Pyros

quote:Originally posted by Gordon: Actually you can type in "msconfig" via Start/Run You will then get a menu with tabs, one of the tabs is called startup, here you can just click off the items that you don't want loaded at startup. This is probably what you used in 98, XP has it as well. [ 01-22-2002: Message edited by: Gordon ] Your my hero

I love Windows xp pro, just finished setting it up (fixed all my problems with my pc) One question for XP users, in 98 there is a system config tool that allows you to easily delete items that load on startup (realplayer icq etc) all those nice things, how do I do that in XP pro ?

Thankyou for all the suggestions, my processor is a socket A Athlon tb 1000. I'm bored today keep going I'm running zonealarm but I have checked it happens whether or not ZA is on(first thing I checked). While playing with my motherboard I noticed another glitch my ami bios refuses to upgrade, even with mb switch and bios switch set to write enable I can not upgrade the bios to latest version (only one revision away f8 - f9). Here is my shared resource list. IRQ 5 AMD 756 PCI to USB Open Host Controller IRQ 5 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering IRQ 9 Creative SB Live! Value IRQ 9 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering IRQ 10 3Com Fast EtherLink XL 10/100Mb TX Ethernet NIC (3C905-TX) IRQ 10 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering IRQ 11 NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 IRQ 11 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering IRQ 11 SCI IRQ used by ACPI bus IRQ 14 Primary Bus Master IDE controller IRQ 14 AMD-756 Bus Master IDE Controller V1.41 IRQ 15 Secondary Bus Master IDE controller IRQ 15 AMD-756 Bus Master IDE Controller V1.41 I've just ordered a new mb anyway ASUS A7M266 Socket A DDR Motherboard W/AUDIO so if problem still occurs i'll install that (Paola is getting my sdram )

I am inbetween upgrading my pc, but I have a recuring error I would like to squash before I go xp pro and 40gb hd end of month. Firstly my system Gigabyte ga-71xe4 motherboard (updated to newest bios) 512mb sdram windows 98se fully updated Direct X 8.1 Geforce 2mx 32mb agp (detonator drivers newest official drivers) ASDL usb modem acatel. SB live 1024 3com 10/100 network card Hitachi dvd drive. Now for the problem, I noticed it months ago, started simply enough a couple of offline games mainly Klingon academy would crash my internet connection as in after I played I hadto reboot to get on the internet. It is getting much worse got to the point that any game using direct X crashes my connection (not disconnects but no dara going out for anything email explorer or games) only a reboot fixes it, can't even touch everquest or counterstrike, i go link dead as soon as game starts.(noticed big degradation since installing DX8.1) Run DXdiag no problems all certified all fine on all menu's. Interesting points, only happens on 3d games not on menu's ( can go all the way into Eq but as soon as first person view comes up disconnect) same with KA if I goto the menu then quit internet works fine but if I go into the game and blow a few feds up no go on the internet. Any ideas (have formatted hd and reinstalled win 98se) also hard drive when starting up is running scandisk everytime saying a drive may have bad sectors but it doesn't(have run a full surface scan) also before re-installing wn98se I fdisked and deleted/re-initialized partitions. I am wondering if I have a conflict somewhere, but........ I haven't installed anything new for 8 months (system tools also show no problems no conflicts) soundcard lan card and graphics card are all on seperate irq's. Wondering if the motherboard bios is corrupt in some way but it looks fine. Monday I get my new HD so will install xp pro but im just wondering if this problem isn't hd will it cross over .

Tip for anyone wanting to buy xp pro or home, use EBAY, I just yesterday recieved my 3 copies of ebay with ms licences and all relevant documents (oem versions)the send generic hardware item with it cable or something, the price it worked out at the end because I bought a 40gb maxtor 7200 hd as well was Windows xp pro oem £75/$108 * 3 Maxtor 40gb £56/$80 Total = $404 plus $34 next day world wide shipping insured. I doubt anyone can beat that for 3 xp pro let alone hd too My tip to any new ebayers is read a sellers feeback it gives you an idea of who you are dealing with xp home is really cheap.

