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It's because they wear those really nice polo shirts.

Honestly, Windows couldn't give a rat's a** what you call your CD. I just call mine WXPVOL_EN regardless of what the hell I put on it.

Why VMware is better then Virtual PC? Well if Microsoft can't get WINDOWS right, then how the hell can they get a VIRTUAL copy of windows right...

It took me almost 2 weeks to download a very large item once. When it stalls for a long time, disconnect from the network, flush all your sources, shutdown shareaza, reboot, start shareaza, connect and then let it find all it's sources by doing a find new sources on your file after you've reconnected to the maximum amount of neighbours configured. Then just let it sit overnight, if the next morning there is still no progress, then disconnect from all your neighbours, try new neighbours and do another find new sources (without erasing all your current ones). Rinse and repeat the above until you have it all. Depending on the file, the last part can sometimes take a painfully long time, however, at least with the shareaza file hashing, you're at least sure to get a non-corrupted file for all your efforts.

If you'd like, you could just extract the bitmaps from the Original Kernel (Pre-SP2) and insert them into the SP2 kernel to have the same look.

Either ASP or PHP are good, but the point remains the same. It's best to do your OWN work and have freedom to control your creation then to have a script do it for you.

You'd have to set that option either by modifying the registry hives or setting a group policy during install.

If it's just for your IP address, double-clicking on your connection in Network Connections and going to the support tab is just as easy.

IIRC, the windows key itself cannot be disabled since it sends a combination of keys. Windows Key Ctrl+Esc Application Key Shift+F10

Glad I could help.

PHP-Puke. That's not creating a webpage, that's using a script to do everything for you. It depends on what you want, to create a webpage yourself or having a script do it for you? Goes with your needs.

Damned no. It's not MY neglect, so she had to fork out for all new components and being that it's was an older computer then she had no choice but to change her CPU and RAM as well since there were no more boards in existance that supported her CPU.

bink.nu has published a list of all SP2 related KB articles posted so far by Microsoft. The list can be viewed here on their site.

I used to do in-home tech support calls on the side (still do a bit, but i just can't stand people asking me such basic questions like how to use a mouse anymore)... I once had a client who called me saying that her computer kept freezing for no reason. So I went over in the hopes of simply doing a windows fresh re-install. I walk up to the computer, bend down and hit the power button. As soon as I hit the power button... POW! So loud in fact that the client screamed, I fell on my a** and got to watch a nice smoke show from the back of the tower. Turns out that the power supply shorted because she has three cats and she smokes heavily. The combination of cat hair and cigarette ash just shorted out the power supply. I just happen to be the lucky victim to witness it's loud death. It took almost everything with it too. It killed the motherboard, the hard drive, the cd-rom, the cd-writer and the floppy.

My god people. Why complicate your lives so much? There's a very slick and SIMPLE solution. Open \I386\HIVEDEF.INF. All your sound scheme settings are at the very top. To assist you with editing the registry hive INF file, here's some more information. Entries take the following format: BASEHIVE, KEY, VALUENAME, DATATYPE, VALUE If you take the following line: HKCU,"AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceDisconnect\.Current","",0x00020000,"%SystemRoot%\media\%WINDOWS_XP_HARDWARE_REMOVE%" HKCU means that this registry entry will be added to HKEY_CURRENT_USER (which is .Default user during setup and eventually copies over to each user created). "AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\DeviceDisconnect\.Current" is the registry key in which to add the value. "" is the value name (being that it is blank, (Default) will be used.) to add. 0x00020000 is the value data type (REG_EXPAND_SZ). "%SystemRoot%\media\%WINDOWS_XP_HARDWARE_REMOVE%" is the value to add. The data types you can use are: ; Registry Data Types ; ; Types with NOCLOBBER don't overwrite existing values ; Types with APPEND appends the specified value to the existing value ; ; REG_ADDREG_APPEND = 0x00010008 ; REG_BINARY = 0x00000001 (or 1) ; REG_BINARY_NOCLOBBER = 0x00000003 (or 3) ; Binary data in any form. ; REG_MULTI_SZ = 0x00010000 ; REG_MULTI_SZ_APPEND = 0x0001000A ; REG_MULTI_SZ_NOCLOBBER = 0x00010002 ; REG_MULTI_SZ_DELVAL = 0x00010006 ; Array of null-terminated strings that are terminated by two null characters. ; REG_SZ = 0x00000000 (or 0) ; REG_SZ_NOCLOBBER = 0x00000002 (or 2) ; Null-terminated string. It will be a Unicode or ANSI string, depending on whether you use the Unicode or ANSI functions. ; REG_EXPAND_SZ = 0x00020000 ; REG_EXPAND_SZ_NOCLOBBER = 0x00020002 ; Null-terminated string that contains unexpanded references to environment variables (for example, "%PATH%"). It will be a Unicode or ANSI string, depending on whether you use the Unicode or ANSI functions. ; REG_DWORD = 0x00010001 ; REG_DWORD_NOCLOBBER = 0x00010003 ; 32-bit number.

