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With W2k SP2 and Windows media player 7.1, there is an irritating feature I want to disable. Whenever I highlight a media (mp3, mpeg, etc) file, WMP automatically plays it in the preview window. This is incredibly annoying! I don't have Single Click enabled. Is there any way to turn this off, or disable WMP in the preview pane? I want to keep web view on for previewing pictures. I have the same problem w/ all 3 machines at work.

Blargh! Then how will I know which **** pic I'm opening??? Preview is fine for pics, but I don't want Media Player in there.

How do I turn this "feature" off? It's a clean W2k install w/ SP2 and Windows media player 7.1 installed.

Nope, it's set to double click (instead of single web style.) Must be some way to turn this off...

The registry demons I had in 98SE have been popping up more and more frequently. I've decided to cut my losses, back up my data at work, and format the damn drive. I have a 30 gig 7200rpm maxtor, which currently has only 1 FAT32 partition. I use my computer for games, burning software, and file whoring on the college network. Could someone explain how the password protection of NTFS works? We use NetBeui on campus for Network Neighborhood access. I need my shared folders password protected (or they'll kick me off the network.) Would NTFS be of any benefit? I've heard that NTFS causes problems when sharing files with non-NT systems. Is this true? Thanks

NTFS it is then.

I currently have 4 IDE devices: hard drive, orb drive, CD-burner, DVD drive. They are currently set C: thru F: Lets say I buy a SCSI card and add some devices (hard drive, etc.) What will the drive letter be? Will it take over E:, or wll it go to the end, and become G ;( Or can I set it to whatever I want? I want to know what to set my CD drives to, as I'm wiping my hard drive and doing a fresh install of 2k.

I had once borrowed an office 2k SP1 CD to install powerpoint for a presentation. I now own a copy of MS Office 2000 Professional software package. All the other office programs work fine, but Powerpoint still comes up with "You have 0 uses left and must register..." Is there anyway to remove all traces of MS Powerpoint from my system? I can also contact the person that owns the borrowed Powerpoint disc. Is there any way that he could check his system to give me the confirmation code?

I can't get either of them to run. The Lucas Arts console starts up, but when you click the Run button, it says I need to install DirectX 5.0. It gives me two options: install and cancel. "Install" gives me a "can't find the CD" error, and "cancel" just exits back to the Lucas Arts menu.

It's happening more frequently now; windows forgets my view settings and decides to reset all of the folders to large icons. Internet explorer is also giving me grief... it will remember my dial-up password; and then forget it if I disconnect and re-connect. WTF?!

They work great. Black and White now works without horrible artifacting/corruption (had to go way back to 7.97 drivers before the 14.2's came to be)

I never had a problem enabling this on PowerDVD under Win98. Under 2k, the check box is grayed out. BTW: I'm using 7.97 drivers for my GTS.

I'm using PowerDVD 3.0 (newest version)

With both progies running, ZoneAlarm shields BlackIce from most of the attacks/probes. BlackIce has picked up a few though.

Low on resources? Whats that? Hehe... I usually use my Orb drive for making images of CD's to be copied. All 4 IDE drives in use at the same time, and CD's still only take 6 minutes to make. Burnproof burns at a constant rate, and if the buffer runs out, it stops writing and comes back to the place where it stopped when it has data again.

Burn-Proof drives are great! Real Burnproof drives can remember the spot on the disc where writin stopped and continue from that location. I've burned discs at 12x while playing Black and White with my Plextor.

I run both ZoneAlarm and Black Ice on my system. At home, on dial-up, they work flawlessly. The problem is at school. The college uses a Token Ring network, and although both programs see my internet traffic, neither one sees attacks/probes/etc.

I run both Zonealarm and BlackIce Zonealarm catches any outbound stuff and blocks most of the incoming, but Black Ice has caught a few that got past ZA though.

I uninstalled the drivers for my ORB disk drive and restarted. Windows found the ORB drive when I booted up again, and started to install the drivers. Something went REAL bad, causing the system to power off. I powered back on, and window would boot till the status bar was 1/2 way up, then I get a blue screen stating that windows failed to load and that I should run CHKDSK. I use an old Win98 boot disk to get into DOS. That's all well and good, but I can't run CHKDSK from DOS! I can't find CHKDSK or SCANDISK on the C: drive or in the windows folder. I never made a W2k boot disk because my little brother keeps stealing all my floppies. HELP!!! Is there any hope???

Fixed it... it was a registry entry.

The reason I tried reinstalling the Orb drive drivers is because I wanted the system to be able to boot w/o an orb disk in the drive. When I had 98, you could do this, but it would hang for a few minutes during boot. After upgrading to 2000, I discovered the machine had no problems booting with an empty Orb drive. After installing Photoshop 6 (from the backup on my Orb drive), W2k would hang indefinately if the disk wasn't in. Strange, huh? Think it might be a registry entry?

Thanks for the help, but I stumbled thru it this morning. I made windows 2000 boot disks (all 4 of them!) on my 486/66 sh!tbox and ran the recovery thing. Booted up and windows and uninstalled, reinstalled the orb drive. %@#$@!!! it did it again! Went thru the 4 disks again, cleaned the HD, and ran the recovery thing again. All is well now. Moral of the story: Never uninstall ORB drive!

I honestly don't know why people still use netscape... it's cluttered with big, colorful, useless buttons. IE6 is much cleaner.

Not much of a difference in real world speed. I'd rather have 512mb of CAS3 than 128mb of CAS2

SBLive! works just fine if you have the 5.12 (or whatever they're called) drivers.