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Great opening, Love the assortment of Doctor Who monsters. After the Master says ‘Is a Doctor…’ I think a fade out there, blackness for a moment or two and then the music start would flow better. Love the clips from episodes spanning series two and three, some bloody good episodes there. The transitions were good, loving how you split some apart to flick from one scene to another, and then back to the first (ex, the horse following the Doctor) and the close ups on the various characters near the end built up well with the music. All in all, a good video. =]

Wheres the music from?

Hey, more offtopicness.

You may have heard of the hack to allow users to install Service Pack 3 on XP.
The ‘hack’ is actually just a registry addition that tells the windows update server that you are allowed access to download sp3. Its actually identical to the ones that were given to official testers, and so there is no danger in using it.

I’ve installed it.

A very unexpected, and very happy, side effect of the pack is a noticeable performance increase. Although the first bootup is pretty slow, after a second restart, things react somewhat more smoothly and more responsively than before.

I loves it.

The only problem I have with it, is that is prevents the uxtheme.dll patcher from working, and therefore you can’t use unsigned non-Microsoft themes. But to most, that won’t matter.

Windows XP SP3 Through Windows Update

Try it out, if you like.

But, be forewarned. Even though I experienced no problems, but some may. I recommend this to people not afraid of XP reinstallations if things somehow go wrong.

Loving that, Alan. Nice juxtaposition of music and clips too Good to see that something you picked up at uni still comes in useful!

I’m lazy – have you got a direct link to the previous version?