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Unfortunately Outlook Rules only allow you to manipulate a message as it's sent or recieved...not once it's been delivered (unless you create a new rule and then manually run it). Using the Rules Wizard is a very powerful way to keep your inbox from getting cluttered though. Basically you just have it sort incoming messages into manageable folders for you.I don't know of any email application that does that. However, it is pretty easy to tell which ones have been read and which ones haven't in most email applications.

Did you install the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility first?

I'd also recommend backing everything up and start looking for a new drive. Bad sectors can be an indication of something else starting to go wrong with the drive.

Most of the cheapie cards that will do RAID0 and RAID1 will also do JBOD. JBOD is really only something you should use if you have, literally, just a bunch of disks laying around that you want to use but don't want to waste a bazillion drive letters just to use them.Personally, I'd pick up another matching 80GB drive and stripe (RAID0) them for the speed...providing they're quality drives. If data integrity is your thing then mirror (RAID1) them. RAID5 is something we're going to start seeing more in the enthusiast area because both NVIDIA and Intel are including support for it in their latest southbridge chipsets. RAID5 definitely is not the fastest though. What RAID5 does is offer a very good balance of speed and redundancy. It requires at least 3 drives to setup, but you can lose one of those drives and still not lose any data. Because of the algorithms for creating the parity stripe it uses a little more overhead as well (this should be negligible with a good hardware RAID controller).

Searching for files with spaces works on my workstation as you would think it would (it only returns files with both search values in it). I'm using the classic search though...not sure if that makes a difference. You can try inserting a ? for the space: my?file You may even try a *: my*file

I hadn't heard... I've been checking the Western Digital website from time to time because I can't wait for them to release 500GB drives of their own. Guess I must have missed that, they must be killer drives. They're putting 16MB cache on these. The enterprise version of the drive will include a new feature for RAID called time-limited error recovery. I'd also read that they would have a SATA 300MB/ss interface but the WD site lists SATA 150MB/s. I hope they do increase that to the SATA 300MB/s interface before the drive actually hits the market. I can't find any information on their site about the two different versions I've read about either.http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/...189&Language=en Edit: Did some more searching and found one of the original articles I read: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28577 They link to a site that has it for sale..and also claims that it's a SATA 300MB/s interface. I can't read/write/speak German though so I don't know if the drive is actually in stock or just available for pre-order. None of my usual sites have it available yet.

That's because they have a lot of debug code turned on with the betas right now. It was the same way with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. We won't have a good idea of what memory usage will be until RC1, maybe even RC2.

Same here. Can't live without them. Did you see they just announced two 150GB versions of the Raptor?

Most integrated motherboard controllers are El Cheapos and will likely give you problems. The only integrated RAID controllers I've had any success with are the Intel SATA RAID controllers built into their newer southbridges. I have a pair of WD Raptors RAID0'ed...and it hasn't given me one single problem. He stated he has SCSI drives. Pretty much all SCSI RAID controllers are decent to high quality. I typically use controllers from either Adaptec or LSI Logic. As for PATA/SATA RAID I've been messing around with controllers from 3ware lately. They are high quality, easy to configure and pretty darn fast.

Personally, I would suggest that you get a hardware RAID controller and configure the drives in a RAID0 array. Using software RAID (i.e. Windows Disk Management features) uses the system CPU for striping calculations, not to mention that it's actually harder to recover from. If you get a SCSI RAID controller you could actually get one more drive and do a RAID5 configuration. This would add redundancy to your setup. To answer your question though...it should work but I've never tried it. As always, be sure to have a good backup of your data before attempting something out of the norm

Actually...I came across this freeware application the other day called BeyondExec. http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/remot.../BeyondExec.htm It allows you to spawn processes on a remote machine, provided you have Admin privs on that machine of course. You could take care of the hibernation issue by passing a simple command to each machine: beyondexecv2.exe \\computername -s -r powercfg /hibernate off The -s tells it to run under the SYSTEM account. The -r tells it to remove the BeyondExec service when the command completes. Fortunately, hibernation is a workstation level setting so you only have to do it once per machine.

The card is SLI capable, but that doesn't mean you can't use it on a non-SLI motherboard. All NVIDIA PCI Express based cards from the 6600 series on up are SLI capable.

The Pentium M isn't dual core. It's the CPU part of the Centrino package. As for it being faster than a P4...that all depends on what you're doing with it. It has a relatively "weak" FPU so anything math intensive isn't going to be as fast as a P4 (which doesn't exactly have the best FPU either). It has many less stages to it's processing pipeline and that's what makes it faster in certain operations.

They're all roughly the same price. I'd have to recommend the XFX GeForce 6800GS. You'll notice that NewEgg has the eVGA card for a little less. However, the core clock on the eVGA card is the default 425MHz. The XFX card is clocked at 485MHz so it'll offer a little more performance. XFX also offers what they call a "double lifetime warranty". Basically, if you sell the card they'll cover the 2nd owner with a lifetime warranty. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814150118

I'm not certain ColdFusion will work with Apache on Windows. I've only ever installed it with IIS though so I may be (and probably am) wrong about that.

For RAID5 yes. For RAID1 (mirroring) you need the total size for checksum. With RAID5 you lose the space of 1 drive for checksum...so if you had 6 x 160GB drives you'd lose 160GB off of the total RAID'ed space. He could do what's called JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks). There's no speed gain or redundancy...it'd just make the drives look like a single drive. JBOD uses each disk in succession. So basically it just writes to Disk 1 until it fills it up, then moves to Disk 2 until it's full, then Disk 3, Disk 4, etc, etc. There may be a slight increase in read speeds if the files are on different disks of a JBOD volume, but it's not going to be that noticeable. At any rate, none of these are something you can do to a drive that already has Windows installed on it without reinstalling the system. And the only way to do it from a fresh install is with a hardware RAID controller. If you want a stripe set (RAID0) then the best thing to do would be to pick up an identical 80GB drive and hardware RAID them. Software RAID will also work, but it'll use your system CPU for the calculations which could actually slow your system down.

If you don't have another machine you could always do a parallel install of Windows (without reformatting...just install into something like C:\WinBack). Then backup the files and completely reinstall the machine.

Doh...can't believe I forgot eVGA. Thanks for the backup...

That would be a Radeon 9800XT. If you're looking for an ATI based card I'd say go with something made by ATI, Sapphire or VisionTek--in that order. They're all pretty much going to be based on the reference design that ATI uses anyway. If you're looking for something NVIDIA based then I'd go with something from either BFG or XFX. Again, they'll both be based on the reference design provided by NVIDIA. Both companies offer lifetime warranties. Having the video card from the same manufacturer as your motherboard really doesn't make any difference at all. All quality video cards are built to work on as many motherboards/chipsets as possible regardless of the manufacturer.

Any good quality PSU is going to cost you at least $80. Return the Rosewill and say it didn't meet your power requirements or something like that. It certainly doesn't meet your quality requirements.

As long as you have the connections shared properly on the Windows 2000 machine it should work without a problem. Sharing them should be a really simple process.

You really should get a power supply that already has the PCI Express power connector instead of trying to use the two molex connector converter. This Antec power supply should provide you with plenty of power and is a quality PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817103933

Yes, a Parallel ATA drive will be compatible with your system.

Err...if you don't have the CPU installed you won't get any video output.

The equivalent you're looking for in XP is called Internet Information Services. Go to Add/Remove Programs and select Add/Remove Windows Components. Now just check Internet Information Services (IIS) and click on Next. Apache is a good alternative as well though.