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If the button can be found more easily by having it a different color than the background (blue-on-grey vs grey-on-grey), then you're getting more functionality out of the computer. A whole... 4MB maybe? I dunno... I can't really tell the difference in Task Manager or Process Explorer. That's just because it takes time to animate the maximizing/minimizing... if you could (for whatever reason) set the time taken to maximize/minimize to be the same with the animation and without, you wouldn't notice a speed difference... It's the same thing with the zoom effect of minimizing apps to the dock on OSX. It may take an extra few milliseconds to load the bitmaps at startup, but after that, they're cached in memory, so there's no extra hard drive access to have a theme loaded. I'm just curious as to why you think this... it may look the same, but the actual location of the button on the screen isn't going to change depending on the theme. Like I said above, the various colours may make it easier to find the button, option, or setting that you want. If that's the case, then you're trading functionality for performance - something that people might want to decide for themselves.

Problem solved... topic closed.

You can simply unmount the partition where the 32-bit Windows is installed. In disk management, right click on the partition where the 32-bit Windows lies, and follow the options to remove the drive letter - do not delete the partition. That will remove direct access to the partition.

It's not just that something can get "stolen" from your PC - it's general common sense. For whatever reason, Windows is the only OS that I can think of that allows for user accounts with null passwords. As for your question, try it out. Nothing will go wrong with your system if it doesn't work.

The test itself was done with a very simple program. It would generate 10 copies of itself using the "fork" command, meaning that there would be ten instances of the program all at the same "point" in the code at that time. From then on, it would continuously add 1 in a loop for 2 minutes. When it was done, it would print the value after 2 minutes back to the shell. All instances of the program had the same priority, meaning that if the OS did the proper job at CPU scheduling, all the instances should produce roughly the same number. Like I said, Debian did the worst of the three, while XP did the best. One of the roles of an operating system is to manage hardware resources. This is why I say that XP is more efficient than Linux. I can see if I can get the source code for the program itself, for everyone's reference. As for multi-processor systems, XP was only designed with at most 2 processors in mind (mostly for hyper-threading and dual core support). Windows 2003 was designed with several processors in mind, and was meant to be a multi-tasking OS. When you say "as good as they come", on what basis? My example was with CPU scheduling. Various forms of Linux may have advantages elsewhere, but you'd have to be specific as to what and why. In proof, Linux does not have the same driver support as Windows. Sure, there are many reasons for it, but that's just the way things are. Read around on all the Linux forums, and you'll find many people who can't get their USB modems to work, or are having troubles with ATI video cards, or whatever. As for my professor, he runs his work on just about every type of OS out there (Win98, 2K, XP, Linux - 4 different distros I think, Solaris, FreeBSD... need I go on?), so there's not really much bias to his opinions. The example that he gave was for demonstrational purposes, and there was no bias in his presentation. The program was perfectly fair across all platforms (hopefully I can show you for myself). When you say that zenwalk responds 10% quicker, how are you basing this? Is it the speed with which a menu appears, or the time that it takes for identical tasks to complete? Sure, run Windows with BB4Win as your shell, and the shell will be just as responsive as BlackBox is for Linux. The underlying hardware management will still be the same. As for your test and example (regarding zenwalk and Win2k), there's a whole other side of the story that you're not pointing out - ease of use. For 90% of the world out there, Windows is easier to use than Linux. This is mainly because Microsoft has a near monopoly on the operating system market, and most PC users today were brought up with Windows. If this weren't true, then there would be a larger proportion of Linux users in the world than there are. What would truly be the "fastest" out there would be a straight up command line version of OpenBSD, but that's just for programs that don't need a GUI. It really depends on what you're doing. If you have to spend lots of time training your employees, then that's productivity and money lost. Why do you think that EA Games recently turned down 3000 free dual G5 systems from Apple for their graphics department, and decided to go with HP computers (running XP Pro) instead? They found that training their new employees to use OSX was more expensive than using PCs running Windows.

You should always set a password for your user account. Always. Set the password, and then enter it into the reg file. You can also use TweakUI from Microsoft (Google for "Microsoft Powertoys") and set the Autologin from there.

- MSFN Forum RulesNow that it's been said, have you checked to see what the directory names are via the command line? Go to Start->Run and type in cmd, then click OK. You can use the cd command to change directories, and the dir command to list the contents of the directory. rmdir /s /q is the command to remove a directory (including all files inside, and without confirmation).

Moved to Software Hangout.

