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Yes, in theory. Currently, in practice, no. We need mature 64-bit drivers and native 64-bit applications to take advantage of the increased address space. Initially these will probably be apps like Photoshop, Lightwave, 3DS Max, Premiere, SQL server, Apache and database apps. Basically programs that have a need to access huge data sets and/or address more than 2GB of RAM at a time. Despite what AMD/Intel/Microsoft want you to think, your broadband connection won't be any faster, you won't get email any more quickly, and 64-bit Word will behave exactly like it did in the 32-bit environment. Multithreading will provide a much larger performance boost than 64-bit on the right hardware (Pentium with HT or Pentium/Athlon Dual-core). But multithreading some applications is very difficult which is why we have ZERO multithreaded games.

I just received an Asus V6800V laptop yesterday. ^Ignore the "Take a tour" button.^ It is a very nice looking machine. Knife-edged metals with a brushed look give it a very refined feeling. It is incredibly light too. It looks many, many times heavier than it actually is probably due to all the metals used. Here's my beef with this thing. It has bluetooth, 802.11a/b/g, infared, a card reader, and more. Asus felt it would be best to defeat literally all bult-in Windows utilities to control these devices. The machine comes with Service Pack 2 and the Bluetooth stack and service that would both normally be there by default are not available. The services aren't merely disabled, they're not even available to the system. Asus uses some kind of Toshiba driver to enable bluetooth. I don't quite understand it completely but without some specific software installed, the bluetooth device isn't even viewable in Device Manager. On top of that you have to use a total of 3 pieces of software to enable/disable bluetooth. Each starts one or more services and has a tray icon. The GUI for each one is awful. They all look like legacy 16-bit apps. None of them look anything like Windows Xp. And none of them appear to be capable of "talking" to one another. Now that's just for bluetooth. Asus gives me tray applications (note the pluralization) to turn wireless on/off despite the fact that I have two hardware buttons that I can use to do the exact same thing. There are Asus services for WLAN as well as the Intel Proset utility which launches three processes of its own and requires 3 or 4 services to be running all the time. Why can't they just use the Wireless Zero Config with one service and one tray icon? Well, I know I can use it but why does Asus force this crap on me?! I also managed to disable the hardware buttons. There is a row of buttons beneath the monitor as well as a few on the F1 through F8 keys. As I gleefully deleted startup items I also disabled some service that allows these keys to work. I don't know what it is but with all this frustration, I really don't care. So now I have the task of trying to remove all the drivers from each component's installation package and adding it to my XPCD for unattended installation. I've done this before with other machines and it can be a painful, time consuming process because you really can't test hardware installation in a Virtual Machine. My goal is to make this machine use the built-in Windows services without all the constantly running tray icons, background apps, and services. Otherwise the machine is great. It uses the new Sonoma chipset, 512 DDR2 400 (which will end up being 1GB+ DDR2-533 for synchronous bus operation) and has a 1.87 Ghz Pentium M CPU. I can play DX9 games as well using the Ati X600 graphics card which is a tad bit slower than the Ati Radeon 9700 Pro on my home desktop. I've always carried the philosophy that the best thing you can do with a new computer from a large OEM is format and reinstall.

OMFG, RTFM n00b! You'll never get help with that attitude, buddy.

There was an article somewhere on the net that explained how to get Doom3 onto a DVD. The problem occurs when you run the MSI file. The Doom 3 MSI checks for a specific volume name (name of CD or DVD). So you have to use a program called Orca to alter the MSI data to use whatever name you specify for your DVD. Read this: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/117079

You'll need a wireless access point or wireless router attached to the cable modem. Every machine then needs its own wireless adapter. You could try using a wireless card in your server and use an ad-hoc connection (if your card allows it) in concert with ICS to allow access but this is flaky at times. The router is the way to go really.

Well if another account works why don't you move all your stuff over to said account and delete your original? Et, viola!

I voted 10 simply because of the Mp3 encoding. The UI in 9 is far better though. I still scratch my head with 10, "What were they thinking?".

