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    Windows 7 - Build 7601 copy not genuine - Windows must be restored

    Windows 7 has had a mind of its own recently. I had set the updates to download but to not update. Of course it seems it is determined to update without my input at all, so when I put the computer into sleep mode I woke up this morning to find the computer on and it sitting at the login screen...
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    Lg 27mp33hq 27"

    I'm trying to turn off the auto-dimming for my monitor. See here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824025041 The driver CD it came with won't even read (it spins around and stops--and yes, I have double-checked by reading with other CDs to ensure that the optical drive...
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    New rig won't post

    Greetings, I recently built a new computer and I am having trouble having it post. When flipping the PSU on, the CPU overvoltage jumper light on the motherboard (Asus Z97) turns green. The CPU is a i7-4790K. The PSU is an EVGA 850 B2. I have moved the jumper to pins 2-3 and the light still...
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    HP Envy 15 Notebook PC phantom CPU usage

    Greetings, I bought an HP Envy touchscreen notebook back in late November. I haven't really noticed, however, until mid March that if the computer idles for about five minutes, without fail, the system takes up 18% of CPU usage and holds there until I bring it out of its idle state by moving...
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    Momentary freezing with Firefox

    I booted up my computer this morning and I've been experiencing momentary freezing in Firefox ever since. Every time I move the mouse around, open up a new link, etc., it happens randomly, but everything freezes for a split second and then continues like normal. This is persistent and continues...
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    Document files appearing blank when they aren't

    So I recently reformatted and was going through installing all the software. Got Microsoft Office 2010 back on and I was looking through my backed up documents and many of them appear "blank". When I say blank I mean I open them up and nothing is there. The problem is that there is supposed to...
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    Windows 7 login taking atrociously long after recent java update

    Pretty much what it says on the tin. Previously booting up and logging in took about one or two minutes all together. Ever since I installed a recent java update, however, I sat at my computer for a full five minutes at the "starting Windows" screen and then waited another two minutes for the...
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    Memory usage being eaten up

    I'm having troubles with memory usage with my computer. It's a problem I've had in the past but only when Symantec tries to run its stealth scans (at 12PM each day). When I'm running a memory-intensive program at that time (such as a game that requires excessive memory, like Empire: Total War or...
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    Cannot disable hardware acceleration

    So I recently got back home after having been away for a year and began to remember the problems I was having with my system before I left. One such problem concerns a Logitech PnP mouse I've been using for the last year or so. Sometimes when I'm holding down the button to drag something (like a...
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    External hard drive not working

    So I start my laptop like any other day and try to access my external hard drive only to find that the drive listing is set to the default name (Local Disk) and when I try to access it Windows gives me an error message saying that I need to format the disk before I can use it. Uh, what? I have...
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    Win 7 login troubles

    So I've had the temporary login profile problem ever since I installed Windows 7. I never thought much of it because I would simply log out when the problem happened and then log back in and everything would be alright. Lo and behold of all the days for this problem to persist permanently would...
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    GTX 470 is exceedingly loud

    I just recently replaced my 8800GT because of it standing on its last leg (mostly because the thing wails like a banshee when it's under pressure). I figured I'd go for a solid upgrade. Read the review on guru3d about noise level when the card was under work, but I had no clue it'd be this loud...
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    Wireless adapter troubles

    I've had this wireless adapter from Linksys for quite some time now. From what I read it works great with the RangePlus router (WRT110), which is exactly what I have. This wireless card is not but 30 feet away from the router (through a wall, no electrical interference between the distance). It...
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    Retaining document format in Word

    Alright, so I'm trying to amass a bunch of Doc files into one document file. The trouble is, however, that a few of them are in landscape format, so when I put them over into the portrait format of my main document, they do not retain the landscape format and are converted to the main document's...
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    myftp.exe error

    Hey, so I've recently been getting this error that shows up when I'm running an application (or when my screen saver kicks in). Here is the following message: http://img.photobucket.com/alb...mnon582bc/PC/error.jpg A simple Google search also yields that this is a Windows file, but that...
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    CD drive decides when it wants to work

    Ever since I bought the Spore Creature Creator off of EA's download manager, my CD drive has been acting up. After two weeks of battling with EA support staff, and essentially being threatened to have my account banned, I decided that I'd never purchase an EA game ever again, as SecuROM has been...
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    Printer spooler stopped working

    This has been a problem that has been going on for quite some time. Just one day my printer stopped working, claiming that the printer spooler stopped working. I uninstalled and tried to reinstall, but each time install wouldn't finish because the printer spooler device wouldn't start. I even...
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    Removing SecuRom?

    I'm posting this on the security board because SecuRom is a threat to my computer. Ever since I downloaded the Spore Creature Creator (first the demo and then later bought the creator--both contain SecuRom) my CD-ROM drive has been acting up. Every movie I get from Netflix I try to play on it...
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    Music no longer plays

    I tried to edit the ID3 tags of a music file, but it said I had to have dBpoweramp to do so. So I download the program and install it and after installing it it asks me to restart my computer. I do so and now every time I try to play a music file in WMP I am brought with the following error...
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    Print Screen in Windows Media Player?

    I've Googled for solutions to this problem. One has me alter the overlay settings in WMP itself. I tried that but that didn't work (image still shows up as black). I tried the Display settings way of decreasing hardware acceleration but that also didn't work. I have Fraps but apparently it...
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    Expense programs for the Mac?

    Hey guys, let me give you the run down of the problem here. I'm trying to help out a friend find something similar to Palm Desktop software regarding the Expenses program (i.e. Think in simplicity here). The only problem is that the Palm Desktop software for the Mac does not support the Expenses...
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    Tricky spyware

    So I start up windows today and I had a little dialogue box pop up from the tray and tell me Windows had detected spyware. Here's an image to be more specific: http://img.photobucket.com/alb...Random%202/spyware.jpg If I click on the icon or the text the spyware automatically installs on...
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    .mbox file problem

    I'm trying to access an .mbox file to upload my past inbox from a previous computer. Every time I try to do so I am prompted that it does not know how to open the file. I've tried to open it with Mac Mail and Microsoft Entourage but when I do it just freezes the application. What's wrong?
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    Getting music off of your iPod?

    To be more specific, how do you get music off of your iPod onto your Mac? I've been Googling for third party programs or of different ways to do it but all the articles I can ever find are either four or two years old.
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    Driver not burning CDs, but still reads them

    Pretty self-explanatory. One day I booted up my PC and a Windows error message popped up on the tray at the bottom saying that the burning software on the CD drive was disabled because running it would cause Windows to become unstable. Every time I try to burn a CD, nothing happens, but the...
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    A bit of an Adware problem

    So my first Adware problem in a few years and I also can't get rid of it. I've run AVG and Spybot and both find the adware in question, and both claim that the adware is quarantined/deleted, but I still get pop ups. The only real problem is that it uses Internet Explorer, so that means every...
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    A few Mac questions

    Hey, I've been helping my grandfather set up his new iMac (the brand new line with all the new software and OS). My knowledge is basic when it comes to Macs, but I do know how to drag shortcuts to the dock bar. For some reason they end up disappearing after a while. Is it possible this is...