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[mad] Please can any one help me with this really irritating tyranny of programmers? How do I remove/edit unwanted commands in the pop-up dialogue when I right click on a file in explorer? For instance, after installing WinAmp, when I right-click on an mp3 file I now have 4 new options in...

UPDATE: I have now realized that it is not just taskmgr but any window that ocludes the Cool Edit Pro wave display window that causes a dramatic fall in CPU useage. Clearly the graphical display of the waveform eats up a big chunk of processing time. This is crazy as the actual function of the...

Can anyone help with this one please: When recording streaming audio via Realplayer using Cool Edit Pro 2.0 I get choppy sound with dropouts EXCEPT when Task Manager is open and the active window. If I minimize Taskmgr the CPU load shoots up from about 8% to 100% and I get choppy sound again...

Stretchey: Don't take offense, but they are blowing air out of the case not in, arn't they?

I thought I should let you all know: The ambient temp dropped today to 24C, as did the CPU, to 45C! During DIVX encoding at 100% CPU use, this maxed at 50.5C. The Case temp was 26C. I am well pleased. My interpretation is that above cetain ambient temperatures, and hence case temperature, the...

Thanx pbxman, I have special reasons for not wanting anything to autostart when I put a DVD in the drive. If I want to play the movie I use WinDVD, which I have configured not to autostart. I'll let you know if your registry fix works, but it makes sense.

I do delete it as the administrator. Yes, it actually does delete, but reinstalls itself, perhaps from a cab file as soon as a DVD is detected. Neither can I find dvdplay registered to autostart with any filetype.

Roger: If anything the fan speeds are fractionally higher, as the bearings have bedded in. I'm not sure what effect humidity has on convection. For the last month it has been consistantly high 70-90% average. I'm no physicist but my guess is that higher humidity increases the thermal efficiency...

How do I uninstall dvdplay.exe form W2K? It exists in the system folder but has no Start Menu shortcuts and does not appear in Windows add/remove programs. The damn thing starts whenever I put a DVD movie in the drive. I've tried deleting it directly, but it just keeps commong back!

Hi Nobrain, No, I've taken this into consideration. As I said in the original post it's mostly 27C, and for uniformity this is when I record the CPU & case temp. Sometimes RT is less and the CPU temp falls in proportion. The bottom line: for a given ambient temp the CPU is hotter than 4 weeks...

Thanx LoneAdmin, I feel reassured that someone else has experienced this- Kinda weird though. And Athlons are Just hot chips. Rubic

The only time my temp hits 55C is when rendering video: The CPU is flat out 100% and this is usually for several hours. I take your point about cats, Mistanapeis - we have 2 and there is usually fur in the front filter a few days after cleaning it. God knows where else it gets. Athlons can run...

I just put together an Athlon 2000 XP system. I tried to tackle the heat probs in Advance, i.e, Lian Li case, thermalright SK6 heatsink which I lapped, arctic silver III paste paper thin, round IDE cables. I even modded the case slightly as the rear case grill was slowing air flow (in my view...

I have followed the debate in this forum and others about the utility of shims (CPU spacers) with much interest. I would like to offer my opinion. I was almost seduced into getting a Tweakmonster Athlon CPU spacer, which are often cited for their quality and precise tolerences, but had a...