Recent content by Akabilk

Well like I said, to use or not to use W7 is a personal choice and it depends a lot on what it's being used for I guess. My printer won't work on w7 (no driver available, neither from canon nor generic) and that's a surprise as it's a common Canon one. Not Microsoft's fault of course and...

I just re-installed xp pro. after spending some time with w7 pro. For gaming I had some serious issues. I'm running duel boot now and I'm a lot happier. W7 has nice desktop eye candy, but there are many things about w7 and especially wmp 12 that drive me up the wall. It's a personal choice I...

The Stop 0x24 message indicates that a problem occurred within Ntfs.sys, the driver file that allows the system to read and write to NTFS file system drives. Firstly I would try removing one stick of ram if you have 2 sticks. Boot with one stick. If that fails, swap sticks. You might have a...

Bruve This link should help with your problem Bruce: Microsoft: Windows XP Pro - Network ID button greyed out

Connect directly to the share you want to map using the NetBIOS name. Instead of the IP in the start menu>run dialogue box. Example: (\\server\myshare) You will receive a window that prompts you for a username and a password. But now you will have the ability to check the box that indicates to...

Don't dispair! Borrow a XP OS disk from a friend. When it says press any key to boot from CD, go ahead and do just that. When the blue option screen comes up select 'R' the recovery console. It will have a dark bleak screen but it is your friend. When asked for a password just press 'enter'...

It's a good idea to do an OS image to DVD disk after a clean install, programs added and all settings adjusted to personal taste. I use the free version of Macarium Reflect which works very well indeed. The stored image (I store mine on disk and a separate to the OS partition in a folder I call...

Regardless of advertised claims by manufacturers, Web cams are very poor performers. In the end, most pc users who desire decent cam performance (for a youtube post for instance), use a hooked up digital video camera. The cheapest of these will outperform even the most expensive web cam products.

Another Hi to all and other Ozzies! SOULphIRE, Live on the East coast around the Gippsland Lakes in Vic. Lived in Perth a couple of times way back when.

Hi from Oz! Looks like a nice and friendly PC forum here. I'm about to do a bit of an upgrade to the PC I built about 3yrs. ago (my first build), so this looks like a good starting point. I need to upgrade my CPU and Card so I can play the beefier games around now. Games seem to have gone from...