Posts by Guspaz

Quote: Originally Posted by Nir wow , a lot of reading material in those two threads.. I'll spare myself from reading it as I guess they don't have a solution. and by the way , I noticed my mouse also goes crazy from...

After installing the newest driver for the Dell wireless card, it significantly improved my crackling problem, but didn't solve it. We'll simply have to wait for Dell/Broadcom to release a new wireless driver.

As has been said, Vista will try to use up as much physical memory as it can due to SuperFetch. However, Vista is only using *UNUSED* memory to do this, so disabling it to "free up" physical memory is silly. Linux does much...

CCCP is for simpletons, use MPC+ffdshow After all, that's all CCCP is, MPC, ffdshow, and a few other splitters/filters bundled up. I always say, rather than getting bloated codec packs like CCCP, just install MPC and ffdshow (and...

When my copy of Vista arrived from Dell, I did a clean install, but I didn't have to install a second time. Here is what I did: 1) Backed up my data from XP to an external drive 2) Booted off the Vista upgrade CD 3) Deleted my existing...

I've also had many issues with the stock Dell drivers. For one thing, it's missing all the features. No mobile settings, no television settings, etc. It also is very unstable (crashes a lot, bluescreens, all sorts of nasty stuff I never...

It can. The interface provided to average users is a neutered and simplified interface. They've integrated the windows firewall with IPSEC now, so if you go into the advanced properties you can make per-executable, per-network, per-ip,...

Quote: Originally Posted by mb76 Would be so much easier if all sites just worked in Firefox, but can't have everything I guess Firefox with IE Tab (run IE in a firefox tab for those sites you mention), but...

They only require signed drivers for 64-bit Vista. And they don't audit them, they just sign them, which is extremely important for security. Being able to stop non-signed drivers from loading is very important to preventing malware from...

For DX9 cards, Vista includes a new memory management system. It now manages videocard memory much like it does system memory, able to swap out unused memory. This is to both unify the memory management, which was previously done by...