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The point is that a DVD burner also reads DVDs.

Boot with your XP cd, then select install, then select repair.

After I posted this I realized you are running Windows 95, so this may not be an option for you. Still it is interesting. You could use task manager to increase the process priority by right clicking on the process. You can also start the program with increased priority using the start command. Open a command prompt and type start /[priority] [program]. Where [priority] can be low, belownormal, normal, abovenormal, high, or realtime. Avoid using realtime, you may not be able to change it back. If you wrote a batch file to start your program winvu, it would look like this: start /high winvu.exe That's it. Just put that batch file in the same folder as winvu or whatever, and then make a shortcut to it to your desktop or wherever you prefer. Make sure the batch file is in the same folder as the program you want to run, or the full path is specified in the command, and there are no typos. Take into consideration dos 8+3 file names. If it doesn't find a program to run, it will open up a few hundred command prompt windows. If that happens to you, don't freak, just wait until they stop and kill it in task manager.

Quote: I believe a lot of techies just dont like new stuff cause they aren't familiar or comfortable with it. We have old guys at work who refuse to use new **** and we have to support thier old software cause they wont switch I know exactly what you mean! I used to be a chemist at an industrial gas standards plant. The older guys refused to do anything different from what they had been doing for the past 20 years. They got into such a rut that they were scared sh1tless when new technology showed up. Their brains had been deprived of oxygen in that environment for so long, that learning something new caused them great anguish. Needless to say, I had to leave that horrible industry to formally learn networking and start a new career to satisfy my endless craving to learn new things.

Quote: Try Process Explorer to find out what program has what files open Very very nice, Thanks!

Check your event log to see if any services are hanging. Then set those services to automatic.

Overall I prefer XP over W2K, but by a slim margin. This is mostly due to it's better multimedia and game compatibility, faster boot time, and less reboots required when adding/removing/changing windows components and other programs. Hell, I didn't have to reboot 1 time to install Office XP! I also think XP has better crash recovery than W2K. Things I don't like are many of the "advanced" options we all love in W2K are a bit hidden in XP, even the Professional Edition, which I find weird. Also, there seem to be a good amount of nuisance bugs with the new gui, such as taskbar icons acting weird, the new Start Menu getting shuffled around for no apparent reason. One thing that annoys the hell out of me is sometimes I cannot delete, rename, copy, or move a media file because it gives me the error that it is being used by another program. This happens with media files usually, and the only way I could ever get around it was to shut down. Just rebooting would not fix this problem for me. Beleive me, I cannot find any programs that are using the file. I think Windows just gets it locked somehow. If anyone can shed more light on this for me, I would appreciate it.

Try doing a repair with the xp cd on the first partition. It may ask for some drivers during the install, if you don't have them avaialable then, just skip when it asks for them and install the drivers later.

Gateways provied an interface between different network architectures. For example they can connect an ethernet network to a token ring network. It's like a translator.

Gotta agree with Clutch here. There is no reason to set yourself up for the headache of reconfiguring every single workstation and server on the network.

There's some info for you in this recent thread: http://www.ntcompatible.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20965

You set the permissions on the actual files, folders and printers. Right click the file, folder or printer, select properties, then select the security tab. There you can change what groups and accounts have access, and what permissions they each have. If no permission is specified, it means no access is granted. If the permissions check boxes are greyed out, that means the permissions are inherited from the parent folder. To undo that, click the Advanced button and uncheck inherit. If you don't see the security tab, you need to disable simple file sharing (an XP thing). To do this, open a Windows Explorer window (like My Computer), click Tools, then select folder options, then click the view tab. Scroll down to the last item (Use Simple File Sharing) and uncheck it. p.s. I just noticed we both have 86 posts,

Run lusrmgr.msc to create and edit users and groups. TweakUI allows you to select which users show up on the welcome screen. Also, you can turn off the welcome screen using the User Accounts applet in control panel, causing you to log in like Windows 2000.

In XP, how do I change the location of the print spooler folder without mounting a volume to that folder? I think I did it once before, but I can't remember how, and my Epson 980 properties do not include a place to change this.

