Jeremy

NFM's instructions are better.

Skype.

When the computer isn't working and you have leisure plans, don't put them off for the PC. Forget you have a PC until you get back. I'm going to a party on Friday and I don't care if my PC gives me 3 BSODs simultaneously, I'm going to have fun on the holidays. I can always restore with Aconis. My hardware is fine as it is.

Nice find.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=66127 That registry file has pretty much every tweak for Windows you could imagine. Take what you want from it. It took me a few hours to do mine up from it. Mine's 46 KBs and after I reboot, Windows is transformed and tweaked, total overhaul.

No offence intended, but I actually choked on what I had in my mouth when I read that.It's ironic how different people's experiences can be. I figured we could have some debate about hard drives, so I created a poll here so that we could discuss it some more. I choked too. I'm trying to dislodge the chip from my throat as I type this. But seriously, Maxtors do suck. I used to have a Maxtor External HDD that hooked up via FireWire. After months of fighting with the **** thing to stop vanishing, I took it out of its casement and hooked it up via IDE. A few months later it died. I got all the data off of it. I took some screws out of it, opened it up a bit, filled it up with water and let it rest overnight. The next morning I wrapped it in a plastic bag and beat it around the apartment for 5 minutes or so. My fiancee wouldn't let me put it in the microwave (likely wouldn't have been a good idea anyway), but I had fun annihilating my old Maxtor drive.

Miranda but last I checked it was very buggy/unstable. They may have improved it by now... hopefully...

I just switched from Everest to this.

So THAT'S how those Zalman heatsinks go on... I had this all wrong. Nice one Zxian. Is that an ISA slot on the bottom? I can't wait to post pictures of the two *really old* computers my mother-in-law gave me. Zxian is it just me or does that video card look like it's being slightly bent? The part on the left looks lower than the right.

Well, that proceeds my knowledge and as I am unaware of what an SDK is, I wouldn't know. But if it does function without DX, then cool. I doubt many people would remove it, if any. Nice addition, though.

Windows XP *functions* without DirectX?

And XP goes even smaller. Time to make a new ISO and test it out. Merry Christmas, Nuhi.

Your harddrive makes a noise? What kind of noise? A clicking noise? If so, you might want to get a new harddrive. From what you've said, I'd say you need to reformat and reinstall, unless Cluberti can narrow things down and help you fix each individual process.

Do a little dance... Make a little love... Get down tonight... *wiggle wiggle* Wait a minute, are those lyrics meant in a sexual context? Well, I guess it doesn't matter on birthdays.

None. My console is my PC.

It's Diskeeper 2007 that you'd want. I don't know of any freeware defragmenter that does as good a job at Diskeeper. There's Vopt and UltimateDefrag but I don't think either of them are free.

Out of the 30+ registry cleaners I've tried they are mostly all replicas of each other, with a few exceptional ones that still do not come close to jv16 PowerTools. It's price, features, stability, nice GUI and memory usage... It's developed by a guy whose been working on it for many years mostly by himself with a few others. Just like nLite with Nuhi and his friends. Only difference is that jv16 isn't free, but it's very cheap for what it offers.

Yes, so?

Try using CCleaner. Also, I'd advise not using IE7. Try Opera.

I agree. Bak70, download UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) burn it to CD, boot to it and perform a low-level format on the harddrive. This will recover passwords.

For future reference, don't get a HDD unless it has more than 1 year warranty. Just get a Seagate for an easy 5 year one. If your drive is still clicking, then I wish you luck running anything from it for much longer.

MarkJohnson, do the following: 1. Download and install Diskeeper. Let it take care of your harddrive's fragmentation for you. 2. Go to Start > Run > Type in "msconfig" and under the "General" tab under "Selective Startup" uncheck "Load Startup Items". Reboot. Notice a difference?

Audio/Video WinDV v1.2.3 - 92 KB (Single EXE) Upload DV as Type 1 or Type 2 to your PC and watch it as it uploads (preview window). Also transfer DV back to your camcorder with it. -Customize filename of uploaded AVIs -Specify # of frames to be captured before next clip begins You can click "Capture" and wait as long as you want before you actually begin playing back the footage on your camcorder, WinDV will wait until it actually receives the data before it creates the AVI file (doesn't fill an AVI with empty content). Very old but it does the job! DVDate v6.2.1 - Drag and drop your DV file into this Single EXE of 1.5 MB to tell the exact date and time of when the DV footage was originally recorded (thanks to the timestamp stored on the tape). Two of my ultimate personal favorites.

Stop suggesting that just because someone doesn't do what you do means they are stupid. You do this a lot and I imagine it's getting on a lot of peoples' nerves. There are a lot more types of registry entries that no one would know what to look for or where to remove. Sure for your Recent Documents List MRUs, and CTRL + F > "Adobe" F3, F3, F3 several hundreds of times but that's just silly. jv16 PT doesn't just have a registry cleaner and for all the features it packs for a mere $20 is just insane. http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_01.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_02.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_03.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_04.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_05.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_06.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_07.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_08.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_09.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_10.jpg http://jeremy.zxian.org/Screenshots/jv16_11.jpg

Nice Find!