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Well, this is NOT about convincing me witch SP is good for me, is it? There are reasons and that it is. However the main question is, how to add the USB 2 support. I think I spot something: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319973/EN-US/ Yes, it looks like THIS is what I definitively need the most, however to my deepest flustration, I was not able after 30 min get the FILE to download. All I know is that I need the 107kby update file containing these: However the real problem is getting the cursed file. I'm absolutely clueless, there are no links, the download center give me nothing and in english it don't want cooperate with me (still pushing me on czech, czech and again on czech pages, where NOTHING like "NEC usb software update" could be found

Guys, is there a way how to extract the USB 2 only install from the SP4? I need USB 2 speed and deviced detection and I did not want SP4 at all, so I trying to find a way, how to integrate USB 2 into SP2. Is there anyone who did it? Anyone got any recommendations? It probably could be taken easy from some of the roll-up padkages, but witch one and where and how... that is the question Anyone can help, please?

I use a local network based on one router and two 8 port switches, total 10 computers connected. Recently after some useless experiments with WinXP on my main machine I get back to Win2k SP and each time I access first another network machine drive it ask me for a password! And after reboot again - could anyone tell me, witch services/settings could affect that, please? I run a HIGHLY optimized these XP machines services, but it worked using XP, so the fault is probably on my side - so, what service is need to store these passwords?

BTW, it is very interesting, but the problem is in XP 1.0a, while it is absent using the very same IE6 into Win 2k (SP2 in this case) (translation - W2k again gaining points in my eyes )

I does using both (7 my computers using XP, one Win2k server and one main PC is W2k SP2 (heavily modified) now running), therefore I did not bashing* but presenting my points of view. Feel free to show me some solutions instead of bashing my post *bashing is defined as nonargument smearing something down. If you use arguments why you did not like someting, it is not a bashing but instead criticism. Sometimes in my case even contructive, as I find a way how to fix few problems for me

I have this little question and problem and I don't understand it. I choose to play all videofiles using the BSplayer, and not "into the MS IE". Therefore, when the first time I click on a wmv, rm, qt or mpeg file it ask me if open or save, and add there a option (ask again next time). Deselecting it and choosing the open in all cases make this dialog go away forever EXCEPT for the *.mpeg case!!! So, the question is - how to get rid of THIS particular problem (questioning window) surfacing there over and over again, unlike for other video files... Anyone know? (it does go away for one particular IE window, when choosen to remember that, but as soon, as I close it, it "lost" this choice again and next time it again ask - unlike the wmv, rm or qt files - played in BSplayer using the RealAlternative and QT Alternative codecs)

Please test first what you suggesting. I'm not a novice, but I talked abut how the the "Pictures" default windows directory open WHEN saving files from IE by default and it does NOT support this change at all. It did not reflect ANY change into the directory/folder settings...

Kelsenellenelvian - nice, thanks, but... but the directory still open with the default thumbnails view witch I try avoid. Now these thumbnails are just generated each time, so... not a solution. How to force the directory open with "list" and not with "thumbnails" view??? Other than that it the point must stay. os2fan2 - :lok: :-P Good point. I never tried OS/2, so probably I missing another nasty surprises there, hehe :-) nakira - not very close AND you need 1600 pixels wide screen for what I can easily beat on just 1024 with W2k albator - thanks, and any solutions for point 13 do exist? And I would disagree with you that nLite (or any XP mod known to me) could take care of the points 6 and 11. So, please, show me a way to do it...

And I got new reason why don't use XP: 17) on WinXP is not possible setup a D: root directory as the pictures directory (that what IE open as default save directory), but it must be any other directory that the root one, like D:/stuff. On Win2k is easily possible using TweakUI to set this dir as root one, not to mention I can't yet get rid of the pictures directory (and it's subdirectories) showing on XP with large thumbnails from the pics made Now since I even disabled most services, I still can't get rid of these thumbnails. Anyone can help?

