Dazultra2000

I don't know what has happened, but for some reason, I have lost the open apps tab and the performance tab on the task manager screen (after pressing crtl+alt+del and clicking task manager). How can I get them back? Any help is GREATLY appreciated. This is in win2k SP2 btw.

I had a massive system blowout and several of my components got fried. I had a 200GB SATA Maxtor Drive (6Y00L0 or something) onto which I had filled up with plenty of data, including my windows install. When it happened, I rebooted and it reported my registry had been destroyed, however, loading the windows recovery console crashed the machine and caused it to reboot. So I decided to reinstall windows on my other IDE drive and try to retrieve my data that way...although any time the drive was accessed, it'd reboot the machine again. That meant that I couldn't get into the new windows install. Unplug the drive and it's fine. I did briefly see an error in ntfs.sys...but it rebooted before I could see it. I just want to get that data back off the drive - any ideas?

You could use bluetooth if you really wanted to - but to me it seems like a lot of expense for something that can be achieved very easily with a normal wired headset. My guesses are that you will be in front of your computer when using the headset - so you don't really need the wireless abilities of the bluetooth, not to mentioon the fact that you'd need a bluetooth adaptor on your computer for it to work. Might as well just get a set of headphones with a built-in mic, and be done with it!

I am currently hating ctfmon.exe and mdm.exe. They always load, and hinder performance/productivity, as well as causing problems on my system. I have tried everything (that I can think of) to get rid of it. 1) Delete them - when I do this, everythime I load IE, it asks me to reinstall office XP 2) Rename them - they come back! 3) Remove the part of oXP that is supposedly responsible for them -it comes back! 4) Disable on startup - IT STILL LOADS. I swear it's a microsoft designed virus. How on earth do u get rid of them?!?!?!?!?!? thanks

I get a fairly similar problem on my sparkle 6600GT. When playing world of warcraft on winxp sp2, after a while it would just stop dead, monitor would go into power saving and I get a variety of unhealthy noises (remember what modems sound like?) from my speakers. A reboot and everything is fine, and there are no problems whatsoever. That is, of course, until I play a game for a while again. I unlatched the side of my case, and it hasn't crashed like that again, but it does get very slight grapical corruption with a white diagonal line down the screen for a split-second every 20 secs or so - so I guess it's a heat issue! Gonna investigate a better cooler for the card. Probably one of those zalman things, although I hear they don't fit the AGP 6600GT very well.

I believe you have the wrong idea. This thread is about winzip passwords, as in passwords used to protect the contents of a created zipfile to stop other people using your archives. You are getting confused between this and the registration key used to register winzip.

I've had people ask me the same thing. But I haven't seen the film so I can't comment....but I doubt there's a relation.

I have just started getting a very annoying problem on my computer. I will switch it on, and it will POST fine, get to the windows loading screen (the black one with the blue bar) and it will just sit there. The hard disk light will be onn and off for about 5 seconds each time alternately. If I leave it for long enough, I get a BSOD telling me that I have an UNMOUNTBALE_BOOT_VOLUME. I notice that none of my USB devices are switched on. If I go to load safe mode, it stops as I get to Mup.sys...and that it where it will stay. If the problem doesnt occur, my USB devices will all switch on and all will be fine. This is what I use as an indicator to a successful boot. Any info/input? Thanks

XPSP1, purely because Win2k isn't my friend. From the day I installed Win2K i had problems. It deleted my user profile after one day, deleted other random things during the first week, and then corrupted itself after the first month. I actually preferred winME to it My other machine has Win2K on it, and it works *ok*, although at first it detected my K6-2 500 as a 200MHz chip - which was nice of it. Also windows media player doesn't work on it. If the machine was of decent enough spec to run XP, it would be there in a flash. So I say XPSP1 8)

I was actually having problems, and while I didn't install this particular patch, I did "borrow" the file from my friend's install of SP1 (build 1068) and it fixed it. Still haven't bothered with .net framework tho

Badaro - I wasn't referring to the "Enhance Pointer Precision" option, as that is there even if you don't install intellipoint, but ConQueso hit the nail right on the head, and has also saved my bacon! I had never seen that before. You've just made my life a LOT easier However, the problems with quake 3 still remain

The latest version of intellipoint doesn't allow you to do that unfortunately. It seems strange that they'd take it out, but they did, and I really miss the feature. However, it still affected Q3.

They stop working after you configure your controls. For some reason when you do that, directinput gets enabled and somehow disables the extra buttons. Only way to fix it is to restart Q3 and not configure controls.

Well I for one have been using those CDRs for a while now, and they have been as reliable as my traditional favourites, so no complaints there. As for CDR pens, I used TDK branded "CD-R Pens", so I guess they are ok and up for the job

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It's been happening for a while now, but whenever I watch a DVD, it'll play fine for about 5 minutes, and will then skip ahead 2-3 seconds. This then repeats throughout the entire film. While it doesn't seem like much, it can often mean missing an important part of dialog, and it can ruin the whole film. This hasn't always happened though. It has happened in powerDVD, winDVD and Media Player - and I'm not sure how to fix it. I have tried my DVD drive in PIO and DMA modes, and have enabled/disabled Hardware MC (geforce motion compensation). Is it just my DVD drive being a problem, or can it be fixed? My DVD drive is a 4x DVD combo drive (built in CDRW).

hmm. It's all getting very confusing

Hmm. I have my worries. Usually when I move a card I'll get a whole slew of IRQ conflicts and my system will keel over and die. It's happened many a time before.

Aware of this I am already [/yoda] I conducted a lot of research into this when I was trying to get my SBLive working on my KT7-RAID. In the end I had to manually assign IRQs to everything, but it worked in the long run. When I put my audigy into my KT7, it worked straight away with no problems, so I assumed it would in my KR7A as well, as it did seem to, until these niggling problems came out. So, do you suggest that moving my audigy may stop all of my problems altogether?

And as for the hardware acceleration thing - I have tried it on or off. To make note of ANOTHER problem I am having - when the sound gets loud on a DVD, or my PC is under some load whilst watching a DVD, I will get pops at regular intervals until the action dies down again. No doubt another problem with where my cards are sat.

Sampson - not quite. What will happen if I leave it on without rebooting is it will run for 5-10 minutes without any problems, then all of a sudden it will lock up or simply reboot, but after that it is stable as a rock and will NOT crash So, what I do is I will let it boot up to the XP login screen, and simply tell it to restart through the shutdown box. This seems to do the trick and it's stable after. It's an annoying problem. As for the power supply, I am looking to get a new one when I catually have some money (funds are INCREDIBLY short at the moment) Anyway, I was randomly playing MP3s off my hard disk just now, and it skipped! I'm beginning to think it's either a problem with mpeg audio, or it's my audigy not liking where it's sat

Hmm. I don't much fancy mucking around with my IRQs. I have a PC which is working semi-well at the moment. On a side note, my PC is never ever stable from a cold boot (roughly an hour since it has been on last). I always have to reset the machine before I can use it. Is this related?

would that have an effect on skipping video as well though? Currently my card is in slot 2 with IRQ12 (according to XP - not sure about it's true IRQ) but, as before, I didn't have these problems on my KT7-RAID.

UPDATE - tried a mp3 cd burnt on my drive and on my friends mitsumi 4804TE and the same happens

No, it was burnt on a friends TDX 12x CyClone drive