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Thanks, Finaly an os for my laptop . It was to slow for windows 3.1, maybe 1.0 will work.

I have been running these settings for quite some time now with no problems. The start delay setting I would not recomend to anyone with a slower computer because in the end it will just slow things downthose of you using windows xp can greatly inprove the start time of firefox by making it prefetch. All that you have to do is put "/Prefetch:1" minus the quotes at the end of the target box in the short cut.

who cares, what is the point unless you live in a mini house, or a travel trailer.

Personaly, I prefer the Intell CPU's over the AMD's. I tend to use a computer untill it breaks and intell CPU's just last longer by a long shot. I am running a 166mhz and a 233mhz Intell box right now with linux on them. The chip itself is mutch more durable with the heat spreader on it making it less likely to break during an instalation. I allso like the way that the company is run better. They give more money to education than AMD.

I think it was interesting to see who where some of the first companys to register domains. some of them you wouldnt have guesed like Fluke and TTI. Kind of interesting that these are the bigest companys in there field now. Gues that is what being ahead of the game will get you.

If you dont want to go that hard core you can give zmatrix a try. It just does some realy neet things to the background. zmatrix.sourceforge.net/

Best browser is lynx, just kidding. I have been using Firefox since 0.4 or 0.5 and havent had any major issues. One of the things that I like about it is the fact that if you come across a bug you can tell them about it and you know that they will get right on it. I had a roomate that would use IE on my computer and I would have 200+ peices of spy/add ware a week. I deleted the icon so that he would use Firefox and it droped to about 10 or 20. Its not just the fact that its not maintstream(very close to being mainstream), just that Firefox makes you agree to install anything. You may have the files but they are just in temp folders. ps. If you have problems with Firefox load time and run XP put /Prefetch:1 behind the application call in the shortcut. it will prefetch the program and make it load allmost instantly. Only problem is that evry page you had open before will come up when you load the program.

Definatly bittorent if you can find a tracker any more. If you get into close knit comunities the torrents dont die as fast and if youres does die all that you have to do is ask and people will reseed it for you. Aparently Napster is still around because my Physics Prof got a virus off of it and had to format her hard drive the other day.

I realy like the personalized search. Now whenever I want to search for something I dont have to sift through off topic things all the time. The Voice search I dont get the reasoning behind. What is the point? If you can dial a phone you can type on a keyboard.

With the amount of time that the spinrite took to run I imagine it rebuilt your Master File Table. I am wondering if there might not be some sort of disk error in the Master File Table. It is very likely that all of the diagnostics programs that you have run could have missed them. The only way to truely find out would be a low level format Did you ever give Knopix a try. I can still read the info on my dead hard drive with it. It seems that this a more comon problem than I thought. I ran into a guy today with the same problem with his laptop harddrive. You would think with a problem this comon there would be a site about it or something.

Lynx is an old text based browser. It is very useful to be compatible with this browser if you plan for your site to be accesed by the visualy impaired. Most of the equipment for reading text on the web out loud is done through the Lynx browser. Another of the lesser known but still fairly comon browser's is the Off-by-One browser. It is an ultra light weight and extreemly fast web browser. It is very usefull if you are on a slow dial up conection.

Linux is a good idea, I personaly have 2 computers from the same time period running at my house and I use linux on both of them. There are some desktops designed to be light witch your system should be able to handle no problem. Another thing to try is Mozilla Firefox instead of IE. It will eliminate alot of the security holes of IE and is less resorce hungry.

I dont know about all of the cryterea together because I have had either a fast hard drive with short life or a slow one with long life. I have an old seagate that is horibly slow and noisy but it has been steadily pumping out reliable data for about 7 years. on the other hand I have had Maxtors with blazing speed and had to return sevral of them under warinty for replacement. My last one died about 2 months out of warinty. I have now switched to Hitache/IBM. I havn't had it long enough to say anything about durability, but it is defanatly fast and quiet.

Thanks been wanting too have a look and see what was up with this. Time to check ot how bad Cydor screwd up this progtam.

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