Welcome to the forum! First I'd look in the event viewer for any clues. You might try disabling the slaved 120GB drive incase windows is trying...
You need the administrator password to delete the existing user and setup your own login. I would contact the previous owner for help, 'else you...
Yes, sounds like an AV programme checking the floppy drive at shutdown. Several AV programmes also have this as the default setting as well AFAIK.
Have a look in the Administrative Tools|Event Viewer for any errors/clues. Sounds like something is hanging during the shutdown request....
Interesting dobhar, even if the figures are a little exadurated, and indicative of absolute peak consumption. But still a reminder of how modern...
Just had a look at the site posted by dobhar Whilst the figures seem a little over the top at 372 watts (probably more like +- 200w?) for my...
...and the debate continues, on and on... :D
Unfortunately the default setting of double click on any W2K/XP/W2K3 install is just MS being to cautious with users migrating from older double...
TwinView has been replace with NView in later driver releases, so as Daizy says update your drivers and the problem should disappear. Daizy's link...
I'm with Pete on this one. I've got 7 fans running in my system, so I'd rather save power as well as the slight fire risk, not to mention wear and...
We've got to stop talking over each other :D
Beat me to it mattman, by a whisker. Same links and all :D
Will be an NT based system, either NT 4.0, W2K, XP or Server 2003. Likely to be W2K or XP though. There is some home work available at the...
As you have the Pro disk (and licence), then you may as well stay with Home for a while as you really only need the disk for repairs and some...
Through the control panel you can change the input language settings for text input only. For a complete language change of windows you will need...
I didn't realise you also had onboard VGA as well. So Make sure you have disabled this in BIOS, and also check the Motherboard documentation to...
Elizabeth, What I suggest is fairly generic as I can't offer any specifics to solve your particular problem. NVIDIA have just released new...
As you are running pre-release software you need to let Microsoft know of this possible bug. Yours may only be machine specific but MS should be...
Suggest you increase the RAM in both systems to 512. Either 2x256 or 1x512 (whichever is cheaper). You should expect 5-10+% performance increase...
Sounds sensible to me ;)
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