Posts by sni425

Thanks for the info. The browser thing is really annoying. Starting to kind of tick me off.

Would erasing the hard drive get rid of the BIOS or is that something built into the laptop already? Before I do this I want to make sure that I have all my bases covered. Also, for some reason I am having trouble posting on this...

What is the difference between "FORMAT C:" and the fdisk command? Thanks for the help

I just downloaded Mozilla and I went to the Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Scripts and Plug-Ins and there was no option to disallow scripts to open unrequested winodws. I read that that was the way to stop pop-ups in Mozilla...

What is the best way to completely format a hard-drive? Also, just for reference, is it possible to get into just MS-DOS (either from Windows XP or booting into it) and how do I do that? I ask this because I know you can just type format...

The setup for the game "Mafia" (great game btw) will only read my Radeon 9000 with 64MB of VRAM when as we all know it should be 128MB. Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem?

What is the best way that you guys have found to pretty much eliminate pop-up ads on webpages? Related to this, what would you say are the best web tools (download managers, etc.) to have with a DSL connection?

What is the best way to make sure that hyper-threading is on and working correctly?

Thanks Troy, that fixed the problem.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?