6", unless of course I’m really excited.

I installed the video card before right after I took the tower out of the box. Just now I decided I’d go ahead and try dual displays, but it’s not working.

On my left (secondary monitor I have the same wallpaper as I have on my right. And that’s all there is. No icons, no nothing. I can’t drag anything over.

that you know this

its also possible that drawing more power via the motherboard than the psu can put out can damage components, though mostly likely case is things just simply wont work correctly.

With video cards not having a proper powersupply will often cause corrupted graphics.

can never hurt to have a better power supply

have you looked at windows 7 yet?

thats my plan for next weekend/this week

Like I said my mom’s laptop crashes about every ten minutes.

Plus there were the leaked recordings of the Microsoft VP complaining about Vista: “I now have a $2000 e-mail machine”, referring to his laptop when VIsta first came out. It shipped on a lot of computers that had no business running it. I still think if someone were buying a low end machine they’d be better off sticking with XP. But I’m a believer in Vista now as long as you have the hardware to run it. The good thing about the 64 bit Vista is you can tap into a lot more resources than you can with 32 bits, and so you end up way ahead of the curve. My computer was less than $700, too. Add another $100 for the video card.

And laptops do have a hard time with Vista because most of them don’t have good graphics. My mom’s is a dual core Intel with 2 gigs of RAM and not only is it slower than hell, it’s unstable. I wouldn’t even try to run Aero mode with it. So I definitely see the problem that some have with it, and Microsoft does too. That’s why they’re rushing to get Windows 7 out.

my problem with it is that it’s windows first of all and second that its an even more bloated version of windows.
Though I’m biased I only use windows at work where I have no choice.

…in most cases. A lot of people have had legitimate problems with it. What’s “VIsta Capable” often isn’t at all. What’s “Vista Ready” is just barely. That’s changing but Vista has been out for a couple of years now.

I don’t know how you can say something like the OS is getting less important. That’s what controls everything on the damn computer.

The performance improvements ARE a big deal. Having literally just been moved to 64 bits from 32, there’s a huge difference in performance with the SAME software. I think that’s because I now have so much RAM that even VIsta’s not in the way. And some 32 bit apps, like photoshop cs3, will take advantage of the extra RAM…you can set it up to use RAM as a scratch disk. But the Quad Core processor is making a huge difference. Programs come up instantly with no load time at all. They shut down without hanging.

Oh, and I think I could build one myself. Tech Savvy? No I’m not the most tech savvy if you gave me a month I’d know as much as anyone else. And like I said before I’ve screwed around on the insides of computers before. I’m learning. After asking the power supply question last night I learned more about that from the kind folks here and reading afterward. There’s no doubt in my mind I could’ve built my own if I had time to mess with it. Would’ve taken me longer than someone who’d done it before, but I would have gotten it done. I’m not stupid or anything.

it just doesn’t do much more than Windows XP, and requires more resources.

boot into safemode and run the virus scan. lots of times these things arent able to be killed in normal mode.
But really theres only 1 way to be 100% sure a virus/trojan is gone and you wont like the answer. reformat/reinstall.

Rip open one end of the package.
Take the Trojan out of the package.
Slide the Trojan on.
Do your business.

Pretty simple really.

But if AVG can’t get rid of it, you might try to download another free scanner or use an online one. Also, if you know the name of the trojan you can usually dig through the internet to find out how to get rid of it. Most often you’re going to have to clean up the registry. Try some of Glary’s tools.

You must’ve been the one with the Neftali Feliz photo.

I travel to Sherman/Denison now and then on business. Greenville is a little more frequent. I’ve gotten shots from all of the above but I don’t think any of them are on my site yet. One may be.

Any town that used to be bigger than it is now is generally going to be good for my style. Greenville certainly doesn’t fit that but I’ve found shots there none the less. Sherman and Denison do to a certain extent. I haven’t been to Mineral Wells or Jacksboro since my film days, but those were perfect. And there are some little towns on the Oklahoma side of the border that have shrunk too.

Well if they were shown “Mojave” on a system that was already debugged and had the hardware to run it, yeah, I’m sure they did like it.

My mother’s problem is the bloatware that came with her dell laptop. Some of that shit is so stubborn to get off. I think I finally got it stable.

$697 for the tower,
$110 for the graphics card (may have been lower…I already filed the receipt in my tax file), 512mb
$129 for the monitor…Samsung 923nw

Not bad, really, I don’t think.

I’ve run into one Vista problem…it won’t hibernate. I feel asleep thinking it would and when I woke up the monitors were still on.

I’ve run into a few programs that won’t run on it, but not many and they were all freeware utility type things that I probably don’t need anyway. Defraggers, stuff like that.