SmaugyGrrr

You could do what I did when my Sapphire X1600XT fan decided to get really loud: Unscrew and remove the metal heatsink cover. Unscrew and remove the fan. Get your favourite brand of quiet 80mm fan (I think I used a Panaflo) and wedge it inbetween the heatsink and the closest PCI card. Voila. Very quiet, cheap, reliable, simple. No need to mess around buying and fiddling with a custom heatsink with an oddball fan which still might fail. And I don't really trust passive cooling for GPUs.

Apparently Driver Genius can identify unknown devices. I haven't tried that aspect of the program though. Another thing to try is to go through the BIOS checking for/fiddling with SATA-like things. You know, real scientific like.

(Links and info below shamelessly ripped from a post on another forum by a user named Bbq.of.DooM) High end gaming PCs http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103 High efficiency, <$150 psu’s http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1460 Enhance ENP-5150GH [This works with pretty much anything up to and including a high end Core2duo with an 8800GTX] Silverstone Olympia 650/750/850 [Perfect for your high end rig] Corsair HX 520 / 620 [Modular, quiet, and always on rebate.] Seasonic S12 430/500 [Low-mid end rig] Seasonic S12-EP 550/650 [High end] Seasonic M12 [High end, modular] Zippy (all of them) [Got noise?] PCP&C Turbo-Cool [i hope you have money] PCP&C Silencer [These are nice seasonic-built psu’s, with a major pricetag ‘upgrade’] And if you have a PC that draws more power than the sun, your E-Penis isn’t big enough (and you make up for it with a pc), or you want a power supply so powerful that you can run a small town, look no further. Don’t even ask about the price tag on these. PCP&C 1KW-SR. 72a on a single 12v rail. Silverstone Olympia 1KW. 80a on a single 12v rail. Ultra X3-1kw. 70a on a single 12v rail. Thermaltake Toughpower 1200w. 100a split up over 6 rails. (again, all the above is from a post on another forum - not written by me)

This would be a bit of a kludge, but if the printer is TCP/IP-based you could VPN from your work PC into your home network and set up a printer on your work PC accordingly.... At least, it might work if I understand your requirements correctly.

The best choice...... in my and many others opinion...... is Crucial memory. They have a guarantee that the memory will work with your hardware, a ("limited") lifetime warranty, and superb customer service in (that I know of) the US and UK.

Windows is trying to be clever. It sees numbers at the start, and sorts based on the whole number. i.e. it puts 2 first, then 10, then the letters. If you put 22test.txt, it will be 2, then 10, then 22. It's nothing to do with the actual length of the whole filename. You can fiddle with the sorting method a bit: "The sort order for files and folders whose names contain numerals is different in Windows XP than it is in Windows 2000" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319827

This is (obviously?) a completely wild guess, but if you can somehow get into the registry editor - maybe in safe mode? - see if there is anything in the hkey_classes_root\* key which shouldn't be there. Mine just has OpenWithList, shell, and shellex.

Start->Run.. %systemroot%\$NtUninstallKB925876$\spuninst\spuninst.exe

I use AdBlock Plus to block them in Firefox, and for Internet Explorer I block them using OpenDNS's domain blocking feature. Another possibility is to use Privoxy.

Use Process Monitor to see which process deletes the file - just set up a filter for it. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...essmonitor.mspx

Casper 4.0 is what I use to back up my HD to an external drive. It does its business while Windows is running. After the first full (slow, obviously) backup, subsequent backups only transfer changed data - the developers call this "SmartClone technology". The backup drive is fully bootable - the defective original drive can just be swapped with the backup to get up and running again. Locked files (i.e. the SAM) are also copied.

VMWare Converter can convert a remote PC to a VMWare image. Acronis TrueImage Workstation can remotely install the TrueImage "agent" and you can remotely control the imaging service. For me when I tried it, it was a little awkward though - I had to choose to save the image either locally on the client PC or via SMB as though you were located at the client pc itself... i.e. you have to be able to mount a visible (non-hidden) share on the PC you're doing the remote controlling from, in order to save it to the remote-controlling PC.