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This may not be as noticable in NFS:UG2 (I haven't played it thoroughly) As for downforce, the more you have, the more grip you will have at higher speeds. However, the more downforce you have the more drag you will have on your car. Therefore, very high downforce is useful in circuits where you have relatively high-speed corners. If you have a circuit that deals with sharp corners and straightaways, then lower the downforce. This is the way that I set up my cars in GT3:A-Spec, and the general concept is the same for all racing games (at least the realiztic ones).

I use my wireless connection all the time (I very rarely use my ethernet port on my laptop) and I've never had any such problems with the WZC service. With both my laptop and desktop computer (both running wireless) the WZC service has always worked. I have, however, had problems with WZC and manufacturer's wireless configuration utilities. Even when WZC was disabled, the manufacturer's util didn't work properly, and when I disabled the third party util, WZC didn't work properly. If you are having troubles with WZC, I would recommend removing any drivers/software that came with the wireless device and then reinstall the drivers...BUT... don't install them from the setup on the CD/download package. Extract the downloaded install package and have the windows hardware installer look for drivers in the extraction directory or the CD. Then, simply let WZC manage your networks and you shouldn't run into any problems. Hope this helps.

That looks VERY much like an online version of Morrowind... I haven't tried it tho... my semi-gaming machine is currently needed as a word processor right now... so I can't try it out right now.

Hi everyone, I've looked around for information on this, but I can't seem to find it. I'm trying to get Windows to stop telling me that it's hiding my inactive icons, but I'd still like it to give me the notification balloons (I use them for my wireless status and such). Does anyone know the registry key or setting that changes this? Thanks in advance.

Man... 57Gigs.... I'm allowed 30MB on my university e-mail account, and 1 GB on Gmail... that's pretty nuts... Definately a good idea, but I think that it would be really impractical. Imagine that I need to legitimately send a 10MB e-mail to someone. If that e-mail is sitting on my server until the other person is ready to recieve the e-mail. When they are ready to recieve it, their server would have to send a message to my server that they want to download the file. The file would be transfered from one server to the other, and then sent to the other person. You can see that this would greatly slow down the way things are done. Maybe a better way of doing this would be to have an option to bounce any spam messages back to the spammers server with a tag listing their e-mail address/account. That way, any spam e-mails that are classified as spam would be bounced back, causing their ISP to cut off their service due to a full inbox. Just something that I threw out there right now... may not be the best explanation. Cheers!

I've tried just about every single type of RAM that would work with my desktop computer, and I've never had anything bad happen to it... in fact, the Samsung RAM that came with my computer was the only bad chip I've had... kept on giving me read errors. I know my friend got one of these chips for his PowerBook, and before he put it in there, he slipped it into a Toshiba laptop and a Dell... both worked just fine. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone frying their RAM slot with stock RAM at stock settings... even people I know who o'c their systems. I've checked the specs on my computer, and it says that each slot can handle 1 GB. As for lifetime warranty, if my RAM slot fries, then I'm f**ked anyways, since my warranty from Compaq is gone.

What would Windows complain about? I've got 8 GB for mine, and that's with a 512MB pagefile and a 512 MB hiberfil (I'm on a laptop, so I actually use it). I've got all my main programs on C:, including MS Office, Acrobat, Nero, Photoshop, Java runtime, etc etc etc. I've got 3 GB free right now... and all seems well. As long as you're only putting the core files on C: and your pagefile on another partition (I'm guessing that this is what you mean by virtual memory), then you should be fine. I personally don't see any advantage to putting programs on a separate partition. If your windows buggers on you, then you'll have to reinstall the programs anyways, so there goes that extra partition. I'd say that the only programs that I'd install on a separate partition would be games, since most of them save files in new folders in their directories. That way, when you reinstall the game, your saves should still be there (one exception, Freelancer, but it's a MS game anyways). Oh.. and don't call any paritions A: or B:. For some reason, Windows thinks that they're the old school floppy drives by default. Hope this helps.

Ok... this is totally not spam... just a great deal that I stumbled upon and I thought I'd share. 1 GB DDR PC2700 RAM 128x64 200pin For $159 US!!! I just bought two!!! My laptop is gonna be a powerhouse now... Cheers!

The power options in windows let you do this. Under Power Options->Advanced, put a check mark beside "Always show icon on the taskbar". Then go back to the power schemes tab and select "Max Battery" from the pull down menu. Change the settings to your liking (display turn off after 1 min), and then click on Save As. Select a name for it (Call it MOO for now). When you want to select this behaviour (display off after 1 min), single-click on the battery/power cord icon in the system tray, and select MOO from the menu. Starting the power scheme with Max Battery will also set your computer to use the lowest possible processor speed, which will also help improve battery life. Hope this helps.

I'll have to wholeheartedly agree with this. I truly can't understand why people write viruses and trojans to spread out onto the world. The person/people who have made the blaster worm have caused so much havoc that I'd consider thier actions just as bad of a crime as walking in and trashing every single deparment store in every mall in the world. If I were to ever find someone who was writing viruses...

I don't think that you'll notice any difference between the "out of the box" XP-SP2 and a slipstreamed XP-SP2.

Yeah... I didn't like ZA at all... Sygate is really awesome because you can configure just about anything. It's even got extra security features that prevent malicious programs/trojans from shutting it down (it requires a password to stop the service). Another big plus is the fact that right now it's only drawing 6MB of RAM... that's really awesome in my eyes for a firewall that has passed every single leak I've been able to find. The more I use it, the more I like it. I've already got 5 of my friends to start using it. They haven't noticed any slowdown at all, even on a PIII 833 with 128 MB of RAM.

Just to restart this topic going a bit... Adriana Paige Mmm.... legs....

