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My old Acer Veriton FP2 bit the dust last week after 3 years of loyal service. It was a P3 800MHz and only had 2MB onboard graphics, so wasn't much use for online gaming. This time around, I've decided to get something a little more powerful, so went for a Dell Dimension 8300 series, P4 2.4GHz, with 512MB RAM and a 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 graphics card (not the PRO card, just the base one which I figure should be more than enough).
I ordered a few extra bells and whistles with it, so £1,103.84 vanished from the credit card and I'm sitting here waiting for it to be delivered. (Couple of weeks from now, I guess).
My biggest worry? I've never used Windows XP before, I was always raving on about Win2kPro being the best O/S since sliced bread. Is it easy to get along with?
I ordered a few extra bells and whistles with it, so £1,103.84 vanished from the credit card and I'm sitting here waiting for it to be delivered. (Couple of weeks from now, I guess).
My biggest worry? I've never used Windows XP before, I was always raving on about Win2kPro being the best O/S since sliced bread. Is it easy to get along with?
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Lipe wrote:
> How the hell do I get rid of windows messenger?
By reading the following
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/
> How the hell do I get rid of windows messenger?
By reading the following
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/
How the hell do I get rid of windows messenger?
This is really cool. Ordered it Friday night (late). Checked the order status online today and it's been built, tested, packed and despatched. Nice one Dell.
Now it's just a case of how good their carriers are...
But on the positive side it should arrive this week :)
Now it's just a case of how good their carriers are...
But on the positive side it should arrive this week :)
Fiery Salamander wrote:
> Also disable messenger otherwise annoying popups will pop up while
> your online.
Ha ha, so true.
> Also disable messenger otherwise annoying popups will pop up while
> your online.
Ha ha, so true.
You'd have saved a lot of money if you'd just tried to win another one :)
AOL Dial Up ?
After reinstalling window XP, AOL 8 and Planetside (with 7 hours of patching) I couldn't stay in the game for more than a few seconds without the connection failing, life sucks sometimes.
That's nothing, when I try to send files/play games/anything which requires a direct connection, my router freezes, and needs to be rebooted. Microsoft eh?
I got MSn 6.0 the other day. Every time I use the webcam in a convo the whole thing freezes, and CTRL ALT DEL won't end it. You have to turn it off at the plug. Bloody annoying.
Windows XP is pretty cool and easy :D One thing I hate is that I downloaded MSN Messenger 6 and Windows Messenger didn't delete :S Now it always comes up :S
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