Recent content by dsa1971

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    will a magnet damage a hard drive

    I bought an external hard drive enclosure and it came with a leather case with a flap that closes shut with a magnet. Obviously it's not a powerful magnet but could it affect my hard drive at all?
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    posting html form from outlook

    an app sends a html page with an html form on it for the email recipient to submit but the submit button does nothing. One person that has outlook 2003 sp2 is able to submit the form fine but another person with the same version of outlook cannot. the submit button does nothing. I have not...
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    black square on desktop icons

    that's got to be it. now that I look at my other computer's desktop that is definitely it. thanks. not sure how that happened.
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    black square on desktop icons

    This appeared maybe a week ago or less. A lot, but not all, of my desktop icons have this black square. I'm not sure how it happened. It's like it's supposed to be a checkbox or something. Here's a picture of it black square icon any ideas?
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    2 network adapters connecting to 2 different wireless networks

    Is it possible to have 2 wireless network adapters in a windows 98 computer and connect to 2 seperate wireless networks at the same time?
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    who's using windows onecare?

    anybody out there been using windows onecare? I installed it recently. I like the interface. I can't comment yet on whether it's anti-virus and anti-spyware capabilities yet. I've used norton and mcafee before and hated those. My favorite all in one internet security suite has been Trend...
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    can't connect to internet after xp home fresh install

    tried just about everything then finally everything worked after installing sp2. not sure what the deal with but everything's up and running now.
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    can't connect to internet after xp home fresh install

    I just did a fresh install of windows xp home on my desktop. The device manager reports no issues with the ethernet card and with my network cable plugged in the lights on the ethernet card are flashing like they are supposed to. the network cable is connected directly to the modem. when I my...
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    Yahoo Anti-Spyware toobar: good or bad?

    It works okay. I couldn't say with any degree of accuracy if it's better or worse than ad-aware but I never rely on a single anti-spyware program. You have to manually update and run a scan. Just download and try it. You can always remove it.
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    upgrade to Vista?

    people still argue about installing xp sp2? :confused:
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    upgrade to Vista?

    I'm curious about the reasons people will have to upgrade to Vista. I know computer manufacturers have been wanting a new OS from MS since XP came out so long ago but I can't see many people buying a new computer just because it has Vista installed. When XP came out I could understand home...
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    CPU fan question

    depends on the coolermaster model and the motherboard model.
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    Plextor Sata

    Is this what you're talking about?
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    Lost all my data :(

    better safe than sorry. I have 2 120gb hard drives. 1 is main for my OS and the other is for everything else.
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    XBox 360 unhackable

    That's not restating what you said. you provided links and said G4 reported but you did not make any statement disputing that. I'm saying that G4's report contradicts what the report says Microsoft says.