CoffeeFiend

localhost has nothing to do with drives. If you want an easy way to setup apache, php, mysql and such, look for XAMPP. Unzip and you're done.

right, none of the get rich quick schemes are scams, of course

That doesn't really make sense. A B C D E F is an enumeration and 0-9 is a range... ranging from an "enumeration" to a range? 0 to F would be more appropriate. It's hex (base 16). First 4 bits are for back color and the next 4 for foreground. 00-FF in hex is equivalent to 0-255 in decimal... It's nothing complicated. Either ways, peronally I see no benefit to changing the colors, I'd rather keep the default ones. Your echo off is missing the @, and I wonder why would anyone want such as tiny window too.

I use all 3, but I definately think spysweeper is better than the other 2 together... It's a matter of opinions

I nerver heard about such a feature for any audio/media player. I'm guessing you could code a winamp plugin to do that job, but most likely, you don't want to do that

I do know it's againt the forum rules to post spam and such threads to help one self gain $$, however, are we overlooking signatures or something? While I don't mind personal website links, stats, uptimes or things like that, I'm starting to get pretty fed up with the "sign up for crap so I get a free iPod" signatures not that anybody forces us to click, but same applies to spam...

You could do that in 2 lines (this is by far my most reused/recycled/reposted contents on this forum) for %%a in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%a:\D1.txt set CDROM=%%a: for %%a in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%a:\D2.txt set CDROM=%%a: I adapted it to use your file names and you can remove the drives you don't want it to seach... You could even have 2 separate variables (in case it has 2 drives and you insert a disc in each or such) and have conditionnal checks that would make it detect/ask for the next disc or such accordingly... It wouldn't be hard.

I won't make a list as it would be too long. However, with so many sites having RSS/Atom feeds, I don't have to "visit" them as often to get my news It's definately a time saver to have it all in one centralized location.

I find they cover microsoft/google stuff far too much (ie not just the interesting stuff or stuff that really matters). I find other news sites will publish the intersting stuff anyways (and there's tons of those to follow already) - and they got RSS/Atom feeds as well (I couldn't live without that!)

I believe CCE SP is just /S GKnot codec pack... not sure I don't use it, but I do install Gordian Knot though. If they're using the same installers (one would think so!) /S makes it install silent *BUT*, the installer launches more setups (maybe not in the codec pack?) and those won't be silent no matter what. That leaves you with a few options: -use /S in combination AutoIt for the few popup lefts (what I'm doing now) -use just AutoIt -Repackage it all (all the files, regsvr32 what you have to, etc - a pain for nothing) or even better in this case: -use a better codec pack like a customized k-lite along with the few other codecs you want (which I what I do for codecs) I don't use the others (especially not DivX - that doesn't make it on my system)

ResultCode=-3 means: "Required data not found in the Setup.iss file"

Just a small and quick clarification: -you need "@echo off" (w/o quotes) on your very first line of your batchfile (and it's only needed once) -the following lines (when you want to write something to console) should be just "echo", not "@echo" -if you don't want to see "x files copied" and such messages too, just add " > nul" after them ie "copy source destination > nul" but keep in mind if something goes wrong (like if it asks to overwrite) you won't see a thing and you won't know what went wrong, so it's good to use only on previously tested stuff. -use cls when you want to clear the screen completely (like right after @echo off) RunOnceEx is good for some people, but I don't like it and it's not good for my purposes, to each their own

The fact that they are labelled C or F actually doesn't mean much, you can change them to whatever you want. 1) Not necessarily, it depends of your winnt.sif and the way your drives are connected 2) Don't make setup install to the HD to the same hd/partition, make it ask you. It's the only step I have not unattended, as for every setup, you may want to choose a different setup.

Go to your local library and pickup a dos book or google for guides. I'm sure you can find LOTS. It's actually very simple, most commands have very silimar syntax and /? to help.

Try spybot search & destroy, or even better, spysweeper (don't forget to run the updates too)

No codec pack has "all you need", nor has only what you need. ALL of them have extras and miss others. I install a customized k-lite codec pack (the best around imho) and then add the others I want (another couple dozen easily) Also, not all are maintained as well nor as often. K-lite is pretty good for that, although for many codecs like ffdshow, xvid and such, you might as well deselect it and silently install the latest build separately (I use a special version of xvid too). Most have an old ac3 filter version as well... Most of codec packs out there can cause system problems just like you're having right now.

I don't know why people want to use IIS for ftp. It's very good for serving web pages, but ftp wise it's about the worst for the job. There's tons of ftp servers out there, and I'm sure that there are some free ones (and they can only be better than IIS for that). I like G6 ftp server (more than serv-u and all others).

Both have same socket/pin layout. Overcloking wise (not that I bother with it or care about it) it also depends on the processor's stepping (and not all motherboards are as good for the job either). If you go mobile, get a I stepping instead of a A stepping.

No it's not just an FTP server, it's the BEST FTP server hands down!! Much much much better than serv-u and all others imho. Couldn't live without it.

Sometimes freak fits the bill nicely

Amen to that! I use kaspersky personally, but there's other good ones (nod32, ...) In fact, I wonder if any of them are worse than norton... Probably not.

I'm not surprised one bit by that (and I bet mcaffee doesn't do much better with it) - yet people want to use norton and say it's best... Why? It's completely beyond me. There are much better AVs out there (kaspersky, nod32, etc) that do a lot better job and that aren't resource hogs like norton. Norton AV is known to miss 1 in 4 viruses and its support for scanning archives (ace/rar/iso/ etc) is poor at best and last I read comparisons it was also the biggest system resource hog and also the slowest in terms of scanning speeds (kb/s)...

There are tons of free hosts that you could use to have your .mst files online and some only takes a couple of minutes to sign up for. .msi files wise... some apps may be ok to be repacked or such (shareware/freeware) but definately not commercial apps (obviously)... perhaps having quick guides/how to's instead would be an option for the latter?

Why bother with complex autoit scripts when you can install the extensions from the command line instead? (I really think something could go wrong with autoit here) use the -install-global-extension command and it workw 100%. (now if they could convert more than 2 of the 12 or so extensions I use so they work with v1, I'd be happy!)

Can't search? Why not? It works for me. It's an installshield installer. Use the usual method for that.