Posts by odious_m

Quote: Originally Posted by moidock The USB speed depends on the hardware not the drivers, if your system came with 1.1 USB ports you're stuck. Upgrading a notebook to USB2 just takes the appropriate PCMCIA...

Quote: Originally Posted by GZS I get home to find a string of dead pixels in the center of my screen (Vertically) dead. Surprised no one mentioned this thread: Dell will replace defective 17"...

Was it worth the $1.10 today for your peace of mind? Because that's what it cost you. . . .

You can't permanently erase all your data by reformatting wih the restore discs. There are many data recovery programs that can recover it, even after a reformat, as it has not been securely overwritten. Use of the programs that...

No, that won't work because many of the system files on C would be in use and therefore you could not replace them. It's best to use an imaging software, like Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost to do this sort of back-up. If you...

Quote: Originally Posted by insaneamerican is there a freeware one that can change the...

ffdshow + MPC (Media Player Classic) is all you need. ffdshow can dramatically improve picture quality with its sharpening, denoising and Lanczos resizing features. It can also be used with zoom player and TheaterTek. See my (much)...

Here's what you want: Program: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=501245 or: http://www.softpedia.com//progDownlo...load-2369.html Styles: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showforum=36 .

Is 1 to 2.5 TB enough for you? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...0GB+and+higher

Disabling services with msconfig often doesn't work and I think that may be your problem. Use start>run>services.msc Look for NVIDIA Display Driver Service in the list of services. Double click it, then STOP it, and finally...