Archer

That's cool. Here are my current recommendations for setting **** up (whether you want it or not). If you want to be able to play future games better, get an i7 quad. If you want modern and older games to run better, get a Core 2 Duo. Get a GeForce 260/Radeon HD 5750 or better. Go with 4GB RAM and 32-bit or more with 64-bit. Make sure to get a good case that won't start vibrating after a year or so. Stock cooling should be fine unless you overclock or something. Go with an Asus motherboard, no exceptions. Get two nice, big hard drives and set up RAID 0; consider making a good partitioning scheme with the OS and most of your programs on one partition, and portable programs and data/documents on another; possibly make a third for large files and a fourth small partition with just your temp folder assigned to it. Turn off access writes on all volumes, and potentially consider turning off file indexing if you don't need to use find much (you can still use it with indexing off, but it's slower). For your OS, 7 SP1 will probably be out by the time you finish building it, so definitely go with 7 (I can get you a copy if you need one and don't ask questions), unless you really don't plan to play many future games, in which case go with an nLited XP to squeeze those last few frames out.

Wouldn't it be your job as the owner of the site [pokenations] to make it more interesting?
I can try to come up with ideas on how to make it better, if you need me to...

I've been fine...
I'm using the name "Stoney Kong" at PokeNations, so I found it kind of odd that you didn't remember me at first... anyways, I most likely will change back to Zero there, however...
How active have people been there recently?

What, ya don't remember me?

I just HAVE to say "Hi"!
I've not seen you in a while!

The time it takes to learn Dvorak is absurd, and there is no proof that perceived benefits are anything more than statistical noise. If it was all I had, I'd force it into an EN-US layout and use it like a normal keyboard, even if some of the key bindings were off.

Ew, why? WHY would you do that? You can get a standard PS/2 keyboard for, what, $5?

Use Chrome and just don't open more than two tabs; that's really your best bet. Or use an older version of a browser and hope you don't get railed with viruses (you shouldn't have to worry unless you use the computer heavily, though).

Also, you might want to read through this and see if there are any suggestions in there that are useful. I usually disable file indexing and access timestamps at the very least, it speeds things up quite a bit. You also may want to see if there are any useless services taking up a lot of memory (if there are multiple copies of svchost.exe (Windows Service Host Process) running at a high memory usage, that's because you've got a lot of useless services running).

That's pretty cool. I'm waiting for a tool like nLite or vLite to surface for Win7, that'll really make it appealing to use on older computers.

yeah... as a matter of fact, my files came back without even using the tools you all suggested. =/
i was frustrated so I left my flash drive untouched for 2 and a half days. After, i downloaded one of the suggested tools and when I inserted my flash drive on my computer, the files came back. =/

although the files and folders will disappear again when there are two flash drives on a computer.

do ya think it's a flash drive problem or a computer problem?

Sorry names shadow and you are probably the coolest person here

... BOO!
Hullo, Archer! ^_^
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I just got a few updates in yesterday, it's working a lot better now XD

Oh. Hahahahaha, I'm stupid. I obviously used the CD version, considering it's 680 MB and all.

Although, you could just install it, set up your connection and just get the programs you want anyhow.

Also - tried Gentoo linux before Suse, it's really nice but I was bummin' by how difficult it is to set up. In fact, I'd probably only get it if I were getting a new compy. But it's reeeaaaally nice XD

Er, if you mean I installed it with the CD... It's already on my computer. I still need to set it up though :o

Mandriva looks nice, I might try it next XD

It's still a bit wonky though :p

I actually have a triple boot laptop with Karmic, Opensuse and Vista - Opensuse is really pretty. I haven't been able to set it up fully because it's pretty hard for me to get a wired connection, so I haven't been able to utilize this but it's still very nice.

The programs it comes with kind of suck, though. :p

Oh, there's a few reasons, mainly to deal with the fact that I didn't receive all the upgrade files because my connection is very shoddy. It also had to do with the fact that it had a lot of Karmic's essential files but wanted to boot Jaunty - I found this out after reinstallation and it turned out I was telling it to use Jaunty's Kernel when it should have been using Karmic's :x

I never got the popping sound on Jaunty though lol

Thanks! Right now I'm using ObjectDock, with custom icons from dA.

Ethan it is, then. XD

Seems to me like you're jumping in and out of pokemon, still on the fence?

Archer! How've you been? :O