Hey now that I have 1.7GB of RAM and am only using about 35%% of it max, I
can zero out the page file and free up more HD space?

I reinstalled the latest Java and still have 9GB free now, so I won't even
be needing new HDD's now. :)

But since upgrading my RAM, it went and auto-set the page file to 1.6GB
now, so I can free up even more if I zero that?

I just got in a 2nd hand Sony DSLR A100 which uses Compact Flash cards.
I take a few pics and it seemed to work just fine, the camera can read
the files nearly instantly. But when I pop the card (2 GB) into my
external card reader the computer chokes on the file(s). It tells me
wrong parameter, sometimes it says I/O error. I've tried formatting the
card in the camera and the computer, no luck. I took the card to Walmart
and put it into their Kodak print machine and it read the files nearly
instantly. So I thought maybe it was just a bad reader so I bought a
different reader. Back at home, same results with 2nd reader. Since this
stuff is all new to me I figure it's probably user error, but so far I'm
stumped. Any ideas?

I have tried ti install it twice, a long way into the install, it gives a
non-detailed message that it was not successful and backtracks out of the
upgrade.

I think this SP is a collection of upgrades. I have been able to install
previous upgrades, except for any relating to IE6, so I have been ignoring
those.

Is there a way to install individual components of SP3 and install those
that are successful and ignore the one or two that won't install.

I was looking for stuff to delete from my hard drive, that is no longer
needed and came across a bunch of big Java files, updates apparently.

They're like 119 megs each and there are lots of them.

JSE runtime environment 5 update 1...2...4...6...9...

Java 6 update 2..3..4...5...

Question is, can I delete the older ones and not mess up anything in my
system?

Registry Cleaners? What does everybody like?

Are Hitachi HD's as good as Maxtor or Seagate?

This is a doozy. I don't know if anyone can even tell me what truly
happened or not. Here is my story:
I recently got a DVD/CD drive that worked perfectly fine... for a
while. I used it for some time and then one night we rented a movie
(Finding Neverland) and watched it on our TV's DVD player. After
watching it my sister came home and wanted to see it so my mom stuck
it in again, but this time it didn't work. The player said that there
was not even a DVD in the player. I decided then to take the DVD and
let her see it on my computer (trying to be nice) and when I stuck the
DVD in my drive, it too said no disk was in it. From that night on
both the player and my drive didn't work. I could and can play CD's in
it just fine, but no DVD works. The strangest and most anoying part of
it all is that...

Hi
Wife got me a nice Dell 22" wide screen monitor, it has analogue and DVI,
my problem is that when I try to use the DVI (white plug) it starts fine
through the bios but when windows starts it flashes on and off.

I am using Windows XP MCE SP1, I have an ATI 1300/1500 graphics card, with
analogue and DVI outputs. 2 gig memory and an AMD 3200+

I have tried changing the resolution and reset it back to manufactures
default which makes no difference.

to be honest the screen looks fine using the analogue plug, but I thought
the DVI would or could be better.

Any suggestions on a fix or do you think there isn't any difference in the
two anyway and not worth the hassle?

thanks for any help

Gordon

Pc not booting up whilst 2nd HDD is connected
I've got 2 hard drives, one for operating system, the other one is for all
my data/music/files.

Its been running great for a few years, rock solid, never a problem... until
I downloaded a crack/code for soundforge off a dodgy warez type site.

Since then, I've not been able to reboot, not even in safe mode. I went into
the PC and through trial and error, disconnected one of the hard drives (not
the C windows one) and boots up fine with just the C drive on its own.

I believe I've cleaned my C drive of all trojans and infections 100%% clean,
and double checked at trend micro and panda scans online, avg anti spyware,
spybot and avast. So the C drive is probably not infected with anything.

But what can i do about my other hard drive, when i connect it, (with the pc
off obviously), then I cant get the pc to boot up at all, and thats the
drive thats got all my data on, so I'll be needing it on and working by
sunday evening so I can carry on with my work.

This one really has me baffled....

For several years I've been using "my" computer running WIN98SE for
daily monitoring of our business bank accounts at:

www.citizensbank.com

Suddenly, I can't reach that site anymore from my computer and get an
error message saying "Page can't be found". (I've tried both IE and
Netscape 7.2.)

Same problem if I try and ping it with PingPlotter.

I can reach all of the many other websites I'm used to going to just fine.

I did a WHOIS and got the URL for www.citizensbank.com (128.167.128.253).

I entered that on my browser bar and immediately got to the bank's home
page. But clicking on links on that page got me error messages saying
"Page can't be found".

So, I figured maybe the DNS our ISP uses somehow lost
"www.citizensbank.com". I switched to a different "free DNS", and still
had the same problem.