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    Wireless synchronize XP

    may have missed search result Got the wireless connection all set up. The synchronization manager on the laptop lists the LAN connection, but not the wireless, and doesn't list the P: drive i now have mapped to this computers directory Does anyone know how to see that P: wireless entry on my...
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    netbook/notebook for net+vga for movies

    looking for a basic portable notebook, for just internet (chrome youtube flash etc), and hooking up to a projector for divx/xvid considering the following so far: netbook 2Tb external hard drive (already own) usb -> vga adaptor (does this exist? i assume netbooks dont have vga)...
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    mouse-ing

    kick me into any other duplicate threads but looking for something corded (usb) and laser optical sensor ( is that the latest ?) will actually be using it with an xbox on the budget side. checked http://www.scan.co.uk/Products...ing-1ms-response-time# but their delivery is £7 i'm not...
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    A new mouse thread...

    kick me into any other duplicate threads :) but looking for something corded (usb) and laser optical sensor ( is that the latest ?) will actually be using it with an xbox on the budget side. checked http://www.scan.co.uk/Products...ing-1ms-response-time# but their delivery is £7 i'm...
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    mouse button presser

    Hi, is there sotware that will cause the button to "double click" (actually need it to click as fast as possible for say 5 seconds)
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    running Firefox and IE

    any idea.....what effect this would have on the computer? would it slow things down a lot? firefox is my browser of choice, but IE is better for a couple of specific apps....
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    i suppose i could ask this on an xbox forum

    does anyone know if there is a way to use a bog standard PC keyboard+mouse on an xbox? this could swing it for my buying one. i cant use console controllers! Moved from General Hardware General Hardware Moderator -- MarcVenice
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    xp starting to run reeeally slowly recently

    recently my xp has been really starting to "chug". just basic stuff like a new internet explorer window taking up to 8-10 seconds to draw up the window, etc. i am not entirely sure if this might be because i have facebook open more! (first opened in december) ore i have also just installed...
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    Hauppauge Nova-T usb2 installation prob

    link to my hauppauge post here http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=11633 has anyone had experience of installing this usb box? it's always been a bit shaky, on my prev installation (i could close the tv, come back to it 8 hours later, and have to unplug/plug the box to get...
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    xp audio extra gain control

    does anyone know of a utility/app that will let me increase the gain of sound above what windows mixer can provide? some files i have, have got the sound at a very low volume ;p
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    thunder, lightning, pc's and routers

    after the stories of lightning shooting up your broadband phone line nd into the pc, does anyone know if the rules are different when the line goes into a modem router, then netted into the pc? thanx
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    car amplifiers

    i've got an amp driving 2 6x9's at the moment i want to add in another amp to drive a bass bin can i just hook up the new amp using the same power supply wiring thats already installed for the 6x9 amp? thx :)
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    new motherboard on router to the net

    ive just replaced my mbd, the new one has onboard lan i can connect to my router& net using the network card i was using before, but not using my onboard LAN ipconfig with the onboard comes up as 255.255.0.0 (class b network?) - dont know if this matters (the network card comes up as...
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    reverse engineer .prn (print) files

    does anyone know if this is possible? we've got the original files in an outdated format that most of our modern software can't see. the old software (label designer, ~2001) generates prn files....does anyone know of a way to reverse engineer these prn files back into a useable format (cd...
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    54MBps wireless going at 11MBps

    any suggestion how to set/force this to 54? trendnet 802.11g router, belkin NIC and a belkin 802.11g wireless usb adaptor the first time i set it up it did get 54 a few times, but now seems to be at 11. signal strength is 'very good'
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    adding the remote desktop user

    i'm adding a single user to my host PC for this. i need to add in the user of the wired PC, so that the wireless will only accept the remote desktop request from my wired pc But, the only users that i can access from my wireless are the ones on that pc. i can't see any users on the wired pc...
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    WOL

