 5) Copy the following into the comment box: ;The comment below contains SFX script commands Path=WinRAR SavePath Setup=uninstall.exe /setup Presetup=uninstall.exe /clean Overwrite=1 Delete=*.lng Delete=rarlng.dll Delete=rarext.dll Delete=register.frm Delete=rar_site.txt Delete=register.txt Delete=order.txt Delete=Dos.sfx Delete=os2.sfx Delete=Formats\ace.fmt Delete=Formats\arj.fmt Delete=Formats\cab.fmt Delete=Formats\gz.fmt Delete=Formats\lzh.fmt Delete=Formats\tar.fmt Delete=Formats\uue.fmt Delete=Formats\bz2.fmt Delete=Formats\iso.fmt Delete=Formats\unacev2.dll Delete=Formats\7z.fmt Delete=Formats\7zxa.dll Delete=Formats\z.fmt Title=WinRAR 3.50 beta 3 Text { <html> <body bgcolor="#ececec"> <style> body { color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: "MS Sans Serif"; font-size: 12; scrollbar-3dlight-color:#f0f0f0; scrollbar-arrow-color:#f0f0f0; scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#909090; scrollbar-face-color:#909090; scrollbar-highlight-color:#f0f0f0; scrollbar-shadow-color:#f0f0f0 } em {color: navy; font-style: normal} </style> <b>WinRAR is a powerful archiver</b>. It provides complete support of <em><b>RAR</b></em> and <em><b>ZIP</b></em> files, unpacks <em>7Z</em>, <em>ACE</em>, <em>ARJ</em>, <em>BZ2</em>, <em>CAB</em>, <em>GZ</em>, <em>ISO</em>, <em>JAR</em>, <em>LZH</em>, <em>TAR</em>, <em>UUE</em>, <em>Z</em>. Among WinRAR features are strong compression, volumes, encryption, self-extracting modules, backup facilities.<br><br> <b>WinRAR is shareware</b>. Anyone may use it during a test period of 40 days. Following this test period or less, if you wish to continue to use WinRAR, you must register.<br><br> <b>There are no additional license fees</b>, apart from the cost of registration, associated with the creation and distribution of RAR archives or self-extracting archives. Legally registered owners may use their copies of WinRAR to produce and distribute those archives free of any additional RAR royalties.<br><br> <b>WinRAR archiver is distributed as is</b>. No warranty of any kind is expressed or implied. You use at your own risk. Neither the author nor the agents of the author will be liable for data loss, damages, loss of profits or any other kind of loss while using or misusing this software. </body> </html> }

This is a totally silent installer switchless installer- just run the exe and its installed. I'll put up an alternate link in 24 hrs if you want.

Thanks for all your comments. Well I basically removed every plugin except 1) Browser Plugins (All) 2) Search Plugin 3) Web links plugin (so that you can view and click on web links in PDFs) Which should be more than enough for most people... Anyways if I included more plugins, then this wouldn't be a 'lite' version now would it The reason why FF by default doesn't load the pdf is because the plugin isn't copied to the FF's plugin folder. To enable pdf view in Mozilla and other netscape based browsers, just copy \Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\Browser\nppdf32.dll to the \Firefox\plugins folder. ----------- And for some reason a pdf isn't opening, just see the error message and download the respective plugin into the \Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\plug_ins folder. ---------- For more information on Firefox and Acrobat, check this page out. ---------- Of course, if it still doesn't load the pdf in the browser, the good'ol rt-click and Save Target As... always works -- * EDIT: I just confirmed that the absence of EWH32.API plugin causes FF/Acrobat to freeze or not work while loading a pdf in FF/NN. I'll be including ewh32.api asap and will fix the installer. Luckily it will only add 37kb to the final file size

For those interested in a smaller version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 Reason why its so small is that I removed all the useless files and plugins; but I still included the basic Search, Web links and Browser plugins. Although this installer is purely based on my own work, the reg tweaks I included comes from Astalavista's Post *NEW*: Updated to Adobe Reader v7.0.1! Sorry, that means a file size increase too! (Just 2 MB more..) 100% Silent, Switchless and Tweaked as usual. * Fixed the browser plugin problem. Note: You will still have to copy the Adobe\Browser\nppdf32.dll file to your Plugins folder in Firefox/Netscape if you want to view pdf files within your browser itself. Download (7 MB) (English) (More mirrors would be helpful!)

Gee thanks a lot crahak! Unfortunately I dont dream about ASM and stuff Guess I have to go down the hard route.. Anyways I already found some stuff and made a small BootExecute program just for starters ("Hello World!" - what else? )