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Certain malwares are known to do this. Check for infection.

Any "USB Keyboard Emulation" option in BIOS?

Look in the BIOS Setup for "USB Keyboard Emulation" option or similar. The USB keyboard will then be identified as a standard PS/2 item and installation can proceed normally.

Those numbers are most likely estimates. Due to the decentralised nature of a p2p system it is nearly impossible to get an exact user count. They're are also extremely low, considering the number of the world population that have computers and the percentage of those that use P2P.

Copy the contents to another drive, reformat, then copy the contents back. That should get rid of any filesystem corruption.

Don't use a text editor... you need hex editor. Text editor doesn't work well on binary files.

Modem compression. Even in the very best case over dialup, 64kbps is the limit, more often 56kbps. The throughput speed is higher since the modem is compressing the data; the actual speed of the receive is probably 5-6KB/s.

There's also the EWF (Enhanced Write Filter) that you can get by downloading the Windows XP Embedded Edition from Microsoft (free download). It is specifically designed to reduce writes to flash-based disks, which are much more sensitive to write cycles than ordinary hard drives.

M$ releasing product keys? That's certainly something I haven't seen in a long time...

Most likely the x64 version. 32-bit XP isn't known for such problems.

What I normally do to programs like this is edit the program file itself to remove the offending directory name (null it out). Most of them will just ignore the failed directory creation and continue working properly.

I believe it uses its own custom UI code so a traditional skinner would most likely not work...

$34.00 for an animated GIF editor...

I was using a Netgear card for a while... same symptoms as you described. Eventually I just got 30ft of cat5 and went with a wired connection, since the random disconnections were getting extremely irritating.

As above... trailing linefeeds can cause that.

At the beginning of the HDD is a very bad sign... that's where the OS loader and partition table reside. A new hard drive seems to be the only solution. Fortunately they're not as expensive as they used to be.

The recovery console is a very limited version of a command prompt.

Disabling "Save a Copy" isn't going to disable anything. In fact, I'd rather just use Windows Explorer or even the command prompt to get a copy of the PDF itself.

That doesn't look like Vista to me...

In Search box type your filespec, then just select all the search results and press Delete key

Most of the software that I've downloaded only come in one language, English. You may want to open up the executable in a resource editor to see if you can delete some foreign-language resources that will remain unused.

Try 1024/1024. I've recommended this setting to many users and they have reported improved performance. In particular, a fixed-size swapfile is better since it does not have to resize it, which takes more time, and as well it could become fragmented more easily if it changed size.

Very difficult, especially if you do not know any software-reverse-engineering techiques.

Such programs are really nothing more than a Sharpen tool that you can find in any decent image editor (which is often the opposite of the Blur tool). If it is blurred, detail is forever lost, there is no way to reconstruct the original. Use the blur tool to blur a portion of an image considerably, then try the sharpen tool. You cannot obtain the original pixels, because some detail has been lost in the blurring.

What would you need GUI for? Use a graphics program like Photoshop to produce the frames of the animation, then use this gifsicle to combine them together. That's all that it's used for, it's not an image editor.