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Anybody know any good hi-res shell32.dll replacements (sp2) apart from GANT? I tried looking at deviantART and I found the GANT one but the search function is disabled so its pretty hard to find any. Thanks

Cool, thanks, that worked. Thanks a lot

Hello, I got IconPackager as it seems an easy way to change a whole set of icons quickly, but I have one problem with it: I downloaded loads of different sets of icons from deviantart and they all seem to have like a little bit of white around the edges (or black on the start menu). They look really amateurish and dont intergrate with the rest of Windows very well. I dont think it is that the Icon packs have been poorley designed because I sorted them at deviantart so that I was downloading peoples favourites. Does anyone else get this, is there a setting I need to change or something? Thanks

FLAC is good for archiving music collections but the files are probably too big and incompatible to play on a portable audio player. If you have a large hard drive have a look into using a lossless encoder like FLAC as they are much smaller than uncompressed audio but none of the quality is lost like it is with mp3.

Hmm, well I just checked and there were two entries created, one under HKEY_USERS and another under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, but if you just import the HKEY_CURRENT_USER entry (which is not unique) it still disables the WGA LegitCheck.dll activex add-on. So it shouldn't be a problem.

Disable Activex in IE, when you are asked to validate, it says you will have to validate using an alternative method. Click validate now, and download this file 'legitcheck.hta' Save it, you wont be able to get it again easily once you validate the first time Run it, you wont pass the validation check Tools > Manage Add-ons.. > Add-ons that have been used by Internet Explorer > Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool > Disabled produces this key in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{17492023-C23A-453E-A040-C7C580BBF700} By the way, I dont think this key is unique because I got the same one on two different installations of XP Pro I'm pretty new to this unattended stuff, but I think it would be done this way: 1. Disable WGA Validation Tool using the steps at the top 2. Open Run > regedit 3. Find the corresponding key 4. Export the key to wga.reg (or anything) 5. Create a .cmd file (http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate/methods/batch_commands.htm) including the lines: start legitcheck.hta and a second one: REGEDIT /S wga.reg 6. Follow the same link in the step above to see how to put these on your XP Disc to be copied onto your drive at installation. This is going to be pretty messy though, as SP2 prompts you if you want to allow legitcheck.hta to be executed. This will also leave a web page open saying validation failed. I am not clever enough and it is too late for me to figue out how to prevent these two things from happening. I will have a looksee tomorrow, see if I can get it sorted. Hope I have been of some help, Sorry if I completely misunderstood what you are getting at And by the way, Hi, I'm new Thomas Also, I hope I am not going against forum rules as this could be considered a crack or whatever, but it seems like a legitimate way to bypass WGA