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Quote: Thanks for info! Not knowing that much about either operating system - and - uncertain about how the XP was setup - other than from what I was told.... ;( Is their such a thing - then - as XP in NT environment or did I misinterpret my friend's communication of how he felt about XP - being a combo of NT/2000/ME ???? :x Life seemed so much simpler when DOS ruled the airwaves.... Perhaps he means XP on a NTFS file system?

Quote: i formated 1 of the mirrored drive. how do i fix the mbr? Put your Y2K cd and boot from it. It will allow you to repair the MBR.

Quote: hi, after breaking the software mirroring of windows 2000 server, i found that it cannot boot up any more. pls help . thanks You'll probably have to give a little more information then that. What do you mean you "broke" the software mirroring? Did you remove the mirror drive? Format it? What happens when you try to boot? I assume you were mirroring on an internal drive? My guess is that the drive that you got rid of had the MBR. Try putting in your W2K installation disk and repairing the MBR.

Quote: Hi All Newbie to the site here, so first off Hello I am hoping that someone out there might be able to shed some light on this problem I am having. I've been working on it for about a week now and I am still no closer to working it out. Small network with a W2K server and a few W2K clients. The server is hosting a old MS-DOS application which is shared out to the client (easy so far!). When I run the MS-DOS application on the client (from the shared drive) the application starts ok then as it goes through it startup process the CPU utilization hits 100% and sticks there when the DOS app is in use (even if it is minimised). The processor only comes down again when I terminate the DOS application. Any help would be great! Thanks Rob Is the CPU 100% on the client or the server? This is just a guess... I don't believe that DOS supports networked paths. If you try to run the app on the share drive and it has a directory hard coded in the application (i.e. tries to hit c:\APP) it will look for the directory on your client and not the server.

Quote: Found the problem,,it was Black Ice. Thanks Yeah, that stuff's deadly. You just have to take it slow and easy.

