azagahl

I have a similar problem. I have an NVIDA FX 5900 and it insists on installing a second Default Monitor even though I only have one monitor. This Default Monitor is completely useless and takes significant time to enumerate at boot up. Furthermore, I can try to force the NVIDIA card to act like a second monitor, even turning on the flag that says it's a hard-to-detect TV, but the extra desktop space is still completely inaccessible and unusable. Is there any way to remove the Default Monitor for good?

In my BIOS I can enable SMART hard drive monitoring and when I boot it says my two disks are SMART capable and enabled. However, it seems completely useless - tools like Everest and SpeedFan don't show any SMART info at all. What gives?

I was using SpeedFan and noticed that my CPU and case fans would be fully on at 1-100% power and be fully off at 0%. So I could only turn them on and off, not actually control their RPM's. So I turned my WinBond chip's PMWOUT (power modulation wave?) frequencies from about 30 KHz down to 500 - 900 Hz. Then I could start controlling RPM's. I guess my mobo is set too high. Is there any danger to using lower frequencies? Could this affect PC stability or wear out the motors? I found that, generally, the lower frequency I go, the more effective the fan motors can be controlled. Some particular frequencies didn't work very well though - I guess this is dependent on the fan motors. Also, some frequencies produce an audible high-pitch hum - due to resonating components? - so those are to be avoided.

I found my audio cord from my sound card had one of its jacks bent slightly and this was causing a hum, replacing the cord fixed it. Also try moving your speakers or cords around; magnetic fields near your equipment might be to blame?

it fails to display EULA Sounds like a feature, not a bug Currently I use Acrobat Reader 5.1 (it's much less bloated) or 6.0.3. Also I use "arspeedup" project.

Adobe Reader 7.0.1 This also doesn't support 9x...

Urgh, AVG Free Edition is very slow I turned off the resident virus protection because it made executables take too long to start. I wish it just did an MD5 or something so it could check executables once and not every time I click on it. Also at bootup it takes 10 seconds (even though I have 3400 MHz PC) to run the BOOTUP.EXE scanner, and it always makes the Windows bootup logo disappear (there is no /Q or quiet oiption). you have to reregister each year on avast! website for a free license So the registration expires after a year? Sounds annoying to me.

azagahl, Opera 8.0b3 is no longer available Are you sure? I dug it up on some ftp site a while ago even after 8.0 was released. I saved a copy of 8.0b3 because unlike 8.0 final, it works with the c't Magazine promotional registration. BTW, I like Winamp more than Foobar. Foobar won't even play MIDI files. I also need certain Winamp plugins to listen to some strange music formats like gsf, usf, nsfe, etc.. There are no foobar alternatives AFAIK for these formats. For MIDI files the shareware SynthFont is still the best. It does accurate sound font synthesis on your CPU. My old SoundBlaster Live! hardware is also great but isn't capable of handling more than about 50 MB of soundfonts. (Some freely available soundfont files are > 200 MB.) Lately, with Winamp full they've been releasing a different free music tracks every few versions... Does anyone know what they all are called, or where you can get them all?

I am trying to find a command that simulates pressing the "Enter" key. A few things come to mind: 1. From a batch file, you may be able to use this command echo. | foobar "echo." is a special command that submits a blank line. This only works if the program reads from standard input device (CON) and does not directly query the keyboard. 2. Try STUFFKEY.EXE, contained in the OzWoz utilities. Look for STUFFKEY here: http://short.stop.home.att.net/freesoft/misc.htm 3. Smart Boot Manager (latest version is 3.7.1 at sourceforge) installs to the boot sector of your hard disk and lets you choose which partition to boot up. It also lets you create duplicate boot "records" which consist of both a partiton choice PLUS keystrokes to buffer when booting it. For example you can define a "Safe Windows" which boots your Windows partition as usual but also stuffs an F5 keystroke. 4. XOSL boot manager will also let you stuff keys while booting. This boot manager is prettier than Smart Boot Manager, but in addition to using the boot sector it requires placing some small files in a DOS partition as well. Good luck.

FYI, MS recently released the June 2005 SDK. It contains directx.cpl version 9.7.239.0. It seems compatible with 98 SE at least. Redistributable: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en Full SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en Symbol files: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

It's mostly a matter of style. I prefer "for(;". "while(1)" may be less efficient than "for (;" - logically, the value of 1 must be checked against zero every iteration. In practice, a check would only occur for compilers with poor optimizers or when optimization is disabled. Also, while(1) is kind of arbitrary - while(666) or while("hello") is just as valid.

What's the best tool for computing checkusms like SHA1 and MD5 and verifying the validity of downloaded files? I'm looking for any kind of tool - DOS, Win9x, Linux, etc.. Thanks!

I remember reading somewhere that everything above 2.81, until 5.06 has a bug when alt-tabbing from a fullscreen game. So 2.81 is a good one to use. Use the latest (5.092?) to play licensed WMA's. BTW, www.winampheaven.net is a great site.

omg, he does!?? I've only seen episodes 1 - 5 so far!

VIA chose an even higher switchover point which makes their driver faulty. BTW, VIA + Western Digital seems to be an OK combination. I have data written from 120 GiB - 160 GiB, 0 - 10 GiB, and a few other areas. All seem fine. Scandisk of either area detects no problem.

