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    Cheapest Machine Possible?

    Bobber, Just bought a refir. from Tigerdirect - ACER - 3.2 dual core AMD, 320 GB drive, Front 9 in 1 card reader Front headphone/mic pluge 5 front USB ports with others on the back as well Vista Home Prim/3 months of Norton free and other software, much of which I have taken off...
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    Am I screwed?

    I ran chkdsk and looked at details - The only thing that comes up is it found free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap. Would this cause the problem with the drive not finding a .dll it is looking for? It also said that some problems were found and were moved...
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    Trial software

    Tks guys - I appreciate it. jb
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    Trial software

    Tks all, uninstalled the 2007 trial and installed the 2003 without problem. Do have a question - I copied/pasted all my desktop icons from old computer to new one but only about half of them were there. The only ones that were there were program and web site icons - In checking...
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    TV Tuner questions

    OK - you have answered this so now I ask the opposite - How to get TV over the internet - without a cable company, just highspeed internet? There are hundreds of sites on the net that sell and some give away programs you download that are suppose to pick up as many as 2000 channels...
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    Am I screwed?

    Update - I have the old drive - the one that has the problem on it - in the new computer as a slave. 1- have re-run antivirus on it and nothing is found. 2- I have transferred my files I need from it to the new drive. Questions - 1- Can I now fix this drive while running as a slave...
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    Trial software

    Hello, CC - Tks for the reply - First, what is TOS? Second, not sure what you mean by, "uninstall from the old system" The trials are on the new computer. The trial is installed - at least I have an office folder with dozens of folders and files in it - some like Excel, PowerPoint...
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    Trial software

    My new computer came with several software trials - one of which is MS Office 2007. I have my disc for Office 2003 Pro - First, can I used these disc to install on the new computer since I installed it on my old one? Second, do I need to - or would it be recommended to - uninstall the...
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    Am I screwed?

    Tks, guys - my thought to put the Maxtor Sata drive it in the other computer as a slave and see if I could get to it that way won't work. There is a Western Digital drive in the new computer and the power cable has less pins in it and the smaller cable to the WD drive only has the one plug...
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    Malware / Spyware removed tabs on desktop properties

    Ref. Antivirus XP 2008 - that is one bad dude. My CA antivirus did not pick it up until the second day after I knew I had a problem and I received NO help from them on getting rid of it - a VERY difficult problem since it is always changing and moving - or helping put things back the way they...
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    How long is it safe?

    OK - what is the problem of those programs that hyjack a computer and use it to send spam - a SERIOUS WORLDWIDE problem? If no other reason, that would be the reason I wouldn't leave one on unless I had a reason to do so. - jb
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    Am I screwed?

    I went to my Win XP Pro update and it downloaded a bunch of updates - oneof which was SP-3, which I had not been installing due to the problems with it. I installed the updates without thinking and it installed SP-3 as well as all the other critical updates (recommended). I then saw the...