sloter

Do you have the actual windows disc? Or did you buy your computer prebuilt with a recovery CD? I ask becuase most of those recovery cd or recovery partitions don't have the recover mode on them. Can you get into safe mode? To do so restart the computer or turn it on and after it boots out of the post menu press F8 and a menu should pop up select Safe Mode and see if you can boot up. I doubt it bout you can try. I hate to say it but if you have a recovery CD you might be reinstalling the OS.

That might also not be working with opengl and java correctly.

It might not but at least you tried and eliminated that from the issues it could be.

Thats fine then. He is trying to tell you haw the hell to eliminate stuff that could be the problem. If your not willing to try things we are not willing to help you.

Have your graphics driver installed right?

Its not rocket science. I would say for sure you could figure it out. It might take you longer than other sure but, you can do it.

Just build it yourself then... Building a pc is not hard at all. You can do it for way cheaper and you could there for put better stuff and it. Glad to see you want a desktop instead of a laptop. 90% of the people that post here want a laptop and they just don't last as long as a desktop and they are easier to add on and change stuff out on.

Why not Dell? Have any Bad past experiences with them? And thansk for the OS bit. Have i had bad experience. :lol: :lol: Not only me but alot of people i know. For the most part thermal issues as they get to hot. A few people with laptops i know sent theirs back and took there business else where. Just what i have seen and experienced that has led me to believe they have no quality.

I would stay away from dell personally. Make sure that it is a 64-bit OS to so that you can sue all 4GB of your memory. If it is a 32-bit OS it will only use a make of 3GB memory.

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Glad it worked out. :)

First off put the changer[Caution: Executable File] were you wish. The make a new shortcut in the startup directory. The shortcuts path should C:\the\path\to\the\changer[Caution: Executable File] C:\the\path\to\images. So you putting two paths in the shortcuts location separating them by a space.

Get the link of those images and find out who is hosting them?

Try going to this site. Does that site load? What about this one?

Could try clearing your cache and cookies. I would thing it would be that you can't access image shack or photo bucket as that seems to be where alot of people here store there images.

Well you could open it up bout it is possible for you to break it but trial and error is the best experience. I'll say dropping the paper weights on it didn't help any.

There all for different task. I am not going into detail as you could just use wikipedia to answer this question very easily your just being lazy.

Great! i have tested it in 32-Bit and 64-Bit vista. I gave up trying to use it on XP, so put it on my Vista laptop :D And it works perfect, I tested it quick by logging on and off, new wallpaper each time. Thanks Sloter! Thanks for posting that it worked on your vista machine. ;)

Great! i have tested it in 32-Bit and 64-Bit vista.

It works fine in vista. It would have to do with line 78 as to why it isn't working in XP. You might try just setting it via the registry which you can do with win32 api. I hav proved the source code so someone else that has time for it can look and make it work better. Also in XP it doesn't like you make parameters in shortcuts so just make a batch file. start C:\path\to\changer[Caution: Executable File] C:\path\to\images exit

I actually made you a simple little application that will change it every time the computer starts up. To use it you need to make a shortcut to the application in your startup folder. Make the location of the shortcut C:\the\path\to\the\changer[Caution: Executable File] C:\the\path\to\images. You can use a batch file to if you wish. Put all your images in one directory and that is what it will use. I tested this using 3 jpg images in a directory and it worked fine i am sure bugs will appear as it is 5 a.m and i have been up all night and i am tired. Just let me know and i will fix them. You can download a copy of it compiled here. I will post the source too. #include #include #include #include #include #include #include using namespace std; bool checkFile(string file) { int x = 0; char * ext, * imgFile; imgFile = new char [file.size() + 1]; strcpy(imgFile, file.c_str()); char * img = strtok(imgFile, "."); while(img != NULL) { ext = img; img = strtok(NULL, "."); } string types[8] = {"jpg", "jpeg", "jpe", "gif", "tif", "tiff", "png", "bmp"}; for(x = 0; x < 8; x++) { if(types[x] == ext) { return true; } } return false; } int main(int argc, char * argv[]) { int i = 0, x = 0, change = 0; vector files; DIR * open; struct dirent * read; open = opendir(argv[1]); if(!open) { MessageBox(NULL, "The directory you have set is invalid!", "Wallpaper Changer", MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR); exit(1); } while(read = readdir(open)) { if(checkFile(string(read -> d_name))) { files.push_back(string(read -> d_name)); i++; } } closedir(open); srand(time(NULL)); x = rand() % files.size(); string imgFile; imgFile = argv[1]; imgFile = imgFile + "\\" + files[x]; char * img; img = new char [imgFile.size()]; strcpy(img, imgFile.c_str()); change = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, img, SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE); if(change == 0) { MessageBox(NULL, "Could not change the wallpaper!", "Wallpaper Changer", MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR); } return 0; }

Did you put the song in the right directory on the zen?

I figured so. Wasn't really trying to prove you wrong or anything :P I will say i have heard the HD series is suppose to be good.

ATI currently kicks NVIDIA's [wagon] with their HD series. I haven't heard much about their current drivers, but for example: ASUS HD4850 512MB $140 The next closest NVIDIA card would be EVGA 9800GTX 512MB $150 In benchmark tests the HD4850 often beats the 9800GTX at large scale resolutions (1680x1050 and up) where as the 9800GTX tends to do better at lower resolutions. You could spend another $20-$30 though and get HD4870 512MB $180 Which has been known to get close to the 1GB GTX280 on a lot of benchmarks, like within 3-5 FPS. Or if you want a cheaper card for for a 9800GT, $100. I never said that they weren't bad i just prefer nvidia.

If this was functional and worked well everyone would have one. Also running it for a while you are going to need a way to cool the oil. Just because there is a large amount of the oil doesn't mean it won't heat up. Also most of the hardware will be hard to work with once it is in the oil as to change anything your going to get oil all over the place. Your also going to have to make sure you tank has tempered glass in it so the temperature change doesn't crack the tanks glass. You keep saying you want a SSD to have that in the tank are you going to put your cd drives in the tank? I don't think you really realize how unfunctional this will be. I think you saw this and was like yeah that is so cool and i can show this off to people. Hint that you are trying to make a fake one now. What is the point of having an unfunctional take of oil sitting in your living room? Not to burst your bubble or anything. This is why i posted my first post again you really don't have a clue of what you are talking about in any way.