One thing you might try is to download the WMP 9 Release Candidate which is out now, I believe it is nearing completion and it handles anything...
Roy66 is THIS the monitor you've bought? If that's the case, you do not need a DVI graphics card, because it's only got a standard analog D-SUB...
First of all, do you have the original XP CD-ROM? Second, since you just bought the computer, do you need anything that's on the harddrive?...
It shouldn't be necessary to buy a PCI graphics card. Usually when you have an integrated AGP card, there's also a free AGP slot on the...
Actually I'm danish, only living and working in sweden so my name has gone from its original german (3 generations back) pronounciation "laage"...
Another way of getting the same information as in Winipcfg is to use the command line utility IPCONFIG (which btw also is available in Windows 9x,...
Is the original Video Card a separate circuit board, or a chip on the motherboard? If it's a separate card, you will need to remove it and...
Easily overlooked, but does the slave drive have a drive letter in Disk Management?` I've experienced once or twice that either a slave drive...
One thing to be aware of when using this approach is that what happens is that all system files are set back to the versions which are on the...
RAR files are compressed files using another compression algorithm than ZIP. Several Freeware/Shareware compression programs have built in...
When you say DVD burning software, do you mean as in burning software, or as in producing DVD movies? For plain software burning, I would...
I'm very serious, however, the Quad CPU motherboards seem to be server systems only. I thought Dell had the Quad CPU option in their Precision...
I just wanna say that Item 3 in Dennis' list could be misunderstood, either that or Dennis has been misled. Applications not specifically...
Problem is that Windows is expecting your old ATA-66 controller, but the new motherboard has an ATA-100 or 133 controller. This means that when...
Have you tried to dig up the missing DLL from the Windows CD-ROM and tried to copy it to a Floppy Disk? That might be worth trying when Windows...
I'm not sure if this is what you're after, if it's not I apologize. If you want to do a DIR from the command prompt and wish to always have it...
Are you sure there isn't a Browse button on the dialog box popping up asking you to insert the CD-ROM? You should be able to either browse to...
I can't say anything specific about the brands of the cards, but regarding the chipsets I think I can safely say go with the GeForce 2 MX. My...
Just as a followup, if you had SP 2, or SP 1 for that matter, you will not be able to tell after doing an over the top install, because this...
Performance/Resources in XP can be seen by right clicking the Task Bar and choosing Task Manager from the menu. In Windows Task Manager there's a...
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