You also need a motherboard with a capable BIOS as well as a fully 64-bit OS. 4+ GB of physical RAM helps too. Don't expect to find Windows Xp X64 on retail shelves any time soon (OEM only so far).

Nope, optimal size is calculated automatically based on the size of the disk. Also, think about what you're doing here - streaming music from a local hard drive at relatively low bit rates. Even if you were to benchmark the thing to death to get a few more MB/s, does it matter?

What do you mean by missing files? Does some software fail to function properly after a fresh installation? BTW, you can't install XP on 3 machines legally, unless you have a VLK.

Your installation is borked. Reinstall Windows.

I've used about half of the programs that the previous poster listed. Yes, you do gain an advantage in using MCE 2005. Simply put, MCE 2005 is the most polished, most intuitive PVR you can get today, period (well, IMO).

I'd avoid doing upgrade installations if you can. I don't know if there's a specific Upgrade install log but I do know you should end up with these: comsetup.log ocgen.log setupact.log setupapi.log setuperr.log Any problems will show up in setuperr.log.

Legal is 8.5 x 14" One of the most amazing printers I've seen are the Xerox Phaser printers that use wax instead of toner. They're more expensive up front but you pay far less for consumables. There are 4 wax colors and one other consumable. Traditional lasers have an imaging drum, fuser, transfer belt, and the four CMYK colors. The smooth color reproduction of the wax based printers is far better than a traditional laser of comparable price.

Are you saying you CAN or CAN'T find the tool? Mine is in C:\OPKTools\Lang\ENG\winpe\

You should probably give up as anyone who gives instructions on changing PIDs is probably going to get banned.

This "trick" has been known for some time and is highly unreliable. Most hard drives have extra hidden sectors so the drive can meet its advertised capacity if bad sectors are found.

I don't understand this. I have two RAID controllers in my computer (Intel and Silicon Image) and I have never had problems installing build 4074 to either one.

Thanks, but I think we all knew that already. There is no way in hell anyone would recommend a pre-Alpha OS as a primary operating system. Definitely stick with XP as primary and dump Me for Longhorn. Heh, LH is about as stable as Me. Removing components from LH is difficult because everything is packed into a WIM file.

Unless you have the source code, no. There are articles on the web that claim to "repair" the explorer memory leak but they really just force explorer to use the swap file more than physical RAM.

Frankly, having that many partitions is useless and unncessary and will slow down disk access. Any reason why you're contemplating creating 26 partitions? As another user stated, the default paths are all contained in the registry. You'll also need Partition Magic or other comparable software to add these partitions unless you feel like re-formatting the whole thing.

MCE does have a "My Videos" section, right? I don't know exactly what file formats it expects to see (besides the obvious) but you might be able to copy the VOB files from your DVDs and place them in the "My Videos" watched folders. Your DVDs would then be treated just like any other video file.

The solution is to boot into safemode and copy everything to a USB flash drive or burn to a CD using a 3rd party app. After that, format and reinstall or activate. Your choice.

I got MCE 2005 running on an ATI 9700 PRO AIW and everything works properly - so yes Virginia, it can be done. All those codecs may be the problem. If you're recording live TV all you need is a DVD decoder.

The latest version of Remote Desktop will listen on a different port. Changing RDC listen port Connecting to a specific RDC port Both are fairly simple if you don't mind editing the registry on each machine. For this to work you would need to configure each machine with its own unique listen port and then connect using that port number accordingly. I'd recommend setting each machine's listen port to something similar to its internal IP address. For example, if the first ip address is 192.168.1.101 make the listen port for that machine 3101; 192.168.1.102 would then be on port 3102. Got it? P.s. Oh yeah, open the port range on your router too and make sure no other software needs the ports you use. Edit again: this won't work very well if your router is handling addressing via DHCP. Then it would be possible for the same machine to have multiple IPs. You should turn off DHCP or move all the Remote Desktop Client machines into the IP zone not used by DHCP, a la: 192.168.1.51 or whatever.