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    Was I just taken? Bought a 1tb SSD and only 111gb shows up

    Bought a 1TB 850 Evo off ebay and only 111gb is showing up. The box it came in was sealed and the serial numbers match. Also the sticker on the bottom side of the drive appears to have not been tampered with. 111gb usually means its a 120gb drive, yet on the drive and box it says 1tb. Did I just...
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    Need help with Combobox code

    I'm updating our USMT GUI here at work and one feature I wanted to add was a drop down list of user names. Best way i thought to get this was just have a combo box and to pull the names from the C:\Users folder. I dont need the box to do anything else but list the names. Can someone help me out?
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    What causes corrupt profiles?

    One of the problems we have at my work is when a user logs on they get a red x on the network icon, but it isn't a network issue. When this happens the computer is almost unusable. You cant use things like windows explorer, or internet explorer. We know how to fix the issue, which is deleting...
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    What causes corrupt profiles?

    One of the problems we have at my work is when a user logs on they get a red x on the network icon, but it isn't a network issue. When this happens the computer is almost unusable. You cant use things like windows explorer, or internet explorer. We know how to fix the issue, which is deleting...
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    Need help with batch file to add network printers to all users.

    Microsoft has some built in code you can run from the command prompt to add network printers to all users. The command you use is this CSCRIPT %windir%\system32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prnmngr.vbs -ac -p "\\server\name" I have run this code and it works fine. I wanted to make a...
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    Anybody have an HDbits invite?

    I can give you a bit-hdtv invite in return.
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    Good used car for the girlfriend?

    Anybody got any idea's? Not looking for something expensive.. something around 5k. Just need some idea's on where to start looking as far as models go. Gas mileage and reliability are the most important.
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    Xoom > Ipad

    First let me say, I've owned many apple products and still do. We still use iphones, we have macbooks although I'm in the process of selling them. The Xoom is by far a better laptop replacement then the Ipad could ever hope to be. The only drawbacks to the Xoom compared to the ipad 2 are...
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    UFC 127: Fitch vs Penn (Live right now)

    Streams: http://atdhenet.tv/ MAIN CARD FOR UFC 127: Main Event: Jon Fitch vs. B.J. Penn Michael Bisping vs. Jorge Rivera Carlos Condit vs. Chris Lytle George Sotiropoulos vs. Dennis Siver Kyle Noke vs. Chris Camozzi Fitch is favored, I pick BJ via submission.
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    Beavis and Butthead making a comeback

    http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/exclusive-new-beavis-and-butthead-will-tackle-jersey-shore-and-more-20110216
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    Finally... The Rock is back.

    The Rock > Fedor
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    Why haven't people used this as a defense against the RIAA for music sharing

    Its simple and easily done Lots of shady/illegal stuff deleted. Anything illegal you do will be traced back to someone other than yourself. It would take the cable company a vast amount of resources to track the hacker down. Its pretty easy to find what node they are on, but they they...
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    UFC 126 Silva vs Belfort

    Matchups: UFC Middleweight Championship Anderson Silva (No. 1 MW, No. 2 PFP) vs. Vitor Belfort (No. 5 MW) Forrest Griffin (No. 5 LHW) vs. Rich Franklin Ryan Bader (No. 6 LHW) vs. Jon Jones (No. 7 LHW) Jake Ellenberger vs. Carlos Eduardo Rocha Miguel Torres vs. Antonio Banuelos Chad...
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    SLI and 6 monitors (Not Surround)

    I understand you can only use 2 monitors in SLI mode. Is there a way around this? I know purchasing a second video card will work. I was curious if there were any so called hacks to get around this limitation. I have my 20 30 20 PLP Dell monitor setup, and then I have 3 HD tv's I use for various...
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    Just ordered (2)580 GTX

    Hope I dont feel sick about it later. I'm coming from a 5970 and I've absolutely hated this card since the day I bought it. Nothing but problems, whether it be drivers, performance.. or lack there of. It also has an annoying rattle in the fan. I plan on RMAing the card once my new ones...
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    Bios only showing 16gb of my 24gb of RAM

    I plugged all the memory in and fired up the machine. it only saw 16gb and in the BIOS it says the last two DIMM slots are empty. These slots are known to be working because i had them all filled previously with 12gb of ram. The motherboard in question is an Asrock Extreme 3 x58. I already...
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    Can someone please explain these HDD benchmarks to me?

