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I bought my PC from Acer. It had Vista pre-installed. It came with no CD or anything else. I ended up uninstalling most of the Acer bloatware anyway. But now I want to reformat my HD and install Vista afresh. What do I do? (PS- I heard Vista users get …

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Anyone know why my sound keeds getting set to mute? It gets set to mute every once in awhile, I don't know why. Also, on related question, I have a set of Bose ear phones, the kind you stick in each ear (see thumbnail). The problem is that sound comes …

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Hi there. I want to get a personal website going. I made a google apps account, bought a website name off of enom.com, and got a hosting account at x10hosting.com But I realised I am totally clueless about DNS settings, host settings, A (Address), CNAME, etc. Everytime I visit my …

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I just got a Dell XPS 410 desktop computer with Windows Vista. It has an Intel Core II Duo Processor, 250 GB of memory, and 2GB of RAM. Everything has been working just fine so far, but when I run certain programs, they run slowly or they don't run as …

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Hello there, knowledgeable computerfolk from the land of the internet. I am buying a computer in the next few days. It has Windows Vista pre-installed on it. I'd rather have Windows 2000 on it. I don't like all the fancy-schmancy special effects and bonus features. Win2k, or even XP with …

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'been thinking lately, what really are curse words. When i say 'curse words' I don't mean those ones witches purportedly place on people. Some of the language used sometimes on this forum falls into what I think/thought constitutes curse words and therefore inappropriate. Over here in africa, we have words …

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Hi there. I have a ripped(correct term?) CD on my hard drive. I wanted to burn it to save space on my computer. But when I tried to burn it, Nero gave me an error saying: "Block size does not correspond to image length" It gave me two options: A) …

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No, its not what you think. :cheesy: It's my first time assembling a computer. I'm about to get some money to go parts-shopping soon in an effort to build my first desktop. What's the most cost efficient/well performing setup I can get? Should I go with these guys and get …

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Hi there everyone. I have recently seen many posts in which people are really happy with the resources provided in that thread and post their thanksgiving making the thread lose its purpose. Even newbies resurrect dead threads just to say thanks. I was wondering why not make DaniWeb a no …

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Hey folks, Im on a Dell 600m laptop with 2 usb slots in the back. The upper slot's plastic bit broke. Its a little black chip that just snapped one day and came off. Is there a way I can fix it or should I try and replace it?

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Recently I've become concerned about the heating issues my laptop has been having so I did some research. Turns out Im using a disproportionately large amount of memory even when Im running nothing (Firefox with 2 tabs open and Google Desktop). It says 70% memory usage. If I turn everything …

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I use a program that can be considered CPU intensive. My laptop tends to heat up quite a bit after a while, but cools down later. [a] I'd like to know if excessive heat is a problem or not. Another thing that happens is that the program's memory usage doesnt …

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Hi. My name is Josh and I'll be your troubled computer user for the week.

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