Viper187

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Is there seriously no UDF 2.5/2.6 driver to allow XP to handle blu-ray discs? What idiots developed this crap and decided to leave XP out?

I've been trying to find a usable way to get my email from Hotmail while grabbing all the folders. FreePOPs refused to login properly for some reason and this Outlook Connector crap with Outlook 2003 only half works. First, the dumb thing filled my Junk Mail folder with half the emails from another folder. Then it decided it isn't going to download the other 2 folders at all. WTF? Am I missing something or is it really this broken? Microsoft needs to be reminded of the old saying, "if it aint broke, don't fix it." WHY BREAK OUTLOOK EXPRESS AND EVERYTHING!? It's insane. Oh, goodie, there's POP3 now. Too bad it can't retrieve anything but the inbox. Even if you have no extra folders, you still don't get everything because the junk mail folder can't be disabled. The webmail used to be tolerable. I used to stay logged in for a month at a time. Now it bitches every time my IP changes (which is every 6 hours on dialup).

I'll be damned. It IS Logitech Setpoint doing it. How the hell could a commercial software driver cause this problem for years without it being fixed? Better question. How am I going to reprogram the buttons on my G5 laser mouse without it?

Well, that sort of works. The tooltips appear but they're almost completely covered by the bar itself for no apparent reason. They do that in the quick launch, taskbar, and sys tray, but mouseover on the clock still doesn't show the date.

I'm beginning to wonder if Logitech Setpoint could be doing it. You'd think mouse drivers from Logitech wouldn't be prone to such a lame issue, but who knows. I know another guy that used to have the issue, and he thinks he has Setpoint installed. I was able to duplicate the problem on a near fresh install of XP 64-bit; just drivers, virtual drive, AnyDVD, probably Firefox, and old versions of mIRC and Textpad. I'm also curious as to why no balloon tips appear on mouseover of the taskbar, system tray, etc anymore. I kind of liked when I could mouseover the clock to see the date. I that some side effect of using the classic theme or part of my weird bug?

I use a Logitech G5 (wired).

I've pretty much ruled out all my software, since I know people that use the same exact stuff without incident. The only app that crosses my mind is mIRC, but there are plenty of people using that too. I don't use anything real obscure.

I recorded a 13 second video of this. http://viper.shadowflareindustries.com/temp/bah.avi Basically, It shows me clicking between two apps in the taskbar, but other random apps keep coming to the foreground in the process. I've had this happen to me on multiple versions of XP with different hardware, etc. It always seemed to start when I had a lot running, but nothing specific. The video is XP 64-bit SP2 running on a 2.8ghz Phenom X3 (720?), with 8 gig of DDR3, GeForce 285 FTW Edition, etc.

Is there a way to use a screensaver as your desktop wallpaper? I found something called Screen2Dream, but it doesn't seem to work on 64-bit XP. Anyone know if StyleXP is capable of this?

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I'm curious as to how the BS limitations on CPUs work. Has anyone run it with 2 quad core chips? I'm inclined to believe that would work, but the only info I've been seeing is "2 physical CPUs, 4 virtual" and no mention of physical cores.

Well, I have 2 gig. I could get another gig for $22. I also have a copy of Windows 64-bit, so maybe I'll do both.

Am I the only one to experience this stupid issue? Half my RAM is free but I can't open anything else, not even Notepad or Task Manager. The only thing I've been able to figure is that the GDI memory is getting blown. I've heard the amount of RAM has no effect on it. I tried changing the GDIProcessHandleQuota and USERProcessHandleQuota at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows in the registry, but it didn't seem to help. What else can I do? I'm tired of closing things to open other things. I do a lot at once, and Firefox (among other things) seems to leak a lot of GDI objects and memory randomly. Could running Firefox or other programs as another user help?

I'm reformatting tomorrow. I"ll try those. I hate all these **** programs that think they should be able to override Explorer as the default program for "opening" discs.

I'm sick and tired of doubleclicking an optical drive only to have some garbage program open instead of explorer. Is there some way to lock those settings so programs can't associate themselves with the optical drives? I can't find half the stuff under Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > File Types and looking in the registry for some of them is a pain. Even when I do, some of the programs reset them. Is there at least some shortcut to disabling ALL 3rd party associations with optical drives at once? I'm also curious if there's some fix for disabling autorun so that the drive labels update when the disc is changed/removed.