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Hi again, I don't need to backup the autocomplete data from another computer. I've tried renaming the .NK2 file to something else and then letting Outlook create another one, but still no go. This is getting kinda frustrating... I'm so used to this feature, and suddenly it's died on me...

Thanks for all the suggestions... this'll pobably keep me busy for a while.

Hey everyone, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any reg tweak that will get my AutoComplete back to normal in Outlook 2003. I've tried all the settings that I can find within the program (under Advanced E-mail options and whatnot), but when I go to write an e-mail, the autocomplete list doesn't pop up. Thanks in advance.

I think that you should look into those other OSes for information on partitions and such. I would imagine that any current distro of Linux would support multiple primary partitions. Have a look around for information on your OS. AFAIK, you should be fine with multiple primary partitions. I can't really see why it would cause any problems.

Just out of curiosity, can I ask why you would want to do this? You ended up shelling out more money for the HT feature... so why disable it?

Hi there, I've used PartitionMagic in the past. It's a good solid partitioning program. I don't think that you should have to worry about logical vs primary that much. If you're running anything non-Win9x, then just go for all primary drives. That's the way I've had my computers set up for a long time and it's all good. Another thing to realize is that logical drives are actually placed on one extened partition (i.e. a partition within a parition). If that extended partition screws up on you, then you loose all the paritions within it. (I've had this happen once... it sucked) You said that you were worried about the OS that can access the hard drive. The only OS that you need to worry about is the one that you are running. Any computers that you share with will just call for the files through your OS. Hope this helps.

Well... my new year's resolutions are: Stay ahead in my classes (8 coming up baby!!!) Schedule my time better so I have more time to spend with my girlfriend Go skiing more often!!! Find a really kickass co-op job

I think that this is a really interesting thread and that people need to stay open about the subject. This could easily turn into a subject that makes people very angry, so if you ever get upset about anything that people say, just take a deep breath and try to understand where they are coming from (like Kernel did a few posts back). Onto my two cents. I do agree with the points made about the incentive to do more work when there is a cheque coming in the mail because of it. As for piracy, I think that the major problem with the piracy of MS Office (for example, since it's already been mentioned) is the fact that most people who go out and buy a computer don't know about the alternatives. (This may have been what DL was getting at with "ignorance") For most students at my university, the Student and Teacher Edition of MS Office (includes 3 licenses) is available for $200 CAD. For what most people do with Word (write essay after essay), they could do that just as easily with OpenOffice or another similar program. However, no-one ever tells these students that they can find such a vast variety of tools online for free (by this I mean open source or freeware, not piracy, that's a different matter that I'm not going to get into here). I completely agree with the fact that most people never look past the toolbars that are available and see that the MS Office suite was actually developed for (guess what) the office environment. I think that the creators of open-source/freeware (or freeware versions) would get much more support from the public if they were to advertise a little bit more. I understand that this costs money to do (as with anything), but if companies such as Sygate were to sell their firewall (Pro edition) right beside the endless copies of Norton products in Future Shop, then people would at least know the name Sygate, and if they were interested, they could look up Sygate on the web and see that they have a free edition of their firewall available. Saving $100 is appealing to just about anyone who is in their right mind. Not only would this provide Sygate with a better market share, but it would also cut into the (near) dominance that Norton has on the security market (don't get me started on this, every computer that I see sold in stores comes with a trial version of NAV and Norton products are all I see when it comes to AV and firewalls). More competition drives prices down, which is good for all of us as well. That's a pretty good little blurb for now. I'll come back and add a bit more when I don't have to sleep becuase of a final tomorrow...

Hey everyone, I'm wondering if there's a simple ISO browsing program out there that I can use as a type of file browser to easily see what files are contained in a ISO file? Editing the file would be a plus, but not necessary. Thanks!

I'm quite happy with my version 4.5.2 For most of the stuff that I do, I'm not really going to expect the virtual PC to run at blazingly fast speeds, and the test install of Windows that I do have on there is plenty fast for what I need. If I had a slower computer, I would probably be a lot more picky about those extra speed improvements.

Hey there, Well... for what it's worth, I've chosen Sygate as my final choice. For the free version, it comes with the most options, and AFAIK, it isn't all too bad on my system in terms of resource usage... 1 process and 15MB of RAM (out of 512). On my virtual PC (in VMWare with 192MB allocated), it only uses about 6MB on average. I've tried other firewalls, such as Kerio, Outpost, and Zonealarm. Kerio seemed good, but for some reason, it caused my explorer.exe CPU usage to sit at 12-15% constantly (as people may have read in other threads). Good GUI though. OutPost just didn't seem to be very well laid out. I actually had to dig around to find the settings that I wanted... not really all that user-friendly. ZoneAlarm was probably the worst of the 4 mentioned above. Memory eating (25-30MB... rivaling NPF) and just plain clunky in the GUI. Another nice feature for me with Sygate is the ability to hide the system tray icon. It's not a deciding factor, but it's a nice one to have. I've never had Sygate crash or bugger up on me yet, so I don't really find a reason to have the system tray icon going. I can see my network activity through the windows icon well enough. And then there's Norton... *shudders* I used to use it back in the 2003 days... it was alright (read: tolerable) compared to what else was available (which I didn't know existed back then). On my desktop machine as it was back then (256 MB of RAM), it did slow things down quite a bit... I remember when I got my laptop last year (desktop had 512), I simply shut NIS down to transfer the files since otherwise it would have taken me about 4 hours... As of then, however, Norton products have gone down the drain. I'm really glad I have my copy of PartitionMagic 8 before Norton bought PowerQuest. Cheers! EDIT: Oh... and a router is also used when I'm at home, and VPN network at my university