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the fact that amd/via are so popular now says any incompatibility issues will be solved, and more software will be optimised for this hardware.

They are different. Maybe SP2 upgrades win2k to handle the new NTFS?

For future reference, it was more than likely that you needed to install the busmaster IDE drivers. you could get them through the IBM website or perhaps direct from the chipset/io manufacturers

There might be an exploit for that individual program. I've seen some for mIRC. It depends how DC works. The DC network still has to know your IP in order to send/recieve data from you.

how fast are you transferring files? In the taskmanager networking tab, whats the 'Network Utilization' percentage? I find that if I hit around 50% on a 100mb connection, the computer that is uploading grinds to a halt. I guess the hard disks (DMA 33) Just cant keep up with the network speed. But that doesn't explain why it's only the computer sending. Anyway, I wish there was some way to limit the speed that windows file sharing can run at. Make sure your hard disks are running in DMA mode. I also saw a tweak somewhere about using the NIC's processor rathere than the CPU (DMA Network cards)....

another vote for audiograbber with lame encoder. The best without a doubt. regarding a player without skins, I too hate skins because they slow down the system. I stay away from any program that forces you to have a skin EXCEPT winamp. I believe Winamp is a damn fine piece of software and the skin system appears to implemented so well that it causes no performance hit. If it's not performance but more colour scheme that concerns you, there are skins available that look like the standard windows.

If that is the case, it should be fixed in the next half-life update...due in a few weeks

Many things can cause that error. One is an exploit that people are using to crash half-life clients.

;( it is NOT normal are you running any unnecessary startup programs?

my intelli-mouse software does that. im sure there are plenty of other utils.

In response to that article: Quote: Amdmb.com has posted an editorial called To Overclock or Not To Overclock, That is the Question. Let’s get down to business. Why overclock? Why not overclock? Anyone who knows me, or has seen my posts in the forums knows that I totally do not understand the point of overclocking (or modding for that matter). Sure, I am a die hard SETI cruncher but, as evident from the stats, there is no need to overclock in order to find little green men faster, play games faster, or render a 3D model faster. The point is simple – it wastes money. Sure, it gives you bragging rights, but does that really get you anywhere? The answer is no. Read more Yes, Overclocking is overtated. For many people overclocking costs more than it is worth, and causes a lot of hassle down the track. For me, I try to gain as much performance as possible. If I can stabily overclock without spending any extra money, and notice a performance increase, (Like I have with my current 1.5 year old system) I do not see any reason not to. Overclocking was originally about SAVING money, not wasting it on extreme cooling devices so they can brag. That is SO geeky. I don't even consider overclocking when purchasing equipment, but I try and see it a bonus if it works. You should NEVER overclock until your system is getting a bit old. And that's the way overclocking should be!

Quote: heh nice one. You choose the celeron as an example as a pro for overclocking, thats like me choosing the amd k6-2 as an example of a con. I use it because that's what I did. I have also successfully overclocked an AMD chip in the past (133 to 160mhz in order to get it to play (then) high quality movies). So there is a perfect example of useful overclocking. Quote: Course your gonna get a huge improvement with a celeron because they clock so insanly high from such a low speed. I really mean athlon and p4 overclocking (not he NW) because with standard cooling your gonna get about 100-200mhz on the athlon and 200-300mhz on the p4. And is that gonna really be noticable? True. The newer CPU's don't overclock as much, but the benchmarks still prove a significant performance boost. It doesn't hurt to run a benchmark or 2 after you overclock to see if you should keep the settings or not.

Yes, it sounds like DMA to me.

funny, I kept them by copying them from my temporary internet files folder during windows update installation. Then after I reinstalled I loaded them all at once without rebooting. 8) But I dont think I have totally destroyed my installation - My system is running fast and stable and it has been quite a few weeks.

I would really like to know if this is possible. Or at least stop XP from insisting my pagefile is too small and increasing it without my approval, when I still have 100mb free RAM. It wasted disk space and slows down the system while creating it.

The above disables paging parts of the kernel/device drivers. It doesn't disable paging altogether. I'd like to second that ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 DOES NOT WORK for NT based OS's.

totally pointless? I think not. I'm talking simple overclocking my celeron 300a CPU I changed the bus speed from 66mhz to 100mhz for a 450mhz CPU and got a HUGE performance increase. Now I have my 733mhz CPU, 66mhz bus running at 75mhz and Have my CPU running at 825mhz. Noticable performance increase in games. Stable as hell. Uptime 2 weeks+. I get no extra cooling, no case mods, nothing. I try it with a simple setting in the BIOS. If it works it works and it doesnt it doesnt. It saves me money. simple as that.

