KScorp

Glad to help. I know how annoying it can be to find yourself dead due to a lag spike.

Hmm, I should probably dedicate my smaller monitor to less active tasks. (I'm using it for some web browsing atm.) Probably the best place to put winamp and things like that. =P

So I recently got a nice new Acer 24" monitor. My old, 17" Acer still works fine, so I decided to keep it plugged in. It certainly helps multitask. I got UltraMon for the ease of management and extended taskbar, and that's about it. Anyone know of any great programs to use with this setup, or maybe any special uses you found for two monitors? Anything you run while playing some (full screen) games?

On Vista (and I believe on Windows 7 as well) your wireless connection does a scan every minute or two. During that scan, it basically stops all other traffic for a second. Absolutely horrible for online games. I had this problem a year ago with CoD4. Really pissed me off and forced me to use an outlet bridge. The tool posted on the second page should do the trick, but I used a different one: http://www.martin-majowski.de/wlanoptimizer/. The problem was solved completely. It's a must for gamers on a wireless connection (and Vista/Win7).

This is actually quite a bit slower than I used to get. (14 DOWN/5 UP at minimum.) Maybe I'll post again some other time.