Someone asked this is whats extra in xp pro(more than this but I don't have full list anymore) New visual design and complete digital media support Premier mobile support for the ability to work offline or access your computer remotely Greater security, including the ability to encrypt your files and folders Built-in support for high performance multiprocessor systems Designed to work with Microsoft Windows Servers and management solutions

quote:Originally posted by Menchise: More bad news about WinXP. Once again, Microsoft's security record rears its ugly head. Exploits Discovered in Universal Plug and Play Implementation Sorry Menchise but I class that as anti microsoft scaremongering, with good firewall protection (zone alarm) and good recent virus protection there isn't much that can harm a pc, infact linux/unix hybrids have alot more flaws than windows unfortunatly. (I used to run a server). When you think of the windows software we use, we seem to forget what an amazing achievement it is, it hasto work on infinite hardware combinations, and run 24/7, you try running a game program for that long, yes its bugged but nothing else comes close. Thats why I don't complain when I purchase operating systems windows 95 lasted me 3 years of use every day, 98 did the same and now i'm buying 3 copies of xp pro (for the added win 2000 type stability but also the games compatibility of xp home) I dare any of you in this day and age of consumerism gone mad to find anything a game, a graphics card, a car, a pair of shoes that will last aslong as windows or even dos did and still perform(win 98/95 both improved with age and patches). [ 01-16-2002: Message edited by: Pyros ]

OEM from america XP professional is $150 oem you just haveto look around. I also got a discount for ordering 3 licenses.

Okay i'm forking out for 3 copies of XP professional at the end of the month *sob* Bedroom machine is now linked to mine and Paola's and is nominated as server for BCM multi games games wooo wooo!!

I live with my disabled wife in the area of Stoke on trent, the police budget is cut every year, criminals are given more and more rights every year at the expense of law abiding citizens. The knee jerk reaction got so bad because of a few shootings and knife attacks (played on by the extremists) that now you can't even use a pistol in the uk even at a gun club and legally all im allowed to have in my house is a 3 inch blade. In the UK if I stand up to a burglar I am more likely to be sued than him, I am more likely to be put through the legal system as a criminal. An English mans home is no longer his castle. The laws against dangerous impliments in the UK only ONLY affect the law abiding comunity and not the criminals, there are gangs that hang around outside your house in certain areas of the UK who have no problem getting guns and knives (before I moved from bentilee a rough council estate I was offered a Browning hi-power for £50 with one clip). Stun guns aren't even legal in the uk, they say its to protect the citizens and especially ladies from getting mugged, well a couple of weeks ago a local girl was raped using a stun gun, guess the rapist wasn't up on the laws. When I go out to shop or visit my mother, I worry about my disabled wife, what happens if someone breaks in? A stun gun would be perfect protection. My mother works shifts late at night she goes out to catch a bus, i'd feel alot safer knowing she could defend herself. I am fully in favor of home defense and personal defence, you may say unarmed combat etc but when the criminals can carry Brownings/stun guns/machettes what good is that ? Against the law, I have a katana under my bed and an axe hidden away in the living room, anyone breaks into my house I will use them because my alternative is to call the police (one active police car patrolling the city of stoke on trent) after all they may not be at another emergency and only take 30 mins to get to me. Any ******* who breaks into my house threatens my wife dies, my wife has delt with cancer I will not let her haveto deal with a life of terror because of some political dweebs who live in there nice houses with security guards. [ 01-12-2002: Message edited by: Pyros ]

Okay, its that time of year when I upgrade the house pc's. Hardware related upgrade will be taking all three to 512mb and two of them to 1ghz (mine is going to 1.4 because I can ). Now i'd like to know from experience not from phobia of a new ms op. What is XP like and what would be best for me home or professional?

