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These temps are really high. Not high enough to be lethal at first but certainly not good on the long run. If it has been like this since nov. 05 than it could be the cause of the problem. Are these readings correct? Open your system and feel if the cpu-cooler is really this hot. If everthing inside looks really dusty some cleaning would be good . Check the fans, see if they still run properly. Install a (extra) casefan. You have a cooling problem, no matter what else is wrong (if).

Nice, but this contains user32.dll version 4.90.3001. Installing will "undo" the unofficial Q891711 user32.dll version 4.10.2233 fix right?

Thanks for sharing this good news! I hope that this means that Sun keeps supporting the Java 5 branch for a while. Java 6 does run OK on Win98se but is sluggish. And I don't see need to use it anymore if Java 5.0 is still up to date.

Mplayer uses internal codecs. That's why you can play wmv files with it. Did you uninstall/delete Wmp after you installed the wmv9 codecs? Try reinstalling the wmv9 codecs. But, By Design from Microsoft , you will always have some issues with wmv's without Wmp installed. I feel that without wmp installed playback and seeking are less smooth in any player. I made Kmplayer (no spelling error, other player) play wmv's a lot better by putting wmploc.dll and wmpui.dll in the program directory. It seems it needs those files anyway even with the wmv9 codecs installed. Btw, what version of Mplayer do you use? The latest versions don't work correct on Win9x. Controls like play/pause and stop don't work, only opening and closing files.

All drivers provided by manufactures that I know of use these .sys and .pdr files. They differ in name and date/time stamp only. I use the same from Pointchips (or something like that) and these work on all 3 USB-sticks that I own(ed). It's always the same generic Ms 5.00.1868.1 driver no matter how it's called.

Works here too. Thanks for posting this. It's a nice app. to toy around with. But I'll stick to the webbased googlemaps. Much faster on Win98. Or is the 512 MB RAM that I have not enough?

No, I disagree. If Microsoft sells OSs, they should be protected. Windows XP have no protection at all. Why should I bother my mentality? Maybe I am a mentally handicapped? Comodo is a good firewall, but it is annoying. I don't use windows, but my wife keeps asking me each time what she should do, allow or disallow. Do you think it is nice? If I give you money, protect me physically, not mentally, not virtually, not because it is my business to protect myself by myself, otherwise next time I will buy something from a different guy who offers nicer OSs. Seatbelts are annoying too. But if you refuse to wear those you should not complain that your airbag wasn't effective enough when you crash into a tree. Being insecure will will be al lot more annoying when you have to reinstall windows. Ms cannot be held responsible for that.

Maybe Norton is garbage, actually I didn't like it because it was slow. And that SP2 didn't help either, as I said, because I caught so many viruses on it. But it doesn't matter now because I reinstalled Windows completely. I reformated hard drive to FAT32 and made a fresh installation from CD. And actually I didn't notice any difference between SP1 and SP2 except that SP2 didn't speed up my computer. I want to protect what I have now and I don't want to install other garbage. But like Jeremy said, it's the opposite of what you should do to keep your system save. If you really don't trust AVG free (it kept me clean for years) then try Avira personal edition. Free as well and a great detection rate! The only good security advise that is still missing in this topic is to login as a restricted user. But that is useless since you choose to format your drives in FAT32. That's also the opposite of what you should do for security sake.

But condoms break, especially when not used properly. Improper usage is more common with computers then with condoms I think. That's why lot's of users do need antivirus software.

New (february 2007) on-demand test by AV-comparatives: http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_02.php Microsoft's One Care is also tested this time. Well, security was never their "thing" I guess....

Nobody said anything about giving away free key's. Offcourse they don't do that. You stop joking now...

Yes it does, works very good. When it comes to .doc compatiblity Openoffice is the best. I use openoffice at home and Office2003 at work. I swap doc's constantly without problems.

Call Microsoft support and explain the situation.

You could try Video Card Stability Test: http://freestone-group.com/ Still uses CPU but not comparable to 3DMark or Aquamark

I guess you switched CPU and mobo temp?

Thanks for the link anyway But about your games, why not save just the savegames and configuration files? It's all you really need and most uninstallers leave those on the system anyway. Games are very nice but they tend to take up most of my diskspace so I trash them when they bore me. When my mind changes I simply reinstall.

Then do it. To make your system boot normally at least. I'm really sorry that I dont exactly remember the procedure I used and can't help you in a better way. It's possible that I was forced into safe-mode as well, I don't remember but it's not unusual for me Sometimes when you don't know what to do then it's a good idea to do just what Windows tells you. I do recall exactly the same situation, the right esdi.pdr combined with the wrong busmaster. So trash it all to make windows happy. Then see what comes back, if you're lucky the good drivers. But please don't forget that officially the Via driver cannot be uninstalled as stated by Via. That does not mean that it is always impossible but that the results are unpredictable. If there was a reliable uninstal method for all systems then Via could have offered it.

