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49.........next year I will become a official card-carrying "Dirty Old Man".

Amen to that. I saw a TV report about Google several months ago and they said that when the Google stock went public, most of the executives became instant millionaires! BTW, the guy that runs Google said, the first exec that shows up at work driving a Rolls and wearing a tie will be shoot.

Anytime, job. Enjoy.

Sorry about the wait. I just got on line, been a long day and some of us must work for a living. I got your PM first thing and sent the invite. I get my G-mail through Outlook and haven't actually signed in to G-mail for a while. When I signed in to send the invite, I found that my storage has been bumped up to 2.555 Gigs. Will the fun never end.

Let's see, 2+ Gigs of searchable storage, you can set it to import to your default Pop 3 mail, and it's free..Free..FREE. If you would like to try it, PM me a e-mail address and I'll send you an invite. If you don't like it then you can just drop it.

Haven't had any personal experience with them but I saw one on the Home Shopping Network and went to their site to check it out. I was shocked to find 30 or 40 bad reviews they had posted for something they were trying to sell. People said they were messy, cartridges leaked after filling, smeared while printing, etc. Needless to say, I didn't buy any.

Congrats, rridgely. Glad a fellow redneck got the job.

All those that who think it would be a good idea to contact DjLizard and offer him a position as moderator, say "AYE". "AYE"

Way to go, G-man.

We have a moderator?????? You could've fooled me. I agree, somebody needs to wake up and tend to business.

Andavari was right, the Realtek AC 97 I was talking about is the audio chip on the motherboard. If you're showing Realtek AC 97 as your default audio, you should try reducing the acceleration. You'll be suprised at the difference it will make. Glad you got found that bug and got your game straight.

Omega trouble may be a compatibility problem with the game. It helped me playing Far Cry but wouldn't work at all with Halo 2. You might try NVidia's Forceware drivers. I would think a lack of memory would cause problems form the first. You might check your virtual memory, it may need increasing. My audio is Realtek AC 97. If I forget to lower the hardware acceleration, the game gets choppy when there is a lot of noise, explosions, gunfire, loud machinery, etc. It really eats up resources.

I have a GeForce 5200 FX. I'm using Omega drivers. they seem to do a better job. http://omegadrivers.net/ NVidia uses the same driver for most there graphics cards for a given OS. Because of this, a driver may have been updated to include a newer card, such as the 6800 Ultra, and has no effect on how your card runs. If your game is getting choppy, you can try turning down the hardware acceleration in DirectX and in "Sounds and Audio Devices" in the control panel. The acceleration in DirectX will stay where you put it but the one in S&A Devices will reset every time you reboot. Doing this can make a big difference if you are running audio off the motherboard chipset.

Young children should not have unsupervised access to a computer.

Try this site. http://www.paulhitz.com/college/downloads.html

Don't know if this is the right one but it list over 6700 startup programs, with details. http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/index.php

Years ago, there was a e-mail prank going around that had an attachment. When you opened the attachment, you got a window that said you would get a free beverage holder and had a "OK" button. When you clicked the OK button, your CD tray would open. A rumor got started that it had a trojan hidden in it and people stopped sending it. You can download it here and scan the crap outta it just to be sure it's clean. Cokegift.exe http://www.angelfire.com/mn/coolcrapcentral/programs.html

People PC...$12.95 US a month for dial-up and I'm grandfarthered in at that price.

Around $2.50-$2.60 a gal. in west Tennessee. I'm going to buy a goat and let it graze in my yard, can't afford gas for the lawnmower.

If your computer is a off-the-shelf model, you should be able to get the specs from manufacturer's support page for your model, look for product info. Otherwise, check the processor manfacturer's website. I know Intel list the cache size on their site.

Yep. Seems like Windows goes out of it's way to make things hard on the enduser. I have a nephew that works on computers for a living and stuff like this has made him a Linux fan.

FYI. I found this on another forum. It seems XP may have your L2 cache set lower than it should be. My factory specs say the L2 should be 512kb and XP had it set at 256. I changed it to 512 and it appears to have made a slight improvement. 1. Launch the Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management. 3. Double-click SecondLevelDataCache DWORD value. 4. Using the options below, change the value in the Value Data text box to a number that matches the size of your Level 2 cache. Then click OK. Level 2 cache Value Data setting 256 KB........................... 0 512 KB........................... 200 1024 KB........................... 400

Ouch. You can try a System Restore, don't know if it will work but it can't hurt.

True.....but it would make me feel happy.

Why does the DRIVE-UP ATM at my bank have Braille buttons?