Posts by shortbus

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 per cent finished and they'll release it.

Late 2007 when the first service pack comes along, then we'll be ... uh, computing stuff.

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 seconds before I'm back at a usable desktop.

A lot of 'tweak' sites advise that you can clear the page file at every reboot (or shutdown to be more specific), as a security measure in the registry. This setting for the ultra paranoid. What they don't mention is how much time it will add to the system shutting down

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 when Longhorn comes out. Weigh that against the decreasing sales of XP and also consider greed and the answer is clear.
I imagine Microsoft will stay with it's tried and true formula 'get it seventy per cent complete and release it for sale'. Let the world pay to be the beta testers.

Funny, to read Antioed's message and think of Linux .... you describe what they are doing quite well
I think eventually Microsoft will be to operating sytems what the train is to transportation, what once dominated will be outdated and not taken seriously.

Few thousand programmers in Redmond versus the rest of the world. Seems obvious who the eventual winner will be. Expensive and weak or strong and free .... what's your choice?

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 HijackThis says 'fix them').

From there, look into your Norton antivirus, looks like it is partially disabled. See when the last full scan was. You can do an online scan (the words 'online scan' with google will get a lot of choices, personally I go with 'housecall' by Trend Micro).

I'd say the path to go into the registry and repair the homepage, but a mistake could be fatal.
Instead (if you want), open Notepad and save the created page to your desktop with a .reg extension (you can name the first bit whatever you like, but might as well call it homepage.reg), after you copy the following text into it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="http://www.yahoo.com"

Normally I have my homepage set to google, but to be on the safe side I made this with the page set to yahoo and ran it to make sure it works.
The www ---.com you can put whatever page you want.

After saving it, double click on it, choose 'yes' and then you are safe to delete it.

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 thing from the experience was giving it back to him.

Google long enough and you'll find 'em.

Sorry I can't offer more than that.

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
http://65.54.187.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=d06d34e30f87458899df2cc50c1987e7&lat=1100588917&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2edaniweb%2ecom%2ftechtalkforums%2fshowthread%2ephp%3fthreadid%3d13640

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 the least amount of RAM. Also, it can be configured more than almost any other.
Not much to look at, but sounds great.
Outside of that, I'm stumped.

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 and tired of spyware, is switch to Firefox. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Basically all spyware is aimed at Internet Explorer. Don't use Internet Explorer and you don't get spyware.
The switch seemed a bid goofy at first but once you discover the extensions, add ons and themes, it is so much better .... and safer.

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'd do is get much better cooling for the heat sink, but it sounds like what is there now is not the default.
The DFE NIC, I believe that is for cable and the AOpen is for a phone line? Just a stab at it but if you can rearrange the IRQ settings.
System info has a 'Problem Device' area, that will tell you if it is the case.
Also, right click My Computer and choose Manage, then Event Viewer. A more detailed explanation is there.
Another guess, and this ones a long shot, but did the settings for WaitToKillAppTimeout and HungAppTimeout get changed in the registry? No problem changing them, but the former must be a higher number.

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, you get extra info on the model type. Now you can find the exact drivers needed from the HP site. Also, it gave some tips for BIOS settings that helped out.
If the post above is not the solution, maybe try looking at your BIOS (F10 while booting).

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, as few as possible helps out quite a bit.

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' on google will get you to some online virus checkers (which are good to run from time to time anyways).
Second, the upper and lower case of Explore.EXE makes me think something has altered it. Replacing it with a fresh one could be a good call.
Off the top of my head I don't remember if this is good for all files or just hidden, but try this. From the Start button open up Run and enter cmd. This will open the DOS box and enter SFC /SCANNOW. No need for upper case I did that to be clear on what is entered. SFC is system file checker and by itself will say "ok, but at next boot we'll do that". So the scannow, well I bet you can guess what that does. There is a space between C and /.

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 you have described.
Also, with that new card you may want to change the amount of RAM going to the AGP\VGA in the BIOS.

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 give it a value of 1. This will test the theory of it needing user permission, as the admin is God.
Also, right clicking 'My Computer' and choosing 'Manage' then 'Services' will let you disable services and not get the pop up at every boot.
If you wanna go to town disabling things www.blackviper.com has the tutorial every other site hopes to become as good as.
At a glance, if your HijackThis log is the same, the problem is that Minisearch or whatever it was called.
Look into getting rid of that

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, what they did was try them all.
In a nutshell, it just doesn't matter. Pretty much any setting gave the same results. Not exactly sure how it works, but I'm under the impression only software designed to use it will enable the QoS and there is almost nothing out there that will activate it.

Set it to whatever you like, doesn't matter.

There's only a couple of registry tweaks you can do for this, depends on computer type, and the all important ISP (eg. adsl & cable have differing tweaks).

Lots of articles telling you what to do, many are wrong. I find the link below to be the best. Not only do you get unbiased info, but he says why to do it, as well as how.
http://cable-dsl.home.att.net/

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 the 'View' tab and uncheck Simple File Sharing.
Now, when right clicking a file there will be an extra tab (Security), to see who the owner is and what rights they have.