I get it!

Yeah, slipstreaming the disc sounds like the best plan, so I don't have to do the Partition Shuffle to get everything together on one disc.  Unfortunately, you need a DVD-RW, which I do plan to buy on my remaining Circuit City gift card, but won't for a few days.  What's the main difference between XP Home and Pro, anyway?  I don't think I ever bothered finding out for real.

Anti-Virus killer?!   
AVG! Anti-Vir! CHOOSE!

Nerdo: I think they're mostly admin options and stuff, see here.
Partitions are very useful for backing up stuff, OS can be wiped and reinstalled easily on one, everything else on another.

Cool an effect! Firefox tab extension that mimics Vistas 3D Flip thingy.

Dude, did you even read that differences list?
XP Home doesn't have Remote Desktop!

rofl

My new computer is an E-Machines what should I do?

 

Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
Dude, did you even read that differences list?
XP Home doesn't have Remote Desktop!

rofl

So...Slipstream it is.  Yay, I found the one difference I care about.

Funny, there still seem to be a lot of services related to it.

 

Originally posted by homerjaysimpson:
My new computer is an E-Machines what should I do?

Kill yourself?

Well depends how much you value the warranty really 

Why is Msn messenger 27 MB big? What did they put in it?

why is it that whatever torrent i download lately it downloads quickly just that nearly every piece gos into the hash failed and thus can't i make no real progress... surely it can't be that every torrent file has an error

i am using azureus... but still, it can't be that ALL torrents only send bad files and i can't get anything downloaded propperly

just tried for the hell of it and even knoppix won't download... so it must be something else

doesn't seem to do any difference...

well, maybe show how you configured your's to see what i might have done wrong?   

i see... damn you 

There is a slot on your motherboard that you graphics card fits into, if it is older it will be an AGP slot, if it is newer it will be PCI Express of some variety, AGP cards will only fit into AGP slots and same for PCI-E.
There will also usually be a 4-pin power socket on the graphics card which a 4-pin connector from your PSU must plug into or the card won't work!

Disconnect your monitor cable, open the case, unscrew (philips head, usually) the backplate (the bit of the gfx card that sticks out the back of your case so you can connect your monitor) remove any power connector if there, and wiggle the graphics card out of its slot gently.
Then install the new one with those instructions in reverse.

Now, who wants an annoying alarm clock?

When the alarm goes off it launches a helicopter thing and you have to catch it and put it back in position to turn off the alarm!

I've got enough annoying shit in my life, thanks for asking.

Nurdbot, depending on how old his machine is, may not even have an AGP or PCI Express connector.  He might be cursed witha plain ol' PCI slot.  In that case, there's very little value in upgrading the video card - just scrap the whole machine and start over.

If you are replacing the video card, follow Faze's instructions, but follow the manufacturer's instructions for installation.  There may be issues around coordinating when you plug in the hardware relative to installing drivers.

It got a bit annoying after a while though.   
Maybe they can speed it up in future versions.
The newest extension I got is URL Fixer, if you type in "peelified.cmo" it will fix it to "peelified.com", and other typos too, awesome!

Could be handy if they did it for typos in textboxes, along with the new spellchecker thing.
I think a lot of people don't know that FF2 underlines wrong spellings, but you have to install a dictionary for it to work!

opera 

Here's the main ones I use Jules, best ones have bullet points beside them:

• Adblock Plus - Essential, blocks ads on websites
  
• All-in-One Gestures - Magic! Mouse gestures
  
• Auto Copy - Select text and it copies it
  Autohide - True fullscreen
  Bookmark Duplicate Detector - Finds bookmarks that you have twice
  Bookmarks LinkChecker - Checks if bookmarks still work
  British English Dictionary - Spellchecks in text boxes, underlines mispellings
  
• CuteMenus - Crystal SVG - Pretty icons for menus
  deskCut - Sends a shortcut to your desktop or Windows Favourites folder
  Dictionary Tooltip - Select a word, check it in the dictionary
  Download Sort - Sorts files by type into folders automatically
  
• Download Statusbar - Puts downloading info in a neat bar instead of the Download Manager
  
• DownThemAll! - Download all pictures, movies etc on a page easily
  
• Fast Video Download - Downloads videos from Youtube etc.
  FireFTP - FTP inside Firefox
  FoxyTunes - Control Winamp or WMP with a few buttons
  Gmail Manager - Control several Gmail accounts
  Gmail Skins - GREEN GMAIL! z0mg
  InfoLister - Lists all your extensions/skins/plugins info, made this list possible
  
• Link Alert - Link sensitive icons when hover over link
  Location Navigator - Increment pages or picture numbers, slideshow
  
• Menu Editor - Get rid of menu things you don't use/want
  
• NoScript - Essential security, disables Javascript unless you tell it not to
  OpenBook - Fix the annoying Add Bookmark box
  
• Paste and Go 2 - Copy a link, Paste And Go (to the site) in the address bar
  Paste Email - Paste in your email instead of typing it out, so lazy
  
• ReminderFox - Reminder calander/appointment type thing
  Show Image - Load a picture if it didn't the first time
  Tab Clicking Options - Handy tab features
  
• Tiny Menu - Minimize your menu bar
  
• URL Fixer - "google.cum" gets fixed to "google.com"![/small]
  The links are to their homepages but you can find them on Mozilla Extensions too.

Thanks Faze

Faze did I already told you that I love you

man, faze, you just saved me so much time mentioning firefox's spell check.  no more going to dictionary.com every two minutes.  speaking of which, there's a free definition tool for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4037/ also very useful.