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ive tried every svchost memory leak fix i can find. and nothing yet has worked. ive seen the prosses at 1,400 megs before i rebooted, and watching the task manager ive seen the memory useage of svchost climb a meg every minute. xp pro sp2, everythigns upto date automatic update is disabled...

currently i have norton internet securitues 2006. but its getting close to the end of its subscription, and im wondering, what else is out there that i should look into for my firewall and anti-virus needs? whats are people suggesting these days?

after humming and hawing over replacing my samsung 213t, i decided to take the widescreen plunge and pick up a new LG246WP. obligatory (blurry) [H]ard shot gears of war 1080i monitor looks very nice, and these pictures dont do it justice. gears of war was quite smooth and looked...

im looking at my next major overhal of my computer which i plan to do in the next 2 weeks, and im trying to nail down the compoennts i want to purchase. ive been looking at sli vs. crossfire and have decided on SLi, my main concern is buying too much video card, not enough cpu(though i do...

my mom's old Hp Pavilion ze4115 almost cant be charged anymore. the plug cant deliver power to the laptop, if the end is fiddled around with, and the perfect spot is found(a different spot every time) and you hold it there, the laptop will charge, but if it moves, the connection is lost...

my familys main computer is a few year old HP which recently has been running really slowly, i was wodnering if there was anyform of clock-throttling on athlon xp's(this one is a Thourghbreed b as i recall). the room the computer is kept in is my younger brothers room, and he never open his...

i reformatted a few months back, reinstalled everything, and installed the 5.03 folding client, and then frgot all about it. apparently it hasnt been able to upload any results since i reformatted. obviously this wont do. i can get new work, but not upload results. windows firewall is off...

overnight, my optical drives just seemed to stop working. i can think of no reason for what happened. the computer was on folding all night, which it does everynight, so nothing odd there. the day before i had copied some files off a dvd-r, and the next day, the drvie trays would eject, but...

computer was making a funny noise, so while looking for the cause, i figured it was one fo my drives. i gutted my comp to get at the drives. as i took one of the wd drives out, it was rattleing. odd thing however is the drive is working just fine(apart from the odd noise), and the western...

my old k6-2 box (that my sister has been using for websurfing and internet chat. for which she has proven, dosnt deserve to have for any reason). will shortly be sitting collecting dust in my closet again soon. its a pretty old system, k6-2 400 @ 500mhz, 256 megs pc-100 sdram, and a geforce 2...

seemingly at random, my 213t is goign to sleep or something, then screen goes compelatly black for a moment, then returns to normal. it happens at random, on the desktop, in games, watchign movies, whatever. wither the display has been on for only a few minutes, or several hours. and its also...

did you gets a newcastle core, or a cut down clawhammer core? cpu-z tells me mines a cut down clawhammer. im more curious as to how many fo each are/have been made. i would assume most new 3000+'s are all newcastle cores, and the older first batches are cut down clawhammers. but...

picked up a m-audio revolution 7.1 card today and will replace my old soundblaster live 5.1 with it. but i cant to compleatly clean all the old creative drivers off my system, been looking around and cant find anything. anyone able to point me in the right direction? i hope its not a...

looking at both, need to decide between the two. im leaning more twards the samsung personally. its a bit more than the dell though. mostly web surfing, and lite gaming(city fo heros, doom 3, asherons call). anyone have an opinion to share?

i checked the zalman site and it says it'll fit all athlon 64 motherboards, but im a bit apprehensive about it fitting my Asus K8V(dunno why, i just have thie gut feeling i should ask) so anyone here have one of these on an asus k8v board that will releave me of my ordering fears? also...

the bane fo my reformatting is saving ym weblinks folder. i know where it is, and i back it up ebfore ir eformat, but after the reformat when ir estore the folder, all my links are now sorted alphabetically, which dosnt suit me or the way i prefer to have my links orginized. now internet...

after re-reading the hardocp article on the new swiftech athlon 64 heatsinks http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjAx , i was curious as to why temperatures the hard reported and what im expericing were so different. the article stated room temps were 76 degrees F im reading an...

i have 2 identical 60 gig hard drives, and a 160 gig drive. is it worth the hassal of setting up the 2 60 gig drives into a raid array? the two 60 gigs would be used for primary boot drive, and for games etc. with the 160 gig being used as data backup. currently i just have them all set up...

after fully updating XP pro from a clean isntall, my computer takes almost 3 minutes to compleatly power down. after installing windows before updating, it shuts down almost instantly. however after doing all the updates at windows update, my computer will sit for a minute and a half in...

im using an All-In-Wonder 9600 pro, with one monitor and a Tv connected to the Svideo out. im tryying to get different wallpapers on each screen. and so far i havnt been able to. i used to be able to do with my old geforce 4 ti 4400, and ive been unable to figure out how to do it with my...

atm its the only spare video card i have, and i wanna assemble all the extra computer bits i got laying around into a working PC. problem i have is the motherboard i have is a kt 400 based board(soyo kt 400 dragon) whish supports 1.5 volt apg video cards. i m wondering if the geforce 2 mx...

taking into acount this computer(sig) runs folding@home 24-7, is it worth installing the cool and quite software? the noise my tower generates dosnt bother me as it is. but i wouldnt mind it being lower. but since it runs folding all the time, im not sure if the software would make any...