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    Excel UDF Question - SUM columns on other sheets

    I've been wracking my brain trying to piece together a UDF to save me a ton of time, but I'm having difficulty. So here's the situation: - I have several comma delineated .txt files (10-20 or so) that are imported into an Excel file. - Each .txt file gets its own Sheet in the Excel...
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    USB Keyboards don't work until Windows boots

    I have a bit of a strange issue. All of my USB keyboards (Logitech G10 and Saitek Eclipse II) do not work on my Windows XP Professional system until Windows actually loads. This means I can't get into the BIOS unless I plug in an old Dell PS/2 keyboard. Not too much of an inconvenience, but...
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    Where to buy a Latex Mattress?

    I remember reading that huge mattress thread about a 1-1.5 years ago. I decided the next mattress I got was going to be a latex one. Finally shopping around now. Anyone have any good experiences buying one from a certain vendor? Thanks!
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    Home Theater Review Sites

    What would be considered the "Anandtech" of the Home Theater world? I check out the AVS Forums from time to time and get some good info, but I like to read well written reviews from time to time rather than just forum posts. Any help would be appreciated...thanks!
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    Any lip balm recommendations?

    I'm tired of lip balms that give your lips a really "waxy" feel to them only to dry out quickly and make your lips feel even worse. I had some obscure lip balm years ago that worked great, but I've long since forgotten the name. So do you guys have any recommendations?
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    YAJT: Scaffolding

    Steve, Bob, and Jeff were working on a very high scaffolding one day when suddenly, Steve falls off and is killed instantly. After the ambulance leaves with Steve's body, Bob and Jeff realize that one of them is going to have to tell Steve's wife. Bob says he's good at this sort of sensitive...
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    Making Autorun CD's

    My boss just came in and asked me to create a CD that will autorun when put in the computer. They want it to automatically open a menu which would be used to navigate to various files on the CD. They handed me a sample CD which was made by another company and I must say, it looks nice...
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    Windows Serial Number Question

    Hi guys, I've seen various things posted about this in the past, but I can't remember if this would work. I bought a Dell system about 5 years ago and it came with a Windows XP Install Disk. I reinstalled windows once on the machine, but when I moved a year ago, I lost the disk during the...
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    Free OCR programs?

    Hi guys, just wondering if any of you know of any free Optical Character Recognition programs out there. Thanks!
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    File Server/Video Encoding Build

    Hey guys, I'm looking to build a file server/video encoding computer. Just want something that can sit in a corner and encode video, burn DVD's, etc. while I am on my main machine. Currently, I have an old Dell P4 2 GHz with 512 MB of RAM dedicated to this task. I am going to donate this...
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    Bluetooth Headset

    I don't know if this entirely the right forum for this, but I figured you guys might have some experience with these. Just bought a Motorola V3 RAZR (amazon had it for $50) and I figured I would get a bluetooth headset for it. Price isn't too much of an issue. Spending up to $100 on a...
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    Font creation software

    Hi guys, a co worker of mine was looking into designing his own fonts as a hobby. Saw Fontographer and FontLab from Macromedia, but both are expensive. Are there any decent freeware programs out there that will do the job?
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    Teamspeak on dial up?

    Guild Wars is coming out next month and I am thinking about downloading teamspeak. It's a small miracle the Guild Wars runs fine on dial up, but will I be able to use Teamspeak too? Does it eat up too much bandwidth? Sadly phone lines in my area are not even 56k compliant, so I only get 28.8.
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    Headset or microphone?

    Guild Wars is coming out next month, so I will be getting teamspeak to play with guildmates. Just wondering which option is better...headset or a microphone? I remember reading somewhere about people getting echoes when using a microphone because it was picking up the sound from the speakers...
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    Dell 2005FPW LCD

    I just saw a deal over in the hot deals forum for the 2005FPW for $524. Thinking about getting it. On the dell site it gives recommended graphics cards. It doesn't list much on the nVidia side, but it says the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro will run it. I have a 6600GT, so I guess I should be fine...
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    Custom Build PC Vendors

    Hi guys, I finally convinced a Mac addict in my office to switch to a PC(he's a gamer), but he trashes PC's based on his experience with Dell's(ugh). So I'm going to get him to build a nice custom PC. What vendors are out there? I looked at Monarch and I remember seeing one suggested in here...
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    Faulty SD Card?

    Hi guys, I just bought a new 1 GB SD card for my PDA. I was loading music files onto it and once I got about 367 MB of music on there I started getting error messages when copying files. Said something like "Cannot create file". At first I thought the lock had been accidently switched on, but...
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    Thang Online

    http://thang.ongameport.com/ Just downloaded and started playing it last night. Figured I'd mention it here for anyone looking for something new to try. Nice visuals in this game. The english could use a little work, but hey, it's free!
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    Bad CPU?

    Hi, building a new Athlon 64 3500 machine on a Gigabyte K8NF - 9 motherboard. I got Windows installed, but the processor seems to only be running at 200MHz. I manually set the CPU speed in the BIOS to 200 x 11 and I installed the Everest system monitoring utility and it reports the CPU is...
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    Installing XP Pro to SATA Hard drive w/ Gigabyte NF4 Ultra

    Hi guys...new to the forums and computer building. Having a rough time with it so far. Started off with a dead PSU and now I can't install the operating system. I'm trying to install XP to a 74 GB WD Raptor. I've searched these and other forums and found out that this appears to be a...