To see which services are running behind svchost.exe, bring up a command-prompt window and type in: TASKLIST /SVC <enter>
Don't know about a heat-rating, but the new LED-backlit LCD screens give off a lot less heat for the same light-output compared to previous...
I mean i7 over the Core2Duo 2.8.
That will work fine for you. The main benefits of the i7 over what you have now are optimized SSE4 instructions for video-encoding. You won't see...
Go for the desktop. It'll be about 3x faster than your current laptop and about 40-50% faster than the Toshiba laptop. One big advantage of the...
Well, if you've got enough memory, like 3gb+, you can just disable the pagefile altogether. Putting on the RAMdisk is silly.
yeah, you can get some 1/2" water-pipe from Home Depot and weld/braze your own brackets for monitors.
Actually you CAN run multiple OSes simultaneously on a Mac: [IMG] I run WinXP, Vista, Windows20003-server, Windows2008, Ubuntu, and Solaris...
If you slipstream SP3 into the WindowsXP install CD, you'll be able to have 48-bit LBA and format a partition to full-capacity.
Do a continuity test on the power-switch. Check its state in the on & off position. I got a free Sony laptop once because the power- button was...
I always test any new OS and its impact on my software & configuration in a virtual environment before committing to it. Download and install...
No need to have SP1. Here's what you do: 1. open up command-prompt window 2. CD to directory where you have SP3 extracted 3. CD to update...
Well.. I wouldn't consider WikiPedia to be a credible source. Good for basic info, but most of it isn't technically valid and lags current...
Yeah, if you don't have large storage needs, SSD's higher cost-per-gigabyte won't be too bad. The bang-for-the-buck performance simply can't be...
It's hard to simulate SQL-server's performance, so you can't really predict anything until you've got the actual databases deployed. Then you'll...
Uh, that link was to the MS-Office SP2, not WinXP. Don't bother with SP2, install SP3 instead. Did you do a CLEAN re-install of WinXP with a...
Actually, unless you're running really complex queries that require complex calculations, disk-speed will be the primary limitation on the...
Which model Dell laptop? If you're not super-handy with soldering small parts, you can replace the entire screen. It just requires removing a...
Well, you can buy a Dell business system and get the same support for not much more than the retail pricing on the list of parts posted above....
Most RAID controllers are based off chipsets previously developed for enterprise applications, meaning SCSI drives. With most on-board RAID...
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