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ok... here's the deal.. i have a network of about 8 computers. i want to set up server with these priorities. 1) file server (the users will be all be using a version of windows) a) need to create user names and file restrictions 2) printer server a) i have …

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Dani... just so I can print out the topic, and post it on my wall... just post what you baught at the Mac store on Monday..

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i have verizon dsl and when i go to task manager and check network and stuff it always goes up and down when i play games online it does the same thing maybe i have a virus but i have mcfee what would it mean if it kept going up …

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I have a 17" VGA Monitor, bout 3-4 years old. It was connected to my PC which is also about years old, and it was working fine. But when I removed it and put it on my old Packard Bell the Screen became really wavey. So i thought it might …

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Ok Heres my question to you all...see if you can figure this one out. Aiight, I've had this problem multiple times with all of my floppy drives, and believe me, I'm no n00b to computers, But either I never gave it the time to figure it out, or I'm just …

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I am running a long run (approx. 250-275' to a switch and then another 250-275' to another switch) Each end switch will be connected to a computer. I would like to know which type of cables I should use. The wire will be sealed inside PVC pipe and buried. The …

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i got a new computer an my cousin tought me a lot about them mostly the basics but im learning more an it is very very slow an it skips alot when u play music like when u go on the web it starts to skip . neway i would …

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i got a gforce fx 5600 with 256mb video card and my temps are at 56c on the gpu core and i was wondering if that was a bad temp or a good temp if not do you know of any heatsinks and fan for the fx card?

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Hey guys, first post here... I recently configured my PC (XP-PRO SP1) to have more than one user, for my roommate. I want him as a Power User or regular User. I'm doing it so he can't access my documents and whatnot. I set everything up but when I log …

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I have a user with a PC running Windows XP home, on a Novell netware network and a bordermanager proxy server. Since the computer is shared by many users, they like to utilise the personalised background part of Windows XP and log in locally as different users. The first user …

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Hello all...pretty nre to this game but I'm in need of assistance. I decided (maybe unwisely) to build my own PC. I have the following - Asrock m/board/XP 2000 processor/256 DDR 400/Geforce graphics/cdrom/40 gb harddrive. Just a bare system for me to build on really.... Anyway, I have both 98 …

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I have 3 win2000 boxes and my main one has the broadband connection. In it I have two network cards in which the main card is set up for IP sharing. It passes the goods over to the second card and out to the second box. They now both have …

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I was given a laptop from a friend and it is in great shape. But when it powers on, after it does it's memory tests, it says "External Cache: Not Found" and it just sits there. I've looked around in CMOS and there isnt anything about disabling the external cache. …

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Hi there , After I have demoted my windows 2000 advanced server from Domain Controller to a member server I decided to use DCPROMO again , to Promote that server to a DC again. It worked well . But : when users log in to the Domain , they have …

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im in a horrible situation for installing windows 2003 on my windows 200 machine... 1) bios doesnt find any boot record from the cd. WHY???? 2) installing win2k3 from a windows machine puts temporary setup files on the hard drive, making it impossible to reformat and clean install on reboot. …

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I was installing a linksys network card in a Gateway computer. The installation went fine no error messages. I hooked up the DSL modem to the network card and it crashes internet explorer everytime. I am able to ping the gateway address, DNS ip address to the internet, but when …

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Have you ever seen IE got locked up for as long as 20 seconds because the page has a popup window? If you do, have you solved the problem? Please tell me how. I used to solve it by updating MS Virtual machine 3 months ago. But yesterday I installed …

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Me and my cousin brother share our 'vc++' documents within our LAN.As we live closely and our isp and lan is the same , we had no problem doing it and sharing files from the file and printer sharing port.But, recently , it seems that i can share files but …

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Does anyone know what's the best video card for using today?I have a Riva Tnt 2 32mb graphics card and I can't run games like Blood Rayne or None lives forever 2. Bloody Rayne's read me file says it needs 200 mb of video ram :sad: Should I buy Ge …

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Before I begin, i'll have to say i'm totally computer retarded so anywho. First of all my File sharing is disabled - how do I enable it again, I can't find the setup wizard in Connections. I'm using a Microsoft Broadband Wired Base Station MN-100, I seem to have a …

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I am having a problem connecting to the internet from a computer that I am adding to my LAN. Here are the details of what is happening: I have a LAN and am accessing the internet through a wireless broadband connection. My network consists of three computers

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Hi can someone help me my ie is not opening it just thinks and thinks and nothing opens can someone help me here please?

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when some one buys a pc its easy to check up how good it is but checking its speed ram mother board etc. but when i want to get a new monitor what do i ask for? i want to get a new flat screen monitor(not lcd) so what should …

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Hi All, Can any one give me a run down of scsi disks and cards. i'm looking into geting a few second hand servers from auction sites. i'm going to be using them for storage mainly. film, music and programs. how many disks can be connected to one channal what …

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Hello, I really don't know if this is more of a Mac of C++ question but.. I am doing a loading of a file with short CSVload (char * filename) //called from main { //openning a file and checking if it exists FILE * datafile = NULL; if ((datafile=fopen (filename, …

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Am going mental already cos my computer has been shutting down for the past 2 days. everytime i use TMPGenc, Windows Movie Maker or Stoik Video converter to convert a movie file, it automatically shutsdown. I end up not finishing anything and it's very frustrating. I've checked and re-checked my …

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Okay, first a bit of background... During hurricane Isabel, these folks decided to plug their computer into a generator, lacking other power. Now, the computer won't come on at all. No POST, no keyboard lights, no beeps. I was thinking power supply, but there's a green light on the back …

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i get 3 choices of file sytems when i install linux ext2 ext3 riser(spelling??) anyways what are the features of each and which is better to use, meanin most stable, supported and reliable

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Well I just installed winxp pro but unfortunately i can't find any microsoft word,powerpoint,excel anywhere in program files.I went to microsoft.com but I could only find add-ons.If anyone knows the exact site address , I think someone should copy and paste here...

