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Never mind, I do know where that is! I had an old shortcut to Folder Options from Control Panel back in XP. And that had the Views, etc. options.

I'm sorry, I don't know where that option is.

No, not quite what I'm looking for. More in line with what Cynthia showed.

No, but, if Vista does have that, 1.) it suffices and 2.) ain't present in my setup. So, Cynthia, tell me how I can get it.

I should have been a bit clearer. I'm not talking about user created Toolbars but the Toolbars that used to be attached to Windows Explorer. Contained the Copy and Move commands, along with others.

I would highly recommend not switching to the Gold version, then. Back with ME, I tried a beta or release candidate, forget which, and I liked what it had on display. Imagine my surprise when the Gold version was as bad as it was.

Well, the best way I can answer that is by saying, yes, it is. Vista was released not ready for prime time and bundled with DRM schemes that just made it more difficult for those playing by the rules. The biggest Vista killer, though, is how it appears that Microsoft intentionally designed it to make the user have to do more steps than in XP to get the same task accomplished. For instance, gone are the toolbars. Gone are things like Move for a file. Did you know there's not even a rename function for tasks in Task Scheduler? You must delete the existing task, import the XML file, and give it a new name. Vista randomly assigns Views to folders so you never know what exact View you're going to get when you revisit a folder. There's not even an apparent way to assign all folders the same view as there was in XP, a real time saver.

Actually, another bug makes most of this irrelevant. If the screen saver stays on too long if the option to show the log on screen is set, all you get is a black screen. You have to power off.

Looks like it. Couldn't find such an entry by searching for it, oddly enough. Had to manually find it.

Is there anyway to automate setting which screen saver, setting it on, and setting how long to wait before the screen saver activates? I need something, if it exists, because of a latest bug in Vista. SP 1 fixed the problem of the Desktop/Theme randomly being changed, but, post SP 1, a Vista update broke it again. So, every time I restart, the Desktop/Theme is changed, along with the screen saver. Now, of course, in their fucking brilliance, Microsoft makes it so this error changes the screen saver, but the screen saver is not included as part of the Theme information.

I need an application that will play VOB files directly. Any recommendations? Thanks!

Good to have someone on my side.

I admit I didn't look. CHEEKY! NORMALLY, I don't have luck doing searches for answers related to questions I have about PC processes, etc. So, it never even occurred to me to try.

I was wondering. When I run ImgBurn, I have to give ZoneAlarm an okay for it to call CSRSS because I have it set to let me know such things behind the scenes. I was curious what this call was for, or maybe a better question, what CSRSS is? Thanks!

Well, I can't even find the media yet so it's just academic at this point. Eying the future.

Is there an NEC drive that supports DVD-R and +R DL rewritable discs that they can recommend? Thanks!

Anyone know where I can get either 6x DVD-RW or 8x DVD+RW discs online from the USA? I got my 6x and 8x media from Newegg, I think, but they don't have any right now. Thanks!

Who? Lord President Barusa I bet!

Fridays sure are getting interesting on Sci-Fi. Battlestar Galactica, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Doctor Who.

Can think of one time where I used DVD-R DL for a movie. When trying to create a movie where The End Of The World came up. Burned it to DVD-R DL because the layer break was fixed.

That's something else I wondered about. What the padding was used for. Because I seem to recall one of the things with DVD+R DL was you had to write data to the unused areas of the disc, e.g. burn all available space, for reflectivity reasons.

Is DVD+R DL or DVD-R DL more compatible over the other versus whether a DVD player will play them? For instance, I've been a fan of the DVD- crowd because it appeared to be more compatible with players. In terms of the layer break, it seems to me the DVD+R DL is preferred over DVD-R DL because there is control over where the layer break can go. Especially for movie discs, this can come into play because a DVD-R DL would, in theory, put the layer break in a different area.

Since there is not setting of a layer break by ImgBurn for DVD-R DL, it made me wonder. I've just had my first experience trying out DVD-R DL discs. So, how does the layer switching work on DVD-R DL? Is it physically set in the disc and ImgBurn/whatever just burns to X sector, encounters the layer break, and writes any additional data left over to Layer 1? Which would mean that the layer break would be "randomly" inserted into the video stream because you never know when you'll encounter it physically?

For a while, the PS 2 was my only DVD player, too. That was one of the main selling points why I got one. I didn't have a DVD player, it played the old games as well as the new games, and still played CD's. (My Playstation 1 was my first CD player ever, believe it or not.) I was one of those who pre-ordered early and got mine when everyone was selling theirs on eBay. I should have probably done the same but decided I'd rather keep it and be able to say I have what everyone else wants.

CHEEKY! Besides, I tend to avoid LG drives as LG has jokingly been referred to as Lucky Good for you if the drive works right. I had a few rebadged LG drives that were fine except for Playstation 2 DVD playback. Random skips that other drives didn't produce. Of course, I can't really blame the drive as the Playstation 2 is a really lousy DVD player when it comes to writable discs.