CUViper

Wow, your only 2 posts are to advertise software? I replied to your other "ad" here...

Groan.... if this isn't blatant advertising, then I don't know what is. I tried SoundFX 2000 a while back, when I was still on Win2k, and as I remember it was FAR cry from the flawless sound emulator you claim it is. Then I discovered the FREE VDMSound which gave me much better results. Not to mention that SoundFX 2000 hasn't been updated in over a year (Feb 2001), whereas VDMSound has continually been improved. Why should I pay for software when the freeware works so well? Oh, btw, you're kidding yourself if you think there is no crack for SoundFX 2000. A quick search revealed several places to get cracks for the latest version...

Wow, that is much better! I am curious about your "related" links though... most of them seem to work well, but some are a bit screwy (like NFS4 here) Keep up the good work!

That one is a bit more complicated, so here's a screenshot of all the settings:

first extract the exe you downloaded into a directory you can remember... for the most ease, just put it on your boot disk. Then boot into dos mode, and put yourself in the directory with the files. Then follow this instruction from the readme: Quote: 5. Next, please type as follows and push Enter Key. upg3a /n G3SA121.HEX Please fill in the following only one numerical values on "n". n=1 primary slave n=2 secondary master n=3 secondary slave After this is done, power off the computer. When you boot back up, it will be on the new firmware. BTW, the readme.txt file does have complete instructions, but they seem to be a poor translation from another language. (it talks a lot about defrosting )

Have you tried the firmware update? (here)

Quote: it´s easy 2 get yore passwords exstracted frim the ini. This is an important point - for a hacker to do ANYTHING with this, they have to first have access to that ini file on my computer. And if a hacker has access to files on my computer, there are far more other things to worry about than instant messenger passwords.

You can use Sysinternals' Process Explorer to view file handles - and it has a search function, so you could search for the directory of interest...

Just to make sure we're not missing the obvious - make sure that you have the recording source set to either "Wave/MP3" or "What you hear". My guess is that it is stuck on "Microphone".

Quote: How can I set it back up for the shadowed fonts on the desktop??? right-click My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Performance Settings -> "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop"

Unfortunately, I don't have the game, so I can't do any direct testing for you. Maybe someone else around here can share their results? I do have Secret Ops lying around here somewhere though, which I believe has the same underlying code. If I can find it I will see what it does...

To me, all the bundling MS does is no different than a car manufacturer bundling, say, a cd-player with their cars. In some of the newer cars, the stereo is so tightly integrated that it becomes almost impossible to remove it to replace it with something else. And if you do remove it, chances are you will lose some functionality, like volume control on the steering wheel or something. So in that sense, IE is a lot like the cd player in your new car. Yet no one complains to car manufacturers for anti-competitive practices against Kenwood or Alpine... Besides, seeing as Netscape is backed by AOL-Time-Warner-etc-etc, I think it's pretty ridiculous to whine about poor old Netscape.

I mean that you should only check the ones I mentioned. If I were to run the game on my computer, those would be the only ones enabled. But if you don't have the "IgnoreLoadLibrary", then it probably won't work. You say that there are 57 total fixes? The version I have has 199, so I guess you're gonna have to wait for the newest toolkit to be released for Win2k. I found this on MS's site: Quote: The Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) is a collection of useful tools and documents that enable both application developers and IT professionals to resolve application compatibility issues. The ACT 2.5 is supported on Windows XP, and will also operate correctly on beta builds of Windows .NET Servers. Support for installing the ACT 2.5 on Windows 2000 will be included in the upcoming release of Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. My guess is that when ACT 2.5 is installed on Win2k, it will come with all of these fixes we are talking about. Time to start that SP3 rain-dance...

Oh, by the way, to make changes permanent with qfixapp, click advanced and click "create fix support". That will make a *.sdb file in the %windir%\AppPatch directory. Double click that file to add it to your main database. Also if you backup this file, you can use it to quickly add support for the game on other machines.

