new drivers....:D
just in case they are better :)
just found new ones for my M-Audio sound card...on download as we speak.
Hardware....its lovely huh? with all its software upgrades and ....stuff :)
beats real life huh? ;)
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new drivers....:D
just in case they are better :)
just found new ones for my M-Audio sound card...on download as we speak.
Hardware....its lovely huh? with all its software upgrades and ....stuff :)
beats real life huh? ;)
I no longer get a kick especially if they're graphics drivers. They NEVER install properly if they're any different to the previous verison (ie omega's.)
This system is too loaded on the PCI bus (with a KT400) to be an overclocker, so as long as drivers are stable I'm happy.
I get a kick from a CLEAN install...ahh...its all so perfect for about 3 minutes...
...then you install something :p ....
ye same Falcon, clean install owns. It reminds me every time of when I clean installed 95 on my old compaq for the first time getting rid of all the horrible compaq advertising, partitions and stuff like that :P
I'm running pretty clean now - reinstalled windaz on Monday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falcon2004
Got SP2 on it and AstonShell and Office - running nicely!
I jsut did a complete format today (everything, windows AND gentoo) 5/6 hours and still no crash...going strong...lol
the onyl problem is i gotta go through the labourious task to installing gentoo again...:(
I get a kick out of a fresh system too!
And this one is running beautifully still despite having been used for a fair while on the same install!!
I get a kick from the CPUs... lucky to be alive :eek:
full, clean install rocks. everyhings just so fast...for a few days
you can keep your pc at super fast speeds..
Norton Systemworks is wicked for cleaning up crap, but there are free alternatives..
RegSeeker (cleans registry)
MRUBlaster (cleans 'most recently used' lists)
HDCleaner (very good program, does the job of many small programs)
Spybot S&D and Ad-aware (removing crap like spyware)
TuneXP (optimising XP for fast boot, shutdown and general fastness :) )
using all these will keep your system on top notch performance..
defrag often and you're sorted.
i have office 2003, xp pro, visio studio 2003.net (this installs a lot of 'unneeded' stuff, but performance isnt hit tbh)
my boottime is pretty darn fast, even with norton loading up on boot, disabling serial ports and parallel port speeded it up a fair ammount.
like, you're installing programs to stop the bad things that programs are doing.
Do it manually, only install what you need, get to know where all the temp folders are
This should actually read:Quote:
Originally Posted by cky2k
Sorry, but I've had too many bad experiences with Norton stuff.Quote:
Norton Systemworks is a wicked unclean piece of crap. Luckily there are free alternatives.
My rig is nearly a year old now... running on the same xp install :eek: winamp takes ages to load :eek: format imminent :D
i want to format but then ill have to reinstall all my stuff... it takes tooo long.... then i have to get all the themes and pretty stuff back!
ALSO i will have to re-activate windows and now it doesnt let me over the net so i have to ring em up and explain that its been reformatted and all that pooh!!!
ITS NOT WORTH IT!