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My dad as always told me the same, and he did it in XP as well. I've never really understood that however. I don't understand why you would need MORE swap as you got more ram, I would think you would require less. However, if you look at what windows has set your pagefile too, it is usually larger than your ram. I have 384mb of ram, and XP sets my swap file to 578(?) to 768mb. I usually reset it to 384 to windows old lower limit. I'm in linux now though and simply gave it a 2gb swap partition and said screw it.

Quote: Pretty much... Philip is supplying us with a wonderful service, free of charge. Heck, if he doesn't like the [size:18]font[/color] you use, he could ban you permanently. After all, it is HIS box, HIS money, HIS ISP, HIS software. That is exactly right. Unfortunately, if he DID run this forum that way there wouldn't be very many memebers here, atleast not intelligent ones. I for on will not participate in a forum with powerhungry tyrants for administrators, I've already left forums for less. I'm glad to see he doesn't do this. This converstation started because SHS locked my thread, and as an admin he has the right to do that. Although he doesn't have to giv me a reason or inform me, I do feel it would be the right thing to do. This is kind of similar to stores that don't give refunds or exchanges. They are not required to do so, but it is nice when they do,a nd usually expected of them, for good business. I don't buy important stuff if I have no way to return it if I don't like it. Anyways, unless SHS == Phillip, then I don't see why you are raggin on Phillip here, this never involved him. If any of my threads should be lock, it is this one, now, not my other ones.

THAT'S going to far, to call him an egotistical idiot. He is far from an idiot, but he does seem like a bit of a hypocrit, for the reasons you pointed out.

Thank you DOS Freak, that is the first coherent response I've gotten as to how it is actaully wrong. And second, If I don't like something, I speak up. If nothing changes, I live with it, or leave. There is a LOT of unofficial software posted here though. I appreciated the first half of your reply though.

That means there unofficial and "hacked" video drivers shouldn't be allowed then. Am I going to get edited for this then? http://www.banfi.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/x3dfx/drivers.htm I'm around ***** often enough and I still firmly believe that someone porting WMP8 to the parent of it's original OS is not *****! ugh!

It's just plain old Windows Update hkkp://windowsupdate.microsoft.com Watch this! Explorer replaced with kk with tt, that's cool. Try it with other double characters and it should work as well! Just copy and paste that above to see for youself. Crazy eh?

I understand that, but I don't feel that that is any reason to edit and lock my threads. If Voodoofiles was a ***** site I never would have started this thread in the first place; I agree with you in that regard. Microsoft doesn't support WMP8 in Win2k, and doesn't plan to do so, but that is no reason to edit and lock threads about it. Users want it, they should be able to find it, and find it quicker than I did if they so choose. Hell, look in your own signature even! Unofficial software and drivers! tsk tsk!

I don't use Nero, but I noticed that when burning with BlindWrite my ram uses has risen by 200mb. I'm only using 123Mb right now, and that's WITH ICQ and Norton antivirus (autoprotect) running. I'm not worried when it rises, just found it very strange.

I've been a user of Norton for ever and a day and don't have too many complaints. Never tried disk keeper though.

I know, it WAS in the a pre-release of PowerToys, but going by your logic, it's not supported by MS and it's not downloadable from the MS site, so it's not okay. There are infinately numerous other examples, take nearly ANY support thread on this site for freaks sake. Microsoft wrote WMP8. Someone changed one little thing to allow it to run on Win2k, but for some reason my posts get edited, my threads get locked (even though one is STICKY for some freakin' reason!), and I am never personally informed of any of this. This is one hell of a way to run a forum, believe you me. If I were a cartoon, there would be steam shooting from my ears, I am so angry right now.

1) Voodoofiles is NOT a wares site!!!! It is a computer tweak/support site! With that logic, I could just as easily call THIS site a ***** site, because I KNOW half the people didn't and never will pay for XP. That's life though. I found that file with google, just as anyone else could do, no wares connections are required. Try it yourself. Go to voodoofiles and search for "windows media player". Now, what is illegal about that? 2) There are a lot of things not supported by MS. I don't see you closing threads to about PowerToys though! Or, if you use your arguement that Powertoys can be downloaded from the MS site, even though not supported by them, how about that ISO recording program that utilizes XPs built in burning capabilities? That isn't on the MS site, nor is it supported by them, yet I didn't see THAT thread closed, so what gives? 3)If you plan on closing someone thread, they should be informed that you are doing so and your reasons for doing so, personally, ie by email. It is a simple curtesy that administrators owe their users, you should know that! If I hadn't been subscribed to the thread here I prolly never would have knows about it, or known that you think I did something wrong. 4) I used to be a forum administrator myself, I've been in your position, but I justified myself clearly on any occasion I needed to use my administrative/moderative rights. The messages you edited didn't even have an edited tag on the bottom of them to show that you had edited the original content, which in my mind crosses the line between moderation and a few things I've been on both ends of and really don't want to get into right now.

The link is NOT *****. I couldn't understand any of your other messages, the english was too broken. If my thread in the Win2k APPz forum is closed, why is it set sticky? I was doing a good thing for many people, I know many people who wanted to use WMP 8, but use Win2k. Even if you feel my threads promote "*****", that is no reason to delete the entire thing, simply removing the link would suffice.

I would appreciated it if I were informed when a thread of mine is closed, and a reason for it being closed.

I got something, but everything I recover is corrupt and of no use to me. That drive hasn't been formatted forever! I'm finding pieces of files from I don't know how long ago! I've given up on getting that stuff back, but can someone recommend a goto free space wiper for me? I want to clear all the slack space.

I have Undelete 2.0 for Win2k from Executive Software, but don't want to risk installing it as the installer says it's not compatible. I deleted 10Gb of stuff that was waiting to burn. I'll go into detail about it if you wish, but needless to say I really need those images back! Does anyone know a good undeleter program?! I don't think I have copied anything else to the drive since then, a few mb at most, so most of it should be intact. I only use the drive for installing games, and haven't installed any of those. Dammit! I just remember I made a 1gb ghost image of my c drive, so i'll be missing nearly 80% atleast. Anyways, I need anything back that I can get. PLEASE HELP!