Paradoxic was about as close as you'll get to hitting the nail on the head.

Except instead of "they'll cut you to cheesecake ..." it should be "they'll try to cut you to cheesecake ..."

Check...

Don't know if this is for 'wisegangsta' or 'aznx' but first I'll address 'mettalicon999s' issue.

You'll need 'Winrar', which is similar (except better) to Winzip.

Wisegangsta .... spelling...

Longhorn .... so far it's coming across to me like XP in a dress (and a chastity belt by the time it comes out).

Just think (ooh I'm getting excited), in roughly a year it will be forty...

Dunno who the OP is, vaguely recall somebody rambling .... a lot of the time it's me though so eventually you'll ignore it.

I'd have to say the most honorable of these sites (in my opinion), is themixingbowl.

They only have music, and they only allow radio shows (music that was freely given away to start with).
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five minutes !!!!

cripes ... I'd have thrown some of that stuff out long ago if mine took that long. Are you able to remove any from the start process? If I hit the 'restart' button, it takes 40...

Why should we release another OS when the one that the majority of people are using now needs serious changes

Same answer to many questions ..... money.
Just think how many of us will toss XP...

I was not able to decipher the 'look ma, I can't spell either' message from the wise one.

Too bad intelligent people aren't admired and emulated.

I tried the link you provided, got a 'HTTP 404 - not found'

generally, people won't stay for more than 4 or 5 seconds unless you can really grab them.
Give them what they want, make it easy to...

I didn't spend much time looking at the HijackThis log, so there may be more than what I point out.

What jumped out at me is all the 'R1' listings. I think you should delete them (or as...

I had to work on a friends Compaq a little while ago. For your sake I widsh I would hasve kept the info of how I found the specs.

It was brutal to find them and brutal to work on.

The only good...

guess on that note, I should have pointed out that if you see a 'make sound bad' radio button .... uncheck it

Same site, different thread...

First thing I'd check is running a different media player. Have you tried that?
Personal favorite at the moment is foobar2000. Created by one of the Winamp makers. His goal was the best sound using...

Instead of going into the registry, open up 'Tools' and then 'Internet Options', for the Home Page, click on 'Use Blank'.
Easier and less chance of screwing up the system.

The status bar for web pages, when maximized is down by the start button. Pay close attention to what's going on there. Gives a lot of info.
Something I have just recently done, because I got sick...

24 seems a little hard to believe, especially for Athlon. I've lost count of how many blue screens I've come across from melting a heat sink and then killing the RAM because of Athlon. First thing...

I just worked on a Compaq a few days ago, not realizing what I was getting myself into. What a headache those things are.
Turns out, by opening the fron plastic panel, where CD's can be stashed,...

Nice! Didn't know about that one.

Similar to removing as many icons as possible from the desktop. The less work to do, the faster it all gets done.
Often I'm asked to speed up a machine, and then see the desktop packed with icons,...

A space after the word netcap and before the / helped me out.

Is 200 % possible?

That is possibly the longest HijackThis log I have ever seen. A couple of things raised my eyebrow, but without knowing for sure I won't say anything.
First off, by entering the words 'online scan'...

Sounds to me like you are running wireless.
There are three frequencies available for microwave ovens, cell phones, and wireless nics. Put them on the same frequency and you will get the troubles...

If you are comfortable with going into the registry
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLiist
Enter a new DWord with the name of your administrator and...

there are two differences between home and pro

home does not have the IIS

home does not have gpedit

There's a 'Tech TV' article on the QoS setting, that's at least two years old. Because there are a variety of reports on if it is good or bad, needed or not, and what the ideal setting should be,...

I had the same problem a while ago, figured a reformat was easiest, so I did and pursued it no more. Looks to me like spyware has got you, and changed some permissions.

In folder options, open up...