Or totally remove msjava from your system with the msjava removal tool. This will stop microsoft update asking for the update. I had the same after installing MDIE6CU 1.2. This update contains KB816093 also but it made ms-update ask for it? Very strange, but the ujvm tool solved it. Link: http://www.mdgx.com/files/UJVM.ZIP

It's a long time ago but i'm sure that I choose "Standard Hard Disk Drivers". On the right I have more than 5 options, most of them obscure and certainly wrong. I can choose between "standard bus mastering IDE-controller" or "standard dual PCI IDE controller". I'm not 100% sure anymore but I think I choose the first. You could try them both. Other option to force the install of the standard windows drivers is to go to c:\windows\inf and look for mshdc.inf (not viavsd.inf, those are "good" windows drivers for the via chipsets but at this moment you want to get rid of as much "via" as you can). Then rightclick and choose "install". Good luck!

That's exactly what I tried first but on my system the Via driver came back after reboot, not the proper Microsoft driver. So then I changed the 1st and 2nd IDE controller in devicemanager --> properties with the default windows drivers manually. I left the VIA busmaster driver alone for now and rebooted. After that I removed the Via driver and now windows did instal his own driver after reboot. I don't know why this worked, I just tried many things because I had to get rid of this via miniport driver. Perhaps the fact that I manually reinstalled Microsoft drivers instead of removing the Via driver and let windows sort it out is the trick. @malcom0, perhaps this and the other tips here help you. I hope so but I read a lot of different things about it also on the Viaarena forum. One way or another, you can get rid of these drivers.

MDGx has answered that question already. Page 3 of this topic. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...84451&st=40 The copy2gb kernell32.dll is not needed but doesn't hurt. I have them both installed and never had problems with it. It's good to hear that shell v4.72.3812.634 is working for you. The 620 version was working for me too and I'll stick with it since I have a dutch version of it (kindly provided by Hp38user). Anyone that has used both versions succesfully but has extra benefits (performance) from the last version? If this is the case than I will use the last version too.

Yes, it is different enough that you're comparing different things. Norton AV (and NIS) makes a PC slow - that's its main problem. SAV on the other hand doesn't make it as slow (it's still quite slow, but beating NIS at this is basically impossible), but is by FAR the most unstable/crashiest AV we've EVER seen. It messed up countless MS Office installs (their "workaround" in their knowledge base thingy was esentially "reinstall"! like going around hundreds or thousands of PCs in many buildings in many sites to manually reinstall is normal?), doscan.exe eating 100% CPU for a while and then crashing (and associated errors/problems, like memory leaks in rtvscan.exe) which happenned basically on every PC we've tried it onto (existing PCs that never had problems, clean installs, you name it), etc. It was the biggest test deployment failure I've ever seen hands down. Too much stuff broken too often, requiring too much work to fix it, increasing the help desk's calls by a fair amount on its own. A real nightmare. Issues like we've never seen using any other AV product. After deploying a dozen or so patches to our test machines (patches which were aimed at fixing those same bugs, from what the release notes said), most of the issues still didn't go away. Turns out we didn't finally deploy it - too problematic/unreliable. No software company has an excuse to ship such crashy junk without any basic QA work. It should have been fairly obvious this junk is broken, and never been released before the main bugs are fixed - there's just NO excuse. This wasn't even beta testing quality. Between NAV and SAV, I just might pick NAV! (That's a bit like preferring a broken arm to a broken leg though, you still don't want either!) Yes, it'll make your PC so slow you won't be able to do anything with it, but SAV is almost as bad, and it'll also make it crash and it'll break apps and stuff - no thanks! Again, never seen anything like the things that you describe on 6000+ PC's. No crashes or whatsoever. Only thing I ever came across is that formatting DVD-RAM disc's would not work unless I temporarily disable SAV. And corrupted Office installs? Well, I've seen that a lot also on my own PC that has never had NAV or SAV installed. Office is to unstable by itself to state that any other product can corrupt it.

You don't scare me Personally I have given up on Norton since I could not install a perfectly legal version on a friends PC no matter what I did. Symantec support could not solve it either! Never seen anything like that. But I must admit that on my work (6000+ PC's) the corporate version is working fine. Or is that version so different that I am comparing different things?

best resolution True, OpenOffice is great. I use it myself and I never want to go back to Ms Office for many reasons. But if you just want to read, not edit, than those readers are much smaller and much, much faster loading.

They plan DVD-video support for version 0.41. That is something that Deepburner (free version) and BurnerXp don't have.