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LOL. Well it was only 8$ so the purchasing guys had no problem ordering it for me. If it doesn't work.... I don't know what I will do. Maybe try another locksmith? If it does work it still means I have to take each laptop apart to get the bolt out of the case of the laptop, which will...

I wasn't surprised that there weren't tons of articles out there about how to hack off laptop locks. I AM the laptop support here. Before I worked here, the techs didn't even test the laptops. If they powered on, they were redeployed. I called a locksmith and he said he couldn't pick...

I fix Dell laptops (lattitudes) where I work. We've had quite a few come back with the laptop locks cut and the combination lost, so the lock and a bit of cable is dangling from computer. How can I remove these? A bolt cutter? Then I just need to open the case up to remove the part that's...

My old Logitech MX700 loved the cloth surface of my couch. It was dead-on accurate. I had to get a new wireless keyboard/mouse because my keyboard died (and I hated the charging station thing - makes it almost impossible to move from machine to machine), and I've tried several Logitech...

I left my brightness at 100. I tried it at different settings, but the difference was mild and I like the extra bright and crisp look when it's cranked.

Maybe I don't understand your question about text, but can't you just turn the font size up?

Loving my 2005FPW. Annoyed that a month after I bought it the price dropped by 50$.

Yeah, it makes sense that the problems get the publicity. I've seen pictures in threads on this forum of perfect monitors. Mine isn't perfect, but it isn't terible either.

Very cool, and an impressive price.

In my experience, Dell will support the hell out of you. I swapped one because of backlight bleeding and they didn't ask a single question or bat an eye. Just overnighted me a new monitor.

I picked up one a few weeks ago and I can't get over how cool it is. Mine had some backlight bleeding, so I had Dell ship me a replacement. The replacement was 3X worse, and although I could have continued swapping monitors until I got a perfect one, I decided I was too lazy to do that and...

Bad backlight bleeding. I am in the process of getting a new one. As long as Dell pays for all the shipping, I don't have a big problem exchanging several until I get a good one. And that's because otherwise I love everything about this monitor, including its price. Also I upgraded to the...

My 2005fpw arrived yesterday. Fairly bad backlight bleeding from what I have read around here, but I just can't tell unless I am specifically testing it. I am going to get as many games as I can installed on my machine and really test it and see. Doom3 with lots of darkness should be a good...

Oh, it's not required? Very interesting. Exactly how closely matched do two sticks of RAM have to be in order to turn on dual channel? Same size, or down to the CAS speed (or whatever they have nowadays)?

Thanks guys. Call me closeminded but I am terrified of a ULI chipset. I suffered terribly from the early via chipsets (starting from the slot A athlon classic), and just don't have the testicular fortitude to experiment at all. I have my heart set on an nvidia chipset this time around...

It's been years since I followed all the PC technology so I am having a lot of trouble figuring out what supports what. Please help an old geezer save a few pennies. I am buying the core of a new machine. I am upgrading from my 1gig P3. I am upgrading almost entirely for civ4. Right now...

OK, thanks for listening tho.

I guess it's time to reinstall (again)....back to win2k i think. If this turns out to be true (active desktop was ruining my performance and was impossible to turn off), I will be extremely bitter.

Okey. But do you know why the option to turn it on or off simply doesn't exist on my winxp machine? It exists on my win2k machine here at work....when i chose a jpeg as a desktop picture it somehow enabled it, but since there is no option anywhere else I simply cannot turn it off.

Yeah I turned off the jpeg on the desktop, put the background to a blank color, but I don't think that actually turns active desktop off, does it? I really don't know what active desktop does, other than take nice pictures on the deskop and allow an internet explorer page as your desktop (and...

I idiotically thought I could put a nice picture on the desktop of my multimedia machine (winxp sp1), and ever since then I have had terrible performance in my recording software (Sonar 2.0). I know that active desktop was enabled because it must be for the desktop to show a jpeg, right? So I...