Dirty Harry

***BUMP*** Anyone have an idea why this is happening ? H.

It might be called separator page, look at [printers] HP970- Properties - Advanced - Separator Page --Should be empty or... [printers] HP970- Properties - Printing Preferences - enable banner printing --Should be unticked H.

Well its your decision... I'd say accept the concept of sunk cost and go for a KG7-Lite and 256MB (one stick) of standard Corsair/ Crucial/ Mushkin 2100/CAS 2 DDR RAM; and overclock a little bit. Alternatively go for an Athlon 1000-1400 (266 FSB) + a good mobo and keep your RAM. Again- overclock the box a bit. If your current RAM isn't running at 133 Mhz I'd forget about the second option. Also, forget about the raid setup and getting more than 256 MB (DDR) RAM if you are watching a budget, the speed increse from these is marginal in real life (unless you do a lot of video/audio editing perhaps). I would however put the next available $$ on a fast, ATA-100 / 7200 rpm hard drive. Also, you don't mention the video card, thats a very essential component to consider when you try to get most bang for the buck. H.

Could it be that you have the banner feature enabled ? H.

Anybody know if Norton Speedisk 2002 has the ability to consolidate the directories also (like diskkeeper does) ? H

It's long ago, and I don't remember the details but I had a US robotics PCI modem I just couldn't get to work in W2K (just wanted a fax). I ended up buing a cheapo usb modem to serve as a fax machine. The issue was that W2K is quite uncooperative when it comes to adding virtual COM ports i.e. COM3. You should find some info by using Google looking for combinations of Windows 2000, viritual com port, internal modem, Com 3 and similar. Hope this was at least of some help. H.

Look, both are widely used programs from reputable producers, with many users. If your question could be answered only one of them would be available. The world isn't such an easy place after kindergarten, and there is a lot of stuff that cannot be placed on a simple better - worse scale. Life is though, you have both programs, be a man and try 'em out. H. P.S. Personally I prefer DI.

well, my 2c... Have you tried another fan ? Sounds like a bad electrical connection somewhere. If its hooked up to a molex connector it should just run. I wouldn't start buy buying a new PSU to see if the fan is OK but the other way around.

I'd say its about the same as 4, 5, and 5.5, haven't found anything to be excited about in it, nor anything to be deeply disappointed about. I doesn't crash on me so I see no reason to go back to an older version. In short, its a maintenance release the marketing dept. tries to present as new.

My score on 3Dmark 2001 went DOWN, 12.90 - 3484 20.81 - 3240 Not that significant, but still. Anyone have an idea what to tweak ? System (not O/C at testing): Essential specs: KG7-Raid MoBo Athlon 1400/266 (AIHYIA "Y" w25/01 cooled by a Swiftech MC462-A) 256 MB Mushkin Hi Perf. 2100 DDR CAS2-2-2-2 (one stick) Asus V-7700 AGP (Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS), 32 MB DDR SGRAM IBM 45,0 GB (75 GXP -DTLA 307045) 7200 rpm ATA100 IBM 27,3 GB (34 GXP -DPTA 372730) 7200 rpm ATA66 Windows 2000 SR-2

Tapek, thank you for your valuable, intelligent comment. Pls press del+ctrl+alt twice fast now.

Has it occured to you that your problem might be caused by the fact that you have "built up hella programs...(3 collums of progs in 16x12)" But even if you had just a few I doubt that you could back up only the appropriate parts of the registry.

- you definately want to set the pagefile to be of a fixed size (initial and max size to be equal) - you should also set the pagefile to reside on the other physical harddrive (i.e. the one where windows is not) You may set the pagefile to reside on both drives, Windows can't write a memory dump when crashing to another drive than the boot one. I find this dump to be of no use whatsoever and only have my page file on the other drive. There appears to be several shools of thought about the size. Not too small, not to big... It depends on how many and what type of apps you use (editing videos vs playing Quake for example) Regardless of how much RAM you have W2K needs a pagefile. I'd say try setting it to 300MB, I doubt that that will ever be too small. H

Today I finally I got all the parts together: Lian Li PC60 USB case Abit KG7-Raid Athlon 1400 (266) Swiftech 462 Cooler Mushkin HiPerf 2-2-2-2 DDR Asus 7700 (Nvidia GTS) video Card Soundblaster live 1024 First boot directly to DOS OC@1600, CAS at 2, temp 38 C - YO!! Everything has worked like a charm sof ar, still busy installing. Can't wait to see how OC this setup will be. H.

