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At least 2Gb. I've tested this before, by running a compression test program that gradually allocated increasing amounts of memory. As soon as allocated memory reached approximately 2Gb (a little less, since the kernel and shell and other loaded programs take a bit) heavy disk activity was noticed - it was beginning to use the swapfile. I had 2Gb of physical RAM installed at the time.The upper limit is ~4Gb of virtual memory and 3Gb of physical memory (maximum supported for PC architecture).

Start the registry editor, open Folder subkey under the classes root, select shell subkey and change the default value in the right pane to "open". Also check Directory subkey for the similar.

There's also the hiberfile.sys which is the size of the system RAM, used for hibernation purpose.

You seem to have some trojan and keylogger running! In particular: R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = c:\secure32.html R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = c:\secure32.html R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = c:\secure32.html R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = c:\secure32.htmlThose are signs of a browser hijacking, Google "secure32.html" and you'll see for yourself... O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [tgcmd] "C:\Program Files\Support.com\bin\tgcmd.exe" /server /startmonitorLooks suspicious. If you know what this is, then leave it alone. O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft tool] C:\WINDOWS\system32\mstool.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft Office] C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcp.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [drsmartloadb] c:\\drsmartloadb.exe O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [pst] C:\WINDOWS\system\memaker2.EXEDefinitely malware. O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [CU1] C:\Program Files\Common Files\VCClient\VCClient.exe O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [CU2] C:\Program Files\Common Files\VCClient\VCMain.exeSpyware.W32.SurfSidekick O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [IECheck] C:\WINDOWS\IECheck.exeSuspicious. You also have some other unneeded items in the Run keys, they are not malicious but if you want to speed up your boot time I can list those too...

High-output and low-noise can be considered opposites... a very powerful fan must be loud, while a nearly silent fan will not produce as much pressure since, besides the fan bearings and motor, the majority of noise is caused by air rushing through the fan. BTW the most powerful fans I've seen are 20W 120mm units, rotating at 6000rpm.

The CMOS on some machines has "hidden options" that are not accessible by BIOS, and doing a BIOS reset won't clear those hidden options either. These are factory-set options that really do not need to be changed; in your case, the mobo probably had the wiring for a serial port, but there is no port and thus one hidden option setting in the CMOS is used to disable the detection of one. There is probably another subversion of your mobo with a serial port; for the manufacturer, it's as simple as deciding whether or not to solder on the external connector and a few other components, then setting this hidden option appropriately. A stray static surge or similar must've flipped one of those hidden setting bits, causing the (nonexistent) port to be enabled. Completely draining the charge from the CMOS chip (this *can* take a while even after the battery is removed - shorting the battery terminals with the power off and the battery removed is the fastest way) allowed it to revert back to the standard settings.

I haven't had any good encounters with NetGear products. Their router, though cheap, seems to put out a much weaker signal than any of the others I've used. It also tends to become unresponsive and in need of a reset. Their network cards have problems connecting when the signal is weak, and drop the connection frequently.

A memory leak can happen very quickly if a program just allocates memory without freeing it. I'd guess that in one of the decompression loops memory is being allocated but not freed. The reason why WinXP can handle this is that it is still leaking memory, it's just more resistant to its effects (unused virtual memory eventually gets moved into the swap file, which just grows in size.) Slow? I'm running 98se on a 4.17GHz P4, it flies on a fast CPU

Use xcopy command, xcopy d:\i386 c:\i386 /s /e /h

I don't understand why a "BIOS without support for the processor" would cause this, but read http://support.microsoft.com/?id=885626

It's the .com site, not .net

The decompression code needs to be checked. It's probably causing a memory leak. Nothing wrong with the OS itself, it's just that XP is more tolerant of memory leaks. 4Mb is by no means a large compressed file...

Disable your network card. Enable it only when you need to use it. Disable it afterwards.

did you know llxx that windows only works with the hardwares that it was installed on?and if you change the cpu,mobo it wont boot up. It will still boot but then ask you for drivers as it detects the new hardware.

1. With a hex editor. 2. Use signing tool that came with your certificates.

You might've moved a jumper whilst cleaning the machine, which enabled the onboard serial port.

It might also be overheating. Make sure it's well ventilated.

The strangest Idea to come across my mind as I was reading this post was to create several dozen Gmail accounts and upload your files to Google for temporary storage Either that, or rent some webhosting storage. Strange recurring filesystem corruptions are a sign of failing hardware. However if you pulled it out while it was writing or similar, then filesystem corruption is not abnormal. It's just when it appears seemingly randomly, and recurs, that it's a problem.

Rain is a small one that I used to use... http://www.freedownloads.be/downloaddetail...Rain-CPU-cooler (despite what it says in the link, it's actually 121Kb and not 121Mb ) Here, where power is $0.03USD / kWh there is little need for power-saving devices

Use WEP on them... and disclose only the key of the AP that you want them to connect to.

Boot from the external hard drive, preferably to a command prompt. Format your main drive if needed. Copy the entire I386 directory to your main drive and SYS it so that it will boot to a command prompt as well. Disconnect the external hard drive and allow it to boot from the main drive to a command prompt. Run WINNT.EXE in the I386 directory and your installation will continue as normal.

I've tried cmd.exe and taskmgr.exe as the shell... it works. No switches though. Maybe you could encapsulate the whole shell invocation line in a batch file and call that from the Shell key?

Attempting to "hide" the password is futile, as I demonstrated a long time ago by recovering the password stored in a compiled AutoIt script (actually, the entire script, complete with comments and formatting) within a few minutes.

Wake and Power-On are different... Wake is to wake up from Sleep mode, Power On is a cold boot. It seems most BIOSs have this feature, as I discovered when attempting to figure out why random computers at the school I worked at were turning themselves on as if they were haunted

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