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  1. If you have a sams club membership you can always look there for a computer. They usually have computers as low as $400 and their not too bad. For example if you look on their website you will see these two options for your price range. AcerŽ IntelŽ CeleronŽ D 2.80GHz 256MB Desktop PC #74624 # Model: APS280-U-C3600256KB L2 cache # 2.80GHz # 533MHz FSB # 80GB hard drive For only $379.00 or AcerŽ AMD Athlon⢠64 2.4GHz 512MB Desktop PC #74639 # Model: AST160-U-A3400512KB L2 cache # 2.4GHz # 200GB hard drive # MS XP Home For $510.00 There might be other retailers that also offer a good computer for that price. The best thing though of course is putting a computer together using OEM components as this will give you more power for your money. And I guess you can also try online purchases. I've gotten some parts of off http://www.pricewatch.com/ You can find just about anything there, just make sure you read up on the specific place selling the part. Make sure they've gotten good reviews as some places take too long to deliver, or some places might sell used parts as if they were new. But yeah its just another option I guess. Hope this helps.
  2. There are some devices that are made specifically just for reading PDF documents and other formats for eBooks. One such device is the Gemstar eBook. Here is a link to a few devices and their prices. You can use this as a starting point to see whats available for reading documents then try looking around for a place that sells them for pretty cheap. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
  3. Since you didnt mention exactly what these tools do its kind of hard to figure out. But I found this site http://www.jdtools.de/ which has some tools by the name of JDTools. It contains 4 tools, one is for helping out with .Net, the other is an AntiSpam program, there 2 other but I'm not sure exactly what they are for. Hope this helps.
  4. If your computer is frozen or seems to be running really slow and pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete does work, look in the Processes panel for an application that is using too much processor cycles. sometimes a single program can really slow down or freeze your system, after that just right click and kill the process.
  5. Yes thats also a thing I do, keep all my installer files in a single compressed file, I have been using WinRAR of course, and I came up with a naming convention so I can keep all my files organize nicely. Its good to hear that there are other people out there that know about using multiple partitions for easier maintenance and some speed increase. Also, the reason for the registry is just so that when you run an install program it automatically points you to that other directory. If anyone knows any other nifty registry tweaks that might help in this situation please post them, as I would be very interested in hearing from you.
  6. I don't know if anyone here uses Power Basic 8, but I'm having a bit of a problem with displaying a bitmap from memory onto the screen. I'm trying to make a SPR (Ragnarok Online sprite) file viewer. The SPR file contains a header with info on how many frames are in the file and dimensions and size, then the actual bitmap data is RLE compressed and at the very end is the pallete info. Well I wrote a program that can read the file and decodes the bitmap data and I can create a user define type of a bitmap and set it all up with the appropriate data. So far I can save the bitmap out to a file by saving the user define type variable, but what I don't exacly know how to do is to display the bitmap to the screen, I learned a little about GDI but perhaps if anyone is familiar with Power Basic they can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advanced.
  7. 3 Partition Install of Windows XP This is a way that I have formated and setup my computer for better performance. Its a bit complicated for beginers, but I think its worth it. Below I will outline all the steps required to complete this type of setup. Read it all below once before you attempt it, I am not responsible (and neither is this forum) for any issues that arrise from following this guide. Description: This is a setup where the hard drive is formatted into 3 partitions. The first one is for the operating itself and I usually make it about 10GB. The second partition is made for the virtual ram and I usually make it about 2GB plus an additional 128MB so that windows doesnt bring up the low disk space warning. The last partition is where program files and documents reside. This does require some registry hacking to make it work, but its well worth it as it keeps the drive more organized by seperating the operating system from the rest of the files. Step 1: The first thing you need is a copy of windows XP. Once you have found a copy I would use the program nLite for creating a new cd which would include all the latest service packs, drivers, and some of the settings changed. This step is not really required but is suggested, since its not necessary I will not get into details but checkout that website to learn more about creating updated copies of windows. Step 2: For this step make sure there are no files on the hard drive that you would like to keep as this will destroy them all. Also for this to work well I suggest a hard drive of about 20GB or more. Ok, for this step reboot the computer with the windows install cd in the drive and get to the part where it shows you the partitions. Once there delete all the partitions on the drive, remember this will delete all your files so make sure their backed up. Now you will create the 3 partitions. Create the first partition and make it 10GB (thats 10 * 1024 = 10240MB). The make the second partition about 2GB + 128MB (2 * 1024 + 128 = 2176MB), and finally make the last partition the rest of the free space. Once you have that done select the first partition (the C drive) and install windows on that, I recomend you do a full NTFS format. Step 3: Just go through the rest of the installation the way you normally would. Step 4: After windows has started for the first time, go ahead and format the other two partitions. I normally label them as follows WinXP (10GB), VirtualRAM (2GB), Program Files (**GB). Step 5: In this step you will move your virtual ram to the second partition. Right Click on My Computer and goto properties. Then goto the Advanced tab and click on the Settings button under performance. After that click on the Advanced tab and click on the Change button in the virtual ram section. At this point select the drive with the 2GB and goto custom size radio button, in the boxed you should put in about 1.5 times your physical ram, when I had 512MB of RAM i actually put about 1024MB for virtual RAM and now that I have 1GB of RAM i have it set to 2GB of virtual RAm, I guess its up to you to see what works best with the main applications you are using. After you figure out a resonable size you want to put it in both boxes. This will limit the virtual ram from changing sizes constantly which slow down the system a bit. Next goto the C drive and remove the virtual ram from there by selecting the No Paging File option. after that click ok and it will ask to reboot the system. Step 6: This step requires you to make a copy of the Program Files directory in the C drive and mobe it to the 3rd partition. This is so that the common files work. Step 7: For this step you need to run the registry editor. Go into the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersionand change the drive letter for the following keys: CommonFilesDirProgramFilesDirAfter that reboot the computer, from now on the default install drive and directory should be that. Step 8: Another optional thing you can do is move the documents folder to the 3rd partition, to do this simply right click on My Documents and click on the Move Folder option and create a new folder on the 3rd partition. Thats it for now, its not a real in-depth guide but it might help some. Be carefull because if you dont know exactly what your doing you can easily mess up your system, in that case just install windows the normal way you would usually do it.
  8. If you dont happen to be using MS Windows and want a free graphic editor you can always use GIMP. It is also available for MS Windows. As for a web editor theres this really nice one called NVU which is also available for both Windows and Linux. These two programs are completely free and work really well for most situations. As for me, I personally use Notepad and Photoshop CS2. I dont prefer using a WYSIWYG editor because it will usually add uneeded tags or tag properties, and its sometimes harder to understand the code later on. Hope this helps. -QuantumFlux
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