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Hi guys! Just conducting a survey for those who have tried these two operating systems. How would you compare these two in terms of these parameters: Ease of use Availability of Software Overall Security Virus Attacks Thanks!

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I am trying to help a customer restore their connectivity to their server. earlier this week, a power outage wiped out thier servers' internet connection and the connection to 2 computers, I'll call them 1 and 2. We advised them to replace the wireless usb adapter they were using to …

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I'm having trouble calling a function I've written after importing the module containing it. The module is called funky.py. Here is the code for funky.py: from ftplib import FTP_TLS #### FUNCTION --- fileup() #### for sending file via FTP TLS ## ## arg1 .. destname > the filename to be …

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I want to install an older version on chrome in windows 8. But when i install an older version it automatically update it to the new version at first launch. How to stop this and install an older version of chrome. Thankx in advance.

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Before we start i'm no computer whizz - I have a medion PC with Vista last year bought from ALDI - I opted to purchase the upgrade to windows 7 and have only just got round to doing it this week - i followed the instruction and the on screen …

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I'm not sure if I'm writing this in the correct forum, but, here goes. I have Windows 7 Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron ONE_2020 4.00 GB RAM, 64-bit Operating System and I would like to play DVD's on my PC and view them on my Smart TV (I don't …

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ok so the OS is windows 7 and here is whats happening. he caught it once and we were able to remove it but we cant do it by the same means this time, anyways heres what its doing.. Taskmanager is dissabled. Desktop is gone, no start bar, NO SAFE …

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My Windows 7 pro does not conect to Internet on boot up, I have to disinstall my ethernet driver and reboot my PC for it to work.

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I have two instances of Tomcat running on my server. I'm in the process of getting them to run as Windows Services (using the services.bat file in the bin - making sure the two service names are unique) and i'm getting stuck getting the second instance to work as it …

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Hello, i want to know how to kill a process. I have tryed some process managers to kill, but it simply dont want to stop. I have downloaded a portable app, then i launched it and the process never turn off, even when i restart/shutdown my pc. It is foxit …

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Well, I installed Microsoft Office, but whenever I try to run the computer in normal mode, it freezes. So, I have to try and uninstall it in safe mode but it says you can't. So, I need help.

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Did a partition of my Dell Inspiron 560 desktop pc hard drive, but before I could format it, it responded with " Missing Operating System". I then rebooted the pc into the BIOS to change the boot device to the DVD/CD drive and saved the settings and rebooted the pc …

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i am using ollydbg version 2.x.x and i cannot find view resource strings as i can in version 1.x.x, the thing is i have to use version 2.x.x because its the most stable with windows 7 64 bit, if anyone can help me on this ( or if anyone knows …

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Hey guys, I cant access the BIOS for my friends Sony Vaio VGN-NR38M. Im trying to boot from CD to install Windows 7. On turn on there is a Vaio logo and then a black screen with a blinking underscore and then then Windows Vista loads. No BIOS key is …

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Hello All, I'm hoping this will be a simple one, Tasklist! how do I sort by image name? Many thanks in adanvces:)

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hi everyone! mine is a hp intel dualcore 32-bit system.iam on win7 ultimate OS.yesterday i was trying to install win7 OS with a CD,then it was saying "no hard drive found".So i was unable to install OS .what might be the problem and what should i do,please suggest me........

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I want to copy a folder full of folders to a backup on another disk. But if a duplicate filename already exists on the other disk, I want Windows to prompt to ask whether or not to replace the file for each file separately. Windows XP just gives me the …

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Hello all! This is the place to come for help on obscure problems and I have another. Any help would be cheerfully appreciated. This morning a program crashed my large external storage drive, which became inaccessible. I ran chkdsk which instantly found errors and fixed them. The drive was again …

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Could anyone please tell me how to uninstall ilivid from my windows 8 os. It is not in my program list and always opens when I try to download a torrent. thanks

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For several years we've been offering a low cost web-based site builder and CMS for small businesses so they can manage their websites online with no programming knowledge. We've been using a custom built classic ASP back end for a long time and it's in serious need of an upgrade …

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I am haveing problems seeing computers in a workgroup. I am able to ping fine, but not able to see computers whenever I go under networks

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please help me, I cannot write on the body text of windows live mail new or reply. I can write on to/cc/bcc and subject, but not on the body. looking at other computer that the WLM is fine, it seems the format bar that contain cut/copy/paste etc is not showing.

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Hi! I'm seriously stuck here. The issue is with one Windows 7 Home Premium machine. This machine: -- I can not ping it from either Win 7 or XP clients (I have a mix of Win 7 and XP) -- This machine can not be seen in the 'My Network …

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When a system is spread with viruses. . . what the virus first attack in system ?. . system files ? or data stored in hard disk etc ?