We have a cunning plan when it comes to hypno-disc

What have people been occupying themselves with while waiting? I got the urge to build a robot to try and qualify for the 6th series of robot wars (end of 2002) will hopefully be ready to test Junk bot in the the live events sometime february. Upto now its pretty sad, drive motor is a modified bosch window wiper model from a ford sierra meant to run at 12v but currently a 36v charge is used (limited to 10 mins running time or meltdown occurs), calculated running speed is about 16 miles an hour which isn't bad for an estimated (with weapon)48kg bot, weapon is following the KIS (keep it simple) A 10kg chunk of ramming metal at the front. I am just waiting on two things finishing the ackermen car style front steer which is a complete b@tch both electronicly and mechanically and the armor parts which will be based on a layered design inner plywood then sheet mild steel and an outer layer of chain link fencing (being only in the mid weight class I don't have the money or knowledge to go for kevlar/titanium and coatings). Dimensions atm are height=63cm, width=75cm length=84cm. On top of the armor Paola is probably going to design a paper mache look for the robot. Soooo if you see a bot called junkbot that looks like a walking scrap yard you know who it is, or if Paola gets her way on the design side it will be renamed Moocow bot and will look like a giant cows head

Yeah Red I look at it this way my operating system usually lasts for 1-2 years max it costs £69 each I buy two one for mine one for my wife. Yes its expensive but you use it every day as you switch on your pc thats 1400 uses in 2 years costing 1p per day and we may ***** about microsoft but what other games supported software is there I'm not rich I save up for 6 months at a time to upgrade the pc's but I wouldn't pirate software (I used to but alot of the companies I loved the games went financially broke so I decided just like everything else I use it I pay for it)

I am in Anarchy online Beta 4 and 256 is minimum (ok its still debug mode and unoptimized) FYA: MS have stated there will be NO upgrade path to XP from 98 only ME kinda bad but hehe i'll go for ME for now atleast.

Hehe I only upgrade every 6 months so its not overkill Well not really

Okay I'm about to upgrade both my pc and wifes to 1.2 athlons and 512mb ram (wasn't so long ago I upped them to 700 durons lol) Now I need some advice I've heard from various sources that win98se doesn't use more than 256mb ram even if you put in 512mb any ideas on that. If so and I'm upping my machine should I go for ME, i've already discounted 2000 as alot have told me its not a games platform (both me and Paola only use our machines for internet and games). Any help is gratefully appreciated.

I've contacted the police, the letters constitute offences under s4 Protection from Harassment Act 1997, also threats to commit Arson, threats to Kill and Blackmail. Personally if I knew where he lived i'd go after him with a very blunt knife.

Okay sorry for not being around lately getting some hassle, most don't know but I with my wife run an online archive for adult fiction(scifi paranormal etc), I am a big advocate of free speech always liked adult fiction and decided to create my own site that had no banners or porn pics just a place adult writers could put there work. Now recently a religious fanatic has been trying to shut me down he does it every 6 months or so (he lives in the UK and knows my wife is ill) Mostly I laugh it off but its getting to the point I may haveto bring the police in, the below are his latest offerings to my email box. Hope you can understand after reading them how much I want to take a personal interest in his health. WARNING don't read if your easily upset: Hello my dear chap, surely you remember your GOD AND SAVIOUR 4CHRIST: I remeber being threatened by you quite some time ago, but now I am invincible, I am untrackeable, and free to harass your perverse website for eternity, and evermore, you will suffer, because I tell you to, you are a worm, you and your cancerous wife, you know why she has cancer, because your run this web site, GOD will punish all those who indulge in perversions, just look at what he did to sodom and gomorrah, you will suffer too, and when she dies, I will dance a mocking jig over her grave, crash and burn greyarchive, I will bomb you to hell.... ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD. next Hey, my dear chap, I hope you realise by now that you will never be able to track me, and that if you do, I will call the Lord down to kill you and burn your house down, and punish your family, because I and the LORD are in direct contact, and he knows me... the only way you will get out of this is to send £5000 in cash to St Martin's in the Field Church, and I will consider calling off my curse, if not, I will poison your wife's medication. Sorry Sc and others i'll keep up with BC and keep updating my beta but gotta sort this out first.