The issue is really that MS is a monopoly, not because of regulation but because it has become the standard, and with PC's everybody needs a standard. At least in practice they are a monopoly, if we forget the zeropointsomething market share for desktops running linux and really using it for something. Nevermind how fair it is that MS got there, now they are a monopoly nevertheless. How much should MS be able to exploit their natural monopoly do you think ? We can already see the writing on the wall; sooner rather than later you'll have to connect to MS everytime you use their software (all completely painless of course... then maybe you can't have certain hardware anymore (sorry, only Intel CPU:s and MS mice generate the appropriate code...then you'll have to pay for every usage (very minimal fee of course, but we do need your VISA number), then perhaps you'll have to submit some anonymous demographic data...then... the possibilities are endless as soon as the customer finds it perfectly normal to connect to big brother. The issue is really simple, you buy a product - why should you afterwards be obliged to send anything, anytime to the seller? And how often should you be obliged to do so, once a year, once a week, what ? Oh, poor seller, they have to protect themselves against pirated copies. I don't find PA to be an acceptable way of dealing with this legitimate concern. What other product do you buy where you are forced to sign an "agreement" limiting your ownership rights and have to send data to the producer based on other products you own ? For some reason the software industry (read MS) is judged on a different standard that others. - If you buy a book (copyrigted) you can lend it to a friend or sell it as you please. You think you'll be able to call the PA center and tell'em you just borrowed this copy of Office XP from a guy who isn't using it right now as he is on vacation ? I've also understood that PA will not let you use the same copy on two machines (laptop/desktop). Why would this be wrong ? -Can you imagine buying a video tape or music CD which wouldn't work unless you send in an anonymous "activation" containing some VCR (CD player generated code making sure it won't work on any other device? - A lot of software (all MS) is already using extraordinary measures to limit your rights, even before PA. If you buy a car and the car is defect, say it stops running (for various petty reasons, sometimes even including own stupidity) every know and then, the producer would have to fix the product to work reliably or give you a refund. Try to return a two week old, tested copy of Windows... Heck, even when it's as silly as the external mirrors showing things to be further away than they really are, the car producer got sued and had to pay damages and the whole industry had to alter all future products. (Ford motor Co. / "Objects in this mirror are closer...) So lets say you manage to destroy your RAID array when installing XP, mmm.. lots of cash on you account and all future copies of Windows carry the "objects on your harddrive are really far away now...sticker. Am I paranoid? Propably, but I find the PA really doubtful and being only the first step of an "industry standard" that will seriously affect the basic privacy rights of the consumer. H.

Nobody calling it Superman... or Capt. America... or ihaveasmallpenis ? H.

it **should** work by downing the java machine from http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htm at leat it did... MS is really screwing ppl with this ploy, blaming it all on the neighbour. Personally, I don't think they ever really wanted to include java, they are sorta preparing people to use ActiveX. H

Happy to help. have gotten a lot of help myself ! H.

The easy solution is to get a great little shareware proggy called Outlook Backup Express 2.0 from http://www.genie-soft.com/. Another alternative I've done was (if I recall correctly) to reinstall OE, recreate all the folders you had them (exactly) and then overwrite them with the old folders. If you look in Tools - Options - Maintenance you will see a button "Store Folder" wich lets you define where the messages are. They are all in the *.dbx format. H.

If you don't find out fast what you have and cure it I'd say reformat the whole drive! If you have a permanent dial-up connection (always on) - disable it and see if the adds still pop up. If you use the dial up service - are the ads popping up when you're off-line ? Make very sure that your modem is inactive when the ads pop up (i.e. that your pc is not calling anywhere) After doing this you'll know if the ads are coming from your HD or from the net. Check the task manager / processes what is active, you should be able to see the % go up as the pop up loads. Whatever it is you have it sounds nasty. There used to be a scam where you were lurked to down a proggy that used your modem to call home at odd times, and home was a high charge **** line in the Caribbean. By the time you got your phone bill it was so many pages that they had to bring it with a truck ! I'd guess this is dead now, but you could have some new variation. BTW, what are the ads for ? If they are for a legit product or service I would be less concerned... H

Well, I have a LAN and a Linksys router (BEFSR series). As far as I know there is no way to have several IP's coming in to the Linksys (say you are thinking of combining 2 cables, for example). You conf it by setting it to either obtaining your IP automatically or you can manually enter your IP. Inside the LAN you of course have several IP's, at least one for each computer. The linksys works such that it is your IP to the world outside, and the PC's on the LAN send/receive their data through it. It can also serve as your DHCP server, in which case it assigns all the machines on the LAN an IP address as needed. Hope this helped, might have miusunderstood your question. H

4 way interleaving doesn't mean you need "4 sticks" of mem. Wether you can use 4-way interleaving or not is dependent on how many banks each stick holds, its either two or four. All fairly recent sticks I've heard of have four. "...but I'd like to know if setting it ..." Well, just try it. Benchmark it. If you can't find, feel and see the difference yourself, what good is it gonna be ? H.

Great, just great. Here I hold off upgrading IE 5.5 with SP2 for a few weeks because something is so often wrong with MS upgrades. Anyhow I just did it tonight as I hadn't heard about any probs and half an hour later I look at NT comp main page and find that the stupid SP2 shuts off Quick Time. Not that its such a big loss for me, but still. Apple is supposedly fixing it. I still recall well enough how SR-1 to W2K stopped ZoneAlarm and some of the other bugs in the bug "fixes" from Microsoft. Are we starting to see a pattern here? This one turned off Quick Time, XP turns off Java, tinkers with MP3:s and upsets the Kodak guys. At least it seems that MS is not testing their bug fixes with third party apps which, perhaps unintentionally serves the purpose of getting the consumers believe that there is always problems with 3rd party apps. Whats next, a SR3 for Win 2000 that kills Quickens file format, or a little security update that renders Forte Agent malfunctioning? Or maybe a deal with Intel on a patch that slows down Athlons? H

Isn't it standard functionality ?? What exactly are you trying to do ? H.

Quote: Originally posted by Kirben Microsoft didn't just cut off Quicktime, IE 5.5 SP2 and IE 6 just no longer support ... Yes, we have no bananas. Microsoft deliberately (?) disabled quicktime with a "service pack" without telling anybody. Quote: Originally posted by Kirben I think removing the Java VM from Windows XP was a good idea, better to let users download the current Java VM from Sun And why is this better than upgrading the old version? You don't seriously believe this was done to do you a favour ? Quote: Originally posted by Kirben I'm not sure what you mean by Windows XP tinkering with mp3s, Windows XP is not handling MP3 rips at higher sampling rates, stearing the consumers to use the Win Media Player and its proprietary file format instead of MP3. More info here: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6567844.html I fully agree that building an OS and guaranteeing compatibility is no small feat and that, at large, windows is a fairly good product. But I see plenty of reason to be concerned by the monopolistic activities and frequent actions to kill competition. Without competition Microsoft would be selling you a much worse product. H.