Recent content by Kev06n

yeah it is the hack that has done it but I was hoping for the best of both worlds!! I thought maybe it was because explorer had been re-named that autorun was'nt launching through it, like I said I've googled it but could'nt find anything in the reg that tells autoruns to use explorer...

Forgot to mention I have also used Tweak UI to enable autorun on all drives but this does'nt help! Also used gpedit.msc and disabled the turn off autoplay in computer config and user config - admin templates > system!

Hey, howz it goin people? I recently customised my start button as described here: Windows Hack: Change The Windows Start Button Text | Samanathon.com After doing this none of the autorun.inf files are working! I have googled this and found a few reg values to check but they all seem to be...

Hey, I've finally got round to installing fedora! I have got it up and running but did not overwrite the windows bootloader! I am now using the BIOS to switch between OS's which I personally dont mind as I have read a few pages that imply that grub can sometimes mess up the windows bootloader...

Thanks again people, very helpful!!:D Kev

Hey still not done it yet!! Can do with clearing a few things up!! GHOSTMAN Nah, its split roughly 50/50, I do have around 60 free on C:\ but jus thought it'd be easier to bang in another drive than to go partitioning more!! By the way I know this is the windows section of the forum but is...

Cheers for all the info guys, much appreciated!! I think I'm gonna try the extra drive so I can remove it if it all goes Pete Tong! Anyways I'm off to study up on the installation info before I do anything!! Thanks again, Kev.

I have a 250Gb HDD which is already partitioned XP is on C:\ and I have used most of the space on D:\ for storage there's about 20gb left on it. I have read a couple of posts talking about messing with the MBR when its between 2 seperate HDD's is it the same case when they are on partitions...

Hi people, I am thinking about adding another hard drive to run Linux on, Should this be added as a slave on the same cable or should I connect to other IDE port as master?:confused: I am new to the concept of multi OS's how does this work at boot? Thanks for any info! Kev.