Conan

If your copy of Windows XP is a retail version and it is already activated on your PC, it made a list of all your hardware and serial # of Windows. If you try and install it on another PC and try to activate it, you will be denied activation.

Those XP Boot Floppies are only for people who cannot boot from their cd-rom drives. From the way BradBo's post sounds, he is able to boot from his cd-rom.

This is way to do it for those who said it doesn't happen for them. Open up task manager so that you'll be able to see the CPU usage. Then left click on the minimize/maximize portion of your browser, while you left-click, keep pressing on the mouse button and don't let go. Then you'll see the cpu usage rise.

There used to be a long thread about this in our old board. Everyone experienced the same thing. But yes it is weird.

It's actually not a problem, it's normal. I've got a P4 1.7ghz and 256rdram at 800mhz too and it happens. Even on my old Celeron the same thing would happen. The usage immediately drops anyway immediately after you release the mouse.

I keep on getting invalid syntax error with the download link.

Hey AaronXP, the link results in a "page cannot be displayed", I don't know if it's gone or my internet connection is faulty, can you try it out? Update: I've tried to download other programs from that site, they all result in the same thing.

Just make sure that the version of Diskeeper that you're going to get is 7.0398. The earlier versions are beta. I suppose I don't have to point you where to get it? Or do I?

I've got 2 20gig drives, one 7200rpm, one 5400rpm.

With NTFS and Diskeeper 7, I defrag daily. However it only takes 1 minute or less. The very first time that I defrag after a clean install, it will take 10 minutes maybe.

I saw in the store the other day, a Linux for Windows disk. Is that the same thing?

Check if the built-in Windows Firewall is enabled. It might be blocking the communication.

Surfing in the toilet? And I thought I was addicted to the internet!

I'm not an MSN Messenger user but what you are asking for seems like quite a tall order. The whole point of Microsoft's new messenger is to incorporate everything with .NET.

With the faster processors (1Ghz up) start-up times of browsers is really a non-issue. It's the speed of surfing that counts.

Make Outlook Express your default mail handler instead of Outlook XP.

I used to use Opera in the past, yes it's quite fast but it had problems accessing secure sites. Yep IE6 is here to stay.

I tried the UXtheme patch but it was so confusing to follow their instructions. I had an old copy of XP-Styles beta 1 and I tried installing it. It seems that it doesn't expire but only time will confirm this.

So what they are doing is to shorten the lips? I personally prefer them looking like Jade Hsu's. They kinda have a "warming" effect if you know what I mean! LOL! :spaced

After taking the tests at PC Pitstop with NTFS and FAT32, my test scores were much higher when my disks were formated in FAT32, suppossedly hard drives work faster in FAT32. But in reality, I couldn't feel any speed difference and I was not willing to put up with the long defrag times so I went back to NTFS once again.

If you can make the change to NTFS, it'll be 10 times faster to defrag.

XPerties is right, the fastest I ever got on a dial-up modem was 44Kbps. Check that your drivers are meant for XP.