For the longest time, I had a network icon running in the notification area. Then when Vista arrived, I used variations on the Network Monitor gadget. As good as it was to be able to see any network traffic in action, a really annoying problem was the time it took for the gadget to appear […]
Today, I finally enabled AHCI such that I can take full advantage of an external port on my Cooler Master CM 690 II case. I had tried enabling it when I first installed the GA-880 motherboard, and my drives would not start up. Then, for some reason, the next tries saw the machine start, but, […]
Extend the file recognition capabilities of Windows Media Player with this bunch of codecs.. http://www.windows7codecs.com/ http://www.majorgeeks.com/Win7codecs_d5959.html http://www.windows7update.com/Windows7codecs.html OK, so why would you want these? That’s easy. It saves having to download, install and run a variety of Media Players every time that you pick up yet another multi-media file type is why..
SMART recently told me that I had a problem with my primary boot drive. I was using the SMART function in Speedfan initially, but Western Digital diags reported the same ‘read’ issue. Performance was still good but drive ‘fitness’ could not be reported. OK, the drive is not too bad and a ‘write zeros’ should […]