Recent content by perdomot

I just added another 4GB of ram to my PC for a total of 8GB but as I type this, the task manager is showing me 277MB of free ram with there is 5307MB of available ram. What is the difference and which is preferable? I'm not using a page file so I don't want any problems with my system.

UPDATE: I changed my TV from the onboard vid to the video card and vice versa and that seems to have resolved the issue. Very odd since the onboard vid was using 512MB of my ram for processing power. Seems to work fine on smaller monitors but anyone using onboard vid with Aero on larger screens...

I have a pc with 3 monitors, 2 connected to a ATI 3870 card and one connected to the onboard 785G HDMI connection. The HDMI one is a 32inch LCD TV. When I put a video to play on the big tv, a popup appears saying that window is performing slowly and recommends shifting from aero to basic. I...

I thought you could boot straight into the cd like with xp. According to MS, xp users have to do a clean install and the upgrade version is supposed to do that.

I'd planned on upgrading my motherboard from a Gigabyte 780G to a 785G model but just found out that if you use the upgrade version on W7, it has to be installed on the hard drive, you can't just put in your XP CD to prove you have a legitimate copy of XP. I was thinking of changing the...

Both the Windows Photo Viewer and the Live Photo Gallery do it. Occasionally it will appear in the foreground but 95% of the time, its in the background and I have to click on the taskbar space to bring it forward. Very annoying.

For some reason, Win 7 opens photos and video in the background rather than in front and I was wondering how to change that. Every time I get an email with photos or even just open the My Pictures folder and click on a pic, it opens behind the window which slows down my productivity. XP didn't...

I'm running XP on my main rig and have been using Win7 on my second PC and really like it so when they announced the early bird pricing for the Win7 home upgrade at $49, I decided I wanted it but what I need to know is if it will allow me to do a clean install as long as I have my XP disc. Can't...

I would also like to ask how you can make windows open in the foreground as I view many photos and having to click again to bring it to the front wastes time. Thanks