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Hello people i've been trying to make a halware.... well a halware is a programme that keeps on creating .txt files it keeps on looping, using up like tons of GB... i wanna make a type of halware that atleast takes up 500MB per second.... my bro made it (he …

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whenever i open more window in firefox, it gets some accident popups confused me so much. really hate them.but i do not know the causes. pls could anybody here tell me if you once got this problem. many thanks!

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after I repormat my PC from W7 pro to ultimate it goes like this what should I Do? PLEASE help :( dedicated video memory - n/a system video memory - n/a shared system memory - n/a

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**Hi, I have some unknown malware on my computer. When browsing online, constant annoying popups and ads come up, my homepage is constantly changed to aol for some reason, and I absolutely can't remove it. I've tried MBAM (latest one included, totally clean), AVAST, AVG, Lavasoft adaware, spybot, etc etc …

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hi, Is there any way that one can access the contents in a usb pen drive via command prompt on Windows XP? Any commands for that? I have my usb 2 gb pen drive named F and hard drive as C. Please reply and thanks..

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I got a notice from "Lifelock" that stated Adobe announced last month that some of its customers' usernames and passwords had been stolen. The company says it reset the stolen passwords and notified its customers. Adobe also says the stolen data included credit-card information for some of its customers. That …

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I'm trying to figure out how to disable some of the right-click Windows context menu items for certain users (i.e. users with less security), can someone point me in the right direction please? Specifically, the lower-security users should only have New-Word Document, New-Excel Document, and New-Powerpoint Document in their right-click …

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Tried to uninstall through Add or remove and also through Revo Uninstaller but it keeps coming back on boot up and wants to reconnect. Icon remains in task bar.

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Hello, I don't know if i posted it right, but my question is what good games will work on an old XP PC. It's a hobby pc. Just want too see what the performance is with games. - Intel P4 HT 2.8 Ghz. - 2 GB RAM DDR2 800 - …

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Heyy all.. I tried like thousands time to download eclipse .. but it didn't work So please if any one know how to download eclipse for c++ .. I'll be thankful.. I tried to download it from the University and it failed .. and from many website also failed .. …

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see my windows procedure: LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { bool blnMouseEnter=false; switch(msg) { case WM_CLOSE: DestroyWindow(hwnd); break; case WM_KEYUP: if (wParam ==VK_ESCAPE) DestroyWindow(hwnd); else { char strDataToSend[32]; sprintf(strDataToSend, "%c", wParam); MessageBox(NULL,strDataToSend, "keyselected",MB_OK); } break; case WM_MOUSEMOVE: SetWindowText(hwnd,"hi"); break; case WM_MOUSELEAVE://is ignored :( SetWindowText(hwnd,"bye"); break; …

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I need to be able to get to the root level of my command line. I bought this win 7 computer from someone else and forgot the command to get to the administrator's command line, to do a thorough chkdsk, properly.

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Hi Guys, I would like to highlight the current day on this php script, can you help me figure out a simple way to do this? <?php $monthNames = Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"); if (!isset($_GET["m"])) $_GET["m"] = date("n"); if (!isset($_GET["y"])) $_GET["y"] = …

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I've spent a good deal of time now looking for and equivalent to the previous service pack network install model for updating Windows 8 to 8.1. While I wouldn't expect to see this for the RT version, which is web-centric, I'm concerned not to see it for other non-enterprise versions. …

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A while ago, we had used a dial-up connection on our desktop computer with Windows XP on it with no problems. Since then, the hard drive died out, and it was replaced by a new hard drive. Now, when I would try to use dial-up, I would get an error …

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Hello friends I use excel 2003 and my friends in my workplace uses excel 2007. Recently I insert a module to use function for conversion of numbers to text. I enable macros and keep security level low and make changes in trusted publishers to allow Visual basic projects.The module works …

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I have downloaded some book files from the internet to my Windows7 PC. I would like to be able to read them on my Kindle Fire. The files are .azw files...how can I move them to the Kindle? THANKS!

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I designed a software in visual basic 6.0 and it runs perfectly on my system that has windows Xp operating system but after i deployed and packaged it and tried to install on another system using windows 7 or Vista, its installs but when you click on some of the …

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when i start my computer i get a empty messagebox named Explorer.exe. this is very annoying, can u suggest me what causes the problem? or any solution to get rid of this.

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I think this is a firewall issue, but when i browse, i browse well over the internet, but when it comes to running any of the apps on Windows 8, they will not connect to the Internet at all. E.g. My Mail App, will not connect to the internet, but …

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And manually created points disappear after a short time. Would appreciate help with this. Tried to increase the Shadow Copy allocation to 3GB but it only increased the storage association to 3 GB. Figures are; Used Shadow Copy storage space 0 B Allocated Shadow Copy storage space 0 B Maximum …

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I know nothing about windows scripting, but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I need to open a browser on a keypress, and then close the browser after the keyboard/mouse have been inactive for 1 minute or so. After the browser closes, I need to switch back …

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hi am unable to chage directory in windows server command prompt ie for example cd C:Program Files i am getting the error as " A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Files'. " can you please help with correct way thanks in advance

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