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To my knowledge, there isn't any downloadable upgrade to windows 7 from XP; also windows 8 isn't released yet ,so i think you're speaking about Internet explorer 7 or 8.

Just my two cents but did you tried if the problem was the same with another system (not windows 7) ? From the problems you reported, it could be be hardware problem and most likely of MB / RAM / CPU. I would underclock cpu (if your bios support it) and put a base GC to test. When testing ram with memtest make sure to do at least 4 passes. To test the cpu, you can run several prime at the same time. As one core of the cpu is already damaged, the others might not work properly so that's most likely the culprit.

If a trojan was installed and the registry and all files were corrupted, you have very bad luck and you only have one option: format the hard drive and reinstall. But this kind of thing (all those symptoms) doesn't happen very often so resolving one of those issues can solve all. Also there isn't any Microsoft system32.dll included in XP.

First, some modem doesn't need any filter also you can use this method to check if the filter is ok.

Yes it might be the cause if you're having problem with all apps at random times. You might try to do a tracert to the source you're downloading from. Also most provider have the ftp where they host some files; you could try to download files from there when you encounter the problem to see if it is doing the same thing. Some providers offer settings to tweak fastpath and interleaving; you might play with those settings and see if it improves things.

If you download the exact same thing many times (to make consistent tests), with your app or firefox/IE, what are the results (average time / max time /min time for both) ?

The only thing i could think is that you burnt the iso file as a file and not as an iso: you can check this by checking what files are on the burnt CD. If there is only one file, then it wasn't burnt correctly.

Look at the sticky thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140247-trace-windows-7-bootshutdownhibernatestandbyresume-issues/, tracing might.

I agree : That isn't a fix. It seems some nvidia driver doesn't handle correctly resuming because they "forget" to wake up when hyperthreading is enabled. You can try and revert it back after the test.

If you have an nvidia video card and an hyperthreading cpu, you could try disabling hyperthreading in bios and see if it solve the problem.

Avast seems to stop nlite from doing its file copy from the CD, that's most probably the root cause of your problems. Set an exclusion in avast or disable it temporary.

1) That's why SSD were created: because they have algorithms to reduce the wear leveling. Most industrial end users of those are using CF mostly readonly and that's explained on mp3car or that was (I didn't go there for a long time) and in most case use linux based OS optimized to not write much (some in fact doesn't write at all if you disable the logging and never upgrade the firmware which is the linux OS). 2) You're right again but you could still use another drive to store pagefile. 3) Never saw a windows 2003 running defrag in background you might want to speak about the indexing process (i usually disable this service). 4) First i'd disable all unneeded services then use sysinternals handle or process explorer to check for more. If you don't know what service to disable, a good starting point is Black Viper's website. 5) I would buy an ssd instead as it will be faster and more reliable and now the price should be about the same for the same size.

Your actual bios settings should be almost defaults (and sometimes loading default clean an inaccessible bios part and solve the problem) but you're right you should store somewhere the settings as some of them might have been modified. In most case you can't change the reserved ones. In your case, you should look in XP device manager, check on port LPT which interrupt is used then change the view to "Resources by Type" then go to interrupts and check if two devices are using a shared irq. If yes, and if the device is an add-in card, you can try removing it to see if it solve the problem (you'll have to add it again after on another slot). If yes, and the device isn't an add-in card, you might try to disable it in the bios (if it isn't something you're using) or you can try to change the resources used by the LPT port (see chapter 2.5.2 of your MB manual). I usually disable all things in the bios i don't use (lpt, com ,midi). If no, do the same thing with other resources used by the LPT port. I also see your bios has a lot different settings for the lpt port, the fastest one (should be ECP only) and it should also be the most compatible one so you might try just modifying this value and force a scan hardware for new device in device manager.

If you have access to internet with both, i don't understand the meaning of As for the other question: Yes, you can. It's only a matter of configuring the things rights. Here is an example of how to do things. You can also use remote desktop to connect to the XP from Win 7 and do what you want like if you were using the XP computer.

As freeagent desk doesn't have a sata port, he will have to disassemble the enclosure of the drive and thus losing its five year warranty.

You might reset the bios settings by using F5 (setup defaults) once in the bios. Then it should ask a confirmation. As for the current problem, i would remove any pci card and try to see if there any improvement when messing around the parallel port. Also it might be the IRQ assignment who is root cause of the problem, sometimes on those old boards it might help to assign IRQ manually in the bios (chapter 2.5.3 of your MB manual) as some material didn't work correctly when sharing an IRQ.

Of course, you didn't do what MagicAndre1981 asked. If you don't post a full memory dump generated at time the you get the peak of memory usage, then nobody can know what going wrong on your computer. Don't blame on others your lack of knowledge and abilities.

When i had the case (with an oem xp which had a motherboard change) the repair install did not work (i repaired with a different version and service pack CD). I got the same problem after.

It is supposed to be configured in the bios (Intel ME) and for the kvm ability, i found that i should be supported since amt 6.0 (that's what i tried, perhaps a misconfiguration). You need to install intel management kit. A demo on youtube:

Dell's technology is called DRAC or iDRAC. Intel AMT can do a lot but when i did my last test of AMT, it only had a few features of a DRAC or ILO (HP) or RSA (IBM): power management and logs (can be used for diagnostics). Some DFI industrial boards come with intel AMT. To my knowledge there are currently no desktop class with kvm support unless AMT has really improved since my tests. There is still the kvm ip that can be used for this and it will work for all desktop (if the kvm has the right connectors).

This website has trial versions of many old nero versions and 7.5.1 seems to be the lastest for 98.

If you try China -> Japan, you can use jet ski.

The subnet explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network.

This Ms KB and this one might be an explaination.

If just checking which dhcp answered and acting accordingly (release ip then renew if wrong dhcp) is enough you might create a script to do it. But in most cases it's the same dhcp which answer faster so you'll be stuck at the same point. As you need to run multiple copies at the same time, using a random ip might work but might cause problems with your dhcp. The right way to do it would be: - first exclude from dhcp a specific range of ip addresses reserved for winpe. - create a script to use it (first winpe will use first ip then other will try the first ip and see it's already in use and use the next one).