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Delete his account and put a password on it. Thats all I can think of. Or, bug your parents until he gets his own comp, worked for me

lmfao omg, needed that lol

Yah same here lol Our school comps suck! PIII / Celerons at about 800mhz with Windows 98

Theres one more thing I would like to point out to LeveL. A normal audio cd holds 700mb / 80 minutes correct? Well, how come 80 minutes of WAV's are 800mb? So to follow this method would mean that he can only hold 70minutes of wav files, correct? Not 80? There you have it. 80 Min / 700MB. There would be a difference of 10 minutes / 100MB 1 Min = roughly 10mb Mathematically, it can't be WAV files. Just doesn't work out.

Your best bet is to reload the system, if your going to be making a major change like this, why not spend a little bit of time and reload the system? I have never heard of a reg key that will remove all your drivers

i tried letting it go for about a month and a half and i didnt notice a difference. so i cleared it, and have been doing so since. i dont like stuff like that getting left behind (i clear temp internet files impulsively, ie-minutes apart ) i just dont like logs/temp files/backup files (largely depends), or anything like that being left behind, so i do a clean up every day. a lot of people at school wonder why my pii 366 runs xp so well (might be because of other stuff too, i know)

I agree with you, but I don't like it when things just create useless files (thats my opinion because I myself have never had a performance increase because of where the stuff is on my hard disk.). I clear out the prefetch folder all the time, and my system has never slowed down. Nor has it sped up when the files are there. So, when I do my maintenance on the system, I clear that folder out. Just me and my personal experience.

All you gotta do is change the location in the properties of that folder. First, open properties of My Documents (Make sure its My Documents) Second, Change it to the location of the main My Documents on the other drive (Should contain, My Pictures, and My Music there) Then say OK to that, and it should change the shortcut locations for the rest of the icons on the start menu for you. Hope this helps (and welcome to the forum, good choice )

They do not use wav files. They may be similar, but they are not wav. They use what is called Compact Disc - Digital Audio. Thats the format of the disc. They don't have wav files encoded onto them, because think of it this way. Wav files are Windows format, how can Compact Disc Digital Audio be wav format when wav format did not come out until Windows? They use their own form of audio encoding, which is probably very close to what Wav is. Wav is just uncompressed audio, which is what a CD is. Wav and CD are both, 44.1Khz and 16Bit Audio. (Wav can be more than just that however. But that format works out to be 1140 kbps if I remember correctly.) Do some research for yourself, I'm tired and my girlfriend wants me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc edit: heres some more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV PCM is the type on a CD, not wav. Its close, but not exact.

1.) Yup, totally right. An audio CD does not contain *.WAV files. The reason Windows user's usually think they are WAV files, is because thats the native Uncompressed audio format of Windows. 2.) Don't worry about language, its a forum @LeveL, I hope that this information helps you out. Here is a screenshot of my XP showing "Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon"

Thats just the way the CD's work. I have an original print of "Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon" made in 1984 and it shows the same way. You'll need a program such as Audiograbber to rip the cd to wav files that you can manipulate and encode to other formats. You are wrong about Windows 95 showing up as wav files, it too showed them as *.CDA. The files are actually CD-DA, which is "Compact Disc - Digital Audio". It has been this way since the format was introduced. If you still believe its the piracy protection of Windows, I'd be glad to show you a screenshot of my laptop and desktop both reading "Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon" in Explorer. The Table of Contents (TOC) on an audio CD is what is actually displaying these files. Its not that Windows has removed anything, Linux shows the same things. Same with DOS. Take a breather before posting here, it just makes you look like an fool (I'm not saying you are, you just seem to be acting like one is all.) and know something about what you are posting about. Just calm down and relax. You will need CD Ripping software to get to the *.Wav files. Simple as that.

lol ok thats a little weird (kinda reminds me how i met my girlfriend )

Thanks for the reply. I'll look more into that when I have a bit of spare time. I don't have enough right now to figure it out lol

After using nLite on my system, I keep bumping into those.

