Xiven

Someone e-mailed me asking this: Quote: How the heck did you do that with your quick launch bar? Cool stuff....thanks for any help you could give me. Well they were talking about this. So for anyone who cares and doesn't yet know how to do this, here was my reply: Quote: 1) Create a directory (call it "toolbars" or something) somewhere on your hard drive. 2) In this directory, create one subdirectory for each toolbar you want, eg. create a "Games" directory, an "Internet" directory or however you want to classify your quicklaunch shortcuts. 3) Right-click on your taskbar and go to Toolbars -> New Toolbar... 4) Browse to one of your subdirectories and click "Ok" 5) A new toolbar should have appeared on your taskbar, which with some dragging around you can hopefully get it to appear in the right place. You can then drag shortcuts onto this toolbar in the same way that you can with the normal quicklaunch toolbar. You may want to right-click on the new toolbar and untick the "Show text" option which will stop it putting the names of the shortcuts next to each icon. 6) Do steps 3-5 for each toolbar subdirectory you created. Note you can also add folders such as "my network places", "my computer" or "desktop" as toolbars too. Yeah, most of you probably already knew all that, but I hope it helps someone -- Xiven

Yeah, that's quite a neat little trick too.

Nicely done Clutch

Well at least we agree on something then. Regards Xiven

You should only use the Win95 compatibility layer as a last ditch attempt to get a program that does not normally work under 2000 to work. You shouldn't use it on programs that already work as it will probably impair performance (disables certain hardware acceleration stuff etc).

Quote: Xiven. Correct me if I'm wrong( and i know you will) Well, people wouldn't post here if they weren't having problems. "Hi I'm just posting to let you know that I have absolutely no problems with my computer. Thanks for listening" Fact is there are more Win2k users on this board than WinNT users, and those who are using NT probably sorted out all the problems they had with it years ago. Oh, as for what you can do in Win2k that you can't do in NT4, here's a quick list of little things that make me choose 2k over NT4: Many many more games work Support for Plug & Play Support for ACPI (I like being able to turn off my machine by pressing the power button. Yes I know I lead a sad life.) Support for USB devices (my keyboard and mouse are USB although they can work on PS/2, I prefer them on USB cos I can plug my mouse into my keyboard then. Also I have a USB scanner.) Quicklaunch bars (Look I can't live without them! Start menus suck ) And remember it's not just games that use DirectX. I agree that these things are not essential, BUT if you've got a nice new machine with USB and so on, it's a shame not to use it. And yes MS is bringing in a new OS (XP) that looks like it could end up being as bloated as WinME is compared to Win98. I may be wrong there though, some people have been saying good things about WinXP. Regards Xiven

Quote: Sorry but I read most the posts on this forum and there related to 2000 for the most part. That's because most of the people on this forum now use NT5 instead of NT4. And with good reason, because there is a lot that you can't do in NT4, and aside from a few badly written programs, nothing that you can do in NT4 that you can't do in W2k. There are far more NT5 compatible programs that NT4 ones. Many of the other problems mentioned on this forum are from people upgrading from W98 to NT5 who would be having the same problems if they were upgrading to NT4 (NT has always been more picky about hardware). Take an example of a common problem mentioned on the boards lately. Problems with the KT133 via chipsets. You'll have exactly the same problems on NT4, but are far less likely to find support for it and certainly for any new hardware problems that you may find. Another example, Soundblaster Live crackling, slowing down the computer etc. Well guess what? It'll happen just the same on NT4. Not Win2k's fault at all.

If you want an operating system that will make full use of your hardware, ie. have Plug & Play, USB and proper AGP support, and a much greater chance of your programs working, and a kick a$$ gaming experience to boot then go for Win2k. If these things are not your cup of tea, then sure, go ahead and use NT4 ;(

Anyone know anything else about these drivers? Do they support EAX, full surround sound etc?

Is your motherboard BIOS up to date, and are the drivers for your UDMA controller up to date?

Just replying to say that I don't have a clue as to the answer to the question that you asked.

For Dungeon Keeper 2, I think you just need the latest patch for it, though I could be wrong.

Wrong! Starcraft works just fine on Win2k. Works fine in NT4. Works fine in XP. Probably even works in WinME (!). It'll work on anything. No idea what your problem is pikapan, but don't give up, cos it will work Oh yeah, and the new SC patch rocks. Has replay facility now.

Yeah but that's just down to level design. Not all Q3 maps are brown (the space-based maps for example). UT does support better textures and stuff (if you have an S3 graphics card). Q3 has curves, mirrors and organic like objects. The Q3 graphics IMHO are a lot clearer overall and more colourful. But then what do I know.

I'm running Win98 here at work, so I can't confirm it, but the principle should be the same. Either: (1) To do this you'll need TweakUI installed. Open TweakUI, go to the "My computer" tab and in the "Special folders" option, select "Favorites" and click "Change location", then just browse to the folder on the network. or: (2) Open regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders (might be ...\Microsoft\WindowsNT\...) Edit the key "Favorites" to be "\\computer\share\path" or whatever. I can't guarantee that either method will actually work, and Windows may throw a fit if it can't find the folder (if your 'preferred' pc is turned off for example). If it doesn't work at all, try mapping a network drive and pointing the key to there instead. -- Xiven

Please don't tell me you believed something The Register said...

Very nice, but that has absolutely zero effect on the system tray icons.

Yeah, will work on NT4

It has more security fixes cos it has more security holes...

It may be leaked, but it is on an official Microsoft server. And yes, it works fine on UK edition.

Tried it, it's okay. A few pointless new features (which can be turned off thankfully) and it's slightly more standards compliant, which makes me happy.

Who would have thought that so much emotion could be displayed in so few pixels...

Quote: Originally posted by lager_brains The only other way I can think of installing W2K onto the quantum is to open up the Case and disconnect the two seagates ! That was exactly what I was about to suggest...

That's because you were running IE5.0 SP2 but are now running IE5.5 SP1. It has nothing at all to do with your Windows Service Pack.

The \winnt\ServicePackFiles\i386 directory is used by the System File Checker / Windows File Protection to restore files should they be corrupted. If it doesn't find the file there, it will then try \winnt\system32\dllcache. In theory then, deleting the files should not be a problem, but do not quote me on that!