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On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 0:58 AM, Tripredacus said:
I see that the two sets of numbers do not seem to match up. I wonder if one could be wrong, or if there is a roll-over on the Days counter on the Performance tab...
System Idle Process hours 13636 (568 days) vs Uptime in Performance tab: 143 days.
The CPU time shows the sum of process times of all CPU cores. So, if you add up the CPU time of all processes shown in Task manager and divide that by 4 (in your case) you'll get your uptime.
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Do you know if there is a way to prevent the creation of new folders?
Don't create them?
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Have you tried this?
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I suppose many (if not most) of the Windows 7/8/8.1 percentages are from users who bought a new PC and didn't really have a choice but to use one of these newer OSs. I wonder what the statistic would look like if those people would have had XP as a choice.
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What do you do to secure your Windows XP OS?
Let's brainstorm:
*Only crucial system services running (less exploitable processes + performance improvement),
*Hardened Hosts files (blacklists),
*Uninstalling Telnet/Net meeting/Messenger/WMP/DCOM vulnerabilities, what else?, etc (generic Windows bloatware),
*Disabling UPnP, Administrative shares (IPC$,etc), LMHash, Null sessions, epmap (port 135), SMB (port 445), SSDP (port 1900), etc
*Disabling DCOM, paging from executives, remote desktop, remote registry, TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper (NetBT), etc
*Secure file deletion (DOD 5222.20-M),
*Any server based network hosting capabilities unavailable,
*Group Policy Enforcement set in place (based on NSA checklists)
*Latest Windows Patches,
*Firewall + AV + Peerguardian (ipblock lists) + IDS app, etc
*Registry tweaks (which?),
*HDD encryption (which?),
*User without Admin privileges,
*etc etc... What else can you think of?
HTTP + SSL + HTTPS + Nothing else. Uber security.
See where I'm getting to?
What else can you think of?
Hm, let's see - This is what I do:
- Windows XP SP3 (patched up to December 2008)
- Kerio Personal Firewall 2.15 (from 2003)
- Administrator account with a 6 character password
- None of the stuff you mentioned above except the Firewall
In 15 years I only caught a virus once (back in 2003 with Windows 2000). This was quickly solved by restoring the OS from a Ghost image, takes only 2 minutes.
I sometimes run virus and spyware scanners manually but they never turn up anything...
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Hello,
I wanted to ask someone about the way nlite works. Recently i had a argument with a friend of mine who was upset that i almost burned his laptop just by installing and running Nlite . Although i only needed to make a unnatended installation for a friend and only used the "Unnatended" and "Bootable" options, he says that nlite "is using a lot of the laptop's processing power to decompress and recompress the files" wich may lead to a sistem failure and an iminent destruction of the laptop's processor.
All i want to know is if he is right and Nlite really is a tool only for desktops.
Thank in advance and btw Great software
PS: Sorry if i posted this in the wrong place, i'm new to this
.Your friend would most likely also be upset if you borrowed his car and drove it past 30 miles/hour. That would certainly destroy the cars engine.
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This will change Windows 2000's HAL to use the PMTimer instead of the ACPI timer. It might drop the CPU by a bit, but nowhere near as far as the other apps will. Using the PMTimer will lessen the load on a machine with an ACPI timer issue, but this is more relevant on AMD chips than Intel chips, and will do little on Intel chips (this makes a huge difference on AMD processors).This should fix it:[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\HAL]
"14140000FFFFFFFF"=dword:00000010Info:
I suppose you're right. I only applied this fix a long time ago on an old computer with VIA K8T800Pro and an Athlon 4000+ which worked fine.
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Does Windows 2000 not use/manage dual-cores very efficiently?
For example: In a Thinkpad X61 with C2D 2.1 GHz processor.
Windows 2000 runs it at max speed all the time and the temperature stays up at 70-90 degrees.
Windows XP runs it with automatic speed adjustment and it's temperature is around 40 degrees.
