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    Torrenting on a college network

    My college recently caught me using uTorrent and blocked me from the campus-wide wireless network. After I was blocked, I changed my MAC address, which I thought would solve the problem, but it didn't. I went to the network admin yesterday and got her to unblock me, but if I get caught again...
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    Vista's dead (at least this copy)

    I had a lot of programs open on my Dell XPS m1330 notebook yesterday, and one of Adobe's programs (probably Acrobat) was installing an update (I'm not sure if that's relevant, but it's the only readily apparent reason I can think of for this to happen all of sudden). The system stopped...
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    How to make an exception for AVG antivirus

    I have a couple of programs on my computer right now that I know for a fact are NOT viruses, but AVG thinks they are and won't let me use them, and whenever I restore them from the virus vault, it instantly redetects them and again makes the programs unusable even if I click "ignore". Is there...
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    Groove not synchronizing

    I've been MS Office Groove 2007 for a while to synchronize to folders of mine, and up until now it's been going fine, but now the files in one of the two folders don't automatically download to the computer. When I try to manually download them, I'm prompted if I really want to download this...
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    How best to sync music and files over multiple computers

    I have a desktop and I'm currently in the process of buying a laptop. I'd like to be able to keep my 50GB music collection and files synchronized across the two computers automatically. Of course when I first get the laptop I'll transfer at very least the music via DVD-DLs, but after that I...
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    Two wireless antennae

    The motherboard that I?ve got is an Asus P5W DH Deluxe, and it comes with a wireless antenna built in. Recently though I got a new router, the Belkin Pre-N, and a new wireless card to go along with it since everyone said you really needed both of them to really unlock the potential of the...
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    Windows Validation

    A few days ago my parents computer came up with the message that it's copy of Windows XP was counterfeit. I just upgraded my computer to Vista today (thanks to the excellent advice of people here on this forum) and I was thinking about using my old XP CD key to validate my parents computer copy...
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    0x7B stopscreen while installing Vista

    I few days ago I got my copy of Vista, and immediately started installing it. All went well until the first reboot at which point I got a 0x7B stop screen error, which according to Microsoft means the boot drive's not accessible. Google has a lot of records of people having this problem...
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    Wireless gaming

    My desktop computer is setup wirelessly, but the connection is slow and sometimes very erratic, especially during online gaming. I'm on a mission to fix that problem. The router that I'm using is a D-Link 524, which I bought several years ago in my local small town electronics store (an...
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    Wireless gaming

    My desktop computer is setup wirelessly, but the connection is slow and sometimes very erratic, especially during online gaming. I'm on a mission to fix that problem. The router that I'm using is a D-Link 524, which I bought several years ago in my local small town electronics store (an...
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    Upgrade woes, please help!

    Whenever it comes time for me to upgrade/build a computer, I always feel like a devout Muslim about to be put to death by firing squad; sure I know it's a good thing because it'll eventually transport me to nerd heaven where I'll live in bliss with seven virgin computer components, but why does...
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    Computer dead/admin logon help

    Well, it's finally happend: my computer seems to have died completely. When I start it up, a screen saying that a recent hardware of software change has made something funky and it wants to know how I want to proceed. If I choose Safe Mode, the computer restarts right before it gets to the...