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You will also get very poor performance if your external drive is connected via USB.

Also if you have an SSD and install your programs on a spinning drive then your defeating the purpose of having an SSD drive. Install ALL your programs on your SSD but move your media (music, movies, pictures) on the SSD drive. You can tell windows to point your Documents folder to the 1TB...

The M4a format or MPEG4 audio codec Apple uses with iTunes is better. MPEG4 is a newer version of the MP3 codec. You get better quality sound out of the same size file compared to MP3.

Minecraft is very GPU intensive. Check out the official Minecraft FAQs.

Sounds like a troll to me. The poster has too much knowledge to be that ignorant.

Paint.net is a nice photo editing/enhancing software. Also you can disable the track pad in the laptops options.

iTunes is usable under multiple accounts. iTunes does not convert file types unless you tell it to. As with any modern programs you can use them on one account and not use it on another. For programs that doesn't cooperate so well just remove them from the Start menu on the user account you...

Deal with it and buy them in digital format.

If a friend were to ask me what they should pay for this computer I would tell them no higher then $250 (without monitor) much more then that and they could put together a new system that would out perform that one. Plus it's dated hardware with limited upgrade options.

Did a little more googling and found a program called AC3Filter which does DTS decoding. So it's almost standalone. http://ac3filter.net/releases/ac3filter_1_63b if your looking for a small codec that doesn't add a bunch of crap to your system. I set it to just decode DTS works with both 32...

Thanks for the suggestion I gave it a try and nothing worked. Files types that would play before wouldn't etc. That's why I'm looking for a stand alone DTS codec.

I'm looking for a DTS codec for Windows 7 64bit. I've tried a few of the codec packs (K-lite, etc) but none of them worked for me. Anyone know of a "stand alone" DTS codec. I've Googled it and didn't come up with anything but the Korean language DTS codec that doesn't work in 64bit.

Logmein does have a totally free version. There are a couple of limitations to it such as you can't transfer files from one PC to another. You can over come this with Windows SkyDrive or another online storage service.

Well the issue has seemed to have worked itself out. It appears reinstalling the video card driver did the trick even though at first the monitor wasn't going into power save. Thanks for all your suggestions.

Tried plugging my monitor into the other other hdmi out on my video card. There was no change. I also tried removing and reinstalling my video card drivers and no change there either.

I do not use a screen saver. It's disabled. I have also checked the sleep settings. Reset them to default and tried differnt times from 1 minute to 30 minutes. No change.

I also tried unistalling the mouse and keyboard then letting Windows reinstall both devices. I also tried unplugging my mouse from the system and still have the same issue. I've already checked the Microsoft HID Non-User Input Data Filter and reinstalling the IntelliType drivers.

My system specs are as follows: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Mobo: ASUS M2N68-AM SE2 RAM: Crucial 4096MB PC5400 DDR2 VID: PNY GeForce 8600 GT OC 512MB HDD1: WD Caviar 320GB SATA-3G HDD2: Seagate 500GB SATA-3G DVD: HP 22X DVDRW Internal IDE w/Lightscribe CASE: Power Up Black Mid T ATX...

I have a custom built PC with Windows 7 and it will boot in about 30 seconds.

Maybe your ISP uses a static IP in which case you would have to call your ISP to have them change it. I'm curious as to what game servers you've been banned from that you want to change it.