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Hello all, I am replaceing the software and misc hardware on my main household computer.(long story) Should I stick with office pro 2003 or is it worth upgradeing to 2007. Have read some questionable reviews/comments about 07. We use it for basic household stuff, nothing really demanding. Any thoughts would …

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any ideas... totally uptodate good working XP pro on a large computer with no frills except dual boot to Kubuntu. On updating via the redmond genuine etc etc SP3 installed and then completely crashed the machine and would not start beyond the blue screen of no not death stat up …

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My school uses very old pentium 4 based pc's that run as slow as a turtle, and i am tired of it. i want to know how to over clock it without messing up the hardware, or getting caught. the specs i know of are: 256 or 512mb ram 40 …

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I have been working on an Outlook Problem that Microsoft was unable to help with and was hoping someone here could. Messages get stuck in the outbox, which I know is nothing new. The messages actually does send, outlook just doesn't move it to sent items, an error message pops …

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Hi, tried to open internet options from within IE7, just flashes up. Tried to open internet options from within control panel, shows a different icon with no response. Ran AVG- heres the report --------------------------------------------------------- AVG Anti-Spyware - Scan Report --------------------------------------------------------- + Created at: 18:39:31 02/03/2008 + Scan result: C:\WINDOWS\system32\b4fm.dll -> …

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Hi, When I opens a folder containing .swf file, it takes much time for file list to appear the in that folder. During that time it looks like the window is Not Responding (Some time even Not Responding comes written in Title bar), but finally it arrives with all files …

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Compaq Presarion Tower SR 1475Cl running xp ... It was fine last night and now will not go past the first screen with the Esc F1/setup F10.sys Rec options - absolutely unresponsive. I tried the boot disk (I think it is) but that failed... (yes I know I should have …

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HI, I have bought a new Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Pi 2512 Pentium Dual Core T2330 1GB 120GB DVDRW Vista Home Premium from [url]http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4Y3N[/url] Now, it tells me here it comes with 1GB RAM installed (2x512MB) and can take up to 2MB. I have bought two 1GB sticks to max the …

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am running xp pro sp2 on my laptop. did an os reinstall last week. but am unable to download anything from the web. whenever i try download anything (movies, drivers, apps etc.), after i choose the location for saving the file and click go my system reboots automatically. even tried …

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Hello friends, I ran the following code on freebsd 5.5 /usr/sbin/named -u bind -g bind -c /etc/namedb/named-lan.conf /usr/sbin/named -u bind -g bind -c /etc/namedb/named-internet.conf I want to run two instances of bind to see my website both on the lan and the internet but here is the problem, I says …

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Hey, i am using windows vista atm and was thinking about changing to linux to learn something new and plus ever since i got vista my computer has been running a bit slower than normal, but the only problem is playing games with my mates i usually play call of …

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The title of the thread is my random yet hopefully simple question. I "googled" it but didn't find anything that seemed concrete, and so I'm hoping that someone on here will know. So again the question is, Is Vista based on XML, and if so, would it be correct to …

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Basically, whenever I boot up XP, the explorer will not start. If I try to run it from the Task Manager, it closes again in a matter of seconds. It will then try to open itself up again... but then closes. (Every time it reloads, it un-focuses any window, making …

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Hi folks ...I'm not very techie and have been using my computer and camera for a couple of years with no problems until today. I connected my Pentax digital camera a per usual to the front USB Port on My Dell and got a warning message re Power Surge to …

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[COLOR="Green"]I must have been infected by downloader mislead app. [COLOR="Green"]Have run search & destroy, avg anti-spyware, hijackthis, spyware doctor, combofix, ad-aware and my norton security corporate edition... As i see u need a hijack log... So here it is..[/COLOR] Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:28:42 μμ, …

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Now like i didn't have enough trouble.. A few days ago i was chatting with a friend in [COLOR="Green"]windows live messenger...When i saw this message: This is a picture of us can i put it in my facebook(myspace..i don't remember)[/COLOR]..anyway.. and after that message appeared a .zip... As i was …

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can anyone tell me what hardware deals with interuppt signals and how it works, i have a rough idea but not full circle, also pre-emptive multi-tasking has me stumpted??

