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    Is your Windows 7 64 bit rock solid stable?

    As stable as W7 32bit? And are you running any 32 bit software on it? Thanks.
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    Vid card or CPU upgrade

    Looking to upgrade my 5770 or CPU. Have a 24" widescreen Dell, resolution is killing my framerates in Crysis, 1680x1050. I know my CPU sucks, would upgrading to a Phenom X4 965 help more than a GPU upgrade? Athlon 2 X3 450 3.2G Asus M487TD EVO 4G corsair xfx 5770 Corsair TX 650
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    Partition question

    Can I shrink my D drive(Vista) and expand my C drive(Win7) and what OS would i do it from or doesn't it matter? Thanks. http://img.photobucket.com/alb...-12-200911-57-30AM.png
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    High cpu usage Win 7

    Whenever i have a windows explorer window open and media player open simultaneously explorer usage is 40-60%. Closing one or the other brings me back to normal. Offending dll is SHLWAPI.dll This is windows explorer not IE. win 7 build 7000 anyone know a fix? Thanks.
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    Win 7 taskbar question

    Any way to keep pinned programs to the left when other windows are open? Thanks http://img.photobucket.com/alb...greyeyezz/Captureb.png
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    Vista /start /search programs not launching

    When a list of programs comes up after typing a few letters some launch and some don't. I tried rebuilding the index to no avail. I really use this feature often and need to get it fixed. Can anyone help here? thanks.
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    Viewsonic VP930 or HP LP1965

    specs HP http://www.prad.de/en/guide/screen3549.html View http://www.prad.de/en/guide/screen2348.html AGP card so i need to keep res reasonable. I have no interest in a widescreen. I'm leaning toward the VP930 but theyr'e getting hard to find. Specs about equal.
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    Vista vs XP dowload speeds

    I Dloaded this driver using Vista, then booted to my XP drive and Dloaded the same driver, here's the results Vista http://img.photobucket.com/alb.../greyeyezz/vsdload.png XP http://img.photobucket.com/alb.../greyeyezz/vdloads.png And i have disabled auto tuning. These downloads were...
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    Adding more ram to Asus K8V-X mobo

    I heard somewhere its a bad idea to fill up my memory slots on this mobo, is this true or FUD? Here's a pic from the manual. http://img.photobucket.com/alb.../greyeyezz/k8vxmem.png
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    Laptop won't boot off burned cd

    Its a HP Pavilion ZX5369cl. It was given to me and i need to install an OS. There is no firmware updates for the drive. It will read commercially burned cd's just fine, but nothing i've burned with Nero. Could this be a Nero issue? Thanks.
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    HP Pavillion DVD drive broken

    I'm wondering will the laptop boot off a USB drive? I can't reformat or install any programs or anything. What are my options? It's a ZX 5369CL. Thanks.
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    Klipsch Promedia 2.1

    Is this speaker system as good as everyone says? I have an Audigy 2 ZS. Is any 2.1 system comparable? Thanks.
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    Gigabyte 3D aurora

    Few questions Does the door come off? Do the stock fans really perform poorly? Does the dust filter get clogged easily and impede airflow? Is it as big inside as it seems? Thanks.
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    Corsair XMS vs value select

    Will i notice any difference in speed? I need to upgrade to 2G for Vista and am going with the VS ram and no i don't OC.
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    Dual booting XP with separate drives

    I would like to create a gaming drive with XP pro, video and sound card drivers, a few game's and nothing else. My current drive 160G, sata has XP pro and all my programs. The gaming drive is my 80G spare sata. Will windows see both bootable drive's during boot up? How would i select which to...
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    Drive size performance

    Talking SATA, does the size of the drive impact performance in any way? Say a 80G vs 160G.
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    socket 754 pci express mobo

    Any recomendations? Have A64 3000, 1G corsair CMX thanks.
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    Far Cry question

    Is there any way to assign all weapons at an earlier level?
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    No live distro will run properly

    No matter what live cd distro i try either i get a blank screen or messed up graphics. Tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, PClinuxOS..... Powercolor X800GTO 6.6 NGO drivers, Sony GDM-5411 monitor. BTW i'm running XP native drivers as no drivers were included with my monitor, nor can i find any on the net...
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    My Far Cry performance not impressive

    My specs: Athlon 64 3000 (754) Asus K8V 1G corsair Powercolor X800 GTO agp Omega 6.03 Nothing OC'd Patch 1.33 Running at 1280x1024x32, 2x AA, AF-1, everything set to medium and my fps still dips to the 20's in some parts of the game, normally average around 50-70 fps. Tried different...
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    True Image question

    Main drive WD 80G sata. One partition. I want to upgrade to a larger 120G drive. Images are stored on an external. Is it possible to tranfer my latest image(15G) onto the 120G drive without installing sata drivers? What would be the best way to accomplish this? Using TI 8 Bld 826 Thanks.
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    Does removing uneeded processes make a more stable machine?

    I say yes. Less potential for conflicts with software/drivers/system. Example: New X800GTO, updated to 6.3 cats. Rig wouldn't come out of hibernation. I always use hiber when away from pc for a few hours. Did some googling. Culprit- ati hotkey poller or ati smart. Disabled both. Got my...
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    Recomend me a 19" CRT

    Returned a Samsung 940b, absolutely would not save my adjustments no matter what, their software locked my rig up every time, there's just no way that monitor looked as good as my Viewsonic G90F but thats another story. Are Phillips decent crt's? Is a refurb a gamble...
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    Why do people badmouth VIA

    Just curious why VIA has such a bad reputation. My K8V-X has worked flawlessly.:confused:
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    A64 3000 to 3700 (754)

    Since this is my only upgrade path with this socket would there be a noticeable performance increase bumping up to 2.4 or am i wasting money? BTW the rig isn't even a year old so i don't want to tear it apart. Thanks.