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    recommendation for partitions

    The real thing to be aware of is how randomly windows throws data around the hard drive, in windows 98 days, you could watch the actual blocks on the hard drive surface being defragged, took hours, you can't see that on the new nt defragers, but it's the same. If you restrict the space that the...
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    recommendation for partitions

    "Because seek time is the performance killer on hard disks and when you create partitions you make the heads seek between those partitions if you use both of them." That's exactly the reason why you should partition your drive. If your main os partition is close the beginning of the drive...
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    Benefits and Weaknesses of different Linux Distros?

    Comments are correct, I hadn't read the SUSE release carefully, SUSE 9.3 is not officially released yet. 9.2 and 9.1 are available through ftp install, for free, but it's not a very user friendly experience, but it does work. I've found SUSE with KDE to be much slower than any debian based...
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    Benefits and Weaknesses of different Linux Distros?

    I'll give it a shot: Mepis 3.3 - mepis is about as close to windows as you'll get unless you use xandros, it's very easy to setup, uses a slightly modified debian kernel, very very fast distro. Downside is the modified debian kernel. Other than the kernel you can use the debian apt...
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    What would motivate you to switch back to IE?

    Missed this one: "Can somebody explain to me why tabbed browsing is the best thing since sliced bread? I've been using FF for quite awhile now but have never really gotten the point of tabbed browsing. If I want another website open, I open another FF window. Why the need for tabs? How are they...
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    What would motivate you to switch back to IE?

    In the real world, since nobody is going to give me money to switch, nothing would motivate me to switch, why? Some new proprietary feature like active x that will be hacked into by some clever kid, giving them full control over the os? Not really my reason for switching to...
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    Problem installing Windows XP...!!

    that's an answer. Bad ram, cheap ram, mismatched bad ram, mismatched speeds. XP doesn't like bad ram. Try it with a stick of known good ram, name brand, crucial, samsung, kingston, corsair - take out the current ram first of course.
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    Dual-Booters vs Single-Booters

    Web developer, have to test stuff on different stuff: Main box: Windows 98 I Windows 2000 SP 4 Windows 2000 vanilla Windows XP SP 2 A non working install of kanotix Second box: Yoper Kanotix [that's what I really use, other stuff is just for testing] Beatrix Laptop: Beatrix...
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    OS for OLD thinkpad

    I have a 100 megahertz laptop with 8 mB of ram, windows 95 with Office 97 runs fine on it, office is a little slow. Windows 95 was spec'ed to run on 4 mB of ram. You can run a simple browser like Opera 5, maybe 6 too, those will I think run sort of. IE 4 would also run ok, but definitely not IE...
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    Problem installing Windows XP...!!

    You may need to dowload the old quantum fireball disk utility, the one you install on a floppy, then you can run the full disk overwrite on it, takes forever, but the disk will be like new. While you're at it, you can check the disk for errors too. Check for errors first, if there's a bunch I'd...
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    are there any 64 bit linux operating systems for newbies

    Try Mepis. Not sure if they do 64 bit yet. Ubuntu does 64 bit now, supposed to be amazing.
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    OS for OLD thinkpad

    Not enough ram to run most stuff, damn small linux might work. Windows 95 will work very well. Windows 98 version 1, the one with IE 4, will run. Not much else will though. If you could get more ram on it you could run beatrix fairly well. But more ram would cost more than a used laptop is my guess.
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    error message winnt\system32\config\system is corrupt

    Nightus tried posting his update to this issue here, but couldn't register. You can read the rest of his solution here: http://techpatterns.com/forums/about277.html
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    Windows will not return from standby most of the time

    I've always just booted, and the odd thing is, I read person after person talking about having to reinstall their os, their os bogging down, etc, and mine just keeps chugging along, I could easily see still using this W2K box in 2010 barring any hardware failure. I think windows likes rebooting...
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    Windows will not return from standby most of the time

    That's funny, windows 98 and 2000 had the same problems, I gave up on standby and hibernation years ago, too buggy. That MS report is very typical, I've read so many of those, they all claim that the problem is 'fixed' by the latest service pack, the one I've usually installed 6 months before...
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    potential new linux user- need help

    Try simply mepis, that's a more user friendly version of debian, based on debian, but easier to install and get running. It's very hard to beat debian's unstable builds for support community and available packages, if you use SUSE you are always depending on a company that might decide to start...
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    Why do weak people always turn to God?

    << Religion was created to explain the unexplainable in a time where there was little scientific knowledge. >> Ha ha, that's a good one. All religions share some qualities, one of them being the absolutele knowledge, not belief, mind you, that it, and it alone is the only correct explanatory...
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    Can you make that box to pick which program to open a file with automatically pop up?

    This kind of thing is why I absolutely refuse to use windows XP. The decisions they are making are making this OS less and less controllable. It takes me a few hours to return XP to a more or less useful condition, switching off all its defaults, this is a new one on me though. Windows 2000...
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    WinXP Sp2- Firewall allows IE as an exception?

    I'm pulling all my clients off Norton, we're trying nod32 at the moment, that's gotten some of the best reviews from those I consider best qualified to judge, the people trying to crack your system. Kaspersky was something I was looking at too, but I've been told by people I respect in this area...
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    WinXP Sp2- Firewall allows IE as an exception?

    Ok, I'll try that, I'm always happy to check out new tools, even when they are written by companies whose software was usually what allowed teh problems in the first place.
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    WinXP Sp2- Firewall allows IE as an exception?