I find yout, that as one can change the My Documents folder with TweakUI and most applications does respect it. Not M$ Exploder 6. My Documents dir are now at D:\Documents, however the first dir my IE open to save the file is C:\Documents and settings\Administrator\Documents\My Pictures (excuse possible errors in translation, I use Czech windows and the path names I translated backward to English with large margin for error) However there is a way how to change the "My Pictures" dir in TweakUI, so I changed it to the D:\ and logged off to test this - and - voila - it works! I found it! Hoooray! Thanks, Neil Jones of the GeeksToGo for pointing me out to the right direction!

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Guys, you can mod everything - well, almost Is there are any way to tell IE to open other default directory for each new opened window that is Administrator/Documents/Pictures ...??? It starting to bother me. At least for upload it remember correctly the last directory (D:) but never for save and I and I bet everyone else save more that upload... So, is there a way? I'm not scared to modify operation system files

boooggy - yes, I did. Makes XP nostably smaller, tought the higher memory requirments prevail as well, as all these things I pointed out there. Yet you managed to hit the point no. 9 - yes, using nLite can strip winXP install size to reasonable about 800MB big one (still over 200MB+ over the W2k) with everything installed and ready for backup that mostly fit on CD flawlessly. jondercik - you tell me much about yourself by the first line of reply. Anyway, to the discussion. Point no. 2. Volume licence is that much expensive, that is out of option for me. I rather buy a 7800GS card that support M$, who create only a trouble for us and pushed computers at least 20 years back. Hint - AmigaOS. To point no. 3 - won't work for me on Zip 100 device, tough. Upon more experiments it looks like that very aggressive disabling of many services (epecially the disk related ones) seems to cure the problem, but still in testing. Looking hard enought, as you suggested, won't do anything - the requester is simple enought. Point no. 4 - error reports sending. I buy functional products and I expect the maker pay well their betatesters to find most of at least critical issues. I won't sign up for unpayed betatesting + there is a huge security risk involved too. My personall stuff is my personall stuff. Period. Point no. 5 is not about whatever I made mistake or not. Point no. 5 was about taking the control of the machine out of the user hands and place it into the OS hands. I can't accept that. I wans OS that bend by my will. Or I crush him Even I want delete file like shell32.dll, I simply want to do it. Period. Plus, there is not a option to prevent such things - maybe a register hack? Anyone? You won't say anything usefull at all at point no. 7 - what I do and how I work is my problem, nothing that can concern you. What should concern you is, that XP greatly increased the resolution-demand by greatly increasing the minimal taskbar button size limit. Either come up with solution, or accept that W2k is better. Point no. 9 - NTFS is better (read, faster) ONLY on bigger partions. Say over 6 or 8G. Windows always work faster with FAT32 system partion, because OS partion is small. Why small? To back it up easily. With Win2k the back file from 2G OS partion took only about 350MB. I can't say that for XP, but that is not the point. You seems also have nothing to say for point no. 10, except useless insulting of person, you not know, and witch have compared to you superior knowledge and simply wanted to avoid the hassle and registration of terminal services pain for the W2k server by using XP... About point no. 14 - I ran out of space many times and never had slight problem with it. As long, as you use fixed size swap file (with is also faster!), you can run winblows flawlessly on less that 10k free C: drive space Not that I would be comfortable about it, but you can. And again, this is about whatever you or your OS is controling the machine you own. For me, this is unacceptable. Especially it start at 200MB free space, witch is plenty! Another thing is, that checking for the remaining free space must take some resources. Not much, but it must. I don't want to waste Mhz on thing that only bother me... Luckily, MSFN bring me a register tweak to disable it, thanks! xpmaniac4ever - Linux has too many files, and are too big overbloated chaos to I can even consider it as alternative - not to mention programs. Sure, one can install another pile of bloatware to run some win apps, but only some and you end up of your system partion need to be 8G and containing millions of files, what you don't know what the hell they are there for. Should I mention that the more files you have on your HDD, then slower the HDD access goes and therefore the slower machine you have? moo - yep, some took it personally. Can't do anything about it, tough. I hope they rather tell me some fixes for these annoyances, so after while I could mod the XP to be like W2k, but some of them rather bashing or questioning my requirments for OS. Too bad. But hey, thanks for supportive voice! cyprod - hehe, you maybe should resist, because I mercilessly smash your arguments by my knowledge and experience. The fact, that XP like to destroy themselves come from their design. In order to make the system boot faster, M$ cache the OS state. So, very simplified - while W2k in boot only READ, XP does also WRITE, and since we are on unstable machine now - W2k hang, crash or reset only. XP write bad stuff on the HDD with various results. From damaged XP to damaged filesystem to unrecoverabely damaged HDD. Yes, even this I saw with my own eyes when my bro O/C older Jetway V266B board and the board killed the Seagate 40G drive... So, point stays because of the XP design. W/O the caching, they will boot as slow, as W2k. And this will not be accepted by the majority of W95/W98 users, so M$ did it. Unless someone come with how to disable it - XP is not for a overclockers then. About point two - I lack the "right friends", lack the extra cash too, and my hardware is mostly in costant motion. I have ATM 7 computers running, one waiting and 3 repairing. Swapping HW all around is normal thing for me. Now there is another proelm too. I don't like OS guarding me this way. It is way better to use illegal cracked versions w/o this crap, for performance benefit as well, as for peace of mind. It is enought bad when and win require entire reinstall of sound card, for example, when one swap it into other PCI slot... About point 3 - witch one? I would love it! Give me the tweak, please. About point 4 - you well answered yourself there: I could only say that one can disable the service to get rid of the potential security risks involved, but there is something else as well. M$ influence. Recently I moved to SB5100 Motorola cablemodem. It won't get online, no matter what I and ISP technicians did. I ended up walking with it to my ISP myself and 20min later the problem was fixed. My ISP in DOCSIS configs disabling some ports. Entierly well withing DOCSIS specs. Now Motorola SB5100 don't come up online EVER if the ports 137 and 139 are firewaled in the config...! This completely braking the DOCSIS specs! I have no words to exress my flustration of how even big company like Motorola afford in the latest and last SB5100 firmware break so openly the DOCSIS specifications (yet still dare to sell the modem as DOCSIS ones!) just to allow the M$ "phone home"...! It's good to note that IIRC they say Asus modems do the same, but Scientific Atlanta WebSTAR ones don't, Elsa don't and so the list can go on. Previous SB4100 and SB4200 Motorola modems also did not do this... About point no. 5 - where is the registry tweak you spoke about? Link, pls? Uh, oh, too much smileys and too much text. I continue later, guys.

