CoffeeFiend

Well, I think everyone who knows about divisions clearly understands the number of pages is relative to the number over the number of post displayed per page... I've been thru all 85 pages. It was a lot of reading, and 95% of all those long reg files are similar, and you do have to go thru them all to find the exceptions - when there are any - which is very time consuming. I mean, if I posted the same thing as people have already posted about 50 times already in here, no one benefits from it. Anyways, now that I'm done reading thru it all, if people want to push this another 50 pages worth of the same tweaks over and over again, it won't annoy me much as I won't be reading them. The only stuff we're looking for by now is *new* and useful tweaks, that was my point. (anyone wants me to post my 2000 line mass-merged regteak with the same stuff as everybody else who posted theirs before? lol)

1) I've just started on that today (as well as for registry tweaks). 2) Hmm, the sp2 deployment tools work pretty nice, and a search an fix the couple issues left pretty quickly 3) Well, drivers ARE already easy to install, unless you mean unattended in which case, all your PCs need to have the same hardware (to require the same drivers) or it would have to determine your HW first... I've been thinking about taking care of making a ATI/NVIDIA detection app - so it installs one or the other accordingly. Wouldn't be hard... 4) Erm, I think we're basically all open to good suggestions

You're not talking to yourself I have to try different methods sometime soon as I'm having extension problems as well. They don't disable/uninstall or anything... And I got all the Program Files, App Data, Reg Entries, Uninstall Infos and all... I just wish I had time to try to fix it and try different methods... But I'm in registry tweak hell (new project lol) If you manage to fix the issues meanwhile I'd be glad to hear about it

Same here. I don't use IE and I've never seen those screens (which don't make much sense to me either lol). But instead of trying to find a pre-made tweak to solve the problem, perhaps you have to find out what has to be done to make it go away, then make a fix from that... I've never encountered those so don't count on me to find a fix...

Actually it doesn't do the same job. I haven't looked into it deeper, but I never use start /wait and I never have problems. (just like we don't *have* to use msiexec.exe to launch .msi's I guess?). The only time you really need to use CALL is if you're launching another batchfile. If you omit call, the 2nd batchfile won't return.

How... Well, you're getting into disassembling it... Or comparing what bytes were actually replaced and trying to reproduce it by yourself. Anyways, there's already a patched DLL out there with the registry keys to enable it. As for using 2003's dll, I doubt it would work...

ACDSee 6 tweak, no more asking for registration online, no more startup tips. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ACD Systems\ACDSee\60] "RegisteredSettings"=dword:00000002 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ACD Systems\ACDSee\60] "ShowTipOfDay"=dword:00000000 Also, I wonder why people do post their 2000 line long merged .reg files full of tweaks we all already seen many times. I don't think it really brings anything new (especially if not commented-not talking about anybody in particular). If every single of them tweaks has been mentionned 12 times already, what's the point of re-re-re-posting them again? If we all did this, we'd have a 800 pages long thread full of 2000 line long posts with hardly any new (or valuable) infos . I think everybody gets the point... (Useless thread/forum database bloating) I'm kinda hoping my reg tweaks/unattended command lines database (due soon, see this thread for more details and don't be shy) might help with this. It'll be only non-redundant tweaks, and eventually possibility to output selected tweaks to one big merged .reg file once I get around to code the front end for it. @Moderators: Shouldn't this be a sticky? I think 80 some pages full of tweaks is what we can call an important thread. It took me forever to find it...

This PC has -trackball -mouse -intuos2 graphics trablet I guess that qualifies as 3 as well

You just started, don't give up yet There's many more thing to try. I've seen quite a few reasons for this to happen before. -Time not syncing properly, which gave SMB related problems (the tiem is used in the kerberos encryption of the SMBs or something like that IIRC) -Bad drivers or conflicts -Services sometimes cause it (I've seen printer&file sharing cause this lots) (...) Lots more reasons I've encountered, and I'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg. I would: -Have a peek at the event logs -Try to find what causes it (services, ...) "manually" -Try bootvis

@bucketbuster: uh, asking another question in someone else' might not be the ebst way of getting an answer... And in both cases, I'm sure a quick search would take care of it. There's 2 ways: -there's an external utility you can use (i think it was called deluser.exe) -using NET USER username /DELETE

One will be c:\install and the other c:\app. Where to put files? It's your call. I don't put any files there at all, I execute it all from the install DVD as I see no point of making it recopy it needlessly to the HD first. As for the $Prog reference, I'm not sure if I get your question right, but there's no need of placing a .cmd there ... It's only a way to get file automatically copied to C:\Program Files (the post assumes you decided to install windows on C: and with default isntallation location)

I use ASP and ASP.Net mostly in corporate environments (domains, with IIS as a webserver), but if it's for the www, and expenses out of your pocket, you'll find quickly than unix hosting with apache/php/mysql is MUCH cheaper than windows hosting (iis/asp/asp.net) with sql server. php is very capable as well.

