Nemesis

Phalanx-Imawano, When you get the pop-up, try right-clicking and selecting View Source, sometimes you can get an idea of what/when/where/why and even who wrote it.

el_vago32, You need to ge the Hardware Maintenance manual from IBMs FTP site: Pick Your ThinkPad 600 Model and Type Once you've select your Model and Type, you will be taken to "your" support page, from their select Online Publications from View by document type drop down list, there you will find the Hardare Maintenace manual, it is a PDF file, at the end of this will be the BIOS Error Codes. Since your on the IBM website you might want to visit the ThinkPad Driver Matrix for the 600: TP 600 - Software and Device Driver

Quote: How would one go about setting up a financial application to all files including temp to the floppy, and send absolutely none to the HD?. Since this question is in the Application (XP) I've assumed your PC has USB ports, if so, then you could use a USB key, they can hold from 8MB to 1Gb or data.

thatsteveguy, Try the following: Event ID.NET

ThC 129, You might want to try running SFC, the most common error numbers are usually 410 (running SFC) and 472 (you're buggering around with XPs Visual Styles). I've not seen a 432 before.

Quote: Hi, After a LOT of research, I've decided against water-cooling (it's just a big pain in the @$$ right now). I was wondering how I could make an Athlon CPU quiet without it constantly overheating, or me underclocking it. Try Quiet PC or the Hush Mini-ITX

Or even better, change "explorer.exe" to "progman.exe"!

Avalanche, Got Systinternals website a download their Process Explorer, this will should show you the process underneathe the SVCHOST.EXE: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

All, Jerolds site is very good for a vast source of tips and tricks and registyr hacks, also take a look at tip 6000.

So now you know where the files are, just copy them to a working XP installation. Obviously don't copy then to C:\Windows\Systm32\Config, but to another directory. Start regedit and load the "hives", edit them, and then copy them back to the non-working XP.

DosFreak, The following is wrong: >> cdrom_sp.tst (cdrom_sp.tst=SP1 cdrom_sp.tst=SP2 cdrom_sp3.tst=SP3) it should be: cdrom_sp.tst -> SP1 cdromsp2.tst -> SP2 cdromsp3.txt -> SP3

rnielsen151, Run REGEDT32 and traverse down to the following location: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider Add or edit the following: RestoreConnection : REG_DWORD : 0

Curley_Boy, $IPC is InterProcess Connection (or Communication, can't remember), it basically means that the box you are trying to connect to doesn't recognise you. This usually happens when a Windows 98/ME user tries to connect to an NT/2000/XP box. You can't disable it, but you have two choices, (1) Enable the Guest account (opens up the PC to everyone) or (2) Create a user account for the "guest" machine.

Curley_Boy, You need to change the following registry setting to yes: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WOW] "DefaultSeparateVDM"="yes"

reversing_drive, EFS is as only as good as your physical security. As Davros pointed out, the local Administrator can decrypt your files, so you could take the hard-disk out of your computer place it into another computer and have the local Administrator of that computer decrypt your files. For the home user, thats no big deal, for a business, they have to think of how to physically secure the computer.