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that game probably freaked out when it saw your nice machine, it doesn't know what to do with all that power!!! lol nm, i thought u were talking about the original

well, i tend to believe myself over m$ any day. so if you know you slipstreamed the updates, don't worry about their buggy site.

if you're at work you should be working. i'm a freedom NUT, but i completely agree with companies keeping tabs on their empoyees' net usage.

pretty much half the linux installers i've ever used have buggy partitioning. i -never- rely on them anymore. (they especially like to make overlapping partitions)

as late as possible, at runonceex it exhibits the same behaviour as the visual settings...you know how you set the proper key, but it still doesn't work

yesterday i reverted back to a 526 version, it worked with ryan's pack on an unattended install and is still working.

this setting should work, but doesn't. the values are bitmasks. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components\0] "Position"=hex:2c,00,00,00,9c,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,64,03,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

wow, that's a great utility, thanks for sharing it. sure beats the hell out of my funky scripts.

how reliable is the 64 bit version? i've only used the 32 bit

you'd just be DDoSing another victim. the servers storing the information are more than likely hacked servers.

meh, so pry the solder off with a pocket knife. or just muscle it outta there. i've seen both clear cmos jumpers AND non-soldered batteries on old mobos. it just depends on the manufacturer. edit - just remembered what i used to do for soldered on batteries...just pry off ONE of the soldered contacts, leaving the other one attached.

heh, that's almost an antique! if you can't find the clear cmos jumper you could also try pulling that big green battery off of there for a few minutes (with the power cord unplugged)

winRAR all the way. i only have half a gig of ram, so usually winRAR actually provides me with better compression. rarely i can squeeze a file a little smaller with 7zip, but i stopped using it because i prefer the popularity of RAR files.

if it sounds too good to be true, then it is. don't spend a dime on these programs unless you don't mind losing your money.

i made it bigger incase you are impaired.

it's close, but the imported version (four crystals of trazere) is actually quite a bit different. a big thanks anyways though, i'll check that out

wma just has poor sound quality. actually go out and read some technical information like i did.

looking for: the four crystals of trazere published by: mindscape, 1992 been searching forever for this game. i would be eternally grateful if anyone knows where i can find this old classic.

"In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law. The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including the non-commercial site Piratbyrån, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB via public debate. According to police officers simultaneously questioning the president of Rix|Port80, the purpose of the search warrant is to take down TPB in order to secure evidence of the allegations mentioned above. The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained. Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal. The TPB can receive compensation from the Swedish state in case that the upcoming legal processes show that TPB is indeed legal." source: http://thepiratebay.org/

you're going to be doing it in ASM anyways, so just decompile it for answers to specific questions you may have.

the WMA thread below got me wondering now about the best way to preserve my music. i'm curious about what our readers think is the best quality mp3 encoding solution.

i'm a big fan of advanced mp3 converter but now i'm curious, why is WMA so terrible? just answered my own question. and now i'm embarrassed to have ever believed the m$ hype. glad i only have a gig or so of WMA

when i read the first post that's exactly what i was going to post. it could probably benefit from a slight delay thrown in there TBH welcome to vb, lol.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update] "AUOptions"=dword:00000001 "ScheduledInstallDay"=- "ScheduledInstallTime"=- "ScheduledInstallDate"=- "DownloadExpirationTime"=- "NextDetectionTime"=- i know this is common knowledge, but there are also a few keys there that can/should be removed.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams] "Settings"=hex:08,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,e0,a5,1f,0e,73,35,cf,11,ae,\ 69,08,00,2b,2e,12,62,04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,43,00,00,00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Defaults] "{F3364BA0-65B9-11CE-A9BA-00AA004AE837}"=hex:1c,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,90,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,f0,f0,f0,f0,14,00,03,00,\ 90,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,fd,df,df,fd,0f,00,04,00,20,00,10,00,28,\ 00,3c,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,b4,00,60,00,78,00,\ 78,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop] "Toolbars"=hex:11,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 "TaskbarWinXP"=hex:0c,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,aa,4f,28,68,\ 48,6a,d0,11,8c,78,00,c0,4f,d9,18,b4,0c,03,00,00,60,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00 works for me, further details/corrections are welcome.