LS_Dragons

My experience has been that ever since roxio was 'spun off' from adaptec - it has been downhill all the way. My real job is software related for a 'major' computer oem - a word to the wise is that my employer as well as other 'majors' are seriously looking at Nero to replace Roxio as SW bundled with CD-RW drives etc. I have seen Nero's new wizard based product - SWEEEEEEET! Not sure of release dates, but will update the msfn community when dates known. Roxio is all about marketing now and not engineering. LS

Ditto - the last post. If you want to be totally secure - you MUST use a combination of hardware and software protection. A good router with firewall along with ANY of the software mentioned in this thread is the best you can hope for! LS

Hey BAH -- That one is kinda questionable -- used my actual name to get Ricky Deep. Also - got a cab driver name but it had so many consonants in a row I couldn't begin to even guess how to pronounce. LOL. LS

Hello all ----- I want to 'roll my own' replacement for the Compaq Dual P-III workstation I currently use as my primary system. I have built several 1P systems using ASUS boards. Can anyone recommend the BEST dual processor motherboard to use in a new project? many thanks ---- LS

Oxbrother -- not sure if I understand your question. But if what you want is your main 'robert' user docs and settings to be in a folder called Robert instead of Robert.Robert, just go into the documents and settings folder and create a new folder called Robert or Robert Documents or whatever you want it called. The on the desktop or Start Button - just right click on My Documents and then select Properties from the contect menu. You can then "Move" or "Find Target" ----> use the find target choice and browse to the new folder you created and select. Now - use explorer to copy the content from robert.robert to the new folder and bob's your uncle! LS

Hi Blam83 --- try the link below -- gives a very easy to follow set of instructions for setting up dual boot when you already have the OS installed; h*tp://www.techtv.com/print/story/0,23102,3338930,00.html good luck! LS

Time to check in with a porn name --- RICKY DEEP

Not exactly what this thread is about - but if you regularly load AIM, MSMessenger, ICQ etc into the system tray - but then can't tell who is online for a chat - this link offers a pretty neat little app that will get the 'buddy list' from each and consolidate into one list: h*tp://www.chime.tv/gui.shtml Their other apps are prety kewl too. LS

The real answer to your question has more to do with HOW you will be aquiring either OS. If your org has a volume license agreement with Micro$oft - then it really doesn't matter - but you should really consider Windows 2000 2nd Edition er, um I mean Windows XP for the client machines. If you are buying new software - definitely buy Windows XP - which will allow you to 'downgrade' to Windows 2000 should you decide that XP is not for you - or if some client systems cannot handle the XP requirements. For the servers - I absolutely agree with Lou- go with W2K advanced server and be done with it. LS

cool..... L.A.N.C.E.: Lifeform Assembled for Nocturnal Calculation and Exploration D.R.A.G.O.N.: Digital Robotic Android Generated for Observation and Nullification

Actually Lou, I have 3 Compaq systems in my house and all came equipped with IBM Deskstar drives standard (I consider IBM drives to be the best of the best). I have added additional drives to each system and based on the original equipment jumpers being set to cable-select, that is how I set the new drives. The new drives were a combination of western digital and seagate models. Cable select work perfectly with them. Of course - I replaced the original equipment ide cables with top of the line 2 connector cables - which may have been a help. I do think you mis-speak when you classify Compaq equipment as pieces of sh*t. I have been extremely satisfied with the combination Deskpro and Prosignia systems I own. I might agree with you regarding Compaq's consumer products - Presario. I find that they spend a lot less achieving quality on that line of equipment than on the commercial brand and it shows.

Thanks -- I think my earlier suggestion regarding the jumpers would have solved the problem - setting both to cable select. Guess I need to learn 'drawing skills' like XPerties. Glad you got it worked out. -- Lance

So XPerties - can you enlighten the rest of us as to what the problem was? Just curious as I have seen this type of problem before - and been solved by some of the suggestions I offered....... :D

One more try Sedative --- Right click on My Computer and then Select Manage This should bring up the System Management Applet Under STORAGE - you will see 3 choices - select Dick Management You should see both Drive 0 (100 gig) and Drive 1 (20 Gig) The 20 gig may say something like unallocated etc. You should be able to mount the drive as a "basic" drive or an extended partition etc. I would suggest creating it as a basic drive which should then be readable as drive D. If this doesn't work - I will wait and see what eXperties has to offer.....

I see that you have the drives arranged correctly - but do you have them jumpered master/slave or both as cable select. The default jumper for most drives today is cable select - unless you have tons of other IDE devices on the system - like CD-RW and DVD etc. Check the jumpers on both drives and make syure they are cable select. Another option (if you have a network set up) is to pop the files you need over the network then pop them back.

