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    Pick up the glove and try to help me!

    Ok... I'm not kidding, this is the biggest problem I've ever encountered, and it's killing me, slowly. It all started roughly two months ago, I installed SubtitleCreator , and it crashed my OS. I mean crashed... before it finished loading, my cursor stopped, the keyboard won't respond, and...
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    OS crashes (XP SP3)

    Hi! Had this problem for about a month now, now when I found it with another software, I realized it's something bigger & maybe more obvious to any of you guys... hopefully. SubtitleCreator installed v1.92, when I start the program I can see the right side (color selection), but than the...
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    OS crashes

    Hi! Had this problem for about a month now, now when I found it with another software, I realized it's something bigger & maybe more obvious to any of you guys... hopefully. SubtitleCreator installed v1.92, when I start the program I can see the right side (color selection), but than the...
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    "system" process is growing...

    Hey. Noticed my notebook getting a little sluggish. checked the processes in task manager and saw that the "system" process is taking up the most processing power... roughly about 51,000Kb (isn't suppose to take up just 200K ? ) , and this week it's at 64,000K. I didn't check the growth rate...
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    evga 7600gt and a toshiba blue screen

    hey. took me a while, but decided to connect the desktop to the tv. the evga 7600gt came with a s-video like connector for the card, that comes out to RGB , rca like connectors. connected one by one to my toshiba tv... through properties I turned on the secondary display... when I switch between...
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    Did I buy a SP1 edition of HALO 2?

    Hey. bought a Halo 2 for pc, from the "old and damaged" pile in some pc store... I get a "startup.exe - entry point not found" error messege that reads : "the procedure entry point createprocesswithtokenW could not be located in the dynamic link library ADVAPI32.dll" I checked and...
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    The connection icon is showing activity but nothing I've got nothing on

    Hey. The wireless connection icon (the small computer with WIFI reception) is always showing activity (it has dark blue and light blue modes... light blue is when packets are being sent\recieved) ... it's not even blinking, it's straight ON. I've closed down the explorer, the ICQ, the...
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    Adding a Sata drive to a system running on PATA

    Ok, I think I heard Sata drives don't have slave\master issues ... I have a system, running xp on the pata, no problem there. bought a WD Sata drive, connected, the startup screen showed it recognizes it, but coming onto windows, it doens't show up on my computer, doesn't find it...
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    Help, either find the problem or help me format.

    Hey. Didn't install anything new, didn't change anything I can think of , but now, instead of a minute boot time (acer tm-8204) , I have a 5 minute waiting period, and even the windows starup sound sounds interrupted... the performance grid starts at 50%... for some reason... I start closing...
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    HDD - External Vs. Internal

    Heya, Thinking about getting a 2nd HDD, thought about internal and external... checked prices, but still have one small question. Externals look nice, and I love the power button... I'm going to store my videos,pics... nothing that has to be available all the time. but the price difference...
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    Blue screen restarts

    Hi. The desktop crashed. I think crashed is a big word for it. I restarted it after a day or so of downloads, everything normal, on restart I saw a millisec of blue screen and then a restart. After I tried a normal start up and got the same resuly, a "use last known configuration that worked"...
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    yeah,accidently put 3 posts, but...

    is everything against me today?
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    HDD always working. why?

    Hi. I have a "new" laptop , it's been over 6 months, but the hdd is new. worked great after the change, still works great, but now I notice that even without anything on , there are noises from the hard drive. I shut down all the programs... still there. I started shutting down processes in the...
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    trying to revive a p3 system ..

    my friend gave me a p3 system that started crashing. either the video card or the motherboard is faulty... I think either the video card , or the motherboard slot isn't that good , 'cause sometimes it works. the computer starts fine all the time, but the screen doesn't always work. I...
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    Streaming video colors are off

    new laptop , works fine. streaming video is distorted colors, purple mostly. something to uncheck somewhere I remember, can't find where. anyone with a quick memory that encountered this before?
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    impossible slow downs on a fast machine

    Hey, I have a very nice & "powerfull" notebook, acer travelmate 8204. x1600 with 256mb gddr3... how come even the smallest video files, divx or avi coded, regular tv episodes of roughly 170mb, plays ok, and when it gets to a high BPS moment (lot of moving, lots of noises, stuff like that) it...
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    one site doesn't load only to my computer...

    Seriously - I have no Idea. There's an Israeli Website - www.Mekusharim.co.il I logged in - all good, I use it and come back almost 10 times a day , kinda like a myspace. a week ago I press the bookmark , the site loads in a sec - and all I get on the screen - on the top left is an h. H ...
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    IE history

    I didn't delete the cookies or the temporary internet files, I changed the history to clean every 999 days... and still , every some period of time , even when I'm using it , it goes blank. any suggestions ? any other settings I forgot ?
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    Password protect just one folder...

