Sorry I haven't read the post properly.
You did bun the ISO to a CD properly didn't you?
It won't work if you just drag and drop the iso file on the CD drive icon in XP you need to write the...
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Sorry I haven't read the post properly.
You did bun the ISO to a CD properly didn't you?
It won't work if you just drag and drop the iso file on the CD drive icon in XP you need to write the...
Have you checked you BIOS settings?
You want the CD-ROM to be first in the boot order, some manufatures include a bootmenu which appears when you press a certain hotkey at boot.
Or go with Linux:cool:
If you rely on some of your old DOS software (or just want to run classic games for fun) youcan get most stuff woring with DOSEmu it's much faster than DOSBox. I can run Quake at full speed as the...
Are you logged on as admin when you do this?
Rather than using MS-DOS and some 3rd party ntfs reader utility you could try booting from a live Linux distro like Knoppix for example, it has the...
Kane,
Last time I tried to do this I wrote a batch file to execute the runas command with a text file containing the password piped to the stdin, it didn't work for some reason.:(
Is there a way...
Can you play AVI files at all?
Firstly try disabling disabling thumbnails
From any open folder in Windows Explorer and, right click on the background and select View>Icons
Select...
What programs are you having trouble with?
Providing they don't access the Internet (I wouldn't recommend using browsers/file sharing software like Imesh that insists on being as admin) it's...
The desktop.ini files store information regarding the layout of the desktop or display options of a folder for example to arrange the icons in alaphabetical order.
The reason why you normally...
Great achievement, even though I don't have any respect for Microsoft.
Not by default they're not, click on Internet Explorer under the non-restricted account which is set up for you by default and Active X controls can do what they like to your system.
Knowledge...
Alright then I'll put it another way, would you buy a house if the doors didn't lock properly and you could easilly open the Windows from the outside?
True, times are getting easier as far as...
Is the system clock and time zone on your machine set up correctly?
MS has discontiniued Word as a single product I believe the cheapest way to get it is with MS Works which is total crap.
OpenOffice is great but if you find it too large and you're only after a...
Yes society is primarily to blame, in an ideal world we wouldn't have to bother with security, you wouldn't need to lock your front door or car but welcome to the real world. MS should do a better...
Has anyone tried Gmail?
If you want an invite PM me.
Although the open source development model hasn't traditionaly been suited to games many developers have got round this by releasing the source code but keeping the data (artwork and sound) under a...
If the rest of the industry were prepared to work with us we could.
Given the details of the protocol the hardware uses to communicate the the PC we could, in fact the Linux community are so...
I agree.
Flame bait?
I'm sorry I have to disagree with you on this, I think we've being having quite a cizil discussion (even though I've dissagreed with some people not one insult has been...
It of course depends on the distribution, some are easier than others also it helps if you check that your hardware is compatable with it before you install.
All distros are based on Linux which...
I am aware of this, I think Microsoft recommends 128MB of RAM and an absolute minimum of 64MB, given that I've used XP on 128MB and it wasn't too snappy and XP uses more and 75MB RAM on my box when...
Sorry for jumping to conclusions, I'll pm you.
You love Windows, fair enough, I know why you love it and it's fully understandable - each to their own I suppose.
Thanks.
That's great, Linux is just the kernel, all the other software distributed with it forms the actual operating system - more distros = more choice.
Did you read up on Linux before...
Now that would be very cool. :cool:
Also I've neglected to say that friends of mine have found Linux to be faster games wise, sadly I haven't found this to be the case since my graphics card...