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Hey all, Just installed and activated a new copy of NAV 2005. I am planning to have to reinstall it in the next few months (gonna buy swanky new kit soon ). Does any one know of a way to save having to activate it again, similar to the 'wpa.dbl' trick used for Windows XP perhaps? TIA.

Thanks for the reply. FYI, hardware wise, I am planning to replace pretty much everything. I had problems activating NAV2005 from the start. On activation I was told that the licence key 'had reached it's limit' or similar. Good start for a boxed (and sealed) retail copy. I simply wish to avoid any hassles again and I do not want to have to speak to a (poor English speaking to be frank) support person to convince them that I haven't used a pirated copy. If the activation fails again, I shall probably dumb NAV and use someone else. A shame, as NAV is otherwise a pretty good product.

Daemon Tools by any chance?

Yup, unfortunately it's not available on Creative's site! You can however, get it here.

You can't assign more than one IP to a network connection. Firstly, you'll need to make things a little clearer. Are you attempting to add internet access to your private network? Plus, the network address of the internet connection (192.168.2.x) makes me think that you are trying to route between your network and another private network (with it's own internet access). Is this correct?

Simple; go out and buy an original copy of COD. Dosfreak, please lock this thread.

Check out this thread from the official Steam forum.

Is the DHCP Client service running?

You're upgrading from dual Pentium II's to dual Pentium III's - but using the same motherboard right? XP shouldn't have a problem with this. It can be a little picky if you are upgrading from one processor to two, but in your case it already knows about two CPUs so should already have loaded it's SMP kernel.

Make sure that your Office 97 installation is up-to-date by installing Office 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1) first and then applying Office 97 Service Release 2b (SR-2b). Also, does Outlook always crash from a completely clean installation or once you have set it up with your email accounts/message store? I only ask becuase I've seen Outlook fall over before when it attempts to access a corrupt .PST message file. If this may be the case, you can run scanpst.exe (search for it under 'Program files') and allow it to perform a quick scan on your .PST file; any problems will be corrected.

Office 97 should have no problems running on XP. Perform a Repair installation from the original install CD.

In actual fact, ignore what I said before. You have to copy C:\Windows\Repair\Autoexec.nt to C:\Windows\system32.

Just make sure that the wireless router you buy also has a built in ADSL modem. I use a Netgear DG834G wireless ADSL router and have in the past had it set up in exactly the same way as you would like. Just make sure that the router is set to hand out IP addresses (using DHCP), make sure that NAT (Network address translation) is enabled and specify your ADSL username and password and you're good to go.

Originally posted by american zombie: Quote: If that cable has three connectors (one for board and two for drives) then the end connector of the cable would be for master and the middle one would be for slave. This arrangement only comes into effect when both drives attached to the ATA cable have their jumpers set to 'Cable Select'. I usually ignore cable select and always specify which is the master and which is the slave. By the sound if things your new Seagate drive will be the only device on the secondary IDE channel (cable), so just make sure that you set it's jumper to master. If you do this and the drive still isn't visible then it is almost certain that a BIOS change is needed, as per jmmijo's previous post. We'll cross that bridge if and when we need to. EDIT - I've just checked the manual for your Dell and it appears that it only has 1 SATA port along with two ATA channels. As long as each entry under 'Drive Configuration' in the BIOS is set to AUTO you shouldn't have any problems.

Some people with this problem have had some success by shutting down their PC and completely disconnecting it from the mains power for a minute or two (thus allowing any charge left in the motherboard to be exausted).

Have you got the appropriate motherboard (ie. chipset) drivers installed?

I'll take this one. Copy C:\Windows\Repair\Autoexec.nt back to the root of drive C.

Originally posted by mezron: Quote: He did have some pretty helpful suggestions at times. To see all of his posts wiped across the board seems a bit heavy to me. Unfortunately, APK did tend to go on a bit with his posts (to put it politely). But I wonder exactly how many solutions he actually provided, especially when you compare them to his post count. I guess the mods wanted to prevent any severe problems right from the start... it has seemed to work though. I for one am glad it didn't get out of hand (it could have got very, very nasty).

First saw that one on the Chelsea FC forum, great stuff! The only one I can think of (completely unrelated I'm afraid) is; Why are Pirates called Pirates.... Because they arrrrr!! ...I'll get my coat.

