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you could try exporting your cookie(s) to a txt, then import once you've installed. i don't know if you can do this silently.. maybe if IE has a cmd line option or something. [?] edit: no such luck - http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...7/z03ie6rk.mspx

whaaaa? forget everything i've said. looks like IE's cache isn't that simple at all. it's a database called Content.IE5 that contains several randomly named directories and an index. the file list is generated on the fly so it looks like a normal dir to the user. to see what i'm talking about try this: open a cmd window cd C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files dir /a cd content.ie5 dir /a even if you could copy the file in there somehow it still wouldn't be in the index. so... use firefox.

good idea, but one prob with that is while it works great for the administrator, it's not so good for any other usernames. i suppose it would work if you knew for a fact that the usernames are going to be exactly the same on every install you do. you'd have to get a cookie file then for each separate account due to the username being in the filename, but it should work. if you're like me and the Administrator acct is the only one on your computer, then i don't think there's a problem. otherwise IMHO the complete loss of flexibility in order to save a couple clicks just isn't worth it. default user won't work either because of the user in the filename. =/

;] [assuming IE] in the options, hit delete files (include offline files) and delete cookies. go to www.google.com set your preferences and save look in "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\" for "Cookie:administrator@google.ca/" (will vary depending on username and country) [assuming Firefox] you should be able to export the individual cookie from the cookie manager (options, privacy?, cookies - don't have it installed right now sorry) same might work w/ mozilla. now how to copy that cookie to the right directory during your uA install is a little over my head.

this would be set by a cookie instead of a regentry. you might be able to find the cookie and copy it to the right directory during install, but i have no idea if it would work.

this whole thread is insanely helpful. Acrobat was one of the ones i was struggling with. thanks guys. BTW Central European refers to the codepage Albanian, Croat, Czech, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene and Sorbian. http://www.eff.co.uk/W/Alpha/L2.htm but Windows uses 'Windows Standard (Code Page 1252)' as default for english. i hope this doesn't cause any issues since i removed Central European w/ nLite. anyone test this yet? i know this isn't the place for it, but i can't find this on Adobe's site for some reason (probably blindness). what's the dif btwn the Full and Basic versions? Edit: Aha! they hid it. Search PDF files Activate accessibility features built into PDF files View Adobe Photoshop Album slide shows and electronic cards, extract pictures, and order prints Play back embedded movies, animation, and sound View, organize, and purchase eBooks

scratch that, i just found a much easier way to do this. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib] "Disable Performance Counters"=dword:00000001 this will simply turn off all performance counters by disabling the performance database. if you need to go service by service, use the utility posted above. unless you use the Performance administrative tool, it's perfectly safe to turn this off. the performance monitor records and tracks statistical data on every service, device, etc on your system. it has stats on anything you could possibly imagine. everything from how many IP Packet Received Discards you're getting to the number of threads in the processor queue to average file write bits/sec over the last 10 days to how many file directory searches are being made by remote users. it's a diagnostic wet-dream, but the average user has zero use for it. i'm not sure exactly the amount of resources you'll save by doing this, but it suffices to say that there are literally thousands of counters, many of which are monitoring multiple instances of an element. also it might stop some of the warning messages that appear in the Event Log due to services that don't provide perf data. it can be fun to play with though. and there's a little dialog window that tells you in plain english exactly what each counter does.

nice. i've used this before but i forgot all about it. thanks. Edit: and to keep this from being a useless post, here are the keys: NM. See below. Those last two are system dependent obviously, but it shows it might be worth it to run the util on your own system since you may have services installed that I don't. For these to have any affect, WMI (aka Management Instrumentation) can not be removed. It shouldn't be removed anyways if you want a working system. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wm...ter_classes.asp

Sun's "user-friendly" java site has to be one of my top ten hated webpages. i suppose it's fine for people who don't know their mouse from their monitor, but if you're trying to find anything specific other than whatever java version it tries to automatically install on your machine every time you happen to blink then good luck. : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp try that instead </spontaneousrant>

this has probably been mentioned hundreds of times before, but the best way to find elusive regkey options is to get a program like RegSnap. take a snapshot, change the settings to how you want them, take another snapshot. compare the two and find the keys you want in the reg file it generates. voila.

