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@Famer right said. This thread is only meant for existing members, who would've been around here for some time. Do sign up with MSFN for the sake of getting Gmail, if you want to. But remember that you must make atleast 20 posts, and atleast a week must pass, before you can be considered for receiving a Gmail invitation from here. @everybody Do you remember the rush there was for accounts when gamehead generously made a similar thread? (a few weeks ago). People had to say multiple times that they had no invites at that point of time to give out, and gamehead finally closed it - such was the spamming there. And now this? Multiple people announcing multiple times that there's no takers? Is this the same world at all? This thing has stood itself on the head, it seems. Ha ha ha, people are saturated with availability of Gmail accounts, maybe Google has to consider finishing up with the "testing" status - and go offering accounts public without all these obstacles of "invitations".

Now, now.... no kicking please - we only kick the football on field, lol. Manchester United is not that interesting these days to watch out for - ever since Beckham moved.

Right, and "Pop Goes The GMail" has now changed its name, I read. Its called "Gmail Popper" (if my memory serves me right).

@SiMoNsAyS That's nice! Some friends of yours might want Gmail as well, so a few of those invites will go in that direction. Just keep one or two for giving out here, might be more than enough - there seems to be nobody needing it at all.... @nolookingca ha ha... nice advertisement, but I won't get hooked that easily, LOL. IE and IE-based browsers are history as far as I'm concerned. And if the ads in Gmail are really too bother-some for you, there's ways to keep them from coming up when you view your mails, or to access Gmail through other e-mail clients. Although that is not being very kind to Google then. A better option to exercise is to payback google by not blocking out their ads. That makes me think - hey, how can I block out "NolookingcaAdSense"s ads? LOL The reason about newsletters..... not really needed to mention that, but now that you say so - I'm gonna wish that the next time you see your Inbox, its filled with 1000 MB of newsletters. And about the late "cashing-in" on the invite, yeah, I know friends who didn't use their invites until it was about to expire (Gmail invites will expire in 3 weeks, as the mail says) - so you are much quicker. As far as I know, most multi-tabbed applications have three ways to close a tab: 1. the normal "close tab" button in the GUI. 2. Ctrl+F4 3. Ctrl+W And its not any different with opera. So all those ways to close tab. But the main "close tab" button could've done with not being that "crashy" as I call it. OK, and now back on topic. "Who wants Gmail?".

Superman has always had a "being good" feeling about him - is always squeaky clean "good" and and all that, which attracted one as a child. ("all the noble qualities" - as Phridean said as well) Moreover, when I was very young, alongside the comics there were the animated series on TV (of Superman and his Super-Woman, Super-Boy, Super-Girl). Anyone remember those? I bet many of you do!

I tried it - didn't keep it, didn't feel it good enough. But what's that got to do with a WMP 10 thread? :confused: Anyways, the final release of WMP 10 is out, and is only for XP. Well, win2k can do with older versions of less-than-resource-hungry applications.

The mobile processors seem to be good at keeping heat down - and some of them are compatible with desktop MoBos too! YAY!!! Just for the record, my own proc. over-heat problem is still un-resolved, if anyone knows ways to bring down temp., click here: (to go to that thread) AthlonXP over-heats!

Nice diversity of languages we have here - but as expected, english is in the majority. Oh well, makes it easy for us to communicate amongst each other..

Simply put, ghost is good when you've got a few tens of machines in front of you (or hundreds, but that's a different scale altogether - you won't have all of them IN FRONT of you), all with the same hardware in them. Unattended installs are better when the number is fewer with more variance in hardware, and you have really tweaked the uA well enough to make it viable.

Hey, and don't continue that for more shifts!! Some people say that having any more than 2 in a day has long-term effects on health - insomnia and all that... Nor is tea very gentle on health - atleast not the teas which claim to be "herbal", "for health" and all that. Milk is good, and flavoured milk is even better (not flavoured with coffee, flavoured with almonds/pista/etc.).

@nolookingca You're welcome. Enjoy it. In other news..... (continuation of my post above) Hey, I'm noticing more differences in how the Inbox displays mails as well.... (very slight, though). And one irritating thing: Since only Opera 7.60 (among all its predecessors) can login to Gmail, I use that reluctantly. And v7.60 has a bug that the "close tab" button crashes the entire browser sometimes. So I'm **** forced to use "Ctrl+F4" to close tabs - very irritating indeed!

OK, that's a bit revolutionary (I didn't think of it till now). Has anybody else succeeded with this too? If so, I'll give it a shot. One problem is that what was 12 MB installer now occupies much more space when de-compressed from the original IEXPRESS SFX archive (35 MB). Also, if we're just going to over-write files in I386, what about the old WMP9 INF files contained there?

