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If your ISP gave you that IP, then you have nothing to worry about. When they set up a static IP, it reserves that IP just for you. From the ISP's side, the easiest way for them to implement it is to set up the static route to your VPI/VCI (these are identifiers used for DSL connections). Because of this, that IP would be useless to everyone who doesn't have physical access to your DSL line.

If you have a 2.4 GHz phone, or someone near you does, this will conflict with the wireless network. Other than that I don't know.

Well, if your ISP has it set up for you as a static IP, then no one else will be able to use it. Someone else could set their computer to use your IP, but your ISP's equipment will route all of that other person's traffic to you, so it won't work at all for them. On the other hand, if that IP isn't really a static but just one that you chose, then I would be surprised that it ever worked.... but in that case there would be nothing preventing someone else from using it, and whoever gets it first will be the only one that works. As for sharing the connection, all you have to do is add a second ethernet card. Then in the properties for that first card (the DSL one) you enable internet connection sharing. Your second card will be assigned 192.168.0.1, and the other computer can get an IP from you dynamically (it will get 192.168.0.***).

As clutch said in this post, questions like this are mainly to get around the trial periods, which basically amounts to w-arez. Therefore, you're gonna have to go elsewhere to get help with this. Sorry!

If you've got the drive space, copy your files from D to C and reformat the drive as NTFS. This will be better anyway, because you won't be stuck with 512-byte clusters. If you don't have the space, you'll have to use a third-party utility, like Partition Magic.

AFAIK, you can't. Which is really stupid, since you could do that in MR1 and MR2. I did find out that ctrl-k toggles the joystick and ctrl-j changes the joystick configuration.

Are you behind a firewall? SSL runs on port 443, so you need to make sure that it's not being blocked.

get the 7200rpm drive... it's enough of a performance difference to be noticably faster. It shouldn't cost you £22 more though... it's only $17 difference at buy.com here in the US.

Try running the program as a service.... you can use FireDaemon to accomplish this.

If you do overload your PSU, it is highly unlikely that you will do any physical damage to the system. If it can't supply enough power, it will just make your system behave strangely and/or lock up entirely. Actually, if it's overloaded, it probably won't even boot. Bottom line is: while your system may crash (possible data loss), you are unlikely to do any permanent to your system.

Open Internet Services Manager, right-click on the web site and got to properties. The setting for TCP port is right there. And since it sounds like you're a newbie, please please please do some research on securing IIS before you enable that web server!

This is not a bug.... MS does this so that if someone tries to figure out what your password is, they won't even know what length to start with. It might not be worth the trouble though, because like you said, this just ends up confusing a lot of people.

Wait, are you trying to actually change your password? Or change who you are authenticated as over the network? These are two different things, and I think you mean the latter. I think you can do this with the "net use" command (do "net help use" for help on that), but clutch is the man on this stuff....

umm.... just to make sure, have you checked that the server is on the same subnet as all the other boxes? i.e., do the ip addresses all start with the same numbers?

right-click on the toolbar and click customize.... you can add the "related" button to your toolbar. Also, in the tools menu, there is an item that says "Show Related Links"

try making the desktop.ini file yourself.... here's the contents of mine: Code: [.ShellClassInfo] InfoTip=@Shell32.dll,-12689 IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll IconIndex=-237

http://www.arstechnica.com/tweak/win2k/others/disable_sfp-1.html

It might very well be taking a coffee break, so to speak... the power saving features can be set to power down the hard drive after a period of inactivity. Go to "Power Options" in the control panel (if the "user-friendly" mode is on, it will be in the "Performance and Maintenance" section). See the setting for "Turn off hard disks"? Change that to never, and you should be all set.

Well, you could just make a shortcut to the program, and add the paramaters to the 'target' line. If you can do what you need this way, it will be the easiest. If you still want to do it in a batch file, use the "start" command. Your line will read "start program parameters". Obviously, replace program and parameters with your settings. The batch file will still pop up a shell window, but it won't wait for the program to finish before it finishes the batch file. Yet another way is through scripting, in a .vbs file. You can start programs using the Run method, as described here. Scripts are completely transparant when they run.

for your first question, the problem is that the icons are initially stored in the temporary internet files, and they get cleared out after a while. PCMag made a utility to fix that.... you can download it here: FavOrg

Quote: ...windows 2000 advanced server... Do you have more than 4 processors? Do you have more than 4GB of RAM? Do you need clustering or network balancing? Then why in the world are you running advanced server? If you need the benefits of a server OS, go down to Win2k Server. If you are only using this computer for games, internet, etc., then use Win2k Pro or WinXP. Using an OS with more features than you will ever need WILL make your system work harder - that should be obvious! Now, that said, you still shouldn't be seeing 100% CPU usage... if you INSIST on staying with advanced server, then you can try going into the services control panel and disabling all the services you don't need.

Quote: Anyways, unless SHS == Phillip, then I don't see why you are raggin on Phillip here, this never involved him. Phillip is the owner of the site, and is the one who has set forth these policies. SHS and clutch are the ones whom he has chosen to uphold these rules. In most cases they exercise a lot of restraint in using their admin privileges, but when it comes to w-arez, or anything that might be conceived as w-arez, the policy always has been and always will be zero tolerance. I do agree that this post has gone on long enough though... let's just get on with our lives, shall we?

I know you said it's not the IE popup, but check this anyway: In IE, go to Tools > Internet Options. Go to the connections tab, and make sure that it is set to "Never dial a connection". What you set here has an effect on the entire system, not just IE, so I think it may be your problem...

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