Andavari

I definitely won't be using Vista, as XP is the last MS OS I'll ever use, eight years of using MS OSes is enough for a lifetime of the dreaded never ending security patches to place a Band-Aid over holes in Windows. Of course I'll have to grow rather tired of XP first before I switch to something different altogether. My thoughts are either Linux, Mac, or something off the wall that isn't even computer/PC based in the usual sense.

Your installation of MS VB Runtime Files may be an old version, or broken.

You can create an entry in winapp2.ini. See the winapp2.ini submissions thread for examples of how to make your own entry. If your entry works remember to submit it via the winapp2.ini thread to TwistedMetal in a PM, although I don't know when it would get added since TwistedMetal hasn't been around for a long time. Is anyone else worried about him?

So it took MS five days from when this thread started before the update would install. I still won't be using WD!

Well it was a surprise to me, I didn't know about that feature in WinXP, I just tried it on a farts whim. Nope, it doesn't work with every .exe file. "yes friend...thanks" Nah those aren't swear words yet.

Although you can't password protect CCleaner you could in theory hide it by removing all shortcuts to it e.g.; Desktop, and in the Start Menu. And then right click the CCleaner program files folder and select Hidden to make it a hidden folder that nobody can see unless they turn on hidden files and folders, or use a utility that shows them. Of course this would mean you'd have to manually start CCleaner each time via Start, Run. Hmm, interesting for some reason when I clicked Start, Run and just typed in CCleaner (no path, etc.,) it loaded the program.

No it isn't a choice of mine. If you want to make claims of a 66 kbps .ogg being better than a 128 kbps .mp3 you're going to have to provide proof, which I already know doesn't exist. Educate yourself by reading reputable audio forums.

If it isn't listed in any of CCleaner's .ini files winapp.ini, etc., then there isn't a cleaning routine for it. With that said the only part of CCleaner that could touch it would be the Issues scanner, e.g.; registry cleaner in CCleaner however that's highly unlikely. If you created the backup .reg file that CCleaner would have prompted you to do when running the Issues scanner you could open that .reg file in Notepad and look for Palm entries, etc. Also if you're using a version of Windows with System Restore you could try that - although I have no ideal if that would resurrect the data, more than likely it wouldn't. It could just be data corruption.

1. False T.V. advertisement price versus the real price. 2. Overcharging me and acting as if I was getting a good deal, refer to #1 listed above. 3. Giving me nothing but trouble to disconnect the service. 3a. Stating I had to drive my cable modem to their main office which was a two hour drive to another city altogether - yet they have an office in my city. I declined that. 3b. Stating I owed them money - which was in reverse they actually owed me money - go figure. ... Then came my lawyer; I gave him all my bill statements from them and the dups/carbon copies of all the personal checks I had wrote them and they graciously disconnected the service. They gave me one free month of cable T.V. without me asking - they just didn't charge me for a month, they had offered me three free months of high-speed Internet but I declined for obvious reasons.

Yeah, well the only high-speed provider in my area is Mediacom which was formerly AT&T and still owned by AT&T to my knowledge which was an ISP that I sicked my lawyer on for trying to screw me over when I had a cable modem in 2000 - hence the reason I don't want anything from them.

You could give the open source WackGet a try. It doesn't install any adware or spyware like many other dl managers are known for doing, and is probably the smallest in download size dl manager available. There's also a Firefox extension available. Even if you're on high-speed there are times when a dl manager can be useful, such as downloading from a server that continiously kills your connection.

This q gave me a little giggle: Here's my stats: El Zorro - 83% Batman, the Dark Knight - 75% James Bond, Agent 007 - 67% Neo, the "One" - 67% Lara Croft - 67% Captain Jack Sparrow - 50% The Terminator - 50% Maximus - 50% William Wallace - 42% Indiana Jones - 33% The Amazing Spider-Man - 17%

What are you talkin' bout lokoike?

It does. And whatsmore it doesn't write any data into the registry, however it's more of a type of app for high-speed Internet connections hence it will automatically download the signature files each time.

RegSeeker can and usually will find them. Make sure you backup your registry before using RegSeeker.

WinRAR.

Bulls**t! You'd be better off going lossless; FLAC, WavPack, etc.

Honestly why do any registry hacks or whatnot to fix an MS problem. If it isn't updating MS has screwed up yet again and it isn't worth bothering with until they officially fix it. If it's broke let them fix it, and it isn't worth being an MS Beta Test Monkey either.

I have no ideal why the contents of your My Documents and Favorites folder would be deleted - if they were in the correct default locations. If the My Documents folder can't be accessed it could mean the .dll that allows it to work needs to be registered again, here's how: regsvr32.exe "input the path to mydocs.dll" Example: It could look like this: regsvr32.exe "%windir%\system32\mydocs.dll"

That was the original reason why I switched to Ogg Vorbis as a lossy audio format.

Downloads for Ogg Vorbis software can be found here. Currently Oggenc2.8 using aoTuVb4.51 is being recommended on Hydrogenaudio.

A quicker solution to searching through the registry for leftovers is to use RegSeeker since it will after all create a backup of the removed entry - even custom searches through it.

If you can't install .NET Framework you may need to first download and install MS Windows Installer.

Open source CD ripper, encoder frontend, decoder frontend: CDex Freeware CD ripper, encoder frontend, decoder frontend: Exact Audio Copy The best mp3 encoder: LAME, currently 3.97 Beta 2, don't use Alpha compiles they are for testing purposes only! The best and easiest way to create an audio CD from encoded or decoded files: Burrrn Freeware easy to use encoder and decoder frontends: Speek's Frontends

If System Restore is used with ZoneAlarm installed it can cause a boat load of problems, especially if a current restore point wasn't created.