    ive got a belkin wireless usb adaptor on an xo pro machine - can i WOL this from my main wired xp pro machine?
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    communicating between router'd pc's

    soooo.... i have 1 wired pc and one wireless pc succesfully talking to the internet through my new router i want to get the wired to be able to remote access the wireless one. kind of graphical VNC style? (possibly also map the drives on the wireless, into windows explorer on the wired)...
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    logitech momo racing wheel

    does anyone know if this pc wheel will basically work with any game, and show as another input controller? eg, colin mcrae 2/3/4, toca 2, sega rally, need for speed series, revolt, destruction derby, and so on!! thanx :)
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    mainboard squeals when powered on

    the onboard speaker buzzes loudly is this likely to be the board having trouble supporting the geforce, or the psu having trouble supporting everything? thanks!!! :o :s
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    best/preferred driving/steering wheel?

    would like to get a wheel and pedals, maybe a wireless one if they're still around (where you hold the wheel in middair in front of you) cos i won't have a monitor *directly* in front of me :) for stuff like Colin MR 4, NFS underground, gran turismo, toca etc. any opinions ??
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    6600GT and 6800 PSU requirement

    can anyone help? thanx :)
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    best gfx for 800x600?

    does anyone have any views on the best nvidia (i just like nvidia ;) ) card to run doom 3, coline mcrae 4, etc, at 800x600 with top notch quality settings? my projector runs at 800 x600 resolution :) thx
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    reversing fan direction & noise

    has anyone tried reversing their cpu fan direction (ie having it suck air from the cpu) ive just discovered my cpu fan all along has been sucking :P heatsink itself seems an OK temperature, and if i put the fan on properly the noise increases any thoughts? it's a nexus AXP3200 on an...
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    512 CL2 vs 768 CL2.5?

    any idea which would win??
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    MultiMedia system

    i need a player for divx, dvd's, mp3's, n stuff. i've decided to go down the motherboard route, rather than off-the-shelf dvd player route. Haven't been in the hardware biz for 12 months but would an nforce(4?) board be the best sort of thing for this? gotta have... good onboard...
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    MP3 stick player advice pls

    512 meg stick player....not sure if there;s a lot between them in reality. i prefer the look of the third one, but the second one seems to have more to sing and dance about in terms of 'specialtechnology' shuffle essential, fast forward v dee-zirable. charz :) 512Mb Aigo E808A+...
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    wireless keyboard + desk

    i want to use either the microsoft standard wireless, or ms comfort curve keyboard, with an under-desk sliding tray. can anyone confirmif the radio frequency link will get through the MDF desk? would it also get through aluminium/glass? also does anyone know the range....under/over 6 foot...
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    some monitor problems - picture fades out then back again

    i have an FE950 (19") monitor about 4 years old, it's developed two problems. first one is horizontal speckled lines at the top and the bottom which from web searches i've found may be due to a capacitor getting slowly destroyed by it's close proximity to a heatsink...I'm not sure which one...
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    LLL....AAARJ TV screen idea

    following on from my divx question in the other forum... didn't realise projectors were relatively cheap now. About £500. How about hooking up something like an nforce 2 board (good onboard video/sound) , to a nice size HDD and a decent DVD RW drive, and putting the output of this...
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    LLL...AAARJ TV screen idea.

    following on from my divx question in the other forum... didn't realise projectors were relatively cheap now. About £500. How about hooking up something like an nforce 2 board (good onboard video/sound) , to a nice size HDD and a decent DVD RW drive, and putting the output of this through...
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    some MS excel help please....

    i have an excel doc with something like... title1   title2   title3 blah1  blah2  blah3 next1  next2  next3 (hope that formatting will come out remotely well) i want to be able to click on the grey left-hand button for each row, and generate a 1-page report for that row. eg, if i...
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    "dir" question!

    i want to index the contents of 60 or so MP3 cd's, in MS Excel. does