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I'd use ghost or something like that. boot off a floppy and ghost your drive to a shared directory on another computer. Jim

You definately should go into an electronics store that has a bunch of headphones hooked up to a cd player so you can try them out yourself. Picking out headphones is like buying an easychair... you can't feel that it's too soft and makes your back hurt it by looking at pictures of it Jim

I've been partial to nvidia stuff for several years now, but today my ti4200 bit the dust. I'm pretty sure that it was heat that did it in. This is the 3rd nvidia card I've had thats had heat problems (chintzy fans, etc). I like nvidia chips, but the manufacturers all do different things. so I decided to try a "built by ATI" 9600 pro on for size. So far I haven't seen any increase in performance, and some games actually seem slower but I'm downloading the newest catalyst stuff as I type this... My question is this... what tweaking programs have you guys used that you'd recommend for this card? One thing I need to do is fix the refresh rate in open gl games, so a program to do that or just a point in the direction of the relevant registry key would be appreciated there. But any tweaking I can do would be cool. Jim

That site's pretty cool... Thanks! Jim

In OE click tools->Options. Click the security tab, remove the checkmark next to "Do not allow Attachments to be saved..." click OK . If it doesn't work right away, close and restart OE. Jim [edit] Doh! I responded to this thinking you were trying to save an attachment in Outlook Express... sorry about that [/edit]

open your word .doc, select all the text then copy it. Open paint (or whatever imaging program you like) then paste the text to the image file. Then save as... if you have a lot of formatting, tables, etc. in your .doc they might not copy over correctly... I just made this up, but checked it on a simple .doc and it works. YMMV Jim

I'd probably try an older driver like the 29.42 or so. The TnT was still being sold at that time, so my assumption is a little more care went into the drivers for that card. The newer drivers are supposed to be compatible with all back to the TnT's but I think they put the empahsis on the GF3 and newer cards. Jim

I had the same thing happen once... turned out to be a failing hard drive. Jim

Quote: 12 Holy Crap! What all do you turn off to get it down to that ;( I thought I was fairly lean at 22. Jim

22 here

Quote: yes it will work fine. PC 133 is rated to run at 66,100, and 133 . That used to be the case. Some of the newer stuf is 133 only, 100 only, etc. You can't really assume that 133 is backwards compatible anymore. I just found this out the hard way a couple months ago. Jim

When you say your system locks up, does it just freeze? Sound start looping? Screen might go black and monitor turn off? I've seen a couple similar setups (VIA chipset with Athlon) do the same thing with GeForce cards. If you can, try an ATI card. I'd bet your problem will go away. Jim

Here's a thought... ICQ. I haven't used it in a while, but you used to be able to see a person's ip with it when they were online. just create some dummy profile on your server and leave it signed in. From your remote desktop sign in and look at the properties of the server's icq user. ICQ might not do this anymore, and it may be a bit of a security threat but it's a different approach that may work for you. Jim

I've run it on "less worthy" systems with good results. A few things to do would be turn off system restore, turn off themes, and turn off indexing. Those 3 things alone should make it feel as fast as if not faster than Win2k. Jim

You won't be able to download XP (legally anyway), but you can get a trial disk mailed to you from Microsoft. OK I just looked around to find a link for you and cannot find one. I'm inclined to think that Windows XP has been out long enough now that they no longer feel the need to make an evaluation disk necessary. Good luck finding what you need. I upgraded to XP pro from 2000 pro and am very happy with it, but like you would be hesitant to "try it out" for the $200 upgrade price. Jim

I'd venture to say if you're at work and NOT behind a firewall, there will be a job opening for a new network administrator at your company really soon! Jim

If you're using Win 2000 or XP the easiest and probably most secure way would be to just add another user account to the system. If 9x maybe just set her up in Outlook Express while you use Outlook. I'm not aware of any password protect feature in Outlook but Outlook Express has the Identities thing which can be set to use passwords. Jim

I think that was Earthlink. Haven't heard much about it since then though so I'm not sure how well it's going for them. I use both Hotmail and Yahoo, they both do a pretty decent job of filtering out crap for me. I get about 60 spams a day, but it's been several months since one has made it to my inbox. YMMV Jim

I'd check the integrity of that hard drive. http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm Jim

I dunno... when something makes the kind of money Harry does http://www.nypost.com/business/1100.htm I think he can be on whatever page of the news he likes Jim

I've had good luck with Linksys stuff. I haven't used anything 802.11g yet but the b stuff works fine. I set up a little peer to peer network between 2 buildings about 150 feet apart with it and the signal strength was great. YMMV Jim

The poll asking if you'll buy the new harry potter book? Why does that surprise you? That's a big event for a lot of people. I know a lot of stores around here are having release parties, etc. starting at midnight when it's officially for sale. I'd consider it newsworthy, not my sort of thing really but definately newsworthy in it's own regard. Jim

Well, all I did over the weekend to hose my d: drive was do an xcopy of my favorites folder to a folder called favorites on my d: drive. When I went to look to see that the copy was successful I found a corrupted filesystem. I found another program on some shareware site that promised to recover the files but all it found was the contents of the favorites folder... weird. didn't find a folder called favorites with the contents of my favorites folder, just the contents of my favorites scattered all over the drive. It was a compressed NTFS drive, who knows... maybe the compressed part changed something with xcopy, I dunno. After running the PC Inspector File Recovery program it found and recovered almost everything. Some of the files were .zip files that didn't make it through the recovery process though, which leads me to the point of this response 8) another program worthy of the $29.95 registration fee. Advanced Zip Repair http://www.repairfile.com/ It didn't fix the .zip files completely, but it always made the file openable so I could at least get the intact files out. Worth checking out if you guys haven't seen it yet. Jim

Quote: www.convar.de PC Inspector File Recovery 3.0 That's an awesome program! Thanks for the link I had a drive corrupt on me over the weekend myself and this recovered my files. I had a backup that was about a week old so I recovered most everything, but this program found the rest! Quote: Yes it's still free. Should I format the drive back to NTFS before running the software or just leave it as the way it is now? no, don't format. that'll make it harder to get the files. Jim

Quote: HELP! I've just lost my primary slave drive (Western Digital 120GB) and I didn't have a backup for it yet. I've partitioned it but didn't format it back to NTFS yet. Is there a way to restore all the files on a hard drive after partitioning or formatting? Or reconstruct the files on another drive? Oh man... if you partitioned it after your drive was lost, you're gonna spend a lot of money (or time) to get the data back. Did the drive itself die or did the filesystem just get corrupted? Don't do anything else with the drive, like format it or anything else until you can get a tool or service to recover the data. Jim