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Just saw that the iPods were now Windows-friendly... Sure looks like the MP3 players to beat, especially with gigabytes' worth of hard disk, but I'm not sure about the price. Let me check... OK, I'm back. The 5 gb unit (that's 1000 to 2000 tunes) is US$299 on the Apple Web site, so, say...

OK! In the past couple of weeks, I've been having problems with Win2k desktop shortcuts that won't do anything when I double-click on them. This happens to the normal ones like My Computer, My Documents, Network Neighborhood and Recycle Bin, but also to some I have copied there such as Admin...

Funny thing, but something like that also happened to me... but it was only the red that was disappearing. When it went, I'd wack it on the top, close to the rear, and Bingo! I'd have red for another few minutes. Its interesting how, after a short while, I found out exactly where it was best to...

Hi Kamgo. I had the same thing happen to me, but on Win2K, and it took a while for me to discover that my system was configured in such a way that upon detecting an error, it would write a "small memory dump", and then reboot because the Automatic Reboot option was checked (this is all in the...

Nope! Did nothing to it, at least, I can't remember. Well, I thought that perhaps a registry key somewhere had been damaged, but I checked what MS said on that topic, and I seem to be fine. Please let me not have to reinstall win2k...

<FONT size=1>Hi! Just yesterday, I discovered that whenever I tried launching a number of applications (such as Windows Explorer, My Computer, Network Neightborhood, My Documents, Recycle Bin, to name a few) from desktop icons, as well as a number of Windows tasks (again Windows Explorer, but...

Hi! Just yesterday, I discovered that whenever I tried launching a number of applications (such as Windows Explorer, My Computer, Network Neightborhood, My Documents, Recycle Bin, to name a few) from desktop icons, as well as a number of Windows tasks (again Windows Explorer, but also stuff like...

Oops! Sorry about the last post. I guess pasting a table here is not a good idea.:o

<P align=left>OK. I've been having second thoughts about putting back Win98 on that old Pentium. I was thinking about all the grief my wife gives me when the system crashes. So, I dug further, and found this benchmark report, running Winsone 99, from ZD Labs that was pretty interesting. In...

Thanks to all of you who provided some insight. I guess I'll go again with Win98. Its a mixture of not being convinced that I'll get the performance improvements that MS said I'd get, plus the fear that my old motherboard which still has some ISA stuff on it is going to spit out Win2k (or is it...

It sure sounds like alot of hassle, but if the MS/ZD Labs statement that "...running the most popular business applications, with 64 MB of RAM, Windows 2000 was 32 percent faster than Windows 95 and 27 percent faster than Windows 98..." is true, then its worth a try (yeah, I know, I shouldn't be...

OK! The kid's PC, a 64 mb Pentium 200, has run out of hard disk space (2 x 2 gb is not enough for a decent MP3 collection...) I've just put my hands on a new (old) 6 gb hard disk, and am now planning on replacing one of the two 2 gb units. The question, however, is which OS to install. I'm using...

Well, I finally got Administrator privileges for my office workstation so I can now install anything I want... and they're managed by a subcontractor (a big global IT services company with a 3-letter name that starts with an "E", and end with an "S")! It took alot of hard work, but here's how I...

The only advice I can give you is for the video card... and it depends if you need zippy 3D for games and all. Because if you don't, and all you want is high quality and performance 2D graphics for Windows with excellent video output quality, then look for Matrox products. I'm not sure about...

I'm on service pack 2. Tried searching on "bugcheck", and couldn't find anything. I've just been to the Microsoft site, and found a lot of stuff (albeit somewhat cryptic) on the "minidumps". I've also downloaded this Debugging Tools for Windows (a.k.a. WinDbg), which I am now trying to make some...