    Hi, I have a laptop, pretty much everyone touch it, and it's ok with me. there's one folder (pictures of course) (not porn if you ask) I'd like to password protect. If I do it through windows I have to close my account with a password, and once again, if someone is in the computer, he can reach...
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    Connecting my notebook to the tv

    It's nice, it's cool , it gives me more space, and after I get used to it, it won't be so wierd. But if I want the tv to show my actual desktop , how do I do it ? I run an acer 8204 travelmate with x1600 video... I think I tried all the options in display settings ...
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    win xp search seeing double...

    wierd. I search for a song I have , it finds it , and then it finds it again, same file , same place, same search, twice the results for each file. anyone has a suggestion ? notebook , 1 partition only.
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    Sound doesn't work on DVD's

    Notebook works, everything works, sound works in every other software. Put my new Family guy dvd (first dvd I'm trying to watch on my new notebook) and it opens up on real player 10 , but no sound. All the sound preferences are on and seems to be working... anything I need to check ? Also ...
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    Yahoo music videos distorted

    avi, mpg's , short clips from my camera , everything works fine. yahoo music videos are playing, highest quality , but the color are all wrong , greenish blueish , almost like it's some kind of special effect. anybody knows this problem ? the video card (x1600 mobile) is updated with the...
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    acer tm8204 notebook bluetooth voip phone

    Didn't get any password to pair the bluetooth voip phone with the notebook... tried 1234 , tried 0000 ... any more suggestions? searched the acer site, but it's not an easy site... anyone had it before , probably a primary code , that I can change later ? it's not on the card itself...
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    anyone has an acer 8204 and can make me an xp recovery cd?

    Go stuck, forgot to make a recovery cd, and now acer wants 50$ from me for one. can someone who bought the acer tm 8204 make one for me ?
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    Help acer 8204 FAT32 to NTFS fiasco

    Help. I'm ok with computers, I wouldn't say brilliant, but I know what we're all talking about. before I got the acer I read all the reviews, and they all said that FAT32 is bad, I read some more about the differences and agreed. when I got mine, I formatted it , installed win xp pro , and...
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    HELP , new laptop , new problems.

    got it yesterday, charged it , formatted it and re installed it as NTFS and not FAT32. downloaded all the drivers from acer first. installed them one by one, and now on device manager I only have two devices without a driver... critical ones. 1. PCI serial port... 2. PCMCIA MTD-0002 any...
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    Getting a new laptop - Reformatting step 1

    Heya , Getting the Acer TM8204 tomorrow, and buying it only after reading all the reviews about it , and every little thing I could find. Most people mentioned that for some reason it's still on FAT32 and not NTFS . Sure, It took me half an hour to find out the differences between them ...
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    I shut down the rig, and it... restarts...

    everytime i shut the system down, it does all the procedures for closing, and then it restarts. I have to press the button (the only button i have ) for 3 seconds to close it down for real. what do i change and where?
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    I shut down the rig, and it... restarts...

    everytime i shut the system down, it does all the procedures for closing, and then it restarts. I have to press the button (the only button i have ) for 3 seconds to close it down for real. what do i change and where?
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    Notebook questions

    1. Yonah Vs. centrino duo ??? maybe it's the same thing, and I'm just reading enough details ? 2. notebook graphics Radeon x1600 or Nvidia 7400 go ? When i was planning my desktop , i was all Nvidia after two comparisons , now... i'm not sure. I've switched form amd to intel, maybe i need to...
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    Basic quick question - quick answer

    Recently my needs changed, and instead of building a desktop, I'm going to buy a notebook. Do the cpu rules still apply on notebooks ? AMD cpu's kick Intel ass in everything besides decoding audio/video ? does the ML series match or take the M series or the duo series?
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    Star Wars complete box set - when?

    I'm not going to buy the first trilogy on box set and the three new movies on single dvds , and we all know george will show a full box set sometime (after everybody who can will buy revenge of the sith...) but.. when ? anybody knows ? please, no responses of "the new movies suck" . thanks.
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    refresh my memory , what's the hotkey for full screen in dosbox?

    i think it was alt+f4 , or something like it...
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    old college basketball game

    nostalgia is upon me, first fifa world cup 98 (still looking...) , and now an old college basketball game I used to run as bbv.exe ... if anyone has any suggestions... thanks..
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    Fifa world cup98 , where art thou ?

    20 $ for the game ? either on cd, or a downloadable working full version ? or just tell me if you know where i can get it ? anything for this game. thanks. P.S. Not to be mistaken with Fifa ROAD to world cup 98.
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    Ipod video problems ?

    Ok, I'm not a tupid man, I know how to work an Ipod, even if it's an Ipod video. The music goes through , the pictures too, but for some reason I can't move my videos to my ipod. I tried various file types and it's either won't allow me to move it to the ipod - saying it doesn't support it, or...
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    Seasonic 500 enough for this?

    I bought it before i decided to have 2 7800's in my rig, now I'm not sure if i need to replace it (and if so... "for sale-seasonic 500) and get a better , more powerfull one, or it's enough, at least until they come up with the great idea of connecting three video cards together ?
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    Another world 1991

    OK, I started downloading all the classic games I used to love. one of them was "another world" . I found three versions, they all work , but they are incredibly slow. Now, I know it's not a hardware problem, my athlon runs so much faster than my old xt, so what's the problem and how can I fix...
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    Etching my side panel. How do i...?

    I know, you're going to say cheezy, childish, but forget about the pic for a sec, how/where can I find someone to do it for me on my black tt armor side panel ? SideDark please, I know I'm not suppose to copy these images, and I won't even start to talk about Lucas... just tell me if you...