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    My Friend Found a Glitch In XP!!!

    The idea behind it is aux, nul, prn, also not allowed con, aux and prn stand for 'console', 'auxiliary' and 'printer' and stand for output devices. Leftovers from DOS where you could do 'copy con a.txt' and get whatever you typed in a textfile. Or 'copy a.txt prn' to send it to the...
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    My Friend Found a Glitch In XP!!!

    I found the answer to the reason why you can not name a folder "con" in windows. says it is due to Dos 1.0 http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/permalink.aspx/1f7e4f66-2889-4238-8962-37899528e211 http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/d0m1/archive/2003/10/22/2786.aspx Polar
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    SMTP Problems

    I am having problems with SMTP. I am hoping that someone can help me out. I am running an ASP service with the cdonts.dll file (this allows you to send e-mail via ASP in a script) This script it working fine and it does not bomb my pages. yet my SMTP server is not sending out the e-mails. I...
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    CPU Temp - Odd?

    There is 2 fans on the back of the case blowing out and there are 3 on the front of the case blowing in and there is a pci fan that is directly under the video card blowing out. And there is a fan on the side mount of the Case blowing out and the cables are rounded as to not restict the flow of...
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    CPU Temp - Odd?

    Take a look at this pic. This is my cpu temp. I though the cpu temp was suppose to be the hottest thing in your system... It is not running any special fan either. Just the stock fan that came with the processor inside the amd box. System Specs AMD 2200XP 512 DDR PC2700 Ram GeForce 3 TI...
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    Someone With To Much Space :)

    LOL Yah I am sure everyone would love to have one of those. Says the following "Xserve RAID for an estimated retail price of $10,999 (US) includes: dual independent RAID controllers with 128MB cache per controller and support for up to 512MB cache per controller; dual 2Gb Fibre...
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    Someone With To Much Space :)

    Wow now this is someone with to much space 8 -120GB's Drives. Some Western Digital and Some Maxtor and a 200 GB Drive. that equals 1160GB's!!! HOLY ****!!! Polar Edit: Had to hide the drive names and letters to post it. I wanted to keep it orginal, but it broke one of the rules. Sorry
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    Divx is upside down

    I have had the problem. I found out the issue was due to VobSub or programs that are smilar to it. So if you installed any software that you might have used for sub titles. I would uninstall it and see what happens Polar
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    Networking Windows 98 with Windows XP successfully

    Humm good tutorial, but that just seems like common sence to me. Normally I have mine set up on dhcp not a static ip though. It is just like networking on any other operating system. Worked for the numerous networks I have set up with Windows 95/98 machines and xp machines. Never had any issues...
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    Windows XP Pro Profile Issues.

    I know all of that, and usernames do not matter. I found the issue. Under the profile. you need to right click and go to sharing and security. There is a checkmark that said "Make Folder Private" After unchecking this on the account "mike" the administrator was able to access it. If I wanted to...
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    Nero 6

    That was really stupid posting that - Jewelzz
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    Anyone know how to use remote desktop efficiently?

    I use it alot. if you are using a router just go into and find port forwarding and type in 3389 (some router require a start and end port so type it in for both of them) and the type in the ip of the computer you wish to remote connect to. If you are running a server edition of ms product it...
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    change boot sequence

    on Dell it is the F2 key at least all the ones at our school is that then go down to "boot sequence" and use the + and - key to change the boot order around. I personally like CD-ROM first and then harddrive and I change it to Floppy and then Harddrive when ever I am using a floppy drive. I am...
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    screen for operating system choice?

    not sure how you installed two operating system on 1 computer and 1 harddrive to the same folder, but I would just delete the line multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="1" and the dos promt should go away. and just load windows xp or if you are nervous about doing that I would just change...
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    Triple Booting system

    Agreed I run a 5 boot system and in order for it to work you have to install the microsoft products first (each on there own partition is a good idea) even if the parition is only 2gb. On mine I run. Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server (because I am learning it in class) Windows XP...
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