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FYKI, screen-redraws are very much a part of your windows - no matter which version. And this "redraw" is what he was mentioning. @un4given1 Uh, do you really mean to say FAT32 partitions are not accessible from Win x64? I believe you thought something and azagahl thought something else, based off your reply. A clearup: For NT-systems the OS necessarily should use NTFS anyway, so x64 also will run better off an NTFS system partition Win x64 will still be able to read/write fine to FAT32, I don't know where you got the idea that it can't.

Thanks for that - good link indeed! Here's one more (but this is not for you as its more oriented for beginners) - http://gosh.msfnhosting.com/infs.htm

Disable the option in SPNG plugin to open MSN links in default browser. Then it will default to IE only and no re-direction will be used.

No, not true. ME is very good... and yes the 98se fans don't want to move out - so WinME has very few users. Its basically because.... win98se users should have moved on to winme, but they got stopped by the win2k prospect. Then, when finally they bought new PCs able to support win2k, WinXP was out. So WinME got bypassed completely.

No no..... you don't need to wait. Just get the official drivers from nvidia.com/drivers Then extract the EXE using winrar. Just go to the device manager and browse to "reinstall driver" and choose the INF from the extracted folder. It installs and works fine - even the latest (official) drivers and games.

shut down?What's that? I forgot that concept years ago. I run systems 24/7 (even my home PC). I make it a point to know what work is happening at some terminal, and if there's nothing going on, then I GIVE it some! Its also good for your hardware, since that way it doesn't have to "wear and tear" due to warming up and cooling down intermittently. The only concern is power consumption, and if you can get remotely get PCs to do something useful even when no one is sitting in front of it, then even that cost is offset. In short - shutting down time does not matter. But still, if you're interested... on the same spec. and same software installed, XP is quicker to both boot-up and shutdown because of built-in optimizations. And if that much optimization is not enough, you still have bootvis available for you to find out ways to speed it up further.

Thanks for that link! Gotta try it out what it suggests now. Anyways, who cares about media center extender. I don't use fast-user-switching either, since that slows down windows. The only reason of using MCE2k5 CD1 in place of XPpro CD, is because the MCE disc is already updated and patched and has WMP10 and so on and so on....... Makes unattending/updating it easier.

@totoymola They have commercial tools for that. Winternals Administrator's Pak 5 has full-featured versions of those tools, and has abilities to filter the logs by parameters.

Oh, congratulations!

If you use the MCE disc1, then you will get WMP10 - no matter if you give an MCE key or XP Pro retail key. Using a plain XP Pro (or with SP2) disc, however, there's no way an MCE key will work at all, in the first place. And even if it does, you're not going to be prompted to insert CD2, nor get WMP10 pre-installed. Therefore I'm thinking of moving my uA to an MCE2k5 CD1 as my base (because WMP10 is already present). But then, I can't since MCE does not support joining an ADS domain. Is there anyway to enable domain support on MCE?

I could care less about REASONS why its slow. All that matters is firefox is a tortoise and IE is a poison-house. Opera fits in nicely.

So what language are you writing this web app in? If its PHP, then some easy possibilities exist....

You forgot Melissa and all the other email worms. They mostly spread through Outlook Express, and most win98 users use unpatched versions of it. Hi azagahl,Yup, needs more resources to reach the same speed. Compare it to a Ferrari guzzling more petrol than the mini-car. But once its turned on, its capabilities is enormous. And yes, if your argument is that you need none of the extra capabilities, then that is fine too. Go ahead and use it as you like it, since that's your choice. We live in a free world, and choice is always good to have.

@all Also check out Process Explorer. Its good for tracking changes while creating your uA installs. Its also great for snooping around. It shows what processes are running, open files, TCP/IP info, etc. For example, if you are chatting with someone on messenger, then you can find out his IP address. One hell of a lot powerful utility.

