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or caffeine (if it can be ran out of a profile.

Wow. Where do you get that from ? Experience ? To the OP. Where does that PC come from ? Was it running fine before (that you're 100% sure of) ? Also please edit your 1st post as to have a relevant title. "big problem" doesn't mean much.

Of course he could find it out by himself, but that IMHO doesn't make it a weird question that one can't possibly understand why on earth it's asked. The forum is slow enough to not put everybody off.

For an unknown reason your HDD stopped responding, even after (at least 1st) reboot, shifting your 2nd HDD to 1st boot device. From then it is not clear when it came back, but you were able to put it back in 1st place. I'd first backup check the HDD then check it.

That PC will be over 15 years old... If there is any chance they've been touched by something (mice , or maybe the case has been open), you could try resetting the cables that connect your hard drive and maybe an other (slave) device to the motherboard and to the power supply. Check cables at both ends. If nothing has moved, check (feel) if the disk is spinning. If not, try an other power cable. Good luck.

nLite does not support changing any partitioning/format option. You'll have to check that in the XP "unattended" forum and (I believe) manually edit your Winnt.sif after nLite has produced it and before you build/burn the ISO.

It'd be easier to find the drivers for XP SP3 than to downgrade your install disc. I doubt it can even be done as I guess the SP is "integrated" in a way that previous files are most probably overwritten, not just set aside. In any case, nLite is not the tool you need.

If they could dig a 50km tunnel under the channel in 1988, why not a 200km tunnel today? Just technically speaking, of course. I guess security would have been high in the agenda in 88. Not sure about China. Take the money and run.

The name doesn't even seem to be a special field in the comment, it is just inserted automatically at the beginning of the text when the comment is 1st created. So I guess no, you'll have to manually edit all comments.

[Chris Crocker style] Leave Nuhi alone! [/Chris Crocker style]

I have difficulties understanding the meaning of this sentence. Point 4 in the provided link should have solved your problem. You could try this is disk space is not a problem; if problem directory is D:\X\ , rename (if you can, as you said you did take ownership) to D:\_X\ Create new directory D:\X\ , Copy (not move) everything from D:\_X\ to D:\X\. Check if problem is solved on new files. Delete old files if it is.

We were not talking about reg tweak. Check this; http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff404240.aspx Also as a side note, too much ranting in a post puts people off.

You say you "moved" the files, this is the problem. Moved files keep original rights, copied files get new rights from the folder they are copied into. I don't know what exactly you've done there but you now need to "take ownership" of the fies that were previously protected for "any other user" only. I guess the USB drive is NTFS formated.

Don't talk about grown ups until you get there. A cemetery is not "things laying around". Even a 5 year should know. How about someone taking the stones ...or coffins off those unguarded cemeteries? Have a barbecue in the middle of it? Please don't answer. How about taking crops from an unguarded field? Does it even matter if the field is rented by the farmer or his own? Please don't answer. What about you renting a house and someone gets in and go with your unguarded TV? Please don't answer. Do you not see that securing everything has a cost to society that basic education could lower? Do you realize how much extra cost in studies is lost in something as irrelevant as the locks on the doors of every type of car that is built? Please don't answer. There is a name for the way you're answering. Stay out this thread.

Good to see that there are still people who can read , as conspiracy seems to be the only subject since weeks on this forum.

Why don't you go on from this thread ?

Tall Emu Online Armor has been bought by Emisoft. There is still a "free" version. "By default Emsisoft Online Armor installs as a free fully functional 30 day trial version. After the trial period you can either choose to buy a full version license or switch to the limited freeware mode. Of course you can decide to upgrade again at any time by simply renewing your license." I haven't yet tried it, I still have an old version from Tall Emu running (also with limited functionalities).

Search the nLite forum for loop and you'll find lots of threads.

I remember people having a similar problem (reboot loop) when integrating WMP updates without integrating the actual WMP. I never integrate WMP nor updates for it.

So, is it ? Take your keyboard with both hands (PC turned off) and hold it vertically. Tap it gently few times on your desk. Watch all the crums, hair, dust fall down. Then if you can, hold it upside down with one hand and tap all keys with the back of your other hand. Check if any key is behaving differently. Retest.

You cannot add non contiguous space to your partition. Depending on what D: is, the difficulty may vary.

Check that the NIC is configured to receive an IP/gateway from your router, as opposed to having a fixed IP.

Deactivating the antivirus might improve speed as well. All in all, 24Gig an hour is not that bad anyway. It might also depend on the type of data (small files vs. big files).

Make sure drive caching is enabled (optimized for better performance, not for quick removal, can't remember where that is in XP), it should go faster than those 7M/s.

In the same way burglars are interested to know if you're going on holiday in the next weeks.