VIA chose an even higher switchover point which makes their driver faulty. Could you please give more info about this bug? Is the bug in VIADSK.MPD? VIAIDE.VXD? Somewhere else? In particular versions or all versions? Can it be fixed? Does the bug occur in practice? I don't understand what's wrong with a switchover point of 10000000. Are there hard drives supporting 48-bit LBA but dumb enough to "wrap" when receiving 28-bit commands? Lower switchover points are guaranteed to produce bugs with the right size of hard drive. The VIA Drives you mentioned only works on some Chipsets and has a Bug that can affect some Hard Drives. Aha, so it's only some hard drives. Maybe some hard drives are buggy. BTW, have you tested your drivers with every kind of hard drive? I think the best thing is to not have a switchover hack and simply query the drive for 48-bit support. I think linux's ide.c does this (note: this is probably a good example code to look at). I guess this is difficult to fix when hacking an existing binary though

Are you asking about Acronis software? I don't know much about Acronis software; I use the free programs Ranish partition manager 2.44 and Savepart to manage my partitions. Or are you asking if partitioning is good in general? There are many reasons for and against this. Personally I use about 8 partitions. One of them is a 1 GB swap partition in FAT16 format, with large clusters. This partition lies at the beggining of on my second hard drive and allows increased performance. Each of my hard drives has "backup" partitons that are identical. The rest of my partitions are just for convenience really. Also, some tools don't work with partiitons larger than 137 GB.

Technology moves so fast and for people to be using Win98 in the year 2005 = 7 years old OS. Actually there was no OS released in 1998. SE is about 6 years old and ME is about 5 years old. Slightly older than XP. ME is the crappiest OS ever made. It was basically an incomplete state of XP driven onto the market due to high consumer complaints so M$ had to give in whether or not their OS was ready. MS release a not-ready product? *Gasp* Was XP complete? Remember Blaster? Will Shorthorn be complete when it is released later this decade..? Anyway, I hate XP only because of all the bloat on it. It is bloated; that's why I prefer SE. Cheap, no activation stupidity, does everything including remote desktop, and runs like a charm with 3 GHz processor and 1 GB RAM.

I don't know. Between Lord Of the Rings and Star Wars I hardly feel the urge to watch anything else! (Is there anything else?) Just kidding. But these 2 masterpieces are hard to beat. What do u mean? The Matrix rulez! [the 1st one anyway] There's no need to argue about LOTR / Star Wars / The Matrix. The decisive winner has already been pointed out: http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/trilogy.html

The version of Scandisk that comes with Windows 98 / 98 SE does not support partitions larger than 137 GB. You say it does not support partitions larger than 137 GB. Is this because SCANDISK uses less than 48 bits internally regardless of whether your hard disk controller driver supports 48-bit LBA? Suppose I have a special driver for my hard disk controller (not ESDI_506.PDR), I have a hard disk of 200 GB, and a partition of 136 GB near the end of the disk, then do you think it will work fine because the partition is less than 137 GB? But if the partition were 138 GB then something bad would happen? I am asking a lot of questions only because I have a setup similar to this and these problems are scary It could be installed on a full size partition, but SCANDISK and DEFRAG will not work. Does ME SCANDISK and DEFRAG also have this problem? I'm guessing the answer is yes... It's hard to live without scandisk and defrag tools. Maybe Tihiy's scandisk and an alternative to defrag such as Executive Diskeeper will suffice for those who want to have partitions larger than 137 GB. The VIA Drives you mentioned only works on some Chipsets and has a Bug that can affect some Hard Drives. What is the bug? I would be reluctant to change drivers because the VIA IDE Miniport driver lets me use my UltraATA 100 hard disks at full speed.

MDGx, I think the link you gave for WS_FTP LE is no longer good. It seems that, as of version 5.09, it is no longer a free program. Fortunately, searching for "WS_FTP 5.08" produces a lot of links; e.g. http://www.polymtl.ca/si/logiciels/util_in.../WS_FTP%205.08/ On a different subject: MDGx, I haven't gotten far with WINFILE.exe. Fixing unresolved dependencies is easy, but getting the program to work is a different story

Sorry if I'm changing the subject, but the first post mentioned Free Download Manager. It is good overall but I do have problems: 1. Sometimes it doesn't shutdown properly. It crashes or you have to end it with End Task. 2. When downloading a lot of files (e.g. 1000 at a time), a crash can occur. I'm not sure if this is due to Firefox, the FlashGot plug-in, or FDM? 3. Rarely, it will complete a download but it will have failed to get the file. You can see error messages in the download's log. 4. I have suspicions that it is harboring spyware. I'd rather use OSS. Is there any better alternative?

IMHO the ease of using Windows doesn't seem to depend on your handedness. I'm right handed and have no problem using Windows. Westerners are used to reading left-to-right, and apparently, Windows is designed so that the most important things (e.g. Start, File, etc..) appear on the left. I think in the Middle East they read right to left; maybe it feels awkward to them? > Mind you, all programming languages design the menu's, etc, for left handed use. Can they not MIRROR, or flip over? Usually, this is not easy...

Notepad. WOW! This is so much better than the original. It is much better. But, is it just me, or does it take way too long to open large (e.g. 5 MB) text files?

Currently, my favorite browser is Firefox. I will try out IE7 on Windows XP, but I am inclined to dislike it because it doesn't support Windows 9X, which I also use. What does IE7 do exactly that I need? "Warning: 'www.mozilla.org' - the site you are attempting to visit is untrusted and may cause permanent damage your computer and data. Are you sure you want to visit it?" Or maybe this? "Warning: IE has detected that the MP3 files you are downloading are untrustworthy and may contain spyware or viruses. Please wait while IE removes untrustworthy data from your computer."