Recent content by neil

I have been searching everywhere on how to do this, but have been unsuccessful. This is what im trying to acccomplish. Im trying to get rid of the media preview in explorer But only for quicktime movies. Everytime i click on a *.mov file explorer tries to show the preview of it in the lower...

First of all i would like to wish everyone a happy new year! ok, now here is my question. In my PC i have a 200gb HD that i only use for storage to rip my audio cds to. I set this drive up as Readonly under Win2ks permisions so that nothing accidently gets deleted. Now my problem is that every...

excellent! thanks

i was just trying to find out before i opened the package. So if they are made by CMC i can return them ;-) So bassically im wondering if anyone bought some recently (ones with the same UPC or Part#) and has used a program such as DVDinfo on them.

i just picked up the 50pk of Memorex dvd+r at bestbuy. ok, i just have a simple questions.. It ALL Memorex 4x +R media made by Ricoh? the UPC reads on the spindle 3470705544 more info on the side of the spindle part # 32025544 made in Taiwan Can anyone confirm which company made...

when i was using --alt-preset extreme it just gave me a warm fuzzy feeling over --aps. Now, for the last ~1.5years i have been using mpc for all my encoding adventures, and i couldnt be happier. (well, if there was hardware support for musepack that would make me happier......but until then i...

EAC with Lame 3.90.3 --alt-preset extreme check outhydrogenaudio for all the information that you could possibly need about Lossy and Lossless audio.

I also had unlimited with ATTBI. Damn, Comcast! I am using Grabit, and all i did was just change the sever name from netnews.attbi.com, to netnews.comcast.net. (im not sure if that the excate sever names) I was wondering did anybody have to get an user name and password to access the comcast...

i have been using Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15a for awhile now, never have a need for upgrading...... i like it. I use to have ZoneAlarm, but i ran into some problems with it. Every once-in-awhile it would like my network connection...

thanks techfuzz for the quick reply. Yes, i am runing Window2000 SP3. and the disk format will be NTFS. cool, thanks -neil

within the next couple of days i am going to be installing a WD 200gb Hard drive in my puter. The drives main purpose is to store/play all my music files. So i wanted to use the drive as one big partition. I bought a Western Digital WD2000JB that came with the Promise PCI IDE controller that i...

If you have a harddrive running off of a PCI IDE controller card will the OS still have the ability to put the Harddrive into Sleep Mode?

i just picked of the new px-504a drive from mwave last week. So far everything has been working very smoothly. I know that there are other very similar dvd+rw drives out there, but i have allways relied on plextor as a quality company, so im sticking with them. -neil

well i just order the WD2000JB from Frys, i figured that the price was pretty damn good ;-) neways i was wondering if it would be bad to set up this drive as one big partition? i am just going to use it for media storage. so i probley will never have to defrag it. thanks -neil

thanks rbV5! i will probely order one from Frys, if my local bestbuy is no longer offering the rebate. thanks -neil