Tripredacus

This may not exactly be an XP question, but a software question. Basically you are looking to create a keyboard macro to do a certain task. You have multiple ways of doing this, but there are a couple things you'll have to figure out: How to set a specific key to run a program. For example, you may have a key you can press that opens your Email, or opens your browser. You may have some generic programmable keys, or the ability to change how those other keys work. Your keyboard should have come with software to manage these keys, so check in there. Alternatively, there are third party programs you can try that will remap keys, or even key combinations. Second you are going to need to figure out what your program is going to do. This could be a batch/cmd, or a program created from a scripting engine (AutoIT, Kix) or a programming engine (VBasic, C++) or a script file (VBScript, Powershell). Each one will be different as to how the script works, and not all of the above may be capable of doing what you want. I'm pretty sure this topic should be elsewhere, but not sure if Software, Hardware or Programming. I'll leave it here for now to see if any replies can help determine what direction this topic will go in.

Behemoth - The Nephilim Rising

The profile appears to also count posts made in "non-counting" forums, such as the Introduction forum. This would also explain why my post count is 100+ in my profile than on the board. This is something that *might* get fixed by resynchronising the database, but its such a small issue I wouldn't even worry about it.

We are well aware of the link issue. In fact it was around in the last version. I don't think there will be a major upgrade like this for a while, since we are now up to date. Xper has a bunch of things to work on already, this is one of them. He can only do one thing at a time. I personally do not like the "friendly" mode, I preferred the showtopic=xx method, but as long as the board works, I'll deal with it.

This line looks suspect: I know it says Office14, but note your other office14 paths are in the correct folders, not this MIF5BA~1.

You should definately report this to your bank as well.

That key is for their recovery media. You can't use the COA (sticker) key along with SLIC, or at least it isn't supported. I think there are posts about how to get the key from the install. You'll have to search for it. I can't tell you anything about it myself.

It looks like you dropped a folder or a bunch of shortcuts into the taskbar? or maybe Quick Launch? If possible, right-click on one of those and do a Properties, and find out where those shortcuts are. Once you find them, either shorten up the names or remove some of the items.

I haven't tried any games yet because I am currently running without a video card. Before I had installed Win7, I made sure to find my sound card drivers on Creative's site. It was not very easy since looking up the model number had zero results. I found elsewhere it was an Audigy 2 equivalent. After I installed the driver, the computer wanted to reboot. After the reboot the Creative update wizard opened up and it downloaded new Audio HQ and Alchemy versions. Also I had to set my BIOS to disable onboard audio, and had to configure 7 to use my card as 5.1, because by default Windows Sound wanted to only use 2 speakers.

You can select a post icon as well, but its a little different here. We also just went through an upgrade so we haven't figured it all out yet. When you make a topic, you have a Post, Attachments and Options section. In the Options section, if you click the + "Click to configure post options" you will see where you can select an emoticon.

i guess

I see this domain is blocked by NoScript, so I do not see it. For your question, yes the board will have ads that appear. I do not know if Xper has them enabled for revenue or if it is because of how this new board is.

Bloodsimple - Dark Helmet

Firstly, I don't understand what you mean by "a file" and second, what program are you using to burn the disc? You can get the boot image (boot.wim) from the Vista install CD, or possibly on a recovery partition if you have an OEM computer.

That is interesting, as I am using a Creative card in Win7 without any problems, even full 5.1 surround works. Anyways, you should change your Windows Updates to download but let you choose what to install. That way it won't install anything you don't know about already. I just set up my home PC with 7 today, and saw right away it wanted to download an update for Creative but I chose not to since I had just installed the Win7 drivers and everything works fine. Which sound card do you have? I am using a Sound Blaster Gamer PCI. I bought it in 2002.

This is a hardware related issue, as such, moving. A Windows install cannot make the hardware act up like this. Such as keyboard not working, POST related issues, or system resets. Once your hardware problem is resolved and you are once again starting out with Windows 7, make a new post in the Win7 forum.

I just ran my WEI and scored a 3.1. Thats pretty good considering I am using onboard video and have 2 ATA133 HDDs in this system. Oh, this is my home PC. I will have to run this at work and see what it says. Interesting that WEI on scores the primary HDD, which is probably why I got such a high score. CPU: 4.4 RAM: 4.5 Graphics: 3.1 Gaming Graphics: 3.3 Primary Hard Disk: 5.7

