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I've used a few of the ones in that list, but after a couple years of battling spyware, I was able to determine how to deal with them without those programs. Currently, my computer hasn't had spyware on it for well over a year, because I am careful about how I do things on the internet. My favorite apps for dealing with spyware (on other people's computers) are: File Monitor, Process Explorer, NTFSDOS and Regedit.

I do not use any anti-virus. The last time I had anti-virus was an old version of McAfee that ran off a floppy disk (boot disk) way back in 1997. Since this time I have only gotten 2 viruses, and those were ones that I had installed myself to see how to remove them. My computers are always setup to for maximum security and I do not allow anyone else to use them. I usually recommend people to use Panda, because you can get it free for a year, although I wish they had a lite-version since it adds like 9 processes to Windows.

Well what you can do is have 2 user accounts: a limited user account and an administrator account. The admin account would be for the tech and have a password on it. The limited user can have a password, use autologon or not. Then assign a Group Policy to the limited user account to be applied at startup. This can lock out the keyboard and mouse for this user, and if a reboot is made, you could log on as the admin account and make corrections. Of course, you are going to need to be running XP Pro, Vista Business or Vista Ultimate, or another OS but the computer and users would have to be added to the active directory (domain).

Are you using Active Directory? and if so did you set up your OUs accordingly? If so you could just add a login script to make these changes just for the users who use this printer.

XP will see both CPUs. I think SP1 is required for that (hyper-threading support) but XP sees HT and dualies as the same thing. Either way RTM will only see 1 CPU (or 1 core) and still work anyways.

The way I see it, yes XP is great but we all gotta move on. This isn't to say that I am going to abandon XP, heck I still run a Windows 98 box at home. But the fact that SP1 has made Vista livable is a great sign. To tell you the truth, I haven't even used SP3 on XP and probably won't. There isn't enough demand for it, and personally I don't see a reason to get it.

So are you saying that after the drivers were removed that the display is still corrupted?

Well you are taking a chance by using that board with 2008 server. 2008 works like Vista, where it may be able to install default/generic drivers for some devices, but you might have ones that get flagged, or don't work properly. This could be a major issue if say a generic driver doesn't work properly for a motherboard component. I looked up this board (or what you put for it) and it says its an Intel 915 chipset. Getting drivers for this might be impossible. I do not have experience with 32bit 2008, so you might be able to force 2003 (or XP x64) drivers to be used instead. I wouldn't recommend using 2008 on this board at all. Use 2003 or get some newer hardware.

HDDC = Hard Disk Drive Controller. Or Hard Drive Controller. Basically the part of the motherboard or if you use a card that your hard drive connects to. XP needs to have the drivers for that in order to format the drive. If you have a SCSI hard drive, then yes.

Well the reason I am asking is because I've never seen an image capture wizard before. What happens if you do a manual capture?

Static IPs can be done two different ways. You can set the IP on the client, but it won't appear on any of the pages on the Server. Or if you set a reservation (aka static via DHCP, the client still acts like it doesn't have a static IP) it does show up in both places. I think the "pen" on the icon either means that the lease is active (within the lease time from which it was granted) or the interface is currently online.

As far as 32bit XP goes, your main concerns are going to be whether or not XP likes the HDDC and/or there is an XPx86 driver to F6 for it. Also, finding drivers might be an issue depending on what motherboard is in there. Also, you do not need to remove the other RAM. XP will only see about 3.2GB of it (more or less depending on VRAM setting in BIOS and how it handles that) but it just ignores anything higher. EDIT: sorry read DUAL = DELL... and forgot what Opteron was.

The differences between OEM and Retail concern with how Windows accepts the CD Key and know how they are activated. The features should be the same as long as they are both Windows XP Professional SP2 32bit.

What application are you using to upload into the WDS?

Unless you are trying to do some legacy hacking, you should seriously consider updating to the newest PE.

First off, just getting a CD won't help because the CDs aren't labelled to match the CD Key. If you look on your CD Key, its going to say 'Windows 2000 Professional...' on the top. Post that line (its bolded) we can tell you. Or it might just say '1-2 CPU edition' or something. Also if you look on the sticker, you're going to see a number that looks like X11.0000 or something. That X number is important because it will only work with certain CDs. Basically you need to find a CD that has a sticker with that same X number on it, then you can use that CD. Did this sticker come with a Dell or HP or something like that?

If you are using a router, even the ActionTek router (FiOS doesn't use a "modem" of sorts, the "modem" is the ONT) should have worked the same as the one you had before.

I use it at work for the most part for work issues. I seldom use it at home but usually to check out work related posts. I also use it at work when I am not seeking answers because they all think i'm doing work related research when I'm here, even though i'm just trying to take a break lol.

I use 1280x960 at home because 1280x1024 doesn't look right for some reason. At work I roll 1280x2048!

At home I use Maxtor but at work I use WD.

I chose B&W Laser. Even a grayscale laser can print higher quality photos than a color inkjet. Plus color Inkjets usually end up using too much ink when printing, so it makes the paper wet and you get those weird folds or whatever. Anyways, for me, printing up documents is way more important than pictures.

98 has floppies. I believe the number was around 35. I've done a 98 install with floppies. I think it was 33 but you had two extra disks. An emergency boot disk and something else. So ya, 35 does indeed sound right. The problem with 98 on floppies is that maybe disk 32 was bad and you'd be screwed because it would be 2 hours in that you'd find that out. Also Windows NT 3.51 had a floppy install as well.

I have had no problems writing files to the ramdisk. What is the error you are getting? You can try opening notepad (it comes in the PE) and save a file to the X: to see if you get an error that way too.

The use of multiple soundcards is because the client wants to resell a music server. Say for example, you could have this computer in your basement. And say you had speakers in 4 different rooms. With this computer you could play 4 different songs or playlists in each of the different rooms. This is the main idea, although this machine will be primarily used for club or event usage, using 4 separate audio zones. Why exactly this is being used it also beyond me, but I am guessing that the client wants to try to save money by putting together a computer that is capable of doing what expensive audio equipment can do instead. I've dealt with using a computer on a soundboard before and it wasn't set up like this at all. The client has already told me that he already has built and resold similar units, however using different sound cards and with Windows XP. The reason for the soundcard selection is because the motherboard (MSI G31M3-F) only has 2 PCI Slots, 1 PCI-E x1 and 1 PCI-E x16. The PCI-E x16 has a video card in it, and the other three slots have sound cards. And yes, all four sound outputs need to be able to play different things simultaneously. The problem happens on both Vista and XP. It happens with any combination of Winamp (DirectSound and WaveOut), Windows Media Player, PCDJ Red, PCDJ KT, and another program I forget the name of. While I had considered using other software programs to make this work, it all comes down to the fact that the client's software needs to work with it, and in this case they do not as PCDJ KT is one of these programs. I received this generic "official" statement from Creative this morning which basically says to me that they won't support this configuration.

You can narrow your search by choosing your architecture on the lower left. http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/result...avc=10&OR=1 I would post the direct link but you didn't state whether you were going to use 32bit or 64bit.