With the new Windows 7 beta out from Microsoft, I decided to try to upgrade an existing Windows Vista x64 which has been very stable and not had a problem, has a fair few applications installed and lots of documents. I wasn’t putting up much hope, but backed up all the Documents and proceeded to [...]
For my HTPC, I now have configured most things up, so it is all working just like it should be. It took a few OS reinstalls to get it exactly where I wanted it, but I more or less have it, just have to sort out Blu-ray & HDDVD playback sorted first.
Here is a [...]
It has been over a month now since Google released Chrome to the world and quite a few annoyances have appeared over that time.
Closing multiple tabs
The huge flaw that is extremely irritating is no warning of closing multiple tabs.
If you have 10 tabs open and accidentally close the main window at the top right rather [...]
This tutorial will teach you how to import a tab delimited file in to a MySQL database. I built a program to do this for Windows ISA Server logs which contained over 500,000 lines which was way too many for Microsoft Excel to handle and too much for notepad to handle properly. What MySQL functions [...]
If you get the above message it is because you have for some reason lost your sndvol32.exe file from %WIN_DIR%\SYSTEM32.
If you do have this problem is is likely that you do not have access to the first Advanced button, which will be greyed out and you will get the error message about the volume control [...]
Here are some benchmark results for a medium-high spec PC running Crysis on Microsoft Windows Vista x64.
The PC in question is the following specification:
Intel Core2Duo E6750 overclocked to 3.2GHz
4GB DDR2 PC6400 RAM
250GB SATA 7200RPM HDD
Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB overclocked to 560MHz core, 850MHz memory
This including case and PSU etc, excluding monitor and [...]
Microsoft has once more come under fire for allegedly anti-competitive behaviour – this time from software rival Opera. The Norwegian company, which makes an internet browser of the same name, has filed a complaint with European Union officials accusing Microsoft of stifling competition.Opera, which has around 12 million users worldwide, said today that Microsoft had [...]
Everyone is blaming Sony for the DRM fiasco involving Bioshock but what people seem to be forgetting is that 2K Games actually paid for Securom to be put on Bioshock. Securom has been known for a long time to cause problems.
Upon recieving my copy of Bioshock, I installed which all went fine, then the [...]
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