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Does anyone know how to get foreign language fonts to display in Yahoo mail? I can get foreign characters on websites to display fine when using IE. However, when I check any e-mail that contains foreign language fonts such as Japanese or Chinese, it's displayed as gibberish. Is there a setting within Yahoo that I'm missing or is it something I need to configure in IE? The part that's got me stumped is why it'll display the characters on websites fine, but not within the e-mails. Thanks in advance.

If you have limited bandwidth and are used to using VNC, I'd recommend using TightVNC. It uses a better compression algorithm than VNC and screen refreshes generally take less time. You can take a look at it at www.tightvnc.com

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I'm in agreement with Hammer on this one. First of all, I've never seen 3dmark2001 scores vary by over 20-30 points at most. The majority of the time, they stay within 5-10 points between runs. I've never seen it vary by more than 30 points, unless I switched drivers. The majority of the versions of Detonators that I've tried have all run fine for me, and I really can't tell any noticeable differences in real world performance. In fact, I usually stick to playing counterstrike and I can't really tell any difference in performance between driver builds. In this case, I don't see what's wrong w/ people using 3dmark2001 as a a measure of drivers. If there's a noticeable "real world" difference between drivers in terms of performance, I'm pretty sure 3dmark2001 will be able to pick it up. It'd probably be a better judge of that, in fact, since I really doubt I'd be able to notice on my own whether or not the latest drivers give me 8000 points or 8700 points. It's kinda like knowing a mhz score for your processor. I really doubt you can notice a performance difference when you're playing a game on a 2 Ghz computer versus a 1.8 Ghz one. But there is a difference there in processor speeds and only a benchmark score is going to tell you that. Of course, your 3dmark2001 score isn't going to the be all, end all judge of whether or not a driver is good, but it definitely is something people can use as a measure of whether or not it's a driver they should be interested in switching to. In the end, it's just something numerical that people can use to easily compare. If you want to know whether a driver is stable or not, or if image quality has changed, just ask. You don't need to trash on someone who's trying to be helpful and mentions how his 3dmark score changed.

ICQ Plus works fine w/ 2002b. It'll even cover up all the annoying ads for you although the empty space will still be there.

If you go and look at viaarena's downloads page, they offer a raid patch that's supposed to help boost raid speeds on via chipsets. I believe the latest 4-in-1 pack that was just released has it bundled as well. I do know that what you're experiencing is a common problem and there're a ton of posts about it on both viahardware and viaarena. You can try looking there if the patch doesn't help.

I'm running WinXP Pro with a Geforce 3 Ti500 using the 23.11 Nvidia drivers. Anyone know how to enable Fastwrites? I have it enabled in the BIOS, but when I run 3dMark2001 SE, the report says that it's supported, but disabled.

Are the jumpers for the drive set to Cable Select? For some reason, mine wouldn't work if I used master and slave. Errors all stopped when I set it to Cable Select.

Just got another 60 gig Maxtor Ultra-133 identical to the one I have right now in my system and was wondering if I could setup a software RAID 0 with it w/o going out and buying a RAID card. I'm pretty sure Win2k supported software RAID 0, but was wondering if XP also does. Also, if XP does, will I have to completely reformat my existing drive that has all my data and reinstall XP if I switch to RAID 0?

The embedded IDE controllers on my motherboard are ultra-100, but I also have a separate promise controller that supports ultra-133. When I boot up, it shows UDMA Mode 6, but when I check in device manager it says UDMA Mode 5 for my hard drive that's connected to the Promise. I have my Pioneer DVD drive and my Plextor CD-RW connected to the two IDE slots for my motherboard and those say UDMA Mode 4 and Multi-word DMA Mode 2 respectively which seems to be right.

Looks like when I used the Geforce Tweak Utility to enable fastwrites, my overclocking settings were reset back to default. Switched them back to the overclocked settings I originally had and it turns out fastwrite boosted my 3DMark2001 score from 8580 to 8660. So I guess it does help a little.