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I don't want that damned install cache on my storage drives. If it would be reasonable and install to the C drive instead of randomly picking a letter, I might keep it around. In any case, I don't like random files being thrown on my storage drives without my goddamn permission. There's also the matter of it not fully deleting when you tell it to at the end. The folder is still there. POS

I was hoping get my Highpoint Rocket 100 card raid drivers loaded at the F6 screen during XP SP1 setup, but it doesn't list the driver when I put it on disk. Lists the NVRaid ones fine, but not this. Is something missing from the INF or what? ; ; hpt3xx.INF ; ; INF file of Rocket 100 Controller for Windows 2000/XP ; Copyright (c) HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved ; [Version] signature="$Windows NT$" Class=SCSIAdapter ClassGUID={4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Provider=%HIGHPOINT% CatalogFile= hpt3xx.CAT DriverVer=09/30/2004, 1.23 [DestinationDirs] DefaultDestDir = 12; DIRID_DRIVERS [Manufacturer] %HIGHPOINT%=HighPoint [HighPoint] %HPT3xx.DeviceDesc%=hpt3xxPCI,PCI\VEN_1103&DEV_0004 %HPT3xx.DeviceDesc%=hpt3xxPCI,PCI\VEN_1103&DEV_0006 [hpt3xxPCI.NT] CopyFiles=@hpt3xx.sys Reboot [hpt3xxPCI.NT.Services] AddService = hpt3xx, %SPSVCINST_ASSOCSERVICE%, hpt3xxPCI_Service_Inst, Miniport_EventLog_Inst [hpt3xxPCI_Service_Inst] ServiceType = %SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER% StartType = %SERVICE_BOOT_START% ErrorControl = %SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL% ServiceBinary = %12%\hpt3xx.sys LoadOrderGroup = SCSI Miniport AddReg = pnpsafe_pci_addreg [pnpsafe_pci_addreg] HKR, "Parameters\PnpInterface", "5", 0x00010001, 0x00000001 [Miniport_EventLog_Inst] AddReg = Miniport_EventLog_AddReg [Miniport_EventLog_AddReg] HKR,,EventMessageFile,%REG_EXPAND_SZ%,"%%SystemRoot%%\System32\IoLogMsg.dll" HKR,,TypesSupported,%REG_DWORD%,7 [SourceDisksNames] 1 = %InstallDisk%,,,"" [SourceDisksFiles] ;;hpt3xx.inf = 1,, hpt3xx.sys = 1,, [strings] HighPoint="HighPoint" HPT3xx.DeviceDesc="HighPoint Rocket 100 Controller" InstallDisk = "Rocket 100 Controller Driver Diskette" ;******************************************* ;Handy macro substitutions (non-localizable) SPSVCINST_ASSOCSERVICE = 0x00000002 SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER = 1 SERVICE_BOOT_START = 0 SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL = 1 REG_EXPAND_SZ = 0x00020000 REG_DWORD = 0x00010001

Ok. Here's the problem. I needed 2 different version of XP installed on here, plus I wanted to try Vista. I had both XP installs working on the usual boot menu, then installed Vista. Vista uses it's own crap menu and I can't get both installs of XP to boot from that menu even with EasyBCD. It always reads boot.ini from the C: even if there's a copy on the partition where the secondary install of XP is. That means I still have to select between the 2 XP installs on the XP boot menu no matter what I choose on the Vista menu. So is there a way to get any of the 3 OSes to boot without going through both the Vista menu and XP menu? I'm this close to saying screw Vista and removing it.

I beat it on Legendary and Legendary w/ Thunderstorn on Xbox. I just want to play around with it while I'm waiting for Halo 3.

1. I live out in amish country, and I can't get cable. 2. I like the goddamn campaign, and I want infinite ammo/no overheating like I couldn't get on Xbox.

I'm not understanding why Visual Studio always insists on updating Java Virtual Machine before installing on an XP OS. Java VM was from like IE4, wasn't it!? Why would I want that crap installed on something running IE6!? If anything, I have to wonder if it could cause other problems.

Something that people should be aware of beofre attempting ot run Halo 2 on XP is that it requires SP2. The game/loader doesn't work on SP1 even with the .net framework 2.0, nor does it work on XP 64-bit.

Use my key for what? I just want to play the campaign, and I'm not activating anything for that. I'll use one of the workarounds I've seen. The funny thing is the XP trainer for Halo 2 appears to be better than the Vista ones. However, I've not seen a complete version of it, just the trial one with most options disabled.