DosFreak

If you want the blue screen to stay up instead of rebooting your computer then you need to right-click on "My Computer" and go to properties. Then go to the "Advanced" Tab, Go to "Startup and Recovery", and click on "Settings", now uncheck "Automatically Restart". Now the BSOD should stay up so you can see if it's failing on a driver and you can get the error code. Most likely it's bad memory so test your memory with Memtest86+: http://www.memtest.org/

Buy the game. It's still being sold under the title Command and Conquer The First Decade.

We don't support abandonware here. Buy the game. It's still being sold under the title Command and Conquer The First Decade.

Contact a data recovery company. They can likely recover the bad drive.

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You'll have to find a brute force program on the Internet to brute force it. That's all the help your going to get here.

Solution: REFORMAT If an account was created that you recognize as not being there before then yes you should definetly reformat as the system has been compromised and you have no idea what holes they left behind and no there is no way to be 100% sure your system is clean unless you reformat. So backup the data with a Knoppix/Ubuntu LiveCD to an external drive and use your System Recovery or OS CD's to rebuild your system.

It's possible you don't have a video codec installed that the game needs. You can try opening the video files with VideoLan to identify what codec it needs and then just install that codec or if you don't want to bother then you can install the Community Codec pack. For the BSOD you should write down what driver file and error message (0x00000xxx) you receive. Likely it is video/sound.

The latest NVidia drivers and old games rarely mix well. If I can before I leave on vacation on Thursday I'll load up a laptop with XP 64bit to take with me. I can pretty much guarantee that it will work fine though since I used the same laptop when I tested Omikron on the OS's I listed above.

Game works fine on 2000/XP/2003 32 and 64bit and Vista 32 and 64bit. Haven't tested it with XP 64bit yet. Assuming the game files are not corrupted then it's likely a video driver issue.

I don't know about NHL 2000 but NHL 99 I have to use Vmware running Windows 98SE as a guest to get it to work.

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Try disabling all video acceleration and/or disabling Direct3D in dxdiag.

What exactly do you expect people to do? Although all Intel integrated video chipsets MIGHT be the same they are not necessarily so. Each motherboard could have different BIOS on the videocard, different video drivers (unlikely) or just broken hardware. If you can try finding the drivers that were released for laptop when the laptop originally came out and see if SVideo works then.

It stores it in the pagefile to reduce the amount of physical memory used. If you want to store more in memory instead of the pagefile then upgrade to Vista/2008.

PF Usage and Commit Charge Total are the same thing and the value reported doesn't mean that's how much is being used. Below site is a good site to have in your RSS: http://blogs.technet.com/perfguru/archiv...sk-manager.aspx Quote: PF Usage as reported in task manager in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is actually the system commit total. This number represents potential page file usage, not actual page file usage. It is how much page file space would be used if all the private committed virtual memory in the system had to be paged out all at once. You'll have to use perfmon to see exactly how much: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889654 Frankly I've never cared enough to bother. HD space is so cheap I just set pagefile to recommended values on desktops and servers. Wasting time determining "optimal" pagefile size is just that. But if you think you have a memory leak then perfmon and/or the Reliability and Perfmance monitor in Vista/2008 are handy.

2.8(Available)+2.9(System Cache)=5.7-1.7(pagefile)=4gb (Total Physical Memory)

During install there should be an option for Matrox. That's the one I always choose because the others never work. (at least for me)

How big is your pagefile?

Which video card did you select on install? Matrox always worked well for me.

I haven't had an issue with ACPI on systems since 2001. I doubt that is your issue. If your system freezes then run a memory test and/or downclock your memory. Monitor your CPU usage and/or download your FSB/CPU. Remove all unnneeded cards from the system and/or disable hardware devices in device manager.

32bit Windows limit is 4GB (and you really won't have 4GB more like 3.5GB or less as you noticed). Anything more than that and you need to use 64bit. (You can use the PAE switch in 32bit Windows but it's not recommended due to poor driver support). This article sums it up nicely (and is a good site that should be in your RSS reader: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html

Sounds like the computer is trying to protect you from yourself. Why do you want "guests" to have full controll of your root? The share for C is C$ so \\COMPUTERNAME\C$ (Which can only be accessed by local admins of the machine you are connectinng to). If you created your own share for the root then you must take into consideration file system permissions. I think "password protect" just assigns a password to that share. I've never used it since it's better to just use share/file system permissions to restrict access instead of having yet another password to remember.

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Turn down audio acceleration. Also if there aren't newer drivers then you can always try older drivers.