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I hate chrome!

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I was thinking that while I was watching it. Maybe there will be an adjustment available. Or different sizes. A larger version would be good as it could put out more torque and prevent tipping.

Does the sys fan work?

Better call the fire department. If it was less than that hot you could kiss your computer goodbye. There is probably no temperature probe connected to the motherboard for that reading. Often there is a few unused connections for future upgrades or from a previous computer model. When there is they either read extremely cold or extremely hot. 127C is probably the maximum temperature your motherboard can detect. Not that it needs to as anything that temperature would melt/burn. EDIT: I noticed a reading of -1C for an auxiliary probe. There is no probe connected here either. -1C must be the minimum for your mobo. Not that it needs it.

Remove the side and blast the strongest fan you have into it to see if it helps. Has the cards fan stopped working?

You can save the file anywhere. If you mean the backups.

I personally haven't used either but I've also found 'HDHacker'. Author site: http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/ scroll down http://www.tucows.com/preview/501091/HDHacker?q=hdhacker Tucows link because authors link seems to be down.

Mine's a mybook essential as well. Now that I think about it it's more toward 10 minutes until it spins down. If you want it to stay down after inactivity you could use Process Monitor to find whatever's accessing it. Use the following filters for example: 'Path' 'begins with' 'C:\' 'Exclude' -to filter out system drive activity. 'Path' 'begins with' 'X:\ (whatever drive the external is)' 'Include' -to include externals activity. Then during capturing disable everything but 'file system activity'. Soon enough you should know what's doing it. Maybe it can be disabled.

I can hear it spin down after a period of inactivity. It seems to be about 5 minutes. I timed it once a long time ago, I forgot the exact time but I think it was around 5. Many WD drives do this. There is a utility you can use that can manually spin it down. http://support.wdc.com/product/download.as...=17&lang=en It says it's the downloads page for the WD Elements but the spindown or stop utility works for everything but "Media Center and the Dual-option Backup drives." I just tested it and it works with mine. Theoretically if you can spin it down with this utility it should support auto spindown. WDs seem to have auto spindown in their firmware. Except for maybe network drives.

Some externals support spinning-down the platters when left idle for x time. My cheapo 250gb WD does this after 5 mins. Some have adjustable settings for this. Hardware dependent. This can greatly reduce wear. If you have something running that constantly accesses the drives however this really won't matter.

I think they should only sell CD's or DVD's with as many different freewares on it as possible. Then the cost should only cover the materials/efforts.

I see advanced botnets erupting everywhere as we speak.

Possibly for some things and certain games. I'll probably use at least 7 or 8 by then mostly.

The major security issues with XP are pretty much solved for the most part. Even critical security updates are more or less minor nowadays. Most of the vulnerabilities only have a chance of affecting few users as many people would not use a feature or function that is affected anyway. Even if you do the chances are still very slim because someone would need to target you for a vulnerability to be exploited anyway in most cases. Combined with common sense, malware prevention techniques and firewalls you'll BSOD before you become infected due to an unpatched system. However if you're running something like SP1 let alone RTM with 30 unused system ports open and exposed you are asking for it. Closing unused services, ports and such does a very great deal of hardening. You will certainly want to apply every available update after XP's extended support cycle ends just for completeness stability and security however. I for one can't wait for the support cycle to end. Several Services will never have to be run again (Auto. Updates, Cryptographic Services etc.) and no more updating. 2014 here I come.

http://www.ntinternals.org/anti_rootkits.php Maybe it will be useful to someone. It includes rootkit detection and hidden things detection software. I can't vouch for its up-to-dateness but it's a nice list. EDIT: Just a note; Never use an old version of a rootkit detection utility unless the only changes are minor and don't apply to the actual detection functionality.

Well it's about time!

I have both disabled. I do enable Javascript sometimes but I can't remember the last time I enabled Java.

I have it installed but never enabled in Firefox. Never really find a need for it.

Since I often use crashable bleeding edge software I've learned a long time ago to have a backup of my text. Nothing worse than losing a just-typed paragraph. This is mthe only reason I need it really. A clipboard history utility is also handy.

I use 'Best Free Keylogger (BFK)'. I had to get it from keylogger.org though since the author site seems to be dead.

Danger!! Your computer contains a directory named WINDOWS! For your own protection it will be deleted.

ARRRRRRGH Ye Maties.

I've installed it on 512. Worked OK. 768 should be fine.

The age usually has something to do with the driving record. On both ends of the spectrum.