Updating Computers Futile

[Vizion]

Oh btw you should NEVER be paying for drivers for your hardware.

Wysiwyg - I run the non wide-screen monitors you might have to check if they will take 3 wide-screen in landscape mode.

 

[Julia]

Julia go to control panel / add remove programs double click on Word and choose reinstall. Throw in your disc. Before that you might like to try rightclick on the word doc and go "open with" then select word in your list of programs and check always use this program.

Reinstall your sound cards driver by inserting the disc and double clicking the setup.exe file you will find on its cd. If that fails pm me I will walk you through diagnosing the fault

Many thanks, Vizion. I'll try that.

 

[nulla nulla]

That's six feet wide all up. You would need to be the same distance away to catch the peripherals. Nah. The triple I was looking at is centre 24" and two 17".

You wouldn't need to sit any further away than you normally would with a single or dual screen set up. The screens to the side should be able to be angled so that they face directly at you in your normal sitting position, in the same manner you would set up three seperate screens.
If I had one of the triple 24" screens they would be set up in windows xp as monitors 1, 2, & 3 and not as one extended monitor. Left hand monitor for spread sheets, centre monitor for charts and comsec and right hand monitor for ComsecIress live feed.

 

[nulla nulla]

That setup is easy to do and cheap too. get a Laser 3 monitor stand off ebay for 60 bucks throw a dual head card in your box for 100 and its done.
if you want a link to the seller pm me. I bought one and have been delighted with it, its metal not plastic and holds my 3 x 19 in monitors. Plus it was delivered in 3 days. Their communication was fantastic too and their ozzie not singapore etc.

Thanks m8, can you post the link here so if anyone else is interested they can check out the site also? Cheers

 

[Vizion]

24's ? no problem seems they have made one to take a bigger array.
Little more expensive at $90 which is till allot cheaper than the $450 plus I have seen similar for.

Laser are an interesting company, they manufacture a hell of allot of peripherals that get re-branded and sold on. A bit like HTC smart phones before they decided to just go as themselves.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280387113064

http://www.goodcomputers.com.au/sho...=692&gad=CNS_mfEGEgjNAz6AZSHBJRiymdn2AyDCxYhp

Two links for you. I added a dual link to show the price is the same from multiple locations. Its a clamp arrangement not a base stand, sorry I removed that part as I did not know if a name across the image was a breach of site rules or not.


cheers

 

[marklar]

Will we ever reach a point where our computers are up and running in a matter of seconds

Yes, there is certainly enough cpu 'horsepower' and with flash-based SSD drives these days it's theoretically possible; however,

and not the minutes that it takes with vista/win 7 even with the fastest hardware??

there's your problem. Apparently people want eye candy galore and (almost) nobody can write & tune decent application code these days.

The days of supporting 200+ developers & 20 Oracle databases on a computer with 2 x 60MHz CPUs and 384Mb of RAM are long gone.

m.