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    [HowTo] add Hibernate button

    in Customizing Windows

    Posted

    Hi,

    You can also install MS Hotfix KB875506 and add a new registry setting:

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Shutdown]
    "ShowHibernateButton"=dword:00000001

    This hotfix has an updated MSGINA.DLL which allows for all four buttons to appear on the signoff dialog.

    Some OEM PC's ship this update (I have seen it on some Sony PC's for example) so it's available out there.

    This hotfix should be available from the usual online sources.

    Kind Regards

    Simon

    note: for future readers of this thread - WinXP Service Pack 3 included the Hotfix KB875506 that PsiMoon314 mentioned here

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    question about changing WinXP activation after install (not about crac

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    thank you - you cleared a lot of that up for me.

    2 - "Incorrect Key"? I'm confused. You mean using the COA key with the Upgrade CD? Won't (shouldn't) work.

    I was pretty sure I was able to deactivate windows and use the COA key to reactivate it. I might be mistaken - I lose track of what all I try sometimes.

    I was mainly concerned that I "used up" that upgrade cd of mine in the process of testing that process out to confirm it - since I was just planning on junking the hard drive I was installing it to. I didn't know an install cd could be activated more than once. (I'm not sure why I went and called microsoft, though, that was a little crazy.)

    Always use a "keyfinder" method to get the OEM-specific key if building "your own flavor of Pre-Activated" (see thread mentioned).

    (from thread)

    ... However, if you don't have the Dell OEM CD, but have another manufacturer's OEM CD, you can make your own Dell OEM CD ...

    I didn't know that was possible - that could come in extremely handy. I'm going to have to try that out.

    Whew!

    lol - I had kind of an essay question thing going on there, didn't I - sry

    I really do appreciate your help, though. thank you!

    _

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    question about changing WinXP activation after install (not about crac

    in Windows XP

    Posted · Edited by erfahren

    awhile back I was working on someone's pc - installed a new hard drive (I think it was a hp/compaq) and was having trouble with doing a system recovery (reinstalling windows) from its recovery disks (I kept getting BSOD's). Wanting to see if it may have been a problems with the disks themselves I installed Windows XP HE off of an Windows XP HE upgrade disk I have (it's never actually been used on a computer). That seemed to work so I tried the steps outlined here to change the activation key to the key that was on the green Microsoft Windows XP HE sticker on the back of the pc. I'm pretty certain it worked; the activation accepted the key. (I later got new recovery disks for the pc from hp/compaq and reinstalled using them).

    I wanted to confirm that this was always possible so tried doing that on another pc I picked up used (an old Dell gx260 with a wiped and failing hard drive & no recovery disks). It didn't work - said "incorrect key". I wasn't sure of what all I did the first time so I went and called the Microsoft Windows Activation and went through the steps they outlined and it activated. I think I just activated that copy of Windows XP to be used on that computer - I didn't really want to do that (I ordered the recovery media for the pc from Dell and was going to use that.)

    the questions I have:

    did I just render that copy of Windows XP I used useless to be used on any other computer?

    Once I use the Dell recovery disks to reinstall WinXP on it will it de-activate that copy of WinXP I used - activating the Dell version to be used with the pc instead?

    is what I was attempting to do in the first place possible (using the computer's OEM product key instead of the key on a WinXP install disk) - I'm pretty certain that worked the first time?

    I come across computers without the recovery media often - it seems that most people don't consider them important enough to save (arghhh!! - my pet peeve). A lot of pc's have recovery partitions that can be used - I come across many people knowledgeable in computers who don't seem to know that (and end up wiping them off the hard drive). I do know there's a difference between OEM versions of Windows and the Microsoft Windows installation disks - although I can't say that I understand all of that completely since I've seen WinXP install disks labeled OEM that looked the same as ones that aren't - that's a sort of a separate issue though.

    anyway - I apologize for the verboseness of my post, but wanted to provide enough info. - thanks

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    Free Software List 2009 - 2014

    in Software Hangout

    Posted

    I'd like to see an Educational category - but the only entry I personally have for it right now is Stellarium - may be a little graphics intensive but it's great - from their site:

    Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

    It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

    I never see clipboard managers on these lists - how do people get along without one? it's beyond me!

    YankeeClipper III - my favorite

    ArsClip

    a couple of dictionaries accessible from the tray:

    there's WordWeb and StarDict has a Windows version

    Also...

