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    Which OS - XP or Vista

    I'm setting up a machine to attach to our 52" LCD in the living room. It's primary for web surfing, music storage, and game playing. At the moment I'm not planning on using media center functions like DVR. I have Windows XP SP2 and I also have Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. After reading a...
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    Icons missing in Windows XP

    After the last round of windows updates were installed last night I noticed all of my icons were missing. This includes icons on the desktop and all throughout my hard drive. All files are pointing to the right programs, as you can double click and they open. I also made sure that in the file...
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    Printed Item Tracking

    Hi, I was wondering if there is an software (preferably cheap or free) that would preform some sort of print document tracking. This could be as simple as printing the IP or machine name at the bottom of each page or having a centralized database of what machine / IP printed what. Thanks
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    Odd Network issue

    We have 4 servers attached to a switch going to the company router. 2 of these servers are fine, however the other 2 seem to lose network connectivity to the server every 15 to 30 min. However if you ping out to another server on the switch or to any public site like google or yahoo, incoming...
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    External Sound Cards w/ 2 mic in's

    We are looking at replacing our conference room tape recording system with a software based one. However the laptops in the conference rooms only have 1 mic port and 1 headphone port. So I was looking for a external sound card that I could plug our 2 1/8" mic's into. So far all I've found...
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    Looking for a wireless router

    Hi, I recently got a laptop so now I'm in the market for a wireless router. Making a big mistake I purchased the WRT54GX2 from Dell with my laptop without looking at reviews. While it works fine with my wired connection it can't seem to pass an IP to my laptop wirelessly. I've tried everything...
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    MSI packaging tool

    Hi, I'm looking for an MSI packaging tool that I can turn .exe 's into .msi's. Free is good, but it doesn't have to be. Thanks.
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    Patch deployment across a non-AD network

    Hi, I'm trying to mess with getting a patch pushed to all our desktops in our office. We do not use AD and we don't have any third party software like SMS. I initially tried to use the msiexec command and put it in the batch file. However after trying it the patch wants administrator rights...
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    Hard Drive for External Enclosure

    I just purchased an external enclosure without a built in fan so I'm looking for a hard drive which has low thermal output to put inside. The only requirement is that I need at least 300GB of space. Thanks
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    Flash MP3 Players

    I know these come up all the time, but I had my iRiver stolen at the gym and now I'm looking for a new one. I've only looked at the Ipod Nano and my own experience with iRiver. Any other suggestions are welcome. Ipod nano: Pros, it has looks going for it, nice color screen, good navigation...
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    Windows 98 install

    I haven't installed windows 98 in a long time so I'm having trouble remembering a lot of the tricks you needed to do with it. The guys machine I'm working with has a 20gb hard drive in it, but no matter what options I check in the install when all is said and done windows only recognizes 5gb...
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    Nvidia Dual Monitor issue

    I set someone up with a dual CRT situation with a Quadro 4 card, however useing the horizontal span mode puts all start up programs in the middle of the screen, which means part of the programs are blocked by the dead space between the 2 monitors. Moving every program that opens up everytime is...
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    Submitting to a problem to microsoft.

    We are having a problem getting the windows 2000 version of the management console to work with the Windows XP version and vise versa. After extensive searching I couldn't find anything on the issue other then the versions changed and could be a likely cause. However one guy suggested that you...
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    Active Directory Question

    I'm a complete AD newb so please bare with me on my use of terms. Our situation looks like this, all of the departments in our organization are in one AD tree, our subnet however has been allowed to continue to be seperate (meaning most importantly control of our network) and thus we have our...
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    Memory Speed Question / Hard Drive Question

    I'm running a 400SC machine at the moment with a 2.8ghz Northwood. When I bought it I got 2 sticks of value 2700 memory. Now that I splurged on a X800XL I'm think a memory boost might be in order. My question is what was better for these type of intel CPU's, Faster speed memory? or tighter...
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    Disappearing Files and Record Segments Unreadable

    Recently one of our computers started seeing files disappear. At first we thought it could be a malicious attack but the random nature of the files that are gone make it seem kind of strange. Example would be that the main folder is still there but one sub-directory is gone, and in the remaining...
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    Windows 2000 Rollout 4

    From my understanding this is nothing more then all the old patches rolled into one large update. So if you are up to date you don't need to install this? If thats true how do you remove it from the high priority standing?
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    Best Buy: ATI Radeon X850 XT 256MB AGP $314 AR

    $404.99 - $10 off every $100 coupon (look to deal sites) - $50 MIR = $314.99 + Sales Tax. For me in MI it comes out to around $335. Credit to techbargains. EDIT: Link 2 posts down
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    Budget Motherboard

    I'm looking for a good budget motherboard to help a friend out. I really like the board I put into my brothers machine, DFI NF4 Ultra, but he won't have a 24-pin PS needed for that board. So here are some reqs, * 20-pin PS connector * Diagnostic LED's * NF4 or equivilant * On-board Sound...
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    Where does Firefox store it's bookmarks?

