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Old 03-01-2002, 03:24 AM   #1
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Whats your favorite tweak/trick???

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Whats yer fav tweak or trick, the one you do to all yer comps??
Or maybe just to yer game rigs?? Cmon what is it??
Lay it down here:
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Old 03-01-2002, 12:36 PM   #2
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Well, Blak, you moron, you might spice up your threads with a little more creative thought....in the future that is.
Really tho, I have proven to myself that having a separate swapfile drive as c: increases performance.
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Thats lame...never do that as its a waste of drive space, dont you know that?!?
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Old 03-01-2002, 12:39 PM   #4
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You guys dont have to be so mean and call me a moron....snifff
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Well, its better than calling you ying yang, right?
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Tip #1, start a thread in the Tips and Tricks section, then answer yourself to increase your post count. Consider possibly getting into an arguement. Don't let the arguement get out of control or you risk getting both of you banned from the site.


Well, not really tweaks to a system, but I like to

1) Kill all power management
2) Schedule a nightly maintenance routine
3) Get all of the drivers updated
4) Get all of the Windows updates
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Good post HAL, and you two other guys stay outta this...
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I do a registry hack so I can rename my Recycle Bin.

I call it Sh*t Pile.
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What do YOU know? You hack my registry and I'll have your worms for dinner.
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YOU LEAVE MY WORMS ALONE OR I WILL CRUSH YOUR SLUG COLLECTION!
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LMAO!
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Okaaaaayyyyy. I'm not even gonna question anyone's sanity in this thread, I think I've seen enough evidence.
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i've found that deleting himem.sys and smartdrv really increases my performance. it makes my computer think that it has an infinate amount of ram!
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Hey, you might give him the benefit of the doubt. After all, what if he is mental? Isn't there some federal law (even in Canada too I imagine) that prohibits discrimination on the basis of mental illnesses? I would hate to have to call in the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate this alleged abuse of Mr. Blak's civil rights. Hmmm, what would be the Canadian equivalent of the FBI by the way?

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Forgot tip...have to stay on topic here.

Probably setting up my drive to have a separate partition (and the first one) for the swap file, a separate partition for the OS only, and then one for all the games!
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Yes, im a victim...

Oprah said youd be this way...
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FBI = RCMP, CIA = CISC (Canadian Intelligence Service Canada)
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FBI = RCMP, CIA = CISC (Canadian Intelligence Service Canada)
For some reason I thought the Canadian police were those "mounties"--the guys in the red coats (is that what the RCMP is or do they even still have these?).

Also, why do they feel the need to put the name of the country in the CISC twice. I would think either the "Canadian" at the front or the "Canada" at the end would suffice to tell what country its in. Seems like that would be like us calling the FBI the FBIF (Federal Bureau of Investigation Federally). Any Canadians know the answer to these?

P.S. Does Canada have any kind of military? (Just curious)
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canada doesn't need a miliatry... they just unleash all of their hockey players on any enemy's. and they have two canada's in their title's to prove that they are much more efficient than us lowly american's (i mean, we really are below them)
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Not sure why Canada would be listed twice in a title, but then again, we're usually drunk on real beer. Yes, we still have the RCMP. They're the Canadian police, not restricted on a province to province basis. Yes, we have a military, although small, we don't have a need for a massive defense budget.
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Damnit!

Here I post a serious thread, no one replies to it, so I add (or try to) humor and some moron sends me pm over it and here you guys are gonna start a flame war over our 52nd state. Im a victim!! Wheres Oprah??!!? ARGHHHHH!!
You guys owe me....
OK, send me Kassia, as she's Canadian and hot(for I have seen her picture), and all will be forgiven.

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For those of you who have no sense of humor (and you KNOW who you are), the above is sarcastic humor, really.

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Ok this thread has gone on long enough, and serves no purpose nor displays any redeemable qualities.
Locking it down.

Blakhart@huntel.net, while we endeavour to keep up with most humor, even the sarcastic sort, I hope you realize that we cannot allow comments that do not maintain a professional level, ESPECIALLY those directed towards our members. I can cite 2 instances from what I gather of your post: 1) directed towards Kassia 2) calling some user a moron. We dont look at post count padding very kindly either.

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