Mooxooh

Hey, I run WinXP 2600 and it is impossible for me to shut it down. When I hit "Turn Off" or "Restart" it lasts very long until the shutdown screen ("saving your settings" etc.) appears, and after a while the screen freezes (not possible to move the cursor). The only way to shut the machine down now is hitting the reset button.. Before XP I used Win 2000 and never had any problems to shut my pc down. Anyone who experiences similar problems or has some kind of solution ? Have a nice day

Hey, Staroffice installed fine here - but your suspiciousness is appropriate of course

When i set "dial devices only as needed" for my ISDN connection Windows never dials the second line. I have set "Dial another line when this connection meets both of the following conditions:" "Activity at least 1%" and "Duration at least 3 seconds" When downloading a file e.g. 5mb, the activity is way longer than 3 secs always at more than 50% but the second line isn't dialed. I had the same problem with Windows 2000. BTW, i can establish a multilinked connection, but only by selecting "Dial all devices". Thanks in advance..

"You have NO RIGHTS when you purchase an MS operating System. If you would take the time to read through the license agreement you agreed to by installing a MS OS you'll know this." Hm, i'm not really the grandmaster of law, but it's obvious that the above statement is senseless: 1. In what way a software s.o. licenses is allowed to use is absolutely not defined by the software manufacturer, but by the legislation of the country you live in. 2. In the country i live in, a treaty has to be accepted before s.o. purchases or licenses a product. A license agreement is a treaty, and therefore i need to see it before i buy the product. When i last purchased a MS OS there was no treaty printed on the box. A license "agreement" which is displayed during instalation of a software ( *after* paying to use it ) is void. 3. I read no long, void and useless popup messages. (funny idea though; you buy a car and sign a treaty which says something about that you are now the owner of that car, warranties etc - all fine. After you paid you enter your new car and a message pops up on the display of your onboard-computer: "you are not allowed to borrow this car to a friend, you have to call Mercedes-Benz to be allowed to start your vehicle for the first time, if you attach a new exhaust thingy or if you change the tires you need to call again ) "OLEerror actually has the correct idea here and by the looks of things has actually taken the time to test and research this issue rather than just joining in with the "I hate MS, wah wah wah" crew." I don't think that i'm a member of the "I hate MS, wah wah wah" crew." ( cool expression though ) "Product Activation is annonymous, PA & Registering your product are two entirely different processes." I didn't say anything about registration but only about wpa. Please don't mix them up.

"It's completely anonymous. The hash code that is created is non-reversible. There will be thousands of computers that have the exact same hash code. How are they gathering any information about you or your computer?" How do you know that? Microsoft told you so? Are you a super-decrypter? When activating Windows XP by phone you see the hash code which is "non reversible" in your opinion. Is there an evidence that it is non reversible? When activating Windows XP over the internet, the transmitted data is encrypted. How do you know that they transmit the same, "non-reversible" hash code as when you activate it by phone? How do you know that they don't transmit some extra information? If the hash code is "non-reversible" and doesn't tell anything about your computer or something there's obviously no need to encrypt the transmission. Why is it encrypted? "I haven't heard anyone b!tching about AOL's constant price hikes or anti-competitive actions. Next to AOL, Microsoft looks friendly." Very simple, i think you could answer on your own why nobody "*****es" about AOL; they are just not market dominating. I think also in God's own country it is no trouble to chose another isp than AOL. Quite different with MS Windows; also outside the above mentioned country MS Office documents are a "standard" format used by the working masses - try reading them on a Unix box (It works, but thats a real hassle). Especially important , most games don't run on *set non MS OS here*. Therefore one can say that MS OS are a "defacto standard" and therefore MS *IS* market dominant. "SnapperOne has even said he's never used Windows XP. And here he is spouting off against it. Friggin brilliant. You really may want to consider researching something before you go on about it. I'm sorry you'll have to look beyond your **** sites to do that." This is just the worst possible argument one can use. (Just for the case you don't know why: Humans have the ability to make an opinion about something they actually do not use, just by gathering information from elsewhere about it. You surely don't need an example for that? How do you buy a car? Don't you have a opinion about that car before you buy it?) "Why should a software company not be able to protect its products?" Of course should they be able to protect their products. But, in every civilized society privacy is a much higher valued right than prevention of copyright abuse. And copyright can be protected in various ways, i know a lot of company's delivering software which is protected in various ways *without* threatening my right for privacy. "Next to AOL, Microsoft looks friendly." AOL is just an internet provider. (IMO a bad one, but how can i say that, never used it ) Microsoft is an OS manufacturer, an application software manufacturer, an internet provider, a company that realy likes gathering information of any kind (passport), also they have something to do with tv (msnbc) and they try to get into mobile phones and digital tv. Yeah, the friendly Big Brother, huh ;( IMO you are the one who doesn't get the big picture, there is not only wpa, there's a rather large company trying to intrude your privacy where it can do so, and only the least critical person doesn't try to protect herself. "I'm a sheep. I'll argue against anything Microsoft does." Ok, if you want to do so. I do not so, because i actually like some things they made (Windows 2000, Mechwarrior 4 just for an example), but i argue against anything undermining my rights. And if i go to a shop and spend some money to get a license which entitles me to use a precious piece of software, i'm surely not going to ask the "friendly looking" MS corp. 'may i please use the software for which i have already paid??' because i already have the legal right to use that software.

