Recent content by fighterpilot

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    Vista Aero & Gaming Performance

    Well, I have 4GB in my Vista box with a 4GB ReadyBoost USB drive and the HDD constantly still spins. It drives me nuts! I get apps that hang prior to loading, and can't even open my Yahoo Mail without having to allow it to load. There's issues with many freeware apps I use which I doubt...
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    Where'd all my FSX Icons Go in Windows Vista?

    Switched back to default Vista and everything shows up now. Oh well, time to move on I guess and get used to Vista's bells and whistles. Thanks for your help though!
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    Where'd all my FSX Icons Go in Windows Vista?

    No Games Explorer. Also have no start menu search because I switched to classic view. I guess I may have to live with Vista's new look.
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    Where'd all my FSX Icons Go in Windows Vista?

    Where is "Games Explorer" ? I have no "Games Explorer" anywhere.
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    Vista Aero & Gaming Performance

    Well, like me, I just built a new machine and would rather install Vista now than shell out for XP then Vista later. Upgrading is enevitable.
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    Where'd all my FSX Icons Go in Windows Vista?

    I just recently built a new machine and installed Windows Vista Home Premium. After Vista was installed and running, first thing I did was switch to a Windows Classic setup - not sure if that has anything to do with my issue or not. Being a flight sim nut I installed Microsoft Flight...
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    Help! PC Won't Post

    D'oh! DUH! I don't know why I didn't even try that. While that helped, it appears that something plugged into my USB port is causing problems. Probably my iPod again. It keeps seeing it as a bootable device and has caused issues in the past. Thanks for your help.
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    Help! PC Won't Post

    Thanks, but tried that already and no go.
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    Help! PC Won't Post

    My PC: ASUS A8N5X R1.00 AMD Socket 939 Athlon64 3800+ X2 Rosewill 400W PSU GeForce 6600 256MB PCI-E 4x512MB (2GB) Corsair Value Select DDR400 Two hard drives, two DVD-RW drives I have tried swapping memory in different slots, one at a time, two at a time, etc. I tried a different PSU...
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    Internet Explorer Hangs When New Window Opened

    Will try the -extoff option for a bit and see how that goes. Thanks!
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    Internet Explorer Hangs When New Window Opened

    I am using Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). Frequently when I open a window, it hangs for about ten seconds before I can enter a URL or any text input. Otherwise it works perfetly fine. Please don't tell me to use Firefox or some other browser as I have my reasons for using IE7. Thanks...
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    Help! - Dell 2407WFP and eVGA 7950 GT can't get 1440x900 resolution

    2407 is easy for selecting between 1:1, aspect, and fill. That's not the issue. The issue is that you can't select 1440x900 in the video resolution because it isn't natively supported by the 2407 drivers.
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    Help! - Dell 2407WFP and eVGA 7950 GT can't get 1440x900 resolution

    THanks for the responses guys. I just perused through the Anandtech review of this monitor and that was a complaint that it could handle these other resolutions, just it isn't included with the Dell driver. I used PowerStrip, and it seemed to switch just fine to those resolutions. And to...
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    Help! - Dell 2407WFP and eVGA 7950 GT can't get 1440x900 resolution

    Not sure if this is a hardware issue with monitor or video card, driver issue, or other? I basically want to display 1440x900 resolution on my Dell 2407WFP (1920x1200 native) and am using an eVGA 7950 GT 512MB PCI-E video card. I tried to create a custom resolution but it says it can't do it...
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    Windows XP SP3?

    2008!?! WTF? I would think first half of 2007 makes much more sense, but what do I know? I've tried nlite a few times, but I always get errors of some sort, and wanted to use nlite to save time, not spend more time installing and error checking. I reinstall once every nine to twelve months...