Movie Maker 2 is included in SP2 - it's build 2.1.4026.0 and just as a side note - looking up the version number for you was the first time i've ever opened Movie Maker in my life. SP1 tweaks will work. the only reason i could see them not working is if they changed something for security reasons. haven't come across anything so far though.

ah. must be a different problem then.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9314

Heys. I'm starting to work now on the regkey part of my uA install. What i've done is format then install using my SP2 Master (pure slipstream, no editing or uA), and then install RegSnap on first boot before doing anything else. Then I took a snapshot and went through all my normal setting up, through the Ctrl Panel, etc etc. Now I've taken another snapshot and i'm comparing the two. I should mention that I only have one user on this machine, Administrator, and no other users will ever be added. So first off I just want to confirm a couple things. Can I safely ignore any keys in the HKEY_USERS tree? I thought I remember reading they simply map to different parts of HKLM and HKCU anyways. Also, is it the same for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG? In short, can I safely just worry about the HKLM and HKCU trees? Other than that, I was looking for a bit of clarification on a couple keys. Basically I'd like to know what I have to define myself in a .reg file, and what i can leave out and the OS fills in as it goes along. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\{...}] Start Menu2? [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\{...}] Not a clue. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\{...}] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\{...}\Shell] I think these are window positions and the like? Other than that, are there any other things to watch out for? I've done my share of work with the registry so i recognize most (yeah right) of it, but i was just wondering if anyone who's done something like this before had any tips or advice.

no, to be honest i have also heard of improvements in Azureus after applying the patch to raise it to 50 connections, but people are very suseptible to the power of suggestion so you have to take things like this with a grain of salt (i still see ppl who swear by the QoS 20% "tweak" even though it's been disproven by just about everybody). but there still may be a valid reasoning behind the claim. bittorrent has a choking/unchoking algorhythm that evaluates and switches peers every 10 seconds to keep speeds optimal, so it could be possible that when you take a situation with 10 or 20 torrents there may be an effect caused by this change. i don't know anything about the emule/donkey/overnet protocol so i won't say anything. i haven't noticed such an improvement myself but i haven't done any serious testing. so i may have been too hasty to completely dismiss it. i do feel that MS set it a bit too low, and i support patching it to 50/s. changing it back to unlimited, however, i think is a bit overkill and a bit counter-productive because it is, in theory, really not a bad idea. i think they should have made it user-editable to begin with, but i have a feeling the reason they didn't is because they didn't want another reg entry that everyone just turns off anyways.

Hey guys, i just wanted to point something out. SP2's TCPIP.SYS limits the maximum half-open connections made PER SECOND. So yes, you can have 400 connections open in EMule, and yes BT programs let you have 100 or more connections per torrent or 1000 globally by default. That's the number of concurrent (total) connections you can have and that is the number that is controlled by the registry key on the first page of the post. These numbers are not related in any way. A half-open connection means a connection that is open on your end but doesn't nessessarily have to be connected by another peer, so like opening a listening port that has nothing coming in yet, or requesting a connection to another machine but not established yet. Anyways, you get 10 of these per second under SP2. That's admittedly pretty low for BT or any p2p sharing prog where you can connect to say 200 people within a couple seconds time. But, what happens when you manage to hit this limit for whatever reason is the TCP/IP stack goes into a flood control kind of mode, and queues pending connections and processes them at the rate set by Max Connects per Second (ie. 10, or 50 if you've patched). Now, if you consider that for a second (or 10 connections), it's pretty rare that any application you're running needs to establish a huge amount of connections for any considerable length of time. Usually it's a burst of connection activity - when you start a torrent or download a whatever you crazy eMule people call it - and once they're established there's a pretty big dropoff. So, basically the only way this setting is even affecting you is it takes a few more seconds than usual to establish connections when there's a lot of TCP/IP activity. That's it. In fact, in Azureus there's a feature, "Slowly connect new peers", and it does the exact same thing as this TCP/IP stack change does, altho i'm not sure of the rate. This isn't unique to Azureus, it's a concept that's been around for a long time - look at mIRC flood control, it's the same thing. The point is, because mass-opening connections is an effective way to make an OS scream like a little girl, many programs that have the ability to do so already have built-in traffic control you've just never noticed. Seriously, the only thing that will be hindered by this change is software that opens a very large amount of new connections in a very short amount of time, for a very long amount of time. i think that made sense. you get what i mean. other than port scanners and malware/worms, i can't think of anything else that would require more than 10 (or 50) connections per second for any reasonably large period of time. (there very well may be legit programs that do, i just can't think of any). Sorry bout the long post. One of my biggest annoyances is misinformation. Thanks for your time and please try to spread the word.