jcarle

Consumer routers are often just a router with an integrated switch. Depending on the internal mechanics of this particular model, he may be able to simply plug in the modem to port 1 and the PCs into port 2 and 3 and it may very well act like a regular switch without NAT if he turns off DHCP. It's a stretch, but it may just work.

Make sure you're using Internet Explorer and try going into Tools -> Internet Options -> Security, Click on the Internet zone, and then on Default Level

I don't believe that's possible.

I'd like to put for discussion the possibility of locking ancient threads. There's some people that just don't get it... I've been seeing way too many members going around the forums and replying with often pointless comments and resurrecting threads that have been dead for years and years. Case and point, for example, http://www.msfn.org/board/My-Actual-Letter...ert-t12137.html . I had previously discussed with some smods about their views about straight our removing threads past a certain amount of years but the general consensus was that MSFN contains a lot of valuable informations, even if sometimes the information dates of quite a ways back. The possibility of simply locking threads that are over, say, 2 years old has not yet been put up for discussion (as far as I'm aware). What are your thoughts on that?

In fact, I'd much rather trust software written by a developer that uses Windows APIs instead of, like cluberti said, trying to write something completely from scratch and in turn generating unfamiliar, untested and possibly buggy code and overall generating more unnecessary work for the developer.

Do it. I dare you.

Calm down. It's Windows Update updating itself. If you have a legitimate version of Windows, you have nothing to worry about. And anyway, yes it's a silent and forced update, the news was published and Microsoft warned users that this would happens a month ago.

No guarantee that this would work because the script will be in use, but if it does work, this would do it: Dim FSO Dim FolderPath Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") FolderPath = FSO.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName) FSO.DeleteFolder FolderPath, True Set FSO = Nothing

I'd further submix8c and confirm that some cable/dsl modems need to be power cycled before you can't connect to them using another computer because they seem to tie themselves to a PC's MAC Address.

Not to mention that if data safeguarding is more important for the OP then speed is, the RE drives will easily reliability that matches or exceeds SAS (due to their lower revolutions) and costs a fair amount less.

@Mr Snrub: What did you use to make the flow chart?

802.11n can operate at 5GHz or 2.4GHz, 802.11g and 802.11b only operate at 2.4GHz.

If personally find Western Digital RE2 / RE3 drives to be of high quality and are built with RAID in mind.

How do you honestly expect what you say to have meaningful weight in a conversation with your abhorant use of the $ symbol. First of all, Micro$oft is not found in the dictionary nor a registered company name or trademark of Microsoft. Second, using $$$$$$ instead of the word money doesn't help your case any either. Everytime I read any of your posts if at any point while I'm reading something you've written I start to see that on certain remote aspect you may have a valid point, that validation is immediately lost the moment I see you misuse the $ symbol. Opinions get respect when well written... l337 wr1t0rz don't.

Malware can go a lot deeper then that. If you're patient enough, you'll learn a lot by watching this video : http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/se...spx?videoid=359

You should read this article on SP1's copy engine improvements : http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/a...04/2826167.aspx Perhaps you don't have enough memory or you have applications running in the background that are trashing the disks? I haven't seen any yet. Well considering that Aero is not actively drawing while you're in a 3D application, I don't see the problem. And if you're in a windowed 3D application and your video card can't draw a bit of transparency while rending it's 3D content then you seriously need to consider a video card upgrade or turning off Aero. Such as? I haven't actually even encountered anything yet in the OS that would be even classified as a bug.

I'm suprised no one's mentioned (unless I missed it) to verify that the motherboard chipset drivers were installed and up to date, possibly check for a BIOS update. Another possibility can be that the drive is under powered. You could try plugging it into a USB hub to see if that helps.