Well, my graphics adapter manufacturer has provided fine drivers for xp, therefore i currently don't use powerstrip, but i used it under xp for Quake III Arena (openGL). You have to create a "display profile" for the resolution, color depth etc. you play the openGL game with. In that profile you can set the screen refresh rate under "advanced timing options". If that is not enough you can check "brute force standard refresh rates" in the "display profile". I'm not sure whether this works with your hardware, but for me it worked pretty good. Good luck

Hey, if you still have trouble with your refresh rate, you may try powerstrip - works always http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm

maybe i shouldn't have removed the <flame></flame> tags from 1. and 2. before posting.. As a gamer, I guarantee that my Quake3Arena game on my machine hands down runs with about 15fps less than under Windows 2000 - using the same graphics adapter drivers as in windows 2000. "Windows XP is hands down the best OS Microsoft has ever delivered..." - is that your general opinion or only in terms of '3dXPerience' ? "But your groundless rant/flame on 3DMark/Nvidia sends the credibility of your entire post into the dumps." Uhm, yes, of course, but isn't it typical for flaming that it's groundless? I mean isn't saying 'groundless flame' like saying 'it's wet outside and it rains'? "...hands down...""You are correct..." Thank you Have a funny day, not soo pity - Mooxooh

1. If your post would have something to do with games, you would surely have posted it in the 'XP games' forum. 2. Right, your post has nothing to do with games, your post is about the madonion/nvidia coalition and how well their strategy worked to: a) make you believe madonions 3dmark would have something to do with real gaming performance sell you a gforce3 graphics adapter which is - at least for the current games - virtually useless, but produces, as your post shows, some madonion points. No, XP isn't that good for gaming. Maybe direct 3d games run slightly better than on win2k, but as long as Quake III arena is still the best shooter (obviously openGL) out there, a slight performance gain in direct3d and on the other hand a rather huge performance collapse in openGL make this OS rather worthless. There are also a lot of people who need additional tools (like powerstrip) to play games with more than 60 or 75 Hz. Conclusion: slightly better in direct3d significantly worse using openGL the 60 or 75 Hz problem => XP is very XPerimental Kind regards, Mooxooh

Hey, I had the same troubles with Zone Alarm and switched to the also free Tiny Personal Firewall. The Tiny Firewall works very similar as Zone Alarm, it just asks whether you want to allow internet access for a program or not but you can do some more configurations (e.g. allow only special ports for a program). I wouldn't use XP's built in firewall because... uhm, i just wouldn't Have fun Tiny URL: www.tinysoftware.com

Hey there! I want my dialup connection to remember my username and password - but they seem to be stored only for the current session, after restarting windows (2495) i have to enter them again.. I remember slightly that there was a similar issue in some other windows os where it was not possible to store passwords / dialup accounts, but i don't remember the solution - maybe so can help me out Thanks in advance

I don't think that the 'built in personal firewall' of XP is bad - i didn't test it.. But i want to use a personal firewall (or portfilter) to control (or at least be aware of) _any_ data which is sent through the internet. I don't think that XP's firewall would block (or at least notify me about) some transmissions going on between my pc and some ms servers.. Maybe i'm a little bit paranoid, but i really want 1 .to know what this WinXP wants to send when to whom and 2. possibly block it - and i don't think that the built in pf would let me do all that

Thanks, i don't know AT Guard and so i tried Zone Alarm - which worked fine (there were lots of alerts )

Hey, I tried installing Tiny Personal Firewall under Windows XP but it permanent produces 'Fatal Application Exit' errors - anyone knows a good personal firewall which will work with XP ? Thanks

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