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Windows 7 Sideshow

How so? Pic It clearly says Vista at the top and says look in the control panel down below. It's not in the control panel on any of my three machines and searching comes back with zilch. Did you find it in your control panel? Which version of 7 do you have?
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- Post #3
- Oct 26, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 7 Sideshow

Has anyone found Sideshow in 7? I've posted elsewhere and someone says they found it but did not elaborate where or which version they have yet. I've tried 64bit ultimate and 32bit enterprise on three machines and still can't figure it out. I've been waiting months thinking that it would be...
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- Thread
- Oct 26, 2009
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Operating Systems
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separate hard drive for games

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1430028
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- Post #2
- Jun 24, 2009
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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so am i just crazy, or does vista business not do software RAID1?

When I look at disk management in 7 ultimate, it shows mirror as a greyed out option (I only have one disk).
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- Post #6
- Jun 12, 2009
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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250GTS

To derail for a second: Did you get your HTPC running? Are you doing BR/HD? Which OS? I'm asking because I went through two gtx285's and two gtx260's and windows 7 kept crashing whenever we play an HDDVD. I finally put in a 4870 and it's been solid since. That was three months ago though and I...
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- Post #11
- Jun 11, 2009
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cheap mass storage for business. build or buy?

That's funny. I just did the same sort of thing last week. I needed a new file storage server so I just tossed the cheapest c2q on a reliable gigabyte board into a norco 4020 case with 20 1tb WD's and it came in just under $5000. I used RE3 drives though and it only comes to about 16tb usable...
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- Post #2
- Jun 9, 2009
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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opera 10 beta

Anyone have Opera tell you that you're on a fast network? Or at least not tell you that your network is slow? What's it checking? It happened the first time when I went to an internal web server, which is on the same gigabit switch as my desktop, literally two rooms away.... if that's slow, what...
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- Post #9
- Jun 9, 2009
- Forum: Windows
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For people who use firefox, why dont you use IE7/8?

Using IE never occurred to me. I just tried to open it now for the first time ever on this windows load and it doesn't even open, 64 or 32. :shrug:
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- Post #36
- Jun 9, 2009
- Forum: Windows
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Internal Raid vs. External Raid?

I was thinking about migrating my media center to an external enclosure device as my case only has room for 3 drives and I need more space. Something like this: http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsat84xb.asp I already have an areca 1680 8 port card and all eight 1tb drives so I just...
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- Post #5
- May 29, 2009
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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help me choose between a velociraptor and a SSD

I wish. I've been here for years and some of them get new pc's every year so I've gone through 5 or more with the same folk. This is the first time they've expressed surprise at the speed increase. I'll give you a specific example. Previous PC: 3.0ghz core2duo Gigabyte x48 mb 4gb ddr2...
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- Post #52
- May 15, 2009
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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help me choose between a velociraptor and a SSD

I have to agree with taltamir. I've been deploying intel ssd's to faculty for months and the only comments I get back are "wow this is crazy fast" and some of them had VR's before that. That said, there are crap ssd's out there just like there's a crap version of everything else. VR's are the...
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- Post #42
- May 14, 2009
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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well my machine killed another power supply, how often do you overclockers go through PSUs?

Ah good. Extracting important quotes was very helpful in understanding westom. I kept reading his posts and my eyes would gloss over trying to get past the language issues.
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- Post #102
- Apr 30, 2009
- Forum: Power Supplies
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well my machine killed another power supply, how often do you overclockers go through PSUs?

I'm having trouble reading westom's posts but it seems like the idea he's trying to impart is the same as the rest of us. A non-faulty power supply built to specs and of high quality components should be a safe bet. I'm not an electrical engineer and I've only been doing corporate IT support for...
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- Post #99
- Apr 29, 2009
- Forum: Power Supplies
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Restoring SSD Performance

Even at steady state, random access, where it matters if you're buying these, will blow away anything disk based and still last at least 5 years. Besides, if you're adopting these this early in the technology (as I am as well, I've rolled out dozens of them to some of my end users), you'll...
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- Post #5
- Apr 13, 2009
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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5 ?? Hdd's possibly dead in one week !!!

Wow, scary. I guess that's +1 for plastic drive cages.
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- Post #12
- Apr 10, 2009
- Forum: Memory and Storage

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