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do you by chance have your comp set to "clean up page file when shutting down"?

well ipconfig /all will display the mac address, but you would have to search through it.. or theres a tool from Microsoft called getmac.exe you would have to download and run their installer, but then you could just put getmac32.exe into your $$\system32\ folder and it'd be included every time you use your unattended xpcd (if you use one at all) http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi...ng/getmac-o.asp Output of the tool: 1st MAC is loopback 2nd MAC is my Ethernet card 3rd MAC is my VMWare Ethernet card marked everything out in red cause i have no idea what MAC addresses says (vendor model etc..) or what the GUID may say about the system... can never be too paranoid hope this helps.

or you could always show that your graphics are a million times better then Microsofts =P hell look at windows 95 graphics.. back then that was awesome graphics.. in 10 years XP icons may become the next windows 95 look lol.

wasn't hard to search for it... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=Se...Windows+Genuine 3rd link down... 2nd page.. post number 16... if the mods merged the posts, then we would have posts with like 1000 replies per post.. and i don't know about you but searching through a post of 50+ pages isn't fun..

thanks for the replies even though one of you says yes keep it and one says no delete it lol. i had a gut instinct that it was for the OS languages, not the IE languages.. so i'll delete this folder. since i don't plan on learning any other languages lol. thanks

ok tried searching for this, both on the forums and on google.. but can't find a good result. the question is.. can the Lang folder in the i386 folder be deleted? if so do you lose the ability to see german/chinese/russian/etc.. characters when browsing the net?

after i get a question answered on the forums i'm going to be making an unatteded cd with ping and wget in the cmdlines.txt file. i'll post my results here when i'm done.

nicely said lazy8 lolz. maybe if i felt that my marriage would last forever.. but with all the women i've ever met, staying single for the rest of my life almost seems like pure bliss. lol. dunno though, some women might feel that special be able to take a peice of you wherever feeling amazing.. others may find it weird.. and disgusting.. while looking for their diamond ring.. lol.

i voted yes.. never know.. maybe he comes on here asking questions about how to fix problems in his OS... lolz

i think you are, with vmware and NAT enabled.my firewall popped up saying Windows setup was trying to access crl.microsoft.com which is used for Driver Signing.. *edit* T-32 = Installing Network T-15 = During Registering Components VMNat.exe treid to access crl.microsoft.com so i'm pretty sure you are connected *edit 2* sorry for my bad grammar lol, was in a hurry to post

np, glad it worked was kinda worried about if autoit worked in 64 bit. oops for the typo lol. dunno where that S came from it's not in my main source My server is an Intel Celeron 1.1ghz.. 32 bit of course.. just checked it, and worked perfectly.

i just found this kinda bizarre.. but maybe i'm just weird... http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17714543-13762,00.html so how many of you would actually ever get this done... if money wasn't a problem.. seeing how it costs $11,700 per ring...

it's a TEST wmf file.. all it does is runs calc.exe if your system is vulnerable.. and yes i have checked this link myself, both on a VMware workstation and my main computer.. with regmon, filemon, and process explorer all running.. to make sure its 100% safe.. I would never put up a link here that could even have the possibility of damaging a fellow MSFN users comp in anyway. as for the site being in german, its a german magazine.. basically an equivelent of slashdot.. they made it so people could check to make sure they were protected from the exploit without having to run the actual destructive wmf. kthanks.

I agree with Suryad, even if the size is around 100 - 150 or so it won't be bad.. and would rather use a system that can still be used.. insted of one that only has 1 function... to make the windows sounds go off..

i usually pick at mine when i'm bored at my comp. but usually clip them like every 5 weeks or so or if i happen to run across a pair of toenail clippers while cleaning my room.

Thanks Nilfred wasn't payin attention to that lol fixed the AuthenticIntel to the correct GenuineIntel in both of the above scripts. adding additional Vendor Identifiers if need be is easy..

ok... further improvised the code above.. and made it to where it forces the windows API to change the wall paper.. and the registry string for the wallpaper... HOWEVER!... the windows API only allows .bmp pictures.. so you would have to open the .jpg or whatever in paint then "save as" to 24-bit .bmp (don't think it matters..) $readkey = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0" $readstring = "VendorIdentifier" $wallkey = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" $wallstring = "Wallpaper" $amdwall = "C:\WINDOWS\web\Wallpaper\Bliss.bmp" $intelwall = "C:\WINDOWS\web\Wallpaper\Bliss.bmp" $type = RegRead($readkey, $readstring) If @error = -1 Then MsgBox(0, "Error:", "An error has occured") Else If $type = "AuthenticAMD" Then RegWrite($wallkey, $wallstring, "REG_SZ", $amdwall) DllCall("user32", "int", "SystemParametersInfo", "int", 20, "int", 0, "str", $amdwall, "int", 0) ElseIf $type = "GenuineIntel" Then RegWrite($wallkey, $wallstring, "REG_SZ", $intelwall) DllCall("user32", "int", "SystemParametersInfo", "int", 20, "int", 0, "str", $intelwall, "int", 0) Else MsgBox(0, "", "Unknown Processor") EndIf EndIf *typo in line 3 corrected*

