More Ad-aware [View all] Hi all. I know there has been a lot of discussion about Ad-aware and false positives, but now I have another item to add. I just downloaded a "new" ve
Windoze XP - compatibility question [View all] I know Windows XP and 2K are very bad for compatibility with hardware. For example, not one piece of hardware on my computer would work with it, incl
Iwill XP-333R USB problem [View all] I got rid of my faulty ABIT KR7A & got the Iwill XP-333R MOBO, it seems ok but is having problems with detecting my USB mouse on boot, I have to unplu
OT - Traction/Physical Therapy question [View all] I had my first session with my new physical therapist this morning, and i found out a lot of interesting things. First off, it looks like i'll be pret
unformatted formatted disk [View all] Hello all,
I am a student at my local University. I was working on a project in MSWord from my Gateway computer at home (I am running ME). I made th
Have imaged XP, how do I restore it??? [View all] I have XP Pro Ghoste-ed on another drive, and need to resotre the image. How do I do this? I know what I do with 98se. I reformat the partition, then
A decent hand-held pocket computer [View all] I'm looking for a pocket computer. I work for the cable company, and we keep record of everything by addresses and account numbers. I would like t
Odd lock-ups [View all] I have been having an enormous amount of trouble these days, recenlty i formatted the hard drive and reinstalled WIN ME. My computer isn't the same an
MSN Messenger Status [View all] ok, pointless many of you may ask, but i'll still ask in case...
I use MSN messenger a lot but am bored with the options of "my status", e.g. 'on the
RoadRunner/Linksys Router setup ... [View all] Well RoadRunner finally made it to me, but I can't get my Linksys Router to agree with it.
I have NOT run the software since I really don't want to pl
BIOS Savior [View all] One of best gadgets I have found, this could save you serious cash & no nail biting with BIOS updates! basically you use the supplied chip puller too
Giant Paper Weight [View all] About 2 years ago I built a P3 450 (slot 1) machine with a ASUS P3B motherboard. Around January of this year the computer sporadically started to not
"Refresh Rate" Option Still MIA [View all] Hi again.
Wow, being away for a bit sure seems like an eternity with all the activity going on here.
OK, I still need to resolve my refresh rate pr
OT: What percentage of spam is porn? [View all] I seem to get a lot of spam. Probably 10% or 15% is advertisements for porn sites. Is that a normal ratio? A lot of the others seem to be for Viagr
My Briefcase question [View all] Here's a weird one. I noticed on my desktop today that the icon for My Briefcase has somehow changed to the same icon that is on RealPlayer, RealJuke
Direct Cable connect between two Macs [View all] Hello.
My neighbor recently bought a new iMac, to replace his older one at home. He's wanting to hook the new one to the old one and transfer some f
UD ??????? [View all] i've tried to allocate more storage space in 'device profiles' and it just does not work. i want to go from 1gig up to 6gigs and the page says that is
OT - How do you keep birds out of porch? [View all] Hi all,
Last spring, just after I moved into my new house, swallows kept trying to build a nest in the eaves of my back porch. I kept spraying it do
Blue screen of death [View all] I have a :
Pentium 2 400 mhz, 256 ram, 13 gb harddrive, Abit BX6 mobo, ATI All in wonder (8mb), Creative DVD & decoder card, HP 4X burner, Win 98 OS.
DNS error [View all] Sir
I have recently started getting DNS error-cant find the server whenever i try to view (offline/history/fav orites)internet pages stored in my Pc,I
Installed ad-aware, and deleted 169 files [View all] I downloaded Ad Aware and ran a scan and was told I had 169 files relating to some sort of spyware. I deleted all but three ( which said I could not d
.nfo and .diz files [View all] Last week a friend was showing me a program they had gotten from some website. The folder included a .nfo and a .diz file. By reading them, I have a g
No Game Sounds [View all] :-)
I just finished a new unit; AMD TBird 1.3Gz, 512 DDRRAM, Soyo Dragon SY-K7V with RAID mainboard, with onboard sound. Running Win2000Pro.
Everyth i
Batch files [View all] Hi
I have a win2k machine.
I'm a user of ICQ 2002 and ICQ plus and MSN Messenger and MSN plus.
I'm trying to cut my boot time down as much as I can