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kool is that lights 95? or they got a newer version out?

hehe thanks its called Alta Badia, it comes on the KDE desktop for Linux (im pretty sure, it was on my Kubuntu install and my cosmopod account)

ooops Canadian anyway, heres my desktop for this month (i realize its the default XP style, but i like it.) and heres my festive christmas tree :kid:

I'll post mine when I get home a little later on today, I gotta go to Candadian Tire and get some stuff

iv got a pair of logitech's x-230. they sound really good, and they have a geat punch. but im not really one for listening to music heavily on my computer, i prefer to listen to music through my computer on to my stereo. the only thing i have a hard time beleiving though, is a pair of speakers that small having the output power of my stereo (which is a 29 pound amplifier O_o) mind you it was built in 1989. i have an optimus STAV-3200, 100 watts per channel stereo. it can peak at 160, but RMS is 100 watts per channel. the cabinets i have aren't the greatest, but they are a heck of a lot better than my logitechs lol. 12 inch woofer in each cabinet, 6 inch mid range and a 4 x 6 inch tweeter. the 2 cabinets can totaly about 600 watts i supose, but that isnt the case anyway, i would personally go for the logitechs, but if you like the harmon kardons, good pick :thumbsup: they look pretty cool too

16 ontario canada high school student / future HVAC mechanic

and here we are in 2006, almost 2007, with no new OS thats RTM

do they have shadows under em? vista beta 2's didnt on xp

i know, i got a bit tired of changine themes and what not, plus i like the default luna style

hehehe well i used it looks great too btw

heres mine for this month:

darn nice theme rick

ill tell you why im hostile. i gotta deal with idiots like you all ****ing day at school, then i come home and i gotta deal with them online. its ****ing ridiculous as far as im ****in concerned. i tell you that i have tried something you say to try, and then you keep saying it even though i already said so (i didnt try EXACTLY what you said to do, but its close enough that it wont make a difference to an intelligent person) and you keep saying that its my loss or w/e the **** it was. i get irritated very easily as i have a very short fuse. god help the first customer that pisses me off at work too the point i explode. the only way that'll happen though, is if he calls me an idiot. meanwhile, ill be the one fixing his ****in air conditioner :grrr: no wonder my parents say im gonna have a coronary by the time im 20 :ranting:

omfg, its a installation of XP not a restore CD. its an actuall install disc, just like an XP pro retail cd. theres no other stuff after install other than a dell folder on the root of the drive with 50kb or so of stuff. for your info, iv even had a copy of XP pro retail on this. im right, your wrong leave me the hell alone. JC oh, btw , i used nlite on this installation cd too, i spose your gonna say nuhi developed that software for no reason too eh?

you dont seem to be getting the picture. i have installed windows on this computer countless times (even before tweaking my system) with an OEM dell version of xp pro sp2 and a copy of xp home retail and they run OK but not good (like it does now) i have installed XP, ran it for a while (about 2 or 3 weeks) without tweaking it because that was when i didnt tweak/no how to. and it ran alright, but now that i am tweaking it, its running even better. stop saying its my loss, when in reality its my gain. jesus christ im getting irritated with people lately.

how many times must i tell you? i already said, i have pretty much tried that. i know my system runs better now than it did after a fresh install

my system runs a lot better now, than it does on defaults. i know this. iv reloaded windows MANY times on it, always windows XP sp2 as well. the reason i was reloading so much, is i would install a piece of software, and it would screw up my system, and no system backup tool will fix it properly. theres always something that gets left behind, so rather than waste my time to fix it, i just wipe it and start fresh. so thats why i know my system runs better now than it did before.

id rather not be ridiculed by everyone because i choose to tweak my system. my system, runs well, does what i want, leave people alone. if they bring a system into you (im sure that less than 50% of the people who do) have tweaked their services and are complaining of it. just say, you disabled this service, and its causing this dependency link. simple as that, you don't need to call them an idiot or anything, because then you'll lose business. i tweak my system, because i can. windows gives me that oppurtunity, and it handles it quite well. my system boots in less than a minute (pii 366, so don't fly off the handle) and it handles a lot of intensive things quite well. im tired of being called an idiot because im not a "technician" or anything, what does it matter that i don't have a degree or certificate saying i'v completed a coarse or w/e. i often feel, a self taught person can be smarter than a person with a degree because they have REAL WORLD experience. real world experience is better than book smarts. you can learn better from things in the real world than in a book as far as im concerned. iv been brought up in a world that its ok to have an opinion. and you have no right to call me an idiot based on that. shame on you

