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Microsoft ususally does NOT make their own products, outside of the core windows OS and office products. Take for instance their defrag with win2k/XP.. it is clearly the same defrag as Executive Software, it even shows that in the about page. Norton did the last defrag. It doesn't amaze me at...

XP is Microsoft's move to make an NT based kernel the standard for all home users. There was a point when this was unheard of, but at that time running NT at home was also unheard of becuase of incompatibility. With Windows 2000 and XP home users can appreciate stability. At current time of...

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No doubt my work enjoyed streaming those anime episodes. Very interesting to see the fundamental changes made so American audiences would accept them. Content is vital, and you've got that. There are some spelling errors here and there, but those are easily fixed. What you need is a basic...

Brett.. not to nitpick but you mention that you could possibly have made your computer for $900, instead of $1200. To me, 25% is a pretty big savings and would influence my buying decision. But I would never want the perks some people look at when buying a home computer so maybe thats where...

In case you don't know, a hub does not need a dedicated uplink port. You can connect to any port using a crossover cable. However, those are special cables that aren't the same as regular cat5, obviously. Now, some hubs have little buttons that will change one port from regular to uplink. If...

You could think of B&O as a rich person's Bose. Sure Bose makes lots of claims, but at the end of the day they are what J6P aspires to own. If you make a ton of money, why would you buy Bose, sure they are "the best" but they aren't the most expensive. That is where B&O comes in. They...

Wayne Interesting.. 512 bytes. You say that is inefficient, how so? Say you have a 1022 byte file. With 4k clusters it will take up 4000 bytes, but w/ 512 byte clusters it will take up 1k, thus a savings of 3k with the expense of 8 times more clusters. I don't doubt this but I would like...

When I was younger my family had one of those really large horizontal freezers. You know, the kind you can chop lots of people up and hide in there. (Personally I think the deep well idea is lacking as there is a lot of wasted and unreachable space once it is filled with bodies, er groceries.)...

Alan Not to be too picky, but NTFS5 (the version in XP) IS NT and thus you get full NT security. On a very basic level, it is very applicable to the home user and should have been added long ago to prevent problems. As shown in this thread. Jon

Are you sure that is such a great deal? Check www.Slickdeals.net Below is a paste from them Dell Home has Dell Dimension 4400 Pentium 4 1.8GHz Desktop (80GB HD, 16X CDRW, 256MB DDR, 64MB GeForce2MX) for $629 shipped. Go to Dell Home. Enter the E-Value code "6V303 - D4418SS" at the top left...

you really need to run a scandisk on your drive before converting. I didn't see anything about what your current file system actually was. I assumed that if a PC shipped w/ XP from the factory that it would have NTFS as the file system. Anyway, don't worry about data loss w/ the conversion...

Why don't you do a little investigating and see what some new speakers would cost. IF they are 5 1/4 or 6 inch then you can get some replacements fairly cheap. If you aren't comfortable installing them take it to a shop. Standard installs are very simple and a regular shop such as best buy or...

I'm really not sure what file system PCs ship with, but if you go to My computer, and right click on the C drive, and view the Properties, it will tell you the file system. If it is Fat32 you need to convert to NTFS before you can effectively lock out your children from accessing certain...

Could it be heat? Sometimes heat can do strange things, although ususally strange things are then accompanied by a total system lockup, but you never know.