HyperHacker - so you favor the HW solution too? Oh, my dear... And there is even better solution. Have you ever heard about CE filters (mostly LC made, PNY add a nice 4 point (hell hard to desolder) coils) that is used on all VGA cards to make them pass the emission CE norm, witch is pure BS, since electromanetic emissions of CRT monitor are about 100x higher that to what the card must fit, but whatever. The point is, that I desoldering these from my GFX cards to get sharp picture for years, and even on the pin 15, there is a LC filter. So, desoldering just the L mean cuting the signal I did not have any screensaver enabled, so I quess that either my monitor, or my gfx card or my monitor, my gfx card and my board won't work together on the DPMS issue... LLXX - well, I'm not concerned (and I never was) about the output, but more like about the winblows monitor. Even you claim you never install monitor, windows does install "default monitor" and every changes (refreshrates mainly) are stored there. So, there is always a driver for monitor. The question what I solved today is, if winblows accept no P&P monitor and the aswer is - YES! Since even Scala does recommed hardware modification too (among other users): http://www.scala.com/miscellaneous-faq/ddc...or-disable.html ...so I made it. I tested it first on my computer that my sis is using by simply desoldering the L filter on the GFX card, witch lead to the pin 15 on VGA. Worked flawlessly, tought the first time one pull on machine with modded monitor cable/gfx card like this, a new monitor driver install is need But this is also a very good thing, becuase it answer me my worries, if I could ever install the monitor after killing the Plug&Pray for good! So, the answer is YES! Yes, I can. Great. So I made the same mod on my main machine, this time by removing the pin 15 into the VGA connector from my monitor (I don't want take down my watercooling block from my GFX card, so...) and it also need one monitor reinstall and then work flawlessly! Hooray for hardware disabling of the super-annoying Plug&Pray thing!

