Arin

The company I work for has a program that essentially requires IE 8 to run. We use active x controls, so they must use the latest IE 8. Many of our distributors using IE 8 have difficulty setting up the exact settings we require. Also, some add-ons, such as google toolbar, interfere with the programs. It can cause runtime errors and crashing. Essentially, I'd like to have a custom IE 8 install package separate from IE 8 on their computer. This would maybe be a stripped down version that would come pre setup with our exact settings, and would disable any other add-ons. Heck, it could even disable browsing any other site except for the one site they need to use. I doubt this is possible, but I figured I'd ask anyways. Thanks!

I just built a new system and planned to run 3 monitors like I did on my previous system but it does not work. Previously in XP I ran an ATI all in wonder in the agp slot and a second PCI video card for my third monitor. It ran fine. I bought an Abit ip35 pro that has a pcie 16x slot and another large pcie slot. I set my main video card, nvidia 8800gtx, in the first pcie slot and my second card, ati 1650, in the second slot. I was able to install the drivers for the 8800gtx but when I install the drivers for the 1650, it says they are improper drivers and the device cannot start. I tried using the "standard VGA Graphics Adapter" but that give me a 'This Device cannot start' Error. I tried running the 1650 in the first PCIE slot and the second PCIE slot alone, and it worked, but when I try to run it as a second video card, in the second pcie slot, I cannot get it to start! Anyone have any suggestions?

I want the drive to spin down when its not in use and I want to have it spin up when I actually try to access the drive either with my backup software or by opening it though my computer. I don't want to do option 1, 2 or 3.

Yeah, I could just use the gmail notifier

Recently I've started leaving mozilla thunderbird running in the background while using my computer. I've been noticing thunderbird has been slowing down quite a bit and I recently realized its sucking up over 40 megs of memory! Does that sound normal for such a small simple program?

I have a 500 gb external backup WD-Book hardrive attached to my system. The drive spins down after a period of inactivity. When I open up programs like photoshop or even my computer the drive spins up, I'm guessing to display me available space on the drive. This takes a few seconds, however its a pain in the ass. Can I prevent the drive from spinning up unless I actually am accessing files on the drive? Thanks -Arin

Does anyone know any way to block emails that show their important spam as images? The images arent refferenced in the email as a regular image file but usually as some sort of strange link. They also usually have shitty specs, dashes and lines in them. They also seem to load in stages Here is what I'm talking about: Here is one that is purely an image. Here is one that loaded as specs, then loaded the rest of the garbage image.

Any ideas?

Try Alt T Alt O to get to the folder options. In the view tab, try the reset folders button.

Didnt fix the problem. In fact, turning on the tabbed browsing removed my entire toolbar.

I just installed IE7 Beta 2 on my home computer last evening and I cannot get the tabbed browsing to display the tabs along the toolbar at the top. Tabbed browsing is enabled in the settings and when I go to close IE7, if I was in a tabbed setup, it asks me to close the tabs but for some reason I cant see the tabbed tool bar! Any ideas?

everything blew up.... I think the drive is messed up. I did a repair install of xp and the drive would not boot into windows. Now after a full reinstall of xp the computer restarts at the loading screen.

I just restarted my computer and when the user menu logon screen displays the windows log, it stops. I can still move the mouse and there appears to be some hard drive activity, but it will not display the list of users and let me log in! Same probiblem in safe mode. How can I disable the screen and either just have the auto login (only one user) from where I am?

Yes. I did a repair install and had to get the uninstall folder off a friends machine. Its back to normal now.

For some reason I can't click on videos on the net and have them play in windows media player. When I click on a link it launches WMP10 and says: "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. If the file is located on a removable storage card, insert the storage card." It does this for every video file and sites like www.streetfire.net will no longer play the videos either. I check all the settings and I they look the same. I haven't changed anything in windows media player 10. I even re-downloaded the install file and installed it again. I also turned off my firewall and nothing changed. Whats going on? EDIT, fixed. For some reason under tools -> options -> player, the [ ] connect to the internet check box was unchecked. I never even noticed this option before.