[Xanex]

The way to remove codecs belive it or not is via, wait for it, device manager, yes the system tool used to show conflicts with drivers and manually install drivers. If you look under sound video and game controllers, there is a section "video codecs".

when i sad winzip i gave it as an example as a program that typically gives a shell extension to explorer by adding the "add to zip" "add to zip and email" etc extentions. adding the shell extension is the easy simple thing for the programmer, i doubt they got that wrong, controlling them which MS does is the problem, which causes the crash bug. its not only the "other" program makers, yes even sp1 screwed up many programs, but its the lack of testing done by microsoft that keeps me in work.

believe me when i say DEP is a huge system hog, esp on upgraded systems where it trys to protect everything. unlike a clean install where it can single out upon installation of other programs that which it wants to protect and those which it doesn't. anything which is done software over hardware is going to be slower since its the hardware driving a software emulation of hardware. general use/downloading/uploading you will not notice the difference, simply because it only requires a certain ammount of cpu to do these things, and the minimum requirements for doing these things are so low the impact on system resources is tiny. you WILL notice a difference, for now untill every program is updated to work with sp2 correctly, when doing more stressfull things, like image manipulation and games where ram is used like cookies in a school, its eaten.

i have set up identical systems and clean installed xp sp1 and sp2 on each test machine side by side, on average the sp2 machine was 7%-12% slower on all benchmarks i ran and as much as 22% slower on a cloned upgraded machine that was 2 years worth of usage on the hdd, programs etc


Addtional: DMO WMVideo 9 Decoder DMO ** Codec not registered

looks suspect for a MS codec not to be registerd

also how did you get indeo codecs on there, they are not included with the service packs, infact microsoft/indeo removed those codecs from the base install of xp when sp1 came out due to licencing issues, since you said the only codecs you installed was divx and the ones that came with the service packs im puzzled