Recent content by cold2000us

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    Is 4 GB of Ram Needed?

    why would they create applications that 99.9% of the users would need to upgrade their pc's for? even highly specific ones
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    Installing windows on External Drive for Laptop

    I have a laptop whose hard drive went nuts so i bought another one. This laptop did not have a functioning cd drive so right now i'm trying to figure out what i can do. i have a 2.5" enclosure and a new 2.5" hdd i bought. i'd like to install windows on it from my desktop somehow using the...
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    Windows Problem in Laptop

    Hi guys I have a IBM Thinkpad R30. I was having problems with my windows so I decided to reformat my drive and I used Paragon Partition Engine. It asked for a restart to do formating and I did so and ever since then I cant get windows to load. Now whenever I turn on my laptop I get...
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    Zen Xtra 40GB MP3 Player

    how would you compare this in size and weight to the mini ipods?
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    XFX 6600GT AGP at monarch $199 shipped

    same thing here. i got a radeon pro 9800 with my dell..wondering if this is a good upgrade from that?
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    ATI's TV WONDER ELITE (TV capture card)

    hey guys i was thinking of getting this. i have a LCD TV and I wanted to know if buying this would save me the extra cost of renting a HDTV box from time warner. Will the coaxial wire just go on back of the card and it will work or will I need a cable box also to get it to work?
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    Need shortcut Tip for Word

    Hello I have to weekly put in addresses that come in a Word file that come something like below John Smith Dover St New York New York 11426 Sally Jay XYZ St. New York, New York 11030 and so on and so on What I have to do is put this in Avery Standard 5160 format. Currently...
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    Bargaining with Dell Customer Service

    buying a dimension 4700..basically p4 2.8, upgrade to 512mb, upgrade the vid card to x300 and the hard drive from 40gb to 80gb..came to $740 after coupons before tax
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    Bargaining with Dell Customer Service

    I was wondering before I made my final purchase that if any of you guys had success with bargaining with customer service guys at Dell or is everything set in stone? Any success with them making the deal any sweeter? Any tip. advice will be greatly appreciated.
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    Dell $1 LCD TV Deal?

    thank you very much everyone. (especially mugs) anandtech rules
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    Dell $1 LCD TV Deal?

    I have heard that there is a offer where if you spend over $699 then you get a an LCD TV for only $1. I am very interested in this but I havent seen this anywhere. Is this just a black friday rumor or is it just rumors. If it is true can someone please point me to it. Thank You
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    Sudden Dropoff In DL Performance

    it is the trial version
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    Sudden Dropoff In DL Performance

    Ok below is the log I saved. Sorry for not posting the Specs I am running P4 2.8GHZ Intel 1GB RAM GeForceTi4800SE 128MB Windows XP SP2 ===== below is the log file. Any help I would greatly appreciate. Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2 Scan saved at 9:57:00 AM, on 11/16/2004...
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    Sudden Dropoff In DL Performance

    I recently bought a new computer that I installed windows on by myself. I am finding something very annoying with it. I will have a download going at around 390kb and it will keep running like that. The problem starts when I do anything with my PC. Running an explorer cuts my speed down to...
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    Sudden Problems with Windows XP

    tjaisv: i tried using the system restore to an old point when everything was going good but it didnt help. i dont want to do a system restore before i have gone through all options and as waitman stated i wanna make sure that if i have any virus or trojan they arent attached to system restore...