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Has anyone found a way to prevent all the splash screens at startup? Now that I've seen them a few times I'd really like to skip them on startup. It's really annoying too that you can't even skip the majority of them by hitting the escape key when they try and launch. I just want the game to...

I suspect this is the case but I wasn't certain. You cannot run a 7800GT and a 7900GT in SLI together can you? If so this sort of sucks as the 7800GTs are getting scarce really fast at online retailers. I was planning on way down the line getting a 2nd 7800GT when it made better economic...

Are there any PCI Express 1x devices in existence yet or are they like USB used to be back in the late '90s, a well-hyped selling point but no real devices in existance at the time? All the recent PCI express motherboards seem to have these little useless slots on them, but if there aren't...

I'm looking to replace my pen drive and would appreciate any feedback on good or bad experiences with various models that people have had. Right now I have a 1G Lexar Jumpdrive Sport and it is starting to flake out on me. I think something may have gotten broken inside since the usb connector...

I have a K8N SLI Platinum NF4 motherboard. On NVIDIA's site I noticed that there are 2 driver sets there that seem to apply to this board. This one: nForce4 AMD Edition - Windows XP/2000 (32-Bit) Version: 6.70 Release Date: October 26, 2005 WHQL Certified And this one: nForce4...

Has anyone tried these new drivers yet? Does anyone know a good guide for the upgrade process as far as the step by step to do the upgrade? I know that many times with upgrading drivers that unless you do some housekeeping you can get traces of the old drivers interfering with a clean install...

Other than Battlefield2 being bundled with one of these are they all the same card or is there a difference here? eVGA 256-P2-N515-AX Geforce 7800GT 256MB eVGA 256-P2-N518 Geforce 7800GT 256MB eVGA 256-P2-N537-AX Geforce 7800GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card with...

I need a recommendation for a shared calendar application. Nothing as expensive or as sophisticated as an Exchange server or anything, just something so that a small office of 3-5 people can use to see each other's schedules and coordinate efforts. It wouldn't have to be open...

I'm looking for some backup software to use with an old TRAVAN drive. Something less than the cost of BackupExec or ARCServ. It just needs to back up some flat files, no databases, exchange servers or NDS or active directory stuff. Just basic functionality that runs a backup job on a nightly...

Does anyone have any info on the Dungeon Siege II beta that is up now on Fileplanet? Is there another way to get a cdkey for the beta other than signing up for fileplanet? Again, it's pretty fucking gay the way sites like fileplanet try and get 'exclusive' content for something that's being...

Has anyone ever run across this? I had one overly clever user disable the ability to click and drag anything anywhere. How do you undo this? They can double click on a desktop icon and launch a program or select something, but cannot click and drag anything using the left mouse button. No...

What's the difference here between these 2 cards? Both are PCI Express, both 6800GTs, same memory speeds, same dual DVI outputs I can't find the difference other than I can get one for $40 less than the other, but that begs the question: What does the more expensive one have that's worth the...

Does anyone know a good source that sells silicon (NOT RUBBER) window molding? Preferably C-type molding. Searching here in the forum came up with nothing interesting and searching on google gets alot of results for how to vaccuum mold parts with silicon materials but not edge-type molding...

I'm looking at building a system around an ASUS A8N-SLI Delux mobo and was wondering about a few points as to other requirements for additional components to make this thing work. I believe that I will need a new PSU for this. It looks like it will need a 500W PSU with a 24pin motherboard...

What is the best PCI express video card right now? Does it compare or beat the best AGP card currently? I think the best PCI express card is a variation of the NV6600 and the best AGP is a 6800 Ultra. I've seen some 6800pci express cards, but they don't specify if they are GT, or ultras. Are...

Is there a group policy setting that can be inflicted on a security group that will disable Internet access for that group in a terminal session. We have an office environment that uses thin-client machines connecting to a terminal server. Some people can't comprehend that the internet access...

Are there any announcements of midnight sales for HL2 like there were for D3?

Anyone else notice that they still haven't fixed the firewall to be anything more than an annoying nuisance. So far I haven't seen it try and block anything yet, and only once did it even mention that another program was trying to access the internet. I updated Ad-Aware, and it didn't blink, I...

