LLXX

If there are non-.NET alternatives available, and there definitely are I will use those instead. That's more bytes than my entire Windows install. If .NET was a whole OS I wouldn't mind, but for just a bunch of runtimes it's rediculous. Even Java takes less space.I'm not the only one hating .NET. Really, I don't understand how "native" code is that much harder to write. ...and BTW, the headers needn't be stripped from merged reg files, so copy file1.reg + file2.reg + file3.reg etc... all.regWorks well.

erpdude8 what are you doing reviving a year-old thread??

Don't bump threads... Enter the BIOS setup and look for option "PC Health Status" or similar. It should display the idle temperature of the CPU as well as voltage and fan speeds.

ren first.reg first.re_ for %a in ( *.reg ) do find /v "REGEDIT4" %a >> remainder.reg copy first.re_ + remainder.reg everything.reg

You are not the first one. Here's an open-source one: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel/

Apparently Windows 2000/XP only How many screencapture progs do we need anyway... the PrintScreen key suffices for me...

It keeps registration information on a reserved sector of the disk, an area that no program should be writing to.

Windows has killtask and at commands, if you do a little more research you should be able to come up with a way of using those.

No, you shouldn't be messing with the reserved bytes of the directory entries either.

I'll keep my Photoshop 7, CS2 no thanks... directly accessing the disk is something that only disk-management software should do, and nothing else. Not everyone's drive is partitioned to have some empty space before the partition starts. It's common, but not mandatory. When someone's filesystem gets trashed because of it, Adobe is going to get it.

The solution is simple, just use older version that doesn't use unicode. Win9x wasn't designed for unicode anyway, it doesn't even handle unicode filenames properly.

LLXX, do you mean 67 degrees Celsius, or 67 degrees Fahrenheit? Celsius, what every other country in the world is using It definitely makes sense it's overheating, the CPU is being overvolted.

Yes, but you'd probably replace your computer long before it dies.

If the DLL reappears again, you can upload it here and I can take a look at it to see what other files may be related to this malware (some malware have many files, and if you just delete one of them it has the ability to repair itself by recreating the deleted portions).

Even 64Mb is fine if you're using an nLited XP... I use a rather stripped-down install on 256Mb and the performance is fairly reasonable. I've seen the HP software bloat too - it's better to just install the driver files via add/remove hardware than the whole package. Also, start -> run -> "services.msc" you can stop and disable unneeded services there too.

I use SYSTEM For those that don't know, SYSTEM has even more power than Administrator. You have to edit the SAM to make this work (found the instructions on some site I forgot...) I know in the *nix world, they advise against using the 'root' account, but I don't really see it as a problem if the user is careful. Limited user accounts are for those who can't be careful.

Also you should note that there is no separate choice.com file, the CHOICE command is built into the command shell (cmd.exe) on XP.

There's a lot of hardware that doesn't have Vista-compatible drivers yet.

It wouldn't really matter, C++ and C# are very similar. And C++ is just a superset of basic C.

Why don't you reinstall again, and this time use RegMon and FileMon (www.sysinternals.com) to see what registry entries and files were added?

Then your marked clusters would be confused with the real bad ones, and it'd be near impossible to tell them apart unless you did read/write testing again on each one.

Besides physical damage, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration is the largest cause of integrated circuit failures, especially in memory which has been overclocked/overvolted.

Is that this error message? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;324767 It would help if you provided more information about the message.

...just run a torrent client on your website server?

What I'm trying to say is that you just cannot 'mark' arbitary clusters and expect them to somehow 'show up' in a defragger's display. The defragger would have to recognise the marking and react appropriately.