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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.

Have you tried uninstalling your wireless card and then letting Windows reinstall the drivers on reboot?

Thanks RyanVM. I'll give that a shot. And yes, when I was using yours, my RunOnceEx had netfxsp1.exe as the command.

@Jay_Stealth - I like the wall!

Follow the instructions here for the maximum security settings. Then, simply disable the GUI from startup and you're set! You can disable it from msconfig or Startup Control Panel. As long as the kernel is running, NOD32 will update and protect you from viruses. You won't get any notification windows however, but I trust that it's doing its job and I don't really want to be bothered with a window saying that it's deleted a virus.

First off - don't double post. Double posts only cause different answers and thread to pop up and they're messy...We'll find your question wherever it may lie. As for your question, have you tried uninstalling the floppy drive from Device Manager and then letting Windows reinstall the drivers for it? Right-click My Computer->Properties->Hardware->Device manager Right-click on the floppy drive and select uninstall. Confirm. Reboot. If the drive says that there are no XP-compatible drivers, then usually you're out of luck. You might want to dig around in the Device Drivers section for a little more info. Just remember to search before posting. Welcome to MSFN.

A hijackThis log from a normal startup would be more helpful. Are you able to delete the file in safe mode, or does it still keep coming back?

Thank you. The best part of all - my computer is **** near silent! I leave it on when I go to sleep and it's only 5m from my bed.

You'll probably have to recreate the boot screen after installing the hotfix. Either that or use BootSkin which is independent from the system files.

I'm in shock... That's gotta be one of your best desktops I've ever seen!!! That wall is absolutely amazing... @SiMoNsAyS - Make this a finalist for sure!!!!!!

As a correction, not all XP drivers work with Windows 2003. Perfect example - my Logitech Messenger Webcam. The drivers for it cause the dreaded BSOD on startup, and require booting into safe mode to uninstall. Most built-in hardware (anything inside the computer case) will work though. For the rest of it, follow the guide.

I'm stumped.... I'm trying to get the .NET Framework to install UA with RunOnceEx, but for some reason, it seems to just skip over that entry in the list. RunOnceEx: cmdow @ /HID @echo off FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\WIN51IP.SP2 SET CDROM=%%i: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Programs" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Avast AntiVirus Home Edition" REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\Avast\setupeng.exe /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SP-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 2 /D "xcopy %CDROM%\Installs\Avast\avast4.ini \"%PROGRAMFILES%\Alwil Software\Avast\DATA\\" /Q /Y" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Sygate Personal Firewall" REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\Sygate\spf.exe /QN Reboot=Supress" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Spybot S&D 1.4" REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\SpybotSD\spybotsd14.exe /verysilent" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "SpywareBlaster 3.4" REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\SpywareBlaster\sb34setup.exe /verysilent" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /VE /D ".NET Framework" RED ADD %KEY%\020 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\netfx\netfx.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /VE /D "Java Runime Environment" REG ADD %KEY%\025 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\JRE\jre505.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /VE /D "Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.03" REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\AcrobatReader\acroread703.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /VE /D "Winamp 5.1" REG ADD %KEY%\035 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\Winamp\Winamp5.1.msi INI=%CDROM%\Installs\Winamp\setup.ini /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "Nero 6.6.0.16" REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\Nero\Nero_Custom_Setup.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /VE /D "DirectShow FilterPack" REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 1 /D "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\Media\FilterPack\install_all.bat\"" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "PowerToys - Image Resizer" REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\PowerToys\ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe /S /v/qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\051 /VE /D "PowerToys - ClearType Wizard" REG ADD %KEY%\051 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\PowerToys\ClearTypeTuningWizardSetup.exe /S /v/qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\052 /VE /D "PowerToys - SlideShow PowerToy" REG ADD %KEY%\052 /V 2 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\PowerToys\SlideshowPowertoySetup.exe /S /v/qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\053 /VE /D "PowerToys - SyncToy" REG ADD %KEY%\053 /V 4 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\PowerToys\SyncToy.msi /qb" /f REG ADD %KEY%\054 /VE /D "PowerToys - TweakUI" REG ADD %KEY%\054 /V 5 /D "REGEDIT /S %CDROM%\Installs\PowerToys\TweakUI_CP.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\055 /VE /D "XPize 4.0 Final" REG ADD %KEY%\055 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Installs\XPize\XPize.exe /S /norestore /nocmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\999 /VE /D "Restart" REG ADD %KEY%\999 /V 1 /D "shutdown -r -t 00" /f I've tried using RyanVM's installer, and also making my own using a guide that prathapml posted somewhere, but no luck with either. On their own, once Windows has finished installing, they install just fine, silently and without any errors. Everything else installs perfectly,except the Avast settings - but I'm working on those, and SyncToy, since that requires .NET. I can't see what I'm missing here.. it's probably just one character misplaced or something...

Yes... I've got an Athlon XP 2000+. With the stock heatsink, I would get idle temps of about 48C and load temps of 54-56C. I bought the Zalman CNPS3100-Plus and for testing purposes, applied the included silicone thermal paste. Idle:44C, load:51C. Not bad... not bad. Then I re-installed the HS, this time with the AS5. I now get idle temps of 40C and load temps of 46C (It's running SETI@Home, so I'm sure of the load temps).

Yeah...it's nice!

I'm not just talking about the silent mode... there is no GUI when you configure it the way I've got it. If you look at my screenshots, I don't have the NOD32 icon in my systray.

[shout] Hey xper!!!! [/shout] We should go for a chat room of sorts. Members only so that random people don't stumble in and ruin the party, of course.

Geez... I've got nearly 500 and I think that's small...

XP-SP1 brought USB 2.0 support, and the driver support for SP2 is even better... With SP2 and all the post SP2-hotfixes, you are up to date. Vista has new features, but then again, as with other OSes, it will end up cutting out the very bottom end computers from the market. And 4 years is not "soo old".

You can also set up NOD32 to be silent. Just set all the configs to first clean, then delete the infected files, set the update on its own, and then you'll have no need for the GUI. That's how I run my computer and NOD32 still catches crap that I get through my e-mail. As long as the kernel is running (nod32krn.exe) you're protected. That way your sis won't have access to the settings so that she can't unprotect herself.

Shift+Delete =

Well... if the menus are embedded in the files themselves, and not a registry key, then modifying the file is the only way to change the appearance... ResHacking isn't all that hard....