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Don't trust generic no-name PSUs. They like to overrate their wattages, and in your case the voltage regulator quality seems to be awful.

VirtualDub

DRM crap Agree with above, use another media player/codec. FFDshow is awesome.

If I'm lucky, by Christmas we may obtain a 4-way RAID adapter (4 IDE -> 1 IDE) and 4 500Gb hard drives. If so, testing will definitely occur

Extract the necessary files from the installer and regsvr32 control.dll. regsvr32 /u to uninstall.

The problem should be within the Floppy Disk Driver, which, if I am not mistaken, is flpydisk.sys. There is also the fdc.sys, maybe is this latter the culprit. Have a look at this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321697/en-us Basically you need to write a new (or patch the existing) driver. Maybe you can have some ideas "peeking" in the Source code for the XP 1.44 unconditional formatter: http://www.denispetrov.com/?page_id=3 though I cannot say if it uses "low-level" instructions or not. Another thing that might be an obstacle is WFP , cannot say if the driver is one of the protected files or not. jaclaz WFP isn't anything near an obstacle. Maybe a slight annoyance.I'll keep those filenames in mind.

It's always free, just a matter of being legal or not. Considering an 8-year-old OS that M$ doesn't even sell nor support anymore, I think the first issue is moot too.

Type http://www.google.com in your addressbar, not http:///www.google.com.

You should starting looking at a new hard drive. Good idea to be doing those backups

You can try manually adding the resolution to your Registry. The key is named "MODES" and is found somewhere under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive.

Looks like your file association database is hosed.Tricky to repair. If system restore is enabled, use it. Otherwise a repair install.

Common denominator and trigonometric identities.

Is there any large amount of hard disk activity during this time?

...how much did you pay for that "500 watt" PSU?

Hmm... Control panel does that. Control panel does that. Control panel does that. Ok... but anyone with windows 95 would likely not be using a JPG background (nor a particularly fancy background image either)....and then "and much more". That doesn't really tell much does it? If this thing would change the wallpaper automatically and at timed intervals I was expecting it would be near the top of the list of features, since enumerating the capabilities of the control panel is a bit discouraging...

Any problems arising from the use of spaces so far? If not, then it's a good assumption that M$ just maybe was thinking about something else at the time. I wouldn't put any restrictions in my code, only let the restrictions be the stricter of the code itself or the underlying API. As in your case the API seems to be doing fine with it, I wouldn't worry. Just like detecting invalid characters in a filename is the OS's job, and all you need to do is pass ASCIIZ strings to the functions. It will eliminate many redundant checks in your code, and possibly make it forward-compatible. An excellent example is the filename one above; back in the days of DOS I had already understood that the file paths for the (then) new filefunctions were passed as ASCIIZ strings, and did not make any assumptions about their content. Those programs back then that I wrote now work for long filenames with spaces and whatever else characters there are (as long as not null - because that was the delimiter), all because I made sure to not treat filenames as being in a fixed format (which is up to the OS to decide, after all.) Same goes for your computer names. If your APIs use ASCIIZ strings, pass them what the user gives and don't care about what's in them.

Or Borland Resource Workshop 4.5 Discontinued since the late 90s, the filename is BRW45.ZIP and you can still find it if you search around.

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Primarily for recovering lost administrator passwords (hence the name) but also includes offline registry editor.

This has been a standard "read before posting" link on at least 12 of the forums I frequent. What the $#$%? The OP was asking for it and I replied with the answer. Why are you giving me static over answering the OP's question? Woah put down your spikes. She wasn't giving you flack. She was just mentioning that she's seen the flash on 12 of the forums she frequents. Those 12 forums make it a point to tell their users to "read before posting" with that flash. It was a comment on her part, nothing more.

This has been a standard "read before posting" link on at least 12 of the forums I frequent.

Ever heard of "hidden submit fields"?

That's scripting, not programming......and yes, if you learn VB you won't really get far even though you may think you are. C/C++ (and eventually C#) are the "real" programming languages.

I don't remember any names but I know that some firewalls replace the standard winsock DLLs with their own (which performs the filtering) after renaming the originals and then forwards the allowed requests into the real DLLs. Would be very difficult to get around, unless the malware checked specifically for the DLLs being replaced or carried its own TCP/IP stack.

Either the power supply is failing or the mains power is faulty.