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If I play a dvd file from my hard drive, all is well. If I play the same file from a DVD in my DVD drive, the video is slow and jerky. The sound echoes like in a tin can, too. I've tried Realplayer, Winamp, Windows Media Player and Nero …

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I dont know what is wrong with my computer. When i push the power button the tower turn on for about 3 seconds then turns back off for about 4 or 5 seconds then turns back on and remains on but the moniter still has a yellow light like the …

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India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has announced that the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science has developed a tablet with a retail price of $35 (approximately 1600 rupees), beating the price of MIT's [URL="http://laptop.org/en/"]One Laptop Per Child Program[/URL]. The Linux-based prototype performs Internet browsing, …

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I have another computer with Win98. The keyboard and mouse both refuse to work, but only in Win98. They work when I run a hardware diagnosis or boot setup or whatever. I cannot operate anything in the OS. Im looking to format the HD anyways. Is there a way I …

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Another dean Presario 2200!! When I turn the Laptop on, the power on/off light does no come on but the battery light flashes couple of times, then dead. When I remove the battery, then when I hit the power switch, nothing happens. Please direct, how to fix the Laptop?

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Hello people, I would like to add an extra monitor to my productivity box. But back then I chose a motherboard without built-in graphics, so I only got the two ports provided by my graphics card. I hope you could advice me how I could upgrade my PC to support …

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[ATTACH=right]16006[/ATTACH][I]Part dedicated professional, part creative thinker and part con man.[/I] On a weekly basis a major corporation’s data is compromised in a most public fashion – in an instant slaughtering consumer confidence and bringing immediate disgrace. Who doesn’t remember the Google Aurora attacks and AT&T’s iPad data leak exposing 114,000 …

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Security researchers have been looking at Safari, the standard browser for Apple's Mac computers, and have found a troublesome security problem. It seems that there is a feature that could reveal your personal information. The problem is with the Auto Fill feature which is designed as a part of the …

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Hello, I'm new to the forum. :) We have an older system and we've run into some issues.. The OS is Windows XP and it's a Dell Dimension E510 with a manufacturers date of 11/17/05 At first I just had issues with the Roxio program. I kept getting a screen …

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Hey guys, I know this is an odd post but I cannot seem to get a straight answer where ever I look! I know you can add stuff to spreadsheet via a form which is great, but I want to create a form that allows me to search through the …

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My Thinkpad T22 is having problems booting. The battery light and the left green light turn on okay, but more often than not (and the problem is getting worse) the machine won't start. I've read many, many threads on this all over the web, as it's apparently not an uncommon …

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Hello, To be honest, I know about the very least possible about computer hardware and software. So please indicate me specificly what to do if some things get more techninal in this post. I have formatted my system from Windows Vista into Windows XP Pro. Since I haven't backed up …

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I have a four year old e1705, when I hit the power, the power light goes on and stays on, the hard drive light goes on for maybe two seconds, then goes out. I get no display. The charging light will stay lit if I plug in the charger. When …

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A friend did a new install of window but there are no driver in the system.i need the drivers.intel pentium 4cpu 2.66Hz 1.99GH of ram.i have a yellow question mark in device manager on ethernet controller and pci device

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That's right, create your own Linux virtual appliances with [URL="http://www.vmware.com/appliances/learn/vmware_studio.html"]VMware Studio[/URL]. Appliances are small, single purpose servers that provide a service to users. Some examples are Content Management Systems (CMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, web servers, mail servers, DNS servers, database servers, and so on. VMware Studio is actually …

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Hi I am trying to clean up a computer with spanish XP. In normal mode the computer works fine, even though it is really infected with stuff. But when I try to start in safe mode, it crashes with a blue screen. There is an error code below with these …

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Help you Techies please .I have owned a Dell Inspiron 2500 for 4years and now it has just decided not to start.... 1 > mains attached(new tested mains supply)/battery installed (new battery) no lights on. 2 > no battery and mains attached ,no lights..... HO HUM ....what now... I have …

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I am unable to load certain web pages after having my video game account hacked. The pages that wont load deal with ways to change passwords to my account. So I think I may have a virus that is making it where I cant load cetain web pages so I …

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Hi I’m Veena I need help that I’m trying to place one executable file in mouse right click in Internet explorer. Actually this executable file will copy the selected text or URL to one text file asking user to provide name. Actually I don't want to place that ".exe" file …

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Hi everyone, Here's a picture of the BSOD message : [url]http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6654/dsc01882ah.jpg[/url] Almost every time I download several files at the same time, could be normal downloads (without an accelerator) or in a torrent client, I get the blue screen of death. This only happens when one or more files are …

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If you’re looking for a competitively priced portable Blu-ray alternative, look no further than Plextor’s recently shipped PX-B12OU. Available currently only in Europe for €92 including VAT, the 4x BD-ROM drive is an insanely affordable, fully USB operated external option for users still searching for their Blu-ray glass slipper. Not …

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My custom built computer is not working. I am trying to freshly reinstall Vista x64. I got through the screens that say copying vista files, extracting... all the way to where it needs to restart machine. Then after it restarts it almost gets to the screens where it asks you …

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Hi, I have a new radeon 9550 256mb agp GPU. I'm upgrading my pc from a old Nvidia geforce to this new one. So i took out the old card and put in the new one, hooked the monitor in and turned the pc on. Here's the problem nothing comes …

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hello my system is effected from virus it seems as from last 2 days i have started getting lots of popups of symantec email proxy is blocking emails. As i am not running any email server or any thing so that made me conclude that there is some virus which …

