Sarah Turner98 said:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
It’s basically how you hook your monitor up to your PC. HDMI is pretty much the gold standard now—it handles the highest picture quality by far... Then you've got the older stuff: VGA, DVI, D-Sub (just Google them, you'll recognize them once you see)... But look, I don't know what ports you've actually got on your graphics card, though you really need to go with HDMI. VGA is finally being phased out for good, and most modern cards haven't even bothered including it anymore...
The only real difference between HDMI and DVI is that HDMI actually carries an audio stream; as far as the video component goes, they're basically identical.
Man, a Samsung monitor is easily three tiers above that LG one—you really can't go wrong if you grab it.
swiftdriver30 said:Hey everyone, I've got a quick question about Windows 7—not sure if this has been asked before since I didn't feel like scrolling through all 200+ pages of this thread lol. Basically, I want to know if there's any massive difference between the Professional and Ultimate versions, specifically if one is better just for browsing the web and gaming. I'm running Win7 Pro with DirectX 11 right now and everything works perfectly fine, but I was wondering if upgrading to Ultimate would actually offer some kind of edge... looking for answers, so if anyone can help me out, thanks!
There’s zero real difference for what you're doing—the Ultimate version basically just adds support for language packs and BitLocker encryption, everything else is identical.
Just a heads-up for next time—if you're replying to multiple people at once, use the multi-quote option (that icon to the right of the 'quote' button). That way, all the messages you select get bundled into a single post, which makes things way easier to read.
quietcanyon2 said:Question for Benjamin King2 moderator
Listen, folks...
I'm clearing out all the off-topic nonsense, the spam, the random chatter, and basically any garbage that doesn't belong here—doesn't matter who posted it.
1. If there isn't anything vital on that USB drive, just try formatting it—it might be harboring some nasty little autorun virus lurking in the background. 2. Take a look at your startup programs—you can use msconfig or CCleaner—to see if there’s any weird or unrecognized junk trying to launch the second you boot up. 3. Also, check Task Manager; sometimes a rogue program hitches a ride on that drive, and usually, rundll32.exe is the prime suspect in these situations. If you spot rundll32.exe running in Task Manager, try killing the process and see if that changes the behavior.
Did the kids maybe install something sketchy right before this started acting up?
Look, just try pulling up Disk Management—you can find it under Administrative Tools inside Computer Management—and if you see that Kingston drive showing up in the list, just try swapping out the drive letter from G to something else, like X.
Michael Anderson10 said:Is it actually worth getting a tape drive and backing everything up to magnetic tape?
A DDS6 DAT drive—roughly $1667 (internal or USB) A pack of tapes, 5x80 GB—around $333
It's nowhere near being cost-effective—honestly, for that kind of money, you can get way more storage using other media. Plus, you have to baby magnetic tape just as much as you would optical discs. Your write speeds are going to be stuck at maybe 20 GB/h if you go the USB route—now, the SCSI, SAS, or fiber channel drives are about 5-6x faster, but they’ll also cost you a fortune.
Michael Anderson10 said:Does anyone even use this stuff anymore?
They’re used for archiving massive amounts of data—the price per GB drops the more data you throw at it—but those kinds of enterprise systems are incredibly expensive and totally overkill (not to mention a waste of money) for home use.
Kyle Johnson2 said:Look, if someone's hunting for a specific topic, they’re stuck scrolling through dozens of pages just to find their fix—and they really only care about Excel. But because they want that one specific Excel answer, they end up having to sift through everything else too, like Word or PowerPoint, just to get to the good stuff.
The real issue—and I'm being blunt here—is that maybe one out of every hundred users actually bothers to search for an existing thread. The vast majority? They just smash that "new topic" button without even glancing at the subforum's front page to see if someone already asked the same thing. And don't even get me started on the titles... most people clearly haven't even glanced at the posting guidelines. If we keep going like this, the forum is going to turn into a mess of repetitive questions, much like those endless Windows 7 troubleshooting threads—except at least then, all the chaos would be in one place.
Look, you can say whatever you want—really, go for it—but if you aren't bringing actual arguments to the table... posts that just scream "throw your DVD player out the window" are nothing more than mindless trolling, and they’re going to keep getting nuked from orbit.
Since we seem to be spawning a brand-new thread about Excel, Word, and the rest of the Microsoft Office suite every five minutes—which, let’s be honest, makes searching through this place an absolute nightmare and turns the forum into a cluttered mess—we're starting one massive master thread for all things Microsoft Office. Just dump all your questions regarding any of those apps right here. We aren't going to touch the existing threads, but from now on, any new topics will just be merged into this one.
urbancobra35 said:At that price point, you might as well just scrap the whole idea and buy a brand-new printer instead of wasting cash on a dedicated print server.
Or honestly, just grab a modern router that actually has a built-in print server. 🙂
You’re basically going to need a print server just like this one—since you can't plug your printer directly into the router if it only sports a USB interface instead of having actual LAN or wireless capabilities.
Look, if your games are running fine on Windows XP, they’ll work on Windows 7 too—it's not rocket science—you just need to cram a bit more RAM into the system to keep things smooth.
It’s doable—I mess around with it every now and then myself. I haven't really run into any "hard" nuts to crack yet... though, honestly, there are a ton of those protection-stripping programs out there, so you basically just have to play trial and error until something actually works.