OT I made a buy today

[Young Ed]

Not all cities are set up on a square like Chicago. Indianapolis is a cartwheel, San Francisco has no real pattern due to the hills, Boston streets follow the many harbours edge, some cities do not post "hundred" numbers on the street signs and have no real rhime or reason, Atlanta has several "Peachtree" named streets, courts, boulavards, lanes, Seattle has several numbered named streets such a 17th N, 17th NW, 17th W, etc. One thing that is consistant is even numbers are on one side of a street and odd numbers are on the other side.

Don when I went to pick you up from the hotel was a perfect example of this. I was supposed to find central and 2nd st. I got to that and there was no hotel. Continued on central went past 1st then over the mississippi river and there was 2nd st again. Found Don that time.

[Don Coatney]

Just picked up my new rebuilt computer. I would say overhauled but I do not have a clue what that means. So here is my first posting on my new/used hundred and fifty buck Dell with XP PRO. This puter has my old hard drive as a slave so I did not lose any information. I still neeed to upgrade the RAM and I will do so after I search the net and find the best deal on two 1 GB RAM sticks (PC2750). Couple of things I do not like. I can only have one window open at a time and any others are "tabbed". Doing any search directs me to MSN and that is not where I want to go. I will sort through this directly.

[Don Coatney]

Found Don that time.

Ed;

I am almost as big as you so I should not be too hard to find espically for a twin city native:rolleyes:

[Young Ed]

The tabs thing is part of IE7. I haven't upgraded to it yet but I believe there is an option in there to have things open in a new window instead of a new tab. Everyone tells me once you get used to the tabs they are great. Don't ask me though I'm still using IE6.

[power_hungry]

Right-click on your desktop (the background picture on the monitor)

choose 'Properties' from list (last option)

select the 'Monitor' Tab

click on the 'Advanced...' button

You should now be able to select a refresh rate higher than 60mhz, if there are no options, then you are out of luck.

click 'OK' Or 'Apply' ... you will probably get a message asking if you are sure you want to do this... your are, so click OK

Should be good to go

The refresh rate is usally limited by the video card in the computer, rather than the monitor itself.

I think this should work for most versions of Windows

[Frank Blackstone]

Welcome to the new millenium Don. Next you will have to get as big screen TV. Carol loves hers.