If you can start over - which it sounds like you can since you are formatting and reinstaling things do the following in order - 1. Use FDISK and create 2 partitions C and D 2. Install Windows 98SE or Windows 2000 on C 3. Install Windows XP and make sure you install on D When you boot now - you will have the choice of Windows and Windows XP. I am running a triple boot system - Win98SE, Win2K, WinXP and it is working flawlessly Good Luck

You cannot see NTFS from FAT32 - but you should be able to see the other was - you are booting to NTFS and the 2nd drive is FAT32. I think the problem is that you are using a Master/Slave setting. I suggest setting both to cable select and make sure the 100 gig drive is in position O and the 20 gig in position 1 (assuming you are using a dual connector cable on a single IDE controller). Second option is to use the XP Disk Manager to see if it can see the drive. With Disk Manager - you will be able to mount the FAT32 volume. Check that out and see if you don't get visibility - but the 1st option is the best one.

I am using a perfectly perfect Corp version of Office XP downloaded from Goweenna -- needed PID (included) and no activation. Office update has worked fine.

Here are some "independant" opinions (from some pretty respected puter reviewers) regsrding speed and FAT32 v NTFS: Quoted from the LangaList newsletter (recommended): 1) XP Speed Issues In "Here Comes XP" ( http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-10-22.htm#2 ) we discussed some preliminary test results and user feedback that suggested that XP can be significantly slower than 2K or 9x. Many readers responded--- some affirmatively, others not. As is usual with most discussions of speed, individual test results are hugely dependent on the specifics of how each system is set up, and exactly what's being tested. The official Microsoft screed on Windows XP Performance is at: ht*p://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/evaluate/xpperf.asp Naturally, it stresses the positives. A more independent source, Dave Methvin (one of the authors of the PC Pitstop test suite h*tp://www.pcpitstop.com ), points to a very non-mysterious explanation for some of the negative speed measurements: Hey Fred, I saw the item about someone who visited PC Pitstop and was wondering about their disk performance under XP. The cause is NTFS. XP/2000 is better at disk cache management than 9x/Me, which generally translates to good scores on application benchmarks (on either FAT32 or NTFS) since apps do a lot more reading than writing. However, NTFS is definitely slower on creating and writing files. I've converted to XP with FAT32 on my primary system and the performance is comparable with 9x. Here's a second source: h*tp://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,14926,00.asp "But Windows 2000 doesn't always outrun Windows 98. Sometimes the OSs' differing file systems affect the results. We tested each operating system using its default native file system--FAT32 for Windows 98, and NTFS for Windows 2000. Previous PC World tests have indicated that NTFS is far slower than FAT32, due to additional file security and logging overhead. The Search and Replace test in Word corroborated this result Both Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 (which by default also uses NTFS) took a dramatically longer time than Windows 98 SE to complete the task." Thanks, Dave! Hope this helps -- LS

Windows Update is a pretty cool feature - but I am sure most of us have the options set to 'just notify' as opposed to automatically downloading and installing. If you cannot get the update site to work - you can always go to the download search site: h*tp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp Just select windows XP Pro as product and Windows XP as OS and your are good to go. Also - there should be a corp update site for XP soon similar to: h*tp://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/default.asp or ht*p://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/corporate.asp This is actually how I like to view and select ALL Windows Updates. Cool thing is this way - you can also save the download to disk and use to update several machines rather that having to 'update' each one live.

Check to see if you now have an autoexec.bat file. I got a virus from a 'friends' computer I was helping configure - plugged it into my network and set up a share and WHAM - SirCAM all over the place. I kept cleaning but it kept coming back Seems is created an autoexec file with the command @c:recycledfilename. This file did not show up in recycle bin - but Norton kept alerting me it was there. Finally managed to clean the system - but took hours. Also - make sure you disconnect from all networks before cleaning - and clean other systemso n your network (if there are more / you have a network).

I have had good success with LimeWire - pretty quick downloads, and so far pretty good quality mp3's. have not had good success with limewire for apps. Also - lots of idiots posting p*rn with faked up names. Agree with fathrjack that some people are too screwed up to deserve a puter or the net.

Dual Pentium III (800 MHz) Compaq/Intel 840 w/ 133MHz FSB 512 MB Crucial (ECC) PC133 Integrated Intel Audio 3D-Labs Oxygen GVX1 32MB Sony CD-RW Drive IBM 7500rpm Deskstar 30 GB IBM 7500rpm Deskstar 30 GB Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB Mouse Compaq Premier Sound PS 300 3P speakers with Sub Xerox 4505 Laser Compaq TFT 8000 Integrated Intel Pro/100+ Absolutely love XP - seems much more responsive than 2K which I used since beta 2. Been using XP since beta 2 as well - even the beta was better.

:eek: AAronXP - my bad! You know - I never realised that there might be more to powerarchiver than I was using. I guess I have the 'shareware' version and never thought about going to the website and looking at the t's & c's. For all the use I have gotten out of it, I might go ahead and pay the 20 bucks for the key (perhaps with a key some enterprising folks on this forum could share?)

Xperties - what kind of fix. I have never had any problems with the version I use - Power Archiver 2001 (ver 6.1.0) Seems to play well with XP as well......