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Hi, ive got a bit of a list here, all started with a dodgy GPU which i replaced (GeForce 5200FX with GeForce 7300GT). My CDROM doesn't work so i thought id install drivers off the nvidia website. when i restared my OS to activate the new software, i received an …

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I recently built a system, specs - Asus M2N-MX MoBo, AMD Athlon 64X2 3800+ CPU, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb Sata HDD, LG Dual Layer DVD-RW. When I first put it all together, I couldn't install XP, (it kept throwing up cannot copy file errors during copying files process). Thats all well …

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OS: WinXP Pro SP1 Version: MS Outlook 2003 SP1 When using Outlook 2003 when I go into see Free/Busy in an Exchange environment I am able to see others Busy time and when I hover my pointer over somone's Busy time it brings up what they are doing during that …

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I have been given a laptop to fix for my friend but i am quite unsure of the problem its a compaq armada m300 and down the side of the screen is a white strip, is there on start up but right at the beggining of startup part of it …

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i made a group policy in domain and i am an administrator but i am affected by the group policy i made... how to implement that correctly only domain users only??? thanks... i am a newbie in windows so please consider to help in a beginners manner... thanks...

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I have an issue with a new IDE HDD that I'm trying to install. I have been running from the SATA drive that was already installed in my comp. Now I want to add an IDE drive, I tried master, slave, master w/ slave, both plugs on the IDE cable, …

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[URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread73967.html[/URL] First time it happened is descirbed in that thread. Now it's done it again yesterday, had been on for about half hour, i put it to sleep for an hour, woke it up and used it for a couple hours and boom. Off. No warning, no shutdown nothing. Like …

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When users connect to the Internet via our company network, they do not get disconnected due to inactivity because many websites adware, etc. make it appear that the connection is active. Is there someway to force the Internet Connection to drop when say our 10 minute screen saver activates or …

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Problems setting up new system: Details: Motherboard PCChips ECS M860 with Athlon 2800+ CPU (bundled from Misco) 80GB Maxtor HDD (IDE Secondary Master) Lite-On DVD-Rom/ CD-RW (IDE primary master) Lite On DVD-RW (IDE primary slave) XFX GEForce MX4000 128MB Graphics Card PCI Firewire Card Windows XP Home (clean install) 300W …

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Post windows shortcuts you know here ... I start with task manager shortcut --> ctrl + shift + Esc.

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Does anyone know if it'll work? I found my boxed version of FL 6. I know 7 brings Vista compatibility, but I can't buy it. Thanks in advance.

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Hi there, Unfortunately my first post here on Daniweb is not particularly the most enjoyable to write... Yesterday, I plugged in my laptop - a Asus F3F I've had for about 10 months - and it totally crashed. It started up as usual; I was greeted by the WinXP boot …

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i have this old machine about 3 years old. recently it started restarting on its own. today was the worst. it restarted when power came back on, monitor wasnt getting any data(idle), the READ LED was steady at on, and it wont boot on bios anymore. everything else is spinning …

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I have Outlook 2003 which has been working just fine the entire time since I got it in June. I had it already in taskbar and loaded on my pc fine. Went to bed, came back to reply to an email and suddenly when I hit "reply" it hangs the …

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hello... can you help me figure out what my IE downloaded this time? popup windows and viruses galore I have anti virus, but AVG is obviously not doing the job!! please help me, it is rendering my computer unusable!! Thanks in advance for your help and expert advise. Logfile of …

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what happens is i turn it on and it starts starting then the yellow light below the power button stays on and the power light goes off. the screen goes blank and the moniter goes into stand by mode. this happens instantly or after few minutes. when i start it …

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Hi all. I'm new to this service. Happy to be here. Hope you can help me. I was cleaning up my win2k box. Disabled un-needed services. Used disk cleaner to get rid of old files. Ran Pareto Spyware and RegCure. I think that the last thing I did was defrag. …

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Building new system with Abit KN9 SLI Motherboard, AMD 64 X2 6000+, 2 GB of 800 Mhz RAM...a speed demon. I've also installed four Maxtor 500 GB hard drives. The goal is to have a RAID 0+1 installed. I've got the BIOs set, but am running into two problems: 1. …

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First among freeware av's : [B]Avast or AVG [/B]!? This has always been the never-ending debate among these two major freeware av. With regards to the PROTECTION here are my observations : [B]Avast[/B] in my opinion, is MUCH better at detecting virus files inside compressed (zip'd) archives. Even [B]AVG's[/B] complete …

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Hello I have two systems I want to network together: 1) A windows XP Home SP2 machine 2) a windows NT v4 SP6 machine - i dont know if it is server or workstation at the moment The NT machine is for AVID video editing, but I already have lots …

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Yes, I was wondering how do I set the password for mysql on opensuse? When I was setting it up [url]http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/595.html[/url] it never gave me an option to set the password. It would be useful for security measures. Thanx.

