[itunes album import problem]

I am confused as to something when it comes to organizing my MP3 collection. I was wondering if anyone could help offer me some advice as to how to figure this out. Some of my albums, when I go to import them into iTunes, will display correctly. Others will not. What I am meaning is this; some will import properly, and then when I set itunes to change to any of its various display modes for albums, (for example the one where it shows the cover art somewhat like a jukebox), it will show a single piece of artwork, and have all the songs organized together.

Others, I go to import them, and it will show the artwork multiple times, one for each song. I've checked, and after selecting the songs as a group, and choosing propertes, they list as having the same album name, etc., etc. but for the life of me iTunes refuses to accept that they are all the same album. I've run into a similar issue with Windows Media Player, and I'd really appreciate some help with this. To give a better idea of what I am talking about, I have posted some screenshots.

The 1st is what I believe to be correct, as seen with my album; The Best of Me by Bryan Adams. It shows a single piece of artwork, and shows only that single artwork for representing the entire album.

The 2nd is where the error is, where it shows a artwork entry for each seperate song, even though they are all on the same album, and were added to iTunes the same way as the Bryan Adams album was, i.e. choosing file --> add folder to library.

As you can see in the 3rd, every song in the problem example, i.e. the Ultimate Sports Album, when highlighted all together, and right-clicking and choosing properties, all have the same Album Title, the same year, the same genre, but of course different artists, titles, and track numbers as would be expected.

I've tried checking other albums that I've ripped out of my collection which have various artists, and some seem to run into the same issue, others do not. I would really appreciate any assistance with trying to figure this out and solve this mess.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c87/mat7h3w/1.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c87/mat7h3w/2.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c87/mat7h3w/3.jpg

[recovery/restore discs to full install?]

I've recently purchased an HP Pavilion a1700n which came with Windows Vista Home Premium edition preinstalled. Unfortunately it also came with a ton of garbage software that I have absolutely no use for whatsoever. As expected with any big company prebuilt system, the OS itself was not included on a disc, just a set of "restore" discs that contain all the garbage software I'd rather not have on my system. Is there any way I can convert these restore discs into just a full install of the OS itself? If so, which files do I need to copy from the discs?

On the first disc the following folders/files are listed when set to show all files, including hidden and system files;

Boot

HP

Preload

Sources

boo.mgr

hpcd.sys

master.log

The second disc on the 2 DVD set contains the following files/folders

HP

Preload

HPCD.sys

master.log

Which files/folders out of those would I need if I were to attempt converting these restore/recovery discs into a full install of just the OS? Any assistance with this would be appreciated. Thanks for your time.

[Yu-Gi-Oh Power of Chaos]

Hi everyone, I've recently purchased copies of each of the 3 games in the Yu-Gi-Oh Power of Chaos PC game series. These include Yugi the Destiny, Kaiba the Revenge, and Joey the Passion. I'm having some problems getting them to work on my PC. My PC is an HP Pavilion a1250n. It's currently running Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 installed. I also have all the latest updates via Microsoft Windows Update installed.

My problem starts when I go to install the games. The "autorun" launcher for each game crashes with an error that "memory could not be read" on each of the discs. However, if I go into Windows Explorer and double click on the installaion excutible directly, they install fine.

However, when I go to run any of the games, they appear to load up, but all that shows is a blank black screen. To date, I've tried all of the following to find a solution to get these games working on my PC.

1. Downloaded and installed the latest DirectX drivers from Microsoft's official website for Oct. 2006.

2. Since my system has an integrated graphics card built into the motherboard, made by ATI, I downloaded and installed the latest ATI display drivers for Windows XP for motherboards with ATI graphics built in.

3. Since my ATI display drivers require the .net framwork from Microsoft to function correctly, I redownloaded both the latest 1.0 and 2.0 .net frameworks from Microsoft's official site and had them do "repair" installs.

