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BTW Virtual PC 2007 is free download from M$ site. Use that if you want a simpler less resource-consuming alternative to VMware.

SATA shouldn't need a different driver, ESDI_506.PDR should work fine since SATA is supposed to be identical to IDE at the software interface.

There's an OC-3c at work, and it goes up to ~130Mbps. I'll post a result once everyone else leaves and I get the whole connection to myself

Does Windows Sound Recorder work at all for this?

Indeed. Defects such as http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=88570 which actually affect usability are more important than a few icons...

Tried editing explorer.exe itself? Also, don't forget about the file protection. It might've gotten reverted.

...I think you've all managed to scare him away with various comments about the issue. The best way to proceed is to determine exactly what is consuming the CPU. Note the PID of the svchost which is consuming 99%. Open a command prompt and run "tasklist /svc". Locate the svchost with the appropriate PID and post what services are in it.

Just take some white paint and a small brush to it... After the paint dries, cover the surface with clear tape to prevent them from wearing off again. In fact, the tape idea might also be useful to prolong the life of the lettering on the other keys.

Isn't it a bitmap now? Try looking harder.

Me? I didn't oppose...

Click the volume control icon in the system tray, click the slider, then use the up and down arrows.

MSFN had a previous thread about this. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=...v2.52&meta=

@Spooky: Via some rather convoluted editing of the SAM keys in the registry. This was done over a year ago and I haven't reinstalled since, so I don't remember the exact procedure. Would need to figure it out again if I had to reinstall though...

What is it with these "Why use xxxx?" threads? We've had too many of these already and the same points get repeated over and over, all these threads seem to do is benefit users who want to increase their postcounts.

...this is what Vista is like? That file size bug shows just how much attention they give to writing their code... and testing it, of course.

Like one of these: http://www.satacables.com/html/sata-acessories.html

Agreed. It's as if they're pre-overclocked already. I had a stick of Spectek DDR400 (200MHz) that would start giving errors at only 202MHz and upping the voltage all the way to 3.6v wouldn't make them go away, that's a 1% overclock which should be tolerable, in fact small drifts in the clock ±1MHz are normal and in this case might cause failure.

...and I thought those 500Gb drives I was planning to get for testing the 48bit LBA driver would be enough... M$ is being a bit self-contradictory again... Basically they're saying1. Do not use Fdisk on drives > 512Gb. 2. Use the WinME boot disk, i.e. use the Fdisk on it, to partition the > 512Gb drive. Two solutions: 1. Mod the WinME Fdisk to support up to 2 terabytes (could be difficult, depending on how this problem manifests itself in the code, but keeps everything else M$) 2. Use Free Fdisk and if necessary, modify it (easier since it's open-source). Your choice, I can do either one.

Acrobat 5.0 Foxit PDF Editor (portable, one file). You definitely don't need the latest.

...what's wrong?

Actually these two are the easiest problems to fix. Which then solves ...although I really don't care about a boot logo (the less time you spend having to look at it the better), customising other parts of the OS is what I should be able to do.In other words, just figure out where the signature check and the file integrity checks are, and patch the code to go around it. Of course, this will have to be done outside of the OS. XP's WFP has been disabled in a similar method (so has the "unsigned drivers" warning on my machine) so why not this. Basically M$ wants to maintain a monopoly over who can / cannot write drivers for their OS. I wouldn't be surprised if the same restriction applied to applications in their next version (Vienna?) I could probably fix these two problems, but at the moment I'm not too interested in Vista to bother installing it.

I'm writing my own download manager (the FlashGet was pretty good, but I now I need something a little less resource-consuming and more open-source), currently I've only implemented part of the UI and most of the HTTP core, but planning to add FTP next and possibly other protocols in the future (no P2P or Torrents though, that should go in another program). Currently decided features: - Queue multiple files / simultaneous download up to 255 at once - Start/Pause/Resume/Stop - Up to 255 connections/split parts per file with overlap for redundancy/error-checking - Bandwidth limiter What I'm hoping to gain with this thread is a list of other features that you find useful in a download manager that you use regularly (including additional protocols to support). No UI garnishes please, I'm not intending this to be some overly graphical program but rather something minimal that stays in the tray and just silently downloads in the background. Name suggestions are also welcome (currently it's called HTTPdown as that's what it'll support initially, but I'm planning to change the name once it supports more than HTTP). When I feel like I've had enough with it, I'll release as open-source public domain software.

Almost any video card you can buy now can support Aero... ...supposedly even the lowly Intel integrated graphics beginning with the 900 series can be "forced" to use Aero.

A Brain, a Disassembler, and a lot of Time...

Any "emulate SATA as IDE" option in the BIOS?