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    Resizing a partition

    The topic is pretty self-explanatory. What program(s) do I use to resize a partition and/or how is it gone about? Any replies are greatly apprieciated. Edit: Now I'm starting to think that this thread should be in technical support. Hmm...
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    How many of you play World of Warcraft?

    I play every now and again, although not as regularly as I used to. I got the game about three months ago, and I have a level 27 orc warlock and a level 17 Human warrior. Post what character(s) you have too.
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    Accidentally deleted a partition on my HDD

    Well it all started about two days ago, when I attempted to put ipodlinux on my ipod nano. All was going well until a little incident happened in command prompt. When entering the line to delete a partition on my ipod nano, by accident i deleted my Data partition (documents, eg: music etc) on my...
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    Switch to linux!

    Switch to linux
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    6600GT Question

    I recently ordered a 6600GT, anyway my question is about cooling. Is the cooling on the card I ordered any good? Here's a picture of it: Club3D 6600GT
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    The best free anti-virus program

    Any recommendations? I just replaced my HDD and put windows on it. As of yet I don't have any anti-virus protection on it, what free anti-virus program is the best?
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    Club3D

    I just ordered a geforce 6600GT by club3d, are club3d any good? As in, how does the club3d 6600GT compare to other brands.
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    Should I start drinking coffee?

    ditto
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    Which card?

    Now that my radeon 9800 pro is damaged (I don't know what caused it, possibly overheating) I am forced to replace it. I'm considering of getting a Geforce 6600GT as a sort of replacement (just something that gives roughly the same performance at a respectable price). Which brings me to my...
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    What the hell is up with gmail?

    I replaced my HDD lately and hence reinstalled windows, I'm trying to setup Mozilla Thunderbird again and Thunderbird keeps telling me that it can't connect to pop.gmail.com. Now I entered all the correct ports etc. So the silly mistake was that I forgot to activate pop from my gmail account on...
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    powersupply question

    I have a 305W PSU at the moment. My radeon 9800 pro is damaged so I want to buy a 6600GT as a sort of replacement for it (since I don't have huge amounts of money to play with). The 6600GT requires a 350W PSU but since I have a 305W PSU can I run it?
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    New graphics card, should I?

    I've been noticing graphical glitches when I play games on my PC (Battlefield 2 demo, doom 3, CSS etc). Its a sort of snowy black and white dots that appear, I have a radeon 9800 pro, 3.2ghz P4, 1GB of ram. Anyway I think that that my graphics card may be damaged so I may get a new one (6600GT)...
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    Kerio firewall problem

    When I try to play an online game in the Battlefield 2 demo it says that it can't connect when my kerio personal firewall is on. When I turn it off I can play online however. Is there anyway that I can play online and have my firewall on at the same time?
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    Strange graphical glitches

    In every PC game I play (doom 3, BF2 demo, HL2, CSS) I got odd black dots appearing sometimes, any idea to why this is happening? I can't remember when it started. Radeon 9800 pro catalyst 5.6 (newest) Pentium 4 3.2ghz 1GB of RAM 200GB seagate barracuda ATA 7200RPM
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    Star Wars Episodes 7, 8 and 9 plots!

    I found the plots for episodes 7, 8 and 9. The last episodes to be made in the Star Wars series. The plots seem to be authentic enough. Link
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    Which are you?

    A star trek nerd or a star wars nerd? Honestly I can't decide, but my signiture is such an influence.
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    Guide for installing/uninstalling video card drivers

    Why should I do it? Uninstalling video card drivers properly and deleting the nessacery registry entries prevents your new drivers conflicting with files left over from the older ones. For ATi Catalyst users 1. To uninstall your ATi Catalyst drivers (version 4.3 or higher), go to the...
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    My newbie friendly guide for uninstalling/installing video card drivers.

    Why should I do it? Uninstalling video card drivers properly and deleting the nessacery registry entries prevents your new drivers conflicting with files left over from the older ones. For ATi Catalyst users 1. To uninstall your ATi Catalyst drivers (version 4.3 or higher), go to the...
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    What version of Linux do you use?

    I use SUSe 9.3 pro, its a nice OS for, well, everything with the exception of gaming. I use Windows XP (sigh... I know) for gaming.
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    How do you think the universe came about?

    I'll start off my idea; A singularity is when a star collapes and a blackhole is created. Everything is sucked into that blackhole, matter, light, time, even space itself. Its unknown whether or not anything can come back out of a blackhole, but scientists speculate that it can't. An easy way...
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    Unable to change my sig

    Yesterday I was adding the link for my system specs and I kinda messed up the code. Now there's no option to change my sig, I know how to fix the code for it easily.
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    Unreal vs Quake

    Which game series do you prefer? Personally it has to be Quake for me. I still think that Quake 3: Arena is one of the best games there is, its just more addictive than Unreal 2k4.
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    The 7800 and G70

    The G70 will appear as the '7800' and will come in Vanilla, GT and GTX versions. It can do DX9 and OpenGL 2.0, and obviously SM3.0. Apparently it will go on sale on the 22nd of June in PCI-E varients first, followed by AGP varients. The single config card will require a 400W PSU and the SLi...
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    More RAM, how much of a difference will it make?

    I currently have a 1024MB stick of dualchannel PC3200 RAM. If I were to get another 1GB stick, how much of a difference would it make? Mainly for gaming.
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    Uninstalling XP

    I got my new 200GB Seagate drive today (7200RPM ATA etc...). Currently, I have an 80GB maxtor HDD in my dell 8300 with XP on it. I plan on uninstalling XP on my current drive so that I can put it on my new seagate instead (obviously whilst setting the new drive to master). My question being...
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    How do you think the universe was created?

    I'll start off my idea; A singularity is when a star collapes and a blackhole is created. Everything is sucked into that blackhole, matter, light, time, even space itself. Its unknown whether or not anything can come back out of a blackhole, but scientists speculate that it can't. An easy way...
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    Nvidia next-gen GPU leaked

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23362 Its called the 7800 and will appear in vanilla, GTX and other versions. Apparantly, it will debut on the 22nd of June, but that may change. The single card requires a 400W PSU and the SLi config will require a 500W PSU.
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    New hardrive, new OS

    So today my shiny new seagate barracuda ATA 200GB (7200RPM) HDD arrived. Now I have an 80GB Maxtor ATA HDD + the seagate. I plan on uninstalling XP from my maxtor tonight when I install my new seagate. Then I'll install XP on the 200GB HD (for games etc) and then I plan on installing linux on my...