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Process explorerwill let you suspend a process, but not save it for multiple restarts from the same point. If the game is not too resource hungry, and particularly tricky, then vm snapshots give you more options .

I've not used PE3, but I imagine regedit by default will show you the registry of the PE, not the one on the windows install - try loading the hives manually? There are lots of other locations to check too - try autoruns for a more complete list.

I bought two drives recently, and dropped one on to concrete from about 5 feet. The un-dropped one worked fine, the other exhibited the expected "tick of death". Next time I'll take a bag

Or pass your outgoing mail through your ISP's mail server, which should have a nice legit fixed IP.

You can download msse updates for offline use, but you'd have to script the download and install yourself.

For vbs code examples, try scriptomatic (info).

You could try a grep port: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm or just fc if you're comparing whole files, or winmerge to do it with a gui.

You could use mkisofs.exe -hide $OEM$ But then windows wont find it

I'm not sure that arrangements of (string? stalks?) are factual, but they dont want me in their society either

If the second drive was in a removeable drive bay, you could take it out when you're not using it, and lock it up. Virtualisation would let you allow untrusted users admin access to a VM, but it wont be as convenient. Or you could ditch the second HD install entirely, and do clean up / remote control from a (read-only) BartPE cd or similar.

Nope, but you may have an option for it in your bios.

Smells like malware... But at least it's missing malware I'd make sure your protection is up to date. You can clear out it's startup entry with autoruns.

It's not only firefox, I've had it a couple of times on IE. Searching for "login problem" might have worked, dunno.

DBAN "quick" option is, well, quicker. And just as secure, Jaclaz will be in here shortly with evidence... For your purpose you probably only need to run it for a few seconds to wipe the first few MB, then reboot.

Wow, that's a big home-based small business

I think the above posts are about activation rather than registration. I've not seen these particular dialogs though, so I'm not qualified to correct anyone's terminology

Bear in mind there's at least one unpatched vulnerability, probably more...

Have you tried turning off the default exclusions like explorer.exe? I'm guessing it's indexing.

They've got to pay your wages somehow

If there is a process that you need to finish before the shutdown, dshutdown has lots of options: http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/

You can use mkisofs -sort sort.txt Cdob's boot-the-loop is an alternative to mapping counted sectors, if you can write the sizes into the cd at build time: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...amp;#entry24379

I had an ati 2600 pro which was a pain to make unattended on xp, I couldn't get around WFP and I didn't want to have to hack any files to do so. In the end I bodged it: for /f "usebackq delims=" %%a in (`devcon find "@PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9587&SUBSYS_00281002&REV_00\4&DDE4802&0&0008"`) do (set b=%%a) if "%b%"=="1 matching device(s) found." ( start "" devcon install CX_53413.inf PCI\VEN_1002 sleep 10 nircmd.exe win dlgclick title "Hardware Installation" 5303 sleep 10 nircmd.exe setdisplay 1280 1024 32 100 -updatereg ) There are almost certainly better ways...

If the .chm is on a network share, try moving it to a local drive and see if the symptoms persist?

Like Geej and maxXPsoft said, switch off first run customisation and you can apply all your preferences to the default user. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "DisableFirstRunCustomize"=dword:00000001

Autosense is for 10Mbit vs 100Mbit, I'd definately use a crossover cable.