I have a new card, earmarked for install once the remaining new component turns up for the refurb. There is a later set of drivers for the current card, but Windows rejects them as "unsigned", which deterred me from proceeding, as I would have expected an official set of AMD drivers to be properly signed.
I have used the Kelly's Corner tweaks before on my Windows 98 machine, but couldn't find a direct match to the icon cache size increase for XP. The windows 98 powertoy has it, but the XP version only has the repair.
I am sure I already maxed out the cache size by finding a site showing the relevant direct registry edits, but it doesn't seem to have made a difference, the desktop is still refreshing.
After the refurb, it will be a complete OS reinstall on a new, faster, boot drive. I will not use the Dell partition due to it being stuffed with out of date crapware such as AOL internet wizard and free McAfee from 2006!
Ths makes it a little harder, as the install disks supplied do not have even the USEFUL bundled software, so I will have to select the ones I use, and install them separately. I have done this before on my 98 machine, more than once, and also on another XP machine with mixed results (I found crapware somehow snuck back in, and old files from the previous install were left behind). I expect to have to do it again
Back to the promos.
Jackpot Factory is sorted, you only get the free spins once per WEEK!!!!! So only 3 lots, not a daily promo like the rest. Boy that is TIGHT!
Casino UK failed again, couldn't load today's advent calendar offer, even using the trick of launch, connect, disconnect, reconnect that worked to present the opt-in scheme. Red Flush is also still broken, no way to opt in.
32Red, stellar performance. Today was lucky draw for a telly, and in a way I won it
I had been depositing in lots of £200 trying to annoy the fruit machines into paying out something decent. After a series of prods, and keeping them up til 2am, they finally gave in and popped. Both Cops & Robbers and the Hippo had a total of 4K wrestled from then over a series of bonus rounds (well, one top feature on Cops, and half a dozen lower winspins on the Hippo, the first of which tried to trick me by giving me loads of cherries and bars off 15 spins for an insulting £500 or so).
Withdrew the 4K in the small hours, and got paid two hours ago into my Neteller
That's a blistering 8 hours turnaround at the weekend, which is indeed "second to none"
4K is a better prize than the telly, so in a way I have won the draw before it has even taken place
PS - that link for Kelly's corner doesn't work. 503 DNS error, server not found.
Still, having had a look at all the goodies their currently offering this month, i have to say its unusual and impressive 
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