Prophecy has settings for two exe's: launcher.exe [*]EmulateMissingEXE [*]CorrectFilePaths [*]IgnoreLoadLibrary [/list:u]prophecy.exe [*]EmulateHeap[/list:u] Hope that helps!

It's because the compatibility database in XP is much larger than in Win2k... Here are the fixes that are enabled on my XP machine for WC4: [*]HandleAPIExceptions[*]EmulateCDFS[/list:u]Try picking those options in QFixApp - It should fix you right up...

I use the black memorex cd-r's...

Here you go.... http://memberservices.passport.com/memberservice.srf

Here's how MS defines the IPC$ share: Quote: A resource sharing the named pipes that are essential for communication between programs. It is used during remote administration of a computer and when viewing a computer's shared resources. Basically, you can think of it as the "root directory" of your shared folders. If someone clicks on your computer while browsing the network, they will get a list of the shares on your computer. This list is the IPC$ at work. Making identical user accounts should fix your problem with 2k-9x communication. Make sure that the accounts you create are members of a group. You should be able to get away with making them members of the "Guests" group, but if not try making them members of the "Users" group.

Since it worked under NT4, it will most likely be just fine under Win2k. You should build a test box first though to try all your software on, before you upgrade all 500+ computers.

For those of you who have no interest in the technical details involved, feel free to skip this post... Quote: The 533MHz actually refers to the "quad pumped" method of how the number of electrons (4) ride the sine curve, but it is still running at 133. Well, yes and no. Quad pumped means that there are four data transfers in a single clock cycle. There is no sine wave involved, and if it was detecting information about individual electrons, then you're getting into quantum theory. Data transfer in current computers happens with pulses. For example, the actual clock is a square wave that constantly goes from zero to one to zero to one, like this: _|¯|_|¯|_|¯. In a "normal" system, the data could be pulse-triggered or edge-triggered. Pulse-triggered means the data can be read anytime the clock is at one. Edge-triggered means the data should only be read when the clock is going from one to zero. (that's negative edge-triggered - positive edge-triggered would be when the clock goes from zero to one) These methods get one bit transfered for every cycle of the clock. DDR ram works on both the positive and negative edges, so you can send data 2 different times in one clock, for twice the throughput. I'm not sure how the quad-pumped bus is actually implemented to get four bits in one clock cycle. I've seen a lot of speculation though, from having 4 separate buses, to your electron idea. It could also be that there are 4 separate trigger points in the clock cycle. Or it could be like a modem, with 16 different voltage levels to represent the state of the four bits (e.g. 0000, 0001, 0010, ..., 1101, 1110, 1111) Even on Intel's website, I can not find any specification for how it actually done, but I suspect that it is along the lines of having 4 trigger points. If anyone knows for sure or can point me to some documentation, I would appreciate it!

Quote: Hi, I would be cautious about Winamp,They say there is a serious security breech. Cheers, Bill. PS. I use Media Player. You're worried about a security breach - yet you use the MS player? There was a security issue in winamp's minibrowser, and it was fixed in version 2.80...

Just having the cd is enough - you could completely remove XP if you want...

Quote: Put another way, if I have NT4WS or W2K pro on a pc, what's to stop me loading XP pro if I have the original disks? Am I missing something? Having the disks does not give you the license to install the OS as often as you like. When you buy the OS, you are allowed to install it on one computer, and installing it on any other computer is then piracy. To clarify what clutch said: You've already got one Win2k license for your desktop. If you get WinXP on your new laptop, then you get one WinXP license. That license means that you can legally put WinXP, Win2k, NT4, or even earlier NT versions on that laptop if you want. So if you can find a Win2k disk somewhere (from your desktop), then it would be legal for you to have it on both the desktop and the laptop, since you have two licenses that both cover at least Win2k.

That will change the home page, but that's not what he asked. Ctrl-N is the hotkey for a new window, which always opens a copy of the current window. It would be nice for this to just open a blank page...