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As i had a little time today, i modified the dll and made it to run an exe named customcommand.exe (create one if needed with autoit or another compiler) and it must be in c:\windows\system32. The attached dll might be stored where you want and then must be registered with regsvr32.

In the bios , what is the setting for IDE/SATA configuration and does a raid array exist? It doesn't seems a storage related error but checking it doesn't cost much. The XPS 630i comes with nvidia raid so you'll need to be sure to have a CD with the nvidia raid driver. You should have at least a ref to nvrd32.sys in the txtsetup.sif (it's a text file) which is in the I386 folder of your XP CD. If you have an usb floppy disk try to put the nvidia raid driver on it then retry. Or you could slipstream the driver on your xp CD with nlite or manualy.

For movies playing upside down, i remember a setting on some graphics card divers to flip video and also on divxG400 (directshow filter) also ffdshow (not sure if it works for W98) and vlc have this option built-in.

I'll also check if they have the lastest bios and if the bios settings are set correctly as some bios might emulate floppy/zip/hd when booting from usb and sometimes only one works.

I don't completly agree with you: the itanium isn't supported by XP x86. Also if you install win 3.11 on dual core or better you won't get all the benefits of the dual core architecture.

You need to expand the files before opening it with notepad or it will display binary content as ascii. That's pretty small for cab files but the only way to be sure is to expand them.

It might be needed to slipstream raid/ahci sata driver in your XP CD (if it doesn't have it already). Also post your stop error and the the exact model of your dell xps.

If the exactly same CD works on other computers with same hardware then there is something wrong with the bios settings (sata ahci/raid setting perhaps) of computer where it doesn't work.

Yes.

You might try a dirty trick: Solder pin 13/14 to a switch ( like this one : ) This will be your new power switch. It worked for me for an old asus P4 board which would not power one unless like this (some component might have died).

The .CA_ files you found might be the right ones (most likely): To be sure you'll need to use expand from command line to uncompress them to .cab and then check with 7zip (for example) if you can open them and see files inside (that's the best way). If they are .cat files (text files), you should be able to open them with notepad. As for your second question, some recovery discs are repacked completly, so it's hard to slipstream. For the fourth, it is yes and it is easy.

A "bad" way would be something like this: @echo off setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION if "%1"=="" goto syntax if "%2"=="" goto syntax if "%3"=="" goto syntax if "%4"=="" goto syntax set /a nbl=0 if exist %2 del /q /f %2 for /f "delims=" %%? in (%1) do ( set /a nbl+=1 if !nbl! LSS %3 echo %%? >>%2 if !nbl! GTR %4 echo %%? >>%2 ) goto end :syntax echo %0 sourcefile destinationfile lowerlinenumber upperlinenumber echo will create destinationfile with lines from lowerlinenumber to upperlinenumber removed goto end :end endlocal

You should read this post: http://www.msfn.org/board/slipstreaming-sp6a-t109439.html

For this mater, i would simply user the recovery console from windows CD and use fixmbr and fixboot if needed. Sorry to reply off topic.

If you really want to create a context menu handler dll, look there: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/shellextguide7.aspx But you'll need VC++ understanding to make it suit your needs.

Instead of the batch file, i'll do an autoit .exe: sd.au3: send("#d",0) and it should work like a charms if you compile the autoit file au3. As for the problem, you're trying to launch a script from the command key and it is expected to be an exe i think.

Yes escape. That's what happen my dyslexia takeover...

That should work depending on the settings of card1. If card1 has a dafault gateway, you'll need to remove it (and replace it with a route add -p ..... for your local networks) and then use the isp config on the card2. If your local networks are not private ip addresses, you won't be able to access those networks on internet.

I have the same behaviour when modifying the boot.ini but the changes will be done after the error message. By the way it might be faster to edit it with notepad after removing R, S and H attributes from command line: attrib -r -s -h %systemdrive%\boot.ini Then editing with notepad: notepad %systemdrive%\boot.ini the safemode swith must be added like this: /safeboot:minimal And in the end adding back R H S attributes. attrib +r +s +h %systemdrive%\boot.ini

Just use regshot to find the needed keys. (set all to default, 1st shot, make the changes, 2nd shot, compare)

Does pressing espace key after logging in (when the screen only show the background) solving the problem ?

Even with the best and faster hardware, it would probably crash before loading all the spreadsheets as most 75MB excel files won't work very well with other versions... Another 'good' test worth seeing: - export an excel file as csv with the same value in a column and whatever you want in the other, - make at least 1MB .CSV - open it with notepad and replace the value (the one that is the same in the column) with another one - do the same with pspad or notepad++ both free. Notepad can take up to 10min to do it, the others do it in 1s or 2s max....

What are you trying to do in msconfig (perhaps editing a read-only file )?

The speed of a hard drive can be seen under two aspects: - access time implying a higher rpm speed - throuput => check benchmarks for the best. When using raid array, access time is slower (except for raid 1 and raid 10), that's why a faster speed (rpm) is usually needed when you need many people to use it. In cases you're planning to only use it for 2 computer clients (at the same time), you could choose whatever brand and model of disks. For more than 5 clients, you'll need at least 7200rpm drives or faster. If you're after high transfer rates, you'll need a hardware adapter with at least read cache (preferably write cache with backup battery) and faster drives (transfer rates). Depending on the data to be stored, you can also adapt the drives specs: when storing more small files (<1MB), you need faster drives (rpm). Raid 5 is great when using many drives but it increase the possibility of the one drive failing so you'll have to find a balanced number. Also the adapter needs to very realiable in raid 5 cases or raid 10. Then as Tripredacus said, there are drives optimised for raid array like Seagate ES series and Western Digital RE and other professional (mostly sas) drives. You could use in theory every brand and model you might want but reality might be a little disappointing: for example samsung F1 (non raid as there is a raid edition of this model) won't work well with some raid adapter. I never got any problem with seagate when using baracuda instead of ES ones but it is heavily depending on the raid adapter. For raid adapter, 3ware (amcc or lsi now), areca and adaptec are the best brands.

Here is it: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\ShellBrowser ITBarLayout= As this value is a big binary value, it is a little hard to handle it without changing other paramters. The right one seems to be the thirteen byte with the binary value 32 for no text, 34 for text a the right of the icon and 30 for text under. This option will only be used when you launch another browser.