Hmmm, thanks for the replies. Guess no RAID 0 for me then. Also, does anyone know if XP supports Ultra-133 at all? When I check in Device Manager, it only shows Ultra DMA Mode 5 which I'm assuming is Ultra-100.

You might want to check to see if everything is ok with your hard drive also. I've read multiple bad reviews about the latest IBM hard drives. In fact, I think there's a lawsuit against them currently for 120GXP drive failures. Also, it seems IBM has released a statement saying the 120GXP drives are only supposed to be operated for no more than 8 hours a day and should not be powered on for more than that. Anyway, don't think this'll help you solve your software problems, but thought it'd be something you should know. You can read more about this at www.storagereview.com and www.viahardware.com. They both have huge stories covering this.

I know you can do it manually by editing the .inf file of the display driver and adding in the refresh rate you want next to the entry of the graphics adapter type you have.

Thanks for the replies. Geforce Tweak Utility did the trick. My 3dMark score stayed exactly the same though.

You can go into the display properties and if I'm not mistaken, under the color management tab there should be a slider for gamma. Raising it to 2.0 should make a huge difference in the games. You can also enable the quicktweak icon in the system tray and save two settings, one w/ gamma at 1.0 and one w/ gamma at 2.0 so you don't have to go through this whole process everytime you play a game. You can just select the setting you want through the quicktweak panel.

You can remove Messenger by running this command: "RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove"

I've had the exact same problem. I got around it by booting up in safe mode w/ command prompt and running chkdsk from the command prompt, then rebooting normally and running chkdsk once more. That should fix it.

I have Win2k running on two machines and WinXP running on a third. They're all networked through a router I have setup and can see each other and share files fine. The only problem I have is password protecting the WinXP computer. When I try to access files on my Win2k machines, they ask for a login and password, but when I try to access files on the WinXP machine, I just log directly into the drive and can do whatever I want. It doesn't ask me for a login or a password. Anybody know how I can setup WinXP shares so they require a password to access? Thanks.

Does anyone know how to save files in IE6? For example, if there's a link to an mp3 on a page, when I left click on it, I'm given the choice to play it in IE6 or in Winamp and that's it. The file'll play but the only way I can save it is for me to manually go to the IE temp file cache and copy it out of there. When I try right clicking on the link and choose "Save target as..." it just saves me a copy of the webpage that I'm on instead of the mp3 itself. The link is a direct link to the mp3 and not some temporary go-between page. Never had this problem with IE5.5, only started after I switched to IE6. Now I'm stuck using Netscape when I try saving files.

I think that when dealing w/ Ultra-33/Ultra-66/Ultra-100 drives, you're supposed to set the jumpers to cable select rather than master/slave. Not completely sure but you might want to try it out. Couldn't get my two hard drives working for the longest time no matter what combination I tried, but everything worked when I set them both to cable select.

I believe that there are quite a few third party programs that can do this. You'll need to search around, but from memory, I think one program you can start with is called Fraps.

My SBLive crackles like mad while playing mp3's. Tried installing the drivers from the Windows Update page to see if it'd solve the problem, but it gave me an error saying my current drivers were better suited. Oh well...

While playing Starcraft on BattleNet under Win2k, I often have problems joining games after I've played a few games. When I hit join game, the games available pop up, but everything shows up red and when I try to join, it says cannot connect or something like that. This only happens under Win2k. I've tried reconnecting to BNet and/or rebooting my computer, and sometimes I'm able to join games again, but usually, I just have to quit playing Starcraft and waste my time playing Counterstrike instead. I know it's a problem with Win2k since my other friends using Win2k also encounter the same problems. My connection is fine since my roommate running Win98SE is able to connect and here at school we're on a dual OC3 connection. Anybody know anyway to fix this or have any suggestions?

Try running regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics. Once there, look for a Shell Icon BPP key and set it to 16. Reboot and see if that helps.