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    Which drive is boot drive?

    xie, i installed xp to a second partition so that I could use the files and settings transfer wizard... I forgot to mention that my wife and I share this computer, and if I wasn't able to make it look exactly the way it looked before, my wife would have had me by the balls. So I then wiped out...
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    Which drive is boot drive?

    I've been reading paragon partition manager help about using the "make Primary" function. If I make the G:\ partition primary, (and copy all the boot.ini, ntldr, etc files to it will I be able to boot? Shamus, I've got one hard drive with two partitions, an old install of xp was on c:\, i...
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    Which drive is boot drive?

    I have recently reinstalled xp to a new partition... now both c:\ and g:\ have boot.ini, i want to remove c:\ as this is old partition, how do i know that my pc is truly booting from g:\?
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    Ethernet to Firewire Adapters?

    Has anyone ever heard of an ethernet to firewire adapter or a firewire to ethernet adapter? or an ethernet hub/router with a firewire port? I'm wondering if I can use a firewire external HDD enclosure (with appropriate adapter if it exists) for network based storage?
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    Windows Vista - need help on this.

    or maybe someone will figure out how to get bcdedit to run on xp? cause all that needs to be done is change the default os, i don't need ntloader back...
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    Windows Vista - need help on this.

    I've already reinstalled my favourite linux distro on my second hard drive, but still get the vista bootloader menu after selecting windows xp pro from grub. can i fix the nt loader problem without killing grub? grub is installed in master boot record, but vista loader still comes up to get to...
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    Possible Firefox convert. Please help.

    if you want a browser that will do all of the features you mentioned, firefox will do it... but if you want a browser that will do all of the features you mentioned and function exactly the way MyIE2 will, then use MyIE2...
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    the ongoing search for good popup blocking software

    all i'm going to say is... MOZILLA FIREBIRD all the way... I've been using mozilla for at least 6 months, not a single popup ad, have i ever had...EASY
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    Wallpaper for dual displays ??

    a lot of people, i've noticed, have duel monitors. I wonder... do these people enter battle with a monitor? or could it be that they have DUAL monitors, like I do?
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    Power Supply or MOBO???

    well... seems like it's the monitor, it was fine for a good 1.5 hours last night, but this afternoon, it stayed on for only about 7 minutes... then did it's standby dance... as for reformatting, yes TWICE and the quirky problems still exist... but it's my parents computer, and they don't want...
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    Power Supply or MOBO???

    Here are the specs... Gigabyte GA5AA Socket 7 AMD K6-2 500MHz Geforce 4 MX 440 320MB DIMM PC133 Generic PS Windows XP Pro. Here is the problem... Turn on the system, after bios and boot screens, monitor goes into standby, and will not come out... I'm using the monitor on a...
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    Internet through a router, shows up as extra gateway in network connections

    thanks... i switched the dns settings...looks like that's what'll do it...
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    Internet through a router, shows up as extra gateway in network connections

    DI-604 is the model of my router... as for teh mail stuff... my ISP didn't provide me with the actual name of there web server, in my mail settings i just enter "shawmail" as the server name for incoming and outgoing mail... so it must depend on access to my ISP's DNS server to check mail...
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    Internet through a router, shows up as extra gateway in network connections

    I just bought a D-Link 4 port router to share the internet between two computers. Basically I have it working and configured the way I want, but in my network connections folder, i have a "internet gateway" connection. Is this the way it should be??? The one thing that I can't do now is access...
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    Samurize + Perfmon = percent fragmented??? can it be done???

    **bumps away*** I know that this should be possible, since most defragmenting programs, can be scheduled to run when the disk reaches a certain level of fragmentation... i still like to do it manually though since the times that i do this vary... blah
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    Samurize + Perfmon = percent fragmented??? can it be done???

    Does anyone know if it's possible to display percent fragmentation of a drive, through samurize??? PS: before anyone yells for not googling first, i did... a bit...
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    is it possible that a gf2 is identified as gf4?

    yep... looks like it's definitely a Geforce4... video bios on boot up says so too!
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    CPU Temp Rise

    Since you just built the system, i would not recommend this, especially not before you make sure the heatsink is seated correctly, and the interface is of good quality. Sure this may not do any damage to your system, but is it worth the risk, and if the heatsink doesn't work that great, the heat...
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    is it possible that a gf2 is identified as gf4?

    probably the goofiest mixup i've ever been involved in when purchasing something, I ordered a Riva TNT2 32mb for my parents old computer from an online store, when it arrived the box said Geforce2 MX 400 64mb w/ tv-out, and when i opened it sure enough the card had tv-out, and what looked...
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