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Kramy

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  1. That was one of my projects a while ago. Making HFSLIP not complain took about 4 lines, and 15 minutes of my time. However, I never checked if everything was properly slipstreamed in, and it's possible HFSLIP didn't know USP5.1 has extra stuff. I verified an HFSLIP'd Win2k with USP5.1 had IE5 installed, but slipstreaming IE6 in is quite easy.
  2. I think I heard somewhere removing the IE core makes Add/Remove not open, though on XP and using nLite it still functions. Either way, when I heard that I downloaded this: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html If your Add/Remove doesn't work, you can temporarily(or permanently) use that.
  3. Plugins are a core feature of Firefox, but yeah, FF can beat some of those. Opera has: (boldified) All IMHO, just like your post. Firefox lets you do that! (apparently) Drag it unto the searchbar to search. The address bar is just a textbox, and yields the save effect as dragging into notepad. It's not for win2k...I thought. Or was that a joke...or are you referring to FDV's current works on Win2k3? Curse the 4 smiley limit! =D
  4. Your best bet for finding a malicious site is to randomly google for things. For your interest: http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_...Flaw/1143145308
  5. It's possible to skin Firefox to look EXACTLY like IE to fool those that don't know what a web browser is. "I click the e to go online..." Why IE sucks for web development: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/ I tried securing IE long ago, and I failed horribly. Even with the internet zone set to the MAXIMUM, with spybot & spywareblaster up to date and blocking stuff, things still got through. I'm guessing it's because I run as an admin. I do too many system-related things to bother running as a user, when it's simpler to remove offending security-related programs. When I need to check if my code is FF-only "crap code", I check it in Opera, and when finished blast it off to someone I know that still has IE.
  6. IE will still be vulnerable to all the parsing exploits and things that it always has. The difference is it no longer has access to files, since it (apparently) runs as a highly limitted user. That means that instead of picking up malware from malicious sites, they will instead opt to just crash the browser. Hey, look, now IE users will have to deal with more crashes than Firefox users. By the way, has anyone checked out the Firefox 2.0 first-alpha release? A couple people said it was stable thus far and used oodles less memory(Opera Style). Edit: Someone said 20mb with one page, and +1mb every page/tab after that.
  7. Errgh! http://www.tliquest.net/software/rsp/ I read somewhere XP loads a maximum of 4mb of the registry at any one time. Win2k will load it all, and I don't know for Win2k3.
  8. I have no idea if it's related, but os2fan2 says you need a line added to dosnet.inf for installs done under windows...I think. Ok, I really have no idea, but it's worth a shot. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=69937
  9. In the latest nLite version(1.0rc7), Warcraft III: TFT no longer requires the Protected Storage service to be running under Win2k. You can safely disable it, and I presume safely remove it. I am not sure what nLite version this changed in, but apparently something connection related is all better now.
  10. Check out HFSLIP if you need to slipstream DirectX 9.0c in. My dx90c installer crashes with some error, so slipstreaming was the only option. HFSLIP doesn't support USP 5.x though, so you'd have to add a few lines here and there to get it to properly slipstream it. I've already done so, but I'm still fixing missing-file copy errors from nLiting it after. nLite doesn't expect you to have an updated DirectX and other stuff, so you have to tell it not to remove required files. In my case, I'm slipstreaming required codecs right into windows, and it keeps bitching about missing inf files. If you would like the .cmd file modifications you can PM me, though I'll probably make a topic about it in the next couple days(or weeks), once I get it working fine.
  11. I've got HFSLIP stashed away in: E:\Other Software\nLite\_SlipStream Since nLite was the first one of these tools I learned about, all my windows-reduction related stuff goes in nLite subfolders. Hey Tomcat, can you clarify what a DOSNET.INF-based install is for me? I've used the unattended oem-preinstall method of nLite in the past, and if you remove DOSNET.inf it throws lots of errors. I thought all installs required that file, so please clarify what you mean for a newbie.
