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How do I turn off the "video tasks" pane that appears in a folder with videos? I just want to see a file list/icons.

I've been using Zone Alarm on Win2k for many years. It works fine BUT recently I notice that it's eating RAM. I have 1 GB of RAM which had been quite sufficient. But the browsers (Opera and FireFox both) are demanding more and more RAM, probably due to Flash, so I looked at what was going on with Process Explorer. I saw that ZA was using 300+ MB of RAM. (The vsmon.exe process.) If I loaded any other memory hungry program the system ran out of physical memory and slowed to a crawl. I uninstalled and reinstalled ZA. Then it was using 4 MB. But on the second day, it was 6MB. Then every day more and more. Now it's up to 70 MB. I use Zone Alarm free, version 5.5.062.011 So, presumably there is a database it's building and for some reason keeping in RAM that is growing without limit. Is there a way to stop this, short of reinstalling once a week? (I suspect this may be related to my running uTorrent. Most of the alerts shown are for the torrent port.) Is there another version of ZA that works without this RAM hunger, on Win2k? Or failing that, is there another free firewall that has a low footprint that won't keep nagging me to buy upgrades?

I need a more detailed how-to than that, I'm afraid. In particular, how do I specify exactly who can access a share?

What I want to do is share files between a PC (Win2k), laptops (XP and Ubuntu) and smartphones (Android) on my LAN. Devices I have fixed local IPs for, but not anyone else. If I "share" a folder in Win2k, who can access it? Anyone who knows my IP? How do I restrict it to local devices, say specific IPs on my LAN? (192.168.11.*)? If I look at the "share permissions" I can choose "Everyone" which seems a bad idea, or various "users". But how do I define these "users" as above?

OK. will try that. The blue screen was pretty dramatic, at least for me. Why is it in UU11 at all then? What particularly does it break?

OK, found the logs. Tweak UI after 10c fixed it, but after 11 and uninstalling 11, now some icons are blank/white again, and TweakUI doesn't change that. shell32.dll is 5.0.3900.7174 UURollup-v11-log.rar

Your dropbox link is titled "Weekly", so I took the latest one there: Windows2000-UURollup-v11-w121104-x86-ENU.exe. Isn't that the "latest weekly version"? The uninstall seems to have erased the entire uurollup-v11 folder, so I don't have the log. One other odd thing, when I installed UU10c, it fixed the empty icons problem I mentioned before, but after I went through the UU11 drama and uninstalled it, they're plain white now (not hollow), even after I reinstalled 10c. I notice that I have uninstall folders for 9b, 10a, 10b, 10c. I think I just installed them in turn, with no uninstalls, till the last.

Well, that was scary. I installed v11-w121104 On reboot, it showed the modified splash screen, then went to a blue screen with "Pagefault in non-paged area" (Which apparently indicates a hardware error with RAM -- though this seems pretty unlikely.) Powering off and rebooting a few times couldn't get past it. But I could boot to safe mode without any issues and so uninstalled the latest rollup, and am now back on the air. So, just for my peace of mind, if I need to uninstall a rollup manually, do I run the "spuninst.exe" in the $NTUninstallRollup.... folder? Is that the same as using the Control Panel uninstall?

The latest version of Opera browser, 12.10, won't install in Win2k, saying it needs UxTheme.dll. I've installed UUrollup 10c, but it's not included. So, what options are there? Just find the dll and register it? Will that work?

Okay. So it's a Windows "feature" that you can't configure the command lines if you aren't using the default app. I'll look into 3rd party utilities then.

Well whatever the root cause I thought that problems with extensions would be related. Note that there is no "Advanced" option for txt, unlike doc. I guess that this can be accessed via the Registry, or by 3rd party tools.

No, if I change the association and thus icon of any extension, they all still get the blank icon. Also, I can't edit the open command, using the "advanced" option as I think I used to be able to. Now for any association I have changed I only have "change" (to select an application) or "restore" to return to whatever Windows thinks is the default association. That is actually more annoying than the blank icons, as sometimes I want to customise the open command. I don't care at all about how many colours in the con, if the other issues can be fixed I'd be happy with b/w icons.

Thanks. I used the KB file, OTF work now.

Windows 2k, installed SP5.1 and UURollup 10b. I cannot install or use any OTF fonts. Clicking on any OTF font gives me an error "The requested file X:....otf is not a valid font file." The font editor FontLab just crashes if I try to open any OTF font. On my previous Win2k machine, I could use OTF fonts with no issues. Googling I found that this can be caused by an issue with Nvidia drivers. See http://www.thomasphinney.com/tag/install/ However, I tried the recommended registry hack, but it had no effect. Further, if I booted in safe mode with VGA drivers, I still got the same error attempting to open any OTF. Any point in uninstalling the Nvidia driver, even after the safe mode check seems to show it's innocent? I'm not sure if this issue existed before I installed the SP5.1 or UU10b, as installing OTF fonts is not a frequent task. But it is important that I be able to do this. Any clues on diagnosis or cure?

Tried 10b, icons unchanged. shell32.dll is 5.0.3900.7171

I got 10a, and Tapin Radio now runs again, thanks. The original icon problem is unchanged, but that's cosmetic. ( I tried resetting the association and also rebuilt the icons.)

