Posts by f1drvr

Here is a pic of the start menu mod i was talking about. Sorry its kinda blurry the lighting in here is terrible, but you can get the idea. [IMG]

The sphere xp chews up about 100 extra MB of Ram on my machine and slows the processor way down sometimes. It is real cool to play with, but you lose some funcionality with it plus you will need a real mouse to use all the features. ...

Thank you i did in fact need to update.

Thanks guys, i was just curious, actually. With 1024MB, that thirty or so that doesnt come back isnt really hurting me. I just wanted to know where it went. Thanks again. Flapjacks, do you use that feature in powerstrip? How do...

A technical question. I run a program called statbar which monitors various things like processor use ram, battery, etc. on my desktop. Ive noticed that on startup, I start off very close to 220MB being used for all my processes and...

If powerstrip is not running, you wont have the performance benefits of it. Took me forever to figure it out, I assumed the settings in PS were applied always, but the 3d mark scores wouldnt go up with it off, so it should be running. ...

OK Ill get a screen shot in a couple days, Im not real sure how to put a picture on here though. Have any tips? The alien head logo was in the c:\WINDOWS file that you will be working out of to change the start menu. The filename is...

Found a cool tweak that lets you change the start menu to whatever you want. Okay, its a bit silly, everyone laughed at me for doing it, but I was bored and when I was done it looked pretty cool. ...

Stupid question: So if you were to do a new install of XP would you need SP1 & 2, or only 2?

Gotcha, thank you.