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What are they those risks ? I believe they are only related to high tension coils and condensators. Touching them may may kill you by electrocution. Even when power is off in the case of charged condensators. What has microwave or radar to see with a CRT monitor ? Yeah, and how do those wireless devices communicate with the computer ? With either microwaves or radio waves, hence you spend hours a day with your cordless keyboard on your lap beaming strong electromagnetic signals in the direct vicinity of your genitals and hours a day with radio waves or microwaves beaming through your hand and body from your mouse. A CRT monitor certainly generates at least 10.000 times less electromagnetic pollution than that and I am pretty sure 1 million or even 1 billion times less is closer to the truth.

Try this as an .inf file (No guarantee it will work properly as untested) : [version] signature="$CHICAGO$" [DefaultInstall] CopyFiles = copy.files RegisterOCXs=Register.files [copy.files] browseui.dll,4 browselc.dll,4 MYDOCS.DLL,4 SHELL32.DLL,4 SYNCUI.DLL,4 [Register.files] %11%\browseui.dll %11%\browselc.dll %11%\MYDOCS.DLL %11%\SHELL32.DLL %11%\SYNCUI.DLL [DestinationDirs] copy.files = 11 [SourceDisksNames] 81=,"",1 Then create an installer with IExpress (very easy, follow the prompts) in which you include the files you want to copy and the inf file which will become the setup command of the installer For your registry files, you may also want to convert them into inf format and create a new section for them in your above inf. You can convert reg to inf quite easily with Willy Pad : http://www.chez.com/snoopy81/en/willy.htm

Sorry, very off-topic in this forum, but have you tried the Linux Kororaa XGL Live CD ? It has an openGL interface like Vista and it is pretty amazing. http://kororaa.org/static.php?page=static060318-181203

That's where inf + iexpress comes handy as this will use wininit to replace at reboot the files that can't be copied because they are in use.

For your registry files : Regedit /s blahblah.reg

No, not easily. In fact it never happened to me and I barely ever shutdown my computer normally. I just press the power button on the tower and that's it. I believe you can have a serious problem only if you do that while you defragment the drive possibly.

What about that ? :

Frankly, do you catch malware guys ?

I don't get your point here. Mozilla is a web browser for going on the net. A firewal prevents unauthorized apps to go on the internet and certainly you don't want to block your web browser to go on the net, be it Mozilla, IE, Opera or else. I don't use mozilla usually but I have it on my disk so I just ran it and ZA asked me whether I wanted to allow it to access the net or not. What's wrong there ? Why do you insist on explaining that people have got to wait for OS command to be processed before hitting the keyboard or mouse again otherwise it may lock up ? That's a problem I have personnally seen arising only on very slow hardware. Or on extremely poorly maintained faster machines maybe. I am sorry to tell you this but there is no blast of magnetic flux all over your face with a CRT monitor. Really there isn't any. If there was any, the screen would attract or repell iron but it does not AFAIK. All a CRT monitor emits is light and maybe a few electrons AFAIK. And IMO, TFT is crap, quality and comfortwise. You must run some additional software layer called clear type if I am correct to be able to read text properly on them. You are also very limited as to how many different resolutions you can use. The angle at which you look at it also affects greatly the readabilty I have noticed. I think a Rolls Royce is actually a good quality 19 or 21 inch CRT and certainly not a TFT. Obviously I'd cope with it if I had a laptop but for a desktop machine, there is no way I will be using a TFT. I am perfectly happy with the copy of DK lite I have installed. It does not and cannot slow down my OS at all as it is not running (nor has it any hidden file running all the time such as dlls or vxds) when I do not defragment. You could maybe explain how it does slow down your OS so much permanently that you need to uninstall it. Mine does. Well not really, as I have WinME it's WinME that's running super well and fast here. By the way, if you get headaches with CRTs, it is due to a wrong (too low) refresh rate IMO.

The one you have now is the only one that does exist AFAIK.

Strange I have no problems with Zone Alarm and Mozilla, I have no problems with Diskeeper either. Obviously the man has a very slow PC as he finds he's got to wait for OS commands to complete. What are your hardware specs ? And are you sure your Logitech Mouse and cordless keyboard aren't at least partially responsible for those lags ? As for flat monitor, I certainly prefer CRT ones so far as they are IMO of superior image quality and also much cheaper.

