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ok right, i've searched the forum but found no post about this one : how do you change the speed of the expand in the explorer tree view. i.e. i drag a file from a directory to another, but since the target directory is under a collapsed one i have to let my cursor over it like 1 sec until it expands. and if i have more than 2 depth levels it takes ages to reach the target directory. can anyone give me a clue on this one.

:kEViNoPolY i don't know about your rig but i had a pb with 2 asus mobos (p3b-f & p3v4x) the tv tuner card i use needs an irq for sound processing and i remembered that using ACPI on those force use of irq9 for my PCI cards if when you check your device manager it says something like "everything is using irq9" and your tv tuner sound WDM is not working try reverting your computer to "standard PC" it worked for mine.

don't play much games but I remember a small app called NVREFFIX that you can use to set your refresh rates by resolutions in games or any apps using directX on nvidia based vid cards.

"then why do I get S/PDIF grayed out in windvd and power dvd? w/ Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo?" perhaps that's because you're using a OEM version of these software. try DVDgenie. it can enable those greyed-out entries in both DVD players. sometimes they don't display the correct options selected but it should work anyway if your soundcard drivers support it check this link for WINDVD :http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/wdvd_down.html [This message has been edited by youhou (edited 28 October 2000).]

i used to have the same pb. except it was more like "you got a pb, sorry this is an unrecoverable error...and so" in photoshop. I think I read something about p3b-f not handling memory as it should an therefore causing pb with photoshop and some other apps. this sounded odd but i gave it a try and bought a p3v4x and don't have any pb now. don't know if this helps. (by the way does anyone has some unexpected errors about memory when closing apps and actually own a p3bf... I used to have LOTS of them and now since I swapped M/B i don't have any...)

[low tone on] hum...I see... you seem to have a OEM version of the DVDPlayer wich are somehow crippled since enabling some of the audio options require licensing. [low tone off] (I like that when I speak like a doctor, it just sounds funny) SO... get DVDGenie. it allows you to select different speakers setup in winDVD and many other. It sure will help!

http://www.3dchipset.com/beta/nvidia/list.html this could help

think I'm gonna cry... i still have 5 or so 286 M/B downstairs in a box... I think I'm gonna play monkey island in 4 colors again, like real soon.... damn where did I put the floppies???

there 's a semi-compact mode in MediaPlayer7 but it sucks big time. and I mean it. you can use the skin "classic" that's the closest you'll get to "compact mode" and it runs when you are viewing videos. but don't get fooled by mediaplayer7 or only if you don't need to: -save the files you just viewed -have a real compact mode. -run multiple instances. -be able to configure the decoders. (you cannot adjust DivX :)properties for example) - some stuff I forgot... but if you like the "eye candy"...the crapy media library... the vis...and the ugly skins... you choose. [This message has been edited by youhou (edited 06 October 2000).]

stick with version 6.4 at least it let you save files and run multiple instances

go on for SCSI!! U2W or U160 and dedicate a disk for your swap files. That helps! especially if you're working on huge files. also 512Mo seems a reasonable option too... [This message has been edited by youhou (edited 05 October 2000).]

I don't know if this might help but i used to have the same pb. i had a dc390F and a teac 58s writer and nero (and direct CD and CDRwin) wouldn't recognize the CDWriter. so I just took a put a 2940 to replace the tekram and this helped. just in case if you plan on testing another SCSI card put it in, reboot, configure, and THEN remove your older card. It also works with my 29160 now. don't know why but i don't trust tekram cards much now. (yeah and if you don't seem to be able to boot from a CD using tekram you have to put a delay of 10 on the bios... that's crap.)

i saw that... from http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15297 John Savill / March 23, 2000 Q. How can I start Internet Explorer without the toolbars? A. Internet Explorer has a kiosk mode which fills the entire screen with no toolbars using: iexplore -k This may not be exactly what you want though so you could write a windows scripting host program which starts an IE object with the toolbar disabled: Dim objIE Set objIE = WScript.CreateObject ("InternetExplorer.Application") ObjIE.Toolbar = false objIE.Navigate "http://www.savilltech.com" objIE.Visible = true If you save the file has ienobar.vbs and then execute with cscript ienobar.vbs IE will be started with no toolbars. [This message has been edited by youhou (edited 05 October 2000).]

or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC that will bring up the task manager directly ALT+F -> RETURN then launch iexplore. you'll see... with little habit that comes quite easy. like "damn it crashes again" CTRL+SHIFT+ESC ALT+F RETURN and there it goes again.

i didn't tried it myself. instead what i did (for the demo) was install under 98 then play under 2k. but you should check this address out http://www.shock2.com/faq.html

edit boot.ini in your root dir then delete the line with something like: scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect and check the one which load the default partition. that should do.

if the chipset is based on a brootree 848 or similar (like 878) you may not find any "real" drivers. in fact bt848 isn't even supported under NT4...as far as i know

you may try "Setup -lgntforce" That should do for the install, but as for the game i can't manage to make it run.

is there any way to have stripe sets on win2k pro. like software RAID. i mean I know it is included in 2kserver & adv. server. but is there a way to manage my disks like in Nt4. if not is there a way to use 2k server's applications