Aaron

I wish MS would put all these knowledge base articles on CD or something, it would really help me to troubleshoot problems on a LAN network I have (no net connection)

Wow, Babis! you know a lot! While you're around, do you know how to set the icons large for [b:765c5bab9e]Desktop only[/b:765c5bab9e] like some of the large icons in the neowin desktop screenshots. Cos I would know that the icons in windows explorer would be ugly if they're big.

I've found just about most of them on www.DeviantArt.com Go to Icons > Windows Icons > Sort by Total D/L, and the popular ones appear! I wonder if anyone knows what the name of that Note app on Faction's desktop is? http://pages.sbcglobal.net/faction/Notes.JPG

Have any of you see the popular March Desktops thread on the Neowin forums? They have so many good icons, and I wonder where they get them all from. Mine are all the default XP ones and its time I got some new ones now, especially the icons that look good when its big-sized.

http://xp-refresh.net/

Doesn't Office XP have more patches and fixes than Office 2k did?

There was also Neptune for a Win2k beta, and Odyssey for a very early Whistler beta IIRC.

Webwasher is a good program for blocking Xperties's offensive images. Try it Doogle

In my situation, the floppy drive still plays an important part: College work. My college still uses floppy drives to save work to if I have to finish something off at home. No point in using CD-RW, cos they don't have them, not even a CD-ROM Drive (blummin cheap bastids) I also use a floppy drive for my norton ghost 2002 boot disk (If there's an option to make a bootable ghost 2002 cd, then I'm interested - tell me how) I also use it to run FDISK (although that would be rare, only need it for a real emergency) Also, have you seen the vote results on ZDNet? most people want to keep the floppy drive. I don't blame them.

it doesn't time out, they cut me off on the 2 hour mark. allows other users to log on successfully, but I auto-reconnnect anyway heheh.

DU Meter stats [b:82f002fa1d]February 2002[/b:82f002fa1d] Downloaded: [b:82f002fa1d]8.12GB[/b:82f002fa1d] Uploaded: [b:82f002fa1d]2.04GB[/b:82f002fa1d] Both Directions: [b:82f002fa1d]10.16GB[/b:82f002fa1d] Connection time: [b:82f002fa1d]27 days and 16 hours[/b:82f002fa1d] Connection speed: [b:82f002fa1d]56K Modem with 2 hourly disconnection[/b:82f002fa1d] Not as much as January... because there was only 28 days in February heheh. What's yours?

ROFLAMO!!! :rofl

VNC was pure crap! I couldn't make head or tails of how to use it on the XP machines on the LAN. The documentation was poor, it said that an icon would appear in the system tray when the WinVNC service is installed, but no icon appeared! And the gay thing about VNC is that it removes the wallpaper of the remote machine when I connect to it, and my mates on the LAN don't like that! Couldn't find an option to disable 'wallpaper removing' either, even though it was mentioned in the documentation. Windows sizing was also an annoyance. Back to PCAnywhere 10.5 for me (slow for remote control, but everything works as I like it)

If the URL is long, it will parse, it is not a problem though, its clickable and loads up the full URL in another browser window.

A netmeeting server? I don't think such a thing exists.

Thanks very much Unimatrix! I'll give it a go.

hermit, yes. Create 7 folders (put them in a new folder called quick launch folders or something and put it in c: root) and place all your shortcuts in the 7 folders - categorised. then 'add toolbar' pointing to a folder you created, then repeat for the rest of the folders. The icons... I don't have a volume control there, but this is what I have in the system tray (in correct order left to right): Vypress Messenger - A LAN Messenger Epsom Stylus Printer control Daemon-Tools - mount ISO or any other cd image as a cd-rom drive DU Meter - monitors my LAN/Dial up speed and usage

MSNWar... thats a bit of a far-fetched solution (installing netware client crap) to prevent windows explorer viewing all the network folders on the folder panel. There must be some simple Windows option that I should disable...

That is sick!! I go there every wednesday for a tower meal

There are 2 annoying things in Windows XP that annoys me at the moment: A context menu hiding behind the taskbar: Context Menu A long list of network folders appearing on the left side panel. I'd rather browse folders by name (after Workgroup tree) than look at a long stretching list of folders (which are possibly no longer shared, or changed): Network Folders - Any possible way of stopping it from doing that?

These drivers still cause my monitor to go on standby when a game is changing resolution. All the latest drivers are doing that, so I'm still using the old Win2k 3211 drivers on XP, which works very well.

You already answered your own question drewdatrip! rofl

Please note that this post has been posted to both the [b:01ecc8fd24]Windows XP and .NET[/b:01ecc8fd24] and [b:01ecc8fd24]Windows 9x/2k/ME/NT[/b:01ecc8fd24] forums. ASPI 4.70 has been kindly released for free from Adaptec and you can get it from their page: http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/d...oduct/ASPI-4.70 Installation instructions: For Windows 98, NT 4.0, Me and 2000, use the enclosed ASPIINST.EXE file to install the ASPI layer. Includes ASPICHK version checking utility. For Windows XP, select Start - Run from the menu, and then the Browse button. Locate the INSTALL.BAT file in the directory the files extracted to and select the OPEN button. In the command box, add a space and either XP32 for Pentium I/II/III/IV processors or XP64 for Itanium processors. The command should look like: c:adaptecaspiinstall.bat XP32 or c:adaptecaspiinstall.bat XP64. Then select the OK button to run the XP installer.