Posts by f1drvr

I just got a dual boot system up and running and want to change the background of the boot screen for boot magic. Theres a option to do this in the program, but i cant seem to get a bitmap that works with it. It wants 640 X 480 pixels,...

Yup im gonna take the plunge and try to dual boot. Only a few questions for now. Is it better to start over and reformat? When I partition, how do I make the partition for the linux OS? Does our BIOS allow to boot from USB, or...

I seem to remember it happening about the time i started messing with the services. Folders such as My computer, control panel, etc. often open at the top left corner of the screen,and are shrunken down about as small as they can go so...

Check this out, look on the airbox.

any potential problems involved with deleting everything in the prefetch folder? Could you explain why deleting them might improve performance? I understand the concept of prefetch, it opens things faster and the like, but im not...

I boot up so slow, my comp is obselete by the time i get to desktop no its not that bad really, I would like to cut the time down if i can. I have 9 programs that start with the computer, but thats like my touchpad(2), virus scanner,...

man, fill me in on this, takes mine nearly a minute to go from power on to desktop. I currently get 18 processes at startup, what am i doing wong? I have this bootvis thing, but have no idea what to do with it. I did the trace and...

Quote: Originally Posted by jamaster14 from pressing the power button it takes 19 seconds. and this is 19 seconds until you are at login screen or in windows ready to run programs?

when u say boot, where are you timing from? I dont see how this can be, 12 secs from hitting the power button? from the login screen? from when the bootscreen starts? I killed all my services, down to 14 @startup and still (from power...

I had some good things happen after i installed them, i had a few issues with a racing game, like the telemetry didnt work and some cars were just not colored at all(white instead of red with decals) and installing the new drivers fixed...