LeveL

Make a dual multi boot CD, one unattended with drivers, one not unattended without drivers, so it has the option to repair... visit http://flyakite.msfn.org/ to do that.

The title sums it up. This is not a spyware/adware/malware thing, it is Windows XP itself, it even did this in Millennium. My question is, what is the reason for explorer.exe trying to connect to the internet? Why does it do this when you open a search window to search for local files on your local drives? I know it has "Search the internet" listed under search but come on, hasn't Microsoft ever heard of a thing called "Google"??? They get hacked off enough when their employees leave Microsoft and join Google (Ballmer throwing a chair at an employee, lol) so then yes, Microsoft obviously know theres no need for a "Search the internet" feature, my worry is, when "explorer.exe" is connecting, it could be sending anything across the internet to god knows who!

It might be old news, but that only applies to YOU if you have heard this story, what about all the people who don't even know about this? No one else has posted this story on MSFN and its really important. People who don't know about this need to know it. You can't believe I posted it? Yawn? Its "old" news? Or you can't believe MS used cracked software in the development of Windows XP? Get a 2001 SP0 version of Windows XP, install it in Virtual PC, then navigate to the folder mentioned and open any of the nine wav files... this proves the claim. There is no "believe" or "can't believe" about it. Its proven to be real!

Its not. It takes 30 seconds to slipstream Bashrat's MassStorage pack. It didn't work though. No, its 3.65Mb.

I think 50% of getting owned in BF2 is down to the speed of your connection and also, but not as much, the speed of your PC too.

Funny yes but it has a hint of truth to it because the US Government (CIA) ships in the narcotics (see Michael Rupperts videos on Google Video) and then arrests people for having those narcotics and puts them in the very prisons the Government also runs, thus getting incredibly cheap labour from them and displacing local jobs at the same time. Thats not a game though, thats real life.

Aah, Jonathan Wendel... prey you never meet him in BF2! All I can tell you about those things is my opinion - its probably just a marketing gimmick. But with that said, you ARE going to be better off with some sort of "gamers" keyboard and mouse, I just can't say whether the Fatal1ty ones are any better or worse than any of the others. In BF2 just do what all the other do, jump up and down, lie down quick, hide out near the flag (like on the Kubra Dam, down that ladder, or like on Gulf of Oman hide in the watchtower).

I was before I even clicked this topic. Debby does nLite... no, I think nLite is doing you. If you want to give the ISO SATA support without a floppy disk, integrate the Bashrat The Sneaky driverpack "MassStorage" AFTER you have done whatever you are doing with nLite. Its really easy slipstreaming Bashrats drivers... don't be shy, I know you're not, lol... Download this: BASE Download this: SATA Driverpack Extract the BASE. Don't extract the drivers, just put the 7z file, as it is, inside the "driverpacks" folder that the BASE spits out, then open the BASE program, its all very easy from then on, just choose all the defaults and tick the "Textmode" box.

1 - Why have you posted the same thing twice? -SEE- 2 - You had an ISO file of "vista lite"? That makes no sense. 3 - Use cdimage and command line switches if you want to make a bootable CD, or just use vLite. Oh man, if English is your first language then I am an orange penguin in a spaceship on its way to pluto. What you want to do is install Vista on the partition that you currently have Windows XP on, but the problem is, your Vista CD is not bootable. Well then use vLite to make a bootable ISO.

OK I have to play devils advocate a bit here and say, its silly to ask "what can I remove without losing any functionality" because if you're removing something then you are losing functionality! OK languages, fair enough, you don't need languages but apart from that... everything in Windows is there for a reason. I dunno about XP but I run Server 2003 and I swear to god, my games run faster on the full one! Maybe its because removing stuff just confuses the OS sometimes, meaning its not running so smooth? I have found that if you start going below about 200Mb to 220Mb, then you start having to lose some functionality, like Printing, Jet Database, MDAC, Cameras. I guess I could post a Last Session... but I cant be assed, its so late its early here.

The ever helpful MSFN community strikes again, thanks for all the suggestions. I have already tried to install this INF file the RunDll32 132 way and it wont install.

Changing that dialog gives you this error in ResHacker: Compiler Error in line 2 at offset 98 Invalid statement: integer expected Erm, let me guess, it expects an interger? I would love to make MSCONFIG maximize though, and about 1000 other things in windows like this where you have to fiddle about scrolling in some stupid tiny window looking at paths that are hundreds of characters long.

I have a big problem with getting the sound driver to install in VMware using Server 2003. I am using Bashrat the Sneaky driverpacks to solve 99% of the driver problems, but there is one simple problem, this device: Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128D (WDM) All I want to know is - if I get hold of the SYS and INF files to install this device, is there any way on the command line to make it do a silent install of this device without having to do it manually in Device Manager? I know what the driver files are (wdma_ens.inf and es1371mp.sys) and and I know from "re-installing" the device in Device Manager, this is all I need, two simple files, one INF, one SYS. Since Windows is capable of installing device drivers with no user input (the "OemPnPDriversPath" method in WINNT.SIF is exactly what I mean!) then is this possible ANY other way - post-install? I saw something on MSDN called "DPinst.exe" but I am not sure about this.

A slight exaggeration there, since the story wasn't even published until November 19th 2004. Thats about 2 years and 5 months ago, not 4 years ago. B) What DO people consider as news? Britney Spears shaving her head? Anna Nicole Smith? I think the worlds biggest software company being caught red-handed using pirated software and gaining billions of dollars in the process is very important. Someone needs to kick Bill Gates's a$$ for this, don't throw custard pies at him... what use does that do? Just kick his a$$ if you see him!