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I have a new system: Biostar MB FT 7050 OCZ platinum revised 2 gigs Ultra 600 watt PS seagate 250 gig harddrive My problem, My system will not boot up properly after it has been off for a while(15 + Min). It boots to the BIOS and allows me to …

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My external hard drive has been acting very strangely for the past few days, and I can't figure out what the problem is. The drive disappears intermittently from my system, then reappears as an "unformatted" drive, which is inaccessible via My Computer and recovery tools. If I unplug the drive's …

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Hey so i think im having problems with the size of drives. my 250g drive shows as 230g and my 500g drive shows as 465g. is this normal? i know it should take of some space but really that much? and also a 4.7g dvd shows as 4.3 so i …

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I'm on windows XP w/ SP2. explore.exe keeps restarting. ive had numerous problems with this computer, and i'd perfer to not take it in to be repaired again. any help would be greatly appreciated. ran Hijak and this was the logfile Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at …

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i am new to this and perhaps i am posting in the wrong area. I have roadrunner at home. with a wireless router atached to it. it is a lynksys router. my laptop says it is connected to the router but i cannot get to the internet. However my nieghbor …

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Hi, Im using fedora 7, i have a problem with back color of program's text such as KDevelop Compilers and ... back color is black and i cant read the texts. i have upload a screenshot of my problem [URL="http://farzad.zafarani.ir/images/fedora.png"]here[/URL] Regards

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i just got a new router and i want to set up my laptop wirelessly. i have a dlink wbr1310. what do i do?

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[url]http://www.nowdirect.com/exec/partInfo/part_detail.tsb?prcpart=VGA512-P3-N801-AR[/url] [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127329[/url] also i cant tell wich one is cheaper do to the rebate thing so please help me.

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I am a new kid on the block. I sent this to another thread in another forum from someone with Win 98se. I think it should be posted here. I have Win XP-2 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 I asked Goggle and Google referred me to a site that said …

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I continue to have problems and have Netzero Dailup.It seems nothing works to fix it. .Before I post my logs,I forgot to also speak of an error message I get while attempting to connect to the internet.My internet shows connection but a square box ask me if I want to …

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[B][/B]I have recently downloaded and installed m$ virtual pc, and installed vista premium on it. this means i have 2 vista versions on one pc! but i have a couple of problems. i have no sound, and it can only give vista 8mb of video ram, which makes the virtual …

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My cousin has a computer full of viruses and junk. well she asked me to clean it since she couldnt get a web browser open. I deleted all the viruses and spyware with Kaspersky, and spybot. I dont want to reinstall windows since she has a lot of things on …

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...because I can't access bank a/c's, credit card logins, My eBay etc. Mostly it's the HTTPS sites, but not 100%. Have tried the solution posted May 2nd, 2005 (re HTTPS access error) about entering info (beginning - regsvr32) into DOS box. Didn't resolve the problem for me though. Have also …

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Hi Am new to the forum and hope that you're all really nice and someone can help me out! I've just bought a new computer which has mcafee installed on a trial basis, but i have no idea which antivirus, firewall, spyware etc software to install once this trial runs …

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Hi there im new to these boards, and I was hoping to get some help. I am unable to open control panel and some other things because of the Restrictions it says my computer has even though im the only user (and admin lol).....I guess this is what happens when …

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I got a virus a while ago (months ago) and ever since my Freedom telus antivirus helped remove the virus i keep on getting the rb4.tmp files in my recycle bin, rb26.tmp, rb4f.tmp and many more different types. I think there might also be more hidden viruses on my computer …

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HELLO I would like to know how i do a complete fresh install of mac leopard on my man mini. It says in the disc utility that it is a 80 gig harddrive & come up as 74.8 , i know this is normal but i just want to make …

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I do not have sound. It just happened. There's nothing wrong with my speakers. I took a look under "Device Manager" and noticed that all my "Other Devices" have a yellow question mark with an exclamation mark. The "Other Devices" are: 1. Ethernet Controller 2. Multimedia Audio Controller 3. PCI …

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Can I add an "Open Terminal Here" or even just an option to open gnome-terminal from the right click menu on the desktop?

