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As far as I was aware XP's setup itself will only detect floppy disks and cd-roms for the F6 functionality, so it wouldnt matter if your mboard had usb bootable functionality or not XP wont detect it becauser it doesnt have a USB driver loaded when setup runs.

its hard to protect an idea. It depends on what you are suggesting too, if its hardware it can be easier because the whole world will recognise hardware patents and intellectual property rights. On the other hand if its software its a bit harder because Europe doesn't recognise most software ideas as patentable. The other part is it might be difficult to get a meeting with someone who will actually know what your idea would mean in the market, or knows how the idea can be developed into a working product. Finally its hard to sell ideas unless you have research data to show the potential revenue from selling the product, or without market research to show who would buy it.

i use notepad myself, but for someone who doesn't know HTML etc i would suggest First Page 2006. It has the option of letting you at the code, or to edit like frontpage (open the page and drag n drop components etc.

Would you consider Mono a .NET open source project, since it was a project to implement .NET on *nix? it has ported most of the .NET library to date

anyone notice that he traces around his left hand for the right hand rule?

the partition table may be broken so i would check this first. Firstly there is GParted apparently this will check your partitions (so you can make sure they aren't corrupt) or try TestDisk. This will allow you to search for deleted partitions and alloows you to recover the partition table. Also Dells come with windows cd's etc "http://www.pctechbytes.com/dell.htm"]Refrence so a reinstall should be possible.

Dont know of a command you could use, but there is a utility called unlocker you could use. Install it and trry and delete the file. when the file comes up as locked, unlocker pops up. In the bottom left select detelte from the menu, select the file to delet and click unlock. If it doesnt work at that point unlocker will prompt you to see if you want it deleted at next bootup. If so it sets a registry key to delete it first thing on boot

it depends on which mode of uxtheme patch you are using flyakite's patcher exe you can put it in $OEM$\$OEM$\$$\system32. This will patch any uxtheme.dll file, so you dont have to worry about copying the correct patched file. rename it to uxtheme.exe then in RunOnce add REG ADD %KEY%\a2 /VE /D "Finishing Setup ..." /f REG ADD %KEY%\a2 /V 1 /D "prepare.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\a2 /V 2 /D "uxtheme.exe /S" /f a2 is the first thing thats run in my setup I also have my themes in a cab file (to save space on the disk) so then i add REG ADD %KEY%\a3 /VE /D "Extracting Themes ..." /f REG ADD %KEY%\a3 /V 1 /D "7z x -y c:\windows\resources\themes\Themes.cab" /f REG ADD %KEY%\a3 /V 2 /D "del c:\windows\resources\themes\Themes.cab" /f Thsi extracts them in the themes directory (usind $OEM$\$$\Resources\Themes on my cd), then deletes the cab file when finished.

I like the electron joke, bit lame but funny. Id jump the gap too *lmao* ( problem would be in silicon, wouldnt want to create a depletion layer between us )

rapidown is for rapidshare.de, .com is totally different and most times rapidown doesnt work on .com (reading the hex edit you gave the html links are to rapidshare.com)

PDF Creator it installs as a printer driver, so you click print and select pdf creator. Thats it

Transformation pack would do the Vista Look, the rest would be copy the themes from system32\Resources\Themes an paste them in to your computer in the same place

You can use the same method as the win xp with utils. Use WPI or even the RunOnce method.

look at unattended installs guide. modify the winntbbu.dll file and add the picture in $OEM$\$$\system32\Resources\Themes\ Then set the wallpaper to the name of the image

are you sure its only 2 header files? All i can see is 2 ATL classes (dont see header definitions). This could mean over 20 headers, as knowing microsoft the classes in question refrence info from a load of other classes. which would mean reading through all the ATL just to rewrite the required info.

nmX.Memnoch- As far as I was aware (from Information I got from the engineers in Intel Ireland, the guys manufacturing the processors) the E6600 has 2MB per core and not 4 MB shared. That the design process was to mirror the die to make the second processor (like the quad extremes are duplicates of the die for Core Duo). They may be wrong but thats what they told me.

