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No need for a plugin to get gapless mp3 playback on winamp actually. The one big option to change: Go to options, preferences, output, directsound, configure, other, and put a checkbox in remove silence box. Myself, I can't stand WMP for anything. There's far better audio players (winamp, foobar, etc), and LOTS of better video players as well (MPC, VLC, ZoomPlayer, etc)

Not many places really. Any store I know in Canada: ncix, directcanada, canadacomputers, anitec, frontierpc, memory express, local places here, and local places last place I lived (greenlyph, robotnik, etc), and places like tigerdirect, etc. NONE of them carry a single socket 478 processor. Most haven't had any in stock for a couple years. Like I said, socket 775 is already dating back from 2004. It's not even surprising that you don't find them CPUs around anywhere anymore. Just look at the availability of socket 754 and socket 939 CPUs now! And those came out pretty much at the same time as socket 775 -- they're both much newer than socket 478, and it's getting quite hard to find anything that fits those (again, besides the 2 or 3 models on newegg). ncix has ONE socket 939 CPU (a $170 Opteron), and ZERO socket 754 CPUs. The only place I know of that still has any s478 stuff is newegg, which doesn't ship to Canada. And they only have 5 models total (likely all old stock leftover), none of which have a 400MHz FSB. And they're kind of overpriced for what they are: around $75 for a 2.8GHz P4 class CPU... When a 3x faster core 2 duo can be had for the same price. So his best bet, is basically checking ebay. There's lots of them there, for about $20 (which is about all they're worth). That, or a new PC.

Thank you Registry editor? Or some kind of regular expression tool? AntRenamer, ReNamer -- I've been using several file renaming scripts for a while. Nothing perfect, but just haven't found the time or motivation to find the perfect tool for me (or to make it). There's so many renaming apps out there! Event Log Explorer -- very nice tool for sure! Everest -- yeah, very good util too WinMerge, Araxis Merge -- I'm a WinMerge user too (and UltraCompare), I left that aside as it's more of a dev tool for me than an admin one XYplorer -- yet another explorer replacement... comes down to preferences I guess. I'm trying QT TabBar right now (extension/toolbar for explorer, for tabs and such) and it's ok I guess.

Such old 1.x GHz celerons are socket 478. Nobody sells s478 CPUs anymore. Intel moved to socket 775 back in 2004. Them CPUs are a 2002 vintage. So you'd have to either look for a 2nd hand CPU somewhere, or just about buy a new computer (new CPU will require a new motherboard, which won't take your old SDRAM, and that will likely need a newer PSU, and your old AGP card will have to go too, etc). The only good news here, is that you can likely get a P4 2.8 for like 20$ on ebay...

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That pretty much makes you a minority. I mainly burn data DVDs myself. Blank CDs are no cheaper then DVDs anymore anyways. Actually, they're already down to ~$15 (Verbatims can be had for $13 by the unit, including shipping). Give it a couple years and they'll likely be about 5$, which is not bad considering the capacity: about 6 or so single layer DVDs, which is already worth a couple bucks, or about 3 or so of the pricier double layer DVDs. Drives by then will likely be under 100$ too. I'm definitely looking forward to it. It doesn't make Nero any less compatible anyways. Actually, I'd like to see if a nero 3 or 4 versions out of date (at the time) would have ran on XP when it came out too (that would be Nero v2).

Looks like a attaching files issue to me...

If you want gapless playback, then you'll need another player. Winamp can do this, and plenty of others.

I couldn't have said better myself. I used to do that a lot back when hard drives were quite small too. These days, I've seen hard drive prices as low as 13 cents/GB. At that price, 10GB wasted is worth what, about the price of a medium coffee or so? That's not a price I lose much sleep over. And some people stress over 50MB extra, spending hours stripping a few MBs here and there. If that old 40GB'er fills too fast, it might be time to replace it.

Never seen, or heard of that before either, on any controller interface, be it ST506, [P/S]ATA, SCSI anything, etc

Yes

For this, it might be better to use a different shell, some sort of menu with big icons perhaps. You could script isobuster to insert the CDs' ISOs in a virtual drive too when she clicks an icon before starting the app (no scratched discs this way either)

If you want to ask a question please start a new thread. Asking for something unrelated like this, is called thread hijacking. And in the relevant section too. Asking for technical help doesn't exactly belong in the poll center (it's for polls). And for the love of god, please don't dig up topics like this that had no replies for 4 years, unless you have a good reason to.