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I'm currently running the Enterprise edition of Vista and just yesterday after I uninstalled nod32 whenever I attempt to reboot the machine or shut it down it successfully ends (from what I can tell) all running processes but does not shutdown (except explorer.exe because my GUI still exists). It just …

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I'm running XP Home SP2, Internet Explorer v7. Sometimes IE7 will lockup with an hour glass and do nothing until I stop the application or shut the computer down. Other times it will run fine. I'd appreciate any help I can get with the hijackthis log. Thank you. Logfile of …

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Hello i have a xtreme notebook([url]http://www.xtremenotebooks.com/[/url]) computer they are custom built with windows xp. i have a replacement plan so i could send it in to get a new one but i really need to keep this one because it has all my projects on it. when i start up …

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Hello, everyone - I re-installed Windows 2003 on my server at home and made it a DHCP server. I am able to ping the other machines from it, yet none of my other machines can get an address. I have a D-Link router, pretty simple setup. I had DHCP running …

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I opened Alacarte Menu Editor about 10 minutes ago, and tried to make one of my applications visible by checking the box next to it, and it crashed alacarte, and erased everything from my Applications dropdown box. Now, whenever I try to run Alacarte from System > Preferences > Menu …

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My girlfriend was moving files around on her computer, nothing big, just images. She then got the Blue Screen Of Death, and so she restarted the computer. When it restarted, it gave her the windows splash screen and then went to black and sat there. I restarted it with last …

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Someone gained access to two of my clients computers systems this week. On both systems some shady ebay and paypal transactions took place. the computers have PC Anywhere installed and vnc and I changed the authentication for both programs on both systems today. Is there a chance they used something …

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Hi all, I'm new here, and a newbie to techie stuff as well. I found many topics on similar problems in this forums, but none of those solutions or suggestions could help me. My operating system is windows xp pro. I use both IE7 and Firefox to browse. I use …

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hi guys sorry if i posted this in the wrong part of the forums if it is u can transfer it to the appropriate section my question is: Is Counter Strike Source playable in this specs? Intel G965 Chipset latest driver & GMA X3000 graphic 1.5 GB DDR 2 533 …

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eMachine T3418 on board 10/100 ethernet. Went into control panel (win xp home), network connections, properties. Checked the box to: show icon in notification area when connected, and the network connection was lost. Device manager showed yellow exclaimation next to Device Unknown - nVidia network controller. Uninstalled the driver then …

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I attempted running this game/toy/application called "Phun" ([url]http://www.acc.umu.se/~emilk/[/url]) which is a 2-D physics simulator. Whenever I try to run it, I get the error: [code]alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop/Phun$ ./phun_beta_2_5_linux32 Parsing autoexec.cfg... Creating window... Segmentation fault (core dumped) alex@alex-laptop:~/Desktop/Phun$ [/code] I read somewhere that this may be a cause of me needing to update …

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After a systemcrash and a re-install I only can read my XP partition. I forgot what I have to insert in the fstab. My xp partition is mounted as: /dev/hda1 /media/windows vfat rw,iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0 and I can't change ownership of the xp directory. Is there anyone who can help …

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My problem is that my windows xp even though i have installed the drivers of my Sapphire ATI Radeon X1650 pro (vpu) graphics card, start with the lowest resolution.. I have tried a lot of things..like reinstalling drivers , windows xp problem resolution.. This happens to me for the first …

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