Alien

Quote: According to Symantec, under Windows XP, SpeedDisk is now using Microsoft's defrag APIs. Following is from Symantec's web site: "Situation: You are running Speed Disk under Windows XP. Speed Disk may seem to run slower than the 2001 version, and after completion, the drive still shows significant fragmentation. Solution: Speed Disk for Windows XP does not use the native Speed Disk driver. Instead it uses the Microsoft MoveFile API. This results in less functionality and less thoroughness for Speed Disk, though moves are now handled in a "Microsoft-approved" manner. How is that a "solution"? An explanation, perhaps, but it's not a solution. Isn't there anyway to use the Speed Disk driver? I tried fiddling about with the files from the 98 v., but I couldn't get it to work under XP. It says that the 2002 v. runs slower than the 2001 v. - does this mean that 2001 will run on XP? I think I still have 2001 somewhere.

Quote: It was only done as a test, and the results were that with a laptop, the right software and an aerial made out of a coke can, they could gain access to most wireless networks without any problems what so ever. I thought it was a Pringles tube?

Cool, I'll check it out later. I hope it can find what I want to find, as it's something that I often change back & forth quite a few times a day, & it gets really annoying having to do it the way I am @ the mo.

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Alec - please read all of this post before starting a response to it. Quote: Have you tried the FAVORITES menu in 2k/XP regedit.exe to bookmark them? Sounds like what you are after... if I understood you correctly above. If you are out to automate this, then its a matter of exported .reg files I'd imagine (again, if I understand you goals correctly)... E.G. #2 - An exported value with one state in it, & one with the reverse state merged via regedit.exe /S commandline example type I gave above. Yeah, that would be great - if I knew where the variable was stored in the 1st place!!! Quote: An export, properly done, SHOULD yield this ability to you... you do not have to export entire hive... only sections! RightClick on them, you will see hives areas (folder looking ones) EXPORT menu option available to you. :bangs head against wall in frustration: To export a key, you 1st have to FIND IT. I don't know where the key is, or what it is called! I've already told you that I tried to find it, but couldn't - I already told you that my only problem is that I don't know what key contains the variable I'm looking for. Quote: Alternately, on scripting & reskit tools, they either have functions that test existence of entries & find them, OR have error levels you can call on in scripts/batches to test for existence & values! 1 problem, AFAIK they don't include a psychic ability function that somehow knows which key I want to modify if Idon't specify which 1, which is kinda hard to do when I DON'T KNOW WHICH BLOODY KEY IT'S IN!!!! I'm sorry for shouting, but I don't like having to repeat myself, as I already explained all this in my 1st post on the subject. Quote: You mean like a monitoring tool? www.sysinternals.com has regmon, should do that for you... give that a shot, I think it may be what you are looking for as far as tracking changes. OMG!!! i think he's actually got the point! Thanks, BTW. Quote: * www.majorgeeks.com has an ENTIRE section of registry tools as well, & ones that seem to have functions like you are looking for also. I don't use them, but I am fairly sure they are there! APK Thanks, I'll bear that in mind if that sysinternals thing isn't any help.

Quote: You'll need more RAM, I assure you. I tried running Win XP on 96MB of RAM. It was horrible. OSes are usually RAM intensive not processor. You think that's bad? @ 1 point, with my previous mobo, my PC suddenly decided it only had 24MB RAM, & all of a sudden my 500Mhz system [@ the time, 1.6Ghz now] seemed like a 486 DX33!!!

LOL - making the changes isn't the problem - finding the key to change is. I know how to change the setting by clicking through the various options in Windows, I just want to find out where the variable itself is stored so that I can export it in the 1st place. I've alredy had a rummage through the registry in Regedit, but I can't find where that setting is kept, hence the need for a registry-change tracker, or something similar.

Quote: Alien, the fix for the freeze on 'saving your settings' is discussed in the following knowledge base article: MSKB Q307274 Thanks

Hey Alec, you wouldn't happen to have written 1 of those registry change trackers would you? or have 1 & know how to use it - it's just that I'm having trouble finding where a particular setting is kept. I know how to change it through Windows, but that can get annoying when you have to keep doing it, I was thinking of having a go @ progging & trying to make a little prog that would flip/flop the variable from 1 state to the other, or just keep 2 batch files for changing to 1 state or the other.

You mean aside from getting a more recent graphics card? Nope, sorry.

http://www.ntcompatible.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21589

Quote: 3.1415926535897932384626434 suck that 3.1415926535897932384626433832795

Quote: I can see youve not actually used an ATi card recently. The drivers are now good. 1 more time....the DRIVERS ARE GOOD! Very true - ok, so there were perhaps a few issues when XP was released, but after xmas ATI seemed to get their act together & it's been cool since then. Quote: Im sure that back in the early rage days they were terrible, and i think that the way the MAXX users were treated with regards to NT support was pretty terrible. But the radeon 7500/8500 drivers are great, and ive had absolutly 0 problems with them. You can add the Radeon 64MB DDR ViVo to that list as well [of cards who's drivers work fine I mean]. Quote: We need to get rid of this stupid idea that radeon drivers are crap, cos they are not. When youve used a 7500/8500, come back and tell me they are terrible, then ill beleve you. Exactly - if I had £1 for every time I'd read about someone asking for advice on which Dets to use because they were having trouble with xx.xx then I'd already have more than enough for the 9700 when it comes out. Ok, in fairness, there are plenty of people who are using Nvidiia based cards who are happy with them, but I think I'll stick with ATI because they are better value for money, & I can't honestly see a valid [for me] reason to change brands. [though I should note that my current card is the 1st ATI 1 I've had, previous card was a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI]

