Recent content by pcarbon02

Well I've been having a lot of issues with Vista freezing up. The thing that makes the least sense to me is that I have Task Manager open (and it usually still responds when Firefox or IE or AIM freezes) and it says I am using 3% or 5% CPU and 1.5GB - 2GB RAM (out of 4GB) It didn't come with...

Thank you Billb2, I hear you loud and clear. LOL Maybe I should heed everyone's advice and just stick with Vista haha

Is there any way to pull the existing drivers from the system that are under Device Manager? I am sure I can download some, but I dont know about ones like "Batteries -> Microsoft AC"

As I understand it, there are a couple hurdles before making the leap that I have come across so far. I have a new HP G60T-200CTO. Specs are: P7450 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo Wistron 3617 mainboard WD Scorpio WD2500BEVT Intel WiFi Link 5100 4GB Samsung PC2-6400 NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GE 256MB...

That is good to hear that the boot disc takes care of a corrupted boot sector! I do have the desktop around still that I converted from so I could use that or a thumb drive to back things up. The desktop is all encrypted using XP Pro's EFS. That is cool that work places use Truecrypt as...

I have a question about TrueCrypt if anyone knows the answer... If you only use encrypted containers (as opposed to whole drive encryption), what do you do about paging files, memory dumps, temporary files, etc? I am using an HP laptop that I plan on using for school. However I keep...