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    Return email is not mine

    For the past several months I have gotten returned email in my junk mail folder that I never sent out. I open the returned mail and find that my return email address has been shown on the original message. One time I tried to change what I thought was the password on the "return" box in...
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    What email program do you use with W7 and why?

    I'm using the email program that came with W7 home and I don't like it much. I'm told some email programs dont work with W7. I have used the ones with XP and Vista and liked them better but don't remember the names. Searching the download sites isn't much help. Recommendations please? And why do...
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    AAAARRRGGGHHHH! REady to ditch Win7

    I can't believe I fell for it. Everybody said Win7 was easy to use, the best thing since sliced bread. Now I'm in a mess. Am I going to have to spend MORE money to get a working computer? 1. Since my motherboard died and I didn't have a suitable backup, the Geek Squad at Best Buy "transferred"...
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    Dead hdmi: lg tv, 3 yr old; other dead components

    I bought an LG BluRay DVD player and after hours and hours of frustration, found that one of the two HDMI ports on my LG plasma tv is dead. The other works fine and has been used for satellite reception. I could get the DVD hooked up but no picture or sound. Display window of dvd shows disc is...
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    Screen message: USB port malfunctioned

    I keep getting a message on my screen that a USB port has malfunctioned. A few minutes later there MIGHT be a message saying the malfunctioning USB port is now in operation -- or it might not. I click on the message and get a graphic showing the USB ports on my comptuer and that one of them is...
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    How about an HTML forum?

    I'd like to see an HTML forum. I'm a rank amateur when it comes to web pages. Don't have the patience to learn a tutorial from the beginning since I know about 50% of what I need for a simple web page. Recently I wanted to use includes and had to search and search for info, finally found it in a...
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    Internet Explorer

    What in the sam hill is going on with Internet Explorer? Every now and then I go to a page that I know perfectly well it works, and I get a message, "IE cannot display the webpage." Andthen it shows a box that says one thing you can try is "Diagnose connection problems." For instance, it came up...
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    Update refuses to install: Vista

    MS Update keeps trying to download and install an update for my 17" wide flat screen monitor. It is refused every time by whatever mechanism does that in my computer. I've tried making a hole for it in my firewall but that hasn't worked. This has been going on for about 3 months. Any ideas?
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    Revert to XP from Vista?

    I need someone with a fair degree of expertise to tell me if I can revert from Vista to XP. I had several computers before settling on this one, an HP Pavilion desktop, 4.8G HD, 2942M RAM, bought last Oct. I've been back and forth with whether to take it back and get an XP machine but I'm...
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    Is my computer dying?

    I''m using a 7 year old Sony Vaio, WinXP and it's been a pretty good machine. Recently I got hints that it was about to crash (strange things on the screen, odd behavior, etc.) so I backed up everything important (except the one thing that I TRULY wanted to save) and did a re-install with my...