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Posts tagged XP pro

Two XP choices on startup – only one installed

Ok, its now my turn to be called a noob and a dumbass, because I have a stupid problem I cant google.
I just got a laptop, dell 5100 from the parents. its an old 2.4ghz unit that needs a reinstall of windows. I reinstalled XP pro, everything went smoothly. Then when I restarted the dell, [...]

Need help with remote desktop on same network

We have a new employee and the owner wants me to be able to watch him to make sure he isn’t goofing off. We are on the same network and I just need to be able to see his screen. Is there a freeware program out there that will help with this? [...]

Anyone know what happened here?

I left my computer downloading several files via utorrent last night. They all completed fine. I also had an essay loaded via networking off my laptop, and then later closed the laptop without closing the essay.
Woke up this morning, and every five minutes or so the desktop was bleeping at me (error sound). I checked, [...]

Does anyone actually LIKE Windows Vista?

I can’t see any positives.. I recently (yesterday) got a new laptop from HP. Its a beast compared to my old computer, yet I really don’t feel like I’ve made an improvement in performance.
My old computer had Windows XP and Ubuntu Fiesty installed
2.8 Ghz Pentium 4
512 [...]

did no one else anywhere ever notice..

that 8gb of ram costs like 150 quid – maybe 200 us dollars or less?
i was considering buying a wee ssd at some point for an OS partition, but fuck, i could just get fuckload of ram either. access times would be immense.
i could copy my os partition to a ramfs. i know operating systems [...]

Video won’t play on 2nd monitor…anymore

I have an ATI 3450 and am running XP pro.
I have had my computer built now for a few months and it has been working smoothly. I use my main monitor for e-mail and the 2nd monitor for watching video files.
Up until recently everything worked fine but I was beginning to get frequent BSOD’s [...]