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Or someone will release an unofficial service pack like it was done for 9x

http://www.htasoft.com/u98sesp/ (that one I didn't know about)
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Unofficial-Windows-SE-Service-Pack-a_program_16791.html (that's what I use on my old 486 vintage box)

http://www.freewarefiles.com/ is also a solid site. I have had some exchanges with the site owners before and they seem to be reputable. They run ads, but other than that there is no funny business. The site has been around for quite a while.

Either your just trolling or you really mean what you say in that post

The solutions that I provided are just as worthless as the excuses that an incompetent Internet service provider might give. Devil's advocacy is a common exercise of brainstorming to find counter-arguments so that their refutations can strengthen your argument. If it's looked down upon to consider how opponents are likely to reply, how can any argument be made strong?

True

Homemade as in I took it with my own camera, or is a freinds picture, or I made it myself

Copyright in your own photograph of a sculpture made since 1923 belongs to the sculptor, not you.

Not sure about that one, but if I take a picture of the sky, or make something entirely new with ms paint or something or another, that'd be mine...

homemade [movie], as in I made it, I own it

If a homemade movie can be shown to be a homemade derivative work of something else that you did not make, you don't in fact own copyright in the homemade movie. For example, a video of your child dancing to copyrighted music isn't yours unless you dub in different music. See Derivative work.

What if there is no music? lol and fair use would probably preside there as long as you're not selling it or publically displaying it for everyone to see. But say I make a video of myself mowing my lawn, that'd be mine, lol.

Homemade [music] you know what that means right?

It means you made a homemade recording of some song, but you can't necessarily prove that someone else didn't write the song first.

Neither can they, if you wanna play that game.

but back to what I was talking about, are in fact games that are free not stolen

Can you show me some examples of these free, not-stolen games? Several popular PC games released as free software infringe at least one copyright or patent. For example, StepMania 3.9 includes music and graphics ripped from Konami's DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6th Mix, and Konami has taken a StepMania licensee to court (Konami v. Roxor) over essential patents on dance video games.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=yahoo+games&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g-e1g9

http://games.yahoo.com/all-games

Um there's free software around

Any free software that can, for example, encode MP3 audio violates U.S. patents because Thomson has never licensed the MP3 patents in a way consistent with the free software definition.

I'm pretty sure encoding is fine, its decoders that you have to pay for, but I can't exactly remember off hand.

ogg
xvid
pidgin
maybe something here "Free Downloads of over 14000 free software programs."

So what happens when I get sent so many packets that I either can't send and/or recieve them fast enough therefore causing me to lag, what then?

You don't request as many packets from the servers. Most video games that I know of don't use a lot of packets; instead, like VoIP, they use fewer packets but expect them to arrive quickly.

Quickly as in speed, if they cut that down then it's not gonna work very well, like I said I don't want to be stuck doing 1 thing at a time, I might be grabbing a game, up

http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_208_21882.html-Here you go.It took me about thirty minutes to build my own custom fully patched unattended XP cd for my gamer rig with this.It even let me get rid of that awful Fisher Price theme for the much nicer Crystal XP.Here is the link if you want to try.I use and recommend the one on the bottom---http://www.crystalxp.net/bricopack/

For the "cool thumbnails on minimized windows"-http://www.visualtasktips.com/

For the "cool see-through windows"-http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtm l

For the "cool black layout and start menu"http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_2_219_18 733.html and http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20903764/?qo=2 3&q=visual+styles+in%3Acustomization%2Fskins%2Fwin dows%2Fvisualstyle+boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h +age_scale%3A5

After trying both Vista and my little mashed up XP version I think I'll stick with XP.At least I won't have to throw out my year old laptop and I still get all the pretty without the piggy parts.The only thing I wanted Vista for(WinFS)is gone and I got the pretty parts that I liked in XP.So unless the can come up with the "killer feature" that just can't be done in XP I'll stick with XP on my laptop and old reliable Win2K pro on my workstation.

Or you can use this free program.

Sure you can! "Bad Joss Taipan!"