I always update to the latest possible version of everything unless there is a good reason not to. Hundreds of man hours go into updates and it seems crazy not to use them. who does NOT have problems after all? But yes, read what is in the update first and decide whether it is relevant to you before applying it. However, I do have a backup, and I am willing to do some messing around if things go wrong. I suggest everyone does the same, and if they aren't willing to risk, don't bother. Anyway I'm using them and am happy to report my system in running very nicely. -insaNity

I also noticed it is slower at searching WITHIN files Im not sure if this fixes it, but it does at least speed up the interface: Quote: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState] "Use Search Asst"="no" That takes it back to win2000 style search aka classic search

to avoid the censorship mistake, its dues-ex i really dont know why s-e-x is censored anyways

why disable it?

Post your favourite Interface configurations here! Comeon, you readers must have a million of them!!! I (shameful I know) am not going to post any yet but ask if anyone still knows one I lost: I'm looking for one that might be hard to explain (I may post a screenshot later if I can find somewhere to store it) I saw it a long time ago on a now closed board: What I want to do is make several new toolbars on the taskbar that are folders on my computer. That is easy enough, but I want them cascading (like the start menu) That is also easy (just drag them to the right of the taskbar so only the Title is showing and the little double arrow will appear) The problem with this is it can take up too much of that valuabe taskbar space especially in low resolution. What you can do is rename the toolbar with a special set of characters that makes it have no title and only an arrow which can sit anywhere on the bar as a tiny button. You can then have several of them and you know which is which by the order they are in. DOES ANYONE KNOW THAT SET OF CHARACTERS???

I wrote something on taskbar configuration a long while ago...Im just going to be lazy and past it here now: I see many people making shortcuts to a:\ c:\ d:\ etc in their quick launch. A good idea but heres a much better way: Drag the "MY COMPUTER" icon onto the taskbar. A new toolbar should appear. right click the left side of the toolbar and untick "show text" and "show title" there you have it. not only can you right-click/properties on it and drag&drop to its contents, but if you hold CTRL-left click you can browse the items similar to the start menu. Update: This works much better with XP's 'lock taskbar' feature Issues: Label your hard disks so they are in alphabetical order. While you can drag and drop these items to arrange them, it doesn't work too well. It sorts the CD-ROMS by drive letter until you insert CDs and then by volume labels so they can get out of order. Holding the mouse over it before clicking to see the tooltip can be a good idea. Win2000 also gives a brief properties in the tooltip. Getting rid of the other icons: While Win2000 has only Control-Panel, Win98 is the worst as it has scheduled tasks, web folders.....you can remove some of them by running REGEDIT.EXE and looking under "\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace". The values of these keys explain what they are. You can delete them to not show them under MY COMPUTER. Don't delete "Dial-Up Networking" ({992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48} if you use it as deleting this icon will prevent it from being accessable through any other way. If you accidently delete it, you can remove/add it again through control panel/network or add/remove programs. To Hide Printers & Control Panel, insert the following into the registry. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoSetFolders"=dword:00000001 NOTE: This will delete them from the start menu also. To put it back into the start menu, right click the start button, select "open" and right-click in the window and select "New-> Folder and call it "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" (without the quotes). Printers is an option in here so you won't really need to make a printers menu. Your Start Menu should now have a cascading Control Panel (better than before!) Microsoft did't let you do this as an option until WinMe/2000. UPDATE: ABOVE IS ALL 98, FOR XP: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} delete it. TIP: Don't go overboard with the icons. Having to draw bitmaps all the time slows down your video response and uses memory, resulting in increased swapping. Anything on the desktop/toolbars can't be swapped out of RAM as it always has to be there, even if it is in the background behind a game. This actually uses more than you think - Just as on disk, many small files can use lots more RAM and cause fragmentation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While your at it, You might find turning the address bar on in the taskbar convenient. You can type in program names including DOS commands, URLs here. To make your own, look under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths Some examples are: Key name: Default value: Path value: edit.exe C:\UltraEdit\UEDIT32.EXE C:\UltraEdit doc.exe d:\mydocu~1 UPDATE: paths will be different in XP. By typing edit in the address bar, I can start writing a text or bat file quickly, By typing doc, I can open the MY DOCUMENTS folder. The best thing about it is the word completion/history features (Use TAB and UP ARROW as in BASH or NT command prompt [when configured]), which make doing things very quick. You get all the advantages of a command-line system in your GUI!!! It's also handy for other non-obvios uses, like just a place to write a quick note, or a spare space for copy/pasting. Issues: -"Browser mode" Windows sometimes seems to go into "browser mode" where everything you type, even stuff declared in the app paths registry key, will try to go to http://yourentry/ I call it a bug. -Icons - they don't always update correctly. -If you're going to use the address bar, it is a good idea to use a double sized taskbar and give task switching a whole line. You should use a reasonably high resolution for this. Again, this was written for 98 and some might not apply

sorry if it is considered 'unfavourable' to reawaken old topics! but this one doesn't really go out of date. WE WANT MORE!! Just thought in case it was overlooked, there is a English audiograbber site Getting a bit off topic, BUT: Quote: Is coded in PURE Borland Delphi too... Fastest code for Win32 exe generation there is under the sun! Then why are all major games coded in C++? SPEED!!!! SURELY ITS SPEED!!!!

what is this raw socket support everyone is talking about and why is it insecure?