I'm gonna buy a new gaming PC and I'll have 4GB DDR2. I've heard that on a 32-bit os I will only see about 3.5GB, so I'll have to install the 64-bit os.I've also heard that on a 64-bit os some softwares aren't running well as a 32-bit os. Is it true?
View 14 Replieswhen i click on my Desktop Icons or on Start and one of the programs in there, it takes about 15 seconds for it to go, can i make this faster?
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It's not my internet, I have a fast connection and FF runs very fast and smootly for me. It's like typical Windows stuff. When I open up my Documents folder even when I'm not running much else, it takes long to load. When I open up a program, it takes much too long. I open up a MSWord document, it takes too long.
Everything seems slow minus the internet. I don't think it is adware/viruses/trojans or anything as I appear clean and my hardware is in fine condition. Maybe my computer is a bit old? Maybe I have too many processes or programs? I'm not really sure what it is but I'd just like to make my PC run faster.
the wife was listening to music (on the hard drive through winamp not the cd player) last night - two songs into list the music stops - she checks the computer , monitor is off, cue light is flashing orange and the computer appears to be running.puzzled, she tries a restart. upon restart,the computer appears to be on- power supply on, fans are running, lights are on, but there is no image on the monitor, monitor cue light flashing orange. i check the system this morning and get the same basic results. aditionally, the cd drive and the floppy drive are unresponsive, apparently off- no "drive" lights. thinking, but running out of ideas and looking for some suggestions.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedMy hard drives have been set up as FAT32 under Windows XP. Now I wish to convert the drives to NTFS. I started to convert drive E, which is one of my data drives. I ran convert E: /fs:ntfs in a cmd window.I got the following messages:The type of the file system is FAT32.Enter current volume label for drive E: SPARE Convert cannot run because the volumne is in use by another process. Convert may run if this volumne is dismounted first. ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) y Volume dismounted.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi had got my laptop with vista home and i didnt make any recovery disks now i ve installed xp,can i still get the recovery f vista?
View 6 Replies View Relatedmy computer has slowed down lately. i am unable to find the reasons for this and finding ways to make it fast?
View 14 Replies View RelatedActually my problem is hardware related, I'm looking for a software solution.My problem is my mouse is behaving badly, it does very fast double clicks when I just do one click. When I want to drag an item I must try many times, when I want to select text, I cannot do it that easily.Sometimes I open the mouse and clean it with a special liquid, it works fine for two days but then the problem is back again. I've also changed the button internally many times from older mouses, what I mean, I desold the bad button and sold a new one with tin.
View 11 Replies View RelatedDell Dimension 2350 windows XP 28GB hard drive 14GB free space -- don't know how much RAM I've read other posts and thought I'd try MSCONFIG suggestions but how do I know which microsoft programs to disable under services there are tons of them (DNS, Server, Workstation to name a few) -- same for programs listed under start-up most of them have unindentifiable names like wkufind, igfxtray, hkcmd - are these spyware??
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View 1 Replies View RelatedOkay, attached find two pics, explorer1 and explorer2. The first is taken from the 'save as' menu from an open word document, and clearly shows the file 'OLKBB' under the temp internet files, as well as the tree structure above it. Explorer2 shows the view, only as seen from Windows Explorer, and obviously that folder (and God Alone knows what else) isn't there. I've got 'show hidden files' unticked, plus 'hide protected os system files' unticked. Still can't figure out why this is.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI think I have 2 copies of XP home on my PC.When I turn the machine on, there is a choice of c windows or c win. One is a clean never used profile the other is my familiar 4 user names.I tried to re-install my operating system with the Dell OEM disc to fix some peculiar problems and did sosmething wrong. How do I get rid of the 2nd copy and how do I reinstall the xp home..now I think I am getting password errors and I never changed it.
View 2 Replies View Relatedrunning PFS First Choice (A dos program) on XP SP2. I did get it working on XP prior to SP2 (once) using instructions from dgr on 18 May 2004. Now all I get no matter what I do is error 6009.Anyone still able to run this program on XP after the SP2 upgrade
View 4 Replies View Related1st im using win98,then i upgrade the OS to Winxp,the problem here,i don't want the win98 anymore,but while loading in BIOS,it stop n ask me which OS i want to use,Windows 98 or Windows XP..that mean i have 2 OS in the machine..so how can i del the choice of win 98 so next time i switch on the pc it go straight loading Winxp,no more to choose which one of the OS..
