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32Mb is more than adequate for 98se; for quite some time, I used a Pentium 233MMX machine with that amount of RAM, and only slightly modified 98se install. I even had wallpaper and the standard 98se shell. Resources free upon bootup was somewhere around 97-98%. I remember opening 20+ MP3s at once with ActiveMovie and playing them all at the same time - the result didn't sound good, but the system showed no noticeable decrease in performance and I remember editing a large bitmap image at the same time.

After reading what KB919007 is supposed to fix, it related to some PGM service - If you do not have this service installed, or have it installed but disabled since it is of no use to you, then you are not affected by the vulnerability at all and there is no need to install KB919007.

There is no way to "secure" a computer if your users have physical access. Also, if you restrict too much it just gives the users more incentive to get around them. I've done this multiple times with public computers in e.g. libraries, community centers etc. It really isn't that hard to get root access. Also, XP Home, in an internet cafe?

*.microsoft.com Just use a router or other monitoring device on the network (not on the machine itself, as maybe Vista is concealing some of its network activity from user-level apps) to determine what IPs/domains on microsoft.com are being connected to.

In that case I doubt there are really several thousand levels of acceleration. The acceleration was just stored in a data type (e.g. 16-bits) that made it possible to set that many levels, but instead of just simple 0-10 or similar, the manufacturer decides to inflate that range to 0-65535 to make it seem like there are really more settings, when in fact there are 6554 settings that correspond to the same acceleration. In your case, 1 is probably the same as some other value, maybe 4096.

You're on the right track. Might as well divulge it -Basically, the string has been encoded with a simple 1:1 substitution cipher, and once decoded contains various parameters like the initial angle, initial velocity, final velocity, release angle, and final score as well as a checksum (literally - the sum of all the other values) to "verify" its correctness. Just disassemble the SWF and take a look if you want to learn more.

Have you tried reinstalling WLM yet?

At the bottom of the window? http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/103...ew/toolbar1.jpg The buttons still look like they're at the top...

I have 160 MB of RAM. Would limiting VCache be of any use to me? No.

Because you don't have any other codecs installed.

VSMON.EXE ... ZoneAlarm firewall? Try disabling that and see what happens. Also, I'm not going to even try downloading your huge BMPs. The problem is you used the wrong compression method; JPG is intended for images like photographs and the such. GIF and PNG are more suited to the type of pictures I assume those to be.

You might want to try a driver-level or service-based solution...

There's also something called RAID, if you want to do it with hardware...

...and aprobably dismal one at that If the files are gone, and they don't come back (or other similar randomly-named ones), you can assume there's no more of it left.

WHO TOLD YOU TO DELETE MY POSTS

If you don't need a toolbar then just remove it... I try to keep my browser as clean as possible, no toolbars at all.

I just use the ActiveMovie OCX. Much smaller than any of the Windows Media Player versions and takes up a tiny amount of CPU too.

Did you really have to post an image of the task manager with all that empty space at the bottom?

Nothing much special, just free alternative DNS servers... I wonder if they're really in sync with the main ones though.

I wonder if M$ can actually find that out... I mean, it's absolutely the same hardware...

No, the OP has been helped and the problem is resolved now ...and there really is no point in buying old software, unless you just want to add a "genuine" disk to your collection of OSs. They'd probably give it to you for free anyway (I got an original DOS 1.1 box set that way) Copyright does, expire, but that's not the point - the question is whether or not they will continue to enforce it.

This is absolutely normal. SATA was designed to be hot-swappable originally. Whether or not you'd want to do that with your boot drive is debatable.

Only 5 services and I'm surprised Themes is one of them It looks like I've been defeated. Good work! I thought 9 was already nearly minimal... here's what I have: DHCP Client Event Log <- "This service cannot be stopped" Network Connections Network Location Awareness Plug and Play Remote Procedure Call Security Accounts Manager Task Scheduler Windows Management Instrumentation Are you still able to access the Internet with those network-related services disabled? I thought I disabled them once, then found out I couldn't connect to the Internet, so that's why they're enabled. I suppose I can set DHCP to manual and start it only when I need to use DHCP to renew my IP... Thanks for the insipiration, I'll try it out the next reboot But as I've said before, the Windows bootscreen appears for less than 2 seconds. I wonder how much more improvement I can get...

Save your images as GIF or PNG, JPG compresses badly on images with large contrasts and large areas of equal color. What processes in the task manager are consuming the majority of the CPU?

...for the courtesy of users using a 320x240 screen browsing MSFN on a PDA?