Sorry, but that's not quite right. XP is more efficient than Linux in terms of processor scheduling. I made a post elsewhere about this, where my computer science prof (in a course about Operating Systems) compared the processor scheduling between XP (tablet PC, actually), Debian Linux, and Solaris. To make a long story short, all the values in XP were within 8% of each other, while in Debian, one process gave an output of 150, while another one was at 1600. It really depends on what you're asking about. Generally speaking, it's understood that XP is the best all-around OS out there for PCs.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61151 There's a link to a uxtheme.dll patcher that works on Windows 2003. The right-hand side screemshot is mine - running Win2k3.

Oh good god...

You already have a post about this... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=62928&hl= Please don't double post in future.

Yup... there's plenty more examples that I could have torn apart there... but I figured that the few I did was basis enough to disprove the article.

Regarding that Null Modem cable... it's probably easiest and most universal to have a 25M to 25M cable, right? I don't see too many computers sold nowadays with 9-pin serial ports, while the 25-pin parallel ports are still fairly common.

@spacesurfer - Good job! What you described is pretty much what I was saying earlier with Acronis True Image. The file is marked as being a 740MB file, but it's stored in the archive as a zero-byte file, meaning that the archive with and without this file won't change in size. Thanks for confirming this for other users.

You actually don't need to be running the game to test your temperatures. Download and install Speedfan - Link Download and install Prime95 - Link When you run SpeedFan, it will find all the temperature sensors that are available on your motherboard. Now run Prime95 and go to Options->Torture Test. Select Small FFTs and then click OK. Let that run for a while and monitor the temperatures in SpeedFan. There should be one that will jump up a bit while Prime95 is running - this is your CPU. Let us know what the temperatures are after running Prime95 for a few minutes. If it crashes here, then we're one step closer to finding the solution.

XviD. Jeremy's the real expert on this stuff... he goes all out when he makes his home movies, so if you want the real deal, ask him.

2, soon to be 3. Laptop - Main computer, all the work gets done here Desktop - Server and soon to be multimedia center. I'm gonna get a video card that supports TV out so I can watch movies on TV with it. Soon-to-be OpenBSD firewall - To protect all my computers on the network.

If they didn't have any weapons, where would guns come into play then? And I'm sure that Obi-wan would be able to use the force to either deflect or dodge the bullets as well in any case.

Nice, nice... I remember a few weeks ago we had about 3 cm of snow here in Vancouver. It was really really sad... what would normally be a 1 hour commute turned into 2h45m because people have no $#&@$� clue how to drive in the snow...

Are the games just locking up, or are you still getting bluescreens? As for the video driver, go to your manufacturer's website and download/install the latest drivers for all your hardware. You might also want to have a look at the temperatures within your system while the games are running. If the computer is overheating, that could cause bluescreens and lockups as well.

I'm not sure if there's really all that much space for worry. All I know is that RyanVM works more with Siginet for the integration of the update packs than he does with nuhi. If you want to easily be able to troubleshoot the integration, use Siginet's integrator.

Yes there is. Acronis True Image will do exactly this for you. You can create a "Recovery zone" that Acronis TI will write the images to, and then there is an option to have the Recovery Manager on startup. When your computer turns on, you'll be asked to press a key to enter the recovery manager and restore the image.

That's probably Samurize. If you look at my latest desktop (not laptop) screenshot (I think it's in November), you'll see something similar on the left hand side.

Well written? I think not... You're kidding me, right? Thrashing happens because something is "not working properly"? Thrashing happens when there's a crap-load of disk access in many different places. This can happen with any file system. I've had Linux systems thrash quite a bit as well... The whole section on "Local security"? If someone is sitting at your computer with Windows, Linux, Unix, or whatever else, they've got full access to your computer. Plain and simple. This isn't a limitation of Windows - it's the fact that if your computer gets stolen, so does all the data that was on it. If you want more security over your data, you need a proper drive-lock enabled in BIOS, not the OS. Really? Is this such a bad thing? It's to prevent the illegal spread of Windows. Making an image of the hard drive is just like moving the hard drive, so it makes perfect sense that Microsoft made the HAL system dependent. Microsoft needs a way to prevent the easy illegal spread of its product, and that's exactly what this "limitation" does. Don't like it? Don't use it. Granted... but does the average user really need access to every single registry entry? Most people run their computers without any problems without ever knowing what the registry is. Man... the more and more I read, the more p***ed off I get. I call bull. The article only outlines all the negative things about Windows XP, and none of the advantages. He's even got the gall to say that Windows 95 is better than XP... get real!Sorry atomizer... but it also doesn't help that the article was last revised on February 16, 2003. It's nearly 3 years out of date, so a lot of the information is out of place.