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Any game that needs a cd to play will put a regestry entry into your regestry that tells the game which drive letter it was installed from. You could try a 'no cd' patch or if you dont want to mess around with patch's and backing up .exe's you could try something like Farstones Virtual CD Drive...

Thats all well and good, but lets face it, Optical is good enough - someone tell me a 'Realistic' advantage to having this 'mighty mouse'.

Could be a boot sector virus, then again it could be BIOS / CMOS resident also. It could just be that either your windows regestry became corrupt or a corrupt start up file, if you have another working pc using the same version of windows, you could try copying command.com from a working pc to...

Linux can run on 16mb ram easy so i hear, I got an old compaq desktop, 486 DX4 100 with i think 48 MB ram in it and a 420MB hard disk. I dont know alot about laptop's as old as yours but if it will take the standard desktop 72 pin simm's i got a pair of 8mb's and a pair of 16mb's :P

They would be great while surfing, If your thinking of a 3rd party popup blocker System mechanic has one that is dead easy to use and cutomisable, plus system mechanic does all sorts of stuff that can help you 'organise' your pc - free download @ www.iolo.com or www.download.com can also be...

This might sound dumb, but did you try setting your drivers to a 'Standard VGA driver' BEFORE you upgraded to the latest drivers ? Something like, however your system is now, set it to use a standard driver, reboot once its changed, for changes to take effect. The go update your drivers to the...

SP 2 or SP 1a ( as oppose to 1 ) Service pack one 1a, the only difference was that it changed the default setting for your firewall to be on, where as under SP1 the default setting was off, and it had to be manually turned on. As for what im using, im using a Belkin router with built in NAT...

Whats so great about ANY toolbar ? i have no use for any of them as i run just a couple of progs that do everything i want.

And there i was thinking they planed to take SATA beyond 150, upto i think 500 over the next 18 months or so, SATA 150 was sposed to be the earlyest form of SATA for public retail with developments comming to bring i think SATA 300 & 500 in the future. If that happens, what will beat it then ?

From what i can tell the only way to block printing of as mentioned, game FAQ's or e-mails, would be to block the student accounts / workstations from accessing the sites in the first place, might not be very practical tho

Try going into control panel, > double click on system > ( cant remember which tab but ... ) on one of the tab's it will tell you the workgroup name or network ID, with a button next to it to change it. Just hit the button, change the netowrk ID to your last name ( like your other PC's ) and hit...

Must admit, i've not tryed firefox, but i do like opera

I completed it in around 8 hours or so, on and off, over a week at work, but yeah. the levels didnt bug me much, it was kinda logical that if you went in you had to come out, and every other game i played, you come out some place else, halo was about the first game that had the go in and out the...

Note jan 21st 98' - 'The internet' saw MBM V1 - 6.5 years of public release plus time to research, develop and bug test V1 before it was released :P

UPDATE - they also do specificly 'Academic' printer management software , seems to have alot more in its features, and can be run as a domain server or localy, you can read all about it here ... http://www.softwareshelf.co.uk/products/display2.asp?p=121 and here is the price list ...