@hUmAnzZ I think I know what you are trying to do..... Basically the partitioning tool during text-mode setup allows to choose partition to install to and goes ahead - it does not offer the option of formatting (to FAT32/NTFS) the way you'd normally get. If you want to format, you're forced to delete the partition and then make it again - only then the "format as" screen is shown. Am I right? Well, there's no way around this problem. One solution is to use WinPE (in conjunction with diskpart scripts), but that brings in more complications. So currently, "grin-and-bear-it" is the policy I'm using.

Saw something interesting today when I logged into Gmail: A new color-theme has been used, the position of the "Use invites" box has moved to top. And the ads now appear at the bottom (instead of at the side, the way they used to). Is this only me? Or everyone on Gmail noticed this? Also, the problems that opera browser had with the gmail sign-in process has been fixed - no workarounds needed anymore. Just use Opera 7.60, and log-in. BAM!!! Everything works perfectly the way it does on IE/firefox/Safari. Moreover, is this an indication that they are now ready to declare Gmail out of beta? If so, they might now go public, and directly offer the option to sign-up/register to everybody. That means that all the invites you might have hoarded, and the Gmail accounts you hoped to sell, are now ir-relevant. The funny business which sprang up around the Gmail affair would be ended. Gmail simply becomes a free-for-all like any other free E-mail provider. So please be more liberal with the invites you get, and give it to anyone who isn't already on Gmail - that will make that person happy (and maybe fetch you another friend) and you get the satisfaction too, of not having let your invites go waste.

And an example of that:# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. blah-blah-blah-blah 127.0.0.1 localhost 0.0.0.0 mail.msn.com 0.0.0.0 yahoo.com 0.0.0.0 and-so-on.orgYou can find the "HOSTS" file in win2k/XP in: "%WINDIR%\System32\drivers\etc\" folder. And somewhere along that path in win9x. It is a text file - can open it in notepad. Try seeing the "Run" and such registry keys, to see what apps are being loaded at startup.

Well, I'd say: 1. SAV9 is newer - so expects more resources to be available. 2. Its recommended for win2k/XP machines, better don't use it for the 9x series. @moderators- Maybe a change of topic title is appropriate? "symantec Virus 9 and win98" could be changed to "symantec Anti-Virus 9 and win98". Because a virus is not the same as Anti-Virus, LOL.

And what are you people basing your assumption (of the cdimage v2.52 existing) on? The "creator Application" field in an ISO? That can be changed to anything you want - you can even make it say the ISO was created by cdimage v6.890 or whatever..... The current version of cdimage is good (no bugs, no new features needed by MS). And the cdimageGUI beta3 (by CyBerian, mentioned above) uses that version of cdimage.exe, and seems good enough too. The rationale for a new release normally is on the basis of bugs or new requested features/functionality - both of which are not currently visible. So the conclusion is that this is probably just a wild goose chase!

Oh, so then we're going to have the functionality of XPlode, AND of XPdeploy (XPdeploy works a bit like WIHU, for those of you who don't know) in one tool. That's something to look forward to. I hope changing modes between the 2 types (rather it is 2 plugins I think) is just a matter of an XML property somewhere?

I just use the registry tweak to disable the Indexing Service (as you mentioned above). I haven't heard of any WMI or command-line tool to disable Indexing on any drive.

None I've heard of - some 3rd party tools exist for the same, though...)

Well, I didn't know there were more opera fans as well here. Good to see! You can get a link to download opera 7.60 preview 1 (pre-release, so lots of bugs) from this thread - http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?...80&pagenumber=1 This version supports Gmail, voice commands, etc.

Well, that's explainable.... No one can be everywhere at once (that ability is only vested in Aaron, LOL - he seems to have super-human abilities). OK, and now that I notice - in addition to Rico.JohnnY, maybe MCT could help as well by attaching, instead of pasting the entire log (in their respective posts above). Else, this one's gonna be a second "Registry Tweaks...." type of thread.

oh - that doesn't normally happen. Not too many invitations are "give"able from one account. And they don't have any rewarding scheme. But as fast as you give out the invites you get, you'll catch more the next time they re-fill your tank! (I hope my sleepiness isn't affecting the understandability of the above words ) What really is fun (in my view) in this deal, is the happiness of having made others happy (through giving them invites).

@Phyridean Take a look at your hotmail inbox - a shiny new invite is sitting there! (atleast.... it is supposed to be, do tell me if it isn't)

Right about that - and I'm also sure that most of us "so-called geeks" have a pretty good social life as well. So yeah, MSFN is for good people - well-mannered, extroverted, friendly geeks!