CoffeeFiend

Well, right now you don't know exactly what's to blame. The drivers, the overlay, the codecs, ... You somehow have to narrow it down. -I've had overlay problems before, and I had to re-set which one was my primary display. Never know... -Codec wise, you'd have to make sure (with an app like gspot) that your system has the right codecs installed. For playback, ffdshow will take care of most mpeg4 video formats. There could also be some problems with your codec entries. Sometimes a blank line gets somehow added to them, then the system stop checking for other codecs as it reached it. There is a utility to fix that. Could be that as well... -Could be just buggy drivers... Seen that too... If everything else fails, don't bother spending countless hours fixing what can be reinstalled in minutes

I finally decided to peek at this media connect for once today. No switches combinations or anything could possibly disable that warning, nor will msi editing help. The problem isn't the installer itself (it doesn't even check), but it's rather windows media runtime files: wmfdist95.exe, that's installed that does it (in C:\Program Files\Windows Media Connect\Redist) We could fix that, re-archive it, and then replace it inside the msi installer.... It's getting to be too much work to bother with it, might be easier to just repackage it (more precisely, it's wmsetsdk.exe inside that that causes the nag)

Yes, and what's with the "dumping" and "kick it" posts? There's a limit to how many irrelevant and useless posts one should (or shouldn't make)... Having a high number of posts is nice, but having some quality in what you post matters a lot more. This isn't helpful or useful at all (or perhaps about as useful as your regionnal surveys in foreign language about your own country - in the unattended section! ) This is just useless database bloating. There's enough threads about nero already.

No offense, nothing personnal... but I MUCH prefer good old normal shell with classic everything...

The host file is only for the one PC it's installed onto. It won't do others any good. They'll still have to use your dynip no matter what.

Well, it's safe to block update checks, but I don't see a point to bother with it. Some other programs need to verify registration online as well. Other than that, you can block it all, but it's pointless if you ask me.

Nobody really does... My guess is, he expected some unattended answers?

I had missed the "pro" in your title... check this thread out http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...9839 especially the last post

Yes, it's been covered... Do a search and I'm sure you will find

Either ways, what's that supposed to be? (Do you mean a laptop/notebook or what?) What do you want it to do?

Not much people here probably run an old beta. It's been a while that all my puters run the final SP2...

I'm not going to make any new comments or anything special on piracy... People can't buy what they ain't got money for, that seems pretty simple. True enough, software shouldn't cost this much either. If a game sold for just 10-20$ instead of 50-70$, they'd sell 25x as much copies. Perhaps there would be a way to compensate lower profits by more sales. Lots of these apps cost far too much for the average guy. The new "yearly" build of windows/office/photoshop together is already too much for most people It's not bad if you make a living off it, but otherwise... (true enough, most people don't *NEED* the absolute last version to do the basic stuff either) Enterprise wise, freeware sometimes isn't cheaper. Lots of companies stay with windows instead of linux because of the cost of training exmployees, IT staff and everything. Sometimes what seems cheaper isn't really cheaper...

Hmm, there might be other things you can do. There is a linux floppy that can change lost passwords. It would probably let you re-enable the account too. There might be more ways around this too... (SAM editing...)

It would be possible to do it, make a small and simple app that sends a MCI command MCI_SET_DOOR_CLOSED or using WMPlayer.OCX.7 (many ways to do it), and then add it to the context menu.

Yet another vote for Axialis IconWorkshop. I hate having to create icons for apps I code, but this makes it a lot easier.

We already knew that. What's your point? And actually, it's not 7, its 7.2.3.901. Not like it's new or anything, and he already mentions he's using it in the first post... @molski BTW, registering it like that will only work on that one PC. Yes, you put that in a .reg file. Import it by regedit /s whateverfile.reg The only other app on that list I use is CloneCD. Here's how to register it, and to disable and remove the CloneCD tray annoyance: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Elaborate Bytes\CloneCD\CDKey] "Name"="Your Name Here" "Serial"=hex:00,11,22,33,44,55,66,77,88,99,00,aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff,00,11,22,33,44,55 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SlySoft\CloneCD\Settings] "LogWindowOpen"=dword:00000000 "LegalNotAgain"=dword:00000001 "AutoUpdateCheck"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SlySoft\CloneCD\Settings] "CloneCDTray"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "CloneCDTray"=- Of course replace name and serial with your data from the registry. Most likely CloneDVD data is kept in a very similar location. Shouldn't be hard to find. As for the others, a registry snapshot program could help to narrow them down.

And his point is - YOU don't have a point. It's NO better, just better looking for some people who like that better, so don't call other newbies because they prefer a more powerful yet less graphical method newbies because it's not the case. Anybody can do RunOnceEx, it's not rocket science. I thought you said you wouldn't be lured into making further comments? @Ramik: memtest86+ rocks

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Hmm, this one's got me puzzled too. Both occurences of "ZsHqcOdc" in the key {1B6920E9-D710-2CE6-6905-C8902ED579CC} have the value "InterVideo MPEG4 Video Decoder Property Page" as (Default). Doesn't look right "ZsHqcOdc" contains the encoded data, but what does it have to do with WinDVD? I haven't tried it on another PC yet, I don't know if it would find them. I guess I'll have to try.

I rely on memtest86 v3. It's finds all errors and never reports errors on good modules. It's free, small, and available as a bootcd. Give it a try I always keep it around, it's came in handy many, many times already. http://www.memtest86.com/ [edit] looks like there they came up with something newer: memtest86+ http://www.memtest.org/

Actually, there is a LOT of very similar products today by tons of companies Meedio (ex myHTPC), Cyberlink PowerCinema, Intervideo HomeTheater, MythTV, SnapStream, SageTV, BeyondTV, ShowShifter, MainConcept PVR.. .. .. .. . The list is almost endless. They mostly all suck imho. Yes, the interface and concept is nice (in most cases, anyways). The problem is, not only they're not geared towards HDTV, but they're mostly geared towards analog cable. Analog cable is already pretty ugly looking. Some do have IR blasters and such to control set top boxes and such, but you're still taking so-so quality 480i stuff, decoding it (it's not perfect decoding), passing it thru cheap DACs, lots of filters and wires, sampling it with cheap and not well calibrated ADCs (BIG loss of quality) and recompressing it on the fly to some other lossy algorythm... I mean, the source didn't look too great to start with, after all this, it still looks better than VHS, but paying all this money to buy the software (and most of the time, they need an expensive hardware capture card instead of using software mpeg2 encoding), so the price tag is quite high for the quality we get... I just wish they came out with something like, a digital port (kinda like we use now for miniDV transfers) that would plug to a firewire card or similar on your PC, and copy bit for bit the incoming digital stream off the set top box with no quality loss, decent filesizes, and not much cpu useage (just like we can do now with dvb cards or with real PVRs provided by satellite/cable companies). Even if it involves heavy DRM. I'm not asking for HD or real DVD quality, but just no worse than the "just ok" quality stuff that's broadcasted. I really see no point paying all that money for such mediocre quality. But again, of course, even if it makes too much sense, it's definately asking too much. Other than that, yes, the interfaces are getting nicer

Hey, it could have been worse... McAfee is still a million times better than Norton junk -a happy Kaspersky user

2 main reasons: 1) activation purposes and/or registration 2) checking for updates

I remember answering it once, but it might be hard to find... It's the usual msi installer, typical switches, like such: MICROSOFT PLUS! FOR WINDOWS XP.MSI /qb

there is also taskkill