Reply With QuoteThat should be the official QT3 forum poster tagline. Its perfect."I've fallen and I can't get up."
Okay everybody,
How do you change the CDROM cache in WinXP? I used to set it up to the max in Win98 when installing programs so that my installs would go faster, and then lower it down to run programs off of their CDs without as many pauses. I just can't find the setting anymore in WinXP.
And does anybody adjust virtual memory settings in WinXP when defragging and/or in general to keep their hard drives running better? I used to fiddle with virtual memory in Win98 when defragging but I've gotten away from it now. And what's the general rule of thumb? I seem to remember (when using Win98) something about setting virtual memory to zero while defragging, then setting both the minimum and maximum to twice your amount of system RAM (if you have at least 256MB RAM) in between defrags... Oh, I can't remember any more. "I've fallen and I can't get up."
That should be the official QT3 forum poster tagline. Its perfect."I've fallen and I can't get up."
You don't need to do either; the algorithms XP uses to manage those resources work just fine.Originally Posted by Denice Cook
I got one,
When you put a CD in the drive under XP a window pops up asking what you want to do with it. Well, I put GTA:VC in and somehow clicked on 'Open with RealPlayer' by mistake. Now every time I put the CD in, RealPlayer pops up and starts playing the sound effects off the CD. It's a minor annoyance, I know, but how can I get it to stop? Thanks in advance,
DeanCo--
I think you can right click and select Properties on the drive, and then use the Autoplay tab to tweak or turn off these settings.
Thanks Tim. I shoulda known, the solution to everything in Windows is, 'right click and choose properties, then...' :)
DeanCo--
Heh. So true. What's more, if you right-click and can't do what you want to do, your best bet is probalby to change the focus to some other related object and right-click again.
Not to beat this one to death, but I thought I'd let anyone who might be having a similar problem know that I found a solution. Apparently my USB mic was getting feedback from the USB mouse (they're both plugged into the USB keyboard) and this was causing the feedback... After turning off Mic boost, the problem went away entirely.Get a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz or Hurcules Game Theater or one of the other non-Creative sound cards.Well, the weird thing is that it just started happening recently. I haven't been doing too much fiddling in there, so I don't know why it would have started.It could be a number of things including a ground loop or inadequate filtering on the supplied voltage.
Easiest thing to do is just buy a PCI soundcard.
I'm reluctant to drop a PCI sound card in there because, well, I'm tired of problems with Soundblaster cards.
Aleck
-- Xaroc
Weirdness. But all's well that ends well...
(and now I can put my Game Theatre XP into my new Dell 400SC server box...)
Aleck
Anybody know how to make the default printer setting to draft quality with black & white only?
What kind of printer? The old Lexmark inkjet I've got has management software that allows you to do that.
Not sure about this particular item, but check the local group policy object to define just a ton of stuff about how windows works.
On XP, printers control panel, right click on a printer, printer preferences. Smiliar for the other OSes.
Stupid Mozilla question:
When I go to www.viz.co.uk (for example) - I get a pop up in a window called Mozilla. Anyone know how it does this, and what I can do to Mozilla to stop it happening?
Ok, I have a question. I am trying to run a DOS game but it doesn't want to run out of windows. How do I create a DOS shell in windows XP. I can't seem to find one already created, like I could with Win98 and Win95. Also, once created can I modify it to get extra memory like I could with the old DOS prompts?
Nevermind. I got it to work. Wow, windows xp is great! I was able to set all the memory and such from within the properties tab. I could even force it to give the conventional memory, so now I can Master of Magic again! Love this game!
Here's an outlook 2000 question:
I am teaching a couple classes this year and want to set up a distribution list for course materials. I told the students to send me an email, and I figured that as I got the emails I could just click on them and add them to the list as they came in. I can't figure out how to do this though. The other solution is to reply to them, which automatically adds them to my address book, then fish through it (it has like 10,000 addresses, 9,900 of them I have no idea who they are), find the kids, and add them to the list. We're talking like 80 students here so it would be cool if I could compile the list as they come in. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
(spelling and clarity edit)
DeanCo--
I don't think there's an easy way to do that in Outlook. Various attempts to drag things to Distribution Lists come up with nothing.
Perhaps you have access to a mailing list server somewhere? Most schools have them.
Dean,
You can do a search by email with the "find people" button. Since they are students, I am assuming they all use the school email? That will help narrow it down, if you have to do it the hard way. You still have to add them manually though, as far as I can tell, but at least you can separate them out more easily.
If you do that from within the group tab (you can find people while having the select members to add to group tab open) you can do the whole thing pretty quickly. If you are teaching two different classes, you might have a problem deciding which students go in which class list. Otherwise, this should work fairly well.
As a former student and IT guy at the school, the answer to that is -- "not likely". It takes 5 minutes to setup a hotmail account. Do you have any idea how long the lines were to get a school email account? :)
Thanks for the replies.
Xpav is right, their email addresses are all over the place.
