CoffeeFiend

The only reason why I see someone would want to spend that much on a barebones, is because they want the small cubic-like case. The motherboards are usualyl limited in amounts of slots, I find the motherboards in them tend not to follow new technologies as fast, heat is more of an issue and all... For cheaper, you can pick a very very good motherboard and a decent ATX case. Last time I needed a cheap case, I found a enermax case with a nice 350w psu (enough amps on the 12v bus but only 1 fan), lots of drive bays and space for fans and all, for about 40$ usd... Never had any issues with it (and there's 5 HDs in it and a CD/DVD combo drive!!) If you got 400$ for the looks, only you can tell. For 400$ I'd picup the same case again, a Athlon 64 and a nice motherboard with GB Lan, SATA RAID, firewire, usb2 and 8 channel digital audio onboard...

Zoom Player WMV pro can also play DRM'ed contents and is the best imho (at least for HTPCs) but unfortunately it's not free. Codec packs wise, I'd stay away from the nimo codec pack, many issues with it and it's getting quite old, long time no updates. K-Lite can also do custom unattended installs and is very up to date and more torough. Much much better pack imho (although I still have to add several codecs after) K-Lite custom installs always went right for me.

And that the fact that nobody else isn't having any issues with it whatsoever is not enough of a proof? ... I could see that being caused by a bad patch of tcpip.sys, but I can't even see how terminal services can even break that stuff... Doesn't seem related even one bit.

I have to say like Alanoll on that one... Classic look and an external player for video here too (ZoomPlayer), but the install method is nice.

I've been thinking about it, but the only thing is, I find that's not enough... I'd want more features. I do isntall more plugins than that (MuchFX and RockSteady usually), and I would also want a way to maybe do things like change the default plugins, or perhaps I'll just make a package for all of them plugins, all preconfigured. Also, I'm starting to have mixed feelings about the way I install winamp. The msi package by Alanol is great, but having to rely and wait on him for every new build that comes out to be repackaged maynot be the best way... (no offense to Alanol, you're doing a great job at it!) but if I used AutoIt (which I always tried to avoid as much as possible), then as long as the installing interface is the same, it's only a matter of putting the new installer in the proper directory and that's it... (I'm sort of finding out that I will have to use AutoIt in some cases anyways) I'll see how things turn out... [edit] Actually... I just noticed the link in your signature about winamp 5.05... Nice!

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I don't know which version you're using, but I've tried too (with v7) and can't get it to work with any usual switches even though it uses NSIS v1.0h... Luckily, you can repack it easily. It extracts all the files then runs "record date.exe " then "askemail.exe" (that's for the winamp version at least). Actually, chances are, you don't even have to run them either. As for the registration information, I do beleive it's tied to something like a hardware id, so i doubt you can just import the regkeys and have it work... I will most likely repack the winamp version as a winrar SFX soon...

Most of us have been using that DLL for a while with no adverse aspects, perhaps your troubles are coming from some other tweak interacting or soemthing, as terminal services don't have anything to do with most of these thigns you're reporting...

Between the 2, WinDVD. If I could choose anything, it would be ZoomPlayer 4, with a custom graph (sonic filters, ffdshow for post-processing (dscaler filter if NTSC non-film), ac3filter, perhaps a nice DX filter for audio enhancing... i like it complicated )

4.5mbit/512kbit... down is plenty fast (you hardly get servers that can give you near that) but i so wish my upload was much faster...

Right click my computer, manage, disk management, right click I: drive, change drive letter and paths...

It usese installshield. Look up the common method for all installshield packages.

Firefox is best for me as well. Best CSS support and popup blocker, lots of very very good addons like the web developper toolbar, checky, adblock, ... Otherwise, I'd use just about anything over IE

So true, you never want to go back B)

Same here, it's not usually on very tweaked systems, IE just seems to be very buggy...

Actually, it does look not that bad in firefox to me, just the left menu that's a bit low. And I bet the issue is that firefox actually renders it like you css sheet actually should... If you change it so it works with fully css compliant browsers, you might have to add some css hacks for IE to display it properly... Thanks to IE "pro" webmasters have to include uglyness like: voice-family: "\"}\""; in our CSS sheets and more hacks/concessions... some news from last month... "Browser campaign slams IE" http://news.com.com/Browser+campaign+slams...?tag=macintouch

Nope. BMP is windows "native" format, and that's exactly why it only works with that (and many early windows app only worked with it). The other formats need extra code.

I voted couldn't give a monkey... I don't like any of the windows media players at all. ZoomPlayer/Winamp is where it's at

There is nothing to be forgiven. I don't take such things to heart, life's too short for that

Oh, don't worry, no issues... Choice.com is only needed because the scripting languages' limitations (there is no easy/proper way to have a timeout on the keystroke otherwise). The if goto is indeed a very old and ugly way of doing things, but until we can do select case (errorlevel) in a batchfile (although it would work in a vbscript), we're pretty much stuck with it. most scripting languages don't offer too much when it comes to console input unfortunately... And I think choice.com is "dying" mostly because nobody wants a dos-based install nowadays (they'd rather have a windows GUI setup made with something like autoplay media studio instead) along with pretty much all the other good old dos/command line utilities.

Like I said before, I doo know we could improve on it a lot, but it's quite the undertaking... It would require me to actually some spare time to code (at some point I had started making part of the logic, for a HTPC front end I've never got around to finish...)

You can do things like that w/o choice.com, but there won't be a nice time-out option available either (and a few more minor issues...) I don't see having to use a tiny app as an issue at all...

You're welcome Choice.com would work, but this clone has a few more functionnality and it's free... (choice.com coming from an old ms-dos -technically- would still require a license of the os it's coming from too... even though i can't see someone getting sued for that...) Why not

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It was already explained. Copy it as whatever_file_name.key.yek to your installdir and that's it. It works fine for me and many others.