Does anyone know a good site listing all the new monsters with screenshots and descriptions of them? In the original Doom I thought the Revenant was the monster that raised its arms and teleported in imps and such. In Doom3 the Revenant is the giant skeleton with rocket launchers on its...

WTF? All the info on the differences between the quality settings for Doom3 talk about the optimal card for the Ultra-High Photorealistic More Reality than Reality "You-can-see-the-boogers-in-the-zombies'-noses" resolution talks about running best on a 512MB video card? Aside from...

In the level that ends in the Communication Tower you have a choice to send the transmission offworld asking for help or canceling the transmission. Your Sergeant wants you to send the message and the corporate suit guy doesn't. If you send it the Sergeant tells you good job and the suit...

Has anyone seen a review of this anywhere or tried it yet? Looks like it could be good for people going for the silent treatment. Thermaltake 103 Fanless CPU cooler No, I don't work for Thermaltake, I just though this looked cool.

I have a unique backup problem and need suggestions on how to do this correctly. I have a Terminal server which is an active directory member that needs to have its disks upgraded to a larger size. The issue is that it's running a RAID array with a 3 disk backplane. Right now there are...

I'm not looking for warez or anything illegal. Mods delete this if it goes beyond the bounds of what is legal here in the forums. I need an ISO image of an XP Home CD so I can reinstall it for someone. I have the CDKEY on the sticker on the side of the PC, but my friend lost the CD and the...

I've got a Tyan Tachyon 9700 PRO and I was looking to see if there was a more up-to-date BIOS than the one I currently had on the card. It's got the original BIOS from the factory that shows as: BIOS Version 008.004 BIOS Date 2002/12/12 Looking on Tyan's site and through...

I ran across a problem today with a rackmount KVM. THe KVM in question is a TRENDWARE 8 port rackmount switch. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-107-245&depa=0 I was at a client reusing an old machine turning it into a dedicated PC for some phone utility or...

I can't think of some way around this one. I'm trying to do a search on KVM switches but the search tool kicks the work 'KVM' as too short. Doing a search for a "keyboard video mouse switch" turned up useless. Anyone talking about one would use the term KVM and spelling it out would lead to...

So, now that we've gotten the subscriptions fixed (Thanks Kyle or whichever one of your evil minions who did this) was there a major change in how you can sort or manipulate them now in this version of VB3? Previously I remember being able to sort them by age. This was helpful in searching...

I've been doing a project for someone that entails ripping a bunch of lectures from DVD to VCD format and was wondering if there were a faster way to do this than the one I'm using. The files are not copyrighted stuff, there's no CSS encryption on them and no region encoding. They're just...

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I could use some recommendations for a good anti-spam too to run on an Exchange 2000 server that will check incoming mail and filter spam to a 'spam' folder in users' mailboxes so they can still look in there in case the filter catches something legitimate. It doen't have to be a freebie app as...

I had to laugh at this one. :D Once you pass the age of 30 you sorta don't expect to get carded much, especially for things like buying video games. I went to BestBuy to get FarCry last weekend and in the process of ringing it up the cashier asked to see my ID. I thought it was odd since I...

What's the best freeware (non-subscription) anti-spam tool that you can find? I was using the cloudmark beta for a while, but it expired. I'm just using Outlook Express for a mail client with about 5 POP boxes and a few hotmail addresses. I'd be open to changing to another mail client if...

Anyone know of any online retailers with the SE edition in stock for sale? How limited is this edition? I don't really care about the tin box or the headset, I'd just rather have one DVD to keep track of rather than 6 CD's.

A friend of mine bought an HP machine that came with WindowsXP Media Center edition. (don't ask, this wasn't my suggestion) He already had a laptop machine that he was using a ripping program on to rip his DVD collection to his HD. On the laptop he was using Cyberlink's PowerDVD to view the...

I'm looking at getting into watercooling and have been reading numerous articles about the topic for a while. I'm thinking about taking my time and getting the right pieces instead of a pre-made kit. The one question I have though is about the issue of galvanic corrosion in the system from...

Anyone know the maximum number of subfolders allowed in Windows2000 on an NTFS file structure? Currently trying to google around on this and finding only product specific info, not OS specific info. Thanks

I installed and use the google toolbar to block popups in IE and thought that by running it with advanced features disabled it would be limited in what it can do and how it can interact back to google. Imagine my suprise when today it changed its appearance to have some fruity heart theme for...