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    [Release] Rhor's PNG Pack version 2

    in Windows Customization

    Posted

    The designs were sold some time ago, that's why I had to pull them down from deviantart. But pretty soon I will release some new designs if still somebody is interested. They won't be completely new, more like a refining kind of pngs, different colors and few additions. Also, if somebody knows how to do something like Mr ricktendo did with V'ISO for Vista, or 7, let me know.

    Toshiba or HP laptops.

    in Hardware Field

    Posted

    Well, the first thing I'm planning to do is to wipe the HDD, create the partitions the way I like it and install my custom XP. Usually I don't care about warranties, but with a laptop I think I will have to be much more careful. Asus gives me a lot more confidence than HPs or Dells anyway.

    Toshiba or HP laptops.

    in Hardware Field

    Posted

    Thank you for your responses.

    I went to BestBuy to check out some other machines, and I found that, after all, a 14 inches screen laptop with 1280 * 800 of resolution was not as bad as I believed before (I was looking for machines with 15 inches screens and up only). And following your advice, I checked an Asus X83VB-X2, wich pretty much has everything I need, except for the HDD size, but that's fixable.

    I was taking a look for the Toshiba models as well, but I just couldn't stare at them for more than 5 seconds...those were some ugly ass machines!!!

    Its just that I have good memories from a Toshiba laptop that my Dad used to have years ago...

    And since I want what John C. Dvorak calls "instant gratification", then going online to order and waiting for the damn thing to arrive it's not my thing, that's why I have to go to local retailers, and for laptops Best Buy its much better than J&R or any other stores here in NYC.

    If you have any more insights, please let me know.

    Thank you again.

    Toshiba or HP laptops.

    in Hardware Field

    Posted

    Greetings everybody.

    I'm about to get a laptop because I dont have access to my main system since some months ago.

    I have two options, and I would like to ask for your recommendations about wich one to get, if possible.

    The uses, besides the tipical stuff (internet browsing, email, blah blah blah...), are going to include graphic design (so I can finally finish some designs I left behind in my main PC) on Fireworks and Photoshop, VMware jobs, maybe a couple of days of City Of Heroes, some Hulu.com HD watching, and other stuff that doesnt requiere too much computing power.

    Specs I dont care too much about are Battery Life, Weight, Dimension, OS (I use XP 32 bits and I will be testing Windows 7 as well), Video or Audio outputs and RAM (both have 3 or more GB).

    Specs I DO care about are CPU performace, GPU performance, Wireless Adapter and Screen Resolution.

    First Option:

    Toshiba Satellite A305-S6905

    Specifications

    Pros: (compared to the HP machine)

    Core 2 Duo CPU

    Wireless Draft N

    Harman/Kardon speakers

    Price

    Cons:

    Smaller Screen Size and Screen Resolution

    Slower GPU

    Second Option:

    Hp Pavillion dv7-1245dx

    Specifications

    Pros: (compared to the Toshiba machine)

    Bigger screen size, therefore better resolution

    Somewhat better GPU

    Cons:

    Higher price (a difference of $70)

    CPU???

    Wireless adapter not being Draft N (does it matter at all??)

    Now, I have some doubts, how faster Core 2 Duo is compared to AMD's Turion X2 (for those specific models, T6400 and RM-72)?

    Is there going to be any rendering problems for City Of Heroes, by example, if I use Intel's lower end GPU?

    Thank you in advance for all the insights you can provide, I really have to update all my software to the lastest versions, update my automated installers and more importantly, finish my folder designs.

    Thank you again.

    [SVCPACK] VMware Workstation Lite 6.5.3 build-185404

    in SVCPACK Addons

    Posted

    Thanks yoz, I hope its faster than the last (I have major speed issues running it with only 1 GB of RAM)

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    Does anybody think that superfetch (in Vista) can help?

    [Close]

    Thank you for the upcoming update in advance.

    And according to the last edition of Maximum PC, yes, Superfetch will eventually help you to speed things up 10 or 20 per cent faster, depending on the size of the software title.

    (Taken from Maximum PC, Holiday Edition, page 26)

    [Release] V'ISO b8.2.2 (Last)

    in Windows Customization

    Posted · Edited by Rhor

    i certainly hope, that somebody will find it useful...

    md5: 66BD399848EA279BF8CCB3E8A8A2A418

    Useful???, damn, this will come in handy for SO many reasons. Exactly what I was trying to accomplish, but I was too lazy to complete it, hehe.

    Thank you amnesia for the effort. Will test it right away and report back.

    EDIT: It worked very well, except for the bootscreen and iexplore.exe as far as I can see, I will do further tests to see if it's the script or something I doin wrong.

