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Linux / NT Partition

TiNenfant
Hi all, I am running NT on a 10 GB HD. System on 2. 5 GB partition Data on 3 GB partition Free on the rest After installing Linux Mandrake 8. 0 on the free space, I was unable to see Data partition anymore Linux partitions / on 300 MB swap on 390 MB /usr on 3000 GB /home on the rest NT Disk Administrator can see th ...
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Colors a Little Screwy

Finity
ok, so i do a upgrade of XP from ME and everything is fine. but there is one problem - my gray doesnt seem to work. Now, every other color works perfectly. Infact, it looks amazing. But, say, i am on a personalized menu on the start menu, and i expand it, some of them are a darker gray then the others, so that you ...
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Slow boot time

Winger300
When the WindowsXP boot screen appears, there is a really long delay, any ideas what i can do? Im using Nvidia dets 21. 81 Default Aureal Vortex drivers Default realtek Nic drivers Highpoint ata 100 controller drivers.
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Crash with 2000

Lafilm
I get a kmode exception and a blue screen that says date stamp with numbers and win32k. sys and sometimes atidvag. dll I could use some help. .
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3DMark Score

Marktait
Is 3161 good or not on this system - 1. 2Ghz AMDK7 Athlon Thunderbird 512MB PC133 Hyundai RAM ATX Gigabyte 71XE4 Motherboard 40GB Seagate ATA/100 5400RPM 16x 10x 40x LiteON ReWriter 40x Compaq CDDrive 36x Creative CDDrive 17 NEC Monitor 64MB Nvidia GeForce 2Mx Ambient 56k V.
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Hiding desktop icons

bobafett32
Hey guys, another question. I know in the RC1 release of XP, if you had the new style active, then no desktop icons would show up. . . But I can't get this to happen in the final release any more. Any help?.
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Beta DirectX expired

tkolman
Has anyone seen this message regarding DirectDraw? It shows a confirmation box with something like Beta DirectDraw expired you must click OK to move on. More importantly does anyong know how to get rid of this in W2K?.
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Auto-set Processor Affinity

repoman22
Hi there! I know that by using the taskmanager, Ctrl+alt+del, i can go to a process, set it's priority to realtime, high, etc, and the processor that I want it to run on. Is there a way to set this automatically? I'd love to just click on a game icon, and have it load the correct priorty level and affinity.
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Fast User Switching

loengard
First, a little background. I have a computer that I put in my loft that is the most powerful of the bunch. I would like to share it with other members of my family, but I don't like logging out and closing all my programs just so those other people can use it.
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installation problem

Sunridge
Greetings, I'm trying to install Winxp 2600 in my Bro's computer (clean installation) , during installation an error poped up saying Fatal Manifest parse error Controls. man. . . . . anyone encounter this before??? is there a solution to it?? specs P3-550 Abit BH6 mobo Pioneer DVD 3DFX Voodoo 3 - 2000 256 bm ram SB ...
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windows xp services

robin
Concidering i am running the pro version on a dialup connection -no network or home network, which services should i allow to run? There are so many with obscure descriptions. thanks for your help. .
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PCMCIA System Tray Icon

Aeiron
I'm running xp on a laptop and have a network pc card for dsl. Windows displays the icon in the system tray for safe removal of a pc card but I'd like to disable it. Can't figure out how. Win98se you just right click and go to properties, but with xp I have no such option.
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