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Tip.It refuses to give out their combat calculator code to anyone, including long time users and close friends of the staff. A basic formula in sudo code (you can't just copy and paste it) can be found here on the RScript website. It's not 100% accurate but close enough for most work.

It must be a machine specific thing then. Every machine I use regularly always asks again after a browser restart. :?

When you're working with a few thousand photographs and trying to do on site sales and other file operations said photos, speed matters. Faster processing means faster sales and more customers served. These slow speeds apply to more than just the zip tool, I just happened to use that as my example at the time. The slow zip tool is part of Vista (and it's overall file operations), built into the OS and just one of many possible examples of the slow file operations many have experienced. That is what is has to do with Vista. You should look these things up. Yes I'm blaming Vista, because Vista is the problem here. The rest of that paragraphs just sounds like a weak attempt at trying to blame me for the problem. You should probably read up on the problem then. Yes a hotfix is available, but not publicly rolled out to fix a rather obvious problem, most likely to avoid admitting the flaw. Instead it's tucked away in the knowledge base. That still doesn't change the fact many, many users are having this problem. The fact Dell has reintroduced XP on some of it's models is proof enough that the Vista bloat is not needed and not wanted.

Actually looking through YouTube's help would have been nice. It tells you exactly which file formats they accept, so you obviously didn't read it and aren't using the correct type.

1) No he isn't using IE. That is the homepage setting for IE. It's currently set to an HP Pavilion home page because (shock!) that's what HP sets it to before it's sold. 2) Windows Defender has been proven to suck. It works if you don't have other protection, but that isn't the case. He already has AVG and ZoneAlarm installed, so using Defender would be a step backwards. Conclusion: You shouldn't be reading and replying to HJT logs. People like you break things. I don't see anything major jumping out of the log. All of it looks like the basic Windows services and bundled HP helper software.

Wiping the objects from the virus vault using the button at the top (do not restore them). This will remove them from your system. After doing so, run another scan and it should come up clean.

A quick google search would have told you this is spyware. You need to run a virus scan with Norton and run spyware scans with Adaware and Spybot S&D. Do all 3 of these in safe mode (hold F8 before windows starts and pick a safe mode option) to prevent the spyware from starting itself. Doing this should remove it from your system and stop the alerts from Norton.

Are you playing from home/school/work? Is this your computer? Adi's explanation generally isn't effective because clicking 'no' will cause java to asked again after FireFox or IE has been completely closed and restarted.

Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced Tab > Under "Startup and Recovery" click settings > Make sure "Automatically Restart" is NOT checked. The next time the machine restarts (hopefully with a blue screen), write down all the error codes it gives you and post them here. You may also want to run scans with Adaware, Spybot and another online virus scanner (assuming you have broadband) such as Trendmicro's Housecall.

WAMP5 already has MySQL included (installed as a service along side apache if you told it to during installation). It also comes with phpMyAdmin for datebase work. Both of which should be in the WAMP menu in your tray. Php.net is by far the best resource for functions and such (IMO anyway). I haven't gone threw any of the first few sections of the manual in a while but it should be fairly helpful. Many of the functions also have example snippets for you to work with.

Messages you've sent appear in your outbox until the user it was sent to reads it. Once at has been read by that person, it appears in your sentbox.

The search button is your friend. Repeating things when there is a 3 page thread on this topic is annoying

Replacing all of them with his avatar would probably do a much better job. :lol:

Anything involving 'mail' or 'smtp' means the boards chocked when trying to do something email related. While posting, it's usually because people are watching topics or requested reply notices. I don't know what exact that particular error is, but it is nothing major to worry about (broken mail doesn't prevent posting). It's something for the admins to fix, but nothing for the users to be worried about. Just a bit of degraded functionality that doesn't effect posting or viewing topics.

Download, install and run SpaceMonger (linked site is official distributor, relevant WP article). It builds a graphical picture of what is eating up your storage. Very useful. :D Edit: Forgot to link to the 1.x freeware version. The version linked above goes to the trial 2.x series.

