CUViper

there is a difference between normal IDE cables and ATA 66/100 cables.... they have the same connectors and all, but the ATA 66/100 cables have blue ends, to signify their higher speeds. If your cables don't have the blue ends, then this is your problem.

Quote: well the only thing I think that icewind dale has and BG2 does not is the ability to customize your entire party. You can customize your entire party in BG2 by starting a multiplayer game with only yourself...

Here's the link for the program that let's you read NTFS from win98: ntfswin98

Quote: My mouse is really sluggish under 2485... I had that problem with earlier builds, and it helped to install the intellipoint drivers

no, detonators are only for TNT and up.... I didn't find any Win2k drivers, but you could probably get away with using the NT4 drivers - no D3D, but it's better than nothing... Nvidia's NT4 drivers Diamond MM's NT4 drivers I would try Nvidia's first, cause they're probably newer...

what version of the nvidia drivers do you have? you might try different versions, just to see if it makes any difference

what video card do you have? do you have the latest drivers?

Well, in the resource kit, there is a file called uptime.exe. You could write an asp script that executes 'uptime.exe servername' for each of your servers, then formats the results for viewing....

except that windows nt/2k doesn't use autoexec.bat..... but you could put your application on the ram drive. Don't forget that while you may have 290MB free after boot, your memory usage will go up when you run any programs. A better way to gauge yourself is to go through some of your games, then go to the performance tab of task manager and check the peak memory usage (under commit charge).

i used the player, and didn't have any problems

install the Intellipoint drivers - even though it says the OS is not supported, that fixed the problem for me

To elaborate on what Ge0ph said - right-click on 'my computer' and choose 'manage'. Under 'storage' there is a section called 'disk management'. This is where you go to create/modify/delete partitions.

Did they install any drivers for that video card? The default Win2k drivers do not have any hardware acceleration. You can get official drivers from www.nvidia.com

You do have a folder called dllcache - it is marked as hidden, system. Go into folder option, and on the view tab select 'show hidden files and folders'. Also unselect the box for 'hide protected operating system files'. Then try again.... And btw, you're getting 16 color icons, not 16-bit. 16-bit color depth is 65,536 colors. I see people make this mistake a lot, and I just wanted to clarify.

http://www.chez.com/hoiby/TrayIconIn256Color/

I agree on the assistants - the office paperclip, winxp's merlin.... I always disable them asap. Autoplay is cool though, as long as it loads quickly. When it takes a while for the autoplay program to load, I get annoyed.

no, traffic shouldn't be a problem - remember, games like HL are designed to be playable over a 56k modem, and you're giving it a 10mbit LAN to work with....

Just to make sure we're on the same page, you want to have one computer with two nic's, and have the networks on both nics see each other? This can work, but only if you set up routing on that computer. So no, it won't pass traffic through if the cards aren't configured right in the os. And I'm pretty sure you can't do that at all with ME. I know you said you don't have the money right now, but your life will be a LOT easier if you just get a hub and plug everyone into that.

try changing the storage directory on the maintenance tab of the options

This should work for you - this of course assumes that your names are in A1:A8, but you can change that to suit your needs. =INDEX(A1:A8,CEILING(RAND()*8,1),1) Be careful when copying this formula around that it doesn't try to 'update' the array location. If you want, you can lock it down with dollar signs - ie. $A$1:$A$8. Also, the INDEX works in (row,column) coordinates. I assumed here that the data is vertical, so the row is random and the column is always 1, the first (and only) column of the array. If your data is horizontal, then make the row 1 and the column random.

do they have to be unique? ie. can the same name be picked more than once?

So you want someone else to fix your program, so that you can charge money for it? Sounds kind of sketchy, don't you think? Seriously, with all of the optimizations that the compiler does, it is VERY difficult to read the machine code and figure out what the problem is. I would try getting the latest service pack for visual studio, and then recompile. If you still get the error, then it's time to walk through the debugger. If you are serious about selling your software, this is something you should really learn to do.

Rather than having us hack your exe, would you be willing to post the source code?? That would make it a whole lot easier to debug....

well I was going to post it, but I found it on another site already - http://www.chez.com/hoiby/TrayIconIn256Color/

yes, it can - here's how to do it. If you don't know how to use a hex editor (or don't want to bother), I will post the hacked exe tomorrow. Open explorer.exe in a hex editor go to offset 0x1ECC change 'FF 74 24 18' to '6A 11 90 90' save the modified file to a temporary directory Once you have the hacked exe, here's how to use it: Open the task manager (ctrl-shift-esc) on the processes tab, end explorer.exe go to File->New Task(Run...) and type 'cmd' copy the new explorer.exe to these locations, in order: \WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386 \WINNT\system32\dllcache \WINNT\ type 'exit' to close the command prompt go to File->New Task(Run...) and type 'explorer' et voila! Like I said, I'll post the hacked exe tomorrow (if the admins here don't have a problem with that, of course). If you have any problems, let me know.