Ever come across the odd system where it seems no matter how hard you try, you can’t find the drivers for the system? Sometimes, it’s due to the fact the hardware is too old or sometimes the company that manufactured the item is no longer in business. Although websites like driverguide.com are extremely helpful sometimes [...]
Another FYI post. This time specifically for those of you that have EVGA 780i SLI motherboards and are experiencing issues with the system locking up at the Vista logo after a reboot. EVGA has issued a BIOS (P6) as of last Thursday to address the issue.
http://www.evga.com/support/drivers/
Select ‘Mainboards’ in the first column, then ‘BIOS Updates’ in the second [...]
Over time, your computer’s hard drive becomes fragmented from actions such as adding and deleting files and programs. As it becomes fragmented, the computer becomes slower accessing files and programs and it results in a slower computer.
Think of your computer’s hard drive as a bookcase full of books. At first, all the books are neatly [...]
As time has passed, many of you have noticed that your PC has gradually become slower and slower starting up. We’ll try to help speed things up using the System Configuration Utility to remove unnecessary and unwanted startup items.
1. Click ‘start’ then ‘run’ to open the ‘Run’ dialog box and type ‘msconfig’ just like the [...]
One of the often overlooked methods for troubleshooting a system running XP or Vista is Event Viewer. Event Viewer is a component included with these operating systems and, as the name suggests, allows you to view the event logs on your machine. So let’s get to work on seeing if we can find out some [...]
Most of you coming to this site are here in hopes of obtaining an answer to a problem with your system. Sometimes the answer may already be on your system. For Windows users, it’s just a matter of accessing the ‘Help and Support’ on your ‘start’ menu. The new and improved Vista help menu offers [...]
When you go to install Vista, you get a “STOP 0×0000000A”. This occurs if the following conditions are true:
- You have more than 3 GB of RAM in your system
- The computer uses a storage system that is running the Storport miniport driver.
- The computer uses a controller that uses 32-bit direct memory access (DMA).
- You have a Vista [...]
So you just plugged in that brand new system with 4GB+ of memory or installed some more RAM in your current system. You go to check your System Information (Vista) or System Properties (XP) and it only reports 2.2 to 3.3 GB of memory. Unfortunately that’s normal if you’re running a 32 bit version of [...]
Hardware Canucks has a great article on How to Share the Root of a Drive Under Vista.
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Well one of the biggest challenges I’ve had with Vista has been file sharing related. I’m on a secure (read: wireless w/ lead paint in the walls) home network, so when I share a folder, I just want everyone [...]
I found an excellent tool for sliming down Vista. As you know, it is somewhat bloated and is not the snappiest OS Microsoft has put out. vLite really impressed me and got Vista running at almost XP speeds on my computer.
From Authors site:
vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing [...]
