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DOS [DOS]

UB hans gunsche — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:32:32 GMT

i'm running win xp mce 05 edition on a 160 gig hdd in my notebook and i don't necessarily see myself using that much space. my dos box crapped out and i was thinking of shrinking my windows partition and alloting a small amount to install freedos. in order to do this do i need to install a bootloader? the only time i've ever really used one was running dual boot with linux and windows. if so which is a more recommended boot loader?

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screen flicker [screen flicker]

UB hans gunsche — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:19:45 GMT

i ran a fresh install of windows MCE 05 on a slightly older model notebook. everytime on boot up after about 3 seconds the screen flickers for a split second then resumes normally. the notebook has an ati radeon xpress 1100 graphics adaptor and i have the most current drivers with the catalyst suite being model 9.3. any ideas of what might be making this problem?

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theme settings [theme settings]

UB hans gunsche — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:29:57 GMT

i really don't care much about the way windows vista looks. i was told awhile back that by setting the theme to classic settings acutally dumps more work onto the cpu and gpu and i am just curious if to this is true.

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repartition [repartition]

UB hans gunsche — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:41:25 GMT

are there any tools i can use to resize an existing windows partition. i mainly just want to run dual boot with vista 64bit and xp pro. what would be the best way of going about to do this?

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media center [media center]

UB hans gunsche — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:23:56 GMT

i ran a fresh install of windows xp MCE. i mainly just wanted the operating system for programming and have no plans for using the media center features. are there any ways of disabling media center to regain space or gain back some system processes?

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bad install [bad install]

UB hans gunsche — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:03:26 GMT

installed return to castle wolfenstein. at 93% the install froze forcing me to hard boot my system. now i have the folder in my programs file taking up space. when i try to uninstall it i receive an error saying cannot read install log. i have tried uninstalling it using both the add/remove menu in control panel and using the uninstaller included in the software. and i hate to say it but i forgot the trick of manually removing an item from the add/remove menu.

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registry [registry]

UB hans gunsche — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:27:56 GMT

probably a dumb question but do all the old registry tweaks work in vista like they did in xp? i'm mainly lokng at all the old minor performance increases like the killapp and disabling 8.3 filenames. if they don't work are there any vista ones that do?

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basic language [basic language]

UB hans gunsche — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:52:11 GMT

i have a friend interested in learning the BASIC programming language. can anyone reccomend a good dev tool for basic. i haven't used basic since my commodore 64 so my opinion won't matter much.

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windows classic [windows classic]

UB hans gunsche — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:05:17 GMT

i usually run windows classic settings on all my windows based pc's. i just want to know if i can disable the little icon thing in the upper right hand corner of the start menu. i just like to keep my system as simple as possible and run it with the best performance settings for when i do gaming.

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hdd space consumption [hdd space consumption]

UB hans gunsche — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:29:10 GMT

i woke up this morning and booted my computer up and one of the first things i realized was that somehow over night i had gained back 6 gigs of hdd space. i haven't deleted or uninstalled anything lately let alone anything that would consume 6 gigs of space. i've noticed that quite a bit with my experience in running vista. someone had told me that it may have to do with windows volume shadow copy and how it automatically creates a back up of everything currently or recently used. i would like to avoid having random chunks of space being taken up and if this being the problem is it safe to disable the volume shadow copy feature.

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c++ proggin [c++ proggin]

UB hans gunsche — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:59:23 GMT

i'm using bloodshed's dev c++ ide. i'm kinda looking into switching to something a little more up to date. i'm just curious as to what everyone else is using as an idea to what all else is out there.

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the future of vista [the future of vista]

UB hans gunsche — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:26:30 GMT

i haven't really kept track of the whole windows vista and windows 7 following. i'm just curious as to whats going to happen to vista after windows 7 comes out?

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vista upgrade [vista upgrade]

UB hans gunsche — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:06:10 GMT

i upgraded to vista from xp MCE. the upgrade seemed to have consumed more space than usual. my question is are there any folders or leftover components i could do away with from my xp installation to regain more hdd space?

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.net broadcast [.net broadcast]

UB hans gunsche — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:05:13 GMT

installed tron 2.0, played it a couple times and now have the .net broadcast event window. is there any way to rid my computer of this problem without having to install some 3rd party program or add on?

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.net [.net]

UB hans gunsche — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:59:00 GMT

anyone know of a good way to prevent the whole .net broadcast event window? i know its affected by ati catalyst and mainly shows up after the installation of some games. i need a way to work around it without having to hunt down and install some useless program that only masks and recesses the problem.

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