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Didn't find anyone pointing this out, but Helvetica should be replaced with Arial, not MS Sans Serif, because Arial is MS version of Helvetica, Helvetica is the original and can be found on the Macs and such. Looks as far as I know almost exactly the same.

You have to enable more repositories, Universe and Multiverse, then you can install gstreamer-ugly or somesuch, that will enable you to play mp3s with any player using gstreamer (Rhythmbox, etc). Do read the documentation/Forum guides first, before you install Everything you want to know is there. And one thing, NEVER EVER ENABLE THE ROOT ACCOUNT. You don't need to whatever some guides say. "sudo" is better, and is what Ubuntu is supposed to use. www.ubuntuforums.org wiki.ubuntu.com

Of course he does, 98 isn't immune to intrusions in any way.

And for us with a language not supported by RVM that works very well.

Xubuntu, XFCE is better than Gnome/KDE for slower systems.

If they banned you, why not just take your punishment and behave better next time? I'm sure you must have done something to deserve the bans.

Yup, PATA = Parallell ATA, the big flat IDE-cables SATA = Serial ATA, the new smaller ones.

That's not a gene, that's evolution. Survival of the fittest. You could probably do it by shortening our lifespan to say 10 years, and make us able to breed around 5, thus evolution would go faster. But I don't think it would help us much to get used to our enviroment with machines, computers etc. They are still evolving much faster.

Is there anyone with a Windows installation that has the full usability of Prefetch still in it and could test so we get something to look at? My test are worthless, and so i gdoggs if he tested on a computer either without the standard disk defragmenter or the Task Scheduler service. Otherwise it's good I guess, but I don't think we can be sure and draw any conclusion until some more tests is done to see exactly what is needed for the full Prefetch. I'll start playing around in VPC and I'll post my results here. I'll begin with my current installation, just not remove the Defragmenter and see what happens.

True but if someone wants to confirm it they can try either or both. 1. Disable Prefetching, 2. Clean the Prefetch Folder, 3. Disable Prefetching and Clean the Prefetch Folder. That is probably best, as my installation might have screwed up the rest anyway

Well, one system says nothing, and not just one test either We need tests from many people to be able to draw any conclusion. My test is flawed as hell, so a new one would be good anyhow. It's not that hard really, no need to cleanse the cache if you have disabled the prefetch for testing anyway, cause it isn't used after that, so that should speed up any tests done, not cleaning the cache I mean. Oh then I see I always remove it because I couldn't se any reason to keep it when PerfectDisk is so much better. Hmm, might be that without the default defragmenter installed something is missing for the layout.ini to be created and PerfectDisk can't use it. Hmm, and when I think of it, I might not have run it in this version of my install :S EDIT: Yep, I have, on the fifth this month, so I guess it does need the default defragmenter installed. Or PerfectDisk lies I'll go and edit my test again.

Nope, no layout.ini which I guess is because I have no defragmenter and/or have disabled the automatic "layout-of-files"-thingie with nLite. No boot.pf either, although an NTOSBOOT-B00DFAAD.pf and a BOOTSTRAP.EXE-328DB08F.pf, and many other for applications. It really seems my test is flawed Ah well, someone else needs to take over, I'll edit my post to say that it's flawed. I don't want to reinstall a working windows just to test this :/ Edit: Done, if someone misses that, they are surely blind

It's nothing like that, I think it runs in the background, don't even know if there is any option to control it. I think bootvis does exactly that though, that you can run the optimization whenever you want, not just when it's scheduled. But power over what to place? No, just automatically after how they are used and accessed, which is the better way anyhow. Probably why Task Scheduler is needed for Prefetch to work as intended, and the defragment-program. Mastertech: Hehe, read my test again, after I tested with prefetch off and cleared the cache (I can only clear something that is there from the beginning, right ) I restored it from the backup I took, I have the files there, 129 if I can remember it correctly, maybe some hidden also. Prefetch works for me, not just the defragment part. I actually used the option in nLite to preserve Prefetch functionality.

I've had the prefetch on since I installed windows, that is a couple of weeks ago, I've done a number of reboots since then, so that can't be the case. I didn't just turn it on for this test. And I don't use the Windows Defragmenter, removed it with nLite so can't use that, I use perfect disk It places files by how much they are accessed, that should do. gdogg: I guess he's talking about that thing about Windows optimizing files for boot during idleness, there's a option in nLite to disable it, that's why I remember it.

Under 200MB what? :S ISO? Mine's at ~135 or some such But I understand what you mean and I think you're right. The less you have to load in the bootup and the less programs you use after, the less Prefetch does for you. And yeah, I need those services started, or else I loose functionality with some things, I'm not after the smallest Windows possible, but the smallest I can get without loosing any functionality I can't be without. I could probably kill a few more, but I haven't really looked into it (got any tips you can share by just looking at what I have there?) I think my gaming system is more up to your standard and there I haven't planned on using Prefetch either, but for my workstation OS, I couldn't live without it. I do so much in that, as opposed to the Gaming OS where I only do one thing at a time.