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For me (I've got the Pentium-M 1.4GHz), when I've got my power options set to max battery, the CPU speed never goes above 600MHz, regardless of what I'm doing. I even tried renderring fractals, which uses 100% of the CPU power, but when I was in Max Battery mode my processor speed never went above 600MHz. You do have almost complete control over the processor speed when you set the power options to what you want. Also... I've never had a situation where my processor speed instantly goes up to full speed when there's a short load (like browsing, loading a small program). As for Word, it's not really a small program, so it's understandable that the system will momentarily speed up the processor to load the program and then drop it down again when it's done. For notepad, it'll just pop open with no delay. If you set the power scheme to Max Battery, the system should try to stay at it's lowest speed (250MHz) as much as possible. What make of laptop is yours? Some manufacturers have better power control utilities (like IBM laptops), while others unfortuantely provide none.

You don't need any extra programs to do this... just look at the Windows Power Schemes. Always On = Full power all the time Max Battery = As little speed as possible Portable/Laptop = Average useage Just set the timings for the screen, hard drive, and standby/hibernation as you want them and you're good to go. Put the icon in the system tray and then single click it to select the power scheme as you want it.

Awesome!!! This is exactly what I wanted... Thanks a million.

Hey everyone, I'm trying to make some batch files that you can run to toggle the status of a service (in particular, the print spooler). I'd like to make the batch file something like... @echo off IF "print service started" ( net stop spooler ) ELSE ( net start spooler I'd like to keep my spooler service disabled unless I need to print something (usually only with Acrobat PDF) and I'd like a quick link to do this from the start menu or such. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

@MCT #2 and #3 are very nice... I definately wouldn't mind being the T-X's next victim... @visionz Very nice walls, though I fear that the second might be taken down. Just to make another contribution... Jennifer

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.