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What about your recycle bin? System Restore? Temp files?

Thanks!!! Something more to add to my freeware add-on pack!

Other way around!!! Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries suffer from the "memory effect" where the performance of the battery degrades if you don't fully discharge the battery. Lithium batteries don't suffer from this effect. Most laptops and electronics today (cell phones, MP3 players, etc) have lithium batteries.

The Winntbbu.dll file is not "run" per se. It's loaded when you see the screen that tells you what's going on during the installation. As for being at the 4th option right away, that's how it's been for me every time that I've installed XP. No problems or strangeness there. As for replacing the boot screen, it's a bit more complicated. I suggest leaving the boot screen alone and using Boot Skin from Stardock instead. It's the one app that I simply would not consider applying UA since there's a lot of potential to end up with an unbootable system.

That's the indexing service... probably a useless service for most people. To disable it: Start->Run->type in services.msc->Double-click Indexing Service->Set Startup type to Disabled->Click Stop That should do the trick.

Congratulations xper!!! Grattis på fødelsedagen!!!

Well... sorta. A trickle charge is meant for a very low current used to charge the batteries. Since most people want their computers charged right now, the charger will fill up the battery as quickly as possible. If you want to charge your battery faster, buy a higher wattage power supply.

Yeah... it's a pain in the butt... Also goes to show you that I don't use the RunOnceEx creator, like I probably should...

A simple search for "disable XP tour" in the Google box at the top of the forums found this. Search harder next time. 99% of the stuff you want is already on the boards.

UPDATE!!! - uTorrent 1.1.5 is released!!! - SourceDirect Download

BAH!!!!!! BAH BAH BAH BAH BAH!!!! *grumble* That won't do anything at all in a batch file!!!! Stupid typos... 3 days!!! 3 days to find this! *slaps self*

I've been messing around with those little 94x15 px images that people use in their sigs and for their websites n stuff...The Sygate pic needs a little bit of work... I don't really like the way the image turned out. Feel free to grab these and use them for yourself! B)

When in doubt, run the big three of AS: Ad-Aware, Spybot, and MS AntiSpyware. To help prevent spyware from returning, use the immunize feature in Spybot as well as SpywareBlaster. Also, check your IE pop-up blocker settings. Tools->Internet Options->Privacy->Pop-up blocker Settings It should be set to Medium by default. If it was at Low without you having set it there, then you've got something malicious on your computer. Set that to high and see if you still have problems.

Clicky... I think it speaks for itself... B)

Just felt like repeating yourself there, eh ripken204?

Hahah..... that's friggin awesome... I love the subtitles bit... Thanks for sharing!

Ubuntu is a great distro to try out for new users. Installing programs is as easy as apt-get install <package>. Highly recommended for people who want to try things out but aren't quite ready for the full transition yet.

My choices so far: harunaksoy - Link Jay_Stealth - Link Hopefully I'll get some time next week to play with my desktop. My laptop screenshot isn't a big enough change to warrant entering it again. I'll definately be in by the end of the month though...

For XP itself and something that is purely XP's fault, the only thing I can think of is with a friend of mine. On his laptop, any media file that he right-clicks on gives him an explorer crash. His system is completely virus/malware free and he stays on top of Windows Updates. He ended up restoring from the IBM image...

Could we start with step 1? It says 1. Copy the office 2003 to the hard disk (referred from now on as X:\office2003). Does that mean that you simply overwrite any duplicate entries from one CD to the next, so that you have one folder that contains all the files from the 5 CDs? Or do you do each CD one at a time, and then use the standard AIO methods? It's kinda unclear from the original guide. That much I can understand... just making the final product a little fancier. This sounds like customization outside of the guide. I might have a look at this once I get the basics working. If you don't set the cabinet compression to max (i.e. leave the , will the 5CDs optimize? You said that you got everything into 701MB and then 679MB at first (with the second using Project Client). @tCP - Thanks! That makes things a little easier for cleaning up.

Thank you Bold! It's really awesome that you took the time to test this out. I think that for most people (not the minority of us who use nLite), leaving the prefetcher alone is best. I'm really skeptical about the people who said that having the prefetcher on adds 60% to the boot time... On full installations of Home, Pro, MCE, Server 2003, etc etc etc I've always seen an improvement with the prefetcher on and the Prefetch folder left alone.

Uncheck the Automatic restart box. When it restarts, you may get a BSOD. Copy down the stop code and then have a look here for more info on what's going on.

Wow... that's awesome... The boat and pond picture is my favorite!

Is your computer set to automatically restart on an error? Right-click My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Startup and Recovery Settings->Uncheck "Automatically restart".

It's not really worth it... I've found that memory "managers" often conflict with Windows in terms of your memory. I can possibly see the benefit on Win98/ME, but not any NT based OS. Let Windows XP take care of itself. My laptop runs all kinds of memory intensive apps all the time (7-zip, VMware, etc) and when all of them are closed again, it's back to it's speedy ol' self.