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    HP printers any good?

    Thanks for the tips. This is what I was talking about regarding printers and spyware Lexmark accused of installing spyware
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    HP printers any good?

    I'm thinking about getting an HP OfficeJet printer and I'm wondering if there are any pitfalls with HP printers. Do HP printers transmit identifiable info about you to HP whenver you print something? I think I remember reading something like that, or maybe it was for a different manurfacturer...
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    DVDDecrypter - end of life!

    what's a good application for ripping DVDs that don't contain encryption...like if a friend gives me a DVD containing home video?
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    Internet Explorer hangs for 30+ seconds when going to first url typed in the address bar

    I had this problem once and as strange as it sounds I think the thing that was causing it was that I had a drive letter mapped to another server that was very slow to respond. If you open Windows Explorer and click on any drives mapped to other servers do any take a long time to respond?
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    Why is it that Clear CMOS is still a JUMPER?

    I can understand the benefits of having a switch or a button for clearing cmos. When I first built my pc I had to clear cmos several times while doing some troubleshooting and it would have been a lot more convenient to have a switch than a jumper especially considering how difficult it is to...
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    Completely erase a HDD

    Has anyone physically taken apart a hard drive and exposed the platters and then destroyed them?
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    Random Shutdown Annoyance

    check all the cable connections inside your pc to make sure none of them are loose.
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    Laser printer warm up times...

    Did you go to start menu then settings then printers and then right click the printer icon and select properties
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    Laser printer warm up times...

    If you're using Windows I think there's a setting that lets you set the time delay until the printer goes into standby or sleep mode. You can set that to a very high value.
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    are ink jet printers good for text?

    I want to buy a new printer that will mainly be used for personal documents but sometimes for business text documents. I'd like to get an ink jet printer for the cheap color capability, but I also want it to be able to produce sharp text for business documents. Can ink jet printers produce...
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    Media Player - other than WMP?

    That VLC looks pretty cool. I didn't see anything about prices. Is it freeware? BTW to the original poster, you can also use PowerDVD.
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    What's a good video editor?

    I want to be able to edit video clips like mpeg and be able to cut out scenes in the middle not just at the beginning and end.
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    Just when i was set to upgrade to straight A64 939

    My understanding is that an application or game has to be multithreaded to see a performance boost from dual core cpu's. I think most games today are designed to be single threaded.
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    Rome: Total War Tips?

    why would a larger campaign map put a strain on resources. It's not like the map has a bunch of high quality graphics and shaders.
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    Rome: Total War Tips?

    I think profit also depends a lot on geography. I made a lot more money when I occupied the Greek cities than when I occupied Gaul.
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    Which is better 19" monitor?

    They're about the same price but the Viewsonic supports higher resolutions. Does that mean the NEC has some other features that are better than the Viewsonic?
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    NEC CRT Monitors

    Where did you hear NEC is halting CRT production?
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    CABLE TV RECORDING ON PC

    Why don't you use RW discs with the DVD recorder and then rip the shows to your hard drive? Also I don't understand why you would use an entire box of DVD-R's for 5 episodes. You don't have to finalize the disc after each episode.
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    Dual-Layer Standard May Disappear Soon

    The only way I can see DL DVD becoming obsolete is if HD-DVD and BD discs and burners cost the same or maybe a little more than DL DVD discs and burners, and I doubt that is going to happen any time soon.
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    A few PVR Questions

    I don't like the idea of the tuner always writing to my hard drive even when I'm not timeshifting. It's just unnecessary wear and tear on the drive.
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    ND-3520A

    It looks like they have a silver version Link
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    Computer turning off after period of inactivity

    What exactly is turning off? Is it the monitor, hard drives, both?
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    Do you use System Restore in Windows XP?

    I turn off system restore and use Ghost to make a backup image.
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    Rome Total War question

    Screaming women? LOL! :laugh: What do they do, come running at you with frying pans.
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    Anand X800XL Benchamarks

    Why can't someone like Asus make an AGP card based on the 800XL's R430 chip? I thought the AGP/PCIe interface was built into the video card's other circuitry instead of the chip.
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    Rome Total War question

    This is what I do. It's also a good way to raise money because when you exterminate the population you also plunder the city without doing any building damage. I wait until the city income gets negative before I do this since I might have to maintain the seige until they come out to fight.
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    How does hd's connected to an ATA card compare to it conected directly to a mobo?

    If it's an older mobo then the IDE interface that the hard drives are connected to might be slower than the PCI bus.
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    How does hd's connected to an ATA card compare to it conected directly to a mobo?

    If the ATA PCI card supports a faster version of ATA than the mobo then theoretically there will be an improvement in performance. For example if the card supports ATA100 while the mobo only supports ATA33 then the card should be able to transfer data faster. That's assuming the hard drives...
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    what's next for DVD-RW?

    Wow 13824 posts! :Q You da man!
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    what's next for DVD-RW?

    Speeds have already maxed out for +/-R. Are we going to see faster RW speeds soon or faster +R9 speeds? Are we going to see -R DL at all?
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    My computer gets slower, and slower, and slower

    Do you have a good video card that you can swap in. I'm thinking the video card might have been damaged when it was running without the fan. Also check windows device manager to make sure all of your hardware is working properly. If any device has a yellow exclamation point or red X by it...
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    can't uninstall ATI video drivers

    Hi, I tried the cat-uninstaller.exe program that I downloaded from ATI's website if that's what you mean by the ATI uninstall utility. When I rebooted after using it XP loaded an ATI driver. I don't think it was a generic driver because the date of the driver was something like december 2003...
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    can't uninstall ATI video drivers

    I tried that and it didn't help. I think that directory is only where the ATI installer puts it's temporary files while it's doing the install. I don't think windows looks in there for the video drivers.
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    can't uninstall ATI video drivers

    It doesn't give me the option. When I reboot a little icon appears in the lower right hand corner with a message box that says something like 'VGA adapter found' and then it proceeds to load the drivers. If I boot into safe mode after uninstalling the drivers a big message box will appear in...
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    can't uninstall ATI video drivers

    I'm trying to uninstall my ATI video card drivers before I install the latest version but every time I reboot after uninstalling them Windows reloads them. I delete the driver and control panel through the Add/Remove Programs thing in windows and then run the ATI cat-uninstaller program and...
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    ATI catalyst question

    I noticed that the install file for the ATI radeon driver and control panel also includes the WDM capture drivers which I don't want since I don't have an all in wonder card. Is it possible to choose not to install the WDM drivers when running the install app?
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    Post your 3dmark05 results

    that link doesn't work for me. how big is the download?
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    DVD-RW as master or slave

    I guess I just want to use the DVD-ROM for general use and burning so that I don't overwork the more expensive burner. :D
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    DVD-RW as master or slave

    They are both DVDs. Are you saying I should put the DVD-RW as the master?