Screen Resolution

[nanajana]

Aye a USB wireless stick is what I used to use before I got a dedicated wireless network card

Which is the better route to follow, is there much difference between the two.,  Is one better than the other?

Cheers,
Janice

[essexboy]

Six of one and half a dozen of the other really.  With the card it is internal so you never see it, but with a USB it is portable although it does poke out from the computer and I have bent a few in my time 

[bob3160]

I'd choose the internal option.
1. It's usually cheaper.
2. Unless you intend to use it on more than one computer,
    why pay extra for something you could loos or damage.

[nanajana]

Hi All, 

Just to let you know, I took my tower into a shop in my area (she checks things out for free) & lo & behold my motherboard is pretty much fried.  So now I'm looking at buying a new PC as my computer is just too old and not worth fixing.

Thanks everyone for your help and time responding to my posts!

Cheers,
Janice

[essexboy]

Don't you just love it when something like that happens

[bob3160]

Enjoy the new computer.
You will probably not believe your eyes at the difference between the old clunker
and the new one.
Things have changed over the past few years.

[nanajana]

Don't you just love it when something like that happens

Ya got that right!!

I'm heading out of town in a short while so not buying anything til I get back.  In the meantime there are a few things I want to try out, one being creating a VM so since i have nothing to lose I'll play around on my old PC.  I'm sure you have a tutorial I can follow to do this essexboy?

Cheers,
Janice

[essexboy]

Well for my VM I use http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ 

All you need to is install the player
Then install the Guest operating system

[nanajana]

My motherboard finally crashed completely so I had to buy a new computer!  I did use it for quite awhile with the screen resolution out of whack, amazing what you can get used to, lol!  I also had a problem installing AIS with the  firewall (couldn't connect to the web and crashed constantly so had to run AIS without the firewall enabled) on my laptop & old computer and for whatever reason it runs perfectly fine  on my new computer.   Go figure. 

I also cannot install a VM on my computer since I don't have a full copy of a windows operating system ( I have Millenium and XP but they are both student copies and of course the OS which is already installed on my computer.  I don't suppose there is any way around this?

Cheers,
Janice