Couple of computer questions (memory, drives, sound events)

[Rÿcher]

I have an HP d5000z. Where do I go to or who do I talk to to find out what the memory is upgradable to? right now it's got 8 gigs of RAM. I know that's plenty but for future need expansion...

Also, I'm in the market for removable storage. As I stated above, I have a new HP. It's got a pocket media drive. It's in essence a removable hard drive. Do you think I should get one of those or one of those nifty Seagate ones that you connect via USB?


I'm running Windows Vista and would like to have a custom sound event play when my anti virus detects an intrusion or something harmful on my computer but the control panel sound events don't have any Norton or anti virus sound event events, know what I mean? How do I make an event for which to assign a sound to?

 

[Lindley]

Hopefully the 64-bit version of Vista, or much of that RAM isn't doing you any good....

 

[Rÿcher]

yes

 

[smithaa02]

I have an HP d5000z. Where do I go to or who do I talk to to find out what the memory is upgradable to? right now it's got 8 gigs of RAM. I know that's plenty but for future need expansion...

You can use the Belarc advisor to see exactly what you have for memory http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html (here you can see if you have any slots open). There are other memory checkers that will tell you exactly what you can upgrade to. Here is another example: http://www.crucial.com/uk/promo/index.aspx?prog=uklp_getmore&pid=2044250

Also, I'm in the market for removable storage. As I stated above, I have a new HP. It's got a pocket media drive. It's in essence a removable hard drive. Do you think I should get one of those or one of those nifty Seagate ones that you connect via USB?

Depends on your requirements... A flash drive or thumb drive would be the most convinient option but would be the most expensive per megabyte of storage.

The external harddrives are quite nice (I have a 300 GB Seagate myself). They now have 500 GB externals in the 100 dollar range which are very nice. I do recommand Seagate as a brand. Something to think about if you get an external is if you want to be externally powered or not. USB power won't be enough for most of the nice externals. Make sure the HD automatically turns off when it loses it USB signal as well.

If you really want to be cheap you could get a USB to SATA/IDE converter and buy an internal harddrive (essentially a do-it-youself external harddrive). It would be cheaper, but noise might be an issue if you don't have a case (then you have to worry about cooling).

 

[Rÿcher]

I'm running Windows Vista and would like to have a custom sound event play when my anti virus detects an intrusion or something harmful on my computer but the control panel sound events don't have any Norton or anti virus sound event events, know what I mean? How do I make an event for which to assign a sound to?

I even tried downloading something I knew was bad and knew Norton would catch in the hopes that I'd be able to see the process name on the task manager but nothing appeared.

I just need to know what the event name (I guess you'd call it) that Norton uses to detect and terminate intrusions or viruses and the like. I have the perfect wav file to play for it.

 

[Arrqh]

The sound is being generated by Norton itself and not by Windows; if Norton doesn't have an internal option to do that then you're probably stuck because it isn't a Windows event.

 

[Rÿcher]

no, the question is if I can make one myself through the registry and I can the trick is to know which command line to enter where.

 

[Arrqh]

Yes, but it probably isn't causing an external event that Windows can detect.