Quote: Quote: I finally did a google search and found a link to Torry's Delphi site and d/l the complete Toolkit in hope this includes the Registry Cleaner http://www.torry.net/apps/utilities/system/apkwin2ktools7.zip It does & a more current build w/ more feature than the link test here above (SR-5), that is the latest folks out there can get at for "General Public Consumption" really... duhmez, a member here, was my last tester for this release & was credited in the ABOUT box iirc. He gave me alot of useability enhancements to put into it by suggestions he made to me in fact. I do have a newer improved build here of course, & one that improves that registry cleaner with CPU process priority control of its OWN CPU allocation from inside of itself (good for making it run quicker). That new app is one I had been working on in my spare time as well, & that is a HOSTS file normalizer... Anyhow, the application itself is great for HUGE hosts files & good for internet speed fiends. HOSTS files are great for banner ad blocking & also speedup of page loads &/or site loads (each type of entry results in increased internet surfing speeds: banner ad blocks so you don't waste time calling to their servers & loading them, + direct IP to URL resolution so you don't have to query a DNS server to resolve a URL). This new program's main purpose is removal of repeated entries & alphabetizing all the member entries in a HOSTS file (so it is easier to manage by you & the program itself since its lists are already sorted), + lastly checking for repeats if you add more entries to the HOSTS file! When you try to add new entries to the HOSTS file using it, it will add new entry if not repeat, and if repeat warns you and does not permit its entry. Makes for a more efficiently loaded & organized hosts file. I use them as do others here for instance... FOR INSTANCE: In the toolset you saw @ Torry Delphi Programmer page (where I got a "HOT" rating (their best) from my peers, Delphi programmers. This is what has been my proudest achievement in coding I feel really. More than making magazines, books, etc. & more than reviews by non-coders), I have 16,000 entries in that HOSTS file I ship w/ it... quite alot. Upon building this program I found 4,000 or so ARE REPEATS. I have a corrected build here due to running my HOSTS file normalizer over the very one I ship out there now which is alphabetized & contains approx. 12,000 unique entries for banner-ad server blocking. (That came from pasting in lists others had online at will w/out checking their content vs. my own already built one, I saw no tools for that, so I built one... this one & it cures that repeat entry in HOSTS file hassle!) * This time, to pass time over the winter, I am doing a re-release of the entire toolset (and will pull the timeouts that some of its apps contain, shareware stuff, that only US Time/Date users can use because of the method I used). It will have these improvements, & that new tool... this new release should be out by January or February some time I am guessing. Quote: Alec, seems the MajorGeeks links are broken. I even did a search for APK and it didn't find anything Heh, yea... we had a "falling out" one day, & here is the gist of it: I had links to their site in that thread posted above, where my program did the same thing there too as it did here: Which to be blunt was to beat the hell out of the rest in a fair competition performed by users with their own registry data, & not some injected/added .reg test data (for jury rigging purposes as JV PowerTools uses) put into the mix. Jim & Tim @ majorgeeks first locked & then completely removed the test post thread in their forums (which I thought was silly) after Juoni Vuorio (of JV RegCleaner) came over there saying his injected .reg file was NOT a rig-job that favored his program engine vs. others, I imagine since they had rated his program higher with "PICK" vs. my "HOT" rating there... even though mine had more downloads, etc. & outperformed JV's. I disputed it for VERY valid reasons (below 1 & 2 enumerated later). I also asked how they could rate a program higher than my own when I let users demonstrate that my programs outperformed his head to head, they locked the thread & later deleted it after calling me various names etc. (they judge by personal preferences, not by users preferences & results). Their actions by that point simply prompted me to part my ways with them & remove anything I had on their site (even though I was either leading categories I was in, or in the top 1-5 spots of 100's in categories I was in there for various applications & categories thereof: their loss in downloads/views etc., not mine, I can get those elsewhere). As far as JV's rigged .reg file test data he uses to show his program's "superiority" over others like my own? Well, heck, anyone with 1/2 a brain can see it is b.s. for 2 pretty basic reasons: 1.) Look inside his .reg file he uses for tests? lol... a good 50% of the data in that "test file" (jury rig file is more like it) is stuff you would NEVER see in your registry, & specific to his program's engines. Sure, using that, his program beats everyone. 2.) He does not let users test with their own data head to head vs. other programs... lol! Now, letting users test straight up with their own data as I did? He loses, and BAD... as do all my competitors, & my program does not present the possibility of removal of things that can damage a system (like removing registry OLE Server related entries for instance as I mention above). I personally needed to know myself how my work stacked up to both commercial & shareware competition... without cheating & lying to folks, letting them test mine vs. others with their OWN machines & data in the registry! (Besides, there are plenty of other sites like MajorGeeks that don't pull stuff like that, so I stick to them). Same results happened here @ NTCompatible with users testing the program vs. others with their OWN data (no rigged .reg file added) AND there @ MajorGeeks & let me tell you what: I am happy about that, as it proved mine was a more accurate program of like type vs. others like it, & in an honest non-rigged test run by the users themselves, not myself or any other software creator. I know, sounds like bragging... it's not, it's just plain-jane, straight-up & honest undiluted facts I am stating. The tests were proof to me I did a decent job of "APK Registry Cleaning Engine" vs. other programs like it. APK P.S.=> The HOSTS normalization engine program also has CPU priority control for itself built into itself (like APK Registry Cleaning Engine SR-6 has now). In fact, I am considering doing that to EACH of my apps, why not? I put the code for it into a reuseable Pascal UNIT, any app can use that, like a C .h file or VB .bas module by analogous comparison... apk I see the novelist has returned after an extended hiatus.

Quote: Yes , but , if i know well , unfortunately not for free ! Doru ;( Actually, I believe I heard it would be free. Perhaps they will offer a paid service as well or perhaps I am wrong.

Quote: yeah I know that but I was wondering if there was a way of searching or displaying all files with some sort of program. I seriously doubt that it is possible if the directory listing is turned off on the server. There are applications out there that if you give it a base page, it will download all linked pages recursively. I currently use one on my powerbook but I am sure there are windows programs that do the same thing. It's pretty trivial code.

Quote: By now mp3.com is dead ! CNET has bought mp3.com and are supposedly going to have a similar service. I don't remember the details off the top of my head but it sounded better to me the the service that mp3.com provided as of late.

I have an ATI card ( 9000 pro with 128MB to be exact ). Any idea on whether I'll have to update the card to play Doom3/HL2? My monitor is only 1280x1024 so no high res stuff here. I have not seen any recommend system specs for either game yet. I'm also starting to see recommended processor speeds go up as well. A processor upgrade (not counting memory) is quite a bit less then a video card upgrade. I seriously doubt that I'll upgrade my 9 month old system just for Doom3.

