Cynan

When you first boots up, take a look at the services that are set to manual yet are still running. If you change those to automatic, I think your problem should disapear. Basically a service thats needed to access certain functions isn't running and so when you try to, the system has to start it. Thats what a similar problem was for me and Dial-up connections. Hope that helps.

three, that was there all the time dude I like most of it, and what I don't like I can turn off.. wicked

You will still have to map the ports unforuntatly.

Well after waiting for the official XP drivers for my version of the Live! card, I eagerly installed them... cue the memory dump. Thanks.. but no thanks. Creative are definatly off my Christmas list.

I've seen these types of messages before and everytime I think, why!? Whats its all about, whats the point? The mind boggles.

My friend has an internet IDE version running on 2K and it works fine. My external SCSI model works fine in 2K aswell.. I've not tried it under XP yet.

Alec, where in XP can you change the FONT size of the clock hmm? Afaik you can't easily.. TClock lets you. Besides, XP simply adds the day of the week underneath rather then increasing the font of the clock which is what I understood was being asked for. The things that don't work so great under XP are the 'Flat Taskbar Buttons' and 'Flat Start Menu'. Maybe a newer version is out now that supports XP, but it didn't wotk when I tried it a couple of months ago. Anyway, I hope this helps you out Fuzz. This is my last post on this matter.

Yep TClock does the job, though unfortunatly it doesn't work as great in XP due to the skinning abilities. Still, if you just use it for the clcock under the classic skin, maybe it'll work ok. BTW, TClock does allow width and height changes.

Hi. I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with both a Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB and a Hauppauge WinTC PCI card ? I have a friend who has the first one (USB) and says the sound is always out-of-sync with the picture, however, for reasons that I'm not going to go into, a USB one would be better for my needs... ..but if it is like he says, then I'll be using the PCI one instead. Any thoughts? Thanks.

I keep all my partition at one size two.. but if you have only one disk, then its handy to have another place to move stuff around too. As for the swap partition, thats probably a good idea... never done it myself though.

When I first went from 9x to NT, I had a similar problem. I tracked it down to the EPP/ECP settings in the BIOS and found that if I set the port up for the slower one, SPP? (Its S.. something), then it'd work.

Its all personal choice and to me, its all about what you want to do and how you want it to 'look'. If I just had one 40GB HD and was only going to run one OS, then I'd break it up into two. That would then allow you to store all of your settings and personal data on the second one and if/when you need to reformat or reinstall your O/S, then you don't lose anything important. It would also give you a place to ghost your primary partition too for a quick and easy restore job. I'd have the main partition as NTFS, and the second as FAT32 (so you can access it easily from DOS if soemthing goes wrong with NT - though you can get programs/drivers to read NTFS drives from a DOS environment). I do something similar atm. If you are going to or thinking about having a muitple boot system thought, then I'd recommend having a thrid partition around 10MB thats just FAT and having something like System Commander residing on it to manage it all. I say that because in the past setting up multiple boots at a later date can be a pain if an O/S is on the same drive. --Cynan.

Firstly, if its connect to a VIA chipset motherboard and its a dual, theres your problem right there and can only be solved at present by installing a USB card, such as the many that Belkin do. Secondly, you should make sure you are using the 1.4 drivers that are compliant with Windows XP. Anything else, and I have no idea unless you give me more to go on!

SCSI isn't about speed, its about bandwidth. For a games machine go IDE - its more then enough.

Hey, a friend of mine was telling me this morning about a console command called BatchMan. It allows you to delay a program from running until a specified time. That should definatly! sort out your problem... sorry I don't have a link to it. --Cynan.

Create a new string value with the name of say, 'A' (so that its first on the list) and enter the path/filename to ICQ for the value. I'm fairly sure it does load them like that *fingers crossed for you*.

ICQ will be in there somewhere. Try looking under the CURRENT_USER key in the same place.

This is the key that my copy of ICQ was loaded up in: - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run AFAIK, the ordering in there does dictate what is loaded first. SO try that and hopefully it'll do what you want.

You could edit the registry and change the order in which your programs are loaded. First come, first serve kinda thing. Other then that.. I'm sure I've seen a program that can delay a program starting for x amount of seconds. Personaly I'd edit the registry.

All versions of Windows have the text for the start menu stored in 'explorer.exe', so yep. It'll work for 2K too.

I think your pretty screwed. If there was a way to strip away the "encryption", then it wouldn't be done very well. Personaly, and you might want to try this in future, I use PGP to encrypt my files. It has something called PGPdisk which allows you to have a virtual partition that it encrypts on the fly - having the added advantage of using just a passphase, and being able to mount it even if you do lose your NT profile. Hope the data wasn't anything important... maybe there is a brute-force hack program out there.. but I'd imagine it'd take a while. --Cynan.

There are two causes that I know of why burning programs fail under XP. One is the missing ASPI layer, but as you can burn upto 4%, then you must have that ok.. the next one is that XPs built-in burning capability screws up 3rd party software. SO. Try disabling that. Goto My Computer, right-click on your burner, goto the Recording tab and disable it. Try that.

or a VIA motherboard.. as far as I know, the new drivers solve all the problems known with the SB range of cards (though you have to for abit for the new drivers to be available for some models of the card). --Cynan.

Sorted it from reading up on another post. Just turned off XPs own burning in the drives properties page... *tuts @ XP*. Thanks.

Hmm.. I swear it DID work!, but now I get a Tracking Error in Nero when I try and burn anything... EasyCD still works fine though. So I followed the ASPI stuff in here, but in the check program it states its properly installed, but it is unable it initialise (Error 0xEB?). Anything clue? Thanks.