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I bought a graphics card a few years ago and recently my monitor developed a habit of not showing the display. Remobing and reconnecting the monitor cable a few times solves the problem. So yesterday, this happened again and I decided to temporarily switch to the on-board display adapter. After …

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I just got a used Cisco 851 router from ebay and ready to play around with it. i connected it to my computer com port and start seeing something from the putty serial connection. i see something like this repeating and repeating.. what does that mean? Translating "stipp2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net"...domain server (255.255.255.255) …

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Hi guys, Need your help please folks my wifes laptop a hp pavilion zv6000 running on windows vista home premium,the laptop comes on and says configarating 3 of 3 gets to 75% ( but you dont see this happining) and shuts down. This happens all the time,she cant even get …

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Does anyone know if and where drivers for the R3000 can be found? I would like to keep this laptop going but want to upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium if I can find the drivers. Has anyone successfully upgraded from XP Pro to Windows 7 on the R3000? Any …

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hi this is hiren from mumbai (india) i am planing to buy a new RAM Of 1 gb for my desctop but dont know wat is the price going on nowdays if any one have idea then please tell me the good companies along with cheaper rates thanks in advance

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i just had a new Aztech DSL605ER broadband modem installed in my network. im accessing internet at a faster rate now but the bill has skyrocketted due to unlimited downloads from the other users on the network. is there any way i can control or limit the downloads?

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I have a sony vaio and when i turn it on it comes up with the sony vaio screen then goes blank with a flashing curser in the top left of the screen for about 5 mins and in this time if you press a key it bleeps at you. …

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Hi, I'm experiencing problems with one of my hotmail accounts. It's running extremlely slowly. Why trying to construct an email, after just a few words it freezes, cursor sticks, "loading" icon appears bottom LH of screen, waiting circle appears and sometimes screen will turn light grey, give it about a …

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i have a windows vista and it isnt starting properly. i have tried: startup repair- not working restore to a point of time: not able to back up: not working please if anyone has a solution that u know would work TELL ME

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Recently my brother asked me to reinstall windows xp on his computer. While I was installing it, I ran into a problem. first it does the initial setup where it formats the hard drive and it copies the setup files. well, that takes a long time, longer than usual. after …

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Hi I'm running Windows XP with SP3 and I have a malware problem I think. Scotty keeps telling me that a program wants to run with a .srz file extension, and computer is acting a bit strange, not least when malwarebytes and superantispyware won't run when asked to. Managed a …

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Hello, I recently made operable a computer based off of the Intel STL2 server motherboard, however when I try to start the computer and boot from the Windows XP CD, I get the following errors: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. Operating System not found Upon …

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I'm on vacation this week and the airlines lost my luggage; I mean they lost them big time. It took more than a week of cajoling before I finally got my my suitcase from Aer Lingus. I'm staying in France and can't use my iPhone here without incurring huge charges, …

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We're running an old but critical DOS application on a Windows XP network. There is a printer connected to the server (Windows Server 2003) that is accessed by networked computers. To do this, we've been using the following in a batch file: [B]c:\windows\system32\net use lpt1 \\Server\Label /y[/B] (The server is …

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Greetings...first time poster here. I am having a problem with my computer and was hoping to ghet some feedback. I recently got a virus on my computer and was quick to act. I ran a virus removal program, found the problem and removed it. I also ran Ad-ware and removed …

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When I start my pc it makes loud ticking noises that comes from the internal speaker. It then goes to a Boot Menu that shows Hard Drive, CDROM and LAN. When I choose Hard drive it shows the two hard drives to select. I select the SATA drive where Windows …

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I have just the same problem with popup ads frim IE, and I don't use IE at all! It's really annoying and I've tried so much things to get rid of it and nothing... then I came across this post. I used the program HijackThis and the result is the …

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can anyone help me with where to pry and which screws i have to remove to get to cmos battery, i do all my own work on my pc's here at home but i never have opened a laptop.. oh by the way it is a [U]dell latitude d610[/U]

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Like many others who have posted, I may have a virus that is changing my taskbar color and affecting my audio. I have seen many people posting their HiJackthis log fiies, but I am assuming I need to wait to do so. Any help is apreciated. Bob

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I have a sandisc pendrive(CRUZE MICRO) of 1 GB capacity. when I am putting it to USB port of my system it is showing that its not recognized. What should I do?? I have windows 7 as my OS.

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Hello Friends, How to find the exact ip address of the person who is chatting with us. Please provide the solution. Thank You

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Why has my iMac OS X camera stopped responding when I try to use it on Skype?

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Hi, I moved into my new apartment recently and configured our wireless router. But when I try to connect, I get stuck on "Identifying... Local Only". My apartment-mates don't seem to have this problem. I am honestly getting very frustrated with this and have searched the internet for solutions but …

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hii all, i am working in a organization where all social networking sites, Meesage boards.... are Blocked. we are using some proxy servers to see that sites , well these are also blocked by our IT department. Can any body send me Proxy servers..... to surf all sites with out …

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Hi there, I need help: I am having trouble viewing the hotmail / mail.live login page. I can get into the MSN web page but when I click on the hotmail tab it gives me the following error message: with Mozilla Firefox browser: "Not Found The requested URL /login.srf was …

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Hiya, I just bought a new graphic card for my computer. Its the Radeon HD 5750 1gb and before that one I had the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT. After my dad replaced the graphic card I turned my computer on. And like 5 seconds after I press the turn on …

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