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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr.Guvernment it is weird they include media center in pro, it then makes it very close to Ultimate version... Each version is a superset of the previous version. Ultimate is kind of useless. Bitlocker and language support is the only differentiation between Pro and Ultimate AFAIK. I'm not sure what else they could have added though. The Ultimate Extras of Vista had promise, but they really didn't offer...

Quote: Originally Posted by johnz Putting a pagefile on a separate partition on the same physical disk will slow performance due to the head having to cross partition tables. Setting the minimum and maximum size to the same thing will prevent fragmentation also; no need for a separate partition. The pagefile is marked as an unmovable file, so it'll stay where you put it. Fragmentation... Unless you're working with huge files,...

Quote: Originally Posted by tanderson i had it stable for a couple days so i tried upping the FSB and all that.. well now i can not access my windows partition (dual booted with linux) it comes up with an error and simply wont let me get into windows. but im in my linux partition and everything runs fine. it says that i have "added" a new device or something along those lines but i have not. all i did was keep restarting...

Perhaps you could try fine-tuning cleartype font smoothing .

xcopy command +1 if you don't want to mess with other OSes. It's a rather old DOS command and I couldn't find it when I went Vista over a year ago so you may need to find and steal er borrow xcopy.exe from another PC with older OS. I've used it once to copy everything with ,jpg extension and using /s switch to search all subdirectories and dumped it to a 4GB USB drive. It threw up on me less than half way through C drive...

Windows 7 doesn't like Open GL, in my experience. Did you update your divers through windows update or get them off Nvidia's website?

another alternative is this: depending on media types you have, either install a bootable version of linux on a thumbdrive, or DvD. use that to boot. mount your HDD in linux as a windows partition, then backup away as either usb, or dvd depending on media type that is available. Any linux disto will do as a live-cd, but ubuntu is pretty easy to understand. as far as a fast, usb tumbdrive linux, i recommend DSL (Dam* Small Linux) as it is...

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=625697

I assumed programs would be included with the OS... maybe I read it wrong?

Type msconfig in the Start Search field | 'Boot' tab | Check 'Boot log', hit OK and reboot. When you arrive at the Desktop, look for the ntbtlog.txt file in the %SystemRoot%\Ntbtlog.txt directory, then check the log for anything related to the slow startup. While in the Configuration Utility--> 'Boot' tab--> Boot Advanced Options, make sure 'Number of processors' is not checked.