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Good old winxp beta days :)

but back then i had a different account (No i was not banned) i just had to take a online hiatus for a while and i forgot my logon details :(

so i had to make up a new one, still cant remember those details. annoys me when I think of it, a ~1000 posts i dont have credit for grrr.

My brother started Neowin and I have finally registered an account. Hoping to use it to advertise Cavendish Communications structured cabling services to all you IT professionals out there.

Please have a look at www.cavcabling.com if you require any structured cabling in the future and contact Simon Parker.

My brother started Neowin and I have finally registered an account. Hoping to use it to advertise Cavendish Communications structured cabling services to all you IT professionals out there.

Please have a look at www.cavcabling.com if you require any structured cabling in the future and contact Simon Parker.

This is true :p

I came here looking for information on Windows XP, lurked for a while and finally registered...

My brother started Neowin and I have finally registered an account. Hoping to use it to advertise Cavendish Communications structured cabling services to all you IT professionals out there.

Please have a look at www.cavcabling.com if you require any structured cabling in the future and contact Simon Parker.

Welcome! Now you can help us keep Steve in line! :rofl: Just kiddin, Neobond.

I cant remember the actual reason, but I came here linked from iexbeta looking for download links of the beta of IE5 i think it was. Back then the rules were very lax so links to the betas were put on the front page all the time. I remember my first post being in the desktop thread thou.

I've been coming to neowin for tech news for sooo long I don't even know how I found it or why I registered. I do know I've seen at least 3 major site revisions since I started coming here. I used have a set of 4 sites that'd open when I opened my browser, Neowin is the only one that is still in that list, the other 3 either closed down or became total crap.

I also don't think this is my original account, I had one here under rstat1, but forgot the PW and no longer had the email address I used to register it.

Anyone here remember xBeta.net?

Came over from Overclockers.com, not sure why I signed up here, but it was something to do with the early Longhorn days, but I do remember coming to Neowin just before XP was released, just didn't bother signing up until Overclockers.com died down a bit.

found it years ago.. this was THE SITE that gave the latest news on the windows and such....

i believe i found very soon after the sites original creation :)

stayed here for a long time, loved the theme's for XP... and the forums...

stopped visiting, after i realized i have almost 4000 posts, and i am wasting time here.

now i drop by once in a while... since it is still a great news source.. not as rouge as it used to be, but it is all for the better.

ps. interesting to see the same people i used to remember, still active and posting... so many years after :D

you know who you are - you have more the 20k posts now

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I had an issue with wmplayer.exe running all the time (process) in the background I googled it it brought me to this forum. Someone had the same issue with Vista SP1 (I have XP Pro SP3) I figured out what was causing it during reading the post. I Registered to this forum so I can help the person with the same problem.

I have very advanced computer skills that involve security, & virus, malware, malicious programs, and trojan annalist & removal.

Also customizing of Windows, tweaking, also troubleshooting.

I figured hell I could help others also problems I have someone can help me then I can help others.

Plus I have my own Windows forum which no one goes to lol.

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I have been browsing and reading this site since the beginning to be honest. I simply never signed up for an account because I was never big on forum usage. Over the years I've changed and I was reading like usual and decided hell with it let me sign up for an account. I actually had issues with NeoWin while at work before the upgrade and such where pages took forever to load and the register page never would load (I tried a couple times). Thankfully that problem was resolved recently and I then signed up for an account. A few days after registering I thought for all the great free information I've read about over the years, I felt moved to become a subscriber and I don't regret it! :cool:

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