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Hello, I am just getting done with college and have a lot of knowledge and experience with hardware and software troubleshooting in Windows and I have always wanted to start a business so I figured why not a computer repair business. I am trying to figure out everything that I …

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We have here at our home my wife's work computer. While not today's hottest iron, it is still Centrino Duo machine, runningn WinXP Professional with 1 GB RAM. Our home machine is aged AMD Semptron 3100+ (1.81 GHz) and has 2 GB RAM running WindowsXP Home. While running my Mandelbrot …

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Currently, I'm typing from a laptop. (I'm no use with computers and I can't suss this out myself, and without any internet usage - albeit short bursts that I get - I have to use a laptop. I don't have any way of transferring items over from the laptop to …

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I think my eGeForce 8600GT NVIDIA graphics card is going bad – frequent system pauses occurring when complex displays are being processed - & I’m looking for suggestions for an upgrade costing under $100 USD. My system is Windows XP SP3, Gigabyte GA-945P-S3 motherboard, 3.0G Pentium 4 processor, 750W power …

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Explorer.exe will not start. When I remote into the server it just stays on the blue screen even when I try to manually invoke explorer.exe to start it will flash for a second but nothing happens. Any ideas?

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I accidentally installed 2 xp's on my pc and now i want to replace one of them with linux operating system.... Someone please guide me....

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I have an empty folder with the above name. When I try to delete it it says 'Cannot delete, it is being used by another program'. I have tried EMCO 'MoveOnBoot' but it doesn't allow you to delete folders, only files. Suggestions please. Sorry I didn't google first. NOw have …

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I want to make my own web-site, and I know HTML (everyone knows it :D) and some PHP. I have a lot of experience with Windows and Linux (Particularly Ubuntu) but I never had my own server, except WAMP that I used for learning PHP. My web-site is not a …

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Hi, My boss is aking me to buy a fax software. Before doing any testing, I post the question here to reduce the heavy testing work. Well, I hope the faxes can be received in one folder and that folder can be shared to all the clients. Any idea?

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With the development of the technology, we have said goodbye to the days of using fax machines. However, with fax software and Internet fax, which one should we choose? Can everybody join this discussion and share the knowledge about Fax Software and Internet fax

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When I use my computer without wireless it works perfect. When I add a wireless component to the computer it slows down immensely until it freezes with every click of the mouse. It doesn't matter if I use usb wireless or a wireless card. I have tried virus scanners, anti …

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Our computer has a 6g hard drive and I just reformated it a couple of days ago. It had been running slow and saying that it had low disk space. So after I reinstalled Windows XP and as I was installing the various drivers I was watching to see how …

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I have had to format our computer (eMachines W6409) and reinstall Windows XP but I can't figure out how to fix it so Standby is not grayed out. I have gone to the eMachines support website and downloaded the chipsets. One of them installed but it still is grayed out. …

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Hi I used to have a problem, where if i double clicked on any hard drive in My Computer, it would be opened inside the program ACDSee, rather than just opening up in explorer. there was no way to switch it off from within ACDSee so i went to Tools->Options->File …

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I have a Sony Vaio that is not working properly. It used to work properly but it would occasionally freeze and I would need to hard reset it by holding onto the power button for around 5 seconds. Yesterday, the computer froze again and I hard reset it. For some …

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I purchased a barebones computer and it works great! I want to use an old steering wheel with the racing car games (old), but this is a 15 pin socket. The Motherboard has a 9 pin game socket. I installed an old sound card which has a 15 pin socket …

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Hello, I have windows xp professional, cpu 2.53 GHz, 2.53 GHz, 1.24 GB ram. I am having a heck of a time trying to download music to my pc. I have several playlists on utube but I'm unable to transfer them to windows media player. I also thought I could …

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Hi my PC has no sound and the 'C-Media AC97 Audio Device' in the device manager has a yellow exclamation mark next to it. I have tried un-installing and re-installing it but this does nothing. Can anybody tell me how to fix this or how to aquire a working device …

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Well un fortunately I dont have AC...My FAN runs almost constantly...What if anything can I do about this? Is it a threat to the tower? Is it normal?

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I did the search already, but I'm not sure. Last Wednesday, July 13-14, 2011, my emails accounts; AOL and Gmail have been sending out mass emails at night (4:00 AM) to everyone in my contact list. I wouldn't have known about it if I didn't got some failure notices from …

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I have a pc that is shared by several people. Have decided to disable the log on password, but would still like to protect my private documents. It should be relatively simple - can anyone tell me how to set password entry on specific folders? Much appreciated

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Hi recenlty i bought N5010 laptop with 320 gb hd... i wanted to create more partition because there was only one which was Os.. i successfully made one partion of 70 gb with the disk management.. but when i created another partition so it just throw an error u cant …

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This is my 1st attempt at a posting. My PC has 1 HD with 3 partitions; 55 mb FAT -- Partition Magic 8.0 (works fine) 300 mb FAT -- DOS 6.22 (E:) (works fine) 37 gb NTFS -- XP Pro (C:) Have valid OEM XP Pro CD w/SP2 XP really …

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Hi, all, Got no idea what causes this: My sister sends a JPG attachment from her Mac (OS 10.6, not sure what else you'd need to know) to someone with Windows who uses AOL. The attachment comes up with an ASPX extension at the Windows end. Huh? Then I try …

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Hi Guys please help me with this.. Is this a spyware or something?? I had run full scan using SuperAntiSpyware and removed the threats though..but this problem is still there. Following is then HT scan logfile Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:09:45 AM, on 7/25/2011 Platform: Unknown Windows …

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I followed the instructions on another thread and used MBAM and HJT and here is the log. for it. not sure if its fixed. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.50.1.1100 [url]www.malwarebytes.org[/url] Database version: 6561 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702 5/13/2011 1:40:30 AM mbam-log-2011-05-13 (01-40-30).txt Scan type: Full scan (C:\|) Objects …

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problems: 1.when running youtube videos i get either "an error occured, please try again later" or just a black screen. (i can run other videos on other sites cept for youtube vids) 2.Yahoo.com page is messy and jumbled :( so is youtube sometimes. 3. also cant login in yahoo messenger …

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Hi, I bought a new desktop PC a few weeks ago, running Windows 7 and of late is has started giving STOP errors quite randomly. I've included the problem signature below. The error was stated to be associated with tcpip.sys. I've been investigating this issue for a few days now …

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Hi Mates, I have a little problem on my Win2003 Server Ent.Edition, SP2. I use AD int the network and dns is located on the same server(local one). Standard setup with replication with another DCs (remote DCs). My services on another server can not start due to a logon failure …

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HI,my Keyboard stopped working and i bought a new one and now i turn on my computer and When it asks me to start windows normally the Keyboard works and then the Syskey box will pop up and i'm trying to enter my password but i can't. but i don't …

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