    I'm switching over to a different computer at work and I'm looking for where Firefox stores it's bookmarks so that I can pull them off one machine and put them on the other. Thanks.
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    Remote Connections to XP from 2000

    I'm trying to find out why when I try to connect to an XP computer in our network from a 2000 pro machine it gives me errors like "Failed connection to logical disk manager". I've done multiple google searches and have tried all the results I have found with no success. Going the reverse...
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    Spring Video Card Line?

    Has anyone heard anything about new stuff coming? Have we officially broke the cycle of spring and fall launches?
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    2 LAN related questions

    First question, is it possible to have 2 local area networks installed on one machine? For example a laptop would have one for the static IP based network at home, and one that is set up for DHCP for when it needs to be taken to conferences and such. The second is more of a quick problem...
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    Cleaning LCD Screens

    At work we ordered a few new LCD screens. Now were working on rules for workers to follow with them. I remember reading at numerous places that windex and paper towels are a no go. However Dell's solution of a moisten cloth is not going to fly either. Looking at Officemax (we have to order from...
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    New machine problems

    I built my brothers machine up here today. Everything seemed to be going fine. I'm useing a DFI Lanparty UT board, so it has some diagnastic LED in the corner. The first run through I have the memory in the 2 orange slots (recommeded by DFI), and the LED's make it all the way through and I start...
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    24-pin /20-pin ATX Power supply

    I'm setting up a computer at the moment and when I went to plug in the motherboard, I noticed it wanted a 24-pin ATX adapter and the powersupply I bought (came with the Antec Sonata) only have 20-pin ATX. Now I talked to some tech guys and they were saying that you should be able to plug in the...
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    ATI Catalyst Drivers on a workstation card?

    Has anyone tried or heard if it's stable to install the normal catalyst drivers on a machine useing a FireGL card? After looking through both sets of drivers the workstations had alot of left out features, including the rotate tab. Thanks.
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    Pivot Software for LCD's

    I bought the Dell 1905FP LCD for christmas and forgot about the pivot feature. After reading the review I'm curious about useing it. I don't suppose you can go grab samsungs software anywhere? Otherwise what are some good 3rd-party pivot software solutions.
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    Sata Question

    I haven't delt with sata before so me knowledge is pretty limiting. I was looking at my friends new HP and his one harddrive was connected via the small thin sata cord. So am I correct in assmuning this is a sata drive? The bigger question is that he would like his old hard drive (an IDE) one...
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    SP2 Question

    One of my friends called me up and told me he was having problems with SP2. From what I got he has his updates auto-install so his computer autoinstalled SP2 and from then on his computer won't boot into windows, or sometimes it will load up but he'll just get a plain windows background and not...
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    PC to MAC File Transfer

    My friend just bought a powerbook and would like to transfer his files from his old PC to the new mac. I let him borrow my external HD to move the gb's of data. The problem is that his mac won't read my external HD. The HD is formatted in NTFS and I built the HD myself so there isn't any...
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    *DEAD* Fantasy Football Picks

    I'm in need of some quick help, I joined the office fantasy football league, but I don't follow football even remotely close enough to pick the people I need. If anyone who knows alot about football or is in a FF league themselves could post the top 5 or 10 players for each pick, I'd really...
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    IE features of SP2

    Can one download just the new features to IE without getting all of SP2? For example I'd like to update IE on our windows 2000 boxes.
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    Inventory App

    I'm looking for a program that can go to each machine on a network and take an inventory of all software on that machine. If it gives versions numbers, etc, so much the better. The few I have seen either take ungodly amounts of time to setup, ie it would be just as fast to walk over and do it...
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    Regedit Problem Windows 2000 pro

    The jist is that there are 2 users who should be able to get into regedit that can't and 2 users who are not supposed to get into regedit and can. The problem is that the on the 2 users computers who can't get to it they have a registry key that is blocking them from opening it where as the 2...
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    Harddrive Image / Shutdown Questions

    I have 2 questions. The first is that I'm looking for a good drive image software. I heard good things about DriveImage but then I guess they got bought out by symantec and so far all the reviews say it's close to beta software. Also if it can be rather cheap that would be nice as well, since it...
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    Memory: Speed vs Quantity

    I need to buy some memory for my new system (400SC). Since I only paid ~$300 for it in the first place I'm not spending $150+ on memory alone. So I have the option of getting either 1gb of PC2700 or 512mb of PC3200. Both are roughly the same price so which is better the faster speed or the...
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    Logitech Z-680 / Realtek ALC655 Question

    I just hooked my new speakers up to the onboard sound on my friends motherboard. While they work alright during the speaker tests it won't put the speakers in the right place, ie the subwoofer activates when I click on the right surround speaker. All the wires are hooked up correct, and I...
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    Powersupply and ATI

    I was thinking about getting a new graphics card, a 9600xt, but I'm not sure if I have a large enough PS. The one I have at the moment is a 235W PS. I thought ATI had some sort of power supply list for their cards, but I can't find it on their site or by searching the net. Thanks for any help.