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I would like to know if upgrading the graphics card to say a 128 mb card from a 32 mb card will improve sharpness of dvd quality when watching it on my LCD monitor. My monitor appears very sharp on everything including DVDs until I bring the DVD video to full screen. Then it is slightly grainy...

Where in the registry can you change the delay time for the QuickInfo boxes that appear when hovering over an item with your mouse in Xp? I want to set it for a bit longer, but I do not want to do away with them all together...

Can anyone tell me why when I open some programs my floppy drive makes a couple of short noises like something is trying to access the drive. Similar to what it does when the computer boots and the drive is checked on boot. Sounds about like that.

I installed an artic cooling freezer pro 64 cpu cooler on my gigabyte ga-k8ns motherboard. After about a month while just sitting at my desk I heard a noise in the computer case. After checking it was the retention bracket for the cpu. The side that the cooler clamp is on had broken. The studs...

I'm hoping this is the right location for this question. I'm on my second new LCD monitor and I've noticed that if I use backgrounds with objects that have cirlces the circles are slightly longer top to bottom rather than being true circles. I first noticed that even rond icons were slightly...

I recently changed the settings for resolution on a 19" monitor to the highest settings and then back down to the 1024 setting. Since then when I open the browser the web pages won't fill the screen. They are blank on each side and won't go to the edge of the browser frame. It's like the web...

I installed an lcd monitor and the browser comes up normal full screen but the web pages themselves do not fill the window. They do not go all the way out to the edge of the browser window. Can you tell me how to fix this. The lcd has to use a higher resolution and I presume this has something...

Can someone tell me what has to be done to use two separate hard drives. I have both in my computer already loaded with software. I can plug one in and boot to it or swap to the other. Is there a way to have something on the screen to toggle back and forth on boot up and leave them both plugged...

I'm not sure if 'im in the right category for this question, but anyway I have an older HP Vectra VL800, pent.4 1.7 ghz, 256 mb of rambus mem. I would like to know if there is a way to get it to stop sitting so long on the bios bootscreen. The screen that offers to let you into setup of the...

Can anyone tell me if there are any available motherboards that were made for AMD processors that use rdram memory. I could have sworn I have seen some used computers that were setup this way in the past, but it appears that I mght be wrong. I can't find that type of board anywhere...

Is there a way to stop the microphone level from adjusting on it's own in xp? I read somewhere awhile back you could change something in some file entry to stop it, but I can't remember where I saw it now. I can use line in on the sound card instead of mike input and do it that way, but I need...

I have a router that i use on my computer for the advantages of it sending a wireless signal to a second computer and also it's function as a firewall. my problem is with sending files to other outside computers and different voip or phone softwares won't work behind it because of the NAT...

I have installed phone software that I would like to try and I have a compaq wireless router. The software says my router isn't configured properly for it to work. It works when you bypass the router. It also works with the router on net2phone, but I would like to try some different software...

Can anyone tell me if I can get standalone software for processing sound from my onboard soundcard to improve the echo in my computer phone? I know there is built in DSP codecs in many of the phone clients, but that limits you to using those specific clients or software for the phone and your...

when you open properties on the hard drive in XP there is a place to check to compress the entire drive. is there a way to remove this option from showing there? Thanks

Is it possible to setup outlook express to only receive e-mail from the addresses in my address book? i'm getting spammed bad and have tried different spam software. i don't want to change my e-mail address. Thanks for the...

Can someone tell me what settings would be good to adjust for Internet Explorer. It loads pages very fast, but hangs a lot on the last item to be loaded on the page and just sits there. I can refresh and it will usually go ahead and load the whole page then. I have TCP Optomizer. TTL-128 MAX...

I used to could copy and paste a picture to my desktop that was say a .gif or .bmp image and then change the extension to .ico and it would convert to an icon. Now it does not convert to the image anymore just stays as a file. Can you help me with this? Has something gone missing that I might...

Can someone help me on this. I noticed in XP when i got to do a error scan which requires a reboot for auto repairs in XP about 3 out 4 times or so the computer just reboots and skips the scan. Sometimes it works and sometimes it just doesn't do the scan. Also it appears if you just shut the...