You would be better off with Power Supply:Hiper 530W Black Type M PSU CPU:Core Duo 2 E6600 (Because its got "MB per Core rather than 2MB shared. CPU Cooler:Zalman Cooler (because its lower profile, full copper heatsink. You could have space problems with the other one) RAM:OCZ 2GB (2x1BG matched pair)OCZ have a great reputation and are usually blisteringly quick, I have a set and find them great) GFX:Gainward GeForce Bliss 7600GS 256MB DDR (see below link. This has DDR3 instead of DDR2 and has some other features) Hard Drive:Western Digital Caviar 500GB DVD WriterSony DVD +/- R drive (cheap and good specs) Compare GFX Cards Compared I would also go with the ASUS (I have 1 and find it great with my E6600). The Arctic looks better as a case, but both are good. And i would order off Dabs.com as I have experience with them before and know they deliver quickly and are a joy to deal with (i have had problems in the past and have had no trouble with getting help)

Also should be RD /S /Q "%ProgramFiles%\Online Services\" not RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\Online Services\ Unless the folder is actually and not as originally stated

VB Version 3 equivelent compiler Envelop (no longer update. Younger brother to Phoenix) Other compliers Freebytes Site Phoenix

OK, as above Object Pascal will run on your machine. The free basic versions will work on the P166. C or C++ are the founding blocks of *nix but they are also the founding blocks of Windows. They are not always easy to learn (it can take a while to grasp stuff above the intermediate programming) and there isnt always alot of examples online for the more advanced stuff (i write encryption programs and am in the middle of writing an archiver....if i ever get time away from engineering i might just finish it). Both will run and almost every hardware available (ive had c and c++ running in an 8MB flash memory for a programmable IC) Python, Perl and Ruby are like Java or C#. They are not compiled languages they are interpreted, which means they run fast but require you to install an interpreter. If you want to try C/C++ here is some info. Windows Compilers Dev C++ (IDE and compiler) Code::Blocks (IDE and Compiler. get the version with mingw installed) DJGPP (command line compiler) They will get you started. If you use *nix you got compilers already installed Tutorials C Programming The Free Country All Free Tutorials Free Books Assortment Thinking In C Thinking in C++, Vol 1 & 2 Give me a while and ill see if i can dig out some more. This should get you started. If you need more or need some help, just post and you will get answers

travis- some people dont only program on Computers 32MB is alot of memory for an embeded system (and if i was doing that sort of stuff id use C or C++) VB 6 is still more bloated than the BASIC's mentioned by jaclaz. Also he's looking for something that will run on any machine really (dont think the 32MB is a serious cut off, its more of an example as it says 32MB or less). The problem with VB is it requires windows and lots of DLL's to run. So you can have compatibility problems when using the created apps on other machines.

travis- some people dont only program on Computers 32MB is alot of memory for an embeded system (and if i was doing that sort of stuff id use C or C++) VB 6 is still more bloated than the BASIC's mentioned by jaclaz. Also he's looking for something that will run on any machine really (dont think the 32MB is a serious cut off, its more of an example as it says 32MB or less)

i assume if you are only loading your making an image viewr. try CodeProject they have alot of info on MFC and .NET and loading images

what language are you using? if its C#,Clip,Common Lisp,Fly (Any Language),Lua,OCaml,Octave,Pascal,Perl,PHP,Python,REXX,Ruby,Tcl then try GD or then there is ImageMagick it does Ada,C,Ch,COM+,C++,Java,Lisp,Neko/haXe,.NET,Pascal,Perl,PHP,Python,Ruby,Tcl/TK

DeadDude- Delphi is like VB in many ways. Like VB its built upon a decent programming language (Pascal was a bit of a dead language for a while with only a small following but since a few other compilers can be found now for Object Pascal its is starting to get a bit of a revival). Delphi has RAD environment like VB, but like VB you really need to learn a bit of the underlying language to get the best from it (in case you didnt get it from the last bit, delphi sits on top of pascal). It is pretty simple to whip out a program in Delphi, much like VB, and you can also get Delphis younger brother Kylix for linux. Borland who made Delphi has discontinued development of Delphi as of last year, so that is a bit of a downside. To get more info follow these two links to wikipedia. Delphi or Kylix Nephilim-You mentioned open source. I did mention C++ with MFC, but he's also looking for something he can pick up easily and comes from a VB background. MFC may not be open source, but you will find that c/c++ were the original open source languages (since thats what most *nix kernel were written in, and what most *nix software is still written in). Also just so you know Delphi is a RAD (most poeple refer to it as a language),the language is Object Pascal, and wouldn't you know it there is GNU Pascal. At the end of it all, there are alot of languages out there, and if you are willing to put in the time searching the net you can find how to write good apps in almost any language. Its really just (as is said in Ireland) much of a muchness. Take your pick to which suits you. (I forgot there is also python, perl, ruby, lisp, cobol, fortran, java.......)