    [Closed] XPtsp General discusions

    in XP Theme Source Patcher

    Posted

    Name is appropiate, but Ricktendo said that you can keep the name of V'ISO, and since users already know about the patcher by that name I think it would be better to just keep it.

    Once all the new resources are located in one place I will start to test them, otherwise searching page by page was crazy, lol.

    Keep it up.

    [Release] V'ISO b8.2.2 (Last)

    in Windows Customization

    Posted

    Hehehehe, that was quite a reading....I have to thank you for that, It will come so handy in my job....until now I ignored so much about Brooklyn, but now everytime a guest in the hotel calls the concierge to ask a question about it, I finally will be able to answer, jojo!!!

    Thank you amnesia.

    [Release] V'ISO b8.2.2 (Last)

    in Windows Customization

    Posted

    2 Rhor

    just my 2 cents... why would U use IE7 anyway... have U tried Opera? "...fastest and most powerful Web browser available and make the most of your time online..."

    i used it ages and lovin it... secure, totally customizable with scripts and skins. no need to install or integrate.

    let say i've reinstall-refresh my system, i just start opera.exe and back to life with all the stuff i've set before

    with around 8 MB

    http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=31...ue⊂=true

    Thank you for the recommendation amnesia. The problem is that I use Maxthon for everything, that's why I need IE7 installed and updated.

    I haven't tried Opera in ages, but since you are telling me, I will download it and see how it goes.

    Thank you.

    [Release] V'ISO b8.2.2 (Last)

    in Windows Customization

    Posted · Edited by Rhor

    I don't know if this happen only in my configuration, since I don't see any other comments about it, but this new IE7 update "KB950759", places the file "iexplore.exe" on the i386 folder, so it's not being patched by V'ISO. I use "OnePiece_IE7AddOn_2.1.1_ENU" to include IE7 on my XP disc.

    I have to manually modify the resources after V'ISO is applied.

    It didn't work, I dont know what other file to modify to get iexplore.exe the way I had before the update.

    I just wanted to let you know that.

    Update: "ieframe.dll" is not being patched as well.

    Update 2: Problem was solved by updating OnePiece_IE7AddOn_2.1.1_ENU with the files that KB950759 changes.

    [Release] V'ISO b8.2.2 (Last)

    in Windows Customization

    Posted

    what is (part of OOBE) i dragdrop to desktop but not veiw

    If you extract V'ISO to an empty folder using WinRAR, you will see that there's a folder called "Extra", inside you will find 3 jpeg files, newmark1, newmark8 and wpaback, you can edit those images or put new ones using the same filenames as the original files. About changing the text I could not say.

    [Release] V'ISO b8.2.2 (Last)

    in Windows Customization

    Posted · Edited by Rhor

    To Mr. amnesia:

    I see that "wuaucpl.cpl.mui.res" is not part of V'ISO itself, at least not in the 8.2.1 version (at least not in mine, hehe), now, it is completely necessary to include that file patched (located on the I386 folder) for "wuaucpl.cpl" to work without problems?, or am I being just ignorant?

    To Miss mona:

    Based on what I understood, and what I can actually remember:

    My Computer icon on "shell32.dll", Icon -> 16.

    Zip icon on "zipfldr.dll", Icon -> 101 and 123.

    CMD icon on "shell32.dll", Icon -> 153

    You can change the RAR icon normally when you have WinRAR already installed, but I got it changed before adding a tweak to register that specific extension on my XP Disc.

    ; RAR File

    ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.RAR]

    @="RARfile"

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\RARfile]

    "EditFlags"=dword:00000000

    "BrowserFlags"=dword:00000008

    @="WinRAR Compressed Archive"

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\RARfile\DefaultIcon]

    @="C:\\WINDOWS\\Path\\RAR File.ico,0"

    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\RARfile\shell]

    @=""

    "C:\\WINDOWS\\Path\\RAR File.ico,0" being the actual path of the icon used.

    The texts you want to change from "Vista" to XP Pro are located on the "Extras" folder (part of OOBE), but I ignore how to change that since I haven't seen a Welcome Screen in ages.

    I hope it helps in some way.

    [Release] V'ISO b8.2.2 (Last)

    in Windows Customization

    Posted

    2 winxp

    U'll get a great deal of satisfaction by doing it yourself...

    just open .res file and original file in let say Restorator. Go to Edit Mode (F6). click on any dialog (original).

    copy text to a dialog in .res file. oh, and set Lang ID to French.

    The best recommendation so far. This thread could save a lot of posts if people would take the time to learn how to do some stuff like this.

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