Example3.iss creates a program group in the start menu, asks for the folder where to install and all. If you need an option to select which components to install, then look at the [Components] section. Google will find plenty of tutorials. And there are even GUIs that will create scripts for you.

Look at the example scripts that comes with it. Everything you need to get started is there. We can't jut guess what your script is like, what it's missing, or what else you expect it to do.

Component video isn't RGB, it's YPrPb. Not the same thing at all. No need for MCE to do that. MCE = Media Center Edition, as in, Windows with Media Center. So yes, the only addition MCE provides is Media Center. MCE isn't a movie player, or a way to play movies on your HDTV. It's more like a Tivo/PVR. It can record stuff (assuming you have a suitable capture card), show them on TV, check the TV guide, has built-in remote support, works with media center extenders, etc. Most decent remote control solutions can be configured to do that, by sending the right key presses to any media player. Personally, I very much dislike MCE. Doesn't work with DVB (-S/S2/T/etc) cards. The only 2 real options you have with MCE, is a SD analog capture card (disgusting picture quality IMO), or ATSC tuners (only useful if there are some ATSC feeds in your area in the first place). Well, it's supposed to have CableCard support too, but that's only good for cable (which I don't have), and ~99.999% or so of cable companies worldwide don't use it, and they don't sell such card readers anyways so you'd have to buy a pre-made MCE PC for that (even then, most companies who sell MCE boxes don't include that). I don't like how the menus are laid out and where stuff is located (you can't really change anything to that either), it was a pain to make it see most of the videos I had, it doesn't really organize them in an intelligent manner, etc. And its resource usage is quite high (I've seen it use hundreds of MBs of RAM). As for playback, it's not exactly the best (full featured) media player either. And the MCE remotes are stupidly designed, so they're mostly useless for anything else (some buttons send WM_APPCOMMAND messages instead of WM_INPUT messages) -- unless you're willing to try 3rd party drivers for it, buy a copy of girder, and spending hours to configure each button for every single app by hand... And recently, some people discovered MCE didn't their shows because of the broadcast flag. I don't really have anything good to say about MCE... If you want a good PVR system, look at MythTV. It's more complex to setup, but it's far superior in every aspect (funnily, MCE remotes work FAR better under Linux...)

Look at the post date: Feb 12 2005. Your answer is over 3 years late...

There is no such thing as a quad core P4. All set manually? Sometimes auto-negotiate doesn't quite work right. And setting it manually to values not supported by the switch or such, doesn't really work either. Some network equipment is picky. It would help a bit to know what NICs they are, and what switch & router they're connected to. Or are you getting good network speeds (things actually working at gigabit speeds) e.g. file xfers between PCs, but just not from WDS?

I wish I could help there. It's actually a very simple job. But OpenLDAP went crazy and crashed on me during an upgrade last month... So I'd have to put up a AD server and configure it all, the join test workstations, create test users and all, just to get started on it Ideally, it would be rewritten in JScript or such -- with proper error handling (including try/catch blocks -- and form validation too using Regular Expressions) instead of things like this i.e. when it can't connect to AD, it pops up WSH errors and asks to debug... Again, very simple -- ADSI stuff is very straightforward (I could rewrite it all from scratch, in my sleep, in several languages), but quite time consuming (setup a testing AD box and all that, and then testing the script ran already logged in as a domain admin, or not as domain admin and then supplying different credentials after, etc. lots of testing to do) It would be simple to add a section for plain old NT domains too, using javascript to set the relevant parts' .display properties (located on div's or span's) to block or none depending. You could even make it import people from csv/xml/json files and what not... And have a file for default config and such. And also a lot more features (exporting user infos, etc)... Long story short, simple job, but so time consuming that you're likely not gonna get much help for it. Not sure how much of a rush you're in but if you can wait, then I'll probably get around to it eventually... We just administer it with the standard tools, and some scripts much like useradd.vbs Edit: well, the hta is also for mailboxes, sorry, but I'm just not putting up a test exchange box for that

Even with easy languages, it's still a pain. I use the english keyboard layout primarily, and french when I'm forced to pretty much. There's only 3 key combos to switch layouts AND also language: ctrl-shift -- something i use a LOT in explorer.exe to select file ranges, when you already selected some files holding control. This is totally unusable for me, and it happens to be the default too. grave accent -- something you use lots in french, so not an option left alt + shift -- what I'm using, for the lack of a better option!