Quote: You guys are TOO clever what with your "Dick Tracy secret decoder ring" codes up there! (Go puff your 420, because you're all 5150!) * APK P.S.=> When in Rome, do as the Roman's do! Heh, what's next? Win32 API error codes &/or writing in binary? apk LMAO. Ok, I'll put you out of your misery Alec Eddie314 said "314" presumably just for something to say so that it wouldn't just be his sig in the post. I saw this, & because of the strange way my mind works I decided to post "159", & see if anyone else's brain was as warped as mine - put a . between the 3 & the 1 & maybe it'll make more sense.

There's a fix for the freeze @ the point where it says it's saving settings? Anyone have more info on this? It doesn't happen that often to me, but i'd like to have the fix for when it does.

Quote: You've had that? I think during the entire time I suffered through DS, I almost died once, and that was in Hard mode, in that spot with the gremlings. The rest of the game was easy, the ending was horribly easy to win over. DS is one of those "quick fix" games, you play it, you beat it, you remove it. I was never addicted to the game, and I've played almost every RPG there is, console or PC. Ah, well you sound like a seasoned games & especially RPG games player, whereas I'm not. I don't play games much - not many hold my interest for more than a few days, which is why Max Payne is the only game I've ever actually finished, so far. Plus there's also the fact that in DS I tend to go looking for trouble, rather than find the quickest way through - I want to kill EVERYTHING. It's also possible my characters's abilities aren't as well developed as they could be as I'm not used to this genre & can't make up my mind about what characteristics I want to develop in which characters, basically I can't help wanting them to all be good @ everything, though it is turning out that some are better @ some things than others, but then I'm not that far into it, so I guess I'll figure it out as I go along. That's part of the fun of it afterall.

@ the moment I'd have to say Dungeon Seige. Very addictive, nice graphice, & IMO well thought out. Just when you think you've gotten too good for it & that you can beat any baddies that come your way, when along comes something, or several somethings that very nearly beat your characters to a pulp, & puts you back on your guard. I also love the gory effects when you make the various monsters explode.

Quote: Not that i read the sport you understand No, 'course you don't, you just look @ the pictures, right?

Other half??? You couldn't get me to go back to 9x for love nor money, I'm an XP "fanboy" too, but I used 9x for a long time. As for Speed Disk, under XP it can't defrag the swap file. There are some defraggers out there that can do it with a reboot, but the 9x v. of SD used to do it whilst Windows was running. Also, haven't you noticed all those little yellow blobs on the Optimization Map scattered all over the place? Those are foiders - under 9x you could have them all sorted into 1 contiguous block, rather than here, there & everywhere. The option to do that in the XP v. seems to be missing. I think there were 1 or 2 other things as well, but I've forgotten as it's been so long since I switched to XP. It was also noticeably faster under 9x.

Quote: Alien, you weren't who I was referring too. I don't like pointing out names. The morons I am referring know who they are. I think you misunderstood me - I knew [or @ least hoped] that I wasn't included with the myopic individuals you refer to, but I wasn't sure if you were including me with the phrase "IT people", & was merely pointing out that technically I don't really deserve that label as I don't have much in the way of official qualifications in the compuitng field [or in other fields either! ], & nor do I work in it - I'm just a computer obsesed nerd who prefers computers to ppl, as computers invariably cause way less problems!

AlecStaar - have you actually used SD under 9x or ME? I ask because I'm not comparing SD to any other prog, I'm comparing SD to SD. Under 9x/ME it's a really good defragger, under 2K/XP there's precious little to raise it above the rest. If you have access to a 9x/ME machine try SD on there, take a look @ the extra options there are & what it can do, & then see how fast it is. This isn't an NTFS vs. FAT32 issue, as I used FAT32 on 9x & still do on XP. When you've seen SD under 9x/ME you'll realise that the 2K/XP v. has less features/abilities & is slower than the 9x/ME version

Quote: I'm not sure I'm following... Eddie said 314, so I said 159. Join them together, & try a bit of lateral thinking. Don't worry about it, it's not the 1st time I've made an obscure pun that ppl didn't get without an explanation.

All I know is that on 9x SD was fast & had more power to do its job the way you wanted it to, whereas the 2K/XP v. is like a prog written for 95, just after 95 was released, by someone who had gotten their 1st computer only 6 months before!!!

Quote: However, if you go over 8KB in Win2K, the only defrag software that will work with it is Speeddisk from Norton since they wrote their own API. I thought it was only 9x/ME that they used their own API for, & that that was the reason why the 2K/XP v. [which, IIRC, uses the MS API] of Speed Disk has less functionality?