Ahh, I see what your talking about, thenameipicked, yea time is definitely a factor especially if your at work.
Your waiting for the page to load, the boss comes around the corner, you can't do anything cause its loading.Then a pm pops up from here asking about a game or a program while your at work.
It could present a problem.
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I found the program I was talking about and they still don't have one for vista. It kick A@# for 98 and xp. I skipped ME. It's called cablenut from tweakxp.
Here's tweakxp's site, so people wanting to test can see it comes through a legite site though they weren't around in the W98 days.
http://www.tweakxp.com/article37124.aspx
heres the cablenut site.
http://www.cablenut.com/
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10062-108-78501.html?tag=upd
update here that adds it the registry to
http://www.broadbandnuts.com/files/CABLENUT_UPDATE....--EDIT-- please no direct download link---
I run xp in virtual pc, I'm gonna have to try it for old timm sakes. I remember it made a difference for broadband, but dialup. It was the difference between night and day. Any dial up users reading, I suggest trying it.
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