you may think your aren't, but its really becoming aparent in the fact of you calling blackviper an idiot (as for the other guy, i dont know who the hell he is) blackviper took the time to come up with a guide on which services you can disable. he may have been wrong on the fact of performance (but maybe for him, like me, it did do some things) but thats no reason to call the guy an idiot. that would be like me basing an entire opinion of you, just on the simple fact you've made some gammatical mistakes (mind you, every one does now in the age of computers now) don't be so fast to jump the gun. just because you haven't had the success some other people have, doesn't give you the right to call them an idiot. theres some people in the HVAC world that really shouldn't be there. they don't know which end of a wrench to hold, or how to change a compressor in an air conditioner. you probably don't know how to fix half the stuff i know, as i wouldn't know how to fix a lot of computer problems. im a self taught computer user, im certainly not novice, but im no IT guy (mind you the IT guys around here don't know much either overrated as far as im concerned) im a more mechanical type of person, i fix machines (like cars and hvac equipment) anyway, on to the services you talked about first off, portable media serial number can be disabled and the ipod will still work just fine. all 3 of my XP machines are running perfectly fine with my ipod and all 3 have that service disabled. hell, it even works in 2000 and that service doesn't exist there. oh, and my creative mp3 player works just fine too. task scheduler can be disabled, but the only program i have noted any problems with is bootvis. but then again, that program doesnt work, so why should my task scheduler be running? oh, and it could be used by malicious code to start other bad programs. ups, doesnt matter either way, why did you include that one? automatic updates? use my update pack or just leave the service enabled, i dont have it on mine because i dont feel like doing updates when ms thinks i should. ill wait until its been tested properly, if they couldn't get it right in the first place, they may not the second time. telnet service, again, why did you include that one if its been disabled by ms now? wireless zero configuration service, this service can be disabled and your wireless card will work just fine. provided your using the bundled software that came with your card. if your planning on using the windows stuff to cofigure your card, leave this service enabled. nope that pretty much sums it up for me. anyway, im going to have a shower. iv just spent the last 3 hours sitting here writing up jot notes for history class (20 pages) and i feel like crap :tired: im tired of getting into arguments like these :sigh: might be back later on, but, at this point i dont care anymore. :sleeping:

if not, im sure people will hold onto the older "free-er" versions

you seem to have the atitude that your a genious and the rest of the computer world is an idiot. which is, untrue. sure, you may have some good points, but it also seems its all an opinion piece. tweaking is good for some, tweaking is bad for the rest. im no idiot when it comes to computers (self proclamation is pretty low, but its the **** truth) and i tweak my computers for a reason, it suites me. i dont constantly install stuff, nor do i keep an installation of windows around for very long (maybe 2 or 3 months at tops, then i wipe and clean and start fresh) i hate getting into arguments like these, but jesus christ, people can do what they want with their computers. if they have a problem, they ask at a forum for help and some advice (which is the whole reason for a forum anyway ) and they fix their problem. now, provided, a lot of them do not give thanks or even acknowledge that a person helped them, so it does piss of the people like me and you, but its the way the world is. however, the rest (like me and you) will learn from the problem, give thanks, and then be on their marry way. and then people are happy on both sides. end of post, i gotta finish my homework (16 pages more of written notes for history >_<)

compression is totally dependant on cpu horsepower anyway, i didnt expect any difference in that at all anyway.

i like office 2003, but i dont have a licensed version of it, so i need to use an alternative, whether it be Office 97 or OpenOffice. if i had the money, id buy a copy of office 2003, but i dont have enough for a 300 dollar piece of software :lol:

you calling me stupid iv never had to have a "tech" fix my computer for me. im a mechanic by blood, i fix my own s***. just take a look at my car. 1996 astro, mint cond.

i prefer open office because they dont charge you 300 dollars for a word processor, but lately i have actually gone with a program called abiword. it may not be as great as word or anything, but i really like it. its free, has a good spell check, runs pretty decently on my little laptop, and its actually pretty nice looking imo. heres a screenshot of it: