Recent content by Geralt

I haven't run manual defrags for a very long time now; I use a (paid) automatic defragger that runs in the background and quietly does its job preventing fragmentation and defragging when necessary. Works great- when I do a defrag analysis as part of weekly maintenance (virus scans etc)...

Have you installed all the motherboard drivers? Is your hard drive working okay? A bad HDD (for eg running in PIO instead of UDMA mode) may cause long install times.

It would be 'possible' but you'll need to reinstall all the drivers, especially for the motherboard and on-board features, since it looks like the chipsets of the 2 boards are different. To prevent issues from cropping up down the line, I strongly suggest that you back up all your data and do a...

IMHO, don't bother with manual placement since it's an inaccurate science..also the list of files that you use most frequently will change with time and it's not feasible to do manual placements frequently? Just go for a good auto defragger that checks the drive for the fastest areas and...

Running chkdsk should sort out file corruption errors. That's a common reason for the windows defrag not starting at all even if manually initiated. Another reason could be that the services that defrag depends on could be set to 'disabled'. I can't recall what these are, off the top of my...

My favorite defragmenter is Diskeeper. I am currently using the newly released DK2010 pro edition, and it's superb. It's loaded with options and is fully automatic, so install once and never think about defragging again :D System files defrag, multiple drive defrag, low space defrag, file...

Yeah, get one of the coolermaster or antec aluminum cooling pads with the fans underneath; they really do help in cooling down the laptop even for normal use. Perhaps the GPU fan speed is not being regulated correctly? For my desktop (XP) I use Rivatuner and a preset to increase the fan on my...

Fallout 3 is an excellent game; IMHO one of the best games ever. It has done the 'atmosphere' of a devastated nuclear landscape really well, there is no cheer or hope....only doom and gloom. Without giving away any spoliers: there is only one small area on the whole map where there are 'live'...