Alien
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Quote: Alien, You can turn off the log-in screen after hibernation in ControlPanel/Display/Screensaver/Power/Advanced Uncheck the option "Ask for Password when....." DO'H!!! I knew I'd forgotten something!
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Neither have I.
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That sounds like the file linking function in Explorer's options. The idea is that if you saved a webpage & consequently any pics used in it as well & then deleted the .htm file it would also delete the folder with the pics used on the page. In theory [never tried it] it would also do it the other way around. This could, if my theory about the reverse also being true is correct, delete an email if the email had been saved seperately. Having said that though, to the best of my knowledge - emails aren't normally stored as seperate files, they're stored as compressed database files, so that all emails in your Inbox "folder" are actually bundled up in 1 file called Inbox.dbx, & so on. Additionally, when you choose to save an email to a seperate location on your HDD it bundles the email itself, along with the attachment, all into 1 .eml file.
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Talking of hibernation, anyone have any ideas why my system has started displaying the login screen that you would normally get if you told XP to log off when I come back from Hibernate or Standby? Doesn't do it when I just restart or do a cold boot. I don't have any user accounts BTW, just the original administrator account that's been renamed [which shouldn't cause probs, as I did that ages before this prob started].
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Yeah, & I'm 1 of 'em [the happy AMD/VIA users I mean] - I was making a joke to lighten the mood as it sounded like it was getting a bit too serious.
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<head slowly spinning> I want Intel, I want Intel! </head spinning> Wow! Dunno what possessed me to say that!
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Go on, someone sell him a cube case - you know you want to - RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
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Thanks, but thst totally disables SFC - I only want to change what files & folders it protects.
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You know how in reviews of HSFs they tend to consider a smooth, shiny finish to the base of the heat sink to be a Good Thing? Well I was just wondering if those of you with some experience in the matter think I've managed to get mine shiny enough.... PS - no sanding, or "lapping", or solvents, or polishing compounds were involved, & it came with some of that "chewing gum" type stuff on it....
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I'm running an XP1900+ @ its stock speed of 1.6Ghz. I'd like to get my maximum idle temp down to the mid 40s or lower before I try upping the FSB, or fiddling with any other performance-related BIOS settings. Also, I'd like to solve the prob with my sound card before I risk doing anything that might make it worse. Oh, & 46°C is only when my room temp is really cool - during the day it [CPU] stays around the 50-52°C mark. @ the moment it's @ 48°C, but my system temp is only 27°C.
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Quote: WOn't copy an XP partition tho Yes it does, well it does with FAT32 anyway - i don't use NTFS so I don't know how it behaves with that.
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I wouldn't know - I cleaned the "chewing gum" off of it dtraight away, before using it. I wasn't the 1 who made it flat, whoever made the heat sink did that. But getting the "chewing gum" off of it & replacing it with Arctic Silver should have made a bit of a difference compared to how it would have been if I'd just used the stuff they put on it. Also, if you clean that gunk off with something like isopropyl alchohol, or some other solvent, chances are that you won't get it all off, & it's possible that that could interfere with the heat transfer. @ the end of the day I want to do as much as I can to keep both my system & CPU cool. I would like to be able to overclock my system, but there's no way I'm gonna attempt it with my idle temps @ what they are @ the mo [varies from about 46°C to 52°C, depending on room temp]. I do have some more work to do on my case, which should hopefully improve temps, like increasing the number of front case fans from 1x80mm to 2x80mm + 2x60mm [there isn't enough room to put 4x80mm in without ruining the look of the case]. I'm also thinking of replacing my rear 92mm fan with a 50cfm 1.
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I just checked to see how much space the System Volume Information folder was currently taking up & it said about 23K. My 1st thought was "WTF?!?!?", so I checked on the System Restore settings as although I had disabled it for drives [partitions] D -> H I had left it turned on for C. This has always worked fine in the past, but now - all of a sudden, instead of saying Enabled [or whatever] next to C, & Disabled next to the rest, it just says "Suspended" next to all of them! Any ideas as to what's going on???
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Thanks, is working again now. It wasn't the space thing, must have been the monitored files thing - wish I knew how to turn that off for specific files & folders.
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That helps with files, but not folders - anyone know how to get rid of "protected" folders?
