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    SSD filling up

    My Samsung 128 GB 840 Pro according to Magician has 95 GB of used space and 12 GB unused. Is there a way to increase the amount of unused space? I am trying to preserve this SSD as it has an expensive professional program that I am unable to replace. I deleted a good portion of my stored...
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    Hard Drive Caddy

    A Dell Latitude D6420 I-7 2640 M Laptop is being offered on EBay without a hard drive or hard drive caddy for $58.00 at the moment. This is a $350.00 value if I find a caddy. I have the hard drive--Samsung 850 pro.. Are laptop hard drive caddy's generic or are they hard to find? Dell does not...
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    Buying Laptop on Ebay

    Having very little $$$ I am looking at Core Duo Processors or maybe Sandybridge I-3. It will likely have DDR2 Memory--probably 4 GB, and I will install a Samsung 850 Pro SSD. Am looking to spend less than $150.00. This notebook will be used professionally (instead of gaming). I do the normal...
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    Fanless Cooling For Haswell?

    Old Office System used primarily on a few professional programs, viewing YouTube and vids. Aim of build is optimal snappiness and QUIET. Silverstone TJ7 Open Case without side pannels Core Duo E8400 Scythe Katana fanless cooling tower (small to medium tower) XFX low end fanless vid card...
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    Is this Asus Z87 Pro an RMA Candidate?

    New System trouble from the get go. Unknown if it's me or the board. Presently have: Windows 8 64 bit Haswell 4670 Corsair 1866 2 x 8 dimm Asus Z87 Pro WD Blue 250 Gig 7200 new hard drive 2008 top of line (then) Seasonic 500W PD All connections are tight. The DVD player does work. SATA in...
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    Noobie stumped--New system problem.

    Noob Q--although this is a mystery. New build powers up. Insert Asus Z87 pro start up CD into new Asus DVD player as boot drive. Fails to boot. Get a INT 13: 08 error which has something to do with a boot interruption. DOS appears. Insert Windows XP CD hoping to install windows. this CD...
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    How To Stop Email Hijack

    Once a week my email contacts are hijacked and links sent to the recipients. i have microsoft essentials, spybot search and destroy, windows defender and malwarebytes anti malware and windows XP. ineffective to stop it. Only thing that works is deleting all contacts. any way to solve...
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    Notebook Priorities: Non-Gaming/Wireless

    am purchasing a limited budget business notebook with a goal of best speed for the parts ordered that will be on a wireless Verizon mobile hookup. The use primarily is browsing with fairly complex multi-asking, frequent uploads and downloads, and crunching of larger files where we seek to avoid...
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    Aging Memory

    core duo e8400 system has 2 x 1 GB memory sticks--DDR2 800 mhz --age 2 years Western Digital 10,000 rpm Raptor Hd--age 4 years. Used generally about 10 hrs./day without shut off 7 days/week. Running fine. At what point to do we replace memory and hard drive to avoid a crash? Office...
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    Registry Boosters

    free registry booster (uniblue) scans and finds 296 registry errors. buy program for $30 and clean up the errors. anyone tell me the function of registry booster programs and whether there is any benefit to buying such a program?
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    Using 3rd Hardrive with Raid 0

    a newbie question. e8400 computer damaged by virus (despite Norton 360), and now, after shop repair buggy, an slow. Unable to do windows reinstall as the Twin 160 GB Raptors in Raid 0 have a $1000 program that I'm unable to load onto a new drive. My solution is to use the Raid 0 for...