Camarade_Tux

No, dual. And just checked mobo's manual.

Not my fault if the photos are so blurry : my computer is so fast that it makes every picture of it blurry. My graphic card, with its heatsink (the shiny thing is a MMC card): Rear: Pretty big but quiet. 52°C idle. CPU @ 41°C fast idle. 51°C after 10 minutes of Prime95, not (yet) overclocked.

Not stupid. It's simply that this is really weird http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=491354. And btw, ever heard of Orbit Dock (uses .Net and these weird new directx files ) ?

... Forgot to report: And DEP is disabled, for sure. /NOPAE instead of /nopae has no effect. :?

there's a new format called JPEG2000 which has support for lossless compression. it also compresses files MUCH MUCH better than PNG. an average screenshot with advanced doo-hickeys is about 900KB while with PNG you get 1.5-2MB. it's kinda sad that it's not widely supported though. Using IE here. @pS- I really like the color scale on your desk. @prankst3r, your desk is also really nice. Simple and 'quiet'. Aren't you using an alternate shell ?

In fact, in this poll, we would need another question : "how long did your $brand HD lived ?"

Note for myself : 1.27$ = 1€. Not the other way round. So it was 840*1.27 = 1066€ and this varies with currency rates (1.26 instead of 1.27 changes by approx. 10$ ) And instead of buying 1 expensive computer, I'd buy 3 less expensive and keep them updated. A friend of mine used to buy components and resell them on eBay whenever he wanted to change without loosing more than a few bucks (would sometime even earns money). This way he managed to have an updated computer during at least 3 years without paying a lot.

Edit by hand.

Yes i can do this by hand. But i see kids to work with nLite. Who dont know to delete some files,edit text files by hands. This is essence. Hum... I made a pretty big mistake in my answer : the question was "is nlite illegal to use" and I answered to "is nlite illegal". And I have still a pending question : what is an EULA's legal status ? Also, EULA is for... End Users. And when using nlite or any other tool or whatever, you're not really an end-user... The conclusion has always been the same : there is no clear answer (probably as always with the law). So if you want nlite for home usage, no problem. Otherwise, avoid (nlite's own EULA, and also the fact you have modified something which could be a problem for a company)

And we are not normal people here. But this is a bit scary : 5000$ for a computer.

nLite mainly automates what you can do by hand (delete some files, edit text files).

And what happens with others boot CD ?

This happens/happened when you ran .net silent installer with T-12/T-13 modification after installation is complete (after the second reboot). Windows simply reads a reg key to know if installation has completed. .Net installer checks the value of this key and depending on the result : it installs or not. .Net unattended installer sets this registry key to something meaning 'installation completed', runs classic .net installer, waits for it to finish and set the key back to 'installation not completed' whatever was the original value. (I ran this installer days after windows was installed. Solved with UBCD4Win.) I don't know if Aserone's installer has been updated.

Updates: Samurize (still have to remove HDD space meters and add some others) I hope you don't need to reda the adress bar to know what website I was visiting. A already fell in love with this virtual console. NB: the "thing" on the left was meant to be a landscape. I thought this desklet would be unuseful but you can also save what you made. The AHK script you see lets you select during installation which VS you want to be installed with Windows. Dialogs are in french ATM and paths are relative but static. Once this is be corrected (with switchs), I'll publish it. I also have the same for wallpapers.

PNG is much better for screenshots since it does not alter colors and shapes like JPEG but it's also much bigger : my screenshot weights 1.6MB with Paint and 1.1MB when compressed with IrfanView, highest compression. Details : RKLauncher + AveDesk (with VirtualConsole; had to make an installer because I couldn't get it to work otherwise , there's also a net monitor for avescripter) + first minimalistic wallpaper found on DA. TODO : Samurize, some missing icons and a shortcut that does not open windows explorer at the correct place.

Go to services.msc and disable one of Ati's service. It's named Gart or AGP something. On my laptop with X700 PCI-E, this service starts correctly but then has to shutdown and makes the whole system lag. This happens at every startup until I disable the faulty service. The exact name of this service can be foun in the event viewer (eventvwr.msc), an error is displayed. That's how I found the solution for my computer.

Just a link : http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/08/02/thg_tuning_test/ And my comment; on many benchmarks you can see that the slow Core2 Duo E6600 is faster than an overclocked A64 FX-62 while being much less expensive and it is also cooler. It seems Intel is faster again.

840€ (less than 700$ in fact) and absolutely no lag in games thanks to msfn's members. Pretty silent. CPU is A64 3200+, core at 42°C after boot and installation of latest Speedfan. So I'll probably overclock it. And do you need 4GB RAM to run 7 VMs at the same time ? I plan on running 5VMs with only 2GB thanks to nlite. (btw, if you have 3.8GB RAM you will be able to run more VMs than if you have 4.1GB because of Physical Adress Extension)

Why can't I upload a 1.85MB png file ?

My boot.ini has this: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professionnel" /noexecute=AlwaysOff /nopae /fastdetect And PAE is still enabled. :?

Shiny, shiny and shiny. Hopefully not as hot as last week. Welcome here.

Use a bootcd to get it.

Start -> Run -> setuperr.log. Does it says anything.

Ok. Thanks. I'll try that and reboot asap. And I usually disable DEP : I had some problems with that. :/

No it's PAE I want to be disabled. It's listed in System (right-click "my computer", under the amount of RAM you may have "physical adress extension") PAE just needs more memory. It uses 64-bit adresses (2^32=4GB and 2^64=much more). But theses adresses have to be stored somewhere and programs end up using more memory. I have enough memory but this is pure waste. ATM I'm running XP SP1a and have no problem with that. "Processus Inactif" takes 16KB of memory. Under SP2 with PAE, it uses 28KB. Only 12KB more but that +75%! (that's another method to know wheteher PAE is enabled or not) If PAE adds 33% to BF2's memory requirement, I'm going to have problems (just an example, I don't like BF2, it's annoying and unfriendly)