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Thanks prathapml for the announcement! This is really a gr8 tool. The "record" tweaks feature is much better than using RegShot, as it is faster and more convenient - REG format .. not INF...

*removed the post sorry for posting non-sense here!

I get these "IP Address Conflict" errors very frequently in Windows XP. I know the reason why the system gives these errors, and there is a another problem due to which I still cannot eliminate the problem from it's root cause. So, can anybody please tell me how to disable the prompting of these errors via some registery tweaks in Windows XP.

I found out these cool websites: http://www.romanm.ch/ This is a very amusing website for ASCII art lovers. It's even got ascii text based animations and movie clips from the matrix, spiderman, hulk, terminator, etc converted into ASCII text animations playing in a simple DHTML browser !!! It's got a lot of ASCII art and other stuff too. I was totally amazed when I first saw these text-based animations! http://www.chris.com/ascii/ This website features - tutorials for learning ASCII art, and the largest collection of ASCII art on the net. It has even got links to other related website!! I'm very new to ASCII art, but have got very fascinated by seeing all this. I have seen it in sms jokes or in nfo files....but this was simply UBER!

I found out that one can easily shed 2-3 seconds more by using the following boot switches on slow machines Step-by-step instructions Open the command prompt (Start>Run>"cmd">Enter) run the command : attrib -r -s -h "%SystemDrive%\boot.ini" Open the file %SystemDrive%\boot.ini in notepad Find your OS's boot line E.g.- multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect Try adding the following switches (if not already there) : /FASTDETECT - Specifying FASTDETECT causes NTDETECT to skip parallel and serial device enumeration for a boot into Win2K, whereas omitting the switch has NTDETECT perform enumeration for a boot into NT 4.0. Win2K setup automatically recognizes dual-boot configurations and sets this switch for BOOT.INI lines that specify a Win2K boot. Windows 2000/XP Only. /NOGUIBOOT - When this option is specified the VGA video driver responsible for presenting bit mapped graphics during Win2K's boot process is not initialized. The driver is used to display boot progress information, as well as to print the Blue Screen crash screen, so disabling it will disable Win2K's ability to do those things as well. Windows 2000/XP only. /NOSERIALMICE=[COMx | COMx,y,z...] - Disables serial mouse detection of the specified COM port(s). Use this switch if you have a component other than a mouse attached to a serial port during the startup sequence. If you use /NOSERIALMICE without specifying a COM port, serial mouse detection is disabled on all COM ports. Tell me if this makes any further decrease in the boot time

Creating logical drives on the fly If you have very deep directories (directories with many sub directories inside sub directories), you may find it easier to create a logical drive that points to the directory you want to work in. On the other hand, you may want to simply create aliases to existing drives for those programs looking for a particular drive. Whichever the reason you want to create a logical drive, you can do so using the SUBST command. For example, to create an alias called D for your C drive, run following command from the "Command Prompt" (or the "DOS Prompt"): SUBST D: C:\ To create a logical drive called E, that points to your C:\WORK directory: SUBST E: C:\WORK To delete the aliases or logical drives that you create using SUBST command, run SUBST with the drive name to delete and the parameter "/D" SUBST D: /D SUBST E: /D

No offense, But, It's a purposeful and meaningful joke.... Anyway, I like your logo!

I've decided to give 1 day a week to MSFN, atleast 6-10 hours in a row! So, the Mod's here think I'm spamming, since for the time that i give to MSFN, one will see all new posts by me alone Starting topics or helping in other's topics does not mean being addicted to the forum. It's just very interesting!

Its looking fine now. Guess it's been fixed. Thanks!

Why dont you use the simpler uA style of installing drivers Extract all files from ur drivers exe's or compressed files into $OEM$\Drivers and set this path in ur unattend file "winnt.sif"....

Im using Firefox 1.0 on Windows XP Professional SP2. I dont know about other browsers/clients, but Google's logo in the google search bar is not correctly positioned, Its looking a little awckware anyway, the word's edges should be soft and merge into the background gray colour..

Yes, a batch file can very well delete itself... But all commands written there after that "del" command, no command will get executed.

No need of using AutoIt. Batch will definitely do the job. This is my cleanup.cmd which runs at guirunonce : cmdow @ /HID REM install dialup connections copy /y %SystemDrive%\rasphone.pbk "%allusersprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk" REM Delete shortcuts from every all user's desktop cd %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop del /S /F /Q *.lnk del /S /F /Q *.url REM Delete shortcuts from every current user's desktop cd %USERPROFILE%\Desktop del /S /F /Q *.lnk del /S /F /Q *.url REM Delete all user's startup items cd "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" del /Q *.* REM Delete current user's startup items cd "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" del /Q *.* RD /S /Q "%systemdrive%\My Shared Folder" del %systemdrive%\IrfanView_Install.log regedit /s %SystemDrive%\cleanup.reg REG DELETE HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx /f REG ADD HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx /f del /S /F /Q "%systemdrive%\Drivers" del /S /F /Q "%systemdrive%\Applications" RD /S /Q "%systemdrive%\Drivers" RD /S /Q "%systemdrive%\Applications" REM set paths REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Personal /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "D:\Documents\Angad Singh" /f REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Favourites /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "D:\Documents\Angad Singh\Favourites" /f del %SystemDrive%\cddrive_init.cmd del %SystemDrive%\Drivers.exe del %SystemDrive%\wpi.cmd del %SystemDrive%\rasphone.pbk del %SystemDrive%\phase2_init.cmd del %SystemDrive%\cleanup.reg del %SystemDrive%\cleanup.cmd EXIT @Judas989 Anway, if u want to run ur batch files after loading the desktop, then copy the batch file to the startup directory (%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup) OR a tricky solution wud be to make windows run a file called "run.cmd" with guirunonce...and include in it a statement SLEEP 10 CALL <ur batch file>.cmd This way, ur script will run after 10 seconds of delay, just enough for ur desktop to have loaded

