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Sound problem
Hello guys.
I’m sure this question will sound silly for many of you, but anyway… Couple weeks ago i was playing one game on my laptop and at one point pressed Windows button as i wanted to check something in the internet without quitting the game. I was playing in my headphones and there were no [...] -
Very slow performance when hot
I recently was given a Dell Inspiron 1100 to poke at because it was running slower than a turtle climbing a tree. The first thing I did was uninstall every prog not needed. It got a little faster. Then I went through every folder there was and deleted the prior owners personal files, it got [...]
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Very slow performance when hot
I recently was given a Dell Inspiron 1100 to poke at because it was running slower than a turtle climbing a tree. The first thing I did was uninstall every prog not needed. It got a little faster. Then I went through every folder there was and deleted the prior owners personal files, it got [...]
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Microsoft drops more new codenames, including another ‘Mojave’
Microsoft used this week’s Professional Developers Conference to flesh out a bunch of codenames that had been circulating for the past several months — everything from “Red Dog,” to “Geneva,” to “Zurich.” At the Los Angeles confab, the company also introduced a few brand-new codenames.
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XP not recognising sound card!
Hi.
I’ve run out of ideas trying to solve this problem, so now I’m begging for help
History/Syptoms.
I have an Asus M2N-VM DVI mainboard which has on-board HD sound (ALC662 High Definition Audio) and on-board video adap.
On a fresh instal of Win XP SP2 everything worked great. Then, after about two weeks, the sound just stopped [...] -
A question on computer history…
A mate told me that when computers started out, they had no operating system… that everything (or the 1 incredibly simple thing) they were used for was operated in the same state that a PC is before you install the OS.
This seems to make sense I thought, because surely to design and program a new [...] -
7 mind-blowing projects from Microsoft Research
Everyone knows Microsoft never invents anything. Everything is bought in, copied from Apple or built by the PC manufacturer. Right?
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Not so, according to Rick Rashid, who’s been running Microsoft Research for 17 years. He coined the term NUMA – non-uniform memory access for handling cache in multi-processor systems – and popularized the idea of a [...] -
Hard Drive Failure?
I got a problem in trying to work out for sure if my hard drive is
failing. Problems began a few weeks ago when the 160GB Maxtor Drive
began to make a sort of grinding noise. Just to help you out a bit,
its the sound that happens after the three clicks [...]