WinRAR unzipped my example file in under a second on both platforms, not faster on Vista. This is not a measure of the OS speed either and just proves the OS file operations are the problem. I never said the system was 6 times slower. Please learn to read. I asked for an explanation on why it takes Vista 6 times longer to unzip the file. A new OS should bring faster operations, not slower than it's 6 year old predecessor. I'm sorry, but Explorer does not exponentially eat ram. I have XP running on 6 machines in the house (ranging from years old, to brand new) and none of them do what you describe. I'll repeat that, none of them. The 1ghz LAN server quite regularly uses less than 500mb of ram under heavy load too, while the Vista laptop we bought (now happily running XP) idled well over 500mb after removing all the crapware.

If every request for 'a chance' was granted, the staff wouldn't have time for anything else. Just because it's suggested doesn't mean it gets accepted or even tested. Being around here for some 5+ years (threw all the major host transitions, so don't bother citing the 2004 join date), knowing many of the staff (and ex-staff) and helping moderate the IRC room is close enough. Regardless of my mod status, finding and appointing staff to moderate posts fairly is not an easy job for any moderately sized forum. It's common sense if you have any experience with such things. You can't just go grabbing a user with an early join date, or someone with high post count. Personality, maturity and many other factors go into selecting people (this goes for more than just Tip.It too). I'm not going to bother commenting on the rest since my view on the matter has already been posted. A bit off topic, but I better see Sithy back on IRC in the near future. :

YouTube uses a flash video player, not Windows Media Player. Changing WMP buffer settings will have no effect on how YouTube plays back video. It is more than likely just the line not keeping up with how fast the video is being played back. Just hit pause when the video starts and let it load a bit more before you start watching any of it.

Alrighty then soldier_side, do explain why Vista takes 6 times longer to unzip a 1.8mb file than XP does? Vista took 24 seconds to unzip said file on a brand new Core2 Duo, SATA2 drive and 2gb of ram. XP did the same thing in 4 seconds on an Athlon 3200 (1.8ghz), IDE drives, and 1gb of ram. You come up with a good reason why Vista on brand new hardware should be SLOWER than XP on 2 year old hardware (bought 2 years ago, models are older than that) and I'll start listening to your reasoning. You can argue the minimum requirements all you want. A new OS on brand new hardware should be faster than its predecessor on slower hardware no matter how you look at it.

That generally means you take/send it back to where ever you got it from and have it replaced. You should have done so 3 months ago when it first started.

Search is awesome.

I would check into any programs you know you absolutely have to have and make sure they will run on Vista first. I've personally gone through the trouble of downgrading the new Vista laptop we got back to XP because of usability issues, but that is specific to how we're using it. If it's just a personal use laptop you're probably safe upgrading. Just make sure you do some research on the programs you use to make sure they will work on Vista. The backup recommendation is made with any major software upgrades because there is always an extreme chance something could go wrong during the upgrade. You should always have a backup of your important files, even if you aren't making any major changes to the machine. Edit for spelling

You should go read up on how video works. Moving images use still frames that change quickly enough to look like a fluid motion.

People need to stop using this as a reason. Just because it has worked in other places, does not mean it will work here. We already have 'serious' discussion inside the separate forums. We don't need yet another board just so we can centralize these 'serious' threads. It's rather easy for you to say that. Finding suitable users for the job is a whole different story. Even Sithy's author reporting idea more than likely wouldn't fly very far for the same reasons user moderated threads wouldn't. The second an author disagrees with replys, he starts flooding the report system with opinion related reports and we're back to square one, a moderator controlled board, just like the rest. I seriously don't see the point in this. Why again can't you just report the idiots in a normal thread found in the proper category?

Ship me a Mac then, since you're so sure I'll never go back to my Windows machines. I'll gladly use it for a day, and then send you a video of myself smashing it to pieces in my driveway. Macs have their place in the computer world, but people arguing 'once you go mac you never go back' are just idiots.