I installed a Wireless xbox 360 controller on my computer, and play all my games sitting on a sofa. Much more comfortable than sitting in from of a computer monitor.
When only 2 cores are being used, your cpu can be clocked as high as 3.9ghz. Have you installed an ssd? How much ram have-you installed? What cpu were you using before? Lol, lots of questions. :)
You probably ran chkdsk with the /F or /R switches. When you run with these options, the bad sectors are hidden and are excluded from the hard-drive space. This is why that you have a count of 0...
You mean that you don't use Windows aero and gadgets? I like these. I also find, that even if Windows xp was fairly stable, Windows 7 is still, more stable that winxp ever was.
If you look in your Windows folder, you see a folder named winsxs, the is the largest folder Inside Windows. My winsxs folder is 13GB, so, almost half of the Windows folder. If you want to know...
The swap file is not in the Windows folder. Everytime you install new apps, some of the files are installed in the Windows folder or in one of it's sub directories. After 2.5years, my Windows folder...
The laptop doesn't need to be smart. The laptop only consumes 90watts, the power supply can supply up to 130watts. It's like the power supply in a desktop computer, the desktop won't consume more...
You should easily be able to overclock your Q6600 to at least 3.2ghz. You ram, by increasing it's voltage from 1.8 to 2.0volt should overclock easily to ddr800. Just get a cheap aftermarket cooler...
Because I have large ssd's now, (Intel 520 480GB), I stopped playing with the swap file. But, When I had those Intel 80GB G2 drives, I used a low value for the swap minimum size.
Don't reserve 12GB of ram for the swap is bad ram use. Why don't you make the swap a variable size 1GB to 24GB, your swap will never get increase over that minimum 1GB size. Leave the swap on the...