Packman, These are the patches included with Update Rollup 1. MS02-050 - Certificate validation flaw could permit identity spoofing - 329115 MS03-030 - Unchecked Buffer in DirectX Could Enable System Compromise - 819696 MS03-022 - Vulnerability in ISAPI Extension for Windows Media Services may cause code execution - 822343 MS03-025 - Flaw in Windows message handling through Utility Manager could enable privilege elevation - 822679 MS03-041 - Vulnerability in Authenticode Verification Could Allow Remote Code Execution - 823182 MS03-023 - Buffer overrun in the HTML converter could allow code execution - 823559 MS03-026 - Buffer Overrun in RPC May Allow Code Execution - 823980 MS03-034 - Flaw in NetBIOS could lead to information disclosure - 824105 MS03-045 - Buffer overrun in the ListBox and in the ComboBox Control could allow code execution - 824141 MS03-039 - A buffer overrun in RPCSS could allow an attacker to run malicious programs - 824146 MS03-044 - Buffer overrun in Windows Help and Support Center could lead to system compromise - 825119 MS03-042 - Buffer Overflow in Windows Troubleshooter ActiveX Control Could Allow Code Execution - 826232 MS03-043 - Buffer overrun in Messenger service could allow code execution - 828035 MS03-049 - Buffer Overrun in the Workstation Service Could Allow Code Execution - 828749 MS03-008 - Flaw in Windows Script Engine may allow code to run - 814078 MS04-007 - An ASN.1 vulnerability could allow code execution - 828028 MS04-008 - Vulnerability in Windows Media Services could allow a Denial of Service attack - 832359 MS04-012 - Cumulative Update for Microsoft RPC/DCOM - 828741 MS04-006 - A vulnerability in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) could allow code execution - 830352 MS04-011 - Security Update for Microsoft Windows - 835732 MS04-014 - Vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine could permit code execution - 837001 MS04-016 - Vulnerability in DirectPlay could allow denial of service - 839643 MS04-024 - A vulnerability in the Windows shell could allow remote code execution - 839645 MS04-023 - Vulnerability in HTML Help could allow code execution - 840315 MS04-020 - A vulnerability in POSIX could allow code execution - 841872 MS04-022 - A vulnerability in Task Scheduler could allow code execution - 841873 MS04-019 - A vulnerability in Utility Manager could allow code execution - 842526 MS04-030 - Vulnerability in WebDAV XML message handler could lead to a denial of service - 824151 MS04-032 - Security update for Microsoft Windows - 840987 MS04-037 - Vulnerability in Windows shell could allow remote code execution - 841356 MS04-031 - Vulnerability in NetDDE could allow remote code execution - 841533 MS04-045 - Vulnerability in WINS could allow remote code execution - 870763 MS04-043 - Vulnerability in HyperTerminal could allow code execution - 873339 MS04-044 - Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel and LSASS could allow elevation of privilege - 885835 MS04-041 - A vulnerability in WordPad could allow code execution - 885836 MS05-003 - Vulnerability in the Indexing Service could allow remote code execution - 871250 MS05-008 - Vulnerability in Windows shell could allow remote code execution - 890047 MS05-011 - Vulnerability in server message block could allow remote code execution - 885250 MS05-010 - Vulnerability in the License Logging service could allow code execution - 885834 MS05-015 - Vulnerability in hyperlink object library could allow remote code execution in Windows Server 2003 - 888113 MS05-001 - Vulnerability in HTML Help could allow code execution - 890175 MS05-013 - Vulnerability in the DHTML editing component ActiveX control could allow code execution - 891781 MS05-002 - Vulnerability in cursor and icon format handling could allow remote code execution - 891711 MS05-012 - Vulnerability in OLE and COM could allow remote code execution - 873333 MS05-016 - Vulnerability in Windows Shell that could allow remote code execution - 893086 MS05-019 - Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP could allow remote code execution and denial of service - 893066 MS05-017 - Vulnerability in MSMQ could allow code execution - 892944 MS05-018 - Vulnerabilities in Windows kernel could allow elevation of privilege and denial of service - 890859 MS05-020 - Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer - 890923 MS03-022 - Vulnerability in ISAPI Extension for Windows Media Services may cause code execution - 822343 MS05-014 - Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer - 867282 Yup, my work PC is SP4'ed up. In all honesty, I've never had any problems with any updates for Windows 2000... maybe I've been lucky.

Packman, Just to let you know, I have got the 893066, 839643 & 835732 updates installed. I've checked the Rollup 1 KB Article and all three of these updates are indeed included (and still available seperately). As for patch 329170 (Windows 2000 Security Patch: Flaw in SMB Signing Could Enable Group Policy to be Modified), there's info about it here. Also, Microsoft have included this update in recent 2000/XP Service Packs. Hope this helps.

I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think Microsoft offers additional languages for free download. Someone correct me if I'm wrong though. Microsoft sells an add-on for Office 2003, called the 'Office Proofing Tools 2003', which enables you to proof your documents in over 50 languages including Norwegian. Amazon.co.uk is selling it for about 60 pounds here (I couldn't find a Norwegian supplier ).

I installed it on my work PC a day or two ago. Haven't had any problems with it whatsoever. I'd recommend installing it on any Windows 2000 SP4 PC as Microsoft have stated that there are certain bug/security updates in the Rollup that will not be made available individually through Windows Update.

Does this only happen with the Freespace CD? If so, then the CD may need cleaning (or at worst the CD is shot).

I've used Symantec's SymNRT utility before and I've seen it leave some NAV related registry entries behind. These entries can still prevent a new installation from working correctly. Have a quick run through the registry (after SymNRT finishes) and remove all keys called 'Symantec' if they still exist.