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Since it's IE8, using fiddler to capture IE-specific traffic would be better (assuming you can use explorer.exe or a real FTP client to get the files properly from the same box, of course).

The only other thing, if it's not an add-in, could be browser proxy auto-detection (wpad). Uncheck "automatically detect settings" in the connections option to see if that changes anything as well.

Well, considering the one you used was for Windows 2000, I'm not surprised it's misbehaving on XP.

If you boot Windows into safe mode, and run iexplore.exe -extoff, does it repro there as well?

C'mon, hardware boy! - it should have: The Asus TUSL2-C board supports P3 processors, both coppermine and tualatin variants, runs the i815EP chipset with a max 512MB of RAM, and was released in 2001. Based on the partial processor spec, this is indeed a P3 CPU, but it could be a coppermine (model 8) or a tualatin (model 11). Stepping 10 didn't exist in Model 11, so it's not a P3 tualatin, meaning it's likely a coppermine at 1GHz (that's Family 6, Model 8, Stepping 10). Note that this could be a full P3 or Celeron at this speed, but that probably doesn't matter much in this situation given it's a 1GHz part. Back to the OP: Given the above, the only things I can think of that would hamper this machine running XP would be: lack of RAM (you have 384MB, so it should be OK) slow hard disk (5400RPM, perhaps? 40GB HDD should be plenty large for XP) hardware problems (less likely, but still possible considering your specs otherwise seem fine for XP)

No, it's far more complicated than that. Although I do believe someone did do it here recently, can't remember the post though. Was very involved if I remember correctly . Note I've installed Vista on external USB drives many times before, but the BIOS did the magic and made it look like any old HDD (HP workstation).

Agreed. I say run the OS you are comfortable with, and if that's 9x, or DOS, or Win3.1, or any other OS, so be it. Far be it for me to tell someone what to use, so I don't. However, the delusion that an OS with a flat memory model and zero system security is somehow inherently secure because it doesn't broadcast itself like NT, 2000, and XP did (until SP2, anyway) is a bit crazy. Yes, there are 3rd party tools that can shore up 9x's security, just like there are ways to configure an NT system to be locked down (even to the point of being fairly unusable, but that's for another discussion). But, at the end of the day, having a flat memory model with no process security means any code in any mode (user or kernel) can write to the other and do anything it wants. This is not possible on an NT system, unless you run as administrator (and even then, in Vista+, it takes social engineering or a lazy user for exploits like this to work).Again, I don't hate on 9x like others, but you have to be realistic - the flat memory and no process security or separation model is 100% the achilles' heel of 9x system security.

I would have to agree - cleartype on all my LCDs makes a huge difference (in a positive way), especially on smaller laptop screens with lower resolutions. Really cleans it up.

IE7 was built from the Vista OS build tree, and as such most everything is Segoe UI as that's the major font Vista uses. Agreed, that looks exactly like Segoe UI (I typed the same in Word 2007 on Vista, and it looks basically the same).

Vista's setup isn't text-based, like XP's was. It's an actual disk image in a compressed format (WIM), and the files and contents of the WIM image are actually stored in the image itself (hence why there are tools like pkgmgr, imagex, etc to service images online or off). What specifically are you trying to do?

Explorer.exe allows shell extensions too - run ShellExView from NirSoft to see what I mean.Anyway, the only three instances I've ever seen where the search shell extension (msshsq.dll) cause issues was first on Vista RTM machines with GDI leaks due to explorer shell extensions, malware, and corrupted system restore files. The second is an easy fix - disable system restore, run chkdsk on all hard disks in the machine, and then re-enable system restore. The former is harder to track down, and in general disabling any shell extension you aren't absolutely going to use (by using NirSoft's ShellExView) generally fixes those problems, along with installing the latest service pack (which has specific fixes in it for GDI issues on Vista RTM). As to malware, well, that's a different section of the forums entirely.

You can install the LDR branch onto a Vista (or Win7) machine via the following commands: 1. Open an administrative cmd prompt 2. create a folder for the expanded MSU, as well as a folder for the expanded CAB file, and then type the following commands: C:\> Expand -f:* "<full path of .msu file> <expanded MSU folder> C:\> Expand -f:* <full path of extracted kb article # .cab file> <expanded CAB folder> C:\> pkgmgr /ip /m:<expanded CAB folder>\update-bf.mum Note that you could install packages via pkgmgr to an offline installation as well, although I've not tried it. However, since pkgmgr supports both online and offline packaging, this should work - I do not know if you can use the WAIK to do this, however.

Data Execution Prevention means a program on the system is trying to execute code from an area of memory marked PAGE_READ_ONLY or PAGE_NO_ACCESS, both of which will trigger DEP to cause the program to terminate. If it keeps happening, I'd reinstall Windows, then reinstall (and use) your drivers and programs ONE AT A TIME until you catch the culprit.

Well, that's one possibility. However, if it's the same .dll file every time, and always 0xc0000005, then I would think it's more likely an Explorer shell extension or add-on causing it.

Unfortunately, what you want to do isn't possible without upgrading your VB6 code to something newer, like VB.NET. And yes, if you want the full suite for Visual Basic, you'll need to pony up for a full version of Visual Studio 2005 or 2008.

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It appears these file types all have a PersistentHandler key underneath them in HKCR, with (Default) pointing to {5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}. Looking that CLSID up, it appears to be the "Plain Text persistent handler", which points to {c1243ca0-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}. Looking that CLSID up, it points to query.dll as an InProcServer32 handler, which means this .dll file is determining whether or not to show the "Open With" menu. I'm not digging further at the moment, but at least you know what .dll it's spawning from now.

Honestly, I'm not sure. I've never set up Premium or Ultimate (beta, RC, or now RTM) and seen the guide not work, letalone the tuner. Assuming you didn't vLite this install, I honestly don't know. Can you reproduce this with RTM?

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Nero is still around?

I use it for the hardware inside - it is the best-made Intel laptop money can buy, period. As to the OS, that's personal opinion, and I find Mac OS X to be useless for me due to the apps I run, so I wouldn't consider it a "great" OS for me by any means.

That's it. Member server just means a server that's a member of a domain, and isn't a domain controller.

Well, where's the .dmp file?

Using RTM 16385 here, for reference.