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Hi, Is this a well-known fact or just here on my pc - all software-installations based on the microsoft msi-system put a copy of the whole installation file on the harddisk?! You can check this unter c:\program files\common files\ wise installation system and under %windir%/installer... Isn't this a bit too carefully? Those installation packets are really big today and if you install a great amount of software-packages this will take a lot of place off your harddisk... Is there any way, a registry hack or so, to prevent these .msi-installers to do so? Greetings from Vienna,

Hi Brian, I had to agree to you if that were only things that belong to the os directly, but was i mean was, that more and more programs(!) seem to use this technology and all of them also store their msi-files at that places! I've noticed that with winoncd and fix-it utilities last times - both were about 30mb of .msi-files. So think about installing 10 or more programs... What makes me a bit angry is, that this is done without a notice to the user - would be easy to to put some lines of text and a simple yes/no query in the installer and let the user dicide. I know, hd-space is really cheap now and i have also a lot of it - but i think that goes a bit too far...

Hi there, Two quick questions for the pro's here: Is it necessary to install a ASPI-Layer to WinXP? Is there already a working soloution to get WinOnCD 3.8 PE running under WinXP? Thanks in advance for your help and greetings from Vienna!

Hi, Quote: Excluding Norton and Fixit, are there any programs out there that will do this for W2K? The pro-version of O&O Defrag will do so, take a look at -> http://www.oosoft.de/index-e.html

Hi, Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Galilee: Hi all I have a problem with refreshrates in OpenGL. I have used refreshrate utility, but still have a problem. If I use 120Hz (my standard in 1024) the games is showed as a windows inside a black screen the size of my desktop (1280*970). And the monitor says 60. In other words the window where the game is is just 1024 as a small window inside a 1280 black screen. And its still 60Hz <IMG SRC="smile.gif" border="0"> Hope you understand what I mean. The problem is in Quake3 and Serious Sam. But not in Glide games or D3D. Please help me.</font> Same problem here with the 1.04 and the Omega drivers... :-( Tried even a clean install, no luck - all opengl games show the same effect, but no problem with direct3d or glide. Also no problem with the older 1.01 beta drivers.... ------------------ Ciao, Robert ---

Hi Sam, Outlook stores all his data in one file! Search for a file with the extender *.pst on your drive.... ------------------ Ciao, Robert ---

Hi, Quote: Originally posted by Paulyw1985: well i need the defragmenter, the benchmark, the crash guard, everything basicaly i got the anti virus runnin, but utilities, no thats stupid, they should make both things work thanks Hmmmm, normally no one of the progs of NU2000 is designed to work under Win2k, they're ment for Win9x But under ftp://ftp.symantec.com/misc/americas/sabu/sdnt/sdnt215.zip you can get the beta of Norton SpeedDisk for Win2k - they give the beta away for free to test it! ------------------ Ciao, Robert ---

Hi there, Just a quick question - does anyone also have this: When i switch to 'Standby' in Win2k and than restart the pc, my Intellimouse Explorer (on USB) seems to have lost all benefits of the Intellimouse Software (v3.1a), as doubleclick on wheel, higher speed, jump to default button and so on. Seems to me that the software don't initialises after the restart? Does anyone also have this problem and maybe a solution for it? Thanks in advance and greetings from Vienna, ------------------ Ciao, Robert ---

Hi again, Quote: Originally posted by Shrink: Probably a good idea to uninstall the mouse as well and restart from scratch. I have a BX chipset mobo, SBLive Value and a Voodoo3 3000 as well with no problems. The only other thing might be the SCSI devices having problems with power management and it somehow interfering with the mouse (especially if the SCSI bus is sharing an irq with the USB Controller). Good luck! Good Note - this could be the point! As usual in Win2k and an ACPI-system, all devices are shared at irq 9! ------------------ Ciao, Robert ---

Hi Shrink, Quote: Originally posted by Shrink: Hey Robert - I am using the same mouse in usb mode and can standby and hibernate with no ill-effect caused to the functioning of the mouse. What type of mobo/usb chipset are you using? I'm using a P3/450, 256Mb, Voodoo3/3000, SBLive! on an Asus P3B-F, full SCSI-System without any ISA-Card. Hmmm, maybe a drivers-fault - i've downloaded IntelliPoint 3.1a again and will try a fresh install... ------------------ Ciao, Robert ---

Hi nova, Quote: Originally posted by nova: - NEVER install Win2000 into the same FAT/FAT32 partition as Win98! I know that there are people outside who say that it works ok for them, but believe me, one day you WILL regret it! (Because this way, Win2000 and Win98 share the "\Program Files" folder (and maybe some others) on that partition, and it WILL give you compatibility problems in one OS sooner or later if you install some programs!) A quick question - it's possible to change the "\Program Files" folder with TweakUI. Do you think this could be a possible soloution to install both Win98 and Win2k on the same partition? I'm thinking of changing the program folder of Win98 to e.g. "\Program Files 98"... Should do the job - or what you're thinking? ------------------ Ciao, Robert ---

Hi Xetenor, One tip for you: If you got access to another pc just install Partition Magic 5 there - the DOS part of it only uses above 1Mb, so it should fit on a disk (or ZIP or burn it on a CD!) As it has NTFS support you should bve able to boot your pc from a bootdisk, start pqmagic from cd or another disk and change NTFS back to FAT32.. Hope it works for you! ------------------ Ciao, Robert ---