4. In case there was some error with my system itself, I scanned my system's registry with the registry cleaner built into CCleaner, as well as RegscrubXP by Lexun, and Registry Mechanic. I had each fix what few errors were found.

5. I tried disabliny my anti-virus and anti-spyware programs in case these were causing a problem, and to my knowledge, no other programs are running when I'm trying to run the games.

Despite all of this, I still cannot get these games to work. They launch just fine, and you can even hear music from the games playing when they launch, but they will not show anything other than a blank black screen. I'd appreciate any help anyone might offer, since Konami has unfortunately stopped offering any support for these games.

[win2k hotstream - topic continued]

Thanks for the amazing update pack for Win2k. As an OS, it might not have all the eye candy like XP, but Win2k Pro is still my favorite Windows based OS. Hands down, in more ways than one, it can easily be argued as one of if not the best versions of Windows ever released by Microsoft.

I have a couple of questions because I cannot seem to find any sort of listing of what all is included in this Service pack.

1. Is Windows Media Player 9 included? If not, is there a method for integrating it into the source CD with your pack like can be done with nLite?

2. Is DirectX 9.0c and later updates to Direct X included? If not, again, is there a method for including it onto the source CD like with nLite or similar?

[[Help] - restore cd frustrations]

I own an HP Pavilion a1250n PC. It came with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 preinstalled. It also came with a rather large amount of useless garbage that I will never use in the form of bundled software. HP, like many other prebuild system companies, sadly did not provide me an actual full version set of installation discs for my OS. Instead I was provided the ability to create my own CD-R restore disks.

These are used, in theory, to return the machine to its original factory condition. However, they are also quite useless for anyone who likes to customize their system, including the use of a 2nd OS like a distro of Linux. These "restore CDs" are basically full unattended installation discs for my OS. However, they are full of garbage software that I have no desire to use, and because of how they are setup, I have absolutely no control over the installation process. As such, I cannot setup partitions or even attempt to configure my system for the use of an additional OS.

My question is, is there any way to rip a standard full installation of my OS from these restore discs? Which files on them would I need to attempt doing so, if this is even possible? I'd like to completely do away with the unattended installation, and just get a pure XP MCE 2005 installation if possible. This way I can customize the setup of my PC to my choosing instead of simply accepting the rather poor setup choices that are forced on me by the restore discs.

If it is helpful at all, here is a listing of the files that are contained on each disc;

On Disc 1 of the restore CD set -

a folder callled i386

a folder called preload

then the following files

WIN51.B2

WIN51IC.B2

WIN51IP.B2

WINBOM.INI

SAVEFILE.DIR

protect.ed

GRAPH

GRAPH16

NTFS

SVGA

WIN51

WIN51IC

WIN51IP

Folder.htt

WIN51.RC1

WIN51IC.RC1

WIN51.RC2

WIN51IC.RC2

WIN51IP.RC2

BLOCK.RIN

HPCD.sys

Master.log

Disc 2 of the set contains

a folder called hp

a folder called i386

a folder called preload

a folder called tools

and the following files

HPCD.sys

Master.log

Any help on this would be appreciated. If it's not for some reason possible to just rip the OS itself from these CDs to make a pure set of full install MCE 2005 XP discs, would anyone know of any better suggestion to my problem?

Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on.

--Zxian

[Vista Games]

Thanks for this. Are these the actual games from the Vista Beta? Include the different solitaires? Chess? etc.?

[help requested]

Hi, I'm working on making my own custom modified XP installation CD for Windows XP SP2. I've already gotten it udpated and modified as I need it by nLite in all but one way. I need to help to locate which resource I would need to edit that the Luna.theme and Luna.msstyles is in as well as the Bliss.bmp wallpaper. The mod I'm doing will (hopfeully) replace these with a visual style and wallpaper that I much prefer, the Luna Element 4 VS and wallpaper. I'd like to use these as the defaults, and I've pretty much got to where I can do so, I'd just like to be able to integrate them into the install CD. Can someone help me figure out what I would need to edit and where to do so please?