    LMMS - Linux MultiMedia Studio has a Windows version now

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    CompUSA closing all its stores

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    For all you folks in the US (and has heard of them), I just heard that CompUSA was bought out and all the stores will be closed (for good). Apparently it's all happening pretty quickly.

    -- I have one near me but hardly ever go there anymore (and when I do I rarely buy anyhing worth mentioning). I'm sure I'm not alone in that so I guess it was inevitable.

    It sounds like they might liquidate their inventory after the holiday sales.

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    MSFN's Official Free Software List

    in Software Hangout

    Posted

    these little utilities can give the hex/rgb color value of an individual pixel on the screen. they can come in handy for web page designers and for graphics work.

    Color Detector: http://www.cosmin.com/colordetector/

    Color Cop: http://prall.net/colorcop/features

    ColorPic: http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

    Instant Eyedropper: http://instant-eyedropper.com/

    I personally like Color Detector but Color Cop has a stand-alone version. Haven't tried the other two.

    Also, a recent PCWorld newsletter mentioned GIMPshop: http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294

    has anyone tried it?

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    Linux Tips&Tricks

    in Other Operating Systems

    Posted

    A little extension for Nautilus that I find comes in handy is nautilus-open-terminal. From the package description:

    nautilus plugin for opening terminals in arbitrary local paths

    nautilus-open-terminal is a proof-of-concept Nautilus extension which allows you to open a terminal in arbitrary local folders.

    There is also Glipper, the Gnome counterpart to the KDE Klipper clipboard manager.

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    GNOME Themes

    in Other Operating Systems

    Posted

    there is also the gnome-art package available in the repositories (in Ubuntu anyway)

    "Gnome Art is a tool for downloading and installing GNOME themes

    from http://art.gnome.org/ website. It provides a nice theme list

    with options to preview, download and install them."

    Also, if anyone ever wonders what the different theme types are (as I did at first) - GTK2, Metacity, etc. this thread explains it all well.

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    [Desktops] 2007

    in Windows Desktops Screenshots

    Posted · Edited by erfahren

    my new (budget) Acer notebook with Vista (broke the display on my old one) -- the driver for the ATI integrated graphics card on this one doesn't support Beryl (Linux desktop enhancements) that well :( -- but I have Vista now! :D - (I guess...)

    scrnshot_j_thmb.png

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    Web page designers that ...?

    in Funny Farm

    Posted

    Just had to share this. I frequent a site called Web Pages That Suck - learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design. Recently there was a site featured in the "Daily Sucker" that was a site selling medical alert bracelets, pendents, etc. In the site map it had links not only to the designer's business site but to his somewhat personal site as well. (Note the photo in the lower left of the page.) I then took a look at his "ALL MINE..." sites. First I looked at his "pickapack.com" site (yeah ok, whatever right?). Well, I then clicked on the (hehehe) "hishair.com" one. I hit the floor laughing! Pretty darn hilarious IMO!

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    protocol...sites

    in Web Development (HTML, Java, PHP, ASP, XML, etc.)

    Posted

    HTTP -- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/

    Wikipedia has a good article on TCP/IP -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

    you can try the external links from there as well.

    (Side note: They say that Wikipedia's information can't always be trusted, but I read an article somewhere recently that a study was done using experts in varied fields and most found that information in their corresponding fields was pretty accurate. Here's a similar article on CNet.)

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    Which OS are you?

    in Funny Farm

    Posted

    we have definatly had this post before... try searching for it if u want.

    Actually, I thought that was likely so I did search for it first but came up with a lot of irrelevant results. (oops... I just did a search for the site's name "bbspot" and came up with a couple previous posts -- one in 2004, one in 2003, etc.) I apologize. Mods can remove it if they want. :blushing:

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    Why does "explorer.exe" try to connect to the internet?

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    I blocked explorer.exe in ZoneAlarm once because of a suggestion I read on a security site. A few days later I discovered I couldn't open a locally saved HTML file with a double-click if Opera was already open, a double-click would however launch Opera (with the file) if it wasn't. It took me a couple of hours screwing around untill I realized that it was the blocked explorer.exe that was the reason. Same problem with Firefox, never tried IE.

    I tried setting Opera to work in offline mode and had the same results. I don't understand why that is.

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    Rosetta@home needs our help!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I got it up and running on my mostly unused desktop. Had a little trouble with the version of BOINC software in the Ubuntu repositories (it wouldn't abide by the CPU time limits I set. I installed the new version from their site and it's working well.

    ,

    The Rosetta research is definitely commendable, unlike the SETI project which is an exercise in futility IMO!

    Hopefully there'll be more responses..

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