  12. I'm pretty sure ffdshow dynamically changes settings depending on how much processing power is available. I've used 20041012+MPC on a 333mhz PII laptop, and it was able to play 576x320 vids @ 1024x768 with about 80% processor usage, on a crappy 2.5mb videocard. On my main computer though, it uses almost 40% of my 2.25ghz @ 1280x1024. On the other hand, the laptop had blurry(DCT?) squares, while on my main computer there was barely any noise distortions and a lot more detail. Hey, does anyone here know anything about purevideo and what it does? My videocard supports it, but I have no idea what it does or if MPC uses such a thing. Oh yeah, and tomcat: did you try the 20041012 without SSE support?
  13. Cubic Explorer is another promising looking file manager.
  14. Super-Magician: My main Win2k install was HFSLIP+nLited, but no extra tools were added in $oem$, and I've been using it since November. I figured now would be a good time to redo everything and get more right this time around(like not breaking codecs and stuff). They all have different file sizes. I can see XP's versions being updated, but why would Win2k have updated versions? Performance enhancements, maybe? I might go grab XP versions of all of those off a laptop, actually. tommyp: Done. Now, something I was wondering...I know it's possible to add an "Open Command Prompt Here" to folders, but can it be done for exe files? The only time I ever want to run something in a command window is when I need to run a command line program(an exe). Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd] @="Open CMD Window" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd\command] @="cmd.exe /k \"cd %L\""/ Edit: Nevermind, figured it out. This seems to work. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\cmd] @="Open CMD Window" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\cmd\command] @="cmd.exe %L"
  15. Searching my Win2k install for various files to put in my oem folder, I discovered a whole bunch with different versions and dates. My main Win2k install has makecab.exe from: July 14, 2003, 3:00:00 AM Yet the downloadable one is from 1997. Which should I use? I found an extract.exe from: November 22, 2005, 10:16:44 PM Again, should I use this one instead of the 1997 version? What's Extrac32.exe? It does nothing when run in a command prompt or by itself. Oh, and nLited(after) with SFC disabled, calc.exe doesn't seem to want to replace itself with pcalc using the oem method. Should I put calc.exe in the FIX folder(it overwites any file right, not just ntldr/ntdetect.com?), or just manually cab it and overwrite it? Thank you for answering my n00b questions.
  16. Fixed in Mar 9 ver. Download latest stable at the top(was Mar 10th yesterday - today it's Mar 17th). HFSLIP Versioning: YMMDD Edit: What he said.
  17. That's a flaw shared by most shell replacements I've tried. I attribute it more to Explorer mucking up the replacement's features, since remove explorer and problem solved. Icons are odd in windows. Apparently updating them causes page faults, which explains the 4 million listed for me under the task manager. They ammased since I rebooted a few hours ago. B) And, ofcourse, there's the whole 16-colour systray icons thing that adds to my feeling that they're handled weird. Oh, and to top it off, I'm really really tired and had to recheck this entire post several times for spelling errors. Foggy-brain also makes me think they're handled weird in windows.
  18. The ffdshow sourceforge alphas(20041012?) don't have nearly as many problems as the new versions, but then you should install Xvid 1.1.0 and other stuff too for newer encoded content. Edit: Missed what I was talking about.
  19. Don't forget GeoShell.
  20. I'm really interested in that, but since every time it refreshes it disconnects from the taskbar and leaves a junk process running, apparently I'm destined for windows greyness. Hope it works for everyone else.
  21. I decided to check out and measure the different framerates on Win2k(HFSLIP+nLited) vs WinXP(nLited), aswell as checking out wc3 in OpenGL (use -opengl ) 1280x1024x32 8xAA 16xAS GeForce 6600 256mb OC FRAPS used to display/measure FPS. Win2k DirectX 9.0c ---------------------- Average FPS: 30 Max FPS: 30 Win2k OpenGL ---------------------- Average FPS(Game): 20 Max FPS (Game): 30 Average FPS(Bnet): Max Max FPS (Bnet): 60 WinXP DirectX 9.0c ---------------------- Average FPS: 30 Max FPS: 30 Ok...it may be something driver related since DX won't go over 30fps. DirectX actually performs better, and XP seems smoother. The various setups had different issues though, and that was when I noticed the abysmal loading speeds of XP for Wc3. Win2k DirectX 9.0c: Alt+tab takes between 5 and 12s to complete, during which the system does nothing. Screenshots take about 3s to save before the next frame. Win2k OpenGL: Text looks horrible on anything less than 1280x1024. Image Quality fine, but rendered text looks worse than with DirectX. WinXP DirectX 9.0c: Morter team explosions cause game to not show frames. The framerate is uneffected, but there is a very visible 0.2 - 0.25 second jolt before the next frame is displayed. Multiple explosions cause massive lag, though Alt+tabbing and screenshots are fine. Drivers used were TweaksRus Extreme-XG 76.50 HD drivers, which I've been using for a long time. Sorry for hijacking your thread. B) I've recently became fascinated by how many games lack default-toggled performance enhancing options. Don't even get me started on KotOR - one line in an ini and you get triple the framerate, and no 10s freezes on Dantooine.
