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Isn't it deliberately misleading to post cute kids pics on your profile that direct to a blogspot page......

Does anyone have a working example of a command line that would install McAfee Enterprise from a bat or cmd file? I'm looking to set 5-8 install parameters. McAfees documentation just isn't clicking with me. Long on syntax and short on example.......

Common sense tells us.... - Don't mess with SP3 until it's available via a verified d/l from MSFT (29 April or later). - Don't expect that third-party tools work with SP3 until the programmers say so (nlite, RvM, etc, etc). - Don't expect that multiple integrations (SP3, WMP11, IE7) work until the tool programmers say so. Until then, all of this talk and such isn't much more than a Charlie-Foxtrot party.

is this change for the sake of change without real purpose? Lots of installers and utilities are hard coded to use the long-standing windows defined directory paths.

go here: http://www.driverpacks.net

wrong concept, it's the beginning of your problem here methinks. do you have your .ini files to post yet?

please explain exactly what you mean by remastering.....

**exactly** what do you mean by 'remastering c:\windows'??

It would be helpful if you would post your lastsession.ini file as well as the directory structure of your hard drive. Also helpful would be the COMPLETE history of the 'original' XP cd-rom/iso you've been trying to mod. You do know that you simply MUST start with a 'virgin' XP iso image as distributed directly by MSFT. No mods, no addons, no hacks.

Nuhi, do you think it would be possible to have an nlite setting that would: - copy i386 from the CD/DVD to c: and - set all of the 'sourcepath' registry variables to point to c:\i386 thanks!

go here and read. http://www.driverpacks.net

Guys, a few things happen if no paging file is force-set. The kernel will 'page' .dll and .exe code to 'backing store'. The kernel virtual memory manager will ALWAYS use backing store. If there is no page file, then real memory is used. There is no way to change this, no mystery reg hack, nothing. As real memory fills up (commit charge), the kernel will actually start to unload more and more .dll and .exe code to make room for newly required pages. But you don't get all of the memory back. 'Stubs' are left in real memory so that the VMM can go back and actually find the needed .dll and .exe code. As memory usage approaches the commit charge limits, a runaway condition can occur where the kernel is sucking up a significant percentage of CPU time unloading .dll and .exe and then reloading them from disk as program and user demands are made. One thing a paging file provides in this case is a structured and VMM-controlled place to retreive .dll and .exe code from. Much faster than going through the usual code loading process. Another condition that will occur is memory fragmentation. All of the load/unload/stub activity chops real memory up pretty badly. You might think no big deal, but with an Intel system (no hardware memory management) the VMM code (and thus the CPU) has to manage all of the fragmented memory addresses to find spaces big enough to reload code. This is another unnecessary waste of CPU cycles. By the way, it's the use of dedicated hardware memory management that has given AMD a performance lead in the x86 space. Intels gain on the AMD perfomance numbers are mostly from raw CPU clock speed and efficiencies. However, Intel has seen the light on MMUs. The next generation of Intel CPUs will have an on-board MMU and use a Hyperchannel-like data pipeline to connect things up. But we digress. NT/XP/Vista/Server200x kernels really need paging file to be at least 1:1 with real memory. You might not like the behavor of the kernel virtual memory manager, but it is what it is. It's the technical details of how the VMM works along with a (minor) financial consideration why small machines like the Eee come with Linux and not XP. Just to accomodate a discounted OEM license of say, $25- would require the addition of a $50- hard drive which in turn would significantly reduce battery run time and increase boot time. The people who design these new-gen small 'laptops' really do know what they are doing.

[request] Nuhi, can you split up the 'sound drivers' selection so that there are actually two parts. One to delete/keep actual sound hardware drivers. One to delete/keep DirectSound drivers. Or maybe have a look at a DirectX compatibility button that would force-keep all Direct X, DirectSOund, Direct3D stuff in place. I'm having some weirdness with VMWare and VirtualBox and it looks to be in the area of DirectSound drivers being available (or not). It could be that my understanding of DirectSound and it's relationship to heardware drivers and DirectX is faulty too. thanks!

but did you actually check the powerdown settings? Not the screen saver, but on control panel|power And have you tried another video card before you start tearing down a costly LCD panel with no real knowledge of what you are doing.

how about checking the monitor power down settings in the computer......

higher resolutions in smaller sizes cost money. The panels, the graphics chipset, the CPU to process the data to drive the chipset, and the display memory/ram. All of that eats up battery too.

can we assume that you've already checked out... wait for it..... http://store.mp3car.com/ and, of course..... http://www.mini-itx.com/store/ Even if they don't ship to Canada under your terms, you can browse them for cases and components then do some specific googling to find Canadian suppliers.

So that the drivers can be loaded up as necessary in a VBox machine (virtual). This should work much like the VMWare addons from Rick and Kels and others. The .iso can be found in a VBox installation (C:\Program Files\innotek VirtualBox). If someone wants to take this on, I can email you the .iso but it's a hair over 5 Mb in size..... There is always a chance that this package (and the equiv VMWare ones) is better handled as a BtS DriverPack. If so, let me know and I'll run on over to their web site to see if someone wants to make up a third-party driver pack. Thanks in advance!

tasty stuff, many thanks! Hey, do you know if the /noicons option in the inno installers supresses the desktop/quick launch icons ONLY or does is put the zap on start menu icons as well?

I see that you've updated NP++ to 4.8.1, many thanks! Still having no luck grabbing BurnAware from eSnips......

a DIY picture frame/laptop project is the perfect place to check any of the very small Linux distros out there too. Those things can be set to boot and run completely from a CD or CF card making the whole thing 'silent' and very long lasting due to the absence of a mechanical hard drive.

Many thanks in advance! ESB Calculator, free version; http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbcalc.htm Startup Delayer; http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=startdelay WordWeb (current version v5.2); http://wordweb.info/free/ DSClock; http://www.dualitysoft.com/dsclock/ XCalc; http://www.tordivel.no/xcalc/ Ping Plotter, free version; http://www.pingplotter.com/freeware.html Unknown Device Identifier; http://www.zhangduo.com/udi.html

yah, I noticed your esnips account(s) a while back. Smart move. I'm (currently) unable to download the latest Notepad++ or BurnAware using these links: http://cdn2.esnips.com/nsdoc/0ef7a6e9-f44e...;action=forceDL http://cdn2.esnips.com/nsdoc/c65ecb3b-9b01...;action=forceDL The links bring up a blank page in Opera and a 403 in MSIE. ??? and have a good weekend!

Hey Rado.... eSnips is playing games with downloads. Lots of stuff is coming up unavailable or as a heavily delayed download. End-of-month bandwidth problems or ???

:shrug: If you're going to wait for that, you'll have as many 'recommendations' as you are likely to get hits from google. Start downloading tweak apps and try them for yourself. And dont forget this one: http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakutility/