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Yes, it can still start up, but it won't start up when it needs to because of that missing service. I think the service was the DCOM Server Process Launcher...not sure, but worth a try to enable it and see if that helps.

Very likely you disabled a service that MSI depends on. I know I made that mistake once or twice, though I don't remember what service needs to be enabled.

No PageDefrag defrags the page file (who would've guessed ).

Or maybe it's just you . I have Opera as well and it's not a problem here. The page only appears like that when it's loading. Change the loading from Redraw Instantly to something else and see if that helps.

Use HFS+ if you're worried: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...603&st=330#

There's many programs to read/write from HFS+ though. Even though this particular one isn't free, I find that MacDrive is the most convenient since it even mounts the HFS+ partition as a drive in Windows Explorer. I'm sure there's also some freeware software that offers similar functionality, but this is the only one I've tried. Here's a comparison between fragmentation in HFS+ and NTFS: http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/fragmentation/ The G5 system has more than 95% of its disk space used up, yet it only has 42 fragments. For a non-boot drive, that G5 system with similar disk space usage contains 3 fragments. Keep in mind this is without using any fragmentation software.

Blowfish - fast and secure if you have a 128-bit key.

A small money award would generate more attention for this thread, as not many people (me included) have any use for free advertising.

You can have one partition for all of your system files, then another partition based on an alternative FS for your program files and anything else that frequently fragments.

I use this : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...sa/default.mspx

Switching file systems might be a good idea as well. Some high-performance file systems such as HFS+ and XFS have built-in features that prevent files from fragmenting 99% of the time.

About $400-$450 was my estimate: Athlon64 3200+ (939) - $80 Asus A8V Deluxe WiFi Mobo - $80 1.5GB DDR400 RAM - $100 ATI Radeon 9550 128mb (AGP) $50 16x Benq DVD Writer - $50 20GB Seagate IDE HDD - $10 550w PSU - $50

It's an option in TweakUI.

Yeah my neck would probably hurt at the end of the day with that kind of setup.

You can't blame him for already filling up his hard drive. He only has 80GB and with it partitioned, the C: drive has even less space. There's nothing you can do except for freeing up more space on C: as the "Startup Disk" is always your first (might have been system) partition.

Those tweaks don't do anything in XP. XP is pretty much tweaked as it is. IIRC, that "tweak" became obsolete in NT5 - but don't quote me on that. I disagree with that. The tweaks Thauzar mentioned does help performance a bit when used in the right situation. There's also a whole lot of tweaks that no one knows about, such as this one I've discovered (it literally doubles your resolution). [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers] "DoubleDpi"=dword:00000001

WS2003 SP2 has been scheduled for Q4 2006 for a while now. Anyone with a Live account could join the beta at connect.microsoft.com. And boooggy, the WS2003 SP2 Connect homepage says this "Welcome to the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Beta Release". Only thing I'm upset about is that I've reported so many bugs, including a few major security flaws, and Microsoft has thus far pushed them off as not being a priority and deciding to not fix it.

Well I would expect it to have been RTMed by now seeing that the guy replied to a year-old post.

Is hiding all tray icons an option?

It was one of the goals of the project. However, most of the people offering to help with the project only wanted to test, and the few that did want to help in others ways either didn't have the knowledge necessary or were reluctant to re-engineer svchost.

Yeah umm...now I know your name .

Haven't played that game myself, but is there a Web interface you can use? Most games do.

Very nice. You said that the card is a 7900GTX, but the card shown in the picture only takes one slot, so I'm assuming you meant 7800GTX? Would have been nice if you went with a 7900GT. That way you could have an entirely passively-cooled system.

It's illegal to post the link, since anyone (non-MS OEM members included) can download it from the link.

The Athlon XP series can easily be unlocked, so if eggie wanted to, he could bump the multis up to 14x.