Recent content by macdawg

no software firewall at all? First thing I'd suggest either windows firewall or a 3rd party firewall, router alone isn't enough if you want good security IMO. Keyloggers require admin rights to install since they hook into the system at a low level, just like a driver. UAC in theory should...

Seems fishy to me too, any follow to this story? Even though the address bar was green, did you click on the padlock and closely read the certificate? Past few years I've made a habit of not giving my CC# online unless its I type the address directly in the address bar see 'https' and check...

good point about the IE updates, I don't want my post to appear like I am complaining about IE updates. First website I normally check in the morning is a tech page that updates constantly about new technologies/or critical updates whether its windows, FF, adobe, etc. Years past IE was...

Re: Recording high resolution footage with fraps. What specs are needed to have no la dxdiag check this video and in the info box he shows settings & his hardware on another machine. Keep in mind the game he is recording is more demanding than the ones you listed and he's recording at max...

Re: Recording high resolution footage with fraps. What specs are needed to have no la dxdiag check out this 2 year old vid running crysis on very high 1280x1024, with 2 gb ram, athlon 64 x2, 8800gts, and raptors in raid 0. YouTube - Crysis - KPA Hunting (Very High Graphics, Delta Difficulty)...

would be nice if the study provided some detail, such as what % of the exploits were triggered through add ons, whether those were updated versions of the add ons, what version of FF was tested, which add ons they were, or whether this is a default installation or what the settings in the...

steps posted above was the only thing that worked to fix it, had nothing to do with add ons

nvidia is pretty good about updating dirvers that improve performance in the newest games, so I'd recommend updating drivers at least a couple times a year if your a gamer this a good guide to nvidia drivers - TweakGuides.com - Nvidia Forceware Tweak Guide

finally fixed this today, IE wasn't "registered", I had to do this when I installed IE7 also for some reason. steps to fix it are below. 1. Click START | RUN and type cmd 2. In the command prompt, type cd\ 3. In the command prompt, type cd Program Files 4. In the command prompt, type cd...

paid her about 4k, its another k for digital photos which is crazy expensive imo. at least i could get low res copies of pics i pay 4k for, frustrating

each one i save or try to save as wallpaper is blank once you open it. guess i'll just do screen shots

my engagement photo's are held here: [-epagaFOTO-] I wanted to save the pics to my computer, I am paying her for this, but can't save this on my own to save to my external hard drive. is there a script or somthing I can use to save these pics that you computer studs know of?

just spent some time google searching for possible fixes and closest I found was a trick off the MS website I already tried, which didn't work again. "If Internet Explorer 8 flashes and closes immediately when you try to start it, there may be some settings in Internet Explorer 7 that were not...

Every couple of years I'll reformat. I only install lightweight apps that I really need, if I ever do uninstall something I use regclean, ccleaner, and autoruns to make sure anything uninstalled is really off my system. Keeping windows xp very clean like this I've never noticed a slowdown...

running xp sp3 on a machine I put together a few years ago, P4 3.0ghz, 1gb pc3200 ram, 160gb hd, 6800gs, 430wt thermaltake. Outside of IE8 its been running rock solid for me and still use it for an occasional 3-4 hour session of counterstrike source. I used the installer from the IE page.