Well, Kaspersky has one of the best detection rates, and I merely suggested you temporarily installed it. I don't use it permanently myself cause I feel it's a little bloated, but that doesn't take away the fact that it's very good at detecting threats. So I sometimes use it purely to clean computers, then uninstall it and usually install AVG free.

Download Kaspersky
Turn off System Restore
Uninstall Avast
Install Kaspersky
Scan and clean
If problem still persists, scan with Ad-aware, Spybot and the like
When clean, enable System Restore and run Windows Update
Uninstall Kaspersky and install Avast

And GHz doesn't tell anything about the actual speed of the cpu. A 2GHz can be faster than a 3Ghz one, it all depends on what cpu and what technology is used.

@JTbo: 10, 5 minutes to boot? Wow, that's quite a lot!
On my system (AMD X2 4600, 2GB, SATA disk), Vista takes 31 seconds from start of boot till desktop appears. XP takes 23 seconds.

To me it sounds like you may have a faulty harddrive. Download a program called HDD Regenerator and let it scan your drive. I have used it with great success on quite a few harddrives that were almost impossible to read from. It really can do wonders to a bad HD.

Quote from al heeley :

sorry for being thick, but thats what I want to do- add the weather area for manchester airport, but i can't see how to do it.
It's the Clientraw.txt thing

Open the gadgets config screen and type Manchester in the location field?

Quote from anik360 :

thats how much ram i use and i have 2 gb but does use quite a lot of cpu mostly 10-23% for sidebar alone

It really stays at 40% when idle? Somethings wrong then...

I work as a computer technician, and when people come with their computers complaining about it being slow and crashing a lot, it's almost always one of these things:

* Infected with viruses or malware
* Bad sectors on the harddrive
* They have way too many programs running in the background
* They have Norton installed

Quote from al heeley :

I'd love to know how to input some UK weather stations closer to my area.

There's a list of stations supported by the gadget here:
http://weather.cobbnz.com/weather/ViewWeatherSites.aspx

And here you can see a world wide map:
http://weather.cobbnz.com/weather/MesoMap.aspx

Not all have been added to the gadgets list, but if there's a station close to you that isn't, you can either add it yourself or get the station owner to do it.

Very good weather gadget, if you have a weather station nearby it supports:
http://weather.cobbnz.com/weather/VistaGadget.aspx

A few meter gadgets:
http://thehobbylounge.com/inde ... w&id=12&Itemid=26

Look in "Add or Remove Programs" if there's anything related to Live ID, and just uninstall it. I also recommend you upgrade to the latest Live Messenger.

On my system Vista feels faster and more responsive than XP. I boot between XP, Vista and Gentoo Linux. I agree that 1GB memory for Vista is just barely enough, >2GB is in my opinion the best for it. But don't go completely blind about what it reports as free memory, it manages the memory differently from XP.

Here's a program for tweaking and optimizing Vista:
http://www.yamicsoft.com/vistamanager/index.html

Also worth noting is that Microsoft recently made available two pretty major updates dealing with performance and compatibility issues. They have not been released on Windows Update yet, but will later as well as be included in the upcoming SP1.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194

I'm looking forward to when The Sarah Connor Chronicles starts airing. I've seen the pilot episode and it looks quite promising.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjLne16FKmQ

I think something like this maybe would work good to help up the quality. I tried to install it on my test board, but sadly I got all sorts of error messages on the front end. Hopefully the author can work out the bugs, cause it seems to have potential.

Attaching some images for those that can't view them on vbulletin.org

Quote from zeugnimod :

I dont see a sccc car.

Im pretty sure its Fusion.

It's not. We don't have stripes.

Omg! That's hilarious! :spin:

Wow! I remember this thread. Who would have known...
I've got an old replay where he was mighty impressed with my driving, and called me fast... things surely changes.

I forgot to mention in the beginning that it happens mostly when using the clutch pack, and not with locked diff. Anyway, I've since got a wheel, and although it can still happen a little, it's easier to avoid it now.

Oh it's the tag, lol. I've always thought it was supposed to show the whole team name, and whenever I saw it cut off I thought "Darn, still not fixed!"

You won't get LFS running with standard VGA drivers. Try installing the latest chipset drivers and then the Nvidia drivers. Black screen and no signal usually indicates that the resolution is too high for your monitor. You can try and boot into safe mode and set the resolution to a supported one there.

Speaking of team names: the bug that the last letter of a team name is cut off should be fixed. I can't believe it's still there after all these years!

Use more of the tracks width as far a I can see. For example before the left corner approaching 1st split, you're mostly in the middle of the track, causing you too loose speed. You're also a bit cautious through the chicane before the finish line. I bet you can shave off 0.5 second there by going faster.

Something is probably corrupting the replays when they are saved. Do a memory and harddisk test to see if there's something wrong there. You might also try with a clean install of LFS to see if that helps.

I have this happening sometimes when using shift+f4 to go from window/fullscreen mode. The LFS screen goes all black and the sound loops for about 5-10 seconds. Then everything is back to normal again.

Check these out...

http://www.crystalxp.net/bricopack/en.htm
http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.cat.3.html

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When you're in bios setup, you'll probably find it under Tools and HDD Self-Test, or something.

Try and completely uninstall Norton. Then run the Norton Removal Tool
It could be Norton causing the hiccups. Also, enter the bios setup and run a harddrive diagnostic to determine if it's healthy or not. I've serviced a heck of a lot HP notebooks with faulty harddrives, so it certainly could be that what's causing the stutter.