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Yes, on the surface XP does run slower than 98, but do you understand why and the reasoning for it? IMO, the benefits outweigh the costs. I'd rather have a rock solid system that runs a bit slower than one that runs really fast, but crashes... and I loose my work.

If you've set the swap file to minimum, you'll have one hell of a time getting Photoshop, Outlook, your web browser, and Dreamweaver running... all at the same time. You actually - manually - find any "scary" files on your computer? You must have a lot of free time on your hands. And with nLite, I've got a fully working computer with a mere 400MB in the Windows directory. I know others have done better, but this is what I needed for everything I use. Who cares if the scan only takes 31s.... how often do you scan your comptuer? With a proper anti-virus and SpywareBlaster, you shouldn't be needing to scan your computer that often. If you do and it picks up stuff everytime, then you've got more problems than you can shake a stick at. I haven't scanned my XP install for viruses or spyware in months. It's running rock solid, as it has for a while now. Not to mention that if I wanted to... I could very easily kick the Spybot scan out of memory in Win98... something that's (pretty much) impossible to do in XP.

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The problem that I have with this (I'm not an admin by the way...) is the fact that someone completely new comes in and advertises (that's the way I see it) a new product without having contributed anything else first. The difference between rythmnsmoke and nuhi and Alanoll is that nuhi and Alanoll have provided help in many areas, whereas for rythymsmoke, his first post is regarding a product that costs money and he works on. To me, that's advertising. And IMO, it does belong with a discussion regarding AV software since that's the market that its in. There's a lot of software that runs on XP... but we all post about that in the Software Discussion section... what's so different about this? I apologize if I was quick to judge on this. I've seen many other such first posts, and probably all of them up until now have been completely bogus. From the looks of things, this isn't the case here. Now... to ask some questions (and hopefully get some good answers! ) Sure... most AV programs go undetectable on the system when you're not using it, but what about when there's high network or file I/O happening? Both Norton and NOD32 will sit quietly at idle, but start downloading a lot of stuff and Norton will cause your computer to slow to a crawl while NOD32 doesn't. These are just for comparative purposes mind you - there are several other AV programs that demonstrate similar qualities. How exactly do you accomplish this? You're saying that you recieve data at the hardware level before Windows does? I thought that this was the key to how WinXP worked... the HAL - a method so that it was simple to interface hardware through the OS. The only program that I know of that can directly access some hardware (network cards and CD drives perhaps) is VMWare, but it still relies on the OS for processor calls and file I/O. I'm somewhat skeptical of this... was the program put on the computers malicious (i.e. a virus/trojan)? If so, you're saying that none of the AV programs picked it up? I'd like to get my hands on this program... for testing purposes. Kinda harsh way to put it, but true... several programs use auto-update features. When the program is updated, how would the ImmuneEngine know to allow that program access to resources? For example, Sygate Personal Firewall keeps a running tabs on all programs that request network access, and when a program version changes, it asks the user what to do. Would the ImmuneEngine provide a similar feature?Also, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Binary Search Engine". Searching through the binary code itself is somewhat crude and probably an inefficient way of doing things. The binary data itself doesn't hold much value unless you know how to interpret it. A little more elaboration might help here...

Yup... thanks to Pantharen, I got this great picture... I laughed so hard when I first saw this...

Well, you can get the RunOnceEx maker program. It'll help you get all the application installs in there. As for copying files, you shouldn't need to. You can simply place the files in their correct location in the $OEM$ folders and you should be set. For example: $OEM$\$Progs\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ Would refer to: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ Just find the right location in the $OEM$ folders for the files that you would otherwise copy. They'll get copied over in the intial stages of installation. And next time use code tags, or even better codebox tags. It makes it a lot easier for us to read and keeps things clean. (Perhaps you could edit your post above to fix this...) Hope this helps and welcome to MSFN! Cheers!

^^^ This is one smart, smart man... learn from him. And, no you shouldnt' get flamed for saying that XP boots slower than 98. It's true. Anyone who says otherwise should take another test with proper drivers installed on both OSes. The stability of XP far outweighs the cost of a little speed.

Read up on the forum rules and ettiquette. Coming Etiquette This shouldn't even be in the WindowsXP section either...

New version or old? I've left my console on for 2 days once by accident. I had paused an endurance race in GT3 and then forgot about it. When I came back, it was perfectly fine! I finished the race of course...

^^^^^ lmao!!!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why is it ? To complete 100% of the game, you have to complete 100%...

Wow.. you got your Cancermeleon to evolve! Cool!

The Airport Extreme from Apple will let you do this through iTunes. It's a bit pricey, but it'll do the trick.

Ok, I updated my sig with the code MartinL provided.

I'd have to say Microsoft Office 2003. Outlook 2003 is just phenomenal, and it integrates with PDA software very easily.

hehe... I've done the same thing when playing games... leaning always helps!

That's what separate partitions are for! My "My Documents" folder is actually a mounted partition, so if anything goes wrong, all the data is still there.

It's always recommended to backup your data before you partition your drives. However, as markw above, I've never run into troubles with PartitionMagic. If the operation completes successfully, your files will be intact without any errors.

You could try making a WinPE disk with AntiVir installed on it. That way, you'd have access to the computer and be able to scan for viruses.

That's fairly old news... it was on FrontPage a couple of weeks ago...

Did this happen all of a sudden? or did you change a setting or install/uninstall software? Were you having any other problems with the computer before this happened?

Umm... I'll say that XP is superior anyday. Windows98 still uses shared memory. This means that the following code would bring down the entire computer: while(1) { *( (char *) random() ) = 62; } If you don't understand C/C++, the code basically picks a random byte of memory and assigns the value 62 to it... forever, until the program is killed or the computer crashes. Chances are you'd never be able to react quickly enough to stop it though. The driver support in Win98 is horrible as well... ever tried using a simple USB flash drive in Win98? The "plug-and-play" device requires drivers... And finally... try leaving your Win98 machine running for more than a week... it'll slow to a crawl in no time flat. If you're saying that Win98 is better than XP because scanning with Spybot is quicker in 98, then you've seriously gotta read up on how things work!

It will work with any service pack. The only catch is that the file must be copied from the computer that the UACD is being used with.

So this means that Bram Cohen is responsible for the illegitimate uses of Bit Torrent? Come on... this is just rediculous. The courts have far too much power in the States...

Ok now I'm a bit confused... maybe I should wait until the big boss (aka xper) makes a decision, because gamehead200 seems to think that both the links have to go, whereas MartinL gave me the code for my sig that still has me as the affiliate for Opera (which is the one I thought would cause more problems). By the way... I've updated my sig as MartinL suggested.