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See if this makes a difference. Run RegEdit and locate the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Change the value of PowerdownAfterShutdown to 1. (If PowerdownAfterShutdown doesn't exist, create a new DWORD).

I once was young, but stupid. Now I'm older, Thanks Marty. PS: I used to be young and stupid, but I'm not that young anymore...

Just to be on the safe size, use File, Export to make a backup of the keys before you delete them. After a while, if the system behaves you can delete these backups. Make a new folder to keep them in and deleting will be a snap. Use the Edit, Find (or F3) command to look for others. You'll probably find a bunch more. I can't tell how many without uninstalling one of my printers to see.

How the bits in an instruction are used vary depending on the instruction. This may explain it much better than I can: Intel Archetecture

Is your bottom toolbar perhaps the Bookmarks toolbar? While you're in Customize, you can drag that to the end of the middle bar, and VOILA! The bottom bar should be gone, leaving you with a two bar setup. ----------------- Now undoing that seems to be a different story. Once it's at two, I can't seem to drag down and get three back. I have to reset to the default and build the whole thing over again. I'm sure I'm missing something, somewhere. OH BOY, YAY! Another mystery to solve!

I'd have thought exactly the opposite, that HJT would be fine from a thumb drive, but the other 3 wouldn't be. Spybot, AdAware, and AVG rely on Registry entries and have an install cycle. HJT runs as one package, with no installation required. The only caveat I've seen with HJT is not to run it from a temp file. ---------------- Oops! There are HJT Registry entries too, but they seem involed with uninstall only. It would be an interesting experiment to try them from a thumb drive.

I'm sure the rest of the world has known this forever, but just in case there's one other person out there who didn't... It's bugged me for a long time that a Command Prompt window won't resize beyond some fixed width. After years of going cross-eyed reading word-wrapped output, I found a workaround. If you click the upper-left corner of the window, there's a Defaults option. (Actually you get the same box by clicking Properties). In there, among other things, you can set the maximum window width on the Layout tab. I still don't get why you can resize vertically just by dragging and not horizo

The Automatic Update part of Firefox is still a work in progess. While some extensions update without a hitch, others don't. First, take a look at the extension's options. The update may have reset things to default values. If that doesn't help try uninstalling and reinstalling the extension. If that doesn't work, try installing it in a fresh profile.

I had a lot of trouble getting mine setup in a similiar configuration; same error message. I don't know why this worked, but when I finally let the Network Setup Wizard create a floppy (instead of saying I'd run the Wizard on the other machine too) things started working. ------------- I've seen it recommended that turning off any software firewalls until sharing is established might help.

My best guess at a solution is to logon to the Administrator account and use that to rename the folder.

If you can't find WordPad.exe anywhere on your drive(s), look for WordPad.EX_ (possibly in the C:\I386 folder). Expand that and you should find WordPad.exe. If the EX_ isn't on your hard drive, look on the XP Install CD.

Another place to look is Mouse Properties (from the Control Panel). There may be a sound option on one of the tabs (Misc, Others, Sounds,...).

Instead of directly installing it, download BugMeNot.xpi to (say) the Desktop (right-click the link and select Save Link As). Then open Tools, Extensions. Drag BugMeNot.xpi to the Extensions window and see if it will install now.

You might also be interested in BartPE which lets you create a bootable CD that runs XP. Very handy to have around.

That's the method I use, but some folks don't like that boot selection screen slowing their startup times. One way to handle that is to edit the value of timeout while you have BOOT.INI open in Notepad. I find 3 is a nice value, giving me an opportunity to choose without delaying things too much. The second, if you just want to boot into safe mode temporarily, run MSCONFIG, select the BOOT.INI tab, and enable the /SAFEBOOT checkbox. This will temporarily edit BOOT.INI to boot into safe mode until you clear the checkbox or select Normal Startup on the General tab of MSCONFIG.

Forget the eSupport nonsense. Your motherboard manufacturer is the best place to go (as you've done). When it comes to BIOS upgrades (flashing) unless you're having a problem, don't bother. An improper flash can totally disable your system. About the only good reason I've seen for a BIOS upgrade is on systems that have a problem accessing a large hard drive, where the entire drive isn't seen by partitioning/formatting programs. Otherwise, "if it ain't broke...".

Are you sure you're seeing bytes/sec? My status displays show packets sent and packets received. There will be activity even when you aren't browsing. Applications looking for updates will add to the traffic count.

Bootvis is a tool for graphing what your start sequence is doing. Being able to see what runs when (and how long it takes) helps deciding how to speed things up. Just don't use its built-in boot optimizer, XP's native reorganizer does things better. ------------------------- Somewhere in the BIOS Setup there should be a place to disable memory checking at Boot time. Almost all BIOS routines have some variation on this. ------------------------- Another thought, take a look at MSCONFIG (Start, Run, msconfig). Look at all the tabs to make sure they're set for normal, not some diagnostic, boot.

Are you in Windows while trying to do this? Windows won't let you format or repartition the C: drive while you're running. If you're looking to redo the entire drive, use your XP Install CD and perform a clean installation. Backup any data you'll want to reload. Backup the setup files for any applications you've downloaded. Get all your application installation CDs handy. You'll have to reinstall all your applications. Early in the install process the XP CD will let you delete any existing partitions and create + format new ones.

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Who needs the source? Boo. The easy way is to highlight the whole post.

Many people won't see any difference. From what I gather from a brief Google around unless you're really pushing your connection to the limit, say hosting a web site that streams media, QoS won't come into play. Not many of us have time-critical applications using the connection. Wikipedia

Hitting ALT + SPACEBAR will open the menu you get when you click the icon in the top-left corner. One DOWN-ARROW then ENTER will start keyboard MOVE (or ALT + M). Two DOWN-ARROW then ENTER will start keyboard RESIZE (or ALT + S). The arrow keys now move or resize until you hit ENTER.

Anyone else tried a "tracert g4techtv.com" from the command prompt? Wonder if it's one bottleneck bringing it down. Last feedback before timeout I get is 204.6.150.242 (Performance Systems, Washington, DC)

When you say "cable connection to your desktop" do mean a wired LAN (Ethernet) connection or a broadband (cable/DSL) modem? Assuming you mean wired, I assume your internet connection is dial-up (you mentioned AT&T dialer - is this an external modem?). If you can give some more details on just how things are connected it would help. For example, my connections are: Wall -> Cable Modem -> Wireless Router -> (wired)Desktop + (wifi)Laptops.