Here's an update for you all. This project turned out horrible! Let me start out by outlining these systems: 1. Infocore: This was my regular XP system. 2. Old Infocore: this was the system that used to be my XP system. 3. Shiva: This machine was my Win98 PC 4. Server(s): I had 2 PCs in 2U Server chassis that I got parts from. Step 1: Build new Shiva. - Take out PSU from Infocore, 400W Antec. Put into 5 Bay chassis from work. - Take out motherboard, CPU, RAM from Old Infocore and put into chass.... WOOOPS! Guess what, I happened to have gotten 2 Mini-ATX chassis from the scrap pile! The Intel D850 board I had was full ATX! It did not fit in the case. Secondary objective: use Shiva's old case. - Take out video card (Voodoo) and motherboard (Abit BE-6?). Take out IO Shield, take out power supply. - Take out PSU from new Shiva, put into old Shiva - Put in IO Shield.... doesn't stay in. Hold it in while putting in motherboard. - Put in Voodoo card.... WOOOPS! Guess what, part 2. AGP slot in D850 board has different keying than the Voodoo card! What a pain! I took a break, just sat there looking at it and decided to shelve it. - Take out Radeon x1650 from Infocore. Hook everything else up. - Boot PC. At this point, Windows started without error, of course it needed to install some drivers. But there was an initial problem, the CD Drive was not detected. It also had decided to reboot on its own twice before I got the CD Drive to show up. It was also unable to detect UFD I had plugged in, I had put the chipset drivers on there but couldn't get to it. Shiva is REALLY unstable now, it likes to reboot sometimes while accessing the CD Drive. Course of action to be taken at a later time: 1. Try a different CD Drive. 2. Try a different video card. It is likely that the video card, which requires additional power, is causing a problem. I had also not researched whether or not Windows 98 (or the board) liked the fact that I had put a 512MB Radeon X1650 in it. Project Shiva is on hold! However, I am obviously typing to you from something, and if you were paying attention, I said I took the PSU out of my main computer, and that Shiva reboots! So here's the continuing story... 1. Take out motherboard, CPU, RAM, Sound card from Infocore. 2. Take out motherboard, CPU, RAM from 2U #1. Put those parts into Infocore. 3. Take out RAM, HDD from 2U #2. Put into Infocore. 4. Take out ATAPI DVD and CD drives, put in SATA DVD drive. Hook up SATA HDD #2. There are 2 SATA HDDs in this system. One is new, the other was already present. I made sure to keep that one, and the two IDE HDDs disconnected for now. 5. Boot PC, and then run BIOS update. 6. Go into BIOS, set memory to custom timings 533, 4-3-3-11. Reason is, have 4 sticks at different speeds, so underclocking 2 sticks but keeping dual channel. 7. Install Windows 7 Pro using answer file. 8. After booting to audit, sysprep -oobe -shutdown. 9. Hook up remaining Hard Drives. Go to BIOS and set to boot off SATA first (as XP is on one of the IDE drives). 10. Go through Windows welcome, new computer name: BEHEMOTH 11. Install Creative Drivers that were saved to IDE HDD before upgrade. Set up 5.1 surround with Windows Speaker cpl. 12. Install Firefox, copy over profile from IDE HDD, go to MSFN and post! Project Shiva is not finished yet. I need to rectify the rebooting problem, if you have any ideas, let me know. And NO the Voodoo card is not available. I will be keeping it. In addition, I need to take the parts from Infocore I removed and make a whole other PC with it, but I don't have a chassis to fit a full size ATX board in it. I may yet need to do a reinstall of 98 on Shiva, but I'd rather not. I was pleased that it didn't BSOD on me because it is customized with boot up and shutdown screens already. Current full Shiva specs: board: Intel D850MV RAM: 768MB RDRAM PC800 CPU: Pentium 4 2.0GHz Video: ATI Radeon X1650 512MB AGP Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live PCI HDDs: 20GB WD, 20GB Maxtor CD: 48x Compaq "Spare" CD-ROM ATAPI PSU: Antec 400W ATX

So far I have spent only $28! That is for a SATA DVD drive for my other computer. I have all the other parts for it already. Not only do I like that video card, but I like Rambus. The only reason I stopped using it was because of the prices to buy more memory! When all is said and done I will do some benchmark comparisons between the two systems and we will see how it looks. Only things left to buy on this project are Wireless card, and also a PCI-E video card for my other computer. Total about $100 I'd say.