Microsoft used a cracked copy of Sound Forge 4.5 (cracked by Deepz0ne) to make their WAV files in Windows XP SP0 in 2001 when it was released. Funny how I am the only person here to ever post about this. Even funnier how Microsoft can be caught out so easily... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Deepz0ne I know what you're thinking, "Oh LeveL, thats just some Urban Dictionary website, its not true". Well, why don't you get a hold of your Windows XP CD (it must be a non service pack disc, original 2001 release of Windows XP) and install it in Virtual PC (Virtual PC is free) then you can navigate to the folder and do what it says in that Urban Dictionary link above if you need proof. Then notice how that Deepz0ne signature magically vanishes if its an SP1 or SP2 disc... just annoying man, just annoying. What we have to bear in mind here is, this is not "casual piracy" when Microsoft gained millions, if not billions of dollars, through the sales of Windows XP. Just searched the whole of MSFN for Deepz0ne and this is the only post it appears in, strange that. I know this most probably angers people, I know it angers me to see a company like this profiting from using pirated software, a company that itself, continually has their flunkies spouting about how piracy is somehow evil when all it does is popularizes their ailing software and allows people to come up with solutions to problems that would have otherwise never been fixed by paying users, heh, users, more like "the USED", but Sonic Foundry to this day has never filed a lawsuit for damages regarding this blatant piracy on Microsoft's part.

Eeeeek, naughty! But nice Dunno if the mods will see it that way though, lol. It's perfectly legal! OK fair enough but still, its a bit naughty? lol, I am sure Microsoft would rather people did not know this sort of thing, but nevermind, we do know it.

The problem is you want an audio CD that will play in any CD player, yes? Thats the problem... if people were only going to be using this on a PC then there might be some way to do it, but even then, it can just be copied. I was thinking of something like a single SFX EXE file with the MP3's inside but the file has a password... however this is pointless if you need to be able to just sell audio CD's. I can't find anything but I did find an interesting idea about this: "Michael Jackson has recently followed suit, releasing his new single ‘You Rock My World’ in a copy-protected version. While the CD works in normal audio CD players (so far), when put in the CD drive of a computer it spins continuously, in the same manner as a blank or corrupted disc would. The technology works through the inclusion of ‘bad’ audio correction codes, or intentional errors; normal audio CD players aren’t sensitive enough to pick them up, but CD-ROM drives will. Critics argue that some CD players will have trouble reading these discs, that the discs will degrade faster as a result of this sort of meddling, that someone will eventually crack the protection (as happened with computer software in the 80s) and that in any event, they have the right to listen to their music on their computers if they want to." What "computer software in the 80s" has to do with any of that I do not know. :S

Yeah I must be, sorry. Eeeeek, naughty! But nice Dunno if the mods will see it that way though, lol. So it doesn't matter how you go about it, you're always going to waste a MAK activation? I don't get why people put up with this from Microsoft. Windows Vista should cost $40 not $400. The worst thing is, its the paying customers who get messed about the most with stuff like this.

I am thinking you are also assuming the original poster has Windows XP Home Edition installation source and key. Nope, I am assuming he SELLS his XP MCE and buys XP Home Edition, making a small profit in the process, since firstly, you cannot even buy MCE in shops and secondly, it is more valuable than XP Home because of the very features it has that he does not need or want.

If someone wants to rip your CD dude, they will get around absolutely anything thats available to us common people. Unfortunately, even multi billion dollar companies like Sony, EMI and so on cannot make uncrackable copy protection for CD's. If they could, they would be doing it. I don't see why you would get into any trouble if other people copy your CD's, its not your fault, its the people copying them at fault. Tell you what, if anyone tries to sue you because people copied the CD's you made, then just counter sue them. Do artists sue EMI when their work is copied? Nope, because its not EMI who are liable. Its the individual pirates that are liable.

On FAT32 you do lose a lot more Gb's of disk space because of the file system. NTFS is far better but if you have Millennium on it then it never could have been NTFS which is what confuses me a bit... How big is your hard disk and how big is Windows saying it is? If its over 137Gb then it won't show past that in Millennium. I dunno about this though, maybe you can try the second post here by the_guy where he posts a hotfix... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...78592&st=40 To fix the drive issue you could try uninstalling the "IDE/ATA ATAPI controllers" in Device Manager then reboot with your Millennium disc in your CD-drive and it should re-detect the hard drive. You might not even need the Millennium CD, I don't know if Millennium has driver support in the OS itself. If you want updates for Millennium, try visiting "Windiz update" with Firefox or Opera browser, they might still support Millennium. http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

Why not just sell your MCE disc and install XP Home on it? Assuming you never need to use it as a Remote Desktop server. Assuming you have an MCE disc.

So, you are using "Microsoft Office Word 2002" at home and it shows the "q" symbol you do not want, instead of the arrow symbol, but in school you use Word XP and it has the arrow symbol you do want, not the "q" symbol? I only have Word 2003 to work with here but this is what I can do... Insert > Symbol There you can change the shortcut keys for any symbol you want but dude, there is no symbol that is an arrow pointing down and to the left like you show in your image! It does not appear in "Character Map" under "Start > Accessories > System Tools" either. The only place I have ever seen that symbol is on my return key. Maybe its just something that appears on your printouts?

Files are being... deleted? Can't you sue Microsoft for this? You're not missing anything, apart from incompatibility left right and center, it deleting your files, astronomical memory usage, DRM, a ridiculous price tag... ...IMO Vista is not an "upgrade", it is a pain, a completely pointless OS, period.

Store the image? That won't solve it, because you have to re-activate every 6 months or something don't you? So if you recover an image 7 months later it won't be activated. I tried that trick with Vista when it was in its 30 day grace period, you can't just restore it and expect it to give you the same amount of days/months left.