Will have 2 give it a shot after its final and official release Multi-Booting w/ Xp wud be the best option

Multi-Boot with Xp and Longhorn is the best option for me I believe.

Gr8 find! I cud'nt find it on google

According to the above info on MSFN's guide, all the batch files should run at Admin's logon.. that is at first logon... They will run sequentially , that is one-by-one at first logon

This is very funny, so I though shud post it !... http://www.eazyshare.com/user_uploads/Corporate.rar

I had written this long ago....

My latest past time is a new game i found at my friend's place.. its called N.. Get it @ http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/ This game is amazing from the developer's point of view.. Its really a revolution in coding ActionScript - Macromedia Flash's scripting language. Its got all effects that a normal game has , but coded and made in Flash!! Hats off to its developers

U can run the second batch file by using the GuiRunOnce directive in ur winnt.sif file More info here : http://unattended.msfn.org/global/reference.htm#guirunonce Info on automatic shutdown and reboot commands for all OS's: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=40115&hl=

yah, u tried that .. tell me if it shows u any option on right-clicking while browsing an FTP site in IE.

*cough* Dude, wrapping refers to the concept of automatically cutting long lines and bringing back or "wrapping back" the extra text on that line to the next one for visibility... @ msfn's guide, the hertz and RAM info is wrapped, because of its long length. in ur case it is not wrapped... and same here... its aint wrapped in the screenshot i gave u.. meaning that it's all on the same line...

Sorry mate!... included that + few more

Optimize your computer's boot up time. Requirements: Two small tools - TuneXp and BootVis Procedure: 1. Optimize Drivers/Services Load Time using Tune XP: About TuneXP TuneXP is the official DriverHeaven.net Windows Tweaking software. All development of TuneXP is therefore endorsed by DriverHeaven, and all donations must be given to them. TuneXP is freeware, and the 1.5 source is proprietary software. This will change in version 2.0, as non-open tweaks are being removed!. TuneXP is the single most easy and featured XP tweaker, you'll ever find. Designed with easy-to-use dropdown menus, it will make your Windows installation go from its sluggish state to a red-blooded, optimized mode. All for free. Dowload: : Here Step-by-step info on using it: * STEP 1 - Download it and install it * STEP 2 - Start it up and choose your windows directory (most probably C:\Windows or C:\WINNT) * STEP 3 - In the "Memory and file system" menu go to "Ultra Fast Booting (rearrange boot files)" * STEP 4 - Patiently wait for it to finish processing your boot files ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Optimizing using BootVis About BootVis: Bootvis is a tool for easily enabling capture and graphical display of boot and resume performance trace data in Windows XP. Bootvis by itself will not change a system's boot or resume performance. Bootvis is intended as an aid to allow designers and manufacturers to characterize their system's performance during Windows startup in order to identify areas for further investigation and opportunities for performance improvement. Bootvis can be used to analyze Windows XP startup performance from all off or sleep states, including: System cold boot (power on from the ACPI S5 state) Resume from hibernate (the ACPI S4, or "suspend to disk" state) Resume from standby ( the ACPI S3, or "suspend to RAM" state) I will show you how to use Microsoft BootVis to speed up your systems bootup and shutdown times. First of all, download the latest version of Microsoft BootVis (v1.3.37.0) from here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/whi...ootVis-tool.exe Step-by-Step Guide for using BootVis: Install and run it . The opening screen is simple, and blank. To start... * STEP 1 - Ensure all of the tickboxes on the left are ticked * STEP 2 - Click on the Trace menu at the top, and choose Next Boot + Driver Delays * STEP 3 - Click OK then the Reboot Now button. When your computer restarts, do not click on anything until BootVis opens and closes (wait around 1 minute). * STEP 4 - When it has appeared and gone, re-open BootVis. * STEP 5 - Click on the Trace menu at the top again, and choose Optimise System. * STEP 6 - Click Reboot Now, and when your computer restarts, do not click on anything until BootVis opens and shows a small window explaining what it's doing. It has finished when the box closes. All done! Your computer will now bootup (and hopefully shutdown!) quicker. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Links & Resources : 1. http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/bootvis/ 2. http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/tune-19.html 3. http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/tune-19.html 4. Google!