Should I upgra

I am currently running Windows XP and don't plan on upgrading to Vista or Windows 7 anytime soon.
I have owned an Soundblaster Audigy 4 for the past 3 years and this sound card is working great. I am using for mostly entertainment purposes (movies & gaming), and the ASIO support comes in handy for Music Production using FL Studio 8. However, now that Creative has the newer X-FI cards out on the market for sometime now, should I upgrade to them? Would I notice a significant difference in sound quality & system performance in comparison to the Audigy 4. If so, which of the X-FI cards would be the best solution for me?

I had an Audigy2 ZS and the Xfi Elite Pro I have now is noticably superior.
I used to run Xp Pro and am now using Vista 64 Ultimate and a big difference in sound there too.
Vista 64 or 32 both sounded better than Xp pro did with my elite pro.
I think the difference sound would be: Audigy 4 Great, Xfi Elite Pro, Studio.
That's my experience anway.
Noel Brown

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just pasting this from another board where i posted it as well:?Ok here's the shortest version of the story I can tell:
A while back, I was playing the beta for lord of the rings online, and I was having a weird crackling audio issue..so I upgraded from integrated audio to an audigy SE. that fixed the problem, but gave rise to another issue, where all the sound in Oblivion sounded distant, muffled, and echoey..sort of like EAX was trying too hard..it's very difficult to describe. After hours of playing around, I managed to fix the problem by lowering my hardware accelaration from full to basic. Not sure why, but that solved it, and I haven't given the issue any thought in months.
Just last night, however, I was playing Lord of the rings Online, and I discovered the issue..but in a VERY isolated instance. The footstep sound effect on one very particular type of ground surface sounds the way Oblivion used to. I tried a whole lot of things..updating drivers, re-installing drivers, system restores (because i never noticed the problem before), messing with EAX...nothing worked.
The Audigy SE is a really low-end sound card, so I'm considering maybe just getting a $70-ish X-Fi one. If I had any sort of guarantee that this would work, I'd probably just go for it, but I don't know.. I don't want to throw out money and have the same issue. (Also, I'd like to be able to keep my hardware accel. at full..think this would make it work?)
Any thoughts?

I had an Audigy2 ZS and the Xfi Elite Pro I have now is noticably superior.
I used to run Xp Pro and am now using Vista 64 Ultimate and a big difference in sound there too.
Vista 64 or 32 both sounded better than Xp pro did with my elite pro.
I think the difference sound would be: Audigy 4 Great, Xfi Elite Pro, Studio.
That's my experience anway.
Noel Brown

Why am I facing so many problem after upgrading to ios7, my phone hangs/stuck many times, applications just stop working and close themselves, battery drainage,Facebook and all applications don't work properly. What should I do? They punished me for upgra

I'm using iPhone 5
Why am I facing so many problem after upgrading to ios7, my phone hangs/stuck many times, applications just stop working and close themselves, battery drainage,Facebook and all applications don't work properly. What should I do? They punished me for upgrading to ios7. I now hate apple and I'm thing of getting samsung.

Basic troubleshooting
Reset
Restore with backup
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Who i can upgraed my mac from 10.5.8 to 10.6, who i can upgraed my mac from 10.5.8 to 10.6

who i can upgraed my mac from 10.5.8 to 10.6

Check the system requirements, then phone Apple sales to order a copy of Snow Leopard. After installation, you should download and run the 10.6.8 Combo Updater.

Should I Give it Up and Go Back To Tiger?

That's the decision I'm wrestling with right now. My issues are not legion. Mostly they revolve around three things: Stability, Usability and Speed.
STABILITY:
I get odd freezes and random program crashes that have now twice resulted in having to push the power button to reboot. The mouse moves, but nothing works, no menus, can't even bring up the Force Quit window to quit an offending app.
In one day Mail crashed over-and-over until I could no longer use the computer and shut down and pulled out my PowerBook to send an email! After rebooting and fsck'ing and repairing Permissions the problem seemed to go away, but I have way too many crashes of even Apple programs that ought to be playing nicer with Leopard.
I also get a LOT more bouncing beachballs with Leopard in almost every app than with Tiger. Although my main Mac is not Intel or even G5, I should still be well within the system requirements for Leopard with a dual 1.25GHz G4 with 1.75 GB of RAM. My system drive has over 100GB open (I have four internal drives equaling 1.3TB) and I keep all of my software updated.
I do have one 2nd party PCI USB 2.0 card that doesn't require drivers and it works, but I haven't tested Leopard without that card, but I do have USB 2.0 devices that I need to run, so that alone would require a step backward if I couldn't run the USB 2.0 card because of some odd compatibility issue.
USABILITY:
Two things just irritate the heck out of me and one is a minor irritant that I probably just need to learn more about
One is the lack of hierarchical menus in the dock. Unlike a lot of people I like Stacks, but I'd like to have the option to go seamlessly from a Stack to a hierarchical menu.
The other is the inability to put a custom icon on a dock drive or folder. I have to create a dummy folder, put a blank space at the front of the name and use it as the icon for the item, but even then, all those icons behind it clutter up the look of the folder/drive and thus, the dock as a whole. There should be an option for having a SINGLE clean icon without going through odd gymnastic to get one!
I have a very small issue with the behavior of Spotlight. In Tiger, a Spotlight search's results were displayed in a more quick and orderly way, at least that how it seems to me. In Leopard when you click "show all" although it categorizes them as I have it set up in Spotlight's preferences, there isn't a clear delineation between classifications and there is no "info" button to quickly see the path and general info for the file. To see info you have to right click and choose "Show Info" unless I am missing something.
However, the addition of Boolean logic categories by option-clicking the plus sign or clicking to add categories to the search rules negates a lot of my gripe about Spotlight. I'd like to see it be as responsive as Tiger, but it's hard to argue with the ability to drill-down to exactly what you're looking for.
But, Spotlight is also MUCH slower than Tiger's Spotlight which leads me to:
SPEED:
As mentioned, I have one of the fastest G4s and a dual processor to boot and I'm nearly maxed on RAM, so you'd think Leopard would run faster, but there is a general lag in usability across the board. Not a killer lag, but noticeable and the aforementioned beachballs pop up enough to add even MORE of an irritating lag to the process. I find myself hitting "Force Quit" a LOT more often and seeing "'program x has stopped responding" in the Force Quit menu.
I like Leopard. There are some nice features that truly do improve the overall utility of the OS, so I think it's a good release, but there are just too many issues for me now, maybe because of my G4 PowerMac, it seems to have fewer issues (except for the speed thing) on my FW 800 Powerbook, but for now I want fast and logical and Tiger is all that.
I will return to Leopard if I step back because it's just too good an update to ignore and it is after all, the future of Macs, but right now Leopard is killing my productivity. On more than one occasion I've lost data before saving when a crash happened and that was a VERY rare occurrence with Tiger.
JoeL
Message was edited by: joeldm

