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exactly what brian said, and if you make sure that write-caching is disabled for removable drives you can safely remove it ANY time that the drive isn't being used...even without using the "safely remove hardware" option

REMOVED DOS typically has NO support for the faster drive interfaces (ATA, SATA, etc.) and so the computer defaults to PIO for data transfer, which is terribly terribly slow. and there ya have it. (besides, XP and newer boot into their own operating environment to install from anyways) Edit: Please be polite. Thank you.

why the desperate need to defrag 15mb of data? how fragmented could it be? now onto the important question: where on the harddrive is your dos partition physically located? at the beginning, middle, or end? being unable to boot past the 1024 cylinder i know is an old BIOS limitation, but i'm unsure if it's also a DOS limitation. personally i'd use partition magic to double check that the partition is indeed FAT16 and convert it if necesarry.

i think u went a little too deep in your analysis, i'd bet money it's your graphics driver. if you're not using the newest catalyst, go upgrade and see if that fixes it. newest is 6.4 i think? if you are using the newest catalyst then try downgrading to the previous version. don't forget to use ati's uninstaller to completely remove existing catalyst drivers. if necessary, try downgrading to the very first catalyst that supported your card. whenever you do find a stable driver for your card, don't upgrade it just because a newer version comes out...just stick with what works. - cheers on the nice mobo choice

HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\UserPreferencesMask anyone have a *complete* guide to that registry key? i haven't had any luck finding detailed information

anyone that has memory issues with firefox should upgrade their 128mb of RAM on a side note, any idea how to apply this tweak externally? (from outside of firefox)

diskeeper is the biggest pile of trash ever coded. bloated, slow and inefficient. hell, u gotta run diskeeper like 10 times if your harddrive is a bit full. it's the most retarded defrag ever made. one time my HD was 80% full (**** movies) and diskeeper couldn't defrag it even after 12 tries (i gave up after 12). furthermore, if you want diskeeper to optimize file placement it can't do it just by pressing the button and having it defrag.....you gotta schedule it to run PerfectDisk did everything in one try. i'm with nuhi and all the other intelligent people in this thread: PerfectDisk is best by far. it's fast, small, doesn't use a lot of memory, and leaves your harddrive noticeably quicker.

XFS pretty much....sucks. and i think there's brighter people behind Reiser

personally, when i'm picking a distro to use on a fresh computer i have to actually test out the installs to see how it likes my system hardware. i usually grab say a top 3 out the distros i like because sometimes with certain hardware combinations installation can be a pain. i'm too lazy to fix bad installs because there are so many nice stable distros to choose from these days. (and so little software that i actually use regularly)

don't need the quotes, and hey u could always try it out...your computer won't break

he stole what i was going to say. zip folders is slow and terrible and i always disable it to speed up my system. furthermore, a programmer adding functions to zipfldr.dll will do nothing if the program that calls zipfldr.dll (explorer??iexplorer??) does not know how to utilize those functions. and another thing, to comply with copyright you could probably only add support for rar decompression and not compression. besides, does micro$ really need to put another company out of business??

back in the day i had the same program on my computer that police sketch artists use to create composites. there's probably a small handful of professional programs that do this now. program was called FACES 2.0 i just found a website for the program, it's quite a bit newer now too http://www.pimall.com/NAIS/faces.html

disabling dns cache is needed for users who use large HOSTS files. also, windows still caches DNS queries even with this service disabled. also, i too have NLA disabled and i never have to wait longer than 5 seconds for my computer to connect and get an ip address.

I also have to state that building an x64 version of a 32bit application shouldn't be hard for most vendors - assuming they aren't using direct access to functions and are using the default exposed Win32 APIs, a relatively simple code review and recompile using an x64 compiler should be all that is needed. Now if a vendor uses filter drivers, direct access to functions, built-in application memory management outside the NT memory manager, or any other such type function then yes, building an x64 version of that application will require some work. u don't have a f***in clue. it's actually quite painstaking to make sure all your code is portable.

go to start menu > run and paste this line and run it: bootcfg /raw /id 1 "/noexecute=AlwaysOff /NOPAE /fastdetect on next reboot dep will be disabled

i have a tweaking site called XP Domination, please check it out. i use only proven & documented registry tweaks. it's a small script that doesn't need any program to run and doesn't install any software. it simpy performs a few tweaks and then deletes itself. perfect for unattended windows cds. also on my site is a small script which can hack windows file protection even while /system32/sfc_os.dll is in use. feel free to email me about any registry tweaks you think should be removed or added to XP Tweaks