Latest stable build : http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge...2.2-1.win32.zip Runs normally. Current stable build : http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge....43-2.win32.zip Crashes in pango. Current Beta http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge...re4-1.win32.zip Runs but there is a problem with the font display which makes it quasi unusable. PS : all the big runtimes it uses are contained in Inkscape folder or its subfolders. There is no need for installing GTK or Python separetely to run it.

inf + iexpress or Inno Setup or any other installer of your choice.

DisplaySet is very good : http://wittswallpapers.com/Oldies/indexoldies.html

It is undeed indistinguishable by eye. I have looked around a bit and I have finally managed a similar as yours with PhotoImpact 5 and IrfanView which both have an option to disable subsampling unlike the ones I use normally.

Here : Total : 1,834,420, Available : 1,161,800 64 Mo of Ram is very little and unsurprisingly almost everything is used, especially with the collection of background apps you seem to have. Your system must be using the swap file a lot and that is where your performance hit is most probably. Free disk space would be a further issue only if there was not enough space left for the swap. And then you would most probably run into stability problems. You should clean up your startup. There is probably plenty of memory resident apps you don't need there. All that is not windows AFAIK (but I might be wrong for some) : ctfom.exe reminder.exe EM_EXEC multimedia keyboard TKBELLEXE lv coms smc service igfx tray hotkeyscmds mstdc ssdpsrv smc service autostart ms sqlserver7.0 service manager Do you really need it all running ? It would certainly help with the performance of your machine to have some not running as you have so little physical RAM. IMO 512MB of RAM is the minimum to be somehow comfortable with ME and only above 1GB do you begin laughing. The optionnal color scheme in the USP that is the exact same as the default Win2k and ME color schemes so what difference should there be with it and the Win2k or ME ones ?

Go at a big newsagent that's got all the PC magazines once a month and within a year you'll find for sure a free copy of one or another excellent professional Partition Manager on the cover CDs. I have got Paragon Partition Manager 2000 that I got this way in 2002 probably. And today I still have no need for another one. It's an absolute marvel. Otherwise you could try Swissknife, it is free but I have personally never used it so I can't comment on it : http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm

Now download Process Explorer and see how the cpu use is fractioned when you have nothing else running than Windows and your background applications. http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessExplorer9x.zip

Yes it would seem so.

Yes, looking for artifacts is one way, but if the MP3 encoding was done at a high enough quality it's nearly indistinguishable from the original. Same with JPG images at 100% quality. Do you want me to show you ugly degradation visible to the naked eye in 100% jpgs ? Here is one. It's some artwork I am doing. It's in true color png (lossless). Convert it to 100% jpg and see what I mean. Huge loss of quality. http://stashbox.org/uploads/1150207339/Master%20001s.png As for audio it is the same I believe as lossy is not lossless, but without an original to do an ABX test with, it may be hard to say. So the above artifact identifier is probably the best method without originals. Hydrogen Audio is the best place for that type of question anyway. http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php

And what does the license you've agreed upon when buying says ?

ME is always at 100%. It is the system idle process as you can see with process explorer. Nothing to worry about.

The Sytem Idle Process I guess.

Yes you can do this by editing the registry : REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Shutdown] @="Shutdo&wn" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Shutdown\command] @="RUNDLL SHELL32.DLL,SHExitWindowsEx 1" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Reboot] @="Reboo&t" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Reboot\command] @="RUNDLL SHELL32.DLL,SHExitWindowsEx 2" Copy and paste the above in notepad and save as something.reg. Double click on the file to import it in the registry and you'll have a Shutdown and Reboot menu on the context menu of My Computer. PS : Works on Windows ME as I have just tested it but should work also with other OSes I think.

It's shfolder.dll that can do it on older sytems. Anyway they will both look in the registry as there is no other place where the special shell folders paths are stored AFAIK. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....tfolderpath.asp So this does this work on Win98 ? : http://www.stashbox.org/uploads/1149799907...ram%20Files.exe Does running this exe, opens the program file folder on your 98 system or not ? I have just tested it on ME on which I have shell32.dll 5.50.4134.100.