PC Stats have thrown up a new guide for Firewalls and Internet Security! Here's a rip.

When you use the Internet there are dangers around every corner. Viruses, malicious users, Trojan horses, Oh my! If these are just concepts to you, you are either lucky or well protected (or just un-connected). If these names trigger painful flashbacks to when your computer (and possibly your account balance) was rendered inoperable or compromised by one of the above, then join the club.

CgFX is a dialect of the Cg language (C for Graphics) invented by NVIDIA for programming the so-called hardware shaders. In this article Xbitlabs will take a closer look at this language and will try to reveal its advantages with the help of 3d studio max graphics package.

Crow at Darkcrow.co.kr sends word that they might have found a way to mod your Radeon 9800 Pro To a FireGL X2? those of you that did the 9500 Non-Pro to a 9700 Pro conversion, should find this to be very similar.

Tech Connect have thrown up a new How to convert a Terratec Aureon Space/Sky into an Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 (and vice versa) Guide.

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Digital over @ WinOsCentral has figured out how to read the crypted logs of the Windows XP Firewall so that anybody can understand, what´s going on on his system.

[...]Once the firewall is enabled you must enable logging to see what's going on but that turns out to be a huge log file full of crypt stuff that a lot of people can't read or understand.

So.. in steps a Windows XP Log Reader which offers the sweetest log viewer that everyone can understand plus, it's free.[...] Read the whole article over @ WinOsCentral

Thanks to Tim at Majorgeeks.com for the heads up! The Windows Registry Guide is a Windows help file that reveals all the best tweaks, tricks, and hacks for the Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP Registries. The Registry is a database used to store settings and options for the 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. It contains information and settings for all of the PC's hardware, software, users, and preferences. This version also includes a tutorial for beginners and links to relevant Internet resources.

A tweaking Guide for Microsoft Windows XP/2000 brings together all tweaks for Microsoft Windows XP/2000 such as Internet, Miscellanious, System Performance and User Interface related tweaks into a single easy-to-use centralized helpfile.

Are you a newbie to overclocking or an experience overclocker looking for a AMD Overclocking Guide for your Motherboard, Memory, & CPU? then you need to check out this guide by Deeppow! Here's a snip.

Determining the Maximum FSB for nForce2

Just got word that SaturnTR has thrown up his new Radeon 9800NP > 9800Pro By Flashing BIOS - Modding Guide Here's a snip.

I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGED HARDWARE DURING THIS GUIDE

As you all may know, the Radeon 9800 Non Pro and the Radeon 9800 Pro as both the same cards, but the Radeon 9800NP has a lower core clock, and slower memory clocks. Hopefully this guide will help you get the most from your Radeon 9800NP card.

Smiro has updated his SoundBlaster Cards SoftMods guide! Here's a snip:

Three different ways to make your SBLive or Audigy utilize the applications and the new features (if hardware supports them) that Audigy2 offers, or unlock features of your SBLive, Audigy or Audigy2 card that official drivers neither enable nor use!

Just got word from Zardon that DriverHeaven's editor Justin Easley has thrown up his new 9500 non-Pro to 9700 non-Pro software mod guide. He's not only going to show you how to do this, but also shows the performance increases that you can gain from this. How do 5,146 3DMark 03 points sound?

Korean website DarkCrow has done an image quality comparison of the newly leaked 44.90 Detonators driver. They tested Detonator 44.90 against the 44.03 running on a GeForce FX 5900 Ultra using ATI demo's: Chimp, Lava Caves, Car, Non Photorealistic Rendering and Dogs. The funny part is that no Detonator with a version number before 44.90 could render any ATI DirectX 9 demo correctly! 44.90 still fails as it seems but it looks like Nvidia really worked out some bugs. There's no word on which Catalyst drivers were used.

MSFN.org have posted a very informative pre-install guide for Windows XP. Which, after reading, allows you to install Windows XP unattended with pre SP2 fixes, Directx 9 and more!

Have you ever wanted a Windows XP CD that would install Windows XP by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? Followed by silently installing all your favourite applications along with DirectX 9.0a, .Net Framework 1.1 and then all the Pre-SP2 hotfixes, updated drivers, registry tweaks, and a readily patched UXTheme.dll without any user interaction whatsoever? Then this guide will show you how you can do just that.

Smiro has updated his SoundBlaster Cards SoftMods guide! Here's a snip:

Three different ways to make your SBLive or Audigy utilize the applications and the new features (if hardware supports them) that Audigy2 offers, or unlock features of your SBLive, Audigy or Audigy2 card that official drivers neither enable nor use!

Just got word that Planet3DNow have thrown up an updated version of their popular nForce 2 configuration guide. The link provided is an automated translation from german.

Thanks to creamhackered at Neowin.net for the info.

A member at Neowin has discovered a way of enabling the system restore feature of Windows XP on Windows Server 2003. If you're wondering why it wasn't there in the first place, the official wording from Microsoft is, that it will cause data replication on the system - causing all sorts of problems.

ExtremeTech have thrown up a guide for modifying your nomad MP3 player by adding a bigger hard drive! What they're about to show you WILL void your warranty, so before proceeding, make sure you understand once you start, you're leaving your warranty behind. Here's a byte:

Fred Langa at Information Week has thrown up his The Perfect Rescue Tool guide, which explains how to make a custom, bootable CD containing the right tools to fix just about any system trouble.

Imagine this: You hit the power switch on your Windows or Linux PC, and the system starts to boot, but stalls. The power's on, the hard drive is spinning, but nothing's happening. You restart the PC, but the same thing occurs - what next?

Tweakhound's Eric Vaughan has updated his Windows XP tweaking guide to revision 2.0. Due to the changes in the software/drivers, your requests, and XP itself he released version 2.0! Just about every page has been amended, the downloadable .reg file has been halved, and a new Personal Toolbox section has been added.

I was just over at Overclockers.com, when I saw that hey wrote a couple of Overclocking SATA Drives articles. Here's a snip.

Overclocking SATA Drives Have you tried to? Have you had any better luck than me? : I've been running a pair of WD360GDs, commonly known as "Raptors." These are the 10,000 rpm IDE drives Western Digital. I have them in a RAID configuration. What I have found is that these things don't want to overclock at all.