Elektrik - but this won't stop monitor detection at all HyperHacker - well, you got point. It cross my mind too - I'm positive that breaking the wires 11, 12 and 15 (11 is monitor ID Bit 0, 12 is monitor ID Bit 1 and 15 is monitor ID Bit 3 according to one schema, and acording to another is at pin 12 DDC data wire and at pin 15 is DDC clock) stop winblows detecting the monitor. That would be okay AFTER I install the monitor driver, but I'm still not sure about: 1) what happend when the monitor is not detecting? Will win continue to use the original settings for my installed (and now not detected) monitor? I think likely yes, but far from sure... 2) what happend on fresh win install? If win can't detect something, how they will react? Do they still allow me to install the monitor ini file? I slightly doubt it... So, making the Vesa DPMS power saving work is maybe better solution, after all. But - how? The util nircmd.exe you pointed me can handle only commands like: nircmd.exe monitor off or nircmd.exe monitor low Nowhere near I find anything that could relate to change the DPMS level winblows use to "turn off" my monitor, as it instead enter only the stand-by state, witch is a problem... Using he nircmd caused (in both cases, off and low) the monitor enter only the stand-by ... Futhermore it (w/o mouse movement or keyboard press) quickly restore its on status...! So, all nircmd did is a black screen flick there. Odd, eh?

Hmmm, I would too love to hear rather some arguments and constructive discussion. I probably (it is very likely) won't change my optinion, but maybe some of these annoyances could be cured? Maybe even the XP crap coudl use as small task button gadgets as W2k does? Maybe... You know But as long, as there is not possible the public debate, there is not possible anything.

