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I find its useful under XP, or any Windows system really, to create a second ID for web surfing. The theory is to make an ID that doesn't have administrator rights, so if you hit a web site that tries to give you a virus, its not as easy for the virus to install itself. You will want any ID...

"Which hard drive brand is the best" is one of those questions that are always bouncing around. Ask a dozen people and you will get a dozen different answers. Recently I've had a few Western Digital drives die on me. I've also noticed that the Seagate drives seem to have the longest warranty...

I'm also partial to desktops. However, out of that list of Laptops you gave I would pick the Toshiba or Dell just purely on service considerations. I.e. they are both major brands, you will be able to find drivers and parts for them for years to come. Not so much the other two. Only you can...

Just an FYI: For those of you looking for a new hard drive - this seems like a prettty good deal. Seagate Barracuda SATA 1 Terrabyte drive, no mail in rebates, $59...

I guess you and I are about the only fans on earth of that album. Its the only LP that I actually wore out just from playing it too much. Even today almost 40 years later I can still remember every tiny nuance of that recording. It always sounded to me like it was recorded off the mixing...

You have to realize that they had a budget of about $5 to make that record.

It seems that most web sites assume 128kbps. Some will only accept that rate. As for my own personal listening, when I set up my own MP3 server I used a 192kbps rate. To my ears that seems to be the best compromise - sounds significantly better than 128, but the file size is still pretty small.

Thanks for the info!

OK let me explain the "Freezer" trick.... There are several ways that a hard drive can fail. One is that the small arm that moves the read/write head over the platter fails - it becomes stuck or damaged. When this happens the symptom is that you will get a loud "clicking" noise coming from...

Not so. Recording a 16 or a 24 bit .WAV file to a hard drive doesn't involve any compression. But as I understood it, recording to mini-disc always uses compression, like an MP-3 file. I was just wondering if the Zoom's SC media worked like that.

I agree - LAME is what you want.

That Zoom R-16 is an interesting looking unit - but doesn't recording on SC media mean that its compressing your recordings?

Speaking not just about music hardware but about hardware in general, if it works in Vista it should work fine in Windows 7. Quite a few Vista drivers work in Windows 7. Just as Windows XP is built on Windows 2000, Windows 7 is built on Vista.

While it is highly unlikely that your audio card could be contributing to your hard drive issues, Troubleshooting 101 says that when your computer is acting funky, remove ALL devices that are not absolutely necessary for the computer to boot. Then if it starts working, add your devices back one...

With IDE drives, you can attach 2 drives to one controller. When you do this you need to have a way for the system to tell the 2 drives apart, and this is done by designating them as either a "master" or a "slave". This can be done by one of two ways: either you set a jumper on the drive...

Sorry I did not see this earlier. First off - The very first thing you should do it pull out your hard drive, then take it to a different computer and install it as a data drive. See if you can read the drive - if not, you know what your problem is. Then copy off all of your data files. Then...

I have run across a few older products from Dell and Intel that had both USB 1.1 and 2.0 USB ports on the same motherboard. But that's rare, generally anything in the last couple of years has USB 2.0 only. And USB 3.0 ports are starting to appear now on the newest motherboards.

I doubt you will find anything for $30. But you might want to look at these, each about $60: http://www.guitarcenter.com/Sony-Sound-Forge-Audio-Studio-9-105176713-i1374357.gc http://www.reaper.fm/ In each case you can download free 30 day trials before you buy.

I assume you have installed Vista Service packs 1 & 2? Everyone agrees that Vista was a buggy dog when it was released. But after installing the service packs it works quite nicely, at least it has for me.

I go low-rent: Sound Forge / Nero.