E-Liam
15th Dec 2004, 18:29
Hi all,
Apologies for not being around for a few days. My poor old PIII 500 finally gave up the ghost. Four hard drive crashes.. and the last was unrecoverable.. (so far, I don't give up that easily. Questions will follow) :)
I went and spent a bit of money on a new one. Happy Christmas Liam. :)
AMD 2600+
512DDR
80gB HD
5.1 surround sound
..and lots of other sparkly new things.. :) I know I've always said that I'd never put XP on a machine (our dear departed was W98) but I have to say, it doesn't behave at all like the other machines I've used. Perhaps it's because this one is out of the box shiny. Generally, when I go and play on other XP machines, it's cos they're knackered.. and I don't have the pleasure of 10 minutes mucking around with display attributes.
But seeing as this is a help forum, and I'm a complete novice with the finer points of XP, any handy hints concerning getting the best out of it, settings wise, or anything else for that matter. Switching off the arrows on the shortcuts for instance. I know I could get that from the net, but someone else may find this useful.
It's SP2 as standard, (I got the disc, the COA the lot.. not just a recovery disk, which surprised me) :) and the first thing I did (this is me after all) was to get AVG installed. ZA will be on in a little while. I'm on the XP firewall at the moment, but I'll change that and switch it off.
I'm just about to get all the spy stuff loaded.. I read a great little summary on that a while ago.. :D, and then Office '97..
Okay, I'll admit it.. this is daft, I've been using PCs for a decade or more, I did computer studies at school, programmed in basic.. not exactly a newbie.. and I'm grinning like a grinning thing that's very happy indeed.
Oh well, install time.
Catch you all later. I'll have a look round later as well.. see if anyone's posted some logs for a look at.
Cheers
Liam
Apologies for not being around for a few days. My poor old PIII 500 finally gave up the ghost. Four hard drive crashes.. and the last was unrecoverable.. (so far, I don't give up that easily. Questions will follow) :)
I went and spent a bit of money on a new one. Happy Christmas Liam. :)
AMD 2600+
512DDR
80gB HD
5.1 surround sound
..and lots of other sparkly new things.. :) I know I've always said that I'd never put XP on a machine (our dear departed was W98) but I have to say, it doesn't behave at all like the other machines I've used. Perhaps it's because this one is out of the box shiny. Generally, when I go and play on other XP machines, it's cos they're knackered.. and I don't have the pleasure of 10 minutes mucking around with display attributes.
But seeing as this is a help forum, and I'm a complete novice with the finer points of XP, any handy hints concerning getting the best out of it, settings wise, or anything else for that matter. Switching off the arrows on the shortcuts for instance. I know I could get that from the net, but someone else may find this useful.
It's SP2 as standard, (I got the disc, the COA the lot.. not just a recovery disk, which surprised me) :) and the first thing I did (this is me after all) was to get AVG installed. ZA will be on in a little while. I'm on the XP firewall at the moment, but I'll change that and switch it off.
I'm just about to get all the spy stuff loaded.. I read a great little summary on that a while ago.. :D, and then Office '97..
Okay, I'll admit it.. this is daft, I've been using PCs for a decade or more, I did computer studies at school, programmed in basic.. not exactly a newbie.. and I'm grinning like a grinning thing that's very happy indeed.
Oh well, install time.
Catch you all later. I'll have a look round later as well.. see if anyone's posted some logs for a look at.
Cheers
Liam