CurlingSteve

Way back when the operating system only read the BIOS clock at boot time, to set its own clock. From then on, the OS clock was updated when a system timer ticked. Some programs and tweaks would mess with the settings of that timer (or its interrupt handler), and would therefore throw the clock off. Whether that's still true today, I don't know.

1.0.7? Are you trying one of the nightly builds? 1.0.6 is the latest official release I'm aware of, and Spellbound works fine with it. My only problem (and it's the theme I use) is that the box is cut off a little bit. Maybe your Profile is a bit messy, try it again on a fresh profile. If it works there, you can either migrate to the fresh profile or we can try to clean up the previous one. (I usually migrate myself).

IceFLYER, I know that works (shift + right-click) with XP, and it probably was introduced earlier (as in 98/ME/SE). I'm guessing something altered the Registry entry that controls Open With.

spazmich, I see it now. The way I have Firefox configured, links don't underline until moused over. And my unvisited links are dark grey, so I lost it next to black text. My fault. In essence, I was blind.

This may solve part of the problem. Open With missing from Context Menu

What would you like the background to be?

That's odd, but maybe their Search Results lock into Order:Last Post, Z-A, Show All, Topics:All with no options selectable. Oh well, it was just a thought.

I guess I'm not making myself clear. I'm talking about after I click "View New Posts". While viewing that list, there is no "Order:" or "Topics:" options box presented, as there is when one goes to a forum itself. Having that box available in "View New Posts" would handle what I was driving at. I hope this makes my question a little clearer.

Am I missing something? Within the forums you can sort the threads in a variety of ways. Can I do this with "View New Posts"? If not, it might be a feature to consider. For example sorting by forum (then by most recent?) would be a help to me. Or being able to filter the list by forum, so I would see just Open Chat.

spazmich, I must be blind. I don't see any link (you were going to add one).

Some people are reporting even faster performance (although the results are mixed) from adding a new DWORD value to the Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters Add a new DWORD value called EnableSuperfetch and set it to 1. Some say it speeds loads over and above the prefetch:1 tip, others don't notice any difference. In any event, no one has reported problems adding this.

Open RegEdit and check the keys: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \Directory\shell and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \Drive\shell Both should have Default set to "none" (without quotes), not blank or "value not set".

You can check skeet6961's idea with RegEdit (if you are permitted to). This link, Disable Folder Options Menu, has the details. Another thought, can you access Folder Options from the Control Panel?

Moving programs (applications) from one location to another is generally a tricky thing to do. The issue isn't FAT32 vs NTFS, but that most applications don't store all their pieces in one location. Most store the bulk of their pieces in a folder under C:\Program Files. Many will also add DLLs in the C:\Windows\System32 folder. And there are usually several Registry entries that would need to be adjusted. But you should be able to install any new applications to the NTFS drive and they will operate properly. To free up space on the FAT32 drive used by current applications, my best recommendati

Have you taken a look at Overclockers.com? I think you'll find a lot of hands-on information there. I have no first-hand experience on this, but if you want an opinion... Since you mention moving this system around I'd want to avoid water or freon and stick to air cooling. I'd be worried about connectors and seals generating leaks from moving around with any fluid/sealed gas setup.

Did you possibly enable "Use Simple File Sharing" in Folder Options/View? That might make the Sharing tab disappear.

I think you're over-complicating this. the %1 variable is all you need. If the file CLEAN.BAT has these lines: DEL C:\Documents and Settings\%1\Local Settings\History *.* DEL C:\Documents and Settings\%1\Cookies *.* Then running CLEAN USER1 expands to DEL C:\Documents and Settings\USER1\Local Settings\History *.* DEL C:\Documents and Settings\USER1\Cookies *.* You will have to confirm the delete commands. (That can be automated as well).

That's a BalloonTip. No luck hunting down an overall (global) timeout for those yet. From what I've seen so far, they're supposed to close after 30 seconds unless the application creating it specifies a different timeout. And the timer doesn't start until the computer thinks you're doing something. Reference For that network balloon, maybe turning off the tray notification for it, rebooting, and turning it back on will fix it. You should be able to do that from the connection's Properties page.

Do you really mean tooltips, like "Click here to begin" when you hover the Start button? Or do you mean Notifications like " Wireless Network Connected..."? As I recall, those come under the BalloonTips catagory. You can disable them with RegEdit. Find the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Set EnableBalloonTips to 0. I haven't located a time delay for those yet. You'd think there must be one somewhere (I'll look around a bit). That may be controlled be each application separately, if it's available at all.

"One Off" errors are very easy to fall into, especially when learning C. A 16 character string for instance is typically looped with: For (x=0;x<16;x++). Beginners typically forget that C arrays are indexed starting at zero, so the scan goes to length - 1 (using the "<" test instead of "<=" is a common way to cover that). And as JCL said, it's very easy to be caught by the terminating zero byte.

The WINDOWS\Softwaredistribution\Download folder is one of the folders used by Windows Update when it is installing patches. (Another is WUTemp). It is safe to delete that folder's contents. (It's probably safe to delete the folder as well, Windows will likely create a new one when/if it needs it). The blue color of the $NT... folders indicates they are compressed folders. They contain the previous versions of the files replaced during a particular update. The KB###### indicated which patch replaced these files. If you're satisfied a particular update is working properly these can be deleted.

Good luck, I know what a pain reinstalling all the apps can be. BTW: as of 9AM EDT G4 seems to be responding again. You might find a copy of your Firefox profile (and therefore your bookmarks/favorites, extensions, themes) on a backup. Copying that back in will save you a lot of time. If you use IE, I'll have to do some experimenting (assuming you didn't export a backup copy of your favorites). I'm sure they can be pulled from the IE files somehow.

Using FAT32 instead of NTFS shouldn't cause any problems. FAT32 does limit file size to 4GB. And XP won't create a FAT32 volume (partition) larger than 32GB, although larger FAT32 volumes can be created with other software and XP can use those. Going from 64MB RAM to 512MB RAM does require an increase in the size of the Pagefile (virtual memory) but either file system can handle it. One thing she might try is opening the Task Manager to the Processes tab. CTRL+ALT+DEL will launch Task Manager. Then she can launch one of the applications that hang. Task Manager may show her which process(es) ar

I'm getting G4 timeouts too. I think the problem is on their end.

I think the problem is on G4's end, I'm timing out as well. I was OK until around 7AM EDT. ---------- While you had your problem, did Desktop shortcuts work? Would the Windows key open the Start Menu? Would the Task Manager open? (CTRL+ALT+DEL) Could you launch an Explorer window somehow? I'm just interested in running this one down without the reformat. But I'm glad to hear your running again.