  22. Wow, this sounds really cool! I'm a little dubious about the supposed "performance gains" on my system, but it sounds rocking for 64bit! I have an original Barton XP 2800+ (hardlocked multi) OC'd to 180mhz(2.25ghz), and Win2k really flies. When I heard you mention having IE installed and stuff, I started not taking you seriously for gaming, but reading all 15 pages ( ) has put that to rest. I can't really picture XP being good for gaming....ever really. Perhaps XPE is different? In personal tests with multiple RTS games (WC3: TFT, WBC3, Kohan II: KOW), I've found that WinXP even nLited has severe performance problems. My Win2k has been HFSLIP+nLited, and I too broke some stuff like DirectX in the process. I can't actually install or update anything DirectX related, so I just have to move required DLL files to game folders until they run. Anyway...With Warcraft III and KKOW being the biggest, I found between 20 and 40% performance gains between Win2k and XP. For Wc3 TFT I often enjoy 40% higher framerates, and my map loading times have bested several X2 4400+ w/XP systems, so it may be engine issues. Warcraft III is heavily CPU-based though, which makes be wonder just how efficient the multi-tasking XP kernel can me. KKOW has a small community, but I found I load maps the fastest, despite having lower framerates than other people. Despite my choppy 10-15fps, I apparently bested some P4 3.6ghz computers and an Athlon 64 3200+ in load times. KKOW came out later though, which suggests it's more 64bit ready/optimized. Oddly though(and I have no idea why), when I installed my lexmark printer driver on Win2k the huge fps boost vanished, and programs like Firefox/Trillian began starting slower. I've since re-done everything and removed printer support entirely. So anyway...now that I've strayed away from my original point of posting - I read you may know about OS/kernel tweaks. Don't suppose you know any nice and real ones for gold ol' 32bit Win2k? Hex editting is my friend, though internal DLL knowledge is not. Thanks, and I look forward to the public beta...you say 32bit processors will be supported? Edit: Ah ha, just remembered my second reason for posting! You may want to look into GeoShell as a possible shell. It would require some tweaking, but GeoShell is heavily designed for low memory usage. Adding a taskbar or some other GUI component can only add between a few kb or a few hundred kb in memory. Jaykul(creator) is quite busy with life right now, but he expressed some concern over where GeoShell is going, since Vista will change the landscape a lot and support many of GeoShell's features natively. You might want to talk with him to see about building a lite 2mb shell with a run box(ok, maybe a bit more memory usage, but no CPU interference, and gamers would at least be able to run it). Fake "hover" start menus are also possible, though it'd be a bit time consuming to design one.
  23. Kramy

    New logo to use

    That's probably because I resized the original one, noticed that the faded top of the logo vanished, so then used the smaller one and promptly forgot to make it 256-colour. Edit: I use Paint Shop Pro 5 usually. It starts instantly - under 0.5s. I also have PSP7/8, but they start slower and I don't use most of their features. The only thing I dislike about PSP5, is it doesn't support some of the newer image formats. A cool thing though is you can run it off a USB memory stick.
  24. Kramy

    New logo to use

    I know that, I was just joking. When in doubt though, I always use Print-Screen. I have trouble distinguishing different shades of red, though I can actually notice the difference between 0,0,255 and 0,0,254, and it's even a bit easier with green.
  25. Kramy

    New logo to use

    Agghh! I think you all want me to go disgruntled! Can't you see that big ugly blue square!? What is this - all photoshop users are colour blind? And for the record, what's wrong with Paint Shop Pro? FDV: If I had a picture of Exroydal, I would have put him in. Tomcat76: Didn't know that. I prefer the extra space though, so...
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