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You’re in like Flint with me Fred. If Vista is functionally working well enough for you at the stripped down SP1 level, you obviously know enough to protect yourself quite well even without the software mentioned. The problem I always had was the Vista just didn’t make the grade functionally (10 of 12 systems did not survive long term) and it hasn’t been until SP2 that I could honestly say that I can actually do almost, if not everything that I want to on a Vista system and not get reminders of just how inconsistent and sub par it is.

Its with XP that I swing the other way, SP2 update and holding, because MS introduced Johnny Software DEP at that time and its been a bugaboo ever since for me. Even disabled it still causes some unexpected network share explorer crashes, sometimes even on different drives within the same system, and one of MS’s solutions to the problem is to have a popup window, kind of like an elementary UAC, that asks if I want to copy or move such and such file from that zone to another….NOT a solution, especially when I answer the same question 300 times a day on an updated system. Poppycock!

So again I guess functionality is king for me, and one way it means getting all the updates possible because it seems to help quite a bit and the other it means a pain in the neck because MS is trying to patch the patches to make an older OS as secure as a newer one, and more security does not equal more functionality. In fact they run diametric to one another.

Its not for everyone though, many people need all the restrictions and protections that a modern OS can throw at them and even that’s no where near enough…that’s who needs’em.

Well its a puzzle no longer, I’m in the external share on that problem system like its mine…which it is of course. I started at decimal setting of 18 and it seemed to have no effect and I changed it to 21 and it didn’t work but then I had the notion to reboot after each setting change and 21 then worked just fine so I may go back and try 18 again but maybe not if I don’t notice any other possible side effects.

Thanks for all the assistance.

Is there a place in the thread for the thread starter to mark it as solved so one can see its “case closed” without entering the thread itself to find out?

Here’s an even easier way and safe because if the temp files are in use they just won’t delete.

Click Start then Run (Windows key and R) and type %temp% into the open box and click ok. That will bring up all the temp folders in an explorer window for the user. Select all and delete.
If one or more do not delete you’ll have to work around them since they are in use.

Is the DSL modem also a router or is it strictly a modem? My only thought was that if it is also a router and DHCP wasn’t disabled or assigned solely as the Linksys router gateway, there might be a mixture of incidences when the Internet fails that cause the modem’s DHCP to become predominate, leaving the network high and dry.

If its just a modem, never mind.

After defragging, if D is to the right of C in Disk Management, be sure to move the data on D further out and create the unallocated space you want to use to expand C into right next to the end of the C partition.

In other words, do not create unallocated space on the right side of D because you won’t be able to add that to the end of C.

The only way to get a mobo to recognize more memory as far as I know is if the hardware supports it and a BIOS update addressing the RAM capacity is available.

From experience though, I’m 90% sure more RAM wouldn’t help your conversion speeds unless you also have something else running that takes up an inordinate amount of memory at the same time, say a virtual OS with a gig or more assigned to it for instance. If not, there is more than enough time and space for data blocks to exchange with the hard drive and be ready in 2 gigs of RAM before the processor (most likely the bottleneck) can ever possibly get that much media data converted, and that would be especially true on an older laptop since even if the processor could keep up, then you’d probably take a hit in bus speed transfers or somewhere else which would become the next limiting factor to utilizing more RAM. If the hard drive I/O was really slow that might also be a problem but again it would be a hard drive I/O problem, not a problem with RAM.

As proof, I have several systems duo and quad with 3 and 4 gigs of RAM and they never get above about 1.6 gigs of RAM utilization during conversions unless I’m doing other stuff at the same time, then I’ve seen it as high as 2.3. In other words, in every case I’ve seen, RAM is never fully utilized yet the processor is buried. So logically its almost always the processor that is the limiting factor, and again from experience I know that what it takes my X2-6000 about 2 hours to do will only take about 1:15 (changed from 40 minutes–its about 40% faster, not aproximately 65-70% faster in my case) minutes on my Q6600, same amount of RAM on both, and the i7 processors put the quad cores to shame from what I read.

Windows 7 does come with both 32 and 64-bit versions on seperate DVDs. There’s a chance that might actually slow conversions down just a bit because its been my experience that there is more processor management by newer OSs so even if you go into the processes and set the conversion program to real-time and full affinity, Vista and Windows 7 systems, especially on Intel systems, limit processor allocation more than XP does. That’s better for multi-tasking of course since there is more overhead for other tasks but if you’re not using the system for anything else its kind of frustrating not beind able to make the processors go 100% just on the conversion.

That is a different KB article than the one I got to with a search on the error message and it applied more strictly to Windows NT so that’s where the 1-12 decimal came from. This gives me new hope, I’ll try it out when I get a chance and report on the results.

The downloader jumps in when a external storage device is plugged in, like a camera flash drive or external drive–offers to pull all the media off and put it on an internal drive. It definitely does not have to be running all the time. Don’t know about the shell.

If one lets Picasa manage the photo database its photo downloader is much perfered because it will keep a database and already know what photos on a flash card have already been copied over, so one doesn’t end up with multiple copies of the same photo if they aren’t wiped off the card each time they’re downloaded.

Check oot something like http://vixy.net/ or http://www.catchyoutube.com/ or maybe http://www.convertmytube.com/.

That was the KB article I was referencing earlier and I did add the IRPStackSize and set it to a decimal value of 12 and rebooted and reset the shares, subsequently losing the ability to connect to the two internal drive shares as well as the external one.

The article indicated the decimal value range to set was between 1 and 12. Maybe I should have set it to some other value? I subsequently removed the entry so the internal shares would work again.

Mapped NAS drive is Z, Iomega drive was I by default, changed to S now with same results.

Besides the typical ‘you may not have permission’ and ‘contact the admin,’ the error message also says ‘Not enough server storage is available to process this command.’ I don’t remember seeing that before and it may be the problem but its too cryptic for me to understand what it really means.

I’m onto a KB article now that seems to indicate I need to modify a registry parameter so maybe I’ll get somewhere with that.

…well, I succeeded…in knocking my internal shares offline as well now. Two of them give the server storage error and the other internal returns path not found error. I also noticed that under Tools>Folder Options>View tab, that the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) entry is missing on the computer that I’m having trouble connecting with.