I think old is an understatement in this case B) Still funny

This should work to get rid of the sounds: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes] @=".None" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Conf\Receive Request to Join\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Conf\Person Joins\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Conf\Person Leaves\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Conf\Receive Call\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\BlockedPopup\.current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\FaxError\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\FaxNew\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\EmptyRecycleBin\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\SecurityBand\.current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\FaxSent\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\FaxLineRings\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\MSMSGS\MSMsgs_ContactOnline\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\MSMSGS\MSMsgs_NewMail\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\MSMSGS\MSMsgs_NewAlert\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\MSMSGS\MSMsgs_NewMessage\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\kav\KAV50_TaskCompleted\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\kav\KAV50_Infected\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\kav\KAV50_PasswordRequest\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\MSNMSGR\MSNMSGR_NewMessage\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\MSNMSGR\MSNMSGR_NewMail\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\MSNMSGR\MSNMSGR_ContactOnline\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\MSNMSGR\MSNMSGR_NewAlert\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceFail\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\WindowsLogoff\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\WindowsLogon\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemAsterisk\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\MailBeep\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\LowBatteryAlarm\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\CriticalBatteryAlarm\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceConnect\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\.Default\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceDisconnect\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemExit\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemNotification\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemHand\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemStart\.Current] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\SystemExclamation\.Current] @="" I haven't tried searching, but chances are they were alerady listed somewhere.

Here's for the beep: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound] "Beep"="No" I'll see if I can locate my no sounds tweak next.

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Nice. That might replace one of my vbscripts then (because of the simplicity). My script was going thru the list of active tasks, looking for the right app, if not found wait, then repeat until app is active or it times out (tweakable). Then if time is active it terminated it's process... (mostly using WMI)

Actually, you can have lots of mouses (mices??) but they all control the same cursor. Being ambidextrous you don't have too many issued with mouse, but I got 2 daughters using the same PC, one being a left hander and the one being a right hander (each take their side of the table). Well, I thought it was as simple as going in the control panel and reversing a mouse, but then I realized one big flaw in windows. You can only reverse BOTH mouses (or none). You just can't have one reversed... I had to physically rewire the buttons in her mouse to have one of each type...

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I don't exactly see the point of the poll. Static vs Dynamic content?? Markup language (superseeded by xhtml ) vs embedded scripting language? It's comparing 2 quite different technologies... You use what you have to...

I had started a thread about this already. Looks like it's not needed in most cases. I doubt it would break anything, but how much applications use loopback IPs other than 127.0.0.1 really...

"multicasting an image of 113GB to 120 computers" 113 GIGABYTES??? that's a HUGE image. Aer you sure it's that big? lol Multicasting that even on gigabit would take quite a while... There's ways to automate mass appling registry tweaks to every PC, but I don't think there is a way to apply fixes without booting them first.

Perhaps you need to do a search for tcpip, or to look better. There's even a sticky on the patched DLLs and many threads about it...

Thanks for the patched DLL. I had asked about this a couple days ago (but I don't actually need the patch). It might still come in handy @Anikan: if you can't make sense of the simple details posted by enuffsaid, perhaps you should just download the patched version instead. You got the offsets and the original/patched bytes... You can't ask for much more or simpler than that.

@crahak You are my saviour, I asked this question ages ago, and no one's known what to do about it yet! disable CIEP in Office Hey dudes, there's a similar irritating "customer experience ------" infobar with Windows Messenger 4.7.3000 (WXP SP2) as well. Any ideas how to disable it there as well? No problem. I'll have a peek at the other one tonite most likely. I hate those things with a passion too :angrym: [edit] I can't seem to make it popup with a survey thing (mind you it's the first time I ever use one of those IM's...) Hard to fix what doesn't happen I might have to configure it first or something (argh)