    << How many times do I have to drill that into your head here The Norton 2004 and 2005 engines can detect what Norton calls "Expanded Threats," including Trojans and dialers, adware, spyware and some other stuff. >> No matter how you now decide to more reasonably state it, this is what I am...
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    WinXP Sp2- Firewall allows IE as an exception?

    << The Norton 2004 and 2005 engines can detect what Norton calls "Expanded Threats," including Trojans and dialers, adware, spyware and some other stuff. >>> ha ha. Very funny. I just spent about 8 hours fixing a nav 2004 'protected' machine, don't make me laugh. Unless you work for Symantec...
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    How to restore a WinXP boot sector?

    As I see it, you won't have to change much, if this works: create partitions on 120 gig drive using fdisk or whatever, to replicate your current structure on 20 gig drive. copy over all of linux to correct partitions. remove 20gig drive, replace with 120 gig drive. see if it boots...
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    Can you make that box to pick which program to open a file with automatically pop up?

    I've never seen that, but I also have my windows explorer set to this: web view :: use windows classic folders [instead of 'enable web content']. Since I always disable enable web content, and I've never seen that, ight have something to do with it. I also never use Windows XP, it makes far...
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    Windows will not boot after installing new ram

    http://www6.tomshardware.com/m...memory_modules-26.html by the way, what's up with no bb code, that's stupid. Don't make people learn non-standard stuff just to be able to post on a forum.
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    Windows will not boot after installing new ram

    What kind of ram? What brand? Did you match your old ram exactly? Or did you go to fred's ram superstore and pickup a great deal for only $39.99? Never try to save money with ram, and never mismatch ram, especially on very high speed systems. That's a great way to have what is happening to...
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    Computers, eye damage, and FPS...

    I asked my eye doctor this, he's a very good one, does research, publishes, very smart guy, he said, yes, absolutey, crt monitors mess your eyes up. I wish I could do his explanation justice, basically the radiation/elecro whatever the monitor spits out dries out certain key components of your...
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    Can you make that box to pick which program to open a file with automatically pop up?

    What are you talking about? Do you want to change which program opens files by default? That's easy, windows explorer -> tools -> folder options -> file types, change it there. Or are you asking something that's actually hard to do?
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    How to restore a WinXP boot sector?

    Just copy the fedora partitions on your 20 gig drive over to the 120gig drive. It depends on where grub is located, on the actual fedora partition, like hdb1, or the hdb itself. If it's installed on hdb1 I think you can just physically copy over all the contents of the 20 gig drive, either using...
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    WinXP Sp2- Firewall allows IE as an exception?

    Unless Norton has magically improved, you'd be well advised to run a few other AV products on your machine. Try Antivir for starters, that's a good one to install, update, run the scan, then uninstall, usually catches a bunch of trojans norton and mcafee totally miss. The run pandasoft and...
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    Do you hate Windows XP

    Nice tip on nlite, I'll have to give that a try sometime. Now if only we could just remove windows from itself...
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    Do you hate Windows XP

    JerkyBoyz0, it's all true, straight out of the Wall street journal, they covered this stuff intensively during the main trial, a lot of stuff came out. None of this is a secret, it was all documented very well, you're just not going to be reading it on msnbc anytime in the near future...
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    Do you hate Windows XP

    << If it wasent for Microsoft we wouldent have jobs. We make a business off of Microsoft's blunders. Keeps us in business, so we sorta like Microsoft. When SP2 came out we had like 10 customers in a week because SP2 crashed machines. Yes that sucks. H2 do you think microsoft is the only company...
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    Driver Installation

    Main mobo drivers, don't know how Asus packages theirs. Then the component drivers on the mobo, networking, audio, etc. Then the pci /graphics card drivers. Reboot each time it tells you to, don't skip that step or you could be sorry.
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    Operating Systems

    Box 1: Main workstation, it's for web development, testing. Windows 98 I, for website testing. IE 4 Windows 2000 sp 4. What do people do to destablize this one, it's been my main os since 2000, haven't found a consistent way except bad modem drivers. IE 5.5 [don't like IE 6, it's very buggy]...
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    error code 8192 and 7

    I'd have to agree with others, sounds like a corrupted install cd rom. When in doubt, install drivers, if you get new ones from the mobo site, they will be more upto date than what windows has natively, but using the native windows ones if they work is usually fine I'd agree. But besides the...
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    WinXP: How do i swap E: and F: drives?

    In disk management, right click on the parition you want to change the drive letter of, select 'change drive letter and path', when that window opens, highlight the drive letter, select 'edit', then you can change the drive letter to what you want it to be.
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    error code 8192 and 7

    << Do you have to install SATA drivers for that motherboard if you are not setting up RAID >> yes. sata is treated as a scsi device, which requires drivers to run it. As a rule, always install all the drivers for this deep level stuff since you never know when you'll need it in the future...
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    Windows 2K booting problems on Xmas Morning

    << i noticed that windows had to check my main drive for "consistancy". It began to delete all these files, and then the rebooting cycle began >>> never seen that before, I think a virus was checking your drives and deleting your OS data on boot, that's consistent virus behavior, set to run...
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    Four new unpatched windows vulnerabilities

    I've been breathing easier since I started running phoenix/firebird/firefox and then to breathe even easier i switched to thunderbird, now it's text only emails, no html, no outlook/express security issues, moving to linux currently, little by little. Windows is a dead end as far as I'm...