Posts by NewAlien

I have posted very rarely on these forums except when I was going to buy the 9860 with the 6800 Go. I bought it December 2004. The machine is still a beauty and runs as fast as it did before and I keep it 24/7 on (and in sleep mode when...

Quote: Originally Posted by nb_nj_user Hi NewAlien, 1. Are you still having issue on installshield? 2. If no more issue, what the solution you think solve the problem? Thanks. I am not having any more...

Sorry guys for not doing the update. I did a complete reformat of the hard disk. Followed the installation process as outlined in Computer Potato's link. It went smoothly. Registration was not a problem. XPP did not give any problem as...

Latest news Win XP 64-bit edition and 2003 server 64-bit edition is coming out sometime during last week of march. So you can bet that if the release is on schedule then, all supporting drivers and applications will follow in matter of...

mine too, i usually either hit Fn + F4 and then start the comp or close the lid and open it again. Annoying though but not threatening enough to RMA it. Another problem that I had recently was with Messenger Yahoo and MSN, both of them...

Quote: Originally Posted by hardcore76 For coding, CPU isn't that important. I code on a Win2k system on a PII500 just fine. And for the number of programs you're using, the amount of ram would be much more important...

I recommend going with XP Pro only because you suggested that you will doing web-site related stuff as well. If ever you intend to do some ASP or ASP.NET stuff tomorrow, you will need IIS which does'nt come with XP Home. You need XP Pro...

Yes mobilmeter works well. Just don't let it run all the time. I have read that it causes some performance issues. Just use it to read the temps at a particular point of time and then turn it off.

Mad Dog Dominator USB floppy drive works. I had the same problem as you. I bought this drive from Office max, sells for like 35$ (mostly on sale for less than that). Atleast better than paying $60/-. It works. Do what Computer_Potato...

The funny thing is I can't install the windows cleanup utility. I bet it installs using instalshield. I will try bizkat's method and see if I can instal in safe mode