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I'm guessing that if everything fit on a 2 gig partition that you don't have anything else installed. If you don't have a lot invested in this install at this point, I'd just wipe the partition and reinstall. Just pay attention to what you're selecting when you're in the partitioning and formatting of the hard drive section of the install process. When I wipe out a partition I like to use a win98 boot disk and use fdisk to delete all the partitions, then just let windows create and format the partition during the install. You can find bootdisks at bootdisk.com http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm I just go through all this because I want to know beyond a doubt nothing is going to follow me into my next install. If you'd rather not go through that again I've had good luck with partitiom magic http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/ Jim

about 1-1.2 Gigabyte if I remeber correctly. If you include swap add 1.5x ram to that for default swapfile space. Jim

That answers a few questions Thanks Jim

Quote: Isn't SSE the AMD implementation of MMX? No, AMD licenses Intel's MMX and includes it in thier processors since the K6 or K6-2. SSE is an Intel instruction set (mostly optimizing multimedia stuff I think) introduced in the Pentium3. P4's have a newer instruction set as well, SSE2 AMD has a couple special optimizations of thier own. 3DNOW! was one of them was ok, but it never really took off. I'm not sure if they include it in thier processors any more. Jim

Take a look on your motherboard for a chip that says ATI, SIS, or INTEL most likely. Those are the more common integrated video chips. If you see one of those, make note of the other sumbers on the chip and take a look at the respective manufacturers website for a driver. Likely candidates are Intel i810, ATI Rage128, I forget the usual SiS chip... 630 or something like that Jim

Who is the manufacturer of the computer/ video card? If you can't find this take a look at the video card directly and look for a logo, or name of some sort on a predominant chip on the card (if it isn't covered up). You'll need to find this out and then just download and install the driver for it. Jim

That a pretty broad question. Probably the best guess would be any software made before 1999 or so... when the P3 first came out. New software, I'd say almost all games since about 2001 use it. Some programs are optimized for it, but don't require it. Without asking the software vendor if thier product uses it, I'm not sure how you'd know for sure. Jim

Here ya go http://yoda.uvi.edu/InfoTech/rj45.htm Jim

Try any video card other than a GeForce. I've seen problems with that chipset with GeForce 2,3,4,and MX. Mostly what I've seen is the computer will run fine for anywhere from 3-30 minutes then the screen just goes black and the monitor shuts off after a few seconds. Hard restart is all that will reset it after that. Jim

Honestly, if you're doing this primarily for Doom I'd wait to buy parts til fall. ATI will have released thier next video card, and prices will fall for the current line. And of course the same processor will cost less then, or for the same money you can go faster If you're just in need of a general upgrade anyway go ahead, but if you're doing this mostly for Doom... I'd really wait you'll want every bit of power available at the time it comes out to play it all it's graphical goodness Jim

Quote: That was it! I finally found it. Don't know why he moved it in the first place. Ok, now about that left pane view. Doesn't XP have the ability to preview a image as all the previous O/S's had? In the folder that has the images, right click in the white space, choose customize this folder. You'll find a few different ways to do it in there. Jim

Quote: Running XP Pro The desktop is on the taskbar. I can't figure out how to get it back where it should be; on the desktop. I'm not sure what you're asking... is the taskbar hiding itself? Are the desktop icons on the taskbar and you want them off? either of these are a right click on the taskbar away... Also XP only requires the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop, all the others are optional. If you'd like to see My Computer, etc. on the desktop right click on the desktop go to properties then desktop then customize desktop. Quote: Also, how do you enable web view within a window? The windows look like '95 now without the preview left pane showing. It won't look exactly like the webview, but does Tools-> Folder Options select "Show Common Tasks In Folders" set it to something you like? I hope these help... XP is a very nice system once you get past the Fisher-Price interface (which is easy to change as well). It does everything Win2000 can do plus more. Jim

I'm on dial-up and usually connect at around 28.8. A lot of times when I try to download a page that has a lot of images it appears as though IE tries to download all the images at once and can't so it gives up and I end up with a bunch of broken images. I can usually reload the page a few time to get all the images if I want to, or just right click on the broken image and choose show picture. It's just a nuisance, nothing broken really other than my &%$*! phone line. OK with that out of my system is there a tweak somewhere in the registry or somewhere else where I can forcefully set IE to only download up to 2 images at a time? I'm using XP Pro w/sp1. Please don't go the "Use Mozilla or Opera" line on me. I've tried them and genuinely prefer IE. TIA, Jim

I'm a little confused (nothing unusual there) what exactly is different that makes yours work? Unless I'm reading something more into what you said the only thing I see different is you created the scheduled task that works. You had the Norton generated task set to run as admin if I read correctly... ;( Jim

I'm not sure but this dir looks interesting \WINDOWS\system32\GroupPolicy\Adm Jim

In the schedule properties where you specify who to run as... you didn't accidentally mistype the admin password? Jim

Quote: you don't have to clean out the prefetch folder because you said it's already emty. The reason I suggested deleting the folder was because I recreated what he did. I emptied out my prefetch folder and rebooted a couple times and nothing came back. When I deleted the folder, after a reboot things started coming back as I used them. The only file that didn't come back though was layout.ini. YMMV Jim

Try just deleting the folder altogether, then reboot. Windows should put it back and hopefully start putting things back in it as you use launch them (programs, etc.). Jim

Quote: It used to be part of the IE4 PowerToys. Now, for IE5, you can download the Web Accessories from Microsoft. I couldn't find anything for IE6, but the WA kit might still work... Actually, I seem to remember back in the Netscape3 and IE3 days it was a button right on the browser toolbar. It was kinda necessary then since a lot of people paid for thier internet access by the hour. Graphics make a big difference when you're on a 14.4 or even 9600 connection. Between the time of the 28.8 and 56k modem it probably wasn't an issue since I'd say most of the websites were designed with that speed in mind. I think a lot of web designers are building thier sites with broadband users in mind now, so the turning off images is becoming a neccesity again for a lot of users. It's not unusual for me to wait 2-3 minutes for a single page to load anymore. BTW I downloaded and installed the webaccessories from the link you provided. Doesn't seem to do much with IE6 on XP. Thanks for the link tho

Quote: What ever happened to the 'load images' button in browsers? since I moved house, I too am limited to a sub-dialup speed line with no alternatives What I want to do is turn images off, but still be able to load them quickly for those graphic based pages that make no sense unless you load images, without going through all those clicks! I don't see anywhere to put in a load images button I remember that on the older browsers too, didn't notice it was gone til now. The only thing I see is in the advanced area of Internet properties you can turn off images altogether. Then right click on the image you want to see and choose show picture. Kind of kludgy... Jim

two computers that differ as much as yours do, and the system dies at the same place on both... looks like a bad download to me. I'd re download the 2003 server software. Jim

Try removing the dial-up account from your machine and creating a new one. When you create the new one go the advanced route and put it on whatever COM port your modem is on. Good luck! Jim

Quote: Or, you can go to http://www.network-tools.com/ and choose the email validation option. Hey, thats pretty cool! Thanks Jim

Quote: how can i send e-mail to myself Same way you send an e-mail to anyone else, just put your own e-mail address in the to: box. Click send and a few seconds later check your mailbox for new messages. It's a good way to check and see what your e-mail looks like to someone else if you're using a signature or something like that Jim

Send an e-mail to yourself