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If you want to get rid of the outlook express splash screen permanently without registry entries you can do this open "msoe.dll" with a hex editor look for the only occurrence of "NoSplash" and replace it with "VerStamp" run modifyPE on the patched DLL Outlook usually checks for the NoSplash key in the registry, but now it will check for the VerStamp key which is created automatically and always has a nonzero value...

dvdpack is the cyberlink codec and not a recent version of it

thank... it will come in handy

So are we supposed to stay awake until SP2 is available for download? @bilemke: Its a bit more than that. The .NET framework is required for Media Center Edition, and installed during Windows setup on that edition. On a Professional or Home Edition, the .NET framework isn't included, so Setup does nothing with it.

Compaq notebook with a 486SL 25Mhz still runs the Win 3.1 it came with.

And shouldn't you go up to 250mhz fsb to get PC4000 in sync? Its 500Mhz DDR and that's pretty steep on many AthlonXP motherboards. Even with an other processor. And I looked at Geil Website and they say the memory is CAS 2.5 7-4-4 @ DDR500MHz PC4000, so you got that wrong as well.

thank you... most helpful

from the WinImage website: This means you must have a HD with windows on it before you can boot your USB key. Or am I missing something in BootPart?

@premier: you should chat with smarter people GigabitLAN, WLAN, Centrino worthless??? Bluetooth worthless??? I was going to write something about SATA, but its more fun to call products worthless because I can't afford them. SCSI harddrive: worthless! PCI Express: worthless! Notebook: worthless! Athlon 64 FX: worthless! * No wait I'm a fanboy. Intel Itanium: worthless! * That's more like it. Plasma television: worthless! Italian sportscar: worthless! Motorized yacht: worthless! Berverly Hills mansion: worthless!

USB flash drivers are so bootable. My bios supports it. look on dell support site, choose any D-family Latitude and all driver downloads and you'll find a link for what appears to be USB Memory Key drivers... no drivers there, but a wonderful usb key boot utility (mbrtool.exe). works on all keys obviously this boots into dos, but you want to boot something else don't you.

If they come prepared they may have a CD-ROM. Many people will be carrying data on a USB memory key, or use one if they need to get data from their notebook to you. Even the people that are still using Zip disks should realize that most people are not using them anymore. It doesn't come standard with any PC or notebook, and most pc brands don't even offer them as upgrades. You really have to go out and buy one... And what about all their other products: Jaz, Rev, Clik, PocketZip, Peerless. I think it's up to the person bringing the data to make sure ANY computer will be able to use it. Any USB attachment, CDROM, ... or Zip but bring his own drive...

like Intel AMD may have ball grid array processors for embedded computers and extremely small notebooks or tablets. They need to be soldered to the mainboard and I don't believe you can buy them retail.... Other than that: if the CPUID isn't recognized you would still be able to set FSB, Voltage and multiplier from your mainboard if the BIOS allows you to. If you are going to overclock you need to disable the autosettings anyway...

That is true and a lot of people know. But unless you are planning on buying the best of AMD (800$) or Intel (1000$ processor) that benchmark isn't worth anything. I think AMD is just as stable as Intel under Windows XP, but I have doubts about other operating systems, such as Solaris for Intel. Personally I only buy Intel because of the AMD K6-II 450Mhz (with VIA chipset) that I had many years ago. I was the most unstable system I ever owned and I totally blamed AMD. It crashed 3 or 4 times a day, even after a fresh install. I vowed never to buy another AMD. HYPErthreading wouldn't work on AMD. AMD is a very efficient processor that keeps all of its execution units busy. Pentium4 is so poor at keeping execution units busy that a second thread can be executed on idle execution units. For the Pentium4 HT is a significant performance boost, for the AMD it would more likely slow it down. And 64bit is indeed too soon. By the time you have a 64bit os, drivers, applications, you will have faster 64bit processors, both by Intel and AMD, with different memory and everything. Just like the 386 aand 486 never saw a full 32bit operating system. http://theinquirer.net/?article=17492 No XP64 until next year...

Opterons are for servers/workstations, but gamers and enthusiasts will move to socket 939 Athlon FX, with unregistered memory and without PCI-X slots...

Mobile Athlon XP-M are the best to come of the production line. The regular Athlon XP is identical in every way, but has powersaving tech disabled and multiplier locked. A mobile XP-M in a desktop board is an overclockers dream because of this, and the fact that they require less voltage for the same clockspeed.