I have one user at my log on screen and this user is not password protected. My machine would automatically log this user on until I installed some borland developement apps. Apparently the install process created another user. This user is not shown at the login screen but I can see it though the user managment console. This is the only thing that could have effected the autologon. How can I get the autologln functional again.

I broke out my diablo 2 and put it on my system running XP Pro. It will work for a few minutes and then freeze for 10-30 seconds. I have the latest D2 patch and fairly recent ATI drivers. Indexing service is disabled. Has anyone else experienced this or know of a solution?

svchost.exe is normal. I forget what it does though.

Quote: Quote: http://www.ntcompatible.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26091 lol looks like mezron read my mind in the other thread Heh... GMTA! What does the "General Motors Truck Association" have to do with anything?

Quote: Harvey Fong, the moderator of the Creative Labs Newsgroups, is blocking access to the server from all EV1 (Everyone's Internet) users. His excuse is that one user from EV1 violated their policies. This, so called violation, was apparantly the fact that the user suggested to another that he use the KX Project drivers instead of Creatives to correct some probems that the Creative Labs drivers could not. This is not in any way a violation of policy. Mr. Fong needs to go back and read it again. Even if it were, Creative Labs should not have the right to punish many for the alleged "abuse" of one. If we stir up enough sh** in public opinion, I'm sure Mr. Fong will find a "better way" to deal with such as this. Please help by passing this information to all of the forums on various web sites. Can you give your source here? Forgive me if I am skeptical of posts like this that don't cite their sources.

Any way to remove the auto-complete dropdown for text fields on IE?

Actually need to clear the forms. That's the spot where I do it though. Thanks. I am cleaning any personal data from my laptop to send it for warrenty service.

Can someone suggest a real basic beginners guide to 3D Studio Max? It is for a gife so I am not sure of the version at this moment. Thanks

It's the 16th...

There's an update out on apples site for it now. 4.01 I believe. Downloading it now so I don't know what all it fixes

Well submit it to microsoft as a bug. I'm sure it'll be high on their list to fix.

A google search pulled up lots of results http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=HP+Scanjet+4100C+scanner+xp+driver

Quote: http://www.ntcompatible.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25270 This might help Thanks! I'll try that when I get off work. Any idea where the setting is in TweakUI? I believe I have looked there before but with no luck

Quote: It works fine for me in Windows and OS X 10.3. I have imported the first 40GB of my library (about 7500 tracks or so) and it works really well. I like how it can export the playlists and the library as XML for later use with other DB apps (for me, it will be ASP.NET/SQL Server). I get about 1-3% CPU utilization during playback, and it takes about 25MB of RAM (about the norm for WMP, Explorer, Mozilla, etc) but feels much lighter. The utilization is lower than WMP, Winamp, Sonique, and other MP3 players I have used, but with a lot more features. I like it a lot, and really dig the smartlists and rating option on the iPod and in iTunes. Try to resize the window and see what the cpu utilization is... My other gripes are tjat it doesn't seem to always recognize when I put a new cd in and that the encoding speed seems very slow. I can only encode at around 9x-14x max where I would usually get 40+ in musicmatch after the cd speed get's up there. I do know that the powerbook cd read speeds are significantly slower then my 52x drive; I don't know about the rest of the macs though. Maybe that's just a leftover. Hopefully that will be fixed eventually. On a side not, after btiching quite a bit in multiple places about the windows 2nd gen iPods not supporting AAC, I decided to give it a shot and it worked! Everything I have read about the iPod's firmware indicated that it would not support it. Even the 1.3 update on apple's site said that it added support for AAC for mac only. I only have a 10 GB iPod so I now have the task of reriping my collection to maximize the space on my iPod.

Quote: it isn't really that good on windows It has lots of performance issues but if you have an iPod and a large library, I havn't found anything better. The smart playlists (or whatever they aer called) are incredible. You can put words in the comments field to filter the tracks into playlists. This feature alone is worth it for me. I do wish you could nest playlists (along with on the iPod) if only for one level. I also wish it had some kind of mass tagging utility like musicmatch has where it downlaods the missing track info/coverart from the net. Also, has anyone tried to uninstall it? I hear it modifies so many things on install that the uninstall completely breaks cd burning for all other applications. I will be very pleased with this software if the performance issues are addressed.