Recent content by Atomsmasher544

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    One Click File Saving?

    I'm curious if anyone knows about any software that would allow for one click image file saving, or any sort windows hotkey that could be set up on the mouse to do something like this
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    question about DVDs

    my burner is a Pioneer, its under 2 years old, and I use the nero program that came with the burner. I close the discs, and I usually burn at 8x
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    question about DVDs

    I guess this is the right place to ask, since its about storage. Anyway, I burn a lot of data DVDs as back ups for, and I've been noticing that randomly my discs fail. Many of them have been burned less than 2 years ago, and are rarely ever accessed, they just sit on a spindle. If I try to...
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    some quick help with an upgrade

    I just need a little advice about upgrades, as I've been out of the loop on PC tech for awhile. A friend just bought a 9800 GTX card to put in his comp and I'm trying to help him figure out what to get to go along with it, currently its running in a system with an old Athlon 64 4000, which I...
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    starforce... ugh

    restore didnt work :(
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    starforce... ugh

    so on recommendation from some game magazine, i downloaded this free version of this game, little did i know, it had star force protection. Now everytime i boot up my computer (running vista) i get this message saying "starforce driver undetected", see it in the device manager, cant remove it...
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    Laptop HDD question

    I didnt think it was a huge problem, it can just be kind of annoying at times, I'm sure I'd eventually get used to it, but I was hoping I could get it to stop. Does turning off indexing hurt anything? Im kinda paranoid about anything I do with vista right now. And what about the quick...
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    Laptop HDD question

    Got a quick question about my laptops HDD. Its a brand new laptop (about 3 weeks old), with a 250 gig 5400 rpm HDD. When the computer is idle, or doing low stress tasks (like word processing or web browsing), the hard drive will randomly make some clicky noises every now and then, which sounds...
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    anyone used this mouse?

    I saw this mouse on sale at Frys for 20 bucks, I'm looking for a cheap and decent mouse, I was wondering if anyone has used one before. There aren't any reviews online that I could find. Mouse
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    need help choosing

    Im looking at 3 systems right now, and I dont know which is the best bet Asus A7k Asus G1S I like the price of the first one, but I dont know how the turion compares to the intel, and I know the 8600 is better than the 2600, because they're both ddr3, will the performance difference be...
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    mobile video cards

    I'm curious as to how drastic the difference in performance I will see running a DDR2 512 mb Geforce 8600M GT, vs a DDR3 256 mb HD2600M. My systems of choice are these two http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/sy...rer_X64-9520_Notebook/ http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/sy...orer_X5-5850_Notebook/...
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    Need help deciding on which notebook to get

    I'm planning on getting a notebook within the next month or so, and I'm not sure which kind I should get. I've been looking mostly at Asus models they have on newegg.com, or systems on ibuypower.com. asus and ibuypower are what I have mainly been looking at. I'm looking for a...
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    Has anyone seen this before?

    Alright, well I found the process on the first thing that I tried. It was an iexplore.exe Soooo.. what do I do now?
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    Has anyone seen this before?

    Nothing happens when I right click on it, all I can do is drag it around or alt+f4 to close it.
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    Has anyone seen this before?

    Well I've been through the msconfig and disabled everything that isn't necessary, and I checked the remaining ones on google and they're all microsoft services of some kind. I'm not at home right now, so I'll try removing processes from the task manager when I get home. Just hoping I don't...