Recent content by Darkcirc

Yup right click on an empty space on the taskbar, click properties and uncheck "use personalized menus", in work, excel, et al. it is a little different but I believe it carries the same name or at least a similar name/description. dc

Oh BTW AFAIK there is nothing to tell you what ATA spec you are using under winders, you can only allow it to choose something higher, the driver, theoretically determines what speed it weants to go. It IS X-setup Xtec (maker of Xsetup) so grab it and see what you can do. and don't forget to...

And I seem to have lied to you. so far this is the best I've found. Though I would assume you've done it, plus it really should only help under load. hang in there a little longer, I won't give up quite yet cause the util was kick ass, no wait! INSPIRATION, is it X-setup? I think it is, off to...

Lemme take a look around I had one for XP that supported 2k too, it was winsetup or something, it will come to me, I'll find it after lunch. hand tight for like 2 hrs... dc

freazeOrBurN man you are everywhere bein an ass aren't you. The or "whatever" covered speed step, and I'm sure compaq would tell him what to do anyway. unless you have something constructive to say, go back to wherever you used to lurk and lurk there. Other than the "Its an AMD" comment you were...

freazeOrBurN, its funny but I would imagine that cards would fall rather slowly on an XP system with 64 megs of ram and a slow proc, and quite a big faster on a machine with a fast proc and 64megs of ram. Point is I was covering all bases, obvious not meeting you exacting standards but still, I...

I believe there is a proggy from intel that will do this, also freakishly compaq has good driver support, take a gander at what they have there. Also make sure speedstep or whatever is enabled in the bios. Compaqs always come with custom drivers and stuff, thats what you'll need to find. Good...

Well, one ting is that WinXP's kernel is a little bit bigger, by a little I mean alot. This makes a huge difference on alot of machines, I've noticed that my cellery on a stick in my Sun (assume its a standard PC with a scsi subsystem for this example) is noticeably slower from win98 to win2k to...

ok the bootup stuff is irrelavent as far as winders is concerned, That simply says your hardware can run at that speed. In winders your perf could be capped by approximately several bazillion things, bad drivers, incorrect settings, etc ,etc. Get chipset drivers, make sure your write buffer is...

Have you looked into mobo drivers? maybe the usb is not playing nice? You mention intel systems as working correctly, and as much as it pains me it seems they do. AMD has come a long way butthier software seems a little flakey. Make sure you have the AMD driver pack installed or the VIA 4-in-1's...

You need to be sure you burned the CDs as ISOs and not as iso's on a datacd. and then you have to make sure your computer is set to boot from cdrom. Thirdly your cdrom/Motherboard needs to support ATAPI . If it is a P150 or lower you might have a problem with this. And if the cd is less than 8x...

Either way the point remains any distro will allow you to use SMP, its just a matter of compiling the kernel or installing an SMP one. Choose your favorite, use it. Try lots, then jump into this argument. Personally I use mandrake because I have learned to deal with its config quirks and how to...

The problem stems from corruption of not the system/config dir but whats in it. The windows XP SAM is kept in that dir, NO variation of the admin password will help you, nor will the recovery console as that capability would add to an already weak security system. Best bet : Reinstall to...

I do not believe they are legal as ms licenses them to PB for distribution in new PCs. They are AFAIK licensed ONLY for PB Pcs. I've never heard of MS endorsing the transfer from one PC to another. The for distribution only with a new pc is marginally legal, as one could argue that you are not...

Is this a legit retail version? or are you using the 'FCKGW-..." key? Rumor is they shut that key off for windows update. There are instructions in the KB for fixing such issues as well best to start there if you are using a legit copy. dc