Well.... I know I do.... my wife's computer "acted up" last weekend... MS Office 2003 just kept
'crashing....

Needless to say "I Let Loose, the Programs of Fixing".... "wink...lol."... did not work....nor did a
deinstall/reinstall.... bleh... but then again... it hit me... could it be the RAM went "sour"....??

So... did a 'boot-up from a cd with "Memtest 86+"on it.. which is Freeware, btw...


And... Guess What? A total of 5 errors on the 2x 256mb DDR Dimm's installed...

Replaced it with a single 1GB DDR Dim today.... It runs at 200mhz.. instead of the 400mhz
it could run at (courtesy to the Athlon XP1600+)....

No matter... according to the same cd I ran before.. there were NO errors...


So.... this Freeware 'Proggie "pointed" me to the 'flaw(s) and, eventually I did not even 'fix the problem
but gave my wife's PC a nice "upgrade" as well...

Imho.. that's just the "sweet point" plus the connection to PC Apex... it's all about helping eachother...

TDR

I SWEAR by Memtest86... it is one of the first diags I run on a machine acting oddly. Not to mention, almost every bootable Linux CD I own (pwn?) has it as a boot option. Freakin' A.

Yeah - Memtest, Sisoft Sandra lite, CPU-Z, F@H - all brilliant FREE programs

open office owns also...

o snizzap. i lost my old copy of memtest. would someone mind directing in the right direction towards it?

hahahahahahhaha

Quote: Originally Posted by ex421 open office owns also...

I swear by OoO! I prefer it over MS, BUT! OoO still has some features missing that MS has (like the table function where you take the pen and you can draw your own tables) and the fact it takes up a huge (well not huge) but large amount of ram.

Oh Firefox too!

Heres a good question, if windows was free would that make it better?

Ya gotta love them DIF boards Memtest on board...I have used it and love it....

I also like TweakUI as a nother handy little free ware program.

TweakUI is the hawt, especially the newly added Sync Toy, I use it on my laptop to keep my audio collection synced to my desktop.

Also, when I press ALT+TAB, it really wierds people out to see what he program is that I'm switcihng too instead of just an icon, by using the task-switch powertoy.

You guys know about this thread, don't you?

Quote: Originally Posted by Peng Lord TweakUI is the hawt, especially the newly added Sync Toy, I use it on my laptop to keep my audio collection synced to my desktop. Also, when I press ALT+TAB, it really wierds people out to see what he program is that I'm switcihng too instead of just an icon, by using the task-switch powertoy.

Agreed - I'm all over the powertoys!
hmm... wonder why nobody's mentioned linux

Quote: Originally Posted by MasterP Agreed - I'm all over the powertoys! hmm... wonder why nobody's mentioned linux

lol that too...

Yah I love that Alt-tab thing too

Quote: You guys know about this thread, don't you?

Now we do

Quote: Originally Posted by Peng Lord TweakUI is the hawt, especially the newly added Sync Toy, I use it on my laptop to keep my audio collection synced to my desktop. Also, when I press ALT+TAB, it really wierds people out to see what he program is that I'm switcihng too instead of just an icon, by using the task-switch powertoy.

Two things:
I loved Powertoys when I ran Windows, I still use it occasionally for certain things on the kid's computers.

Also, Compiz on Linux just plain PWNS anything that Windows does, effects-wise. It does Alt-Tab previews allright... with the movie still playing in the preview! Microsoft = BEYOTCH!