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Whatever it is, it's on their end. Went out about 1PM eastern. Maybe they're down for maintenance. --------------- TraceRT stalls after hop 17 -> 204.6.150.242 (Performance Systems, Washington DC)

SP2 incorporates all the updates in SP1, so SP2 is all you need. (Except of course for the post-SP2 patches).

Have you tried to boot into Safe Mode? (Or can't you get that far?) It's quite likely there are a few drivers (that need replacing) triggering the reboot cycle. Try doing a Repair install with your XP CD. This may allow it to replace the drivers that might be missing or wrong, without requiring you to reinstall all your applications and reloading your data from backups. But typically, a major hardware change prefers a clean reinstall.

When SP2 first went into "general release" I ran a poll over on G4 asking folks if they had problems. For every YES(had problems) there were 3 NO(just fine) votes. I'd bet a lot of NOs didn't bother to vote. Another poll referred to in the link below had 1 YES for every 9 NO. This G4 Thread has a good section on "safely" updating to SP2.

Aye, Oui, Da, Si,...

They've both been on G4 recently (today).

What happens (if anything) if you right-click the Taskbar and select Cascade Windows when one of these programs is off screen? ------------------------- I've noticed that some games that temporarily switch the display resolution will scramble my Desktop. Maybe something like that is scrambling your "window last closed position" data (in the Registry).

First, about your taskbar problems, have you tried this? Right-click the taskbar and select Properties. Click the Taskbar tab (if it's not selected already). Uncheck "Hide inactive icons". Does this show your Volume Control now? Click OK Click OK. OR If you prefer to have most of your icons hidden, but not the Volume Control do this instead. Click Customize. Scroll through the Current Items list and highlight Volume. Select Always Show from the dropdown list. Click OK Click OK. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Have you tried your ME recovery disk to see if Home

Is it just me or is Zelda using correct answers on a given (or first) level as high score criterion? And does Solitaire have 2 Jack of Clubs (and no Jack of Spades)? Picky, Picky, Picky.

You should be able to set a flag in your OPEN_FILE call that indicates no buffering. This Thread in another forum sounds similiar to your problem. Back when I was programming more, to flush all the caches I'd do a close followed by an open to flush and clear all the buffers.

When you get the dropdown to select an entry, highlight the entry you don't want and press SHIFT+DEL. (In IE just DEL was enough). And, as I'm sure you already know, you can clear everything from the Tools, Options, Privacy section.

Are you saying you'd rather have (for example) "C:\My Documents" instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\My Documents" ? TweakUI has a section under My Computer called Special Folders that will allow you to change the "My Documents" location for each account. It also says (in TweakUI) that you can right drag the folder and click "Move Here" to change the location and move the contents in one step.

A bootable Bart PE CD can include AdAware as a plugin (among other programs) and run it. Having a CD that boots its own (limited) copy of XP comes in very handy.

For the ultimate bare bones gaming setup you might want to try creating another hardware profile for your system. This will let you have one normal profile, and a second minimal profile for gaming. Several of the services you want disabled only when gaming are actually loaded before the login software at boot time. Having multiple hardware profiles lets you pick the one you want at boot. The downside is having to reboot to switch profiles ("accounts"). Microsoft's Explanation

Sometimes adding the "/b" switch will copy the file regardless of CRC errors. That switch means binary copy, and will do it bit by bit. For example: COPY XYZfile D:\XYZfile /b Might work.

There is (or was) an extension that allows very versitile hotkey reassignment, including what you desire. Maybe it hasn't been "certified" to 0.9+ yet. You can also cause that kind of response with personalizations to the "user.js" file. I'll have to dig around for the specific code required. (You might be able to use a Windows level HotKey program to get the results you want. Some I've seen (I think) can change assignments depending on the active process/program) ------------------------------------------ Back to the initial topic, Trying to do everything well in one package never works. Wind

No, there's no "index.dat" type record behind. Firefox (or Mozilla) doesn't use the database style history keeping that IE does.

From the Command Prompt: CONVERT C: /fs:ntfs Mind the spaces (As I recall, the conversion will execute on the next boot). ------------------ I have to remember to refresh before I post. Darn tabbed browsers.

I'm kind of partial to the Walnut theme. But what I'd really like is the Walnut background with Noia's buttons. Someday I'm going to play around with theme files and see if I can merge the two. Anyone know if there's a Theme Builder for Firefox? (Like StyleXP for Windows).

If you're thinking of an "I just did a clean install, what else do I need" type CD: Anti-Virus (AVG, Avast, A-Squared... pick one) Spyware scanners (AdAware, Spybot) Firewall (ZoneAlarm, I still prefer it to SP2's) Firefox Hijack This CodeStuff Starter (or another startup manager) Zip files (WInRAR, WInZIP, again I like those better than XP's) WinRoll (a neat little utility, an alternative to "minimize window"; reduces a window to just the title bar) WinPatrol (Startup monitor, although Spybot's TeaTimer seems to have this covered) Download Manager (Star Downloader, LeechGet (my current favori

One more thing you might look at. Start, Run, RegEdit. Navigate to the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer Look in the right-hand pane for the value: NoSaveSettings If that is set to 1 (enabled) changes to the Desktop (and therefore Taskbar) are only temporary. It can be used to allow guests to set things the way they like, but have things revert to your preferences when you log on. If it is set to 0 (disabled) then any changes are saved. If you don't see that value, then this isn't the problem; nevermind.

External drives are perfect for backups, fast, easy to store securely. If you image the C drive (with Norton Ghost for example) you can restore everything after a problem. Operating system, programs, data, whatever. It's like the ultimate System Restore, no hunting for drivers or reinstalling applications. That's what I do with my external drives. You can image your other (data/documents?) partition as well. Image backups do take a little longer than other styles of backup, but I think they're worth it.

There's no required location for EXE files. As you've noticed, typically they get installed somewhere under the Program Files folder. Other "popular" locations include the Root (C:\) or their own folder off the Root (C:\SomeApplication). Usually backing up EXE files is a waste of time and space. Unless the application is very simple and fairly small, it's actually in several pieces. The EXE file that a program's shortcut launchs just gets things going. It loads DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries, think "toolkits"), reads Registry values, loads configuration/profile settings, and so on. Unless all th

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While cost and burst speed are about the same for satellite and cable, cable is much better. Satellite installation usually costs quite a bit more than cable installation. And satellite has an unavoidable half second delay minimum between the time you request a page any information get's back (due to transmission time up to the satellite and back down). Interactive gaming especially will suffer.