I tried resetting the admin password with the ‘locksmith’ utility in ERD but for whatever reason I couldn’t get it to work.  Back to Google – I tried to find a way to reset the admin password – and found plenty of tools to reset the account but none seemed to work.

At this point the system was booting fine so I didn’t care about getting into safe mode but I since I set the options in MSCONFIG (won’t do that again) I couldn’t get around them.  I tried running MSCONFIG when I booting using the ERD Commander boot disc but it didn’t work – I could get the app to run – but it wouldn’t save the changes.  Next I try running bootcfg from the command line – using this I can remove all options from the boot config except for /SAFEBOOT:MINIMAL – WTF?  So then I figure why not just edit the boot config by hand?  I don’t know why it took me so long to get to that point – I could have done that initially and saved myself a lot of time .  After booting using the ERD Commander CD – I went to the file explorer and navigated to the root (C:\) and changed the properties of boot.ini to writable (uncheck ‘Read-Only’).  I then edited to remove the /SAFEBOOT:MINIMAL switch, saved the file, and rebooted – back to Windows as normal.

All in all this was a pain in the ass (and a little embarrassing but I’m sharing it here so it wasn’t that bad).

pouet.net – online demoscene resource 

pouet.net Future Crew Page

scene.org  

Also worth checking out is this demoscene documentary on youtube.

Its fast – much faster to start than Firefox, Opera, or IE7 – and pages start loading quicker

As far as memory usage is concerned for 1 page (1 tab) Chrome uses less memory.  As you add tabs Chrome utilizes more memory per tab than Firefox, Opera, or IE7.  I assume this is a result of the tabs being contianed in their own process – for 7 tabs I had 10 Chrome processes running.  The overhead to create each process certainly contributes to the greater memory usage.  That said – as I use the other 3 browsers the memory usage creeps up significantly whereas Chrome’s memory usage creeps much more slowly.

Due to each tab running in its own independent process I was able to kill one of the processes without closing the other tabs.  I assume the same works when a process crashes due to a problem with a plugin, or some other error.  When the process does crash you’re tab will remain with the image below -

Chrome Error - Aw Snap!

I’m not sure how well flash is working – I’ve been to a couple of flash heavy sites that load with content missing but other sites have loaded flash content correctly.  I’m not sure if its flash related or something unrelated.  

There are very few plugins available for Chrome – even the Google toolbar isn’t available – but there are some and there does appear to be support for themes.  So far though its a nice piece of software – I’m not sure what it brings for the average user who gets similar or more functionality in IE or Firefox (or Opera).

Theres a link in the comic book to – www.google.com/chrome – that doesn’t appear to work right now but I assume it will on Tuesday.  Looks like the website might actually be – gears.google.com/chrome – although I don’t think it will be available until after a 2PM Eastern webcast from Google.

In searching for a place to download Chrome I stumbled on a post at zwadia.com – Assessing Google Chrome – that I found interesting.

Plus Comcast supports enhanced P2P.