CoffeeFiend

This has been answered in at least half a dozen threads already, just use the search function.

That will NOT work. He has to record it first, and he needs the logfile as well (he's not doing it from the HD - just like I am). And not everybody installs that way either...

I had mentionned 3 things (cables, speed prob or switch) and you cleared 2 of them. There's only your cables left... As for the ends, no we don't just do anything. There's 2 types of cables (straight through and x-over) and one has 2 variants. Have a look at this http://www.startech.com/articles/showarticle.cfm?id=25 it shows you how to do it properly.

I'm anti-style I guess... I got classic everything and even the themes service disabled, it's the only way I can stand XP.

If you mean the security tab in explorer, keep in mind it only works on NTFS partitions.

Well, there's still hope. I'm sort of amazed at some of the posts though... -Your IPs and subnet are ok. -You did say there is NO firewall running (even the default XP SP2 one) but it never hurts to double check on that one I don't see a reason why you'd need a overkill power supply for a NIC, nor 7 different protocols (you only need TCP/IP to ping another box - and if you already have proper IP/subnet - then that means it's already installed)... What's left? -Your cables: check the plugs, see if their straight trough or x-over's, I don't know if your switch does auto MDI/MDI-X, they could also be bad (open/shorted pairs). 100 meters is the limit by what the spec says, but it's not like communication stops altogether when you're at 100.01 meters... It should still work, perhaps with some packet loss or such, unless it's extremely long. (Are you sure they're that long? That's quite the patch cable you got there!) -Speed mismatch or similar connectitivity issue. Lots of NIC/switch combo's don't auto-negociate properly... even the expensive stuff - I see it all the time. You can set your NICs to 100/full to make sure (it never hurts). -The switch. Everything can fail - even if it has no moving parts... Hopefully you find the culprit, good luck!

I'd check system.ini and win.ini to make sure. That process has got to start somehow. Perhaps you can make a list of all the registry entries (or a HijackThis log) and such. Sounds like a random generated file name - definately not a normal process. Sounds like scumware to me...

I don't have time to try it much, and I'm not sure if your "handler" passes the proper data on either, but this looks wrong: Command = "dir" & " " & Mid(Wscript.Arguments(1),2) & " " & "/o:n /b>" WriteName & "\" & VolName & ".txt" it's missing a & before WriteName for sure (I also moved a couple space chars) Command = "dir " & Mid(Wscript.Arguments(1),2) & " /o:n /b>" & WriteName & "\" & VolName & ".txt" Mind you, if you do it that way... You'll probably encounter some problems down the road. For the volume label, I'd use the FSO's Drive object instead, and for the common documents, FSO's GetSpecialFolders(43). Anyhow, now to the problem: you will most likely have several CDs with the same volume names (I'm sure I have at least a dozen with the same names). Also, I don't know why you even pass on the drive letter to a .cmd file to pass it on to a .vbscript, why not pass it on directly instead? Or even better, why even pass it on when your "handler" could do a much better job at listing/sorting/formatting the file list without external dependancies and (I'm assuming it's a program) has full access to API's and what not, and would run faster then launching 2 external interpreted scripts... Anyways, I'll wait for feedback

Wow. And I was goint to ask if it was 150mb and takes 17 minutes to open before I download it That's what I was expecting from them seeing how their new versions are becoming...

I second what Drewdatrip said. Cheap power supplies (even with high wattages) sometimes aren't very good (lots don't have enough juice on the 12v bus) and end up causing lots of problems and headaches. I've replaced dozens of bad ones that caused similar problems before. Usually when I come across one (even if it says 450w on it) I try a good old trusty enermax 350w in and it just about never fails...

You can try booting in safe mode, maybe it won't start those processes so you could delete the files and registry entries. Also, some programs might help getting rid of them (spyware scanners and good AV's would most likely remove that). You can also boot to win98se bootdisk (with ntfsdos pro if you're on ntfs) or winpe and delete the files and restart your PC... There's a few dozen ways around this problem.

There is no reason that I can think of why you would want that port to be open to the outside world. Your firewall should be blocking that, if not, perhaps it's time to look for another one?

As it's pretty late right now I won't search for a download link or anything yet (we'll see tomorrow), but adobe has a component (they had actually pulled if offline for quite a while) that lets you use .pdf files and index them and such, it should be usable in php as well (or perhaps index the files and access the indexing server from php). I'll try to find it again sometime tomorrow.

I'm officially in the same boat as of tonite.... I thought that a 5 Pak of DVD-RW's would last me a lifetime (ok, maybe a year?) but after 2 or 3 burns of each, nero/alcohol/... refuse to burn to them or erase them anymore and they have no scratches whatsoever... (On an old pioneer DVR-105) I'm giving up on rewritable media for good, and even though the write-once media is down in price a lot, I don't want to burn a spindle full of them for nothing... So I found an old 12GB HD I still had (surprisingly) kickin' around, formatted system (98se), smartdrv.exe on it and all... Thinking of it, no more discs to burn either (2x -RW's still took almost 10 mins to burn) and the install is quite fast too. (yes, I do have vmware but it's not practical in this case) Oh well...

As for the putting it all on one disc... I suppose you could try to trim it down as much as possible, then make it a winrar sfx, make it extract to the HD and start the install from there... As for the setup, no .iss required, I just use the .msi file with /qb and it works ("%CDROM%\install\Plus XP\MICROSOFT PLUS! FOR WINDOWS XP.MSI" /qb).

Download autoit3 (just google it, it's free), then you can compile it to a .exe which will start the installers and automagically press the buttons for you and make it install. That easy, nothing to be scared of

Hmm, it's just a simple script that sends keypresses and such (windows messages) to the window to make the app install. Even though it's scripted, it doesn't relate much to neither vbscript nor batchfiles IMHO.

I'd try posting in the Device Drivers section instead (and probably read the stickies as well - just in case) as this is where it belongs...

Well... I was going to say install it as-is, then launch the uninstallers for the ebay stuff, but I'm not sure it does create uninstall entries for everything (like toolbar buttons and such) and it might be just too bothersome to have to track the registry entries or to repackage the whole thing... Sometimes, as much as I hate having to do it... It seems AutoIt is almost your last solution, so here goes: Run("iview392.exe") WinWaitActive("IrfanView Setup") AutoItSetOption("SendKeyDelay", 200) Send("{TAB 2} {TAB 2}{DOWN} {TAB} {TAB} {TAB}{ENTER 2}{TAB 5}{ENTER 2}") Sleep(1000) Send("{ENTER}") It took a whole 2 minutes to write and it installs clean (no desktop shortcut, no ebay stuff, no file associations).

Putting your WINNT.SIF file in /i386 is all you have to do, it should work... Hard to say what goes wrong. (a better topic could attract more readers too)

If you just installed SP2, perhaps tcpip.sys is causing you issues, otherwise it could be the router causing the problems... Hard to say without more details.

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I use IIS as my primary web server, but when it comes down to FTP, IIS really doesn't cut it. I use G6 FTP Server for that, works great, tons of features (there's a bunch of others too)

Sound can be in various formats, and bitrate wise, if you're talking about DD 2.0, it's usually 192kbps, and DD 5.1 is usually 448 (sometimes 384...). (DTS is even higher) Even at high volumes, I don't hear any of that white noise during silent periods. I'd have to say it's your audio setup that's causing it. It does sound better than CD Audio (it's at 48khz too, compared to 44.1 for cd audio - and much more efficient coding) Once you get a taste of HD DVDs and such, you realize how much better it can get

Divorced. Best thing I've ever done in my life (especially since I got the kids!)