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Hello Guys, I have Windows 2000 OS on P IV intel pentium 256 MB RAM. Since 2 days my pc keeps on freezing when I try to open something, sometimes it works properly and then when I try opening windows media player or may be a bigger application it freezes, …

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I've got a problem with my windows XP-pro (service pack 1) operated PC. It cannot process some particular web sites. e.g. when I tried to go to this URL: [url]http://www.torsas.org/meeting.htm[/url] IE (even Netscape) either hung up (not responding) or shut down itself. Any help and ideas would be much appreciated. …

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Hi Having a big problem here. I have an almost-new Samsung 955DF which has been giving me problems since day one. The monitor initially had a huge brown patch in the center of the screen, almost like dirt. Increasing brightness/contrast did nothing for the picture. In addition focus was very …

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I have a computer in my room, and it is somewhat noisy. Naturally, before I go to bed, I want to put it on standby mode. The computer supports APM and ACPI, but there is no place to turn on standby mode. I did some research, and found in a …

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[url=http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/][b]Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server[/b][/url]. (link)[quote]ABSTRACT In May 2003, the University of Wisconsin - Madison found that it was the recipient of a continuous large scale flood of inbound Internet traffic destined for one of the campus' public Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers. The flood traffic …

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Anyone care to take a stab at a problen I'm having with either my monitor or video card? (OK, maybe driver, but with some testing I think I've eliminated them) My monitor is showing random pixels/dots all over the screen. My text appears broken up because the color of the …

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hi all, i've been visiting a website that has installed much spyware on my computer. lavasoft adaware could remove most of it. but if i simply enter 'yahoo.com', ie does not find the website yahoo.com but show the address: [url]http:///?%20yahoo.com.What[/url] can i do to have the [url]http:///?%20[/url] removed, that is …

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Is there any way to increase the default time after internet explorer timeouts (5 mins)? I found this article: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B181050[/url] but even after doing so there was no effect. I tried many other things but without success. Can anyone help me out?

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Medion DVD RW I am having problems with a DVD RW drive on my Medion PC bought from Aldi 04/04/03, in the UK every time I put a DVD RW or R disc into the drive it just keeps clicking, and will not load. Its a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105 1.21 …

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ok, well my friend cant go on the internet and when cs opens his comp crashes... everything closes.. and he has to reboot, its not the worm bug or blaster virus, it says his kernel32.dll theres something wrong with it.. anyone know what? or how to fix it? cuz he …

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I dont know how to empty the trash. Or does it not work?

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This is my first post, TIA. I keep trying to partition my new 120 Gb Western Digital with two partitions, c: & d: (using Windows XP recovery console), but when I go to format the second partition it names it f:. What can I do to get the second partition …

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i really need someones help here...okay my computer wont load windows. everytime i try to turn it on it goes to this black screen that says that windows is messing up and i have a list of 4 options that say like load windows normally...or safe mode or what ever. …

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good day ppl. I got problem with my Internet Explorer(IE)-already updated the new version, but still the problem is coming. My default page is re-directing to and X site, even I change it and when I open again(My IE), it will change again, which annoy me very much..please help.

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Hi everybody, Iam new here, can somebody help me out, Iam running a Windows 2000 server, the cpu right know is at 100%, I try to look for what is causing the problem I do not find the problem, can somebody give me some advice or help that would solve …

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i have a case fan 80mm and the ends of the wires were torn off to cinnect it to get power and i now theres a way for it to get power without the ends so can some one tell me how to hook it up?

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i need to fdisk my comp right now (im on a different comp posting this)the problem is that i cant get my comop to start up with windows and i cant reboot it either but i can get to the bios and stuff if theres a way to fdisk my …

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i am on a brand new computer.. everything works great but the comp keeps freezing on me and i can't figure out why.. it happens frequently and seems to happen especially when i use the cd drives, either of the two i have on here.. i can't figure it out …

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can anyone tell me what this is? all of a sudden it started showing up in my processes window, and when it runs it slows my comp down to a near halt.. i cannot find what program, if any, it is associated with or where it came from.. i ran …

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I was just wondering if anybody here knows anything about this file. I have been trying to figure out what's going on with my machine for over a week now. I recently located the problem; a program file that loads in the windows startup sequence. I'm assuming that this file …

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I am buying parts to build a new PC. I am not sure on which mobo is best. ABIT NF7-S ,nForce2 SPP chipset Support AMD Socket A with 200/266/333 FSB ,8X AGP,SATA 150 ATX motherboard or Asus Motherboard for AMD Athlon XP/Duron Processors, Model# A7N8X Deluxe The Asus is like …

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