Thanks for the responses!
I always do a clean install, backing up, formatting the drive, etc. I find it reduces the number of issues overall.
I was going to do a dual-boot setup with Tiger originally, but I've had such good luck with OS X updates that I wasn't concerned. But since I've had these problems, I hadn't revisited that option so, since I eventually will return to Leopard that may be a good solution.
However, I just read elsewhere after writing this as one of you mentioned, that the 10.5.2 update is slated to be a big release with a lot of fixes, so that may be worth the wait before doing anything precipitous.
There is one very odd thing, though . . . I have an iPhone and while I could sync without a problem initially, recently I've had some issues syncing until now I can't sync at all. I took the iPhone in and they swapped it out for a new phone, but I came home and had the same issues, so before returning to the Apple store I tried it on my PowerBook (running Leopard) and sure enough, it synced with no issues!
So I'm wondering if there isn't some problem that may be hardware-related that is causing me to have more issues on the PowerMac side than on the PowerBook side? I think I need to strip the PowerMac down to its original components, basically unplug everything but the keyboard and mouse, remove that USB card and see what happens.
It ran fine under Tiger so I'm not happy about having to do this, but hey, it's the price of progress and at least it's not that "other" OS!
BTW, I think it's funny how some tech writers are trying, straining to compare the issues that some of us are having with Leopard with the Vista release which was an unmitigated disaster!
I'm content to work through it until I find the same stability I had under Tiger with this new cat . . . let's hope the new update does the trick. Anyone heard a release date for 10.5.2?
Thanks for the suggestions!
JoeL

IIS 7.5 URL Rewrite: Hit specific page of a web application but should be redirected to another application's page

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I just presumed so really.
What made me think I need to constantly format computer with my problem?
Well, after many attempts to repair the drive, which fails, cannot even reach the log in screen, I am left with no other choice?
And also, I have to note now, System Preferences keeps crashing without reason, it either takes ages to load, just by clicking it to open, or clicking something within it, or it just crashes.
And temporarily, it freezes the computer totally, with no response.
Seriously, am I missing a system file or something? Anyone experienced this problem before?
My computer is literally a blank computer right now, installed VLC and Shades, updated Adobe Flash Player, installed Skype and Adium. I would say Growl from Adium caused it, but it has happened prior to Skype and Adium. Any ideas anyone?
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I want to Sync my iPhone 4 to iTunes however I get an error message from iTunes each time I connect the phone to the PC saying that I should restore to factory settings. Frustrating because it's already annoying enough that I can't drag and drop mp3's!!!

I have never been so frustrated before in my life with any phone. I find it obnoxious as it is that I cannot simply drag and drop files (especially MP3's) straight from my PC directly into my phone, which I have been used to doing up until now. Everyone who convinced me to get the iPhone has instructed me that my frustration can be fixed by downloading iTunes and syncing it all up via that program (which I have never used before). So, I downloaded the program successfully, however when I connect the iPhone 4 to the PC and iTunes is open, I get an error message that 'iTunes cannot read the content of the iPhone "iPhone" and that I should go to the Preferences tab of the iPhone and select 'restore' to restore this phone to factory settings. First of all, I don't understand why I need to do that. I have already downloaded apps and other important things in the 2 days that I have the phone. I am also scared that it will erase my contacts. This is such a headache. Music is very imporatant to me, but I am getting so frustrated that I don't have freedom over the phone which I thought was supposed to be one of the best out there. I would really appreciate help in this matter. I am sure the phone is great but I am on the verge of taking it back and getting something else.

Hey joshuafromisr,
If you resintall iTunes, it should fix the issue. The following document will go over how to remove iTunes fully and then reinstall. Depending on what version of Windows you're running you'll either follow the directions here:
Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925
or here:
Removing and reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows Vista or Windows 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
Best,
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we have a requirement, after sorting and subtotaling, the output in ALV is -
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123           11              12            13
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Hi,
if it helps you could create a hierachy. In this way you can define the field catalog for the lines and for the subtotal columns. The only thing is that you would always show the subtotal rows.
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Edited by: Oscar Pecharroman on Aug 2, 2010 1:13 PM

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