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Then you have been infected with a badly-coded autoit trojan Delete the firewall.exe and remove references to it from Run keys in the registry.

How hard would it be to make one? They made one of the most common mistakes in programming, using signed integers when unsigned would be more appropriate. Maybe a suitable patch could be created?

Yes, I tried it for a few days... horribly slow and the experience just wasn't that good at all.IMHO deciding to write most of the OS in .NET was already a bad move...

Your computer is attacking... itself?

Actually, Micro$oft has instructions on their site for removing the Windows Genuine Annoyance: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921914Along with a rather interesting note:

Don't they all have one of these?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PCB_mou..._connectors.jpg (one on the left)

Yes, I must've misunderstood the OP.

Thats because Vista is supposed to be an OS, i.e. it's not supposed to consume the resources, but rather only provide services for the apps that *are* supposed to be using the majority of the system resources. A game being 2-5Gb is understandable, as it contains a lot of graphics and textures, and games are supposed to have those. An OS is not a game... it doesn't require any fancy graphics and textures.A video is already compressed with lossy compression, a sacrifice of quality vs size. The same with MP3s. But those are simply data and not programs.

Your AutoIt script, obviously...

This might be impossible if the dialog box is created from a resource, since it is always positioned in the center of the screen when it is created, just like a messagebox.

You'll just get distortion if you try doing it with software, since the wave peaks will get clipped. The proper way is to get a real powered amplifier.

Minimum processor? 386DX-25MHz.

You used a bad one.Borland Resource Workshop and ResourceHacker are two good ones.

Check your code again.

That means the PE header format is invalid.

"User Interface Design Consultant"

ExeCryptor is not "remains uncracked", because it doesn't need to be cracked. It's only an obfuscator and packer, and it doesn't matter whether or not the original program code can be restored, as long as it works.

Carriage rail probably bent.

- Home automation controller - Sacrificial test environment

Doesn't iTunes use a proprietary DRM'd format for its music? You should've converted them to MP3... corrupted MP3s are probably still going to be playable (but with obvious corruption) but I wouldn't think a format which is encrypted is going to be as robust. In other words, the chances that your music is going to be recoverable is near 0. I doubt your hard drive has been physically damaged.

The link I posted just died Found a working one here: http://www.chemax.ru/download/tools/patch/pc_pcw12.zip

I think that is Asian Typography options or similar... it disappears because the document you have open does not contain any Asian characters.

It's supposed to be "his"...

Look in the device manager?

Use a resource editor on the file in question (I think it's explorer.exe)