Johanna, Precisely one of the reasons I don't operate an address book on my PC's. That way email addresses can't be hijacked from me. Don't worry...
Normal CPU (non intensive gaming) temperature as Mark says will vary, but Mid 30's to mid (or higher) 40's in celcius is fairly normal. They will...
Apart from some sort of viri attack, I'd check under sounds... in the control panel. Look under the sounds events and see what event is referenced...
Interesting regarding firewalls, I have NEVER bothered with a 3rd party firewall, but do use the *basic* one included in XP/W2K3. Never had a...
Check if S.M.A.R.T is available in BIOS as I think it's usually off by default.
Howard, How's the PC running? It should feel a bit faster with the extra RAM. If it does then I would say that Everest may be mis-reporting....
Obviously Johanna, you've gone to the download site http://download.sis.com/ and updated the various drivers pertaining to the system, in...
IIRC, if the BIOS allows S.M.A.R.T (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) to be turned on then this will support functions like HD...
I believe that LCD monitors are not the favourite of many gamers because there is still the problem of the refresh speed of the liquid crystal...
If you *need* to run the PC 24/7 and don't mind the power consumption then do it. Turn off the monitor (particularly if it's a CRT variety) as...
...And another thing. :) You are running updated Antivirus and Spyware programmes? SpyBot and Ad-Aware are two of the most recommended Spyware...
Try running each stick of RAM on its own and compare system performance with each. A difference may indicate a problem with one of the sticks. I...
Shouldn't be a problem. As the new drive will be an IDE drive the heat factor will be maybe slightly higher. If you were installing an SATA drive...
Uninstalling the service pack reverts to the previous version installed. In your case then it would be SP2 if that's what you attempted to update...
Hi Matt, I have to say I like a good quality (and there are variations :eek: ) LCD monitor over virtually any CTR monitor I've used. There seems...
Christer, no software is perfect, that is why that Office XP problem was fixed sometime ago. It pays to update software on a regular basis. Toni...
EasyCleaner and RegSeeker (below in my sig.) work well together and render obsolete RegScrubXP, which is no longer supported and updated, and the...
What version of EasyCleaner are you running? This problem was fixed in recent versions. Click the link in my sig. below for the latest version....
If you try the install on XP, then suggest you create a manual restore point in case of problems. XP may/should create an auto restore point, but...
For daily use of an LCD monitor, screensaver use is not needed as screen burn isn't a problem with liquid crystal. For a CRT screen, screen burn...
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