I'd disagree slightly, yes the original discussion of the thread has been lost in part but the reason the thread's become so convoluted is the disagreements on the methods to improve the performance of the OP's system. There's been a large disagreement on the methods used to "tweak" a system. No one ever said that "tweaking" it itself was bad, it's been under argument as to how. And the source of that disagreement mostly comes from the fact that there's a large portion of the professional community here that disagrees with "tweaks" that would change the end-user experience or expectations of the operating system. When a user plugs in his iPod, he expects it to work, he doesn't expect to have to contact a technician to figure out that someone "tweaked" his system and disabled certain essential services because they "weren't needed".There are literally thousands of things that can be done without disabling aspects of the system that can improve performance. A lot of them usually comes down to the basics that have been repeated over and over and over. Uninstall software that runs unnecessarily in the background (that doesn't include Windows services), clean out your temp folder, your IE cache, keep Windows up to date, keep your drivers up to date, defrag and make sure you system is physically clean (ie: dusty fans and heatsinks). I've restored hundreds of old PCs to a new life simply by doing the same things every time. I take the PC outside, I dust clean it, then I boot it, uninstall heavy Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware software that's obviously too heavy for the system, remove the millions of 3rd party applications that start with the system, update Windows, update the drivers, run Disk Cleanup and then Defrag and usually that's all that's needed to completely turn a system around. If someone takes a bit of time and does a bit of hunting you can usually transform a PC with little investment in a thousand different ways. If you look at the challenge with upgrading old PIIIs, the requirements are not difficult to follow for maximum savings. Obviously memory and CPU upgrades tend to be problematic and sometimes impossible so the alternative is to upgrade the motherboard. Moving to a new motherboard can often mean not only a new CPU and new memory, but it often leads to a new video card, a new hard drive due to expired technologies. That's not always within the financial constraints available. An alternative is often to buy a next generation (next generation up from the existing system, not today next generation) used motherboard with an appropriate processor and memory.If the PIII system uses an IDE hard drive, an IDE optical drive and an AGP video card, it's fairly easy to find a motherboard with socket 478 cpu (early P4s) with 512MB/1GB of memory with two on-board IDE channels and an AGP slot for less then $100. A very far cry from the thousand plus system that was suggested earlier and yet would still provided a noticeable and satisfying increase in performance for the user of the system.

You bash the E2xxx series processors as if they were VIA C7s... your inability to properly build a system using an E2xxx series processor only proves YOUR inability to properly build a modern PC. Millions of those processors have been sold around the world and everyone's had nothing but praise for the amazing power such inexpensive processors have, they've been used in millions of builds and have been overclocked to ridiculous amounts with everyday regular cooling without running abnormally hot, yet you think it's s*** so we should all throw our computers out the window? Even Ray Charles had better vision.

I tried that one, it brought my machine to a crawl. :S

That just made my year. I love that guy.

Yea, you managed to illustrate the point I was trying to make... 1:1 will outway the MHz benefit but only up to a point. You can't compare 1:1 with a 400MHz difference for example, but in a near range of frequencies, 1:1 will win.

It's called For the Love of Money by The O'jays, you id***.

There was an article I read years ago that explained the problems inherent in SLI and Crossfire. It basically boiled down to the fact that the management overhead to synchronise and distribute the workload between the cards negated a large portion of the benefits.

You can't fit a fridge into a car but you can fit a dishwasher into a truck. How does this not make sense to you?64-bit applications are aware of and are capable of handling 32-bit, but how can you expect 32-bit apps to handle 64-bit when there wasn't even such a thing back when most of this stuff was written? "One common recurring problem is that some programmers assume that pointers have the same length as some other data type. These programmers assume they can transfer quantities between these data types without losing information. Those assumptions happen to be true on some 32-bit machines (and even some 16-bit machines), but they are no longer true on 64-bit machines. The C programming language and its descendant C++ make it particularly easy to make this sort of mistake. In most programming environments on 32-bit machines, pointers, "int" types, and "long" types are all 32 bits wide. However, in many programming environments on 64-bit machines, "int" variables are still 32 bits wide, but "long"s and pointers are 64 bits wide." - Wikipedia Again, how is that Vista's fault?