I think I'm going to start ResHacking every windows file just to see what's inside, there seems to be a lot of hidden goodies to find.

From the Deployment Tools documentation found on the XP cd: -------------------------------------- Syntax AutoLogon = Yes | No Values Yes Configures the computer to log on once with the Administrator account. No Does not automatically log on to the computer. Comments The entry is not valid on upgrades. When you set AutoLogon to Yes, you cannot log off. If you try to log off, you will be logged back on automatically. The only way to log off is to reboot, which decrements the value of AutoLogonCount. If you specify a password in the AdminPassword entry, Setup uses that password when you log on automatically to the computer. After the installation finishes, Setup deletes the password from the copy of the answer file left on the computer. Important Encrypting the Administrator password in the EncryptedAdminPassword entry disables AutoLogon. To skip Windows Welcome, set UnattendSwitch to Yes in the [unattended] section of Unattend.txt. If you wish to log on automatically after running Sysprep in Factory mode, set AuditAdminAutoLogon to Yes in the [ComputerSettings] section of Winbom.ini. -------------------------------------- (Relevant section: "Encrypting the Administrator password in the EncryptedAdminPassword entry disables AutoLogon.")

It's actually very simple but requires a lot of time. You need two parts. One, your program (the exe) you would like the web user to be able to control. Two, you need an ActiveX dll to control the program. Your program can be anything. The ActiveX DLL needs to be registered in windows so that you can instanciated it within an ASP.Net page and within your DLL you'll need to start the EXE and control it using the System.Diagnostics.Process class. A full tutorial including how to control the I/O of the process can be found here. Though if you wanted to make your life easier, just code the WHOLE thing as an ActiveX DLL and just call the thing inside your ASP.Net page. An ActiveX DLL can do EVERYTHING a full program can. The ONLY thing it can't do is start by itself.

@scp: Do you know how to change the text positions?

Seconds shooting doggie. I'm trying to tweak/create a XP slipstream cd to my tastes... let me tell you VMware is VITAL in helping me do so. I've installed XP about 9 times in 2 days using VMware. I would HATE to have to do that with my machine and render it useless during all that time. With VMware at least I can run the install in the background and do other things while it installs. Just check it from time to time to make sure there aren't any fatal errors.

Perhaps this can help you. Using an INF file to configure Windows Firewall You could find somesort of way of running the inf file through either the logon scripts or a VBScript file.

Perhaps ItemClick (MSDN Documentation) can help you.

Not sure for the error. I don't have VB6 in front of me. However, MSDN is your friend.

I can't even understand how that could happen... unless the path to your user thumbnails is broken...

You can try taking a hack at changing this but I have no idea if it'll work. Something as basic as the Desktop is bound to be hardcoded into the binaries of windows. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00021400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] @="Desktop" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{00021400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] @="Desktop"