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    Cell phone signal boosters

    I know those stick on signal boosters don't work and are nothing more then a waste of money. I am wondering if anyone has ever used the ones from a company called Wilson, they make powered boosted signal amplifiers. I live in a rural area four or five bars are very rare!
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    Problems with Oracle Virtualbox

    This is a curious problem. I am trying to install an old copy of windows XP Pro 64bit on my laptop as a virtual machine using virtualbox. The laptop (a lenovo g570) has an intel pentium B960 dual core 64bit processor. I am running Windows 7 home premium 64bit OS on the laptop without any issues...
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    Lenovo Z570 dead!

    My nephew's Lenovo Z570laptop has stopped working and is completely dead, no lights . no fan, nothing. I have tried all the tricks, holding down the power button with no battery or power adapter connected as suggested on various forums. so please don't offer that advice, it does not work. I am...
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    Print server help

    Does anyone know of a USB (1 or 2) print server that is compatible with both Windows 7 64bit and MAC OSX operating systems? I am trying to add my brothers HP 4315 USB printer to his home network where-in he has a MAC his wife and son both use Windows 7 64bit PC's. From the research I have done...
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    Recovery CD 64bit and 32bit

    Does anyone know if I can create a 32bit Windows 7 cd on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine? I need to repair a clients MBR and I am unsure at this point if he is running a 32 or 64 bit Win 7 OS., when I go there I want to be prepared for both. I have a 64bit recovery cd and need a 32 bit. I do not have...
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    Baffled by this...

    I am working on a friends old Dell Dimension 2400 w/Windows XP Home on it. Was running slow, crahing, BSOD etc. Cleaned it up reinstalled the O/S with all updates and had it running like new again. When I had it at my place all was well. I was using a USB mouse & keyboard I keep on hand when I...
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    Wifi WoL Help!

    Does anyone know of a PCIe Wifi card that sopports Wake on Lan? There are lots of Google hits on how to set it up and the one thing they all ahve in common is you need a wifi card that supports WoL. I am trying to set up this feature on my home network so I can power up/wake my desktop remotely...
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    have a question about Bluetooth....

    Is there a difference between a standard bluetooth adapter and a bluetooth Printer adapter? I have an epson RX595 printer which is bluetooth capable but requires an adapter. Printer adapters seem to be a whole lot more expensive then thier counterparts and I am wondering what the difference is...
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    Problems uninstalling Chrome

    Okay I made the huge mistake a couple of months back and downloaded and installed chrome, which I have come to find out, sucks. Problems with flashplayer etc.. Anyway I uninstalled it and came to find out it corrupts the registry in ways, no other browser has ever done before. It has left some...
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    Windows 7 backup & System image...

    Okay this is weird, I have an external HD enclose in which I have a 500gb WD SATA HD mounted. I use it for B/U's. When I go to Control Panel>System & Security>Backup and Restore (Windows 7 64bit home premium) it shows the drive (K) as not connected, yet if I click to create a system image it...
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    Ubuntu 11.04 music player that works?

    Does anyone know of a music player that actually plays music in 11.04, Banshee is BS, will not play w/o a plug-in, the program gives two options both of which are not trusted and therefore will not install. Rhythembox which is a great player and worked flawlessly with 10.10, will not work at all...
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    Ubuntu 11.04

    Ubuntu 11.04 This o/s was released today (after many beta versions) so I installed it along side Windows 7 64bit, which is how I had Ubuntu 10.10 installed. The install went fine and all looked good until I tried to use Rhythembox which worked great with 10.10...
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    Ubuntu 11.04

    This o/s was released today (after many beta versions) so I installed it along side Windows 7 64bit, which is how I had Ubuntu 10.10 installed. The install went fine and all looked good until I tried to use Rhythembox which worked great with 10.10, and then I tried installing and using Flash...
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    Macintosh 512k system diskette

    My brother just pulled out his vintage Mac 512k which is still in perfect working condition except for the fact that the the original system, a 3.5" floppy disk is missing so we cannot boot it up. These were very different 3.5's back then and apple had a proprietary disk drive in them. Something...
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    Looking for a reasonably priced Video card

    Any help will be appreciated. I am looking for a video card, compatible with Windows 7 64bit Asus M3N78-VM mobo. I don't do any real gaming, maybe Flight Sim, that sort of stuff. I watch DVD's and the o/b graphics ( Nvidia Geforce 8200) w/256mb memory gets hung up occasionally and has resulted...
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    Very annoying problem

    I have an ASUS M3N78=VM motherboard, all the USB ports are designated as USB 2.0. On frequent occasions I get an annoying info box at the bottom of the screen saying "This device will perform better if connected to a high speed USB port..." , Clicking on the message it opens a box, names the...
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    IRQ Conflict or something else?

    Just wondering if anyone else has ran int this problem. OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit P/C:My Build as follows Mobo: Asus M3N78-VM CPU: Anthlon X2 6400 302Ghz Dual Core Memory: 8Gig DDR2 6400 Sound Card: Rocketfish 5.1 (PCI) Video card: Sparkle 8400GS (PCIe 16) Sound card worked great...