Not this again... *shakes head* So... if the prefetch entries are used to determine the optimum order of files to be loaded, why would you want to remove them? I think what he meant by that, was a one time thing. Clean it out, and start using the computer a bit more so it makes up fresh ones, then defrag. Don't hold me to this, I'm just trying to help (I've never noticed a difference in speed when defragging though, then again I keep my system pretty clean anyway)

Well, you just put in the new motherboard and boot up with the original XP hard drive. There's no gaurantee it will work 100%, but it should be alright. Meaning, you won't have the fastest system that can run on that setup. The best thing to do when changing a major piece of hard ware like that, is to reload. You may have some issues with past hardware that was installed, or other software that is installed, so you are better off reloading the system. If you don't want to do this, however, you can still run the original install of XP on that system. There will be drawbacks to this method, and the biggest is speed. The system won't be optimized to run on the hardware at its fullest potential. Do whichever you need, whether it be reload or just keep with the original install.

I ran XP on a 100mhz with 64mb of ram and a 4mb video card. It took a really time to boot, but once you got it up and running and doing what you wanted, it was alright (still, very jumpy and slow though). I would never do that again, but I guess anything is possible if your determined enough. I bet with vLite, you could drop down the cpu req's to perhaps a 500 or so with 256mb of ram, but by then, you'll have taken so much out that vista may be less useful than 3.1 at this time. I managed to get xp's install source down to about 100mb, but it was so useless to me. It vastly depends on what you want to do with it.

I would like to know if anyone knows of a free utility to change the wallpaper at specified intervals with an option of an animation to switch between the pictures (I was hoping crossfading if possible). I've been looking all morning, and I can't find such a utility. I'd like this because I've seen Linux do it, and it looks nice and I was hoping I could have it for my laptop or desktop. Thanks for reading

I was just wondering if there is anyway to change the default window size in Windows XP. Control panel keeps going back to a window, it wouldn't be that big of a deal, and it has a scroll bar on the side in the network connections screen. It's not that big of a deal, but its just annoying, like the Nero Scout in My Computer (Already solved that one). I've been searching around the registry and on Google, but to no avail. Thanks for any help.

you can't make the drive unlimited. its a physical limitation of the disk. the technology isnt at a part where the drive can be unlimited, theres always limitations.

@ NativeTexan, i know what ya mean. i have the same way of looking at things. i run an old dell inspiron 7000 with windows xp and i love it. it may be a little slow, but its **** reliable and i have no need to update/upgrade to the latest version. i like using my laptop, and it runs very well for what i want to be able to do. i can do email, browse the web, and chat with my friends. does what i want.

i suppose you mean the total size as advertised on the drive, correct? if so, you can't. if you work it out mathematically, it works out to be the right size anyway, but in Bytes. It's not perfect, but they sell a drive advertised as 40gb, but because they round the total size in bytes. for instance, look at the size of my laptop's hard drive. look at the size in bytes, its 39,999,987,712 bytes which, if you divide by 1024 (thats how many bytes in one kilobyte) and then divide by that 2 more times, you will get the disk size in GB. Example: 39999987712 / 1024 = 39062488 KB 39062488 / 1024 = 38146.9609375 MB 38146.9609375 / 1024 = 37.25289154052734375 which is, 37.25 GB the reason they do it this way (my opinion), is because the cost of the drive is lower than if they were to make it exactly 40GB. if they did that, instead of paying $50 (aprox) for a drive, you'd pay closer to $100 or so. is it really worth the extra $50 just for an extra 2.75GB?

heheh love that one. did it to my bro's computer about a month or two ago. he could not figure it out. i should try both of them in conjunction with each other.

1gig? ****! i wish i could upgrade to 1gig. im limited to 384mb (thats what i get for a 7 year old laptop eh? ) 1gb should be enough for windows xp (im assuming thats what you have) my 384mb is enough for it to run smoothly on my PII 366. it runs a little slow, but its speedy enough for what i do. if your having trouble on 256 - 512mb ram, im thinking ram isnt the issue, i would say you need a reload perhaps.

i use windows xp because i really like it. but, for some people, they may not have hardware that can handle XP so i see why they would use 98. but the reverse can happen. where they have a system that handles xp much better than it can 98 (like my inspiron 7000 laptop) on my laptop, xp runs a lot better than 98. its faster and handles my video card a lot better. however, my armada 1700 laptop runs with 98 a lot better than xp, it boots faster, runs programs faster, and handles the hardware just better. so it vastly depends on your hardware configuration.