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Win XP refresh rate and registry
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Here my problem with Product Activation:
Too much power, (information is power*), for a single company to possess that has been found guilty of monopoly and got just a slap for it. You want to get rid of pirated copies, level the playing field. Open source!!! There are plenty of companies producing Linux at competitive and reasonable prices that your average consumer need not buy pirated copies.
Why not License Windows out to the software manufacturers, so they can produce a large selection of the product?
Don’t think for a minute that Microsoft doesn’t catalog and use the information.
It reveals ratio of products that consumers buy, usage, replacement, etc. and this just a small portion of how the information can be used.
Even the government doesn’t have this much information. Legally, it’s unconstitutional. It’s just that no one has challenged it in court yet. Hey, even the government has made laws that were found unconstitutional.
*George Orwell’s 1984 – whoever controls the past control the future.
Too much power, (information is power*), for a single company to possess that has been found guilty of monopoly and got just a slap for it. You want to get rid of pirated copies, level the playing field. Open source!!! There are plenty of companies producing Linux at competitive and reasonable prices that your average consumer need not buy pirated copies.
Why not License Windows out to the software manufacturers, so they can produce a large selection of the product?
Don’t think for a minute that Microsoft doesn’t catalog and use the information.
It reveals ratio of products that consumers buy, usage, replacement, etc. and this just a small portion of how the information can be used.
Even the government doesn’t have this much information. Legally, it’s unconstitutional. It’s just that no one has challenged it in court yet. Hey, even the government has made laws that were found unconstitutional.
*George Orwell’s 1984 – whoever controls the past control the future.
Can you not change the refresh rate without going into the registry?
HOW TO: Change the Screen Refresh Rate of Your Monitor in Windows XP(Q311403)
Also check for "Refresh Rate" in the Help and Support program.
HOW TO: Change the Screen Refresh Rate of Your Monitor in Windows XP(Q311403)
Also check for "Refresh Rate" in the Help and Support program.
It's probably due not to your drivers, but because XP can't identify what kind of monitor you have, and may have installed a generic driver, which means, default refresh rates of 60hz. Try going into device manager, and if it shows up as some generic driver, try either forcing it to the exact model of your monitor, OR go download an updated driver from your monitor manufacturer's website. Most of the time, if you force it to a Standard Monitor Type 1200x1024 then you may get a higher refresh rate, if no driver is available.
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