News-posting I don't do much, so that's a different matter. But as far as the forum is concerned, I search a lot. Normally ppl keep on asking the same things again and again, so I just do a search with that keyword for posts already made by me, and post a reply (which is a clone of some previous post of mine ). Other than that, if I am posting a new topic, its not normally a question so I don't search. I read pretty much all posts on this site (right from the ones in 2001), so I know what is present already, and post new topics only when that info is not already present here.

huh? what are you talking?Its all free and it takes 10 seconds to download and get it all in one place. Just wishing ERD Commander 2005 (winternals) was a freeware.

WinME is a bit faster than Win98 at file operations speed. Win2k needs 500 MHz and 128 MB atleast, to have the same speed as Win9x on older hardware. And WinXP needs atleast 1.5 GHz and 256 MB memory for that speed. So, as you can see.... if you are running win98 on a system with 1.5GHz proc and 256M memory, then you'd rather move to XP.

Changelog of fixed bugs: - when selecting a not default theme, some of localized SFX modules switched to English language; - default compression profile settings ignored for "Test archived files" and "Lock archive" options; - WinRAR ignored the optional parameter of -ilog switch." http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar35b2.exe

Lets cut out all the "legitimacy" pretentions.The fact: Either I haven't tried it out yet, or I just plain have no idea. Will have to see how it goes..... I hope we find an answer to this, ButlerKevinD. @Others Please be easier on a tentative question! Its not warez!

If you do not have this suite on your uA, then you are missing a lot. psTools from sysInternals

It will necessarily be impossible to do that. Do you think anything that you buy today will be remotely at the top of the chain 2 years down the line?When Windows XP was released, the recommended requirements mentioned for it was: On that kind of config if you really install and run XP, you are either very brave or very foolish. Today you know that to let XP run in any sort of decent manner, you need 4x the recommendation.Similarly it will be with longhorn too. Don't fool yourself into believing that anything at all you buy today will run longhorn decently when it releases. Just build your PC on a budget, and be happy. When longhorn comes, upgrade.

What nonsense.If you made unattended installs of WinXP 32-bit, then its all still the same. This thread is a lot of hot-air on an irrelevant subject. From basic unattending to extreme advanced uA: http://unattended.msfn.org/ And the exact same thing can be extrapolated for RIS installs over the network - needs only Win2k or WS2k3. The bottom-line: If what you have been doing all along has never required WinPE, nor are you going to need it now with x64 either.

Mail To News And Back Again Free software is mainly developed on mailing lists. Mailing lists have many advantages over other forms of communication, but they have two weaknesses: It's difficult to follow discussions in a sensible way, and mailing list archives (when they exist) have a tendency to disappear over time. Several mailing list archives exist, but these are all hidden under a web interface. Reading mail that way is not convenient. Reading mail as if it were news is convenient. This is what Gmane offers. Mailing lists are funneled into news groups. This isn't a new idea; several mail-to-news gateways exist. What's new with Gmane is that no messages are ever expired from the server, and the gateway is bidirectional. You can post to some of these mailing lists without being subscribed to them yourself, depending on whether the mailing lists allow non-subscribers to post or not. In addition, Gmane does spam detection, cross-post handling, has a TMDA-fueled encryption/forwarding service, a web interface, respects X-No-Archive, supplies RSS feeds, uses SPF, features user-defined filters, gathers traffic statistics, and has a real-time indexing search engine. Gmane

Here's the 3rd person putting in a word for Nvu. Its quite good.

Another possibility when authors don't do that:Click the "Print this topic" link at the top of the thread - then save the resulting html page with the title of the topic to get an offline readable version of all the posts. And also this:Ctrl+Alt+Del = Task Manager as well (the favourite combo if you need to survive windows ). Also, this shortcut is useful for MDI (multiple document interface) apps - "tabbed" apps to put it in simple terms: Alt+F4 = close app Ctrl+F4 = close only current tab (also Ctrl+W) useful in firefox/opera, MS-Word, and such tabbed applications.