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Yes, just backup the keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy And I meant it to be used only for IE because Firefox and other browsers already have good built-in alert-free site filtering.

Then try this.

Just give the users limited or basic user accounts. Don't give them admin or power user rights.

Exactly. Actually this poll is incorrectly titled - it should have been called "Which browser do you use the most". That'd have been more appropriate or relevant. Infact, I would personally be interested in such a poll. I mean, you see everywhere that people say IE is the most used browser with over 80% of the share, but I don't think that's true anymore. I'm a member at many communities, all of whom have a browser poll, and none of them have a majority IE vote. So I'm pretty sure that those ratings are incorrect, or you know, atleast amongst the better 'informed' people.

22 is quite normal, imho. Sometimes I have upto 80 tabs open in 4-5 windows Window 1 has all forum related tabs, window 2 related to viruses, exploits and security, window 3 email and news sites (slashdot, digg etc), and window 4 has programming and technical related (msdn, technet, etc)

Dude....what? You started off saying Opera was very professional, and then finished off by calling it crap The reason I prefer IE is because the fact that its fast. In my experience, it has always been fast and uses the least amount of ram out of the 3 browsers I have used. Opera would use 60mb on my computer, Firefox could go from about 50mb - 75mb, depending on how it felt, and IE would use around 20mb or so. That's my personal opinion, so don't try to change my opinion. Read my last line again, carefully Btw, you can change the amount of ram Oprea uses

Just do a reinstall. Whether you do a repair or a reinstall won't affect your existing files.

Opera. Mostly because I've been using it since my Windows 3.1 days. I find that its very stable and has an overall polished, professional feel to it. It's also quite small- only 4 MB but packs in plenty of features! It's also proven to be the fastest and the most secure graphical web browser. But I regularly use Firefox and IE too. Firefox because a few sites don't work in Opera, and a few extensions I find very useful, and IE because I use it as a honeypot! Opera sucks if you're looking to get infected. Seriously. I mean, wtf, even the animated cursor bug didn't affect Opera, while Fx and IE were! If you're looking for malware, avoid Opera. Period.

Every programming language has it's own strengths. You shouldn't learn a language just because it's easy or powerful. You should choose a language based on the task you want to perform, your target platform and the ease of use/comfort. For a beginner, It's highly recommended to start off with one of the C languages. It's not as difficult as some people would want you to believe. It's a very good language to learn the basics of programming. Once you're mastered the basics C++ and you're able to make simple to useful programs on your own, you could consider moving onto C#. There are way too many advantages for learning C++ for it to be ignored. VB isn't a good platform for gaming, and neither for understanding the concepts of programming - but it's good if you want to quickly make a program- especially if it requires a GUI. Python and other scripting languages are very simple and easy to learn, but aren't as powerful as C- you can't make full-fledged games, for starters. Also, scripting languages don't work the same way as programming languages, so you'll be missing out on a lot of basic concepts like what is compilation etc. BASIC - well, there's really no point in learning BASIC. It no longer has any utility. Java is good for multi-platform development. One code will work in all computers. You don't have to worry about many things like garbage collection. But once again, it isn't as powerful as C and isn't meant for making full-fledged games. -- If you have any doubt at all that the C languages should be the language of your choice, take a look at this poll: http://www.gamedev.net/gdpolls/viewpoll.asp?ID=450 Check out this site for a good guide on where to begin, with a full overview on how to go about things. GameDev.net is an entire site dedicated to game development with very useful tutorials and links. Definately bookmark this site! I highly recommend that you use the free Visual Studio Express Edition to start programming in C++. If you're looking for something light and fast, you could also try Code::Blocks. Finally, don't forget to bookmark the MSDN Library!

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Thanks again nmX!

Thanks! I'll definately be going for an UltraSharp. But what I'm interested in is like did you face any issues or quirks? Anything annoying or lacking? What about dead or stuck pixels? Any idea what's Dell's dead/stuck pixel policy? I heard Acer had something like they'd replace the screen only if there were 5 or more dead pixels. :|

Hi, I'm looking for a review on the Dell 1908FP Flat Panel displays. I couldn't find any reviews on the web, so I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with them. http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/p...;l=en&s=bsd http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/p...;l=en&s=bsd Thanks.