Most peoples tell you that XP is great and stuff... Now my turn. I use computer to WORK. WORK, not stare at "nice" graphical OS. I hate XP to death I never saw worse OS - right after installed with SP 1.0a - to hell with this childish garden! Peoples talking about how XP is faster - bullsh*t, Win2k is faster in everything, except boot time - but since I boot once per day... Peoples talking about how XP is more "stable" - another nonsense - my folding machines use XP (sadly, for the easy install + network desktop access), server use Win2k server (pain to install, but ROCK stable since then - 102 days on-line for application server where almost all the time someone logging and running stuff - I say impressive - and it did not crash, just we tried Bluetooth and need reboot then...) and my main machine use W2k SP2 (SP3 is ok, but slower and SP4 did bring some nasty XP bugs in packets + 3DMark1999 patched no longer work with SP4, together with other programs - just like on the XP sh*t) ... Now true reasons, what anyone who did not agree on my "XP is sh*t" opinion has to defeat first, before talking any further: 1) on machine overclocked beyond stable limits, XP destroy itself during booting, many times beyond what is repairable... Win2k NEVER do this! 2) normal user with normal XP need activation after every hardware change, with I find repulsive enough for 1) never ever pay for XP 2) use stolen version for companies... 3) impossibility to disable some "great" features, like the annoying window each time I insert Zip/CD card - No, selection DO NOT DO ANY ACTION and remember this selection for future does NOT help me to get rid of this sh*t! 4) controlling me too much - XP send way too much data to M$ - I can set fire wall rules, but who did not have good hardware firewall and knowledge witch outgoing ports one can block - then he/she is naked to the M$ - I find this very alerting and controlling - no way this for me! 5) speaking about control, when one save web page to HDD and then try delete/rename the data folder XP created, there come the annoying WinXP message informing me, that I'm about... To hell with these messages - I know what I doing. If not, I'm ready to face the consequences. Not need childish sh*t to tell me what to do! 6) space on screen is the most valuable space ever. XP, even in classic mode, eat more of this precious space... I truly did NOT want give my space to XP "beauty" - I want WORK with OS, that it is!!! 7) XP can't minimize taskbar button enough. I using mostly over 50+ programs. Collapsing the same ones means much slower access/more chaos on screen only. But hell, XP can't let me do this: http://doublescan.wz.cz/taskbar.gif ...and that is my typical working situation... Show me, if you can do THIS on XP :-D 8) frankly, after win install, the most disturbing thing is the number of need re-configurations what has to be done to one feel at home. And in WinXP is the number of necessary re-configurations need to the OS look like OS and not like toy for 10-year old child - some has to be made so the XP crap even become configurable after all - way much higher that for Win2k, witch are user-ready "out of the box", unlike XP... 9) Win2k did NOT force me to use NTFS for OS disk. Because NTFS is effective only on big drives and not on my 2G system partition, I use FAT32 there - more recent SP packs (when installing from CD, with already updated XP) allow you format only with NTFS, witch is ineffective thing on small partitions - speaking about size, my Win2k need only 450MB, 490MB with all programs and stuff installed - therefore backup of the partition is under 300MB mostly, so it is easy to transfer on CD - for easy restore (DriveImage2002, high compression) - some XP images did not even fit on the CD!!! 10) I hate XP also because most "geniuses" think so simply - XP = more new that W2k = must be better! Mostly, in software, is the exact opposite. Old OS have most of their kinks already cured, while XP is more on the start of the journey to become long-time reliable OS (current negative experiences with SP2 for XP are good example...) My friend tried use XP as server OS. After it for NO REASON failed after about month for third time, totally destroying itself, he finally accept Win2k server - witch is, like I say, pain to install and configure properly, but then... 11) access over 100MBi/full network NIC from W2k machine to WinXP machine into windows/system32 directory took almost minute on fast systems. The very same thing is instant, like normal directory listing when the network machine run win2k or win2k server. This seems to be fixable by disabling windows file protection (WEP)http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/790 But only for accessing the "magical" system32 folder from XP machine. When accessing it from W2k machine, the hang is still there. At least half the time faster, but about 30sec is still hell of the difference from instant listing. The WEP disabling fix for this works entirely fine for XP SP2, tough. But using SP2 is for masochists only... so... 12) WinXP simply ignore the settings about maximal possible resolution in the monitor driver - so they display all possible resolutions, driving chaos to the resolution selection (too sensitive, too much resolutions) and also possible danger of selecting too high resolution, that might damage your monitor...! (at least in WinXP is the question after resolution change displayed only once per resolution, in W2k is always... a little trick how to fix this could be handy too :-) ) This actually seems that is more nVidia drivers bug. It could be cured with latest Cool Bits: http://ax2.old-cans.com/coolbits.zip 13) default icon for attached CF card reader can't be (like in W2k) simply turned off. It is possible, however, to disable inactive system tray icons, witch hide it, but since the button to un hide the hidden tray icons took almost as much space as the single icon, it make the "hide" pointless in terms of wasting my valuable space on my monitor. Curse the d*mn XP! 14) WinXP low disk space checking and warnings. WinXP continually checking if free space on your hard drive system partition aren't bellow 200MB. Then it start complain and run the Clean Disk utility. A absolutely expendable watching process and also very very annoying one. Luckily, with a little register tweak it can be disabled: http://ax2.old-cans.com/NoLowDiskSpaceChecks.zip :he: 15) only WinXP does hang for about few seconds, when the attempted to be deleted file is in OS use. This is very frustrating, especially and since the W2k react instantly on this, did not locking itself into endless waiting loop 16) on WinXP is impossible to make the Terminal window remember it's position. That is weird, since I have no problem with this on my W2k - using 800x600 terminal windows in right bellow part of the screen. Tough this is not major problem, it bothering me pretty much on XP... So untill someone properly challenge me on these sixteen major milestones why use Win2k instead of bloated XP crap, I did not want to hear any more "great XP" messages, grrr! trodas love this: http://doublescan.wz.cz/trodas_w2k.gif

Np. Nope. Of course not. This way it works well, and that is what I do now, but the added power cycle is not healty for the monitor and it is also boring and time consuming wait, so, I looking for ways to fix that. Breaking the monitor ID 1 - 3 signal lines on GFX card sounds more and more appealing to me, tough...

