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fdisk will make your parititon the full size no problem. Microsoft made disk management unable to format fat32 larger than 32 Gig. This is artificial limit built into windows 2000/XP. No way around it except to use Fdisk. It's really sleazy the way m$ did it too, it makes you wait until 99% then says" too big" filthy rotten scum........ I love windows too, but these artificial limitations m$ builds into things piss me off.

My c: is t0o small to fit hiberfil.sys yet I want to be able to hibernate. Any tips how to make windows put hiberfil.sys somewhere else? 1280 MB ram over here.

Deleting selectred entries would be a wasted feature for this program. It does a bckuo i believe in case someting breks(eventhough nothing will break) Alot of poeple are confused about this programs purpose. This is a registry cleaner, not a repaier or fixer. It wont fix anyhting or make anything broken work again. It is an optimization. reegistery "repairer/cleaners" are more dangerous and those NEED the ability to select specific entries. In fact, I have already requested a "scan all, delete all, terminate app" option in a PM to APK! Good stuff.

I have 2 thermalright SLK 700 in my dual AMD 2600+ rig. My cpu temp with cold boot right to bios pc health went from 50 degrees to 30. !!

Easy peezy that is. you MUST buy an ide contorller card. I reocmmend promise ultra 133 TX2. (the 100 tx 2 also suports 48 bit addressing) Once on the promise, and service pack 3 or greater is installed, then you can format to whatever size youi wish. If you want to install fresh and have full size, here is dirty but free soltuion instead of partition magic. Fdisk the drive and make a partiiton of 200 gig. Do not format it, just make the partition. Then instalkl windows 2000 into this partiiton and format ntfs. Blammo done.

Any ATI Vivo or all in wonder (radeon or better) will make fantastic captures. AIW I bought comes with studio 8, whichpeople seem to like, Ive not tried it yet. I use down and dirty tools like avisynth etc for my encoding.

I find it totally reprehensible that m$ only allows raid 1 with their server products. At least XP PRO should have software mirroring. after all, it is PRO.... What is the message? PRo users do not deserve a good hard drive mirror? Despicable. They should save raid 5 for the servers and raid 0 and 1 for the Pro. I''ve not tested yet(i will shortly) but i BEt you any money, 2003 standard server won't even support raid 5. I would not be surprised. If anyone knows if server 2003 standard can do raid 5, let me know!

Use windows server to make raid 5 with sopftware. No extra hardware needed. I suggest 6 hard drives. (or 5 if 750 gig storage is enough) 1 OS drive, 20 gig, 40 gig, whatever, keep it trim and image it. The rest is raid 5. If you use 4 250 drives you get 7500 gig space. If you use 5 250 drives, you get 1 TB space. Don't thik fitting 6 drives is an issue either, my current, main rig, that I am now typing on, is a regular 18" midtower and it has 6 hard drivesd and one CDRW drive in it. make sure the case has the full row of 3 + 1/2 bays to the bottom is all you need. there are also really nice Sata card with 8 ports on it. The reason I recommend software raid 5 in this case instead of hardware raid 5: If the raid controler dies, you need to replace it with eact duplicate or lose al your data. With software windows raid, you can stick those disks in ANY pc, any hardware, any combination of controllers, and it will still work. If you go hardware raid 5, make sure to get 2 controller cards at least, for sure. As for which windows server supports raid 5: in the olden days all windows servers do. Now I don't know, m$ is splitting up into even more server versions with more limitations. So check whch version supports software raid 5.

Using ICS is a seciroty risk, and using a router is a much better idea. How the router will work: 1) plug in router. 2) Plug in all pc's to the router, plug the WAn (internet) cable into the wan port of router. 3)Turn on pc's. You now have protected, safe internet access. You then can configure your router via a web interface (something like http://192.168.1.1 The default password and actual ip of your router will be in the manul. Then you change the password and setup any port forwarding incase you want to serve internet games of ftp or anything.

I suggest do NOT use the cards onboard raid. Make one small OS drive, and spftware raid Raid-5 the rest. (best bang for your buck there, best $$ per gig ratio, and fault tolerance! And before anyone tries to say "Software raid 5 hurts cpu performance" don't worry about it. If for 5 users and new machine it will be MORE than able to handle it. It'll be fast, it'll be CHEAP, it'll be fault tolerant. (if onedisk dies the machine keeps on chugging away until you feel like replacing the dead disk.)

it depends what you mean by analog. If "analog" to you means svideo or composite, then no, one monitor from that card, and one TV but not too monitor. If it has a DVI and a VGA(VGA is analog too) then yes, 2 monitor no problema!

Enable internet connection sharing on one machine (XP) Boom finished. Easy peezy. (It iwll need 2 nics)

I'd do it, but you see what my pc does during uploads lol.

The warranty for OEM is only from where you bought it. thats the bigest drawback.

By far, the worlds best is WarftpD. And at 0$ its a deal that can't be beat. www.jgaa.com the setup isn't the MOST intuitive however........ To install IIS for ftp, goto add/remove rograms, then "windows componens" It's in there. double lcick IIS for the subcomponents you wish to install.

I like what I see. I love that it comes pretty locked down without all the n00b crap Xp has. I also Like that it has a built in firewall. (I hate software fierewals, they are too much of hassle. I like XP/2k3 firewall, click "protect me" and in background it protects from inbound attacks and doesnt popup a thing every time "svchost.exe" tries to access the internet. Also it works automatically with ICS right out of the gate. I wish they sold a desktop model of it, it is what I would use. For now I stick with Win2k. Diehard fan of Win2k ever since RC2.

Filzip. www.filzip.com Free(at least for now) supports ace,rar,cab, and all the rest. Also check out 7-zip www.7-zip.org it is GPL software and always will be free.

And firebird is a whopping 6 MB download! Sw3et!

make the admin account name gh40883gh7580hg75hg7g94 Make its password ¿&*(^#&@*^7g86g8g8GBYUGBU838473204078h*H*(DH*UujmniUMNIUN*I#*&)H*@H*&*^8ghbvYC!Cr6285t&* and don't write it down.

1 fresh install for each PC I build. I install latest service pack and no video driver. Then I ghost it. If somehting goes terribly wrong I ghost it back. I keep desktop on d: and email on d: and swapfile and %temp% paths all on d: too. Favorites are also on d: When i ghost c: I lose nothing that I added, like favorites, email etc. Painless. I keep the c: image small (~1 gig) on a fat32 partition, and ghost.exe on c:. Dos win2k dual boot so no floppy needed, boot into dos, run c:\ghost and in 5 minutes, literaly, my machine is good to go. (Since ghost.exe is on c:, after a ghost it is always handy....) c: therefor if fat32 as well. (3 gig partition) All the rest of my drives (500 gig or so worth) are NTFS.

9600PRO or XT. Or 9500 PRo or non pro. Or 9600 non pro. these will all be excellent, wil last a long time, and will be a good price. They are all full DX 9 parts, so you won't get the MX 400 deal where it doesnt have the needed features.

i second the vote for Tr0n 2. Superb one player game IMO.

i must disagree here. Xp runs great on 800 Mhz machine. (provided you give it enough ram) give it 384 or more MB ram then it will run great. Also tweak the services out too. blackviper.com i believe has the best guide for which services you can set to manual.

Easy peezy. Goto display properties>advanced. then click troubleshooting. Slide the slider bar to "none" Then take your screenshot. then when finished, turn back to full acceleration. (Do not forget otherwise your games wont work.)

Change the boot order in the bios to boot from the disk that still has windows on it.