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I like to build and support home computer systems. Securing wireless routers. I am the admin for our office computers. I do DJ and sound re-enforcment work and I enjoy going to Native American Indian Powwows. I like riding my MC and get out sailing anytime…

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Building and fixing computers. DJ and sound work, MC riding, Sailing,
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P3, 4 Gig Ram, 120 Gig Sata, 120 Gig IDE removable, CDRW/DVD Burner, Intel MB Win 7 Pro (Set For Classic…
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Our Landlords are getting a new copier/scanner/fax/ printer machine. Its a Ricoh MP4001. They hook to the old one (HP 4250) through a network cable from a router and we hook to it through a USB. Is it possible to do that with the new Ricoh? There has been some …

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[URL="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/poll/index.cfm?action=showresults&pid=3228421"]A new poll into Operating System popularity by a British computer magazine[/URL] has revealed that an incredible 37 percent of respondents are still using Windows XP. That's more than Windows 7 which managed to woo 30 percent of the folk taking part, and Vista could only garner a pretty poor …

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I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains names. addresses and various other information. I have word wrap set for all cells in case some new data gets entered that's long. If I sort the data, the data that was in the cells that were word wrapped will end up in …

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Microsoft knows it has to do something in order to claw back some kind of market position, not now but five years into the future. The culture of computing is changing amongst the young and hip consumer, and it's moving away from the Microsoft Windows-centric vision of the past. While …

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Machine running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. MS Office 2010. Problem is once there is a spreadsheet open and minimized and you click on a second spreadsheet shortcut, it won't open. You will get the blue circle so it is trying. You can do it through file/resent files and open …

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Hey guys, I just got a HP Pavilion dv6000 a few weeks ago with Vista Home Premium already installed on it. Im having some trouble getting my wireless connection to work. It worked once for a few hours but then just decided to stop. When I plug in my ethernet …

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My windows 7 Pro 32 bit came up unbootable last weekend. I have tried all sorts of fixes like Windows repair console, fixboot, fixmbr, rebuild bcd and even manually replacing missing boot files. Still NG. I am now faced with a full reinstall. I have been looking around to see …

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One of our Acer machines at work somehow lost it's mind overnight. This morning somehow when it was booted, the recovery software came to life and it started doing a recovery from the hidden partition. It loaded the files ok, but when it came to the update section it didn't …

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I have been googling this and have read close variations of the following issue from others. It seems that if you are running MS office 2010 Excel and go to delete a group of rows, sometimes below where you are working a blank row will appear at maxamim height size …

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Using Office 2010 on Windows 7 Pro. On a spreadsheet, I am putting hyperlinks on names that will open another spreadsheet. If I sort the spreadsheet, the hyperlinks will no longer work. Is there a way to keep them so that they will work after a sort. Thanks.

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I want to set yahoo mail to launch when I click on an e-mail link. I know, the easy way is to install the yahoo toolbar, however I don't want toolbars running in the background and hogging up real estate on my internet explorer page. There must be some kind …

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I brought an older system tower home from work so that I could wipe the drive and reinstall windows XP. I have reformatted the drive and when windows goes to log in for it's first use, it comes up with "This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before …

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My company is looking for better remote desktop software. We are currently using Webex. Ive trailed a lot, but one thing that keeps happening is that they are having trouble with our firewall which we are not going to allow exceptions through (already spoken to boss). Does anyone know of …

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My company ordered some laptops last year. They had Windows 7 preinstalled on them. The company here still uses XP, so they had the reseller "downgrade" them from Windows 7 to XP Pro. For some reason, the license stickers for Windows 7 were left on the bottom of the laptops. …

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Your probably thinking, why would he want to do that? Well, just a bit of nostalgia. So i've done the obvious, put on classic, change the desktop icons and background, I downloaded Classic Shell, but how do I change default icons for everything? And if possible, explorer.

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We have a small office (6 stations) on Verizon FIOS Actiontec router. Last Friday, we had some internet slowness and an outage. For some reason the internal network was affected. The server became very slow to connect to and eventually we could not reach it. Printers could not be reached …

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OK, I feel a little dumb asking this question, but networking is not my strong point. At work, I have shortcuts on my desktop to files that live on the server here at work. I would like to be able to bring my computer home, boot it up and have …

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I've been trying to schedule my computer to automatically hibernate from a scheduled task. I used this: rundll32.exe PowerProf.dll, SuspendState Hibernate It doesn't seem to work. I can hibernate it manually, so I know that it will. I use Win XP Pro. Anybody got any ideas. Thanks.

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I have a situation where I need to keep the wireless signal as low as possible. Is it harmful to the wireless router to remove it's antenna and run it. Thanks.

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I know how to do this with XP machines, but not quite up on it with Vista. I have a workgroup with several XP machines on it all mapped to the same printer. We brought in a Vista laptop with a different workgroup name. I need to know how to …

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I have a laptop that has an interesting problem. When browsing "Myspace" and only that site, it continuosly looses and reconnects when running wirelessly. You can see everything and can change to any Myspace site, but it is quite slow loading becausre of that. This problem goes away when you …

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Is there a way to password protect file share permissions, mainly the properties, and or sharing and security tabs. We have someone here that caused a problem playing with those settings. Thanks.

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