GMoney

....and so the $30 machine has cost you $500 in time. I didn't see anyone suggest a simple chkdsk to mark and identify bad spots....or diags run on the disk. I hate legacy hardware even though I still have some. Look at the clock and record the time of death to tell your friend. Don't get me wrong i get these all of the time to work on. Identify them quick to save the time and $$$$. It is all about the Money. G$

Heh, keep in mind these few items. NO media cneter in W8 unless you pay an additiona; $13 and get a product key for it, so that is a minus for any media center freaks. [i have 2 WMC] Anyone interested in the free how to open your media center up securely to the internet so you can hit your network content from anywhere including your phone? It is sweet and smooth. If you hack the metro off you will lose the networking benefit of the puse on large file transfers, so leave the metro on and get used to it. Overall I can think of no good reason to upgrade other than the pause and FTP tweaks they did. I have a TechNet account and have tested the OS pretty extensvely. Not really impressed and the stripping of the media center and the barring of the aero interface are negatives for me personally. If I wanted the interface to look like Windows 3.11 I would dig out my floppies and load it up....LOL. Cheap OS but not for all people. Whoever noted the touchscreen stuff that is correct.....but if you have a touch capable device why not put W7 on it and enjoyt the recoirded TV, Mopvies, Music and everything else in your Homegroup 7 setup?

no prob. It too is not the best, but does a better job with viewing M$ spreadsheets than google docs sheet reader. I have only used it for view/read stuff so far.

Hey, I do not see a need for any local email client, like was mentioned above web based is where it is at. I prefer Gmail. For the pesky Microsoft attachments google docs is ok, but I have been testing this for my people that need free and legal....seems to work pretty well so far. Kingsoft Office with AntiVirus. Free is good. http://www.kingsoftstore.com/download-office And for file compression amd management I think that Winzip is overrated, I like 7zip. http://www.7-zip.org/download.html Windows 7 x64 works well IMHO. Windows 8 is turning people off, but I do like the network enhancements. TechNet subscription got me the RTM a month ago. I like the pause feature on large fdile transfers...and a few other things. I do not like that Microsoft is making Media center a pay product. There's my nickel! G G

Congrats I heard you in the server and you were really pumped after the day at the water park, YOU sounded like a kid....Great news!

I agree with Nightmare on the get it stable first. GMoney

Thanks Bob, looking frward to the picture show. Work....Friday all good. I see light at the end.

I have cable in the states and I think I pay for 8meg down, but in testing it is about 34meg down cuz I am close to the switch....I suck at COD4 ftag cuz I can't see so well. LOL I would love to have the 100 people speak of...don't want to pay though. GMoney

Happy Birthday Bob! Uh is it really?

Happy Anniversary! Happy trails and safe trip to you. GMoney

Just loaded dropbox as I had not heard of this one, I will be testing it. Itr looks good so far. GMoney

Use a power management toggle, power saver when you are not gaming and high performance when you are.

I just went there and it said they are full, any others have invites? I submitted for updates. [email protected]

Hey all, Justa a note to say sorry, while we played Ftag tonight on svr1. My isp had one that left me connected until I got kicked. Sucked as i had a decent round in the making. Then an hour or so later our entire area had a blackout. Only thing I can think is it has been quite a bit hotter here than normal and the power grid is stretched a bit thin. My AC never stops running. Midwest heat isn't as high as others have but we get the thick humidity here...My pool has been around 92 degrees lately, still feels good when it is over 100 outside+high humidity to boot. Anyway, post if you have had anything similar heat or thoughts??? GMoney

Green Day Brain stew....dunno if I linked the video right, not much of a video, the heavy riff is what I love....