    Using CrystalDiskMark it gives you 4 different benchmarks. I'm interested in the first three Sequential 512k 4k Can someone explain these to me?
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    I no longer consider myself a christian

    It feels like a 1000 bricks have been lifted off my shoulders. I don't have all the answers, nor am I foolish enough to think I ever will. But I feel so much better. Now lets see how family reacts to updated religious views on facebook. That is all I am not a troll.
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    Help with VB

    I'm having 2 problems with this program. Yes its a homework assignment and I have figured most of it out myself, I'm just stuck on a few things. Problem 1: FIXED When I clear the text boxes and try to recalculate it somehow remembers the data. So lets say i put in quantity two of cappuccino...
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    So I just had an idea for "The Office"

    I've been re-watching The Office on Netflix. Since Steve Carrell is leaving the office I was sitting around contemplating on who would be a good replacement. I came up with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdt0MqalPZk He's already a character, but not a well established one. It would be...
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    4 drive in raid 0, backup/redudancy options

    So I bought 4 samsung f3 1tb drives to run in raid 0. This is mainly for a gaming machine, really important data will not be stored on the drives however, I would like to look at my options. I've read a little about raid 10 but do not understand it fully. I want to maintain the speed of my 4...
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    HELP!!!!!!!! cant poop!

    So I've been sick lately. Was down for a good week. Been constipated the past few days and i got that "feeling" a little bit ago. So i go to the bathroom to do my business. I push and push and nothing. I mean its right "there" and it wont come out. I finally give up cause i'm just plain wore...
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    Neti pots

    Anybody here use these? I have chronic sinus problems and absolutely can not sleep if my nose is completely blocked. Most of the time its only half blocked but I sometimes think it affects my quality of sleep. Today i got a neti pot and used it and I'm feeling pretty good. Its actually kinda...
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    Quick question. Does windows 7 32 bit still have the memory limit?

    Can it see 4 gigs?
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    Jesse Jacksons uneven mustache

    It has annoyed me for years. That is all.
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    Can somebody help with me two probability problems?

    First one is. A cellular phone manufacturer randomly selects 8 of every 100 phones from the assembly line and tests them. If at least 7 out of the 8 selected pass inspection then the batch of 100 is considered acceptable. Find the probability tht the batch is considered acceptable if there...
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    DVI vs VGA on 40 inch LCD

    Well i bought a new Samsung LN40A550. It runs at 1920x1080. I had a DVI to HDMI converter that plugs into the back of my card then hooked it up to my TV via HDMI. Problem is the text was slightly distorted and so were pictures. I tried everything to fix it inside of windows, and the tv options...
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    Dell 3007WFP-HC or a 40in LCD TV

    I'm having a hard time choosing. Right now I have a Westinghouse 37 but the left side of the screen is having burn in issue and there's a wave of pixels that have a darker tint to them. So I'm looking to replace this and get something else, hopefully something more reliable. The prices are...
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    Is there a way to keep cookies from being stored on my machine?

    I either want a way for them to be deleted everytime i start or close IE, or a way to stop them from being stored completely.
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    Anyone interested in doing a group buy for the HDD stage racks at geekstuff4u?

    I was looking for maybe a couple of people that would be interested in picking some of these up. I have yet to find them on any website in the US. The shipping is outrageous so I wanted to see if a few people wanted some and we split the shipping...
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    HTPC video lags with wireless network

    I have a linksys 54G router and a PCI 54G card in my htpc. When watching divx files on my HTPC that are on my main computer in another room the video stumbles every few minutes. I know this isnt a bandwidth issue cause i did a download on my HTPC and there was plenty of bandwidth. I cant seem to...
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    HELP! Microsoft word wont display equations my Math professor sent me.

    He sent out a sheet for out test tomorrow with some equations. I have both Word 2003 and 2007 and its just a bunch of jibberish written all over the document. I've searched and searched and I cant find a solution.
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    Anybody here have a bit-hdtv invite?

    Seems impossible to sign up for an account. Been checking there for months and no luck :(
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    Is it normal when doing a vista install for it to sit at a blank screen for over 30 minutes?

    I havent EVER been able to get vista to install on any of my machines. They just sit there at this nice screen you see when you first start up. You have a mouse crusor, you can move it around but it just does nothing. Hard to believe this is a RTM version.
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    Microsoft just bricked my 360

    Just downloaded an update on xbox live, never had a problem before and now it doesnt work at all. At first I got 3 red lights and then I tried microsofts solution of unplugging out of my power strip and into the wall. It turned on but now it makes a loud noise of the speaker and then i get...
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    I didnt know it was free to trace cell phones via GPS

    http://www.phonetrace.org/results.php
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    Mathmaticians come here

    (He's a Gelert who happens to be a farmer, not a farmer who grows Gelerts!) has three fields. One field is an equilateral triangle, one field is a circle, and one field is a square. The square field is 75% larger in area than the triangular field, and 50% larger in area than the circular field...
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    Did a format without decrypting some files..

    I reinstalled windows. Is there anyway to recover these files or am I S.O.L.?
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    Question about BFG warrenty.

    I have a 6800GT made by BFG. It has recently died on me. It just sat in the box for a few months and all of a sudden when I put it back in it doesnt work. On the website it says I need a sales receipt but I dont have one... am I S.O.L.?