ClareJonsson

My personal favorites for protection: Avast (Antivirus) Ad-Aware (Anti-Spyware) Windows Defender (Antispyware) Comodo Pro (Firewall)

The BIOS knows nothing about OS selection as the BIOS just boot straps to the boot loader on whatever valid drive is first in the boot order, The OS selection is managed by the boot loader on the drive itself and is out of control of the BIOS, soz. But you can use the BIOS to select what drive to boot from if you have more than one Hard Drive in your system. For me what I have done at home is I have 3 hard drives in my PC, one with Windows 7, one with XP and another with Ubuntu, and I change the boot order to select what drive to boot off. This kills the need for boot loaders, as an animated Meerkat once said "Simples!" :) Unfortunately, this does mean you need more that one hard drive :(

Usual thing here, please make sure your graphics drivers are up to date, and download the latest version of Java.

I also use a couple of Bootable USB drives a lot, one with DOS and a menu script I wrote and another with SLAX (Linux). I'm not sure about MAC OS X as isn't that dependant on having the correct hardware to run on, or are you using a hacked version of OS X?

One way to do it would be to remove the submit button, and replace it with a standard button which instead of submitting the form calls a function when clicked, the function can then calculate the total, enter the results into the total fields, and then submit the form. Or you could have a function that is called every time the user changes any selections which updates the totals live. I don't have time to write anything right now as I'm off to bed, so if nobody else has done it by tomorrow I will probably take a look.

I use Pinnacle Studio version 11.

That would imply his parents are going to give him the Admin password. I wonder if it's a permissions issue on the programs home folder, it's possible the program may be trying to write to a file there. Under C:\Program Files, locate the programs folder, and set it's permissions so you have full read and write, also make sure you have read and write on it's contents too.

You're welcome :)

Myself I use Sonar, I love VST Instruments :)

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Agreed, you would be amazed at how the dust collects on the inside of the vent, and you can easily kill your laptop by opening it up if you don't know what you're doing.

It sounds like your computer didn't correctly download SP3 correctly and the update installation fails. If I was you I would manually download service Pack 3 and install it manually. You can get service pack 3 from HERE.

It doesn't make sure it goes above, it actually waits for the beginning of the refresh cycle before sending a frame, that means the whole frame will be drawn in one refresh cycle. If it didn't wait, then it might start drawing a frame in the middle of a refresh cycle and that means you get that awful screen tearing as you would see two partial frames in one refresh cycle. The Vertical Sync option is purely to prevent screen tearing.

On the outside it's ok. But don't use it while cleaning inside yor computer, if you'd manage to touch a component, chances are it would get fried. Just because you've been fine so far doesn't mean it's gonna be a stroll in the park for ever. I really advice on a can of compressed air. Actually we use a vacuum cleaner with a plastic nozzle to clean inside of PCs all the time, nothing wrong with that, I usually use a little brush to dislodge the the dust from fans etc. We also have an air compressor, it totally depends of the situation. One of the best solutions is to use both as you shouldn't be blowing dust into the air, some people suffer from allergies etc.

FPS and refresh rates aren't really connected except for one thing: Some games have a "wait for refresh" option that normally you should enable. This means that the game will wait for the beginning of a refresh cycle before writing the frame to the screen to prevent screen tearing, but this won't really effect how fast the game runs, but it does mean you get a better display without breakups and tearing.

I was thinking the same about the drunks lol. Brasso is used to polish metals and you can get a mirror shine using it, so it's excellent for polishing plastic. What you're actually doing is removing a very thin layer from the protective surface on the CD thus you will remove all but the deepest scratches. It takes a bit of elbow grease but worth it in the end!

Meanwhile, back in reality...........

I still have 3 Amiga computers, two A1200s and one A500. I also have loads of disks of games, OS, Demos and utils etc. PM me and I will see what I can do for you.

The best way to clean a CD is to polish the surface with Brasso and a very soft cloth. The surface of the CD/DVD is basically a protective layer so you can polish that to remove scratches etc. Never ever under any circumstances should you damage the top layer (Where the label is) as just under that is the data surface.

Take a look here, convert the music to mp3 then you can drag that onto the timeline.

HTML is the basic mark up for presenting a web page, it can contain formatting information but it's better to include that separately, it's best to only use HTML for the content of a web page. CSS is the code for the design of the web page and can do basic dynamic effects. Use CSS for the formatting etc. Javascript is quite a powerful scripting language that can control dynamic content and elements on a web page or DOM (Document Object Module) as it's referred too. You would not believe how much javascripting goes on when you peruse the web these days. But if you wanted to do something like Runescape, you need to use a more powerful language like Java, which has nothing to do with Javascript. Java is a multi platform language that is both complex and fun in it's implimentation, but I would stay away from it if you're just going to design websites, Java is for designing applications.

I personally wouldn't switch your profile to an external drive, you're asking for a whole load of problems to spring up.

I wonder if you have some software which is accessing the net looking for updates and swamping your bandwidth? Uninstall anything that you don't really need, I know a lot of PC suppliers install all sorts of rubbish by default.

It's odd you should say that, but so far what I have found is more programs work on Windows 7 than on Vista. I feel Windows 7 is more backward compatible than Vista. I am rapidly resigning Vista to the same box as Dos 4 and Windows ME.

GParted Live CD can do it, but you have to run a quick repair from your Vista install DVD which sorts out the MFT pointers. But it is possible to shrink Vista volumes!