autoit is very simple heres a script i wrote in like 5 minutes. *Edited* check post below.. new revision forces the windows API to redraw the wallpaper.. but one downside is the API only allows .bmp files. $readkey = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0" $readstring = "VendorIdentifier" $wallkey = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" $wallstring = "Wallpaper" $type = RegRead($readkey, $readstring) If @error = -1 Then MsgBox(0, "Error:", "An error has occured") Else If $type = "AuthenticAMD" Then RegWrite($wallkey, $wallstring, "REG_SZ", "C:\WINDOWS\web\Wallpaper\Bliss.bmp") ElseIf $type = "GenuineIntel" Then RegWrite($wallkey, $wallstring, "REG_SZ", "C:\WINDOWS\web\Wallpaper\Red moon desert.jpg") Else MsgBox(0, "", "Unknown Processor") EndIf EndIf should be pretty straight forward, it reads the registry for VendorIdentifer.. from what i know, all AMD's are "AuthenticAMD".. and all Intels are "AuthenticIntel" if an error occurs, it will popup a messagebox saying so.. if you wish to not have a messagebox you can delete that line. if AuthenticAMD is returned from the registry it will change the wallpaper to Bliss.. if AuthenticIntel is returned, it will change it to "red moon desert"... if it returns anything else besides AMD or intel.. it will show a msgbox saying Unknown Processor.. again you can delete this line if you want.. and it'll use whatever the default wallpaper is.. or you can modify this to use a third wallpaper if you want. hope this helps, you'll have to compile it since i don't know the location of your pictures.. and don't know how much you would want to tweak it.. not sure when the earliest you can run an autoit compiled script is though..(.exe not .au3)

either of you use the regsvr method or the unofficial hotfix? i just tried and Avast popped up telling me it was a virus/worm *this was my 1,000th post! *

sonic hit it on the head here. the key that you find is an OEM key, this is because companies like Dell, Gateway, and so on buy bulk amounts of licenses from microsoft, and insted of burning each CD with a diffrent key.. they just burn the same image to X amount of CD's.. then they slap on the actual key that they bought from microsoft on the side of the computer case.. The key on the side of the computer is unique... It is to me a mix of a retail and OEM key.. for example... if i use a retail CD and try to install windows xp with my side sticker key.. it WILL NOT get past the GUI Setup process... but modifying the setupp.ini file correctly will allow me to complete installation.. however windows would then have to be activated within 30 days.. so you would have to call up microsoft and have them validate the key on the side.

*only do this if you know what you're doing..* check the registry at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall go through each item and look for the one that matches, then check the paths that you see in there and cleanup from there. then delete the SUBFOLDER for it.

found this quite fun... its in german... but just scroll down to where it says "Test" http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/brows...os/ie/wmf.shtml My results: Firefox: Asked me to download it or open it.. i chose to download it and double clicked the icon to open windows fax and picture viewer.. calc.exe ran and explorer.exe crashed.. even right clicking and hitting properties on the file caused it to run. IE: Started download, ran windows fax viewer thing but no calculator execution... which i found weird.. maybe its reading from the cache, i'll have to test after i do a restart and clear my browser cache. Explorer: with Thumbnails turned on, it ran calc.exe and caused the explorer.exe to crash again. Post your results.. btw.. incase anyone is interested on how this looks when the actual infected .wmf is ran.. check out this movie http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com/images...s/wmf-movie.wmv

hah my first comp (besides commodore) was a 50mhz with like 250mb of hard drive, and like 128K memory... lol check out this link.. http://oldcomputers.net/kayproii.html look at the price and the speed.. LOL.

*remebers the days of installing windows 3.1 from a set of 6 floppy disks..* LOL since my last post in this topic, i've removed my floppy disk drive.. just isn't important anymore, especially with bartpe cd's packed to the rim with tools.. got a network if i ever need to transfer files.

please be more specific in the future.. if you want to change the locations, i think thats all regtweaks if you want to change the pictures, use resource hacker or an alternative to modify shell32.dll.. search the forums to find more details.