Econo-Box

Hell Yeah!!!!! I was tryin to use Nlite last night and said "Hmmm i havent used this in a few years wonder if there is better ---- out there....." and then ADD kicked in and im sure i did something else.

Gonna check that out, thanks for the tip. I WILL run GTA 4 on my 2.8 HT Pentium 4, the question is will it make me wanna blow my brains out or not.

stenseltizm

Unfortunately this is a work pc so I'm not venturing to guineapig it as I've never really messed with reformats etc. Like I said I'm not great with computers and making software play nice, just never got into it for some reason though I need to.

But my old HP battlebox is back up and running now that I soldered wires directly to the motherboard to replace the faulty power jack. I was thinking it needed wiped and a fresh start so I can browse internets, maybe some email, backup of SW in case this laptop goes down, and EcTune, maybe crome/flashburn. Other than that I always tried to keep software to a minimum, you think tinyxp is the way to go then? I lost the cd's that came with the pc, it probably originally had xp pro too as that's what we tried to standardise on.

Keeping with the threadjack, what antivirus you guys recommend for the above setup? It has an expired copy of norton, my company since moved to AVG but frankly I view them both as practiacally a virus in themselves. It's hard as ---- to disable or change their settings to leave ---- alone that may need left alone.

Yonica_rage

Tim, next time I come out, I fix pc ok white man?
I got that ---- on double lock and i dont babble about ****** ---- like JD with his "badly allocated dll's" lol.

TurboG

I read this Anyone else hate HP?


and I think this

WOTM Cars vs. Turbo Busa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7yODPzbdVI&NR=1



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JonDouglas

I ------- hate my HP laptop. My old IBM T20 kicks its *** in every way except screen size. Thinkpads are ------- tanks

IntaCooler

i rather enjoy HP...on some steak

Tom-Guy

Yuriy, when you stop going off of misremembered mutterings you overheard your mother mention when talking to someone who knows how to program (not you) and learn at least as much about programming as I currently know (not a whole lot, but I'm bright and I'm getting there), then you can insert your $0.02.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/bb985014.aspx

It's a common problem, most of the freeware out and quite a lot of the "professional" software assigns dlls to overlapping memory addresses, causing windows to have to repeatedly load/unload the same dlls over and over instead of letting them occupy a relatively small amount of RAM *cough* XP with 2 gigs *cough*

If you have any more basic PC maintenance questions, Yuriy, feel free to ask. I'll always try to shoot you right.

JonDouglas

JD, have you looked at brand new Thinkpads lately? The come equipped with Vista, and you have to pay extra to get XP. Dunno if I interpreted your, "Vista box," comment incorrectly though.

:P

Tom-Guy

snm95ls, have you looked at Thinkpads lately? They come cheapest with Linux, where you don't have to pay for any sort of Microsoft product, and when you get the unit you wipe the HD and install XP sp3 that you downloaded off the internet for free.

JonDouglas

I like the way you think sir.

I am looking right now actually. Somehow I am not seeing the option for Linux, yet...