On Windows 2000, I run RMClock and it automatically adjusts things but only lowers it down to 50 degrees, with some loss of responsiveness.
Could Windows 2000 be improved in this respect? (assuming it's not an error I made while setting it up).
This should fix it:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\HAL]
"14140000FFFFFFFF"=dword:00000010Info:
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Your best bet is to just restore/re-install Windows. Just save your relevant data to an external drive first.
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How exactly do you change the boot screen? With a modified ntoskrnl.exe?
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I have been running XP with SP3 for a few days now and at first it seemed that pop-up issue was resolved by Sp3. However, today the tooltips started hiding again...
Well, back to my old trusted tool, I guess.
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On my laptop (Thinkpad T60P with 2gb of memory), when I tried to move some folders around inside Outlook 2007 I got an error that said there was not enough memory to complete the action (the action was moving a folder with relatively few notes in it)?
So, I looked at running processes and there seemed to be more than I am used to seeing. So, I closed all the active applications and re-checked.
At this point, the application tab shows zero applications running.
But the Processes tab shows 78 running processes and a bunch of these are using 8K or memory.
What are all these things?
My desktop only has 44 running processes at start up and they seem to be taking 3-4K each rather than so many taking 7-8K.
Here is a picture (I do not know how to capture a list of the running processes other than by doing a screen capture).
How can I tell what is really needed and what is garbage? I do have Avast AntiVirus running and have done a scan. Nothing detected.
Wow, after seeing that I had to post the processes tab on my computer after startup:
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I could not reproduce this with your instructions. I'm running XP SP3 so maybe it was fixed??
It would seem that it was fixed in SP3. I have not tried SP3 myself.
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long answer:yes
but you have to make unattende disc(your xp cd) and you can there change the name of win folder or prgram files folder
try to read msfn xp unattended guide...!winnt.sif!....
I believe he was referring to an existing installation.
I know that the directory name can be changed before the installation.
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Open your "boot.ini" and change it so it looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
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Like the title says, is there a way to rename the /WINDOWS (sometimes called"%WINDIR") directory and subdirectories? I'd also like to know how in Win 9x, too. Thanks.
Short answer: No.
Even if you started from a WinPE CD which would allow you to rename the directories, your Windows installation would be screwed because there are just too many references in the registry and elsewhere which point to this directory.
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By the way, this bug can easily be reproduced:
Select any application shortcut in the Start Menu, right click and then "Properties", then click Cancel or OK. Check the tooltips.
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Is it something you can share please?
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Terry, East Grinstead, UK
Sure -> TTT.zip
Copy "ToolTipFix.exe" to your system32 directory, execute it and then import the ttfix.reg file. The program will then always start with Windows and run continously in the background, polling the tooltip windows periodically and bring them on top of the taskbar/system tray. The tool uses very little resources.
Let me know how it works for you.
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SP3 fixes it.
Really? This bug has been around for years now, also in Windows 2003 Server. About a year ago I got fed up waiting for a fix from MS and wrote a tool that fixes this for good (all the reg patches I tried did not work).
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Hi,
I'm about to nLite a German version of XP for a friend. I switched to the German interface in nLite but for some of the options I don't know what the equivalent option in English is (which I'm familiar with). I'm assuming that the structure for German and English Windows is the same, just the labels in nLite are translated.
My question (to nuhi): Can I simply use the English interface in nLite to remove components from a German XP?
Thanks in advance.
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Yup, there are two way as mentioned above.
1) Create your own identity and use a password. This will allow you to password protect your OE account.
2) Create a user profile. This is probably better since you can protect your OE account with a login password rather than an identity password, and with profile password, you can protect your documents in My Documents folder.
The .dbx files will still be accessible and they are not encrypted.
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[Cancelled by the Author] Extended Kernel for XP (ExtendedXP)
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A pity that this only works with IE8 installed.