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It blocks every attempt to modify any file anywhere. I give Steam and all its subsidiary .exes permission and then it says that there is no permission to modify 'Documents'. I just bought the darned machine to game with and it is freaking driving me nuts. Any suggestions on where …

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For some reason Windoze thinks that my USB port(s) is/are unknow devices when I try to update the drivers it tells me the drivers are current. I get a message "sfotware for this device has been installed; unknown device is ready to use. Most things 9except for my mouse and …

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I think I screwed up the installation of my NetGear WG602v2 wireless access point. I followed the installation guide (configured my pc with the ip address of the WG602, connected the wg602 to the ethernet port, connected to the wg602 and logged in) up to the step "click the IP …

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I see that 20.5 inch screens are down to about $120.00 - what should I look for when buying? I will be using it for gaming.

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I am not sure if this is the right location but I just noticed my favorite web-comic site is looking for someone interested in writing Android aps. [URL="http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/android-developer-request"]Check it out [/URL]

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I am playing a PBeM game called Olympia-game 3, it seems many of the players use Perl scripts to automate some tasks. They happily share the code but I am hesitant to press for programming help in the gaming forum so I come here. I downloaded Strawberry Perl and am …

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I just bought a new netgear wndr3700 router and am trying to get my g.f's laptop up on it. I can set the wireless pc card to full wpa2 protection but it can't seem to connect. It sees the router but the connection fails. I tried setting it up with …

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Hi all, I have AVG installed w/constant updates, I run spybot - S&D on alternate days with ad-aware, I have spywareblaster and spywareguard loaded. AVG now takes over 18 hours to run. Switching from one tsl task to another can take 10 minutes. And there seems to be no let …

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every once in a while FF will insert a local chrome address into my address field - this is the error: [QUOTE]Firefox can't find the file at [B]jar:file:///C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.properties[/B]us.ard.yahoo.com.[/QUOTE] I bolded the inserted text. Does anyone know why that happens? and how to stop it?

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As the subject line says, I am playing with old tech. I want to use my palm as an mp3 player and am looking for a program that works on it. So far the only one that works on it is Real Player but I refuse to allow that spyware …

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[font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2]Well, I finally got all the pieces so that I can build my own pc kit. Here are the pieces I have: G-Force 6800GT (gpu) AMD 64 3200+ Athlon 939 Zalman Ultra cou cooler fan ASUS A8v Deluxe MOBO Maxtor diamondmax 200gig S.ATA Kingston AK2/1gb ddr400 (installed in the blue …

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Somewhere along the line, my E: drive where I keep all my game/non-system stuff got replicated to F: Now when I boot, chkdsk comes up and says all these sectors are unreadable for both E&F drives. F: should not exist how do I rescue my system? I would at least …

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Hi all! On my XP machine most of my USB drives do not show up on the My Computer list of drives. I know it can be seen because it shows up on the 'safely remove drive' list and I can get to it via msdos (ewwww). I fixed this …

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[font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=2]I am building my 2nd kit (built 1st one in 99 - still going strong but it won't run either Deus X2 or 1/2Life2 so...). My first question: is it worth $100 to buy the cpu/MoBo/memory pre-built and tested (with free 2nd day shipping)? Would it be better to go …

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