Pfffft! Everybody knows v2 is where it's at! 3 was bloated! And there's no new features added since then, and if there ever were, well, uh... I wouldn't use them anyways! I disagree. Most new versions are better (just not Win ME I guess). Nero included -- to quote one of my posts from like an hour ago, some newer features: "DVD DL support, improved UDF support, LightScribe, support for BluRay (the burners are becoming cheaper already -- I've seen the LG GGW-H20L for $270 before), etc". And that's just for the burning data discs part. I don't care for the other stuff either, but there are some people who just love it, and use it almost everyday, I think they'd disagree with your "utter bullcrap" assessment. And I have. A lot. On DOS, we had to use SetVer for various apps. On WFW fancy pif files were often required. Same story for Windows 95. Win2k and XP needed lots of compat mode changes for older apps back then too (mainly dos and win9x ones), sometimes faking windows version wasn't enough, you even had to force video to 640x480/256 colours, and some other apps just have to be ran under dosbox even. I had to resort to them tricks a lot when I tried win 2003 as a desktop as well. With Vista, HDTach 3 is the only app I had to do this for so far. And not because the features are broken or anything, but because it checks for the version of windows and plain out refuses to run on Vista or Win 2008, and the author has been too lazy to update it in over a year, even though it's well known to work just fine. It's DESIGNED not to run so having to use compatibility is hardly surprising there. You HAVE to fool the initial GetVersionExA check (MUST be NT 5.x) -- a 1 byte patch works fine. I'll post a screenshot (and a patch, if they want), if the mods give me the go ahead (not illegal: it does NOT bypass any protection code/licensing/serial checks or such, it's merely for interoperability/to circumvent restrictions for use, which is deemed as acceptable by US Judges) As for TightVNC, I dunno. UltraVNC is working 100% fine here (server running as a service and all) So far, it looks like this to me: Actually not working: 1. mmm+ by hace Minor issues, or specific features not working: 1. Cisco VPN Client: Smartcard support is broken 2. Some VNC versions (i.e. TightVNC): won't run in service mode Works only in compatibility mode: 1. HDTach 3 (designed not to run, patching also works) Still a very short list.

Two things: First, you could grab choice.exe from the win2k resource kit or such, or a similar 3rd party util (Win2003 and Vista do have choice.exe, and I believe Win 2008 does too). Secondly, why learn the win98 specific stuff, instead of the newer/more recent ways? i.e. SET /P

FYI: Bootvis has been replaced by the Windows Performance Tools Kit. And it can capture events on XP too, even though it's meant for Windows Vista and 2008. See here for details.

Yes, so many crashes of different kinds. I'm temped to think it's not just one bad driver causing all this. I'd bet $ some of your hardware is defective (and it's 2nd hand too, only makes it more suspicious), and to top it off it even says "This indicates a hardware error.", combined with memory corruption, very strange and unusual crashes and all. So I would definitely go back to the basics. Check the PSU voltages (not sure what it is -- good power is a must), see if the caps on the motherboard have a bulge, test your ram with memtest86+, etc. Swap parts one by one if you have any spare parts to play with if it comes down to that. Part of it might be related to your video drivers though, seeing how so much of it is related to graphics: PROCESS_NAME: hl2.exe -- video game PROCESS_NAME: RivaTuner.exe -- video related again Probably caused by : dxgkrnl.sys -- DirectX kernel, video again PROCESS_NAME: 3DMark06.exe -- video related yet again PROCESS_NAME: WoW-1.12.x-to-2 -- video game again 1GB already isn't a whole lot for XP if you do intensive stuff (I normally go for 2 there). And then, the Vista kernel uses about twice as much RAM as XP. And then the x64 stuff uses even more RAM (than x86). 1GB definitely won't cut it.

The newer ones have new features which are useful: DVD DL support, improved UDF support, LightScribe, support for BluRay (the burners are becoming cheaper already -- I've seen the LG GGW-H20L for $270 before), etc. Edit: seemingly Nero AG takes offense to anything we might say, even when they seem perfectly legal to me. Sorry.