Recent content by pSxMoD

Did you get the most recent drivers from the Epson website? If you used the drivers that came on a disk with your printer, there might be a problem with them, and an update on the website to fix the problem. If updated drivers don't work, I'm not sure what the problem could be.

First check to make sure that you don't need Rundll32.exe running by closing it right after you boot up your computer, and making sure everything is working properly. Then, after you are sure that you don't require it to be running, go to Start, Run, and then type msconfig and press enter, or...

I doubt that a new hardware installation would cause your Norton protection to malfunction. It might be because of the drivers/software that came with the sound card that interfered with the Norton Auto Protect feature. Try uninstalling all of the software but leave the actual hardware in your...

Is your computer connected to a LAN? If so, are other PCs on your network also getting infected with the virus over the LAN? What can happen, is that once the virus is cleaned off of one of your PCs, it can come back to it if it still resides on another PC on your network. It's happened to...

Although cpugenius is correct, that SP2 is still in beta stages, you could check on IRC. I got my download from irc.winbetas.net, channel #betas-xdcc. There are a lot of bots that have XPSP2. -pSxMoD

I believe there might be a way to remove the option to enable compression of the whole hard drive. It might not be as straight-forward as you might think though. Instead of digging around through the registry for a key to change, why don't you try a program by X-tek, called X-setup. It allows...

I don't believe that there is anyway to do that. I also know what you mean when you said that they automatically rearrange themselves after a reboot. I've tried to do that before, since I have tons of shortcuts in my Start menu that I wanted to clean up. I searched everywhere for a way to do...

I agree that most distributions of Linux are by no means a replacement for Windows on a desktop computer. I use Linux a lot, but mainly for my server. I also have Red Hat running on one of my other computers that I often use. Unless you are very experienced with Linux, it will be hard to get...

Just go ahead and install Windows 2000 on your second hard drive, and it will automatically creat an entry in your Windows boot file (Boot.ini, in the root of your C drive). If you want to manually change that file, boot into Windows XP, right click on My Computer, go to Properties, click on...

If you need more in-depth answers, here they are: 1) Computers have software to allow user interaction with the computer's hardware. Without software, there would be no way for the user to interact with his/her machine. 2) An operating system provides a link between the hardware layer...

I don't see how it is possible that an ethernet card can be broadcasting a new MAC address every five minutes. As far as I know, the MAC address is hardcoded into the ethernet card. Maybe there's a problem with the school's network? I'm not sure. I've never heard of a NIC broadcasting a new...

Do you have a DHCP Server set up on your router? If so, I would enable it, and then allow the wireless card to obtain the IP address automatically. If you are going to set up a static IP address on your computer with the wireless card, make sure you put in the proper gateway address of your...

Try taking a stereo headphone connector with plugs on both ends, and connecting one to your speaker output and the other to your microphone input on your sound card. You'll have to play around with the volume settings a bit until you get clear, undistorted sound. That's what I did with my...

No, I don't think Mac OSX will ever be able to run on the PC. The Mac hardware and PC hardware are different, as are the processors. There are programs that you can download to emulate a Macintosh. Just google around for some of them.

I also agree that setting your computer to boot right off the hard drive is the best thing to do. It will allow your computer to boot faster since it doesn't have to search for bootable floppies or cds. If you do need to boot from a floppy or cd, just go back in the BIOS and change the boot...