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    Router issues with XBox Live... getting disconnected

    I am having a bit of a strange issue on my Xbox 360. Whenever I try to play Call of Duty: Black Ops or Forza Motorsports 3, I am kicked off of Xbox Live without explanation. It simply states "Disconnected from Xbox Live". If I go back to the Dashboard, it immediately reconnects without issue...
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    See?

    Told you, James.
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    How to kill "un-kill-able" processes

    Cliff Notes Version: I want to know how to kill processes that you can't normally kill, namely "vsmon.exe" and "iclient.exe" (part of ZoneAlarm). The challenge: Our company's remote access suite for VPNing in to our corporate network consists of four programs: iPass, Contivity VPN...
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    Unable to run Windows Update?

    I am IT support for our company, and I have a user who has been unable to run Windows Update for some time now. The error she receives says that she doesn't have the ActiveX control to run Windows Update. It never gives the option to install it. It used to give the option, and when you would...
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    3x Netgear NICs refuse to run at gigabit speed?

    I have 3 Netgear GA302T 32-bit PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapters. Some excerpts, directly from the box: - Runs at 1000 mbps using standard Cat 5 networking cables - Automatically detects speed, duplex, and crossover/uplink - Designed for Pentium II/III or comparable PCs - Automatically...
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    Do iPods support long filenames? Special characters?

    I came to the realization that if I bought one of the larger capacity iPods (40 or 60 GB), it would serve just as good as a backup of all my music on my computer (in the event of a hard drive crash) as well as a portable media player. However, I am very picky about the organization and...
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    ACK!! When RAID 0 dies....

    As a last resort, trying to see if any of my fellow geeks have any ideas on recovering my drive.... Somewhat recently I backed up my boot drive, formatted and reinstalled Windows, and then reconfigured my boot drive to be two 40GB drives in an IDE RAID 0 (striping) configuration. Well...
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    HELP! Hard drive crash; RAID volume, important files needing recovery!!!

    As a last resort, trying to see if any of my fellow geeks have any ideas on recovering my drive.... Somewhat recently I backed up my boot drive, formatted and reinstalled Windows, and then reconfigured my boot drive to be two 40GB drives in an IDE RAID 0 (striping) configuration. Well...
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    Certain Word Docs Freeze Computer when on Network

    I am an IT support/Network Admin at the company I work for. I have a strange problem with two of my users. There is a certain set of .doc files that they can not open with Word when they are connected to the local Active Directory network. They sent the file to me when I was in another office...