Posts by matteversmansix

Maybe you can find a work around posted online to enable the feature. either a bios update, or perhaps a reg hack or something. i dunno, and yeah its a long shot, but worth a try i think. HP makes good machines and im happy with mine....

Agreed. if youre careful what you click you can miss the spyware thing. Still, if you dont really wanna deal with UAC, and want a little breather from it, then your best bet is to download TweakUAC. it will leave uac on but stop it from...

Yeah, actually. Both Dell and Lenovo offer business laptops for a great price with XP Professional installed on them factory. Both brands also offer linux as an OS option, so there are drivers available for BOTH OS' and they are easy to...

the pin count is the same and its both DDR, so it will work. if you buy the pc2700 and need pc2100, the 2700 will just be downclocked to run as 2100 thats all. itll work out ok. ev

I like the balanced one, but i have it tweaked. this is one of the things i really love about Vista. you can go in and change the plan settings by clicking on 'Change Plan Settings'. you can actually go in and manually adjust all the...

the final version is gonna start shipping to MSDN subscribers and technet subscribers this week. I got it last week cuz a machine at work we had issues with needed it. the slow file delete issue that some had in vista doesnt have a hot...

There are three things to do that will help you out drastically and make Vista boot up REAL fast. Now, vista has a few built-in things that start up for security and for user convenience that are HUGE and take FOREVER to load up at...

FWIW, i have heard numerous reports of AVG and of ZoneAlarm causing all kinds of weird problems with Vista. Less so AVG. the probs with AVG were more of the extremely long startup times that seem to disappear soon as a diff AV solution...

I realize this is an old thread, but im gonna post anyway as you may not have an answer. OK, i have a DV5000 series and when my OEM hard drive went bad, those were EXACTLY the end symptoms i had. first it was just slow and buggy and...

Also, if you are a stickler about using HP only parts, heres a link to the OEM one that is for our notebooks. http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/n...DL606A%2523ABA ev