Y'know it says a lot about a company when they are so slow at releasing patches that 3rd party companies start doing it for them. The latest flaw...
Some laptop fans are designed to turn on and off when required. This helps to save battery life. If you are concerned about the fan or your CPU...
Look in the control panel for 'Power Options'. You can disable / enable standby mode when you close the laptop's lid
Yes, you can do that. However you can't simply cut + paste the folders within the Program Files folder. You will have to re-install the program(s)...
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You're lucky that your CPU didn't get fried :) Personally I'd replace the fan immediately, but that's because I get very paranoid about these...
What brand was the PSU?
Yeah, I read that the first time :) You are going to have to be more specific I am afraid. What happens after you've installed XP?
Could be that two devices are conflicting with each other by using the same IRQ address (interrupt) Look in the BIOS for 'PnP Configuration'...
What state is your hard drive in now? What I suggest you do is visit bootdisk and download the Windows XP boot disk. Boot your computer from the...
That's down to your processor. I get that on older computers (P3 or less). Basically your processor can't devote enough time to the music player...
Yes. Standby puts your computer in a state of sleep
Good :) Opera is a very clean and polished browser. It's also one of the most secure browsers. Opera doesn't use extensions as such, instead...
This is from a report published by Symantec, who claim that Firefox has the highest numbers of bugs, followed by Internet Explorer. The report...
An excellent artical about the shortcomings of Windows XP. Will Windows Vista be any different? From the artical: Windows XP is turning five...
@ Addis Then use Kubuntu :) @ Kenji Yeah but Linus is one sexy beast! ;)
From DistroWatch In a surprise move, Canonical has announced that it will not provide free CDs of Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" through its popular...
Firstly, log out as root! su = permanent root login sudo = temporary root login Then enter sudo apt-get update then: sudo apt-get...
@ Karni Have you enabled the extra repositories? Check out the 'Getting the most from (X/K)Ubuntu' sticky. AmaroK is a KDE media player. If...
Well it's a good question looking at the way things are going
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