Recent content by Spectralist

Yes there is a way. But they kind of hide it. First you go to Control Panel->Display->Adjust ClearType and unckeck "Turn on ClearType". This, however, only turns it off in a few places. And you've probably already found this. To turn it off more you need to go to Control Panel->System->Advanced...

It's been a long time since i installed XP... But from what i recall there's a point during install, while the screen is still largely blue, where it says on the bottom something like "Hit * Key if you need to install sata/raid drivers". I'm using the asterisk as a wildcard there, i don't...

When you say freeze do you mean everything, including the mouse stops moving? Do programs stop responding, with the mouse still working? Or possibly the programs stop responding, the mouse still moves for a few moments then it also stops working? What happens to your sound(assuming any is...

I'm not buying it. As far as i can tell there are four main reasons people use Linux: 1: Open source. Sure he mentions there's open source software for Windows but that's not new to Win7 and the OS itself still isn't, and probably never will be, open source. 2: It's free. Good luck on that one...

The theme files are saved at C:\Users\"your user name"\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes AppData is hidden by default so make sure show hidden folders is enabled in the folder view options. They can be opened in a text editor and have an interval setting which appears to be in...

Anyone know if there's anyway to completely disable ClearType? I've went to control panel->display->adjust cleartype text and unchecked "Turn on ClearType" But that only got rid of about 30% of it. I still found it in most windows menus and the like. Disabling Aero as well got rid of more of it...

Is this your computer? If so it says you could have ATI Radeon Xpress X1270 or Mobile Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics OR Nvidia Geforce Go 8400M GS/Nvidia Geforce Go 8600M GT discrete graphics... Not much help. You should be able to go to control panal->device manage and click on display...

Anyone know how to get rid of the mouse over popup on the taskbar? Just to be clear i mean: Obviously it's pretty much superfluous when you don't use task collapsing/combining or whatever they're calling it. I've spent the past hour or so searching for a way to remove it with no luck. It's...