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lol... I'm not gonna bother with screenshots or 32M, since that'll take a stupidly long amount of time, but I managed to get 1m 11s on my laptop for 1M.

Actually, if one of the chips is bad, then it'll bring down the whole system regardless. You'd have to check one at a time to see if one or the other is faulty. Regardless, it doesn't sound like a RAM problem. Like others have said, it's either a heat or power supply issue. Oh... actually on second thought, it could be something else entirely... This is going to sound wierd, but hear me out. I just googled that model number and saw the pics of what it looks like. I had a classmate who bought a model that looks the same as that one. He said that he had a problem with random shutdowns/reboots as well. To make a long story short, apparently Toshiba had failed to properly shield the metal case of the laptop from the electronics inside. Simply touching the metal where your wrists would lie might throw the computer off and make it hard shutdown. A call to Toshiba and a (free) shipment to the repair center solved the problem (they replaced that top panel).

i thougth we all were beginners first and no one knew what it is about and hot to make it work. Or after reaching this advancement , we want to keep it to our group ? Yes, we are all beginners at first. But... you first learn how to walk, and then run. Once you've learned how to run, then you can start figuring out how to improve your race times. Like I said to jumpjack, if you're not willing to spend the time to test nLite (which usually means a few reinstalls of Windows), then it's not for you. Very rarely is a complete newbie able to get an nLited install perfect.

Think back to the year 2001 when XP was first released. What were the average computer specs back then? XP will run just fine on that computer with 256MB of RAM. For everyday, nothing heavy, use (i.e. e-mail, internet, word processing), it's fine. My parents are running XP on older computers (1. PIII-m 750MHz, 128MB PC100 - 2. Athlon 1GHz, 512MB PC133) and I've heard absolutely no complaints from them yet.Yes, 800MHz is slower than 3GHz. That's true, and will never change. It does not mean that you can't run XP on that computer. Man... people's standards are so high today... 10GB is also plenty for XP. A default XP install takes up about 1.5-2GB of space. I've got my XP on a 10GB partition, and with all the large programs I use (including Matlab 7 - 2.3GB install), I've got 2.5GB free. Man what were you doint uptil now on the forum Go check it out at Nlite Here is our forum on nlite Forum I'm going to say this once and hopefully for the last time... nLite is not for everyone! Yes, it's a good program that does exactly what nuhi set out to do when he started. But what happens when an unknowing user runs nLite and then realizes that they removed a component that they need? They've got to re-install Windows altogether! Now they've got to go through the whole nLiting and reinstallation process. @jumpjack - If you're not willing to spend the time to reinstall everything if something goes wrong, do not use nLite. It's NOT for beginners or people who don't understand what they're fully doing. I'm not trying to sound mean here, but it's a double-edged sword that shouldn't be played with lightly.

You would know about the Unattended site, wouldn't you Alanoll... Keep up the good work.

I know CoRoNe and Jeremy are gonna kill me for this, but I'll recommend an alternative set of codecs. QT Alternative Real Alternative XP Codec Pack Download them all separately, and install them in that order. I've never found a file that those three together can't play through MPC smoothly. H264 files used to be a PITA with Klite Codec Pack, but now I've got no problems whatsoever.

When you're at the recovery console, can you expand the hal.dl_ file that's on the CD to the system32 folder? expand D:\i386\hal.dl_ C:\WINDOWS\system32\hal.dll Please try to be more specific with the error that you're getting in future. It makes it a lot easier for us to know exactly what you're talking about.

That's the term I was looking for (when talking about stress). I knew what it was, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

This is something that I would be highly interested in... I'm probably going to be needing a LaTeX document writing/compiling system on my computer at some point in the near future. Hope to see what you can come up with. If you need a computer guinea pig, let me know.

That's probably because the MSBA scans check for what hotfixes are installed, not the files themselves. I can pretty much guarantee you that you are fully up to date and have no more vulnerabilities using RyanVM's pack than you are having updated as one normally would.

Neowin also has members who specialize on the graphics section of the forums... which is cool and all, but requires a **** lot of work. They pushed out Neowin5 just a couple of weeks ago... a month behind schedule? Also, I've found that the CSS there makes things really slow. The CPU usage goes nuts when I browse their forums. Nice, clean, and simple here. That's how I like it. And like MartinL said, it's quality, not looks that make MSFN what it is.

