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    Logon hours on XP Home

    Is there any way that I can set my nephew's PC up via a 3rd party app or something that will restrict logon hours on XP Home? I look after my sister in law's PC for them and, at the moment, use an app called Sleepy to boot them off at 11pm. Problem is the little git has found that if you log on...
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    Has my memory gone bad?

    Hi, Any help/advice on this would be appreciated. For some reason, when I am playing games on my PC they seem to crash back to my desktop and in some instances, reboot the PC totally. I've tried Mafia, Deus Ex, MOHAA and Championship Manager and they all crash. I'm thinking that some of my PC...
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    Has anyone seen this before?

    A weird thing happened to me last night and despite searching the Net etc. I can't find any reference. Have any of you seen this or heard what it is. When I opened up IE I got a Windows message box that said " Your hard drive has been configured for reformatting. Next time You start this...
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    DDR Ram question (and it may be a stupid one)

    As you can mix PC100 & PC133 memory can you mix PC1600/2100/2700 DDR Ram? Sorry if it is a daft question but my knowledge on DDR ram is pretty poor at the minute. Thanks in advance for your help. p.s. The mobo I am considering IS capable of 2700(333) memory.
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    Memory Upgrade Help

    I have a P4 1.8Mhz with 328MB of PC133 memory in and, to be quite frank, the performance of this system is pi$$ poor. I am led to believe that SDRAM actually "holds back" the performance of the P4 chip. So, I am thinking of a mobo/memory upgrade but am not sure what to go for. I am not...
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    XP Reinstall Help Needed

    For some reason (and I don't know why) over the last few weeks my XP Pro has become very very slow so I am thinking about reinstalling XP and applying the tweaks etc. which are documented in another thread on this website. I have 2x 20GB HDD. I have a 5GB Partition which contains XP/Anti...
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    Virtual Memory problem

    For some reason XP is flashing up a warning telling me that my Virtual Memory is too low. I have checked my settings and manually set the virtual memory to 450MB but, XP still keeps flashing up this warning. Any ideas as to why?? My system has 328MB of physical memory in.
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    A little info needed

    Hi, First, this may seem like a stupid question and if it makes me look a little stupid then I apologise. I have recently installed Norton Internet Security and the firewall is working fine as it has told me of a few attempts at accessing my port. I am now starting to get a little p****d off...
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    A weird problem

    Any help on this would be appreciated. In my system I have 2 20GB HDD, 1 with XP on and 1 with 2000 Pro on. I also have a slot loading DVD drive and a CD writer. I have these set up so that XP HDD is master, 2000 is slave on 1 IDE channel and the DVD master, CD writer slave on the other IDE...
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    Unmountable Boot Device

    Can anyone offer any help on this-it is not strictly an XP problem. I have built myself a P4 system and have 2 HDD's one with XP on which I installed from scratch when I built the system and 1 with W2K Pro on which was the HDD in my old P3 system. When I try to boot up the W2K HDD I get a BSOD...
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