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STOP errors maybe related to faulty cache memory? NEED HELP
Alien replied to shassouneh's topic in Hardware
I dunno about a Delta, but the 5600rpm 50x60x10mm Dynaeon fan that came as part of the HSF that AMD bundle with the XP1900+ [retail version] makes a fair bit of noise. I've been thinking about getting 1 of those 60 to 80mm adapters so that I could stick an 80mm fan on there that wouldn't make so much noise, but I haven't made my mind up yet. I think perhaps 1 of the reasons that my HSF makes so much noise isn't just the fan, but the the fact that the heat sink is of the "skived fin" variety. Ok, so this creates more surface area, which is a Good Thing , but I would think it probably causes more turbulence as well, which means more noise. PS - shassouneh, if your mobo isn't toast, then you ought to check to see if it has the ability to automatically shut down if the fan stops [this should also cover you if you forgot to plug the fan in again ]. -
Oh, right - I'll bear that in mind, thanks. I thought I had some bad sectors on my C: partition @ 1 point, as scandisk [was using 98SE back then] said I had - tried reformatting the partition, even tried deleting just that partition then re-creating it & reformatting it, but still couldn't get rid of the buggers. I managed to get rid of them in the end - I spent ages backing everything up that needed to be to CD then deleted all partitions, reformatted as 1 big 1, checked it & was ok - deleted the partition again & created the 6 I have now & is still doing ok. Dunno what made me think of that approach, but glad I did.
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I think I went to download that once for my 75GXP, but I seem to remember that it either could only be used on an empty drive, or that it would wipe any & all existing data on the drive, or am I getting mixed up with something else?
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Well so far my KT7A Raid v1.3 appears to be behaving itself quite nicely. I've read plenty of bad things said about earlier versions of this board - especially the original KT7 & KT7-RAID, but [hopefully] Abit seem to have sorted things out with this version. 1 thing to mention - I'd read somehwere that whilst P4 boards quite commonly had the function to shutdown if the CPU fan kicked the bucket, this was a lot less common on Athlon boards. Well I'm glad to say that this Athlon board has it, which means 1 less thing to worry about.
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shassouneh - from what you said, you're still not doing it the way they told you to do it. You managed to copy the links, etc to the "holder" folder, which is ok, but then you're copying them back to the same place - this is WRONG!!! 1. Open Explorer & browse to the "holder" folder you copied the links to. 2. Highlight all the links/program group folders/etc that need to go on the Start Menu 3. Move mouse cursor over the highlighted area 4. Press right mouse button & keep it pressed 5. Move mouse cursor to Start button & wait for Start Menu to pop up 6. Move cursor to All Programs & wait - it should [from what you've been saying] now display a little tab that says "empty" 7. Move mouse cursor on to this "empty" tab & you should see a black line @ the top of the tab [if you don't, go back to step 2 & try again until you do] 8. Let go of right mouse button 9. a little pop-up menu will appear with Copy Here, Move Here, Create Shortcut Here, & Cancel - click Copy Here If you follow those instructions exactly then it should hopefully solve your Start Menu problem. If it doesn't it may need a reboot so try that, if that doesn't fix it, reinstall Windows. [The experience will do you good ]
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PP - although I couldn't find it on the net, maybe you might have some luck - what you want is "Bust! it" by Smoking Sucks Software. Having read what Sampson was saying I think it might do the trick after all.
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Pmistry - I can see where you're coming from dude - there's a couple of companies that I will avoid in the future, ALi [mobos with their chipsets] & Videologic [soundcards]. I've had 2 of each & had grief from all. On the subject of Radeon drivers - I can't comment on those for the 8500 range cos I only have a 64MB DDR ViVo, but the drivers for that are definitely getting better. Another point is that you know how when you have 1 of those really annoying probs for which the cause/culprit is hard to pin down, but then you think you've figured out what the prob is, only to realise it's actually something else? Well I think this has been the case for me - I was blaming my Radeon, or more specfically the drivers, for a prob I was having, but now it seems more likely that my soundcard [Videologic Sonic Vortex 2] is to blame. I had a Videologic Sonic Storm Pro before the SV2 & that was even more hassle.
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Voodoo 7? LMAO
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I dunno what the big deal is about the R300 [allegedly] needing 28watts - an Enermax 431 should be able to handle that, & the 550 definitely ought to. [& of course, other suibtably higher spec PSUs]
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I found my copy of it, but when I tried to do a search for it I couldn't find any sites with it, sorry. Besides, I don't know whether it's any better @ killing apps/processes than XP's Task Manager - I haven't really had opportunity to put it to the test.