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I bought the Dell Dimension E310 for gaming use only. When I went to play online on Gunbound a screen popped up sayin that i needed a graphics update or im missing the 3D video card? Plzzzzz Help Me I Want To Play My Game Badly

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Hi, I just bought a new linksys Wirelss G Broadband Router. I've picked up wireless internet on my pc in the past, but I'm having trouble now. My laptop is a 2218RS Presario. There is a wireless button on the front of it that is supposed to light up when …

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Sorry Mods if this is in the wrong topic (the site has changed dramaticly since I was last in here). This is actually a two-part question: I'm running XPpro. I got tired of coming home from work to a hosed desktop, I mean I don't know how my kids do …

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So, I have this motherboard it's an AN8 Ultra by ABIT. The chipset is nVidia nForce4 ultra. My PCIe card that I use is a ATI Radeon VisionTek x1600 series. I have 4GB ram DDR 400. I have an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+ processor 2.4 Ghz clock and I …

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I have spent about 7 hours on this, to no avail. Explorer.exe is using all CPU. Running XP HE SP 2. Running up-to-date NSW and auto updates from Windows. Tried ending explorer in Task Manager, and restaring from Run. Tried a System Restore. Could only get back a few days. …

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Hi, I need some help with diagnosing a PC problem. A couple of weeks ago, my PC started shutting down randomly or would only start up if you turned it on and off a couple of times. By starting up, I mean getting to the first beep after start up. …

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Hi Just moved jobs an have Toshiba Sattelite Pro 6100. Has anyone any ideas how I can set up extended desktop please? Rag268

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I was using my camera this morning and had no problem connecting it and moving files from it... This evening when I tried to plug the camera it just refuses to recognize it. Then I did some investigation of the matter and saw that ANYTHING that is USB my windows …

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Hi there, I am not able to uninstall DB2 V9.1 using windows XP 'Add or Remove Programs' feature. It's giving me the following error message : 'Error applying transforms. Verify that the specified transform paths are valid' Tried many times but no luck. :(( Please help me !!!! Thanks in …

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Hi, My boyfriends laptop (Medion) is having some problems with the DVD drive. It will read some burnt dvds (mostly the movies) but not all (alot of the tv shows won't read). It's not the discs, because they worked on my friends mac, but I really don't know what the …

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:) Hi All... I certainly hope that someone can help me discover why all of a sudden, my Upload/Download sppeds have plummeted dramatically over the last few days/week..???? :( 1. I have a D-LINK DSL-604T Modem Router attached to a ADSL2+ connection with my ISP. 2. My Desktop runs Windows …

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Hi All, first, please forgive my ignorance im very new at all of this. A friend from work built me a pc, he set it up in a raid 1 configuration, I would like to reinstall windows XP. My question is, when I formatt the hard drives, do I do …

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I share this computer with my roomate, and we both pretty much spend the same amount of time on it. Recently I've been experiencing huge slowdown. Today it got so much worse. I noticed something called the Mirar toolbar that I couldn't disable, and any of my actions took minutes …

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When i click on a folder this happens: [URL="http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7604/picture1ow2.th.png"]http://img265.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1ow2.png[/URL] I can go right click => open and it works, but it takes time. Any Ideas? Running in XP :)

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I am going to switch to linux soon. I have a laptop, the system information says:- System type: X86-based PC Processor: x86 family 15 Model 22 stepping 9 intel 2500 Mhz Which one should i choose, the x86_64(I think this one is for 64 bit) or i386 (this one has …

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What would happen if a ddr2 1.8v is placed in a ddr 2.5v slot? Could anything burnn? Would it be detected by thhe computer? I need to know how many mbytes a ram is and the sticker is almost removed. All I can see is DDRII... 1.8.

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I have been trying to access [url]www.galabingo.co.uk[/url] for almost a week now. Originally the site went down for a few days but is now up and running as I have repeatdly called trying to get some help as I still cannot access the site! The page says "IE cannot display …

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None of my .lnk (shortcuts) or my .exe files will respond. When clicked, they open the "windows cannot open this file" dialog box. I have run adaware and macafee (by renaming .exe files to .com files) both came up with numerous hits but removing them have not solved the problem. …

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I just got my entire laptop rebooted so I lost every files and all. I had it for two days and I'm already experiencing some type of problems. The first problem is that it just randomly shuts down. It just happens at random times. Before it just shuts down, the …

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Whilst adding a new hard drive to my PC I was looking for the name of my CD rom to set this to boot first. In doing so I nudged the power cable to the CD Rom drive and lost the connection. Stupidly, I just went about reconnecting the power …

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I'm literally using Word to insert each one of these letters...so let me get to the point. Brought my pc home from uni & now I’ve reconnected it all & keyboard doesn’t work:S . Lights flash when I plug it in, and have a faint light as normal, but it …

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when i copied mp3's to my dad's harddrive (connected on my pc) i got this window popping up (this was quite some time ago). then about 5minutes ago i copied "format.exe" to a stiffy for a machine i want to install "virus98" on (i've got an old game that doesn't …

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wretched spybot keeps cutting across................oh well. Hello everyone. Im judych Im new here as of today. This is my first attempt to navigate and Im not doing very well at the moment. What I want to do is look at the questions and answers to do with linux removal and …

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this may be a bit of a dumb question but how do i locate the system fan i used the easytune 4 and it came up with a system fan warning i have changed the fan on the processer and its still the same is there another system fan please …

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I have a Dell 9200 Win xp and when I start my pc toolbar and task manager disapear, the mouse works the cursor but the click buttons do nothing . I turn off pc and re start press f8 and try safe mode and get a black screen with "safe …

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Dell replaced the motherboard on my Dimension 8400. Since then the PC is dragging. Seems like there is a dely between anything I type or do and the reaction of the PC. Could it be the motherboard? Maybe some setting I need to tweak? Or spyware etc. Here is my …

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It's a recent problem, but my system is suddenly bogged down, and crawling, when it used to be quite fast. It's especially an issue with any internet-accessing programs. winlogon.exe and svchost.exe are taking up ~40% of the CPU at all times, and there's a constant load of almost 90%. Here's …

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KDE vs Gnome What is main diference? pro et contra Why KDE? and Why Gnome? What strong and week sides? :mrgreen:

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