I will never touch an intel processor again happy with my amd's

Hmmmmmm The views I have here are my own. How can you even think about calling the police, he has just treated a woman like a punching bag. He needs far more than police or lawyers he needs a good solid chair leg through his neck and call it self defense. If your not upto that then here is the even more politically uncorrect way of dealing with scum, you see even within the criminal element of our society there is rules and hirarchy and wife or lady beaters are kinda low lifes even by there standards (I once used this avenue myself to help a friend being in a biker gang when I was a young en). There is certain bullitin boards and newsgroups inhabited by Lifes rule breakers if totally innocently his name and address and details on what he did found there way onto these places, he may have an interesting time of it and believe me what some of these guys think of as erm interesting times would give most of you a heart attack and even saying them would get me permanently banned from this board. Akuma I'm sorry you hadto see this side of life, sadly I've seen too much of this kind of thing. I hate bullies like this they are total scum like with all bullies its that feeling of power they get when they beat on someone weaker than them, they are the ones who only start fights they can win. Wish I knew his full name and address he wouldn't be smiling for long

I currently give out $20 per month for online games 2* Everquest accounts one for me one for Paola I've already pre ordered Anarchy online 2 copies 27th June that will set me back another $26 because its 12.99 per month. But then again if you divide 12.99 out over 30 days you try doing something else for that price. Me and Paola don't drink or smoke so its easy to put that money into games Your not paying for the game with your $10 your paying for support and continual fixes. There is a difference between bug fixes and trying to get the owners of games to change them into what you want a game to be. In UO I never had any problem reporting bugs and them being fixed I also knew my lag wasn't there fault but my isp's fault.

*WARNING* Pyros is going for the most controversial post award, nothing I say below is anything but thoughts and opinions and mostly not even my own. 1)Anyone who wants power shouldn't have it. 2)This new ballistic defence umbrella, hmm can we say SDI can we say patriot missile system, I can not be sure but once its build and in place, the designers will probably be living in sweden, call me silly but I follow this creed. Anything used to deal out death we are very very good at, unfortunatly anything we create to stop that death is usually bugged to hell and built by goverment contractors. The USA then again scratch that the whole political system is based on might is right, we humans just love interfering in others back yard and if an excuse doesn't exist one can be thought up, Example: During the gulf war there was a conspiracy theory going around the bbs's it quickly got squashed, the theory delt with the fact that for along time nato has wanted to kick Sadam's butt but this nasty little thing called the United nations stopped em, the conspiracy theory being that CIA infiltrated his intelligence and advisorial system, they were the ones that advised on the gas attacks and the invasion of kuwait. Not saying its true but kinda scary. Unfortunatly might is right isn't a new thing, the worst contenders being the Roman catholic's can anyone say inquisition although I personally don't trust any formal religion.

My choice was made for me Had ADSL installed on tuesday, love it to death pages load fast!! But the modem was USB (PSU was 230) and wonderful things started happening. Just bought a new case with a 300W (only one I could afford) now I just hope my wife's pc holds together till I get her new case. Well its been 24hours and no auto shut downs and none of the other graphic/sound anomalies. Thanks guys would have never thought of the case (would have changed MB CPU and GC first) [ 06-01-2001: Message edited by: Pyros ]

Hiya, okay new details, as you know both mine and my wifes pc are almost identical same MB/HD/CPU/Graphics Card/soundcard/case. It just happened for the first time on her pc, now we are both running on 220w psu's (hey hadto buy the cheapest case out there when I upgraded both machines) So i'm going to order a couple of 330w psu's should fit in these generic cases thanks for the advice (was begining to think it was a hardware/software glitch with it happening on both pc's) Better do it quick as tomorrow I'm having ADSL installed so thats another usb drain [ 05-28-2001: Message edited by: Pyros ]