Funny you can't just drag and drop. Well hey, there's the new feature for Office 2004! That's worth 500 bucks a pop, don't you think? :)
I think I have a system though. If they send me an email with a specific subject line, and I make a rule that sends it to folder X, then everyone in folder X becomes a group, and the group goes in the dist. list.
Or I could just send it to 1 student, and tell them to download it from Kaaza... :)
DeanCo--
Honestly, that's just crappy administration. Forcing people to stand in line and wait for the IT department to set up their e-mail account (and university net account too I presume?) is ridiculous. Why couldn't it be handled by mail?
Now, I have a question of my own.
How do I get WinXP to stop showing zip files as folders?
Because of crappy administration. This was a few years back, so things might have gotten better.
Open a command prompt.Now, I have a question of my own.
How do I get WinXP to stop showing zip files as folders?
Type
regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
or go into Add Remove Programs and remove the "Compressed Folders" component from System Tools.
At Vandy, ours are auto-assigned, and you can modify where they send to online. All my students use the vanderbilt.edu domain, so I can look them all up with the find feature. Sorry if that doesn't work for you, Dean.As a former student and IT guy at the school, the answer to that is -- "not likely". It takes 5 minutes to setup a hotmail account. Do you have any idea how long the lines were to get a school email account? :)
"Sorry if that doesn't work for you, Dean."
Yeah, uh, me too. :D That's OK though, I'm resigned to hunting them down by hand.
Win XP: I'm trying to fix this old fellow's internet connection. In a nutshell, his modem works fine, but when he dials out, it says 'no dial tone'. The cable is fine, we tested a brand new one. After 5 hours of work, I traced it to a disabled Administration Tools 'service'. in French it's 'Gestionnaire de connexions d'accès distant'. So I click on it and tell it to start working, and it says 'access denied'. He is the admin and only user BTW.
This sounds like a virus to me. When I first looked at his computer, msconfig had been deleted, and msblast was happily chugging away in the process list, along with some other weird looking stuff. So, does anyone know of a recent virus that will hose a dialup connection in this manner?
(BTW a 'friend' of his installed XP on his PII 366, which hosed his printer and sound card as well, since there are no XP drivers for this old shit. And no internet connection to find new ones, if they exist. If I have no joy here, I'm gonna wipe his HD and put Win95 (yes, Win95) back on.)
Thanks a lot y'all!
DeanCo--
Set up a shortcut with the command line "cmd." You can set the compatibility mode by then clicking the properties of the shortcut. You can also mess with the colors of the text and background, if you're feeling wild.
As far as messing with the memory allocation specifics, I don't know if that's possible; I think the "Compatibility Mode" takes care of that. It's effectiveness is another matter. You can do some fooling with buffers in the "Options" tab, but it's not nearly as detailed as the old Win95/98 options.
Nope. I was helping another "old person" with their computer. The most bizarro things had been done to it (msconfig used to get it to always start in safe mode), and of course, he didn't remember doing them. But he had done them at some point.
Actually, it is. Windows XP recognized that I was trying to run a DOS program, so I didn't have to change anything. All I had to do was right click on the program I was trying to run and go to properties. It has a memory tab that actually allows me to mess with the memory in a way that I find much easier than the old DOS way. I was running MoM in no time!
Thanks for the tip on the shortcut though. I may use that for other games.
Ok, this is a driver question really, but it's also a Windows question because I am getting instabilities.
After I installed ToEE, the disk asked me to install directx 9, which I thought I already had, but it installed something. After that I started getting error messages when I started up windows, but I couldn't really find anything wrong. However, the error said it involved my Geforce3 ti500 card, so I decided to update the drivers. Unfortunately, that not only did not fix the problem but it started causing my computer to restart over and over again. I had to enter safe mode and roll back the drivers.
My question is this: Has anyone else experienced problems with the Geforce drivers and directX 9? I seem to remember Ryan (rywill that is) having some problems with his computer restarting over and over, but I don't know if it was the same issue. Any advice would be welcome.
Funny story related to the thread:
Most bundled flat screens these days come with both mic and speakers. This may happen to you, if you're using Windows XP:
For weeks, I'd get support calls from one of the back offices complaining of mystery characters showing up in spreadhsheets and documents while editing. My first thought was someone compromising the machine or some sort of virus.
I firewalled the boxes on the private network for that additional layer of security, and scanned them with just about every known virus scanner, after the conditions continued to reoccur for weeks after.
Finally, I tried Googling for the problem, as I obviously didn't have a solution.
Turns out that many OEM Windows XP installations come with Voice-to-Text mode enabled. Every time the users would see strange characters being typed into their word processor or spreadsheet application was coincidentally when they had someone in their office, or they were on the phone.
It still makes me cringe to think about it.
I just ran into the XP voice recognition thing myself. I was looking through my Processes list and saw a program called sapisvr.exe. I googled it up and found out that it is the voice recognition software.
Now I'm tempted to hook up a microphone here and see how good it is. I'm tired of all of this typing things.
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