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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Some more opinions Bsobel...not that they can out power yours :roll: Hard drive fragmentation articles: Taken from http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=472194 Reduce hard drive growing pains. As you fill up your hard drive, Windows places new files wherever there's room. Sometimes...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Har har... Anybody who can't post more than a sentence and tosses in random comments will always be a part of the peanut gallery. You're right up there with the guy who goes in for sloppy seconds with the drunken chick at the party. Crummy thing is you find out it?s your sister. You guys are...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    We're down to 1 issue here. Fragmentation. Also those are some great tips pouring in from the peanut gallery. Pure wisdom. As for examples Bsobel.., I'd love to setup a camcorder to catch all these "moments" on tape. Digital evidence? I'm not quite prepared to do so but it may be a last...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    We're keeping the thread going by getting various feedback from other members and or people. I don't think we need to confuse the audience by adding additional phrases to the question. The synopsis of this problem is condensed in the post I made and I think thats the low and heavy of what we're...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    We're going to keep this thread going :D I've enjoyed all the 1 liners from the peanut gallery. Keep em coming. As for the defrag issue..I dug into it a little more and found some interesting responses from some qualified people. Thoughts: #1 "Comment from pjedmond" feedback...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Thank-you Jack & Harvey for seeing the light. I probably should have spent more time writing the initial post but I was hoping for a discussion and boy have I received one. I suppose this is some sort of initiation into the anandtech realm. I enjoy it. :D I've also limited my sig for all...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    We can teach an old dog new tricks. He sounds like some of the microsoft staff who claim their work is perfect only to release update after update trying to fix exploits and problems. I originally said it will make your system run better. Then I mentioned I've encountered crashes from...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    You're defending XP likes you're part of the Gates family. Those articles to also apply to XP. They don't happen as often but you claim XP is perfect with heavily defragged HD's. We agree the old OS's had major problems with this. But problems still occur with severely fragmented drives. They...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Not just clicking the mouse on the desktop....clicking on minimize tabs, max tabs and start menus while the computer is hung.
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    There are many documented cases of errors and crashes on Windows caused by fragmentation. A crash takes place, for instance, when attempting to run CHKDSK on a highly fragmented drive. According to MS KB Q160451 and Q165456, there are several situations where fragmentation causes a system...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Here we go again... Fragmentation is a major factor in slow boot times. Many cases are on record of machines taking twenty or thirty minutes to reboot that previously took only a minute or two. This situation can deteriorate to the point where a machine will take hours or not boot up at all...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Yep..many are risky. However i've had my system like that for ages with no issues. Great for music production, basic usage and heavy gaming. Coffee time :)
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Antispy... Yes..agreed however it removes "remote assistance" a big no no for bsobel
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    There goes bsobels white towel. Falsehood? lol. Go smoke another bowl. Ask the average computer user if they know what defrag is. Many will mention to you that they've never done one. I fix computers for a living and we encounter this scenario several times per month. The HD is so badly...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Windows Xp is basically tweaked out of the box. This isn't the 9x days. fORM---agreed but you can always do more When actually reading a file the head will be moving all over the place anyway because of IOs to other files. So if the head is moving all over the place anyway fragmentation...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    quote: ---------------------------------That is exactly my point. You have enough experience to possibly understand what the program is telling you. However, your recommendation is that Noobs use this tool, which is not geared towards them. fORM-------It doesn't hurt to save a log file...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Let's dig in shall we: > 1) Hijackthis // LSP checker (great post by another member) Yes, exactly the type of tool your Noob user will use and understand. How about recommending something usefull, like things to do to lower one's chances of getting spyware on the system in the first...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Finally some feedback...:D I'll read and respond. Give me a few mins.
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    I'm still waiting to hear about all your great ideas. Maybe "Bsobels Elite" guide to windows? Instead you refer to my suggestions as crap and call them "dangerous". Then again you're from the US of A where "Guns" aren't considered dangerous. Keep diggin yourself deeper. Your colors are...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    I guess a few people are confused about what the term "Noob" means. With a status of elite member and 4970 posts one should no better. You knock the post yet provide no intelligent argument or facts to back up your claim. Maybe offer some of your amazing tricks to helping xp run smoothly. I'd...
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    fORMS Noobie guide for Getting XP to run smooth as butter

    Some of these tips are obviously located in the forums so I will give credit where credit is due. If I missed your post it's purely because I missed it. The site is huge! Install the OS (ie XP) on it's own drive. 30-50gb is plenty All programs on a seperate drive. All games on a seperate...
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    A8N-SLI nVidia Firewall and Azures bittorrent [SOLVED!]

    BT permissions tab came up, i accepted & haven't had a single problem. Weird that you're getting issues. Dump the drivers & reload?
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    Setting up a new rig soon w/ Asus A8n

    1) Make sure you connect every single connector including the power cable to the mobo. 2) Double check that ram is properly inserted. 3) Connect the video card in the 1st PcX slot. 4) Properly install updates mobo updates first, followed by OS updates and leave the video card updates to the...
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    I love my A8N-SLI Thread.

    Felt awesome when she first booted up and I saw the SLI screen glowing. Makes a huge difference in games like Call Of Duty. 350-400 Fps now :)
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    Nvidia hardware firewall

    The firewall works fine. I dumped XP firewall and turned on the NV one. It pops up with permission tabs from time to time and keeps any mystery programs from connecting. Great for blocking silly programs like Quicktime, Real player and other useless media players.
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    A8N SLI (not deluxe) trouble.

    Don't buy Maxtor drives :)
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    Great board, no issues :) Would recommend it to anyone