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 | in relation to your networking question many isps including my own are throttling or even banning certain protocols such as bittorrent or are restricting services so that, for example your 16 meg connnection may only let you have 8 downloads capped at 2 megs each |
| | Ie7 crashes randomly on me with "ie7 has encountered an error and needs to close" grrrr this only seems to happen on my pc and noone elses and usually only happes when i have multipel tabs open |
| | have you made sure that the virtual network adapter and VMWare network service are installed on the physical pc? |
 | mine is my avatar pic - taken at my secondary school when i was 16 (im 17 and at college now) |
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| | your ISP maybe might be down? Bad cable? - buy a new one and see Are your IP settings correct (dhcp/fixed ip)  |
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 | i keep nispelling simple words e.g the becomes teh EDIT: nispelling? lol  |
 | we should have a poll for moderators - like an election. that would be cool  |
| | Re: iso question an iso is a disk image - you DONT just burn the file to the disk in the usual way - the best example would be to say that an iso is to a disk what a zip file is to a directory I like the free version of "deepburner" … |
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 | also the end user pc needs .NET Framework 2 |
| | that should be able to do it i backed up about 8 gig of office documents to DVD on a pc with half the CPu |
| | Will wm2003 (not second edition) devices be supported y sync centre as ive noticed support has been cut out of WMP11. Also, does home basic have sync centre or do i need buisness/ultimate |
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| | i am not switching to vista until XP Home gets to end of life (which probably wont be very long now) as after many years, it has finally become stable and got good driver/software support ' many of my machines in fact still run NT4, properly firewalled and proxied of … |
| | Anyone interested in making a dark humored, post appocyliptic, Isometric RTS with me , kinda like fallout tactics but on a big scale (hundreds of guys) ive done some concept art and have planned all the storyline i just need help actually making it. Any goood books that come with … |
| | We did this to my dads win98 pc circa 2003 Generally it should work fine but for some of your devices you will need to find new, XP compatible drivers from the makers website if you get the upgrade version it will still give you the option of either wiping … |
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| | Re: Chassis fan? dual cores make hige amounts of heat so should really be used in pcs where the case has a custom exhaust and fan (e.g look at the front/side grills on dell dimensions) |
| | or hold down the windows key and hit L  |
| | my dell came with lots of crap like AOL start - add remove programs |
| | this happened to me. when upgrade to IE7 it became hell bent on using dialup |
| | Ok my dell (november 2005. just out of warranty grrrr) has started making clicky scratchy grindy noises from the HDD , no bad sectors yet but windows goes dead slow whenever it accesses the HDD and the noise is really loud. I have backed up. Should i just get a … |
| | get ms windows defender (free) - choose NOT to join spynet and remember to do a ms update after install to get the definitions run a FULL scan. this has helped me before.  |
| | Re: Wow good book. i got VB in 24 hours. It was crap. 21 days was much better Only bonus with 24 hours wasd that for £15 you got a free copy incluided of VB6 working model (standard edition except no help or export to .exe) this proved very useful for me and my … |
 | by the way tuitions fees vary throughout the uk. e.g very very low cost if you want to study in scotland but you have to pass an entrance exam for a lot of places.  |
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| | have you run windows update recently? theres occasionaly updates for windows installer if you mean the sims2, it hates 64 bit and dual core cpus |
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| | yeah, thats really not cool, man. |
| | was it pci express? they usually have clips |
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| | ive got a copy of the book by Haynes (yes, the car guys) - "build your ownn computer - second edition" and it has a pic on p53 of an IDE to SATA power adapter - you ought to be able to buy them from an electronics/computer component shop (in … |
| | Some essential freeware pocketpc apps: magic button: makes the X button actually close things and if you tap and hold the X it turns the top bar into a taskbar of runing apps Calander+ and Task+ displays tasks on the today screen and gives much more options DevState Device status … |
| | i got package A but with a Pentium 4 D, a raderon x600 256mb and a 19" TFT off dell for like £599 |
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| | happened to my dad. some registry corruption cocked up his drives so XP could see them and said they were working fine, but they couldnt actually read disks |
 | the only way to remove certain "hidden" shares is to remove file and print sharing from network properties (the window where you set ip adresses and add prtocols) |
| | is there a 64 bit edition of windows server 2003? that would be useful... |
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| | Re: Network Boot in the bios menu there should be something to change the boot priority make it something like: floppy cdrom hdd network |
| | run windows networking wizard right click on the folder(s) / drive and choose "sharing/secutity" |
| | Re: My First Time i dont know if this site ships to anythwere but the uk but have a look at it anyway. [URL="http://www.novatech.com"]www.novatech.com[/URL] I got a "barebones" pc kit off them - you get the motherboard, psu, case, heatsink, cpu and ram all assembled (thier the hardest parts) and its then up to … |
| | did you do a windows update? after installing geforce2 drivers off it and they made my machine boot up to a black screen.. get the drivers correct for yourr card off the manufacturers website |
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