Posts by steve_416

I would STRONGLY recommend that you get a disk, download the update from Microsoft on a clean computer (one that was already patched), put the update on that disk, and use that disk to patch your new computer before you connect it to the...

Quote: Originally posted by xiphux are you using acpi? Its funny that you would ask that. A friend of mine said "are you using ACPI? If so, don't, and see if that works - ACPI screws things up a...

So I just got my 4760, and am installing Gentoo on it. I can't seem to be able to get sound to work. First, I tried their kernel (2.4.20, package "gentoo-sources"), and then a more recent kernel (2.4.22, package...

Depending on your usage, putting the money into something else could result in better overall performance. If you use a lot of RAM, buying more would help much more than a 5% faster processor. A faster hard drive would result in...

Why do you want to disable error reporting? I thought its a good thing for Microsoft to find and fix their bugs...

You seem to be most worried about data loss... Someone wiping the hard drive, but not stealing the actual computer. The only protection against that is backing everything up. You can hypothetically secure BIOS with a super-unresetable...

Quote: Originally posted by Loki047 Another way to do it without patching would be to run services.msc and than change the response to a svchost failure or something to "take no action" instead of...

As an addition to the above steps: it is also rumored that the first thing the worm does, on any infected machine, is look for Norton Antivirus, McAfee, and other popular anti-virus software, and kills them. So, even people who have...

You did not patch your version of Windows. Why not? ALWAYS PATCH. PATCHING IS GOOD. You are infected with a worm. Find another computer to read this message on, so you can remove it from your infected computer. Step 1: Unplug...

Quote: Originally posted by jamesshuang I know perfectly well how to install to format plugins in Office. I just wised the brainless technicians at my school knew how. You have no clue how many times I had to recover other...