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See, that's one thing I never understood... They are locking onto all kinds of stuff and making the whole process massively annoying. All they need is one factor --just one-- in each machine that doesn't change. Years ago I did some "install once" stuff for a software company selling POS...

LOL... I must be braver than you. I spent a whole mess of time with XP trying to figure out how much I could either disable or flat out remove before things started to go broke... If it's done right --and sometimes in the right order-- you'd be surprised how far you can cut it down. Haven't...

Well... there's always the hacksaw method... cut the required clearance out of a big heatsink... No Joke I've seen it done. It's ugly but it works.

You haven't lived until you see all the caps around the CPU exploded into little fuzzy balls... And don't even get me started about the smell.

I trust you're not planning to hook that power supply up to anything until you get it properly tested... Seriously, you could end up killing a perfectly good motherboard!

Go for the ASUS one... I've put several of the 24" Asus 1080p monitors into various situations lately and everyone likes them just fine. A few are using the monitor as their TV set, hooked up to HTPC systems. I also have one in my living room... It's a truly excellent monitor, never...

I suppose my big question is why not use the stock cooler? For most all but the most extreme overclocking, they generally work just fine.... The odds are the board was designed around the dimensions of stock coolers for the various CPUs supported by that board. If you are concerned about...

It could also be power supply. If the 5 volt suppy is flakey it will cause all kinds of screwball problems. Before you do anything else, get some voltage readings from the supply and see if they're OK... Know anybody that has a voltmeter and knows what to look for? If the voltages are...

Translation: "We're pooping our pants because our activation system is so easy to hack" I found the bit about "better protect customer's PCs by making sure that the integrity of key licensing components remains intact" to be quite hilarious... They're trying to spin a total lockdown of...

Oh I dunno Rob.... between haing my trip to the mall stored on some video server for a week and having my face plastered all over some world map forever... I'll take the video server. Think about the potential for planetary embarassment here... some guy shopping for his wife's birthday...

Now that is some extreme weirdness... a porno mouse.

Can you say "Massive invasion of privacy" boys and girls? Really... do I want these clowns walking through my apartment building lobby? Do I want them sneaking cameras into my office building? WOW... too much.

Here's my desktop du jour...

Most of that's probably the Windows Search service ... the "new" Indexing Service that everyone has hated since Win2000... It's easily disabled and there is no real consequence of disabling it, except for a little note in the Library saying "unresponsive"... Like with half the junk Microsoft...

In XP my choice was to use NLITE and the indexing service never hits the hard disk... You can't start it if it isn't there. I also know about the checbox thing and use it quite routinely when setting up new drives or doing formats. Doing that on a 4tb NAS is usually best right before lunch...

Y'know I just don't know what goes through some of these people's minds... Whoever designed that case didn't have the first clue about lighting or distractions in a home theatre environment... High intensity LEDS are for flashlights, not HTPC cases. But even with regular LEDs, it's still gonna...

I'm beginning to agree with you... shutting stuff down isn't solving this problem, even a little bit. I'm beginning to think I should go "VCR" on it and just put a piece of black tape over the LED. More realistically I may just end up putting XP back into it... Nothing annoys me more than a...

Ok... more information on this.... Watching Resource Monitor I see constant disk activity from SvcHost (Local Network Restricted)... it's constantly writing out two 0 byte files lastalive0.dat and lastalive1.dat Anybody know what that's about?

Rob gave me the Black Viper links and I have them dowloaded as guidance for the rest of this messy project. The indexing and search services are very easy to stop... Just go into services and select "Windows Search"... stop the service and set it to disabled. It won't run again until you...

Thanks Rob... In fact I hadn't found Black viper's site but will check it out as soon as I finish this. I have all those services disabled... and more. It's still beating this little laptop drive to death. Actually, You can totally disable the Task Scheduler with a simple registry hack...