Lucky you, because it doesn't work on my PIII-450. I don't expect it to either, but I do expect it to work on my more recent IBM Centrino ThinkPad - but it doesn't. I've tried with three different brands and types of drives, with different bootloaders and programs and I've given up, atleast on this system. Basically, I know that even if I create a proper bootable USB drive, there's absolutely no guarentee that it'll work on all systems. I'm an admin, and I often use bootable CDs/DVDs for various purposes across many systems. I thought the popularity and the fall in prices of flash drives would see me shifting entirely over to USB drives - but it never happened. Ask Microsoft to give you a straightforward method to install XP from a bootable USB drive, and you'll get a straightforward answer - it's not possible. I guess I was luckier back then . I know of the dreaded EMS/HIMEM/TSR problems but it was never really a big issue for me - all I needed to do was pick the right floppy disk and boot from it. Eventually I learned enough to modify my config.sys so that I had choices of whether to use a memory manager or not, if so, which one to use, which BLASTER and STACKS settings, and so on. I just had to spend a couple of mins going through the manual of a game to find out the best settings. These days, games come on multiple CDs or even multiple DVDs (eg: FSX). Did you try installing NFS Carbon or Flight Simulator X? I assure you, it takes much more than than 5 minutes. Even if I have to install an older game like Diablo II (which requires 4 CDs) I'd have to spend a considerable amount of time. But back then, the only installation that was required was extracting from the archive which would take max about a couple of mins. Ok, so even if you do not consider the installation time, I still require an equal amount of time, if not more, to tweak the resolution, AntiAliasing, Anisotropic filtering, etc with various permutations and combinations to get the game to work at the FPS and graphic detail I'm comfortable at. In the DOS days, you never had to mess with the display settings - you just had to decide between CGA/EGA/VGA and most games automatically chose the best that was available. So basically, I still stand by my earlier point. I was more productive back then. I mean imagine this- if I had to type a document, the time it took for the PC to boot till WordPerfect was ready - less than a minute. Today, while the PC boot time is more or less the same, the OS takes quite a long time to boot. Even with hibernation, it isn't as fast as how it was in the DOS days. Yes, I do remember that. :/ I used to treat those disks more preciously than gold. I packed them with silica gel in airtight boxes and and made sure it was in a cool, dry, dark place. But I'd still end up corrupting a few - I think they get demagnetized over a period of time. . But once again, I never had much problems with the OS itself, save a few instances of boot sector virii, which was easily solved by FDISK /MBR and SYS C: . If the rest of the OS files also got corrupted, I'd restore them from my backup archive on the HDD itself. Basically, I never had to do a full format+reinstall.

I used AutoHotkey. It's really quite easy to make such programs in AHK.

Yes! When it's set in a batch file, the variable is temporary and local for that shell. %USERPROFILE% expands to the proper path which is why your file would have worked flawlessly. But when you set it as a system variable, you know what happens. That's the correct way to go about setting default values for new users. Sorry for my mistake earlier Fire up regedit, select any hive (HKLM or HKU) and choose "File -> Load Hive". Load Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT. Give it some name like default_user, and browse under it. Now edit the "Environment" key under it, make your changes, and get back to the default_user key you just created. Click on "File -> Unload Hive". Remember, this won't affect existing users. --- Note: The easiest way to add custom variables to all existing and new users, in your case, would be to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT! Yes, the good ol' remnant from DOS still works wonders in NT! Infact, this works just as if you've created a System variable, only, this will expand all variables to their correct path! Just edit C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, and add these lines: SET CUDT=%USERPROFILE%\Desktop SET CUSM=%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu SET CUSMP=%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs SET CUDT=%USERPROFILE%\Favorites Reboot. Now go to any user account and you'll see the variables are available and working perfectly! No more messing around with the registry. B)

