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I've just finished my second year of college and have grown unmentionably addicted to AOL IM. I'm now home for the summer and unlike at school, I no longer have the luxury of a LAN connection. Also, I stay at a few different houses which do not particularly care for …

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I think something is seriously messed up with my computer. I'm running off Windows XP, and it seems whenever I install a 30 mb program, my hard drive goes down about .2 GBs. I currently have 58.9 GBs left, and just two days ago I had 59.6 GBs. Is that …

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I've recently noticed that my pagefile.sys thing is at 700+ megabytes and that might be what's slowing down my system, and I just want a little extra diskspace. Is there any SAFE way to change this so it's not so big, maybe making a new file with the same name, …

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since these is no "winipcfg" in the windows XP ,how can i see my ip address ? and there is not a "address" bar in the IE ,what should i do?

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in windows2000pro what is the command to choose what programs i want to start a boot. it was msconfig and is msconfig in winXP, why was this command removed in 2000 anyway??

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i am backing up some software. however some of it does not like being copied. what software will alow bit per bit copy of a cd. or software than will make a perfect image of software

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hi! i'm working on a w2k server. on the local settings where it shows you how many times you can try to lock in with the wrong password the setting is on 5 but the actual(default) is on 15 (and I cant manage to chane it to 5) can, somebody …

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Hi i have my modem on a 2000 machine and have 98 and NT4 networked on a LAN, i want to get 998 and NT on the internet through 2000, i did this but had to enable DHCP, now i cannot see 98 or NT from 2000. How can i …

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My mic/headphones for some reason doesnt work. The microphone doesnt record my voice on the windows recorder, but i have noticed that it records the music that winamp plays, how do i change it to record my voice again instead of music?

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I have a KDS Visual Sensation VS-7e SVGA monitor. ya know how when there is a no signal message before you boot up your computer, well that comes in crystal clear in all 3 (red,blue,green) colors. But, when i turn on my machine my desktop is only displayed in a …

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I have a OEM US ROBOTICS modem card that may mis-labeled or not working correctly !!! I have downloaded many driver software packages for this modem. None of drivers work !!! Windows 98 does detect this modem. Is there some software that can test the modem without a modem driver …

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can anyone tell me how to turn on file sharing through a login script. it has to be enabled through the script. i need to turn a lot of computer's file sharing option on. OS: Windows Xp Thanks Shane

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I'm having a major problem when I go online. I don't know if this has to do with anything, but when my phone line (56k) got busted and got switched, all full-screen Windows games, when run, would auto-minimize and, after closing the bar window (after minimize, trying to re-open it …

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I removed the AC97 drivers, and everything else that said Audio, media devices, from device manager and disabled onboard sound in BIOS. Shut down and installed Audigy2 sound card. Installed drivers and Media Center from Creative's install disk. When I try to play a audio cd using Media Player,I get …

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bought an asus a7n8x moto and xp2400 chip,when flased updated bios , when i start system takes forever moto sees hd ,western digital 80 gig 8meg but when i try to load xp pro windows wont see hd and cant install??

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News of more security problems with the Opera browser. Affects versions 6.x and 7.x Details here: [url]http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/10792_2109161[/url]

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I remember seeing a segment on this on TechTV a while ago...but I managed to forget. I know that there is a service in 2k and .net that enables or disables digital imaging (webcam, digi-cam, etc...)...anyone have a clue as to what the name of the service is?

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Anyone know how to partition hard drives in Windows Server Platforms? Meaning the boot drive of a server platform? Lovely partition magic doesn't work in any server platforms.

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Occassionally when I begin startup on my compaq presario 700 laptop computer; operating system Windows XP home edition, I recieve a box stating the following: RBA has encountered a problem and needs to cloe, sorry for the inconvenience. If you are in the middle of something, the information you are …

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As many of us know (especially those like me who use StyleXP) the well known XP themes site has been down for the last few weeks. As of within the past hour, it's been back up! I'm just about to go head over to it and check it out. Let's …

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Just wondering if it is safe to insert/un-insert those PCMCIA cards on a Notebook while it is running? I know on a desktop it's not advisable to plug/unplug anything (except USB) while PC is on. Notebook is a brand new Toshiba (don't know model). Thanks, Donk Free Technical Support Webring …

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Tek gave me this cool link thought you guys like it. http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?id=160&object=article.cfm It tells you how to make a XP CD Bootable in simple terms

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I just reformatted my computer (Win XP Pro). Everything runs smoothly except Outlook XP or Outlook Express. Everytime I open either one, it takes a solid two minutes for the splash screen to go away for the rest of the proggie to open. Every other program works perfectly fine (e.g. …

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When I want to uninstall a software , it seems that it has been unistalled .But when I delete the folder , it reports something wrong .It seems that the software is running. I used Ctrl+Arl+Del ,but there is nothing unusual , the software is not shown in neither program …

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The amount of space for backup files appears to be limited by Windows to approx. 10% of your disk space. How can that be changed? I've put in a second drive which I want to use primarily as backup storage. It is an 80 gig drive and has nothing else …

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I've seen a lot of issues lately with OE 6 unable to switch to another ID in WinXP. Three solutions that I know of: 1) 3-finger saluting OE 2) bounce sys 3) deselect default ID setting (and leave setting that way) & do a File/Exit and Logoff, re-open OE & …

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I am currently running Windows 2k on an A7V motherboard with a 1.1 GHz AMD Athlon. In addition, I am attempting to install two different PCI sound cards. However, I am encountering major IRQ conflicts. I have attempted to manually change the IRQ of one of the sound cards to …

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Hey guys. I came across this just recently, but I'm not sure if you guys are aware of it. It crashes csrss.exe (thus W2K, NT, XP) through the command console. I tried writing the same program in Perl, and it did in fact crash my system. I did not see …

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I decided to aquire Windows .NET RC1 the legal way, direct from Microsoft. I signed up about a week and a half ago, for the "CPP Preview Program" (whatever that means) and got the email today. Aparently, MS does not have enough servers to meet demand. I can't get there …

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I just got a Geforce2 MX 400 (I know it's outdated. I got it for $25. better than an 8MB Nvidia Vanta). I have the latest drivers for it but in gaming situations, it sometimes "issues a stop command". I don't know why it would do that so any help …

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