No need to 'wait' for an AthlonFX, but you mean the new socket right? The FX-51 and FX-53 were socket 940, but FX-53 will have a socket 939 replacement soon (EDIT: if not already available). Future FX-55 and higher will be socket 939 only. I think socket 939 is a safe bet. AMD has got 4 dekstop sockets right now (462, 754, 939 and 940) and that's way too much. Socket 939 is the only one that isn't being phased out. Socket 940 desktops will be dead, and the other two will just receive new Sempron processors.

Pentium M does use Socket 478, but the pins are keyed differently, so you can't plug a PM into a P4 mobo. Besides, the pinout are all different so it wouldn't work anyway. Pentium M is a very powerful processor, even better than Athlon's at the same clockspeed and vastly superior to the Pentium4. But the top of the line graphics cards, which are very powerhungry, are usually paired to the equally powerhungry Pentium4. Centrino is about battery life after all. Some advice when buying Dell, Compaq, Sony... Buy a basic configuration, it's often cheaper to order RAM or HD from your local PC store. When buying a mobile harddrive you need the Hitachi Travelstar 7K60, accept no substitute. The only 7200rpm notebook drive...

For who is this demonstration supposed to be actually? Is it the salesman that needs to make the sale? A fanboy that needs to convince his boss to get him an AMD box? Someone that just wants to prove he is right? Both Intel and AMD have strong points and benchmarks to prove it. you want your demonstration truly objective, I would explain, for each of AMD's strong points, how Intel understates the importance of it, and how AMD covers up their weaknesses. - AMD has Cool & Quiet: Intel says that's notebook only technology and that the reduced noise and power consumption are irrelevant in a 400W+ desktop. - AMD is 64bit: Intel says you don't need 4GB+ in a desktop (yet), but they can help you out in the server/workstation department. -AMD has an integrated memory controller: Intel has a dual channel memory controller in their chipsets. Athlon64FX has both so Intel has to start selling server chips to gamers as well Pentium4XE. -AMD mobo's are cheaper: Intel says cause the processor is more expensive (because of the memory controller, not talking price/performance here) - AMD Hypertransport is a 4GB/s bus, against 3.2GB/s for Intel Netburst: Intel says there is no PC4000 DDR-500 to make use of it. Actually there is but it's not certified. Intel is betting the farm on the more recent DDR2-533. - Intel chooses DDR2 for the future, AMD simply can't do that, because that would require them to redesign the entire processor, not just a chipset. It's a good thing AMD can come up with a benchmark to prove DDR faster than DDR2. - AMD has 3D Now, Intel has SSE3. Neither is widely used. - AMD has NoExecute bit, Intel says Windows doesnt support it (yet), unless you want to play around with betas. The same goes for the entire 64bit-ness as well. - AMD says 64bit is the future. Intel agrees, but you may need to upgrade your AMD as well, before the future is here. - Intel has HyperThreading, AMD doesn't need it, couldn't benefit from it. - Intel pushes PCI Express, DDR2, BTX, while AMD finds all these things irrelevant for now. Each should make up there own mind, based on their specific needs. Convincing someone with a demonstration full of buzzwords is just going to create more fanboys.

