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Hey guys i'm back! Been gone for 3 months because i was doing my student teaching internship..last time i was here was when i got my certification to teach...well update, now i've got my license (didn't know there was a difference until i got both...weird eh?) So now basically i can teach...

Hey all, I passed the New Jersey PRAXIS "social studies content knowledge" test. This officially makes me a certified secondary school teacher in NJ. I’m doing my student teaching this semester, then its job hunting in January. In a few short months I get to join the world of mediocre pay...

Hey whats up all, Here's the deal, I want to expand the partition where windows is hangin' out (C: ) That particular hard drive is a total of 200GB and i have 10 , i wanted to change it to 15 without formatting anything. Is there an option anywhere in windows, or some freeware that allows me to...

Hope everyone's got tons of free time off of school, work, etc. I just wanted to know if everyone who games here has Xfire. In case you don't know what it is its the instant messenger for gamers. It tells you what games your buddies are playing and if its online, it tells you the server so that...

What's up fellow gamers and enthusiasts, I have a few concerns over the future of PC gaming. I was thinking to myself, PS3 will be expensive as hell hey, at least i still have my trusty ol' pc. Then i realized, DirectX10 will only be available on vista. Does this mean that those who don't...

Windows XP Security Guide Ur the man mega, thanks for all the help and effort!;)

How do i know if my laptop is too hot? If i play games on my lap the thing gets so hot that i can't touch the bottom for more than a few seconds. Is this common for "gaming" laptops? My old HP got hot before, but i never played games on it and it was not too diesel of a computer. I tried using...

What peripheral or hardware (besisdes a pci wireless network card) do i have to buy in order to extend the range of my wireless network. I'm looking for something that doesn't have to be connected to the modem and can just pick up the wireless signal and allow another computer/laptop to get the...

Finally Got my laptop up and running. The Laptop i ordered from IBUYPOWER.COM had a funky display issue right from the start. I sent it back and told them not to bother repairing it and to just send me a new one. They did just that. Last week i finally received the replacement. It works just...

What's up everyone, Hope all is well here at HWF land. onward to the issue. I've just installed a 300gb Seagate Barracuda Ultra ATA/100 hard drive; i know that generally this is always 1 or 2 gigs short of what it actually is. However my hd is showing up as only 279gb. Now, not that i really...

Well this is sort of a sequel to my cpu question earlier this week. Basically here's my two choices. RAM for both choices is 1gb of Corsair pc 3200 (xms if i go with amd) Hard drive will be a 7200rpm 80 gig for both choices. here's the tossup and where i need some direction. either an...

I'm about to buy a laptop as i've sold my old HP nx9010 for 700 bucks and i'm willing to match that and 300 bucks for a total of 1700 to spend on a new laptop. I want it for gaming and i was going to shoot for an AMD Turion, but everywhere i go i see that the Intel Centrino processors are way...

Hey all, In windows XP my start menu, specifically the "all programs" list is all over the place. I know the order that the items are listen in is definitely the order in which they were installed. I recently wiped viruses out of a friend's computer and noticed all of her items were listed...

Hey everyone, Happy New Year and thanks in advance, Ok here goes. My friend and I were playing Guild Wars and i experienced a bit of stuttering but shrugged it off as lag.It happened a bit more so I began to play in windowed mode and pulled up the Windows task manager; to my amazement i saw...

Hey all, Recently got a DVD burner with my latest upgrade. I want to pretty much take AVIs and similar video files and make a DVD that can be played on DVD players such as the PS2. (In other words make my transformers collection onto dvds so me and my friends can remember the 80s together)...

Hey i just got Fear the retail version and its pretty slow at times(theres no fps counter but, sometimes i move the mouse and it takes a second for the gun to respond). Are the graphics so advanced that it cripples a 7800GT and AMD 3700 at everything max? I installed a no CD patch cuz i hate...

Hey All, Recently got my new rig up and running; I read the sticky on power supplies and I'm still a bit unclear about amps, volts, and rails. You guys have never failed me, so basically What power supply should i get to power an AMD 64 3700+ , geforce 7800gt, hard drive, 2 optical drives...

My buddy is buying my pc off of me. So i want to build a new one for myself. It shall be used for gaming, budget is 1300 bucks for the whole thing.(slightly flexible but dont' wanna go above it really) I want to go with AMD (looking into the 64) this time around, i've heard good things. Now my...

I have finally decided to either switch over to ATI or to buy a geforce 7800, don't know exactly what to do here, but one thing's for sure, my 6800gt must be sold first. I bought it from newegg like two months ago but i want a slightly more powerful card. It has been seated with a kingwin heat...

Greetings All I have a pent 4 @3.0 ghz socket 775. The stock heatsink/fan lets the cpu temps idle at around 40C. Thats higher than what i'm used to. When i had the same processor but socket 478 with some jet engine looking fan my temps were in the low 20s C. What is a good heatsink/fan combo to...