Jeremy

www.free-codecs.com QuickTime Alternative Real Alternative Windows Media 11 Runtimes K-Lite Codec Pack Install those, try the online media content again.

Nuhi, my second time using Vista Lite the ISO creation worked. However, upon loading it in VMware, the beginning of the install process gives me this CMD box. Any ideas?

If POS you mean Piece of s***, Windows 98 isn't anywhere near the POS WinME is.

The operating system itself is not the only thing on a user's PC that is demanding of their system specs, no matter what OS you use. Video editing/encoding, benchmarking, virtual testing, multi-tasking... c'mon.

MPC does everything I need it to, I'm used to it. But I will give this a try.

0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (Click to consult the online Win XP Resource Kit article.) The system attempted to access pageable memory using a kernel process IRQL that was too high. The most typical cause is a bad device driver (one that uses improper addresses). It can also be caused by caused by faulty or mismatched RAM, or a damaged pagefile. * Error Message with RAM Problems or Damaged Virtual Memory Manager {KB 810093} Win XP Home (during restart) * “STOP:0xD1” Error Message When You Start Your Win XP-Based Computer {KB 316208} Win XP * Stop 0x000000D1 Error Message When You Turn Your Computer Off {KB 317326} Win XP (with USB device(s) connected) * “STOP 0x000000D1 IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Kbdclass.sys” Error Message When You Try to Shut Down the Computer {KB 810980} Win 2000, Win XP (Logitech mouse with outdated MouseWare software) * STOP 0xD1 error message when you start your Win XP-based computer {KB 839876} Win XP (ACPI issue, a Hotfix is available) * WRQ AtGuard Program Causes Error Message in Win XP {KB 319870} Win XP (AtGuard version 3.22)

There's always a virtual machine. VMware Workstation.

Like Acronis True Image but I'm not sure if it works on Win98SE. I prefer 1 DVD+R rather than a handful of CDRs. I love that I can restore at any point rather than reformatting. I use the Opera browser which is even more customizable and secure than Firefox. AVG has too low of a detection rate but is free so little argument there. I'd use Avast or AntiVir (the latter having an even higher detection rate than Symantec (crap) ) if I were to use freeware. I used to use Kaspersky which is the overall best one out there (I've compared 20 anti-virus products and it's the winner). I don't use Anti-Virus or a software firewall anymore. I have a router which keeps all the "background noise" away. I follow good computer sense to avoid malware. I recently did full scans with Ad-Aware and Spybot and turned up clean. Ad-Aware SE, Spybot are the two best anti-spyware programs for sure. I've also used CWShredder and Windows Defender. I've heard good things about Ewido AntiSpyware (the last version before it was bought out by AVG). I've heard good things about SpywareBlaster, too. Although, I think Spybot's Immunization does relatively the same thing? I haven't personally compared them before. CCleaner is teh s***! HijackThis, always nice. But if you look at your Task Manager and MSConfig (or alternatively strun.exe from NirSoft Freeware Utilities) you see the same thing. Then it's just a matter of Googling the process name of anything that looks suspicious to you. MRU Blaster, I've used that before although CCleaner already removes MRus from dozens of programs so this seems redundant nowadays. RegSeeker, I used this ages ago, it was okay for a while but eventually broke some things resulting in a complete reinstall. I've tested 30+ registry cleaners and IMHO jv16 PowerTools is the best registry cleaner I've ever used. Refer to my blog entry here for more info. And of course there are the MaceCraft Forums. I've used jv16 for years back when it sucked and have stuck with it for these years, watched it grow and improve and that faith in it has rewarded me with the terrific application that it has become. I'm also considering grabbing an old PC from my in-laws to use as a Linux box. I've actually never tried Linux but will do so soon in VMware. Fun lies ahead, hopefully. Office, I've always stuck with M$ Office. I've tried OpenOffice (mind you older versions) but it was so incompatible with M$ file formats and slow overall that I couldn't stand it. I'll try the newest version soon. Image viewing, I've used IrfanView for the past 5 and a half years. I don't do image editing, however. If I were, I'd use Adobe Photoshop. I've tried the Gimp before but didn't have much luck. Just wanted to share my knowledge and opinions on software with you. Cheers, Jeremy

You could do it.

I had Vista running on VMware ages ago. Was fun.

I've used Audacity (freeware) to record Skype calls before. Very simple. Just select the Microphone in the Windows Volume Control (sndvol32.exe).

Me get unhandled exception error near end of creating ISO. Me wait till next release.

Those two sites have a lot of excellent information. I've been working with DV for the last 5 years. I started out using garbage 1-click programs but those sites helped me gain knowledge about encoding DV to MPEG-2 and AVI. Since when is directing someone to two excellent sources of information a bad thing? Don't feel bad for me. You're obviously barking at others for not posting the superb knowledge that you apparently possess and feel it necessary to insult them for not knowing what you know. Too many people post on forums with questions relating to encoding/converting. If they went to those sites to begin with, they likely wouldn't need to create topics on forums since there are countless guides and topics already existing on this forum and several others.

Never tried it, never intend to. Opera reigns supreme.

As Pepoluan mentioned... Sounds like you're up to no good.

They all pretty much do the same thing, eh? Runtime GetDataBack R-Studio FinalData Restoration Undelete Plus Etc...

Security/User Permissions anyone?

Disable unneeded start-up entries. There are a few services that will take up a few MBs of memory combined, but other than that, if you're PC can't handle the software you use, get more RAM. Simple as that.

The other two are much better.

Use IrfanView or XnView.

!sEaRcH!

<--- Is getting elastics to suspend his harddrives

I don't even have a Prefetch folder.

Windows XP manages memory just fine. Those "memory defragments" are absolute trash. Anyone recommending them needs to learn a thing or two. No offense intended.

Maybe if you used SP2 which has DX9.0c built-in.