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thanks guys i really appreciate the help, looks like everything is in working order... :mrgreen:

see if this helps, i dont know if youve read this already but it may provide you with some info.... http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=securit...acs-mac-spoofer

thanks for the insight man, but i tried that.. would that repair ALL windows systems files? your help has been appreciated

yea, i just backed up everything... the more and more i think about it and research it, it looks like a corrupt system file rather than a virus... pretty odd though, i've never encountered this problem before, its prob because its an older dell running dell's version of xp home oh well, i usually like to figure out what causes a problem, so i can tend to it better in the future, but i guess in this case its gonna be one of those mystery things...

and advanced windows care also...

I'll try registry mechanic but I already tried a few others... regseeke and easy cleaner. Any other suggestions?

Hey guys, my buddies computer is not loading explorer when logging onto an account, even admin in safe mode, i try to run a new task from task manager to try to start it and it doesnt work. It will load than kill itself... i think this is the doing of a virus... totally unsure though any thoughts on getting his computer back to normal? avg av, as, arkit returned nothing... thanks again... help is much appreciated.... -Brandon

props to tomb and wtf is this thread pertaining too? dos-less govt windows password cracking in 10 seconds?

Its a legit server 2003 copy... just took it out of the package... It shows the c drive but with no "Unallocated Space" option, just "C:" ...?

nod32?

When i get to the MS server 2003 install menu, and try to create a partition by pressing "c" nothing happens, i know you can use disk manager to make partition's right in windows, but im unsure of the process... is there any suggestions to doing this? ... im trying to be as cautious as possible, i really dont want to spend hours recovering lost data lol....

awesome, thanks!

to the best of my knowledge, i think pro is the only way... i dont think home is modifiable to do such a task... back up your hard disk(s), install pro..

is it possible to install winxppro, server2003, and Linux (fedora or ubuntu) on the same system? im guessing the answer is yes... but i didnt want to attempt it and destroy my mbr or something... also, is there a certain install order? I need to use all three for my college courses this semester... and im poor so i only have one pc (barely) lol... thanks in advance...

Thanks for the info VaKo, you bring up some interesting things i havent thought about yet, mainly with the QoS, pretty good idea... I set my max connections to 4096 and times to 90 seconds.... inproved performance of my web browsing tremendously, and still get nice speed with utorrent... now i need to figure out why the hell i cant get it to port forward lol

i cant get port forwarding to work... tried everything, but the port forward test utorrent uses wont connect...?? worked fine yesterday...

After i have utorrent open for awhile, 99% of the time when i close uttorent, my internet browsing is slow as SHIT, sometimes non-existent until i restart my puter. Is there any tweaks i should do to Utorrent, TCP settings, or my ddwrt wrt54g box? btw i have my DL/UL settings at 750 kB/s / 50 kB/s on my basic cable connection.... TCP reicieve window at 128480... window scaling...no time-stamping...selective ACKs...TTL @ 64... max duplicate ACK's 2... no black hole detection.... path MTU discovery.... dont know if that info is needed.... thanks in advance guys...

I read a few articles on a alpha beta release of SP3... anyone have any heads up on what this will contain? Microsoft is saying it will officially be released in early 2008... thanks...

perfect

that doesnt allow you to start disabled services, maybe i should have worded my question different. I would like to enable & disable (ie: Automatic, Disabled, Manual) thanks again...

Is there any way to create a file (i was thinking a batch) that would toggle my windows services? sometimes i like to have bare bones services running but sometimes i need the default xp set-up. . . thanks in advance. . .