View 4 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how to changing that default choice? I want an administrator account and a public account. In the public account I don't want any right-clicking, changing desktop icons, things like this. I also want all of the things left on the desktop (downloads, shortcuts, etc.) to be gone when they log out. I did look at group policy editor but I don't like it. So I put System Policy Editor on it from a Windows Server 2000 CD.I have a .POL file made already and can't get it to work. Any websites on this would also be great.
I have two hard disks . I installed windows xp on one hard disk and win 2000 on the other disk. Now I remove one hard disk (with windows 2000) from my computer. But whenever I boot my computer, I saw OS choice menu and I have to choose OS to boot from win xp. I would like to remove windows 2000 from this menu list.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a slight problem which i would like a little help with. Ony my acer desktop i got it preinstalled with windows xp media center edition. Due to some issues related to norton internet securtiy i decided to reinstall windows xp media center edition. But since i had quite a lot of files to back up, on my D drive i decided to install windows xp home edition that i bought. (note xp media center is installed in C drive). After installing xp home edition and doing the necessary backups that i had intended for , i proceeded to reinstall widnows xp media center edition that i successfully performed. Then i had used windows xp hoem edition to transfer all my files back into the xp media center edition.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI first zeroed the HD and then re-installed XP Pro with a clean install but when I boot i get the option to boot from two different operating systems. I even pulled the CMOS battery to clear the bios settings but still get the option. What can I do to remove this?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI was running Win XP Home SP3 when it had a problem. This became fatal due to an IER flaw (Idiot Editing Registry.) Having no idea where my original disc was, I purchased and installed XP Pro SP3. Everything is fine except for the minor irritant that on every start up I am given the choice to start either Pro or Home version.I could probably do the one extra mouse click on a million boots for less trouble that it will take to fix it, but it just offends my compulsive sensibilities. Any suggestions on how to make it go to XP Pro without intervention? I have tried uninstallers and none of them see the Home version. I have deleted all the Home version files, which may have been dumb. I thought about a registry cleaner, but decided to ask before I got myself in trouble.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am working with my son to build a new computer. We need to decide which Microsoft operating system to buy / install. We have a new ASUS motherboard and an Intel Pentium D 3.4GHz (dual core 64 bit). We also have a PCI express 16 graphics card. His primary use is gaming and also MS office applications for school.I have pretty much ruled out XP Pro 64 because I am reading about lack of application and driver support, but open to input on this.We need to choose between XP home, XP Media center, or XP pro (all 32 bit). I am not particularly concerned about Vista upgrade, although I do understand the upgrade path from XP Media includes the full graphical interface improvements in Vista Aero, and the upgrade from XP Home does not.
View 12 Replies View RelatedIs there any way I can be given a choice of which Hard Drive I can startup on when I turn on my computer if I put 2 individual Hard drives in it?If there is, I will purchase another copy of XP but I need to know before going to the expense of buying another XP operating system.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi have a dell computer with 2 hard drives and i installed windows xp media center edition on the second hard drive. now it gave me a choice of which one to go to. which was all fine. now being like 2 month later i didnt want that any more. so i formatted the second hardd rive so now i didnt want that choice at start up, but its still there and when i go and pick the one i formatted it says thats its not valid. which is right but what do i do to remove that message?
View 14 Replies View RelatedHoping someone can help. Just reformated my hard drive and since then, everytime I boot up, it asks which OS I want to uses, Windows XP Media Centre or Windows 2003. Don't understand since I have only one system (Media Ctr). Aslo, there is only one HD in my computer and it is not partitioned.
View 8 Replies View Relatedinstalled xp pro over xp home edition(formated).now on bootup i can pick xp pro or home.its gives me so many seconds to choose on black screen.
is there a way to skip that entry on bootup,as i have to pick xp pro.
I recently got a new computer with XP Pro operating system. The first clip-art CD I ran brought up a box with choices of where and how I wanted to run CD's. I chose "Take no action" and now wish to change that. How do I go about changing that default choice?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am curious to know if "choice.exe" is spyware. I ran one of my anti-spyware programs last night and it listed choice.exe and it's partner file in the Prefetch folder as spyware. I went online and it gave it an "8" on the threat level from 1-10. I quarantined both files to see if I could get some advise before deleting them.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I click on Internet Properties in my Control Panel and I go to "Programs" I would like to add the Hotmail choice in the e-mail catagory. Right now all that it shows available are: Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail. How do I get Hotmail as a choice in this area so I can choose it as my e-mail choice?
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