System Variables are created after windows boots and before the logon. Therefore, as no profile is loaded, all profile related variables used will default to the SYSTEM profile, which is %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\systemprofile. So %USERPROFILE% will resolve to %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\systemprofile before logon, and after logon it'll resolve to the current user's profile. Therefore, if you want to use a variable which contains a variable related to the current user profile, you should create it as a User variable. (Eg: The TMP User Variable) Thus you should set the variable for every user. However, if you want it to be created automatically for a new user account, head over to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Environment --- In this Microsoft page, it says "Variable substitution is not recursive. Cmd.exe checks variables once." Which means, %QL% will NOT expand to C:\Documents and settings\.... but will instead stay as %APPDATA%\Microsoft\... - literally. %APPDATA% will not be expanded and therefore you'll get an error. -- I just created a QL user variable set to the direct path, and all commands work fine. I think why you're getting an error here is because you need to use double quotes - either while referencing the variable, or while setting it in the first place. Another alternative would be to set it to its short path (C:\DOCUME~1\..\APPLIC~1\MICROS~1\INTERN~1\QUICKL~1).

Thanks, but those who voted earlier can't vote again! It says "You have already voted in this poll ". Now I can't make my opinion count

If you're not going to delete or lock this thread, can you please edit the poll to add the below programs too? Make it multi-choice, so that we can select all the programs that we use, and also please don't add the version number - so that you won't have to edit the poll again in the future - ACDSee - Corel Paint Shop Pro - CorelDRAW Graphics Suite - The GIMP - Irfan View - Paint.NET

Thanks, but I couldn't find anything at DonationCoder. Anyways, I've almost finished the program. It doesn't have a GUI - runs off the system tray, all options are through the right-click menu, and all messages are through balloon tips (tray notifications).

It's not "Default" it's "(Default)", ie the first value you see on the right pane when you click on the DefaultIcon key. Or don't bother editing the registry and just download and run this script. Btw, may I ask you why you use a Ramdrive?

Are you sure it's IE-7? If yes, then are you sure you're using the latest build and not a beta or a RC build? Because I have created and installed XP many times with IE7 and RVM (without tweaks) and I've faced no SFC problems. Yes, SFC is enabled and working, because if I try to delete or modify a system file I do get the SFC popup. I currently integrate in this order: XP-SP2 -> RVM -> DirectX 9 -> .NET -> WMP11. Exactly what all are you slipstreaming with nLite? Are you using any patches or tweaks? Any modded files on the CD? Did you try using a fresh, unmodified, original XP CD?

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BrowserFlags 0x8 or 0x9 indicates that a particular app should open in its own window when its associated file is clicked (as opposed to opening within IE. For eg: MS Office docs). 0x10 indicates that when a link is clicked, the existing window should be reused instead of opening a new window. (0x22 in windows explorer - when you open a folder, it opens in an existing window instead of opening a new one). 0x24 or 0x00 indicates that the viewer should be embedded in the browser. EditFlags indicates what explorer should do with a particular filetype and/or defines what class it is. 00 01 00 00 turns off the "Confirm open after download" box in IE. 00 00 00 means no special attributes have been defined for that class. 02 00 00 00 is used for the mailto: protocol for mail clients. Technically, the EditFlags value for a filetype indicates a set of attributes that control the behavior of the filetype, or more specifically how the system should handle it. For eg, 0x00040000 indicates that the file is unsafe and should always be prompted before execution and 0x00100000 indicates that a file of that class shouldn't be included in the Recent Documents list. Now to indicate both these attributes in a single EditFlags binary, a logical OR is performed. = 0x00060000. Now this, in the binary EditFlags will be stored with reversed bytes as 00 00 06 00. For more details, read the Creating a File Association article on MSDN.

Thanks colore! I've been intending to do this a long time ago but I completely forgot about it. Thanks for the inspiration! So without much ado, I present: Drag2Copy v1.0 Drag2Copy (D2C) is an additional clipboard for windows with a difference - to copy text, all you need to do is select the text you want to copy (by dragging the mouse). To paste the text, press the Paste key (default: Ctrl+Alt+V). If you accidentally selected some text and thought you lost your previous selection, don't worry - just press the Undo key (default: Ctrl+Alt+Z) and you'll get back your old clipboard! Download (210 KB)