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What it the best gaming video card on the market? This would be for a desktop computer running windows XP Service pack3. I am going to build a computer and the type of video card will help with selection the motherboard. Money is no issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.172.159.131 ( talk) 00:12, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
When I "register" a domain name through a domain name registrar (like GoDaddy), what am I actually doing? Am I "buying" it? Or am I just renting it for a while? Or am I "borrowing" it? Or shibbledy-goobauschenheimer with coffee and popsicles in a meadow on a warm summer day? I'm confused. When I do one of Godaddy's search thingies, it says "For sale! $14.99 per year/month! Buy now!" But that contradicts itself - how can I buy something and then pay for it monthly/yearly (excluding credit cards)? flaming lawye r c 06:14, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
OK, so I've decided to register a domain name. But I ran into another thingy - the price for a 1-year registration is $.99, so a 2-year should be $1.98 or less, right? It's not. It's $5.49 ( link). Why such a price jump? I'm guessing it's something about re-registering when your domain expires, but I can't find anything to prove/disprove my theory on the Godaddy website (or anywhere else). flaming lawye r c 02:06, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi
About once a day my PC displays the message "windows explorer has encountered a problem and will now close" {approx} and then I get the pop-up about sending the data to MS blah blah. It's more of an irritation than anything else as explorer always starts again straight away. I was wondering what might be the likeliest cause. OS = XP Home Pentium D 4GB RAM Thanks for your time —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.211.45.43 ( talk) 10:12, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys,
So I don't have much money right now and I'm using a Pentium III computer, but I bought a graphics card for it for 50 euros a couple of years back, it's a Radeon 9250 with 128 MB Ram, so actually the computer is really very good for everything I do, which is mostly on the web, nicely accelerated (solid scrolling etc). It has 512 MB or RAM and I don't have complaints. But the hard-drive is dying.
If I buy a new hard-drive, do I have to worry about what kind, or will all new hard drives be able to replace my current one?
Thanks! -Jenny. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.27.214.30 ( talk) 14:01, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
The most common types of Hard-drive 'types' are SATA and IDE. The PC you describe will almost definitely be IDE so go with that. Even if it can take the SATA ones (which are a faster connection as I understand it) it'll probably be able to handle an IDE drive. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 14:07, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Many years back (6-8) I had a screensaver application called Mez, Mev, or something like that. Three letters anyway. It had a really great road construction screensaver where lines of yellow machines would travel across your desktop laying down sand, gravel, tarmac, etc until your screen was a road, and then another machine would come and tear it all up again. Does anyone know if I can still get this today, or what it was even called? Thanks. - mattbuck ( Talk) 14:14, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I don't use windows much anymore, so forgive me if this is obvious, but how can I cd to a directory on another drive? I have tried "cd J:" and sticking different paths after that but nothing seems to help. -- 93.106.56.181 ( talk) 15:06, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Ok, thanks! -- 93.106.56.181 ( talk) 15:24, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
cd somedrive dir /b /s | grep \.doc$
I'm thinking of buying a new laptop soon, it will probably come with windows vista preinstalled. I don't like vista that much, no real reason I just don't. Will a modern laptop be able to work if I install Windows NT 2000 on it? Or is Win2k too old for new laptops? 66.63.184.3 ( talk) 20:45, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
At my university I'm trying to download slackware linux via bittorent, but utorrent does not work. It starts up and everything seems fine but it doesn't find or connect to any peers or lechers. What can I do to bypass whatever restrictions have been placed on bittorent protocall connections? I can access everything else from the computer like normal web pages and nothing is blocked not even porn, but torrent does not work. 66.63.184.3 ( talk) 20:45, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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What it the best gaming video card on the market? This would be for a desktop computer running windows XP Service pack3. I am going to build a computer and the type of video card will help with selection the motherboard. Money is no issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.172.159.131 ( talk) 00:12, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
When I "register" a domain name through a domain name registrar (like GoDaddy), what am I actually doing? Am I "buying" it? Or am I just renting it for a while? Or am I "borrowing" it? Or shibbledy-goobauschenheimer with coffee and popsicles in a meadow on a warm summer day? I'm confused. When I do one of Godaddy's search thingies, it says "For sale! $14.99 per year/month! Buy now!" But that contradicts itself - how can I buy something and then pay for it monthly/yearly (excluding credit cards)? flaming lawye r c 06:14, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
OK, so I've decided to register a domain name. But I ran into another thingy - the price for a 1-year registration is $.99, so a 2-year should be $1.98 or less, right? It's not. It's $5.49 ( link). Why such a price jump? I'm guessing it's something about re-registering when your domain expires, but I can't find anything to prove/disprove my theory on the Godaddy website (or anywhere else). flaming lawye r c 02:06, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi
About once a day my PC displays the message "windows explorer has encountered a problem and will now close" {approx} and then I get the pop-up about sending the data to MS blah blah. It's more of an irritation than anything else as explorer always starts again straight away. I was wondering what might be the likeliest cause. OS = XP Home Pentium D 4GB RAM Thanks for your time —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.211.45.43 ( talk) 10:12, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi guys,
So I don't have much money right now and I'm using a Pentium III computer, but I bought a graphics card for it for 50 euros a couple of years back, it's a Radeon 9250 with 128 MB Ram, so actually the computer is really very good for everything I do, which is mostly on the web, nicely accelerated (solid scrolling etc). It has 512 MB or RAM and I don't have complaints. But the hard-drive is dying.
If I buy a new hard-drive, do I have to worry about what kind, or will all new hard drives be able to replace my current one?
Thanks! -Jenny. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.27.214.30 ( talk) 14:01, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
The most common types of Hard-drive 'types' are SATA and IDE. The PC you describe will almost definitely be IDE so go with that. Even if it can take the SATA ones (which are a faster connection as I understand it) it'll probably be able to handle an IDE drive. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 14:07, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Many years back (6-8) I had a screensaver application called Mez, Mev, or something like that. Three letters anyway. It had a really great road construction screensaver where lines of yellow machines would travel across your desktop laying down sand, gravel, tarmac, etc until your screen was a road, and then another machine would come and tear it all up again. Does anyone know if I can still get this today, or what it was even called? Thanks. - mattbuck ( Talk) 14:14, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I don't use windows much anymore, so forgive me if this is obvious, but how can I cd to a directory on another drive? I have tried "cd J:" and sticking different paths after that but nothing seems to help. -- 93.106.56.181 ( talk) 15:06, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Ok, thanks! -- 93.106.56.181 ( talk) 15:24, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
cd somedrive dir /b /s | grep \.doc$
I'm thinking of buying a new laptop soon, it will probably come with windows vista preinstalled. I don't like vista that much, no real reason I just don't. Will a modern laptop be able to work if I install Windows NT 2000 on it? Or is Win2k too old for new laptops? 66.63.184.3 ( talk) 20:45, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
At my university I'm trying to download slackware linux via bittorent, but utorrent does not work. It starts up and everything seems fine but it doesn't find or connect to any peers or lechers. What can I do to bypass whatever restrictions have been placed on bittorent protocall connections? I can access everything else from the computer like normal web pages and nothing is blocked not even porn, but torrent does not work. 66.63.184.3 ( talk) 20:45, 18 December 2008 (UTC)