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Server 2005? You mean 2003? Or this?

This is bad. Usually it indicates the hard drive is wearing out or damaged. Windows accesses the registry hive as one of the first files read during boot, so the sectors this file resides in gets a lot of read/write activity and thus are the first to fail.Take the HDD out and plug it into a desktop PC (I'm assuming you have one) - you may need to use an adapter (cheap). Now you can read the contents of the drive and/or format it from the desktop machine.

If there was data on it, it got corrupted. Search this forum and the software forum for "data recovery", many others have had the same situation as you.

You have to specify the multiprocessor kernel, and it seems the multiprocessor HAL as well. See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...on/bootini.mspx for more information.

Flash drives were not meant for this type of usage anyway, as they have a much shorter lifespan (several hundred thousand to approximately a million writes per bit) than hard drives (several billion writes? magnetic media doesn't wear out in the same way).

You stole my line, lol

Try forcing the 865 drivers on it. Might need some hex editing. I had started a project to support 900 series chipsets but I'm too busy with other things

Enough with the browser recommendations... IE6 works fine with Java.

Nothing to worry about.

In other words, if you have software that must require Vista to run (currently rare).Otherwise, an XP is fine too.

Good rule to follow: Upgrade only when absolutely necessary.

You just made another one laugh Seriously, learn a real scripting language like Perl. I remember .NET programs can have some "integrity verification" - I forgot the term (locked assembly? fixed assembly?) but a few Googles should get some. I don't work with .NET much, if at all.

In particular: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=600121 Regarding legality - many people download MP3s, software, etc. from P2P networks. Is it illegal? Yes. Is the risk of getting caught high? No. Do they still do it? Yes. Same with public proxies. If you really want anonymity you can use Tor, but it's too slow for regular browsing use.

Just set it to use the drive as a swapfile. The setting is somewhere in Control Panel -> System -> Hardware

I've been wondering the same thing. Apparently the XP driver includes built-in generic VESA support.About XP drivers on 98, ME and 98SE actually support WDM drivers (which XP uses) but set of API is reduced. Maybe by editing the drivers themselves, or the API, can make it work..

There also appears to be a few GIFs in there. The 4 bytes following "BM" indicate how long the data is. Do not change the size of the data or you'll corrupt the whole executable.

- Most processes are not DLLs and do not start from RunDll32. Those that are, are well-known.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server Read and be educated.

i would agree that many fans would make the case loud, but 60dB? i kinda find that a little hard to believe. 72dB causes internal ear damage, 60 isn't that far off. i would say my system, with 10 fans might make it to 35 at the most...but unless you have a 5700RPM 80mm case fan, i doubt that your system is that loud. seemingly 60dB, but working with audio and being a little more realistic, -3dB is where most mp3's are recorded. Two 6000RPM 80mm ball-bearing fans in the rear (extracting hot air expelled from the CPU heatsink), one 3600RPM 120mm in the front cooling the HDDs (which are heatsinked, as I mentioned above). For the CPU, two 80mm 7200RPM fans on a huge custom-made heatsink, and the last two fans are a pair of 3600RPM 80mm in the PSU.I've measured it with a sound level meter next to my ear and it's ~60dB; right next to one of the fans gets closer to 70dB.

http://www.ethereal.com/ Run the machine to be spied on through a proxy, and use Ethereal on the proxy.

FFDshow > * It plays a *lot* of formats, if you enable them. In fact I didn't know until recently that it did WMV and FLV as well. Now it's the only codec I have on my system

Ensure you are using the multiprocessor kernel (ntkrnlmp.exe) instead of the single-processor one.

LOL?Check the Java configuration (it's an applet in the control panel) for security settings as well.

Are you sure you found it? Some other things like import tables can appear to be bitmaps...

It's possible to get the computer name via NetBIOS, but you have to know his IP address to send the packets to since arp will only give the physical interface to send to, and if that IP is the same as your own...