I using CRT Eizo F520 monitor on GeForce 6800 GS. Usually Zeropoint drivers, but to get to the question - is there any way to stop windows from detecting if my monitor is on or off? Apart from disabling Plug & play service - this does the trick, but also cause disfunctionality of my X-Fi sound card (and Creative soundcards/drivers in general as it did the same with other Creative cards...). Why? Because I used to start my machine at morning, so it fold for me, and when I come back home, I just start the monitor and continue working and folding or gaming The problem is, that when the monitor is off when windows is booting, then after one enable it back again, windows detect it as "new" monitor and this cause all sort of troubles. From ignored settings (for the old monitor, they are logically ignored now...) to having many identical monitors... etc. I'm all open to either software (drivers mod?) or hardware (cut some detection wires?) solution as well. In the VGA connector, there are the there wires for "monitor bits" and I think killing them (or disconnecting, if you prefer ) might do the trick, but I better ask if is there any way to kill this detection in software. Eg. in drivers. This might even give a performance improve. Tough very little Any ideas, guys? A DPMS off could be a elegant solution 5min should be enought - remember, the monitor is covered and 10min is too much for nonventilating monitor - we better should not overheat him. The problem with DPMS is simple, yet deadly. According to the manual, the monitor know four modes. ON - normal display - green led - 80W. STAND-BY - blank display - green led - 64W (80% or normal) SUSPEND - blank display - flashing green led - less that 10W OFF - blank display - yellow led - less that 3W Obviously I need either SUSPEND of OFF mode, since the STAND-BY mode still comsume 80% of power, witch should easily overheat and eventually burn the covered monitor... BUT - and there it come - when I set in widnows control pannel to off the monitor in say 2minutes (testing), it goes only the the STAND-BY mode, and as we know already, standby mode in NOT ENOUGHT. Even after more that 2min it did not enter the SUSPEND mode, so... And I need suspend at least. So, either how to stop the detection, of how to make the monitor goes by DPMS into suspend or off after 5min? I would still prefer more the no-detection thing, because some things is IMHO better to do by hand... Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title. Please follow XP Forum Rules from now on. --Sonic

fdv - I wished for longer time thank you for this one, mate, but finally I managed it! Thanks! Using this last hack now - for safety even with the registers thing, and everything seems to working well Thx! jdoe - thx, nice links As for the disabling WFP by repalcing the files, I use simplier trick that does work for me - rename the sfc_files.dll to sfc_filesX.dll and then copy new hacked sfc_files.dll into place and reboot. Then delete the sfc_filesX.dll and by bÿ, winblows file protection!

It possible to setup batch file/or the shortcut somehow that the ughly and bothering black window aren't shown anymore? All I can do is the shortcut minimize thing. Not bad, but still far from hidden. Any hints, guys? ...ah, yep, the batch file is starting Diskeeper: It simply start Diskeeper service (when the stupid proggy did not start it for yourself and I don't want this service to run automaticelly upon every boot), then run Diskeeper and then stop Diskeeper service Anyone can help hide this window completely?

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Each time my Windows 2000 server SP get restarted, it "forget" the login to my main machine, a Windows 2000 SP 2 one. Maybe it just did not remember empty passwords logins, like administrator and no pass? Since for 4 other machines, all with Win XP and trodas:xxx logins it work just perfectly. Is there are any tweak to fix this? Like allowing in XP advanced security settings the empty password usage...? Anyone???

On my download server I use a fanless VIA C3 machine (not so fast) and Win2k server SP3. To the machine is acessed only by terminal connection. First, there was a multiple user accounts, yet now we shrinked it to only one. The problem is, that this is a server and it allow principially unlimited number of desktops for the very same user logged many times Yet this is NOT desirable, since after startup (and any next user logged on is like new startup) of the user, some software is executed and when it happens, it certainly DON't like it. Therefore, to prevent multiple login on server, designed to accept multiple logins of the very same user - is there any way to disable the possibility?? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

For me, a Windows 2000 SP2 is best