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Interesting. My only thoughts on this is that maybe it's to prevent someone from automatically installing TweakUI? Do a search through all the files in the system directories for any that contain the text "TweakUIPowertoySetup" and you should be able to see exactly in which file this "bug" occurs.

Maybe some fellow coder here could make a simple testing utility which performs the following procedures: 1. Write to each sector on the drive its LBA number, starting from LBA sector 0 til the end of the drive. 2. Read each sector and compare value stored in it with the actual LBA value used to adress it (starting from LBA 0 till the last sector) 3. If wrapping is detected (adress and stored value for any sector are not equal) , repeat 1. and 2. but in the range from LBA 0 to the 1st few wrapped sectors ( this is to detect double/triple/... wrappings on very large drives ) Of course, using such a program will erase all data on the drive, but should be very usefull for extended compability testing Which interface do you suggest for doing this? Direct hardware access? BIOS int13ext? DOS int25/26? ESDI_506.PDR (protectedmode) driver calls? A good idea, but how to implement it is the question.

Macs currently make up a very small number of the computer "population". There has to be a reason for that. Apple's decision to force everyone to have to use the latest OS and hardware is partially responsible. Kernel != API. The Win32 API, which was introduced with Windows 95, has been expanded throughout the version releases but otherwise basic functionality is the same. Applications programs do not care about the structure of the kernel. They access system services through the same API, whether on NT or 9x. Of course, the NT kernel has more services than the 9x one, but are those services really used? My point is that almost all applications that were "designed for Windows XP" will run fine on 9x systems, excepting those system utilities that need to have an intimate relationship with the kernel and thus need to use the extended set of services not available on Win9x. Did you know 9x had an NTDLL.DLL? You could even say that 98se inherited some of its functions from the earlier NT series.One could argue that drivers are different between 9x and NT series. To a certain extent, that is correct, as the NT driver interface provides more services than the 9x one. However, 98se and 2000 basically both employ the same KMD driver interface and structure. Writing a driver for NT and for 98se is only very slightly different. (Excepting the annoyance of preferring digitally signed and "authenticated" drivers for XP+)

There are the fixboot and fixmbr commands... but those only work if you can boot into XP. What about a Repair Install from the XP CD?

The clock speed is not the only determining factor of speed. How many instructions it can execute per clock (or how many clocks it takes to execute an instruction) makes a big difference. AMDs have lower clocks/instruction and higher instructions/clock. The newer ones are similarly better than the older models.

Not enough power. What power supply are you using?

Dead link. Have you seen the new WD Raptor X? It has a clear cover.

I had a problem with a LITE-ON DVD writer before... almost the same symptoms: it would be detected correctly by the BIOS and Windows, but whenever I put a disk in it would try to spin up and then suddenly the motor would cut off, it'd do this over and over until I ejected the disk. It turns out the problem was the power supply not supplying enough power... didn't know those things took so much power.

Most likely a power supply problem. Second-most would be a thermal problem.

I wouldn't use those... since ...and more importantly... I'm not shutting down a system that has had over 3 months of uptime so far just to replace a few files for protection against a supposedly "critical" vulnerability, but also cause resource leaks in the process.

If you want to restore them then just extract them from the CAB files.

Look at your product ID in the System Property sheet. First set: 55274 : XP Professional 55276 : XP Professional upgrade 55276 : XP Home 55277 : XP Home 55285 : XP Professional 76487 : XP Media Center Edition 2005 76487 : XP Pro Royalty OEM 76487 : XP Pro volume license (with '640' channel ID) Second set: 007 : retail 011 : upgrade OEM : OEM 270 : Volume License 335 : Retail 640 : Volume License 648 : Academic

The DOS emulator for the NT-series OSs don't have as many features as the 9x one. I don't think it's possible to do that. IMHO one of the most important features that got removed was the Close On Exit option - now you have to run programs from the prompt, otherwise they close before you can even see the output.

ffdshow universal audio/video codec. It's the one I've been using. Seems to take very little CPU and mem.

I have a pair of WDs too. Works very well

That would be very difficult to do. For someone to gain access to your webcam, either you'd have to be running a service that listens on a port and interacts with the webcam, or software on your machine that interacts with the webcam would have to initiate a connection. So the short answer would be, No. It's difficult for someone to "hack" your webcam.

Your mobo probably doesn't support 48-bit LBA. If it does, you'll see the whole capacity in Windows, but you can't access more than 128Gb of it or it'll wrap around and corrupt the partition. That is a problem with the ESDI_506.PDR - search around these forums and you'll find some more info.

The primary reason why I don't like .NET is because it's severely bloated - even the most trivial of programs, when compiled using .NET, take up an enormous amount of space. I've also noticed that .NET programs tend to take much longer to start up, and also consume more memory. I think it's much the same situation as with Java.

MSDNA is not a website, if you Googled "MSDNA" you'd find that it stands for MSDN Academic Alliance from the first result.

Does your PC have a DVD-ROM drive? It is a requirement for installing Vista... Vista is too big to fit on a CD. That's why it comes on a DVD.

Clicking the Add button in the Network Properties dialog does nothing at all? I sense a corrupted NETCPL.CPL... extract the file from win98_25.cab of your Windows CD.

The what? Never knew such a thing existed for foruming...

The option "Chassis Intrusion Detect", in BIOS setup under page Advanced Setting, can be set to Disable to avoid this problem.

Attempting to boot from a dying HDD will only exacerbate the situation. It is recommended to physically remove the HDD from the machine and attach it to another machine to copy the files from it.

Of course. I have a little 3d graphics demo - 5 minutes of software-rendered animated scenes - which runs on any computer from a 286 @12MHz and up, with only VGA graphics, but very good graphics. Most surprising is the fact that this demo is not some multi-megabyte set of files; it's a single 4096 bytes file.Seeing what could be done in 4096 bytes of program code on a 12MHz CPU and 512K of RAM, and comparing it with what is being done today with processors several hundred times more powerful, several thousand times more memory, one can't help but think about what the true abilities of today's hardware are.