Your motherboard manual doesn't list that speed as being supported. Only these: PC2700 PC2100 PC1600 Also says only 2 DIMMs support PC2700 (333MHz), if you add more it drops the memory speed to 266MHz. I am looking at info on Page 26 of this PDF: http://mtz01-a.stanford.edu/machines/manuals/a7s333.pdf The PDF has a modify lock, which also apparently doesn't let me copy (Ctrl+C) data off of it. Thanks. Of course it doesn't officially support chips that probably weren't available when it was designed; in many cases they work anyway. But just not in mine, sadly. I have the mobo manual, hadn't noticed it was locked. How silly. I have a PDF cracker if I need to use it. It's not a big deal, I don't think I've ever run out of RAM while running any process, so it would just be bragging rights.

Probably is high density, it only has chips on one side. It's Samsung. label has: PC3200-30331-Z 512 MB DR PC3200 CL3 M368L6523DUS-CCC 0549 Googlng that gives a datasheet: DDR SDRAM Unbuffered Module 184pin Unbuffered Module based on 512Mb D-die with 64/72-bit Non ECC/ECC 66 TSOP-II with Pb-Free (RoHS compliant) http://www.alldatasheet.net/datasheet-pdf/pdf/120746/SAMSUNG/M368L6523DUS-CCC.html Most of which details are beyond me.

I tried installing the DDR400, wasn't recognised by BIOS. It only saw the original 2x512 MB DDR333. I couldn't see any relevant setting in BIOS I could tweak. Guess I'll see if I can sell it or swap for something useful.

While annoying, the weird icons and the loss of Tapin aren't critical, and yes, I do need this for my work, so I can't afford the downtime if it gets trashed. So I don't want to run a beta, but will wait for UU11 proper. Any idea when that will be?

Still fails in safe mode. CPU is AMD. Here's the system spec: Windows: Windows 2000 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4 Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 Memory (RAM): 1024 MB CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1700+ CPU Speed: 1228.8 MHz Sound card: C-Media Wave Device Display Adapters: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 | NetMeeting driver Screen Resolution: 1280 X 1024 - 32 bit : Network Adapters: Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC CD / DVD Drives: X: Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-117 | Y: HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-4160B : COM Ports: COM3 | COM1 | COM2 LPT Ports: LPT1 Mouse: 3 Button Wheel Mouse Present Hard Disks: C: 31.2GB | D: 31.2GB | E: 86.6GB | F: 31.2GB | G: 31.2GB | H: 85.0GB | I: 83.0GB | J: 2.4GB Hard Disks - Free: C: 25.9GB | D: 23.6GB | E: 25.6GB | F: 31.2GB | G: 31.2GB | H: 72.2GB | I: 27.5GB | J: 2.4GB USB Controllers: 5 host controllers. Firewire (1394): Not Detected : Manufacturer: Award Software, Inc. Product Make: System Name : AC Power Status: OnLine BIOS Info: ATAT COMPATIBLE 043003 Award Modular BIOS v60 Time Zone: China Standard Time Battery: No Battery Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7S333 Modem: HCF 56K PCI Modem Yeah, it's there too. I had assumed, knowing it was integrated in Windows, that it was in the Windows directory, with things like Windows Write, and first searched from there down. If I hadn't found it I would have looked beyond that. All I deleted were the shortcuts. As I said.

IE seems okay, though I never used it and deleted the shortcuts. I found it at c:\winnt\system32\dllcache\iexplore.exe That runs and reports itself as version 6.0.2800.1106 Is that correct? No right-click problems I can find.

Attached "UURollup-10.log", and also for 9b. Lots of errors in that, but I think they're all about devices I don't have. The WinUpdatelist is pretty simple: 5.1, UU9b, UU10 I tried to start Tapin before I ran tasklist, so its process is listed. In Process Explorer, the "Window" option is unavailable for Tapin, so it never gets to the stage of creating one. Thanks for looking at this. logs.rar

The icon thing isn't related to Ultraedit. If I change any association to any other app, I get the same white folder icon with the empty box inside. For instance, Irfanview had taken over the .psd extension when I installed it. So I changed that back to Photoshop, and now these open with Photoshop, but now they have the white folder icon, not the Photoshop (or Irfanview) one. Seems any manual change to icons has this result. Well, good thing I have extensions shown, it seems icons are screwed up for me now. Is 32 colours set by "Show icons using all possible colours" on desktop properties? I've tried it both on and off. Same result. As for Tapin, that's sort of encouraging you can get it working, but I still can't. The process starts, (I can see it in Process Explorer), but then just stalls, never opens a window. I've reinstalled and still no go. I'll try the portable version and see if that works. (I can use other Radio apps, but Tapin is my favourite, as its list of stations is updated every week. Other apps work, but their station lists are very stale and mostly dead.) -- Just tried the portable Tapin install. Still fails to launch. In Process Explorer, if I try to look at Tapin's "threads", Process Explorer itself locks up and I have to kill it.

Did all that. Now instead of plain white icons, I have white icons with a black outline, and a transparent hole in the middle. So at least I can see where it is. After UU10 all the icon colours were weird, but I did a rebuild icons from TweakUI and that made the others normal. One weird thing -- I reverted the association for txt to notepad, and then they all had the "UE" icon, even though they opened with notepad. I changed it back to UE and then I got back the same white icon. But a serious (for me) side effect of UU10: It broke Tapin Radio, something I use all day long. Now it won't launch. I was going to report that at the RyyanVM board, but you have to be approved before you can post there.