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I absolutely adore lynx, the king of all browsers! But I'll use Firefox when that's not available...

after reading this whole thread, I do have to agree with every point you've made, un4given1, and, no all you 98 fans, I'm not going to actually post any kind of anecdote, because i've seen how much good 25 pages of those have done, I'd just like to say I agree with you

Clickers don't work with firefox because cookies don't carry over in firefox to new windows or something like that. Phoenix Rising has a clicker for firefox, but it really slow becuase it can only open pages one at a time instead of opening 10 aat a time like most clickers do. Anyway, yeah, get that Microsoft AntiSpyware and it'll be all good.

like several other people here, I'll definately try out IE7 just for the euphoria of new software, but I'm a Firefox user forever (until the next uber browser, anyway)

For BIOS updates, it shouldn't matter much, MS-DOS should work fine. Just don't try mixing XP files into a DOS disk. A DOS 6 disk with XP's command.com...bad...

you can boot off the network if your BIOS supports PXE and you have a server set up to boot from in an Active Directory domain

Cool. Great to know something that I can use to help someone. Let me know how it works for you!

Instead of using XP's boot disk stuff, I would get a DOS boot disk image and copy it to a floppy using RAWRITEXP. Put a copy of whatever you need (flash program, BIOS file) onto the floppy and edit the autoexec.bat file in Notepad to just say: @echo off ADSFI711.EXE A6728IMS.3A0 Leave out the A:> As a (probably important) side note: While viewing the floppy in XP, autoexec.bat will probably not be visible. To rectify this, get into Folder Options (either through the Control Panel or under the Tools menu). Under the view tab, hit "Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)". Tell Windows, that yes, you do know what you're doing and hit OK. Autoexec.bat should appear there. Be sure to re-enable "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" after you're done. After this, use RAWRITEXP to recreate the image file, using the edited floppy and it should work for your Multi-boot CD. I'll post a link to a ZIP with the image and RAWRITEXP in a minute. EDIT: Here's the link: http://www.ray5.net/jonathan/boot/boot.zip

Well, I personally don't have much experience doing this, but I don't see how to make the MSP from the service pack, so I can't figure out how to do it by administrative install point

I already checked out the Folder Options settings, sorry, forgot to mention that. There are two entries at the top that I checked out. One was called 'File Folder' and the other was called 'Folder'. For 'Folder', open is the default option, and under 'File Folder', there doesn't seem to be a default set, as none of the options are bold, but there is no open action in there anyways. I tried to add an open action, but I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to point that to a program.

Somehow, between shutting down last not and starting up again this morning, the default action for double-clicking on a folder has been changed from Open to Open Command Window Here. I've tried uninstalling the PowerToy responsible for the option, but that just bumps the default down to Search. Does anyone know where in the registry I can find this setting?

EDIT: Never mind, covered already