I have read for years that Virtual Memory should manually be set to 2
times the amount of RAM and not let Windows manage it.
Now, since XP will only recognize 3 Gigs (even though the BIOS
recoginzes all 4) should I set it at 6144 or more, or let Windows

I recently purchased a samsung spinpoint 1000 gb hdd (HD 103UJ) as a
replacement drive for the current system.  Went thru normal windows xp pro
installation process and the drive seemed to be set up fine.  But only 132 gb
are being shown for volume C.  Device Manager shows ...

I have picture connection from from my laptop to an HD TV via a 15 pin cable
which work fine.
This does not provide sound however, can anyone give me the anwer to this?
Do I need another cable? If so which one.

XP allows me to defragment drives other than my hard drive.  I am unable to
find that capability on my Vista.  Is it available and how would I access it.
 Thanks.
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I hope this is the right place to make this question: The o.s. is win xp
under a domain, the users are "User Restricted", The users use notebook also
at their own home and they want to be able to install their own local usb
printer; so they can't install the printer 'cause ...

My first video card is a GeForce 7600 GT with two DVI hookups.  I have two
dell monitors plugged into it and it works great--I've got myself a
super-wide desktop.
I recently bought two new dell monitors with another GeForce 7600 GT;

Running XP Home, plenty of RAM, nothing unusual.
I installed  broadband for a friend, done it many times before and nothing
special about this one.  Installation went fine except that as soon as I
plugged in the modem I got a window headed 'Application Error' and a

Have a Versatek ver170p modem.  It works fine.  I bought it from my ISP
last year when I signed up with them for high speed internet service.
According to the instructions that came with the modem (and on
Versatek's website) I should be able to configure the modem by entering

I have an Iomega CD/DVD RW device which isn't
working with
XP Pro.  According to Iomega it needs no driver or
program update to be used with Win XP.  When I try

Easy question....how many USB ports are on some of the newer motherboards?
Six on the back....plus more on headers?
What about SATA ports, have they gone much beyond four?
-John O

Hello all together,
i have a big problem. Perhaps everybody can help me.
On my old disk 60GB i have 5 partitions:
           1. partition Windows 2000 prof.

I have an RJ45 coupler which is supposed to be a crossover one, but it
doesn't seem to work. Can I test it by adding a crossover cable in the
chain, so that the double crossing results in a standard connection?.

my new pc is less than a year old, my old pc  is going on 5-6 years old, but
the old one allows me to record what I hear, so I can play whatever using WMP
and record it using different software.
the old pc has a creative sound blaster.

I just replaced my hard drives with 2 new Western Digital Caviar SE16
WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb drives from Newegg.
They are installed as a RAID 0 mirror pair using the mobo's nVidia
Chipset RAID controller. During XP install I hit f6, stuff my floppy

HI, Sir/Madam,
When i double click the c-drive and D-drive icon, the files inside cannot be
dispayed immediately. Instead, there is a box display, saying me to choose
which programme to open the files. This happens in my c-drive and D-drive