Welcome to Project Shiva! This is a project to resurrect (no pun intended) my old Windows 98 Server. Yes, you read that right. This project officially starts tomorrow, but be warned: Its not just Windows 98, also Windows 7. First let's do a little history. Once upon a time, I had my first Windows 98 PC was called Hive City. I had almost forgot about it until I posted a screenshot in this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/142168-transparencys-in-98se/ Hive City was built in 1999 and had the following specs: CPU: Pentium 133MHz RAM: unknown (this information is actually known but kept on Shiva's original HDD) HDD: 8GB ATA 100 Sound: Guillemont (sic) 128 voice PCI Video: Intergraph Voodoo Rush 6MB Hive City had some problems. It was originally built with a 4x CD-ROM drive. I had bought a 24x CD-ROM drive at a computer show. This drive proved a disasterous (sic) upgrade. It did not work, in fact it worked its awesome "frying" magic on the following components: - Power Supply - Serial Port on MB - itself - 14k Modem All was not lost, as I spent the "mad dough" on a PCI USB card. It cost $40 I believe. Previous to this (since such things as PCI USB card did not exist yet) I had used the PC 6 months with just the keyboard. I had also replaced the modem with a 14k I found in the trash. You won't believe this, I can't prove it, and I don't care. But this modem I found in the trash connected at ISDN speed. IDK if it was an ISDN modem, but it worked with my regular dial-up I had at the time. Besides it saying it connected to the ISP at 100k, it actually downloaded near that speed. Average DL speeds were 80kbps iirc. Unfortunately, I had stored this PC away and it was mistakenly thrown out! That screenshot is all that remains. Hive City was replaced by Shiva, a totally new PC. It started with a Gigabyte motherboard, a Pentium II 233MHz CPU and a 32MB Riva TNT2 video card. Also I think a Sound Blaster of some sort. In 2003, Shiva was upgraded to another motherboard and a Pentium III 533BMHz CPU. Yes B! For some reason, some P3's had a B after the speed before the MHz, don't ask me why. It also ended up with 768MB RAM. Shiva has had 3 video cards. The first was mentioned. The second a Voodoo 3 PCI which was traded to a dude for a GeForce 2 MX and $20. The last (and final) is the video card I paid the most money for. You know this guy: 3dfx Voodoo 5500 AGP 2x 64MB. You 9xers might not have ever owned one of these guys, but this is why I still prop 98. This Voodoo card excels in 2 things still unmatched in today's video card world. HEY if I am wrong, please show me some infos! OK OK to start these are those 2 things: 1. On-chip AA 2. Open GL support Let's start with #1. On this card, you can enable AA (1x or 2x) and have no CPU hit. I have not owned a video card since this (both GeForce and Radeon) that do not make a CPU hit when AA is enabled. The Voodoo handled all AA with no CPU requirement. This is a win in my book. OK now, #2 yes Glide and OpenGL are a "thing of the past" yet still companies use OpenGL in their games. You get no CPU hit with GL with this card, still not matched against others using games that use GL. Of all the video cards I have parted ways with, or put in the basement, I can't let go of this guy. This Voodoo is the centerpeice and is the focal point of Project Shiva. As I may have mentioned in the past, Shiva was a Windows 98 Server. It ran Windows 98a and hacked USB 1.1 support. It served up Quake 3 Dedicated and Shoutcast back in the day. The crowning achievement was the uptime record (for me) which was just over 3 months without a reboot. So now we have set the stage. Let me detail this project: First, I need to upgrade my existing computer using new parts Second, I need to rebuild Shiva using my computer's old parts Third, I need to build a PC for my mother using my existing computer's parts However, my main goal will be to build Shiva first, as it does not require parts from either of the 2 projects above. To start, I have acquired a free 5 bay chassis (read:case) and ... oh wait for this. I asked the VP of IT of my company if we had any leftover Windows 98 VLKs, he said "WHAT? Here take it" W00T! The chassis is In-Win Z589AQB. Known specs for Shiva: Mainboard: Intel D850MV CPU: Intel Pentium IV 1.7GHz RAM: 768MB RDRAM (1st gen) PC800 Video: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP 2x 64MB Sound: tba HDD: 20GB IDE, 20GB IDE CD-ROM: 8x CD-RW Iomega Terminator model For the first time, Shiva *may* get Windows 98 SE. It currently has a different version and may need to get installed if it doesn't like migrating all those things. Note, I had posted here on MSFN from Shiva (as it exists as of this moment) almost exactly 1 year ago when Infocore (my current PC) had a mainboard failure. Anyways, Infocore mainboard, ram will go to new PC using the other In-Win case I picked up. It will then move to Intel DQ965GF with SATA HDDs and Windows 7 Pro x86. I had bought a SATA DVD-RW drive because the target board only has 1 PATA port, and I have 4 PATA drives.... bad things. So new board will use 2 PATA drives, 2 SATA HDDs and 1 SATA DVD-RW. OK OK this was all a fine story and TL;DR to most of you guys I bet, but I needs to know this important infos: Where Shiva goes there is not ethernet up thar. What do I need to know about getting WiFi to work on 98? Can it handle G speed? Anyways, if you have any questions, ask away.

Adding clarification to #5. In Notepad, you need to change the "Save As Type" option for TXT File to All Files, or else you'll have a .txt extension.

You can't activate Windows with the OA key on the internet. Or are you using the key on the COA?

That's right. Windows can't do it by itself, you need a third party program to do it. I would be interested to know how well that Opera add-on works over time. I had stopped using ObjectDesktop (even the demo lets you do this but it asks you to buy it once a day) because if I left the PC on for an extended period of time, it would lock up. Other things it would do were graphical glitches or artifacts. I wanted to point out that my screenshot above looks a little distorted. It didn't look that way in action, only in the screenshot. I'm not really sure why that was. In any case, as fun as it was to toy with, I stopped using transparency altogether because I needed to keep the PC on for extended periods, as I was using it as a server. I think the Shiva specs were: EDIT: I AM ERROR I just noticed my C drive in that picture is "Hive City". This is my really old PC! I don't remember how much RAM it had. Also this one wasn't a server. Durrrr. It had a 133MHz CPU and a 32MB Riva TNT 2 video card. I used it to play Quake 3 (it was my main computer). So transparency might work a lot better on the systems you guys are running Windows 98 on nowadays.

I've changed this before, on Server 2003. I can't remember exactly but it was either msgina.dll or shell32.dll. Maybe Explorer.exe. I can say that because those are the only files I had changed. Try looking at shell32.dll next. Moving to Customizing Windows forum.

Welcome to the MSFN!