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Hi all, My computer has found itself fit to restart itself whenever it wants to. This problem just started 4 or 5 days ago. I have ran adware, spybot, and Norton all showing no viruses. Does anybody have an answer or any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Hi, I have downloaded a legal copy of Windows XP Pro from the MSDN Academic Alliance Software program. The file is an ISO so I burned to a CD. I am in the process of building a new PC, will this disc let me install XP or do I need …

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There are tons of programs out there that claim to tweak either xp or your dsl,modem,cable connections. I believe others will agree there is no magic tweak that will make xp that much faster or your internet. In fact xp is tweaked pretty sweet for dsl. No idea how it …

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Hi all, I hope everyone had a great New Year ! Ok, ever since I upgraded my computer a bit, I've been having problems with OE where it gets errors that have nothing to do with my server or ISP. It seems when there are too many e-mail windows open, …

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I have red tags almost daily with event 7000 & 7009 it is causing a black screen for second, what can be done to correct ?

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Hello everyone! I have posted a lot of messages in the IE section, but I do not think my problem is with any browser. I have tryed Opera, Firefox and the same error occurs. I get a 404 file not found message on some sites, and also missing ads on …

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Given a bigger file, is there any free program that may split a music file down so that I can break it onto 2 seperate CDs? Thanks

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I noticed the other day that I no longer had the ability to view my own hidden files and folders despite the fact that I am an Admin on my machine (says so in User Manager) and I am able to do administrate tasks. Odd. Any ideas? R [url]http://www.technologystuff.biz[/url]

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I and a few of my friends all have laptops (with the exception of one, who has a really really old desktop). Our computers work for us, but we require a lot of hard drive space for the mass amount of work/files we accumulate. So, I got a cheep dell …

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Has anyone experienced Media Edition yet? I'm looking to install a newer operating system on a new computer. I'm torn between XP Pro and possibly Media Edition. This computer will be used mainly for Music, videos, some office applications and most surely connected to the home stereo for using Otsjuke …

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When I boot my HP notebook in safe mode, it only uses a very small portion of the LCD?

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I can not get my computer to start msconfig,and I need to retart it in safe mode,I know that there is another way off doing it but I can't remeber,help please Thanks Ally

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I am on a Dell D600 and it does not seem to have a DVD decoder. I thought XP was supposed to be ultra multi-media friendly... How do I get it to play DVD's... Not looking to rip them vust play them.

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1) Data Miner, is there any way to avoid this, ect? 2) TEMP Files from My Music, if I clear these by Internet Options, clear, ect.... Are they gone ? I like to do routine maintance & keep my system CLEAN! Thanks Dave

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Does anybody know the steps to setting up super web cam? It seems that when I turn on the web cam, the bandwidth goes to zero and my frame rate goes to less than 1 per second. This is not what I wanted when I purchased the webcam. I have …

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How do you disable the "Scanning Compressed files" sequence in Disk cleanup? you know how it scans the compressed files, it freezes up there. theres a way how to disable it but I forgot how,because I havent had to do it in a long time.

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I have a game on CD. It's the third installment of the Elder Scrolls series by Bethesda Softworks, Inc. I am trying to install the game onto my Laptop. My Laptop is 3 times more everything than the minnium requirements of the game. Everything all of the time works just …

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my friend is having a problem with his computer...can anyone help out? thanks "after i get the windows xp boot screen, it goes blue and says, 'unable to locate component'.....cannot find 'winsrv' " he has a dell inspiron 8500 60 gb hard drive 2.6 ghz processor

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Trying to clean friends hp pavilion ze4400. After removing most of the nasties can get it to windows update but dies at "looking for latest version" dont think it had been updated (ever...)no fixes listed in add\remove. Had SP1 on disc and seemed to install, retry update same thing but …

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I wish I could say this is mine. I took it from another forum and it really helped me alot with ie6 problems bigtime. Someone please correct me if I am wrong but it sure helped me out big time. Go to start. Run. Type in regsvr32 Urlmon.dll. There must …

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Hi guys. Whenever i try to sign in to MSN messenger, norton shows me the following screen [IMG]http://img68.exs.cx/img68/2749/norton9tq.jpg[/IMG] How do i stop it from askin for permision, as it does it whenever i sign in, get or send a messege, and at other random times! it also causes the pc …

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i just d/l a freelancer demo. Its a game btw. The file got corrupted half way and i have 2 icons still on my desktop. Everytime i delete them , i get an error saying, 'file is in use' or something like that. I cant even move them! How do …

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1) when Norton blocks or catches a SWEN or Trojan virus & blocks the e mail, does that mean that I AM ok on my system? 2) The OTHER thing I wonder is why in windows do I get the little rectangular box with the RED X on the side., …

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Hi, need some help here. Once my 2000 hit by a virus, I manage to fix it, but it can not automatically power off while shut it down as usual, anyone got an idea how to fix it ? Thanks.

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Hi my comp is running very slow and has problems with winsock, sah agent, dxsetu, ope25 and others. I've read the other threads and have downloaded the HiJackThis program so know how to delete them(sort of) but need help knowing what to and what not to delete. Any help very …

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If i boot XP normally and click Start>run>cmd> and type chkdsk /f will that fix any errors or do i have to truly boot in dos mode first and run chkdsk /f. also. i created a ms-dos via right click A: format and put a check mark on create ms-dos …

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I am currently using Windows XP (sp1). I have 3 user accounts. Two of the accounts have lost all desktop icons and the start button/task bar. I have been discussing this in the thread titled "windows has mysteriously vanished from my computer". I have tried so many ways to attempt …

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Does anyone know how I can stop this "Pop-up" It happens everytime that I boot-up. The message states "Synaptics enhancements has encoutered a problem etc etc.

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Please help! Just recently I got a new USB MP3 player (Nomad Muvo), while inserting it into my USB port, I heard a tweeking noise and my Monitor turned off, and it said Selft Test (G), Check check you PC and Signal Cable (R), Monitor is working (B) and then …

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