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Yeah... but when you start up your comptuer, are all your programs up and running already? Hibernation can do that for you ... And there aren't any 10K raptors for laptops either...

Maybe Apple is using "Big Brother" tactics now... storing the location of your music on their servers, and then updating your software when you re-install it...

Umm... what? The AeroShell/AveShell project has nothing to do with shell32.dll. As for the original question, I'm not sure of any direct links to pre-made packages, but you could always find an icon set that you like and reshack your shell32.dll file with those icons. It's a bit more work, but you'll end up with what you want in the end.

Kinda creepy... And the first time that you had installed iTunes, you had to tell it where to look for your music, right?

Hibernate works beautifully in XP. It's one of the big leaps and bounds over 2000 (let alone ME). Hibernation is more often typically used for portable computers (i.e. laptops/tablets) rather than desktops since laptops are often used on the go to quickly check e-mail or the like. To easily do that, you need to turn on the computer, do whatever, and turn off the comptuer, all in a very short time span.

Bah... You misread my post... sorry about that... You don't change the colour of the folder itself... you change the colour of the text beside the folder in TweakUI. A little self research could have found this. TweakUI is something that should be installed on everyone's computer anyways...

Let me give you a couple of links to help you out (both with your problem and since you're new here)... Link 1 (READ IT ALL!!!) Link 2 Please make it a habit of trying to find the solution on your own. Google does wonders in this day and age.

Not really focussing on IT, but Mission Impossible has some in there as well. The big guy (I can't remember his name) used something like 5 laptops to coordinate the mission into the CIA HQ.

Did you search the forums at all? It can easily be found...

Umm... how about walk, bike, or take the bus?

Does your motherboard support RAID0? You're better off setting that up if you want better performance to go along with your increased "disk" size.

Then you can't do it. Either the service or some other program has to be running to make your programs run on schedule. What's so bad about the Task Scheduler service? Or are you being "hardcore" and trying to strip everything out of your install?

It could be that the default profile is corrupt as well... something really botched must have happened... I can't exactly remember how, but you'll need to restore the default user profile. I think that if you delete it (delete the C:\Documents and Settings\Default User folder), Windows will create a new one when a new user is created. Don't shoot me if it doesn't work though... you'll probably want to test this out in VMWare. EDIT I take it back!!! Thanks to Jeremy (and a quick VMWare test) I can say that the above method does not work!!! Do not delete the Default User folder if you want to create a new user... I'll keep working on this though... I know your situation is salvegable (spelling?).

The architechture is different for 64-bit processors. That's what makes it a 64-bit processor... What you're probably thinking of is the fact that the 64-bit architecture is backwards compatible, meaning that a processor that can handle the x86-64 instructions can also handle x86 instructions. The instructions are the software, the architecture is the hardware. Simply put, the old software can run on new hardware, but not the other way around.

Well... no the test didnt' test everything, but it did test one of the often overlooked features of a firewall. Most firewall developers will write their programs to pass tests such as ShieldsUp! and the like. However, those tests don't give an all-inclusive look at the software either.

Hmm... it could be the post time that's slowing you down. The post on my laptop is only about 2 seconds, and I know most desktops are longer than that. But once you're past post, it should be pretty quick.

It sounds like corrupted user profiles. You said that you had created a new user profile that worked properly, correct? If so, your best bet is to create new users for the three that don't work. All the programs will still be there, although some settings may be lost in the process. Actually.. while you're at it... set up one Administrator account, and then create 4 new Limited User accounts. When it's time to update or install programs, tell the users that they will need to login to the Administrator account. This is good computing practice, as users are less likely to mess up critical settings from a limited account and certain types of malware won't have the proper permissions to do their dirty work.

Chances are that anything that's in the Recycle Bin is safe to delete. You can use a program like CCleaner to help you sort out leftover junk on your hard drive. System files are a lot smaller than the files you've got, so I don't think you'd run into problems where your computer wouldn't startup again.

Hibernation should fly for you! Just use what you've got. It's not that slow is it? I've got 1GB of RAM and it only takes me about 10 seconds from pressing the power button to being at a fully functional desktop (specs in sig). The less RAM you have, the less time it should take, since there's less data to be written to the hard drive. I only reboot my laptop when I need to really... probably about once a week.

Nope... AMD still uses the x86-64 instruction set. Look at any CPU-Z screenshot from an Athlon64 CPU. All "common" CPUs (any you would typically find in a home computer) are based on the x86 instruction set. The 64-bit processors have an extended version of x86 to allow for 64-bit processing.

If the Mozilla group releases Firefox with the code given to them from IBM, then they would have to release the source code. That means that anyone else out there is free to use it, but they would then have to release their source code. There's no getting around the GPL...

@dale5605 - I still haven't had a chance to use solely the Windows Firewall... but aren't you repeating what I said above? One of the big advantages of a third-party firewall with outbound filtering is that you help prevent the spread of infections in the event that you have a virus/worm.

Yup... that's just like Gizoogle. With that one, you can "translate" whole passages... try taking excerpts out of a quantum physics document and translating it...

Yeah... I figured as much about your av... oh well. We've still got plenty other sources to look at such pictures. And yes...beer... Everytime I hear something about beer now, I think about the Family Guy episode where they do a spoof on Samuel Adams beer.

The x86 definition of processors refers to the instruction sets used by commonplace CPUs (Pentium4, Athlon, and variants). It's meant to be an extension of the old 86, 286, 386, and 486 processors. For a while, the original Pentium processor was dubbed the 586, but Intel wanted a stronger marketing platform, and therefore dubbed their new processor the Intel Pentium. You're entirely correct about the 64-bit architechture being an extension upon the existing x86 platform, and it is infact called x86-64 (Many 64-bit Linux distros are labeled with this). My guess is that the x86 was simply dropped since most consumers don't really know the history of processors.