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Hmm i would say go to best buy when nobody is looking steal one off a case =) or find a XP powered box and steal it off there.

yeah why don't you just uninstall then re-install NAV when your subscription runs out. Then ya got another year of subscriptions =)

yeah personally i used to use EZ CD then after it started being stupid i switched to Nero, as for Mp3 support, i don't exactly understand why you need their add-on pack when you can find a codec that will do the same thing or use Exact Audio Copy and Lame. No since nero 5.5.6.4 has cue support i don't even think i will be using CDRwin anymore either.

yeah im just using the latest VIA INF and the 4.10 AGP GART, other than that no real difference with or without them.

I dont think the 4in1s have anything to do with it. Due*** and UT are both based upon the same engine so i would think the game has problems with XP. Don't quote me on that though. You have the latest UT openGL driver right, not your video card one but the OpenGL API patch for UT? I would say try that, and other nvidia driver revisions and see if you get the same error with all of those.

yeah i dont know if file indexing is on by default in w2k or not i know its not in XP, there for XP searches all your disks instead of searching the indexes.

The main point here that most people are missing is that THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. THIS IS PHILIPS WEBSITE NOT YOURS. If philip doesnt like something or the mods don't like it it gets taken down, you don't like it tough sh*t, as for SHS's drivers there is a difference between unoffical drivers and a ripped WMP8. All SHS did was modify the .inf file so it would work on a different OS, that is not modifying the source code to the drivers if he uncompiled the DLLs then modified those then it would be illegal. Modifying an INF file is not, plus all the things in his package were available in the original driver package. I also think Matrix needs to STFU because that was your 1st post so i take it you don't know the stuff that SHS puts into this site and these forums, don't talk bad about people you know nothing about.

For some odd reason i can't defrag my D: (WD 5400 60 gb ATA100) without my system freezing. Every other drive is fine but that drive. I did a quick format and it still ****s up. The drive has been scanned and there are no file or sector errors on the drive either. Im beyond reason here on what the hell is going wrong. Ive tried using Diskeeper 7 and Norton Speed disk both freeze my system.

the problem seemed to be a few files that the defragging programs have issues with or something, i excluded those files and it defrags fine. Thx for the info on that program, i use the page file defragger they have on the site, and thats good.

OK here is a report, my D: will not defrag on my 1st IDE controller. This is a fresh install of XP so its not that. I dunno what the hell it is, i will look some more and see if i can't figure it out.

its on the same controller as C: i had the page file on it but its not on there now. Let me move it to a different controller and see if i have any different results. **Edit** Thanks clutch moving it to a different controller worked, now to find out why they won't both work on the same controller.

Samsung drives are kinda crap they are ok if your looking for a cheap crap drive that will probably die in the future 6-8mos.

CloneCD is also one of the most PICKY cd burning programs i have seen. If it doesnt like your hardware it will crap out.

hmm really, i heard that it was buggy at best to try and convert from NTFS. But hell saving a format is always good.

i looked around but i didn't see the option. Its not that important for me though since i just open up outlook everyonce and a while. E-mail the author of trillian and maybe if he likes the idea he will put it in the next version.

boot into safe mode delete the directory, reboot into normal mode. Then you have no messenger. Or you can edit %systemroot%\inf\sysoc.inf and find the word HIDE and remove it then you can use the add/remove programs to get rid of it

for sure if you have the money go for the Ti500, it is the best all around video card i have seen for the money.

yeah i don't think RealMagic has their remote working in XP yet

Yeah im going to have to go with WinACE being the best too.

you can try mp3tag studio. I havent found any problems with it in XP or 2k. you can grab it at www.download.com

yeah the only way to convert NTFS to FAT 32 is by fdisking or formatting.

can anyone tell me the way you get the Windows 2000 style user control panel, i don't remember the exact way to do it.

yeah it was control userpasswords2 that i was looking for. Thanks.

there is a way to do it from the run command, i just forgot how. I will search through and find it

not control panel. User control panel