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Photo of my new pagefile.

Yeah bwoiee.
I have no idea what possessed me to do this, but I bought a 300x CF card and a CF-to-IDE adaptor to use it with, then I set it to be my Z: drive and put a 1.8GB pagefile on it. I figured it would benefit from the virtually-nonexistent random seek times that FLASH [...]

OK, so how should I do my RAM on a 32-bit system?

Haven’t built my new computer yet, going to use Vista Business 32 bit. It’s the only version I could get from the Academic Alliance. I know I only get a max of 4gb, or is it it 3.1gb? Or what is it really?
The video card memory counts against the 4gb, right? So if I [...]

New monitor looks like shit…

Acer AL1916 LCD 19"…
I installed the driver and everything.. Text is all fuzzy and distorted looking. I know its the monitor because I just switched from an old CRT 17" Dell. Help please!

EDIT: nevermind folks.. i should of restared my comp before posting (dur dur dur).. thanks anyway !Is it a DVI monitor, by [...]

Got a computer that is giving blue screens occasionally.

I installed a program that does something like what vista does with it’s gui ALT-TAB. Computer started bluescreening right away. Did a repair and it slowed down but didn’t stop. (once a month)
Thinking about doing a repair but really don’t want to. I know you guys are going [...]

VoIP handset needed

I’m looking for a VoIP handset (not headset, I want something that looks similar to a phone) that when plugged into the computer functions as a separate audio device. It must function as a seperate audio device without skype installed or other non driver software installed…
My work just provided me with a Cisco IP [...]

anyone try installing osx on a lenovo?

I’ve been searching around for some good guides to try installing osx86 onto my lenovo t61p. just trying it out to mess around. has anyone tried it out? any tips?None whatsoever.
I’d be surprised if you’d ever get it working, considering Apple tightly restricts driver development so that only Apple hardware can work [...]

stop 0×00000024 ntfs.sys

so it seems that my ntfs.sys on my boot disk is corrupted.
i’m running winxp.
searching google, everything seems to indicate that i need to figure out a way to boot from another disk, remove the ntfs.sys and run chkdsk on the corrupted disk.
however, what they fail to mention is how to avoid the bsod that [...]

Noob here. I can’t figure out how to get smooth scrolling.

I’m using a Toshiba A75-S209 and when I scroll down a page in my web browser with the mouse wheel, it’s really choppy. How do I change it to make it smooth scrolling?
I’ve had this machine reformatted in the past, and when I look in the Display options, Settings tab, Advanced, Adapter tab, there [...]

what is the best way to save drivers on a system before a format and reinstall?

i have a winxp computer that i’m going to format and reinstall windows for a friend. i’d like to save him the hassle of getting drivers for his camera, printer etc
i thought all the drivers were in the system32 folder. i remember saving this from a system i worked on in the past [...]

I just reinstalled windows xp just to find out i have less space

My laptop has a 60gig hardrive (52 in ntfs terms). So I decided to reinstall XP, thus deleting everything because my laptop’s performance was shitty at best. I was getting highly variable fps on old games.
So anyways, everything went fine, but now I just realized my computer has 36 gigs of free space. Where did [...]