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Comment on Play MS-DOS Games on Vista by anon

anon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:24:14 +0000

Dosbox doesn’t suck. The keyboard bidings are for a normal 101 key US keyboard by default. RTFM and edit the config or use the keybinding sw. The issue is that it needs a lot of power. My atom N270 unit can’t quite run the games

Installing Dos or Win98 as a dualboot is a great idea if you have the luxury of getting sound, mouse and graphics drivers for the system, wich many units nowdays don’t have. Stupid thing they don’t support running DOS 16bit apps in vista and windows 7…

Comment on Free 120-Day Trial of Windows XP Professional x64 by Sahib

Sahib — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:49:23 +0000

Dear sir

i would try the windows xp pro. 64 bit .Please send me a copy

thanks

Comment on Installing Windows XP Using A USB Flash Drive by William

William — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:52:03 +0000

Hello Guys! An awesome tutorial, but…

When it comes to setting the options of usb_prep8 in Command Prompt, I can’t pass the 4th option which is “Change Target USB-Drive Letter, currently []“. Now my USB drive is “D:\”, but when I try to set it to that, I get an error “***** D: is not a valid Drive *****”. How could I fix the problem?

Comment on Windows XP SP3 Can Corrupt TIFF Images by Mike J

Mike J — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:32:45 +0000

I don’t know if it’s a related problem, but since I switched to SP3, the newer versions of VLC have a very blue cast to videos. I have to use v.8.6.

Comment on Windows logs off automatically while login by dave

dave — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:01:43 +0000

my daughter had the looped login but i could still logon as admin and managed to sort it This registry fix worked well i had mpk.exe (trojan) in the reg string even after avg found it and vaulted it, after i edited the registry all was well.this is with Vista os too!

Comment on Show A Hidden System Tray Icon In Windows 7 by Garry_Newberry

Garry_Newberry — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:06:42 +0000

OK But do you know how to clear that list of the leftover icons when the program that installed them has been deleted?
Some icons never get removed and stay in the list cluttering things up forever and it makes no difference that the program has been un-installed.

Comment on Firefox 3.6 Beta for Windows 7 by Hidalgo

Hidalgo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:26:52 +0000

These new Firefox betas are always great to test and try out. The only problem with trying them though is that many of my favorite add ons simply will not work until they are upgraded. Add ons are the primary reason why I use Firefox. I’m sure others feel the same.

So what I typically will do is try the new betas and then revert back to my current Firefox version.

Comment on Optimize Firefox and IE Browsing Speed by Kay

Kay — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:33:14 +0000

I selected HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Windows –> Current Version –>
Internet Settings
and found several other registry entries but nothing
like you mentioned. Which registry entry do I go down to, to change ?

Comment on Windows 7 RC Activation Product Keys by Windows 7 RTM Activation Cracks | News

Windows 7 RTM Activation Cracks | News — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:44:59 +0000

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Comment on Vista to Windows 7 Upgrades Kill Access to OEM Recovery Applications by anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:10:28 +0000

maybe that explains why when i migrated from vista home premium to windows 7 (using my msdn download) the upgrade become windows 7 ultimate edition…

not sure how i gone enter my oem key now that the manufacturer dvd upgrade has arrived

i will have to rearm it again until i think of solution.