The Athlon 64 is a very good architecture. It performs a lot of instructions per clockcycle, and the built-in memory controller is excellent as well. The fact that it is a 64bit processor is only important to make people believe it is "one hell of a lot faster" than a 32bit Intel processor. Personally I think it's a marketing move to sell processors and Intel has to follow. But 64bit processors have twice the transistor count of comparable 32bit processors and also have a much larger die size. This makes a 64bit processor just as expensive to manufacture as... a dual core 32bit processor. Still the Athlon 64 processor is a good architecture. Don't look for buzzwords, they usually amount to nothing. 1) Athlon has a very large L1 cache, which can function in the same way a traditional L2 cache. Pentium has a small dedicated L1 cache which isn't very useful. Keep in mind that L1 cache is about twice as fast as L2 (3cycle latency vs 7cycle latency I believe) EDIT: those are 2-4Ghz processor cycles btw, not the 133-266Mhz memory cycles, in case you are thinking your RAM is better than that. So AMD has 128K L1 + 512K L2, against 16K L1 + 512K L2 for Northwood. This makes for a huge difference. 2) Athlon runs at a lower clock frequency, but the memory is the same speed for all platforms. This means an Athlon will have it easier to fetch instructions or data from memory, translating into a short pipeline. The Pentium, at a higher clockspeed, would run out of instructions sooner, so it needs a longer pipeline. Performance penalty is larger when a longer pipeline is filled with a mispredicted branch. This makes Athlon faster at the same clockspeed. 3) Somehow related to the longer pipeline, a Pentium's execution units are idle for longer periods of time. Something Intel solved by passing two threads through the processor simultaneously. The second thread making use of execution units that were idle by the first thread. AMD does not have (so many or so long) idle execution units, which makes the processor again faster at the same clock speed, but unable to implement some form of hyperthreading. 4) AMD has a better manufacturing process Silicon On Insulator, while Intel is stuck with strained silicon, I read something about Intel NOT being allowed to use the patent from IBM... either way, that's largely why AMD runs much cooler. Cool & Quiet, sorry to say it, is just marketing talk, essentially the same as Intel Speedstep. 5) Integrated memory controller removes any latencies incurred when the processor has to ask the chipset for a memory access. Too bad the regular Athlon64 only has a single channel memory controller. 6) Hypertransport really isnt 2.0Ghz wow! It's actually 1.0Ghz with two transfers per clock on a 16bit path. DDR400 memory is 200Mhz with two transfers per clock on a 64bit path. It's just a bus with the same bandwidth as the memory. The difference with intel is that it is a bus with a protocol, which makes it easier for two processors to be on the same bus I guess. I think it's something the Opteron really needed, and the Athlon64 just has it thrown in for buzz. 7) Lance Armstrong and Michael Schumacher both sport AMD logo's. I hope this is of use to you, and not too late, I have been on a holiday. One last piece of advice though: I you want to get the message accross: CHEAT! Put a 10000rpm Raptor in the Athlon machine and grandma's drive in whatever you are comparing it with. Highend mobo for the Athlon, midrange for the Pentium. If it's a benchmark you know AMD could loose, make like it doesn't exist. Call it a 2Ghz processor compared to a 3.2Ghz processor when it does lose a benchmark, call it a 3000+ compared to a 3.2Ghz when it wins. Just keeps things in the wrong perspective. It's how Intel and AMD compare their products themselves... EDIT: And Intel rulez all

accessopt does not include narrator and magnifier, only accessibility cursors and accessibility wizard. Not utilmanager and onscreen keyboard either. Use nLite to remove them... As for backup, also use nLite. Otherwise Windows will install it. gee nuhi, here I am advertising your app and I don't know the link to your page And the defaultpowerscheme, you'ld really expect it to be there wouldn't you but i think it isn't there... It's just a small registry entry actually HKCU, "Control Panel\PowerCfg", "CurrentPowerPolicy, %REG_DWORD%, 0 See what you've got there and add the key to registry during setup with the method of your liking EDIT: again moviemaker and media player are also not included in that components list... again use nLite. Come on nuhi give this guy a link...

my bad, I was looking at HP belgium

Acer Ferrari 3200 (a mobile Athlon 64 2800+) looks good and has lots of features. Alienware doesn't have AMD notebooks, neither does Dell and HP has them withouth 64bits. Don't know about Toshiba or Gateway. Sager (Sagernotebooks.com) probably has some, and they are a lot like alienware, only cheaper. Have you made up your mind on whether you want a MOBILE Athlon 64 or a desktop Athlon 64 in your box. Cause with the cheaper desktop version your battery will only last for an hour or so. Still I prefer Intel Dothan myself.

with CDImage you can create a CD where identical files in different directories take up space only once. For instance you could have XP Home and XP Pro on the same CD, since many files will be the same for the two. It only works for identical files though, no compression or anything http://unattended.msfn.org You can grab cdimage somewhere on that site, along with instructions on how to do it.

just a thought... does an intel hyperthreaded processor use the multiprocessor or uniprocessor kernel? I haven't seen one in action yet...

i'm from belgium, and i understand english je suis belge, et je comprends aussi le francais ik ben van belgië, en ik versta ook nederlands ich komme aus Belgien, und ich spreche auch deutsch yo soy de belgica, y hablo espanol tambien too much?