Recent content by majbach

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    very unusual XP prob

    Hi there. Have a very strange problem and I?m not getting anywhere with it. Friend of mine has XP Pro and he is having problems when trying to scan. He is so convinced it was his HP scanner, he bought another but experienced the same problems. When he activated HP Director (that?s the scanner...
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    Help with Partitioning and dual boot

    Hi all. I want to install WinXP onto my HD as a dual boot system. Currently, I have an 80 Gig drive that is partitioned thusly: C: 10Gig (WinME), D: 26 Gig E: 39 Gig All are Fat 32 and all are about half full, but D: and E: are just for data and multimedia stuff, nothing runs off it. I would...
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    WinMe hangs unusually on start-up!

    Can you explain that to me? Anyway, figured out the problem. One of the programs I installed copied a fair amount of .dll to the system directory. After doing a search, I tried reinstalling IE6 - it worked. Thanks again
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    WinMe hangs unusually on start-up!

    Hi again! For a guy who has a business fixing PCs, this one is has me stumped. I have a funny feeling someone hacked into my PC but I am not convinced. I installed 3 programs, one of which req'd a reboot but i didn't bother; they were simple programs. I also started playing Unreal on-line. There...
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    please explain..

    what is NTFS? how does it compare to fat32 and when do i use/avoid it? -edited- Actually, i now realize this is a pretty vague question and i am reading up on this like from the link below. However, I set-up and/or maintain a lot of PCs for friends and families. So far, not to many have...
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    HD/Floppy incompatibilty? Sat it ain't so. [cross-post]

    Hi all. I don?t even know where to begin to do a search for this problem ? I don?t even know what component is causing it. Went to fix a friend's PC today and encountered a problem unlike any I have seen before. I?ll do as best I can to keep this short. Basically, they just bought this used PC...
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    HD/Floppy incompatibilty? Sat it ain't so.

    Hi all. I don?t even know where to begin to do a search for this problem ? I don?t even know what component is causing it. Went to fix a friend's PC today and encountered a problem unlike any I have seen before. I?ll do as best I can to keep this short. Basically, they just bought this used PC...