If you bought a brand new computer within the past few years, you might have noticed that your
computer shipped with a Serial ATA (SATA) controller instead of the convetional Enhanced IDE (EIDE)
controller. The reason for this is to enhance performance and power management as SATA controllers
and their supported Hard Disk Drives have a higher data transfer speed against their IDE
counterparts. And they are supposed to use lesser amount of power thereby saving you more battery
life in your notebook's battery or UPS as the case may be. If you want to install and run ...

QUOTE Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of local PC users running pirated Windows
operating systems will soon face the shame of being reminded of their illegal action every time they
switch on their machines. The feature will be added to the operating system by Microsoft Corp from
tomorrow and cannot be erased. It will nag the guilty users and can be awkward if it shows up on
corporate PCs." QUOTE The anti-piracy move is being kicked off in five countries tomorrow –
the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia. Full Story: http...

Hi, first of all, a very Happy New Year to everyone. Now for my problem: I use Win XP SP2 on a 2.8
Ghz dualcore P4 processor machine, 1 Gb RAM, 250 Mb HDD. Whenever I boot up, or even when I return
to the bare desktop after having had a number of windows open for a while, my icons on the desktop
are all blank ones, such as the ones you get when there is no program associated with a certain
file. Then, one by one, they begin to get the appearance they should have, but it is a real drag
which takes ages, and the PC is not very responsive while it happens. I seem to remem...

Alright, I was being the smart kid that I am (sarcasm) and decided to screw with my registry for new
years. (Well, actually I was just checking out a key for a program I have). I ended up deleting the
key for my program in my registry and I don't have the key because it was a give away of the
day. So I wanted to try and system restore to restore my registry (at least I believe it does
that); however, when I went into system restore, the only restore points were the ones from January
2008. It would not let me go back into the year 2007. I know system restore saves...

Create an Undeletable shortcut in Desktop and inside "My Computer"!
*************************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: The
following contains registry edits. If done improperly can cause strange behaviour, and at worst,
could even entirely corrupt your Windows Installation, requiring you to reinstall Windows. I cannot
be held for any damage you may cause to your system as a result of taking any action suggested in
the following article. *************************************************************************...

How and where does Windows XP SP2 modify the Desktop Icons for size? Compaq c300 Laptop running Win
XP SP2, and I just fired up the machine to find the Icons have increased in size and would like
tomhave them back to the small 16 px display size. surely these don't simply modify themselves?
Must be a setting someplace, but I can't seem to find it......

Is your windows xp on your system behaving erractically after some software or configuration
changes,a simple way to fix it up is using system restore to restore your winxp installation to its
previous state.you can get system restore frm the startmenu-programs-accesories-system tools system
restore,raise the window for system restore and it the windows lets you to restore ur system to an
earlier date,create a restore point or undo a system restoration,by default it prompts you to
restore d system to an earlier date,click next and select a date in d next window tht comes...

So yesterday I got fed up with using Windows on my desktop PC (I'm used to OSX Tiger on my
iBook) so I said to hell with Microsoft and installed Ubuntu FeistyFawn on my desktop. So, it's
awesome and I love it more than Windows but I see a lot of screenshots on the web with people that
have these neat looking desktop widgets, kind of like the when you put stuff from your Mac Dashboard
on the desktop. Anyways, my question is where do I get all those cool widgets and what are the best
- or the most popular?...

Well...!! I just wanna know what Your OS, and some of Desktop Screenshot of it. Ok, here we
go...!!...

I use windows XP Pro SP2 I was using system restore to get my computer back the way it was 6 days
ago. ( I accidently deleted some VERY important files). It restarted as normal, went through the
black start up screen, the Windows XP screen with the loading bar down the bottom and then.. A
droning noise, like something powering down. It continued to do that in an endless cycle. I have
tried starting it in safe mode, and the "Last known working configuration" but the same thing
happens. Today my Dad is bringing the back-up we made on his external hard disk but does any...

1280x1024 15' LCD...

Anybody heard of Project Looking Glass? It is a 3D Desktop environment from Sun Microsystems. It is
amazing. I have tried out a few 3D environments in the past and wasn't impressed but this looks
promising. It is an open-source project :) that will be available for Linux and Solaris systems.
It will obviously built with Java technology. There isn't much information about the project but
here is a link to the projects site. There are some screenshots and a video that is quite
impressive. Project Looking Glass ...

Hello all, I have a problem which I hope you have a solution for. I was looking for couple of
folders on my D drive and I couldnt find them (have not touched them for 3 months). I suspect that
my young brther accidentally deleted them when he is playing his game on my laptop. Is there any way
I can recover them? Can I use system restore to restore this specifc hard drive?!! Please
help me if you can. Any suggestion is appreciated!! ...

I don't really know if this should fit here, but here goes. I have a dial-up connection (
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connected icon in the system tray, however today something happened and now it doesn't. Someone
loged into MSN messenger and when they we't to go off the internet the icon wasn't there, I
managed to disconnect from the Dial-Up networking window, but this isn't very convienant. Oh,
I would guess your first response would be to goto properties and check the box to...

Show your desktops here to give others inspiration how to set there desktop. Since I guess also
modemers (= /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> A good place
to upload your images is imageshack , its free and the maximum is 1mb a file. Oke I will start.
full size one - Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6.8, - Xorg 6.8.1 - Fluxbox windowmanager What we
see? Right side: Gkrellm2 a system monitor program for linux Top left: Aterm that runs top to view
the running progresses in the system Center top: Firefoxbar Wallpaper can be f...

Did everybody know how to change SCSI harddisk into IDE one if using SCO-UNIX? which part should i
reconfig at the system, because the name of device is not same: sdSOMETHING become hdSOMETHING. help
me please.....

How to create "Show Desktop" icon: 1. Create a text file 2. Enter the following in the file:
CODE [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop
3. Save it as "Show Desktop.scf" ...