@Tarun - I believe that would fall under the category of "flaming". As for the guide, it's will written and most of the facts are true. There is a lot of false advertisement out there about Firefox, which MasterTech has captured the basics. Unfortunately, you'll probably get quite a few more unpleasant responses here MT. Thanks anyways.

Like he said, it's usually better to keep your sensitive data on a separate partition than your system drive. The directory structure doesn't matter when it comes to drive performance. The files are laid out on disk completely differently (for the most part), so how you name this folder and that won't change the performance at all.

If you remove the drive letter, all you're removing is the access to that partition from that installation of Windows. The data on the partition will stay the exact same, and will be available to boot from if specified in the boot loader. In each installation, all you need to do is remove the drive letter for the other Windows partition. And I did understand what you meant the first time... Ripken204 had a similar post about this a while back - you should do a quick search for it.

There are indeed USB 2.0 drivers in XP Service Pack 2. I would try uninstalling all the USB devices from Device Manager and then letting Windows redetect them on reboot. To do this - Right-click "My Computer" and select Properties. - Under the "Hardware" tab, click on "Device Manager" - Scroll down to "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" - Right click on every entry here and select "Uninstall" - When done, reboot. Let Windows detect your devices (which it should) and install them. You may have to reboot a second time, but I don't think so for USB devices Hope that helps!

I'm not sure about StyleXP, since I haven't used that program in ages. Honestly, it's crap, and does the exact same thing as the uxtheme patcher (only in memory - not to the file itself). The link that I provide in my guide works on Windows 2003 SP1 as well - that's what I'm running at home.

For those of you who might be wondering about the test program, I e-mailed my prof and he sent me the source code: #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { int i; time_t startTime = time(0), now; for (i = 0; i < 9; ++i) { if (!fork()) break; } i = 0; while (1) { ++i; now = time(0); if (now - startTime > 60) break; } printf("%d counted to %d\n", getpid(), i); fflush(stdout); return 0; } As you can see, it's really simple, but an effective test for proper processor schduling. It should complile in any Unix/Linux style OS, and in Windows, he compiled it under Cygwin.

@cluberti - Thanks for the info. @foothill - What video card did you have before and which one do you have now? The temperatures listed seem alright (46C is probably your CPU) - nothing out of the norm there. Also... Sims Theme Park seems to be a Windows 95 and 98 only game. If there are dependencies on DOS, then you're going to have some trouble getting them to work in XP. You might want to look through the game manual for more information on this.

Try running control userpasswords2 and select "Users nust enter a user name and password to use this computer."

Happy Birthday! Hope all your exams have gone well so far!

Higher clock = more stress on the circuits If we were to go back to the old car-vs-computer analogy - lets say your CPU has a "redline" of 6000 RPM. You do what you need to push that redline up to 6500RPM. Even if your computer is sitting there not doing anything, there's more stress on the engine. There comes a point past which your engine just won't go any further, so you start pumping more air and fuel (i.e. voltage) to give it more power. Now you can get it to 7000 RPM. Well... I plan on keeping my computer at home for more than 5 years, because it does the job just fine, thank you. And I don't think that there's anything wrong with me.... My parents need a computer for surfing the internet and checking e-mails, word processing, etc. They've got an Athlon 1GHz that's doing the job just fine. There's absolutely no need for them to spend the extra money to get a newer and faster computer.

lmao! Nice...

Happy birthday! Have fun with your new toy!

The editing was more for the title edit, but the basics are listed there as well. What specifically have you tried? From Googling both your problems, there are a lot of references to the Windows Installer Cleanup utility (Link). Have you tried running this? Specifics help in saying what you have and have not tried, so that we don't end up repeating ourselves.

Why do people recommend this to all problems? Killing random services without knowing what you're doing is bad. "DHCP Client... I dunno what it is... but I should disable it because someone told me too" - wham... no more internet, and no idea why. Same goes for processes.A normal XP install shouldn't need this, so it's not a good solution to the problem. This would probably be a good idea. I'd try installing a Linux distro (Ubuntu or Suse are my recommendations) and seeing if you get the same type of problems. Both are relatively easy to find your way around, and have fairly good basic hardware support. If your problem shows up in two completely different operating systems, then you know it's hardware-based. If that doesn't solve your problems, disconnect everything from your computer and reseat everything. Try connecting only the essentials and reinstalling (mobo, CPU, 1 stick of RAM, 1 HD, 1 optical drive, vid card if not onboard - nothing more). If the problem goes away here, then you've isolated your problem to one of the removed components.