That's where it went! Thanks!

It should work fine. Just make sure the correct adapter is selected on the ICS tab.

It seems that the question here is what impacts performance the greatest, increased seek time or decreased fragmentation? I'm sure it would vary greatly on different systems.

It's based on the idea that typically on average (insert exceptions here) the system partition is half full or less. Therefore the heads are accessing data in the first half of the first partition. If the pagefile is managed by windows, regardless of size constraints, the pagefile will also be in the same general vicinity as the other data, so the heads will not have to move very far. However, if the pagefile is located in a position at the outer edge of the disk, this extra distance increases seek time during accesses to the page file. The heads have to move to the outer edge and back again. A benefit of moving the pagefile to its own partition is less fragmentation of data around the pagefile. But you need to remember to account for the extra seek time. I agree that in modern drives this is fairly negligible, but it still exists, and imho makes it unnecessary to have a pagefile set up in this manner. The performance increase of a pagefile on a second drive is definitely noticeable, because you are eliminating seek time as well as enabling simultaneous access to the system files and the pagefile. If you want to take advantage of higher velocity at the outer edge of the disk, you could locate your pagefile there, but the seek time issue will cancel out some or all of the benefit.

If you have your pagefile on another partition on the same disk as the system partition, it can actually slow things down a bit. If the partition is on the outside edge of the disk it will take longer for the write heads to move out there to access the pagefile. It's definitely best to have a pagefile on its own, small partition at the beginning of a different disk.

Quote: SHS stated that there was one game that had issues because of using NTFS I wouldn't be surprised if that was because during the installation of the game it tried overwriting system files or writing new files to a folder that the user did not have the proper permissions for.

Quote: Cannot be accessed by DOS, Win9x That could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your perspective. Ok, here's a simple non-technical explanation of file access: The operating system does the file access work for the programs. Whether a file or folder is NTFS or FAT matters only to the operating system at this level. When other programs access the file, they are asking the operating system to access it for them. So the program (such as a game or ftp proggie) doesn't know or care if it is NTFS or FAT.

NTFS advantages: Security through the use of file and folder permissions. Security through the use of EFS (encrypting file system). Use of compressed files/folders. Use of spanned, striped, or mirrored volumes through disk management. Setting disk quotas for users is available. Smaller cluster size=better disk performance. Error control - you will almost never have to run scandisk/chkdsk Large volume size - up to 2 terabytes (FAT32 was 32GB max) Large file size - up to the size of the partition. Disadvantages: Cannot be accessed by DOS, Win9x Learning curve for permissions for noobs. You do not need to reformat to change from FAT to NTFS. Use the command line program convert. Open a command window (in run box type cmd) and type "convert C: /FS:NTFS" without the quotes. This will convert the C: drive. Change the drive letter to the drive you want. It will ask you to reboot to do this to the system partition. You cannot convert back to FAT from NTFS!

The new update for CS and Half-Life came out yesterday, but it has some bugs in it. It does, however, include some new anti-cheat technology. Even though I don't really know many of you guys yet, I would love to join in any forum games for CS, HL, Quake or whatever. Medal of Honor is a newer game that is just as good, if not better. I used to be into HL hugely (see cheesy website), and wouldn't mind getting a new team or clan together or whatever. Does anyone have a server we could use? If not, I have a few friends who admin some HL servers still, I may be able to set us up with a private game, or public if you all prefer. As Clutch pointed out, playing with friends is the best way to go, and if we get a forum server together, it should be pretty safe from cheaters. Keep posting your ideas everyone!

I'm not too familiar with the Athlon heatsink market, because I have used Intel mostly (chipsets supporting amd suck imho), but I do know many online vendors will sell cpu/hsf bundles. You know you need a cpu, so get one and try it in your mobo. Then buy a new mobo if you need it. Maybe you should wait until you have money for both, just in case you have to buy the mobo also.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did AMD move to a smaller die somewhere between the 1400 and 1800?