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When you log in, you should get an Achievement + have mail from WoW Devs.

Turn off Aero and use Windows Classic theme. Might squeeze a few FPS in.

Make sure you log in today for the fourth anniversary and get your special gift. :

Ok, I have this laptop I'm currently using and I enjoy gaming on it. Specs Pentium Dual Core 1.6ghz 2gb RAM Nvidia Geforce GO 7300 128mb dedicated Question: Will XP provide a gaming improvement over Vista? My dad has an old copy of XP he isn't using and I was considering dual booting it with Vista, making XP a bare bones OS just for games. By doing this, am I going to see an FPS improvement? Or is it not going to be worth the time to set it up. Thanks :)

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Google Images can sometimes turn up alright images. A tip. Type in your subject, then your resolution. Example: I type 'Muse 1280x' into Google Images and it returns images that are 1280x1024, 1280x960 etc. It's pretty hit and miss though. Sometimes you can find some good stuff, other times you get junk.

Check out Playxpert. http://www.playxpert.com/web/guest/splash Its an in game overlay that lets you listen to music, sign into IM clients like MSN and use a web browser. I'd use it, but it IS NOT supported in either 64 bit OS'es OR VISTA. So if you have XP, that'd be a great program to try out.

Updated up to here now, been a bit slack lately :D

Vista performance is fairly good nowadays and if 7 is going to improve on that and remove the bloat, Windows can only get better.

Google is your friend for BSoD codes. Check here and here as they have the same stop code as you, with the same symptoms. Also Microsoft has a KB article on this stop code also which may help. Look here

Nokia N95, love it. Great camera, and STANDARD connectors. No silly expensive Nokia cables. Mini USB for accessing the memory card, and it has a standard earphone socket so I can plug in any set of buds I own, plus the sound quality is quite good. [hide=Pics] [/hide]

Looks good, stripping stuff off is good. Ideally, they'd give us a bare bone operating system that is quick and efficient, then users can add their own apps, bloat it with themes, whatever. I'd rather have something basic with the extras available, rather than Microsoft bloating it with all these extra features we "might" need.

Make sure a firewall isn't blocking PB.

Why has no one mentioned the PSP homebrew? No silly flash cartridges or anything, just find a friend with a pandora battery, or make one yourself. Downgrade it, then install custom firmware. Once that's done, it's all smooth sailings as it easily updates itself just like official firmware does. There are some great homebrew apps out there, a few examples, gPSP (GBA Emu), Snes9xTYL (SNES emu), PSPTube (YouTube and more on PSP) and there are heaps more you can get, which really enhances the PSP experience. For example, I have a homebrew app that lets me use my PSP as a joystick on my PC. There are heaps more things the PSP can do, not to mention *cough* playing downloaded games *cough*, not that I'd encourage anything like that. ;)

Have a poke around here. http://www.wowwiki.com Has lots of great info on it, I use it for the info and Wowhead for talents and items.

Moved to Tech and Computers :)

Any interface changes in the latest version?

If you're torrenting, you're internet will slow, especially if you're uploading a lot back. If you have a torrent that downloads fairly quick, but is uploading heaps, you will find the internet will slow to a crawl. I have uTorrent and I just turn the uploads down a little, and the internet should speed back up a bit.

I can vouch for the Razer Deathadder. I have one and I love it. Very comfy and looks great, as well as been a great mouse to use.

I use Windows Firewall and that's fine for general web browsing. If you want something a bit heavier, both Comodo and Zonealarm are good firewalls.

Updated up to last post :)

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What I don't get is how sexual content is instantly flagged for adults. We can blow people to bits, which is a major crime, but under 18's can play that. A little bit of nudity and the rating is blown out to adults only (or banned). I remember when GTA:SA had the hot coffee scandal (it showed you banging your girlfriend - with clothes on). In Australia, the game was banned straight away and wasn't allowed to be sold until the content was removed. So we can decapitate cops with sniper rifles, blow up cars, light people on fire - that's ok. But the minute a little dry sex comes in, the game is off the shelf. Makes no sense.

Just started playing WoW and was wondering what professions to take up. I made a Nelf druid and am tired between Alc/Herb and Skin/LW. Being my first character, I don't have any outside income source, so which of these are better for me? And I don't particularly fancy taking on two gathering professions.

A LOT of those so called infections are false positives, as most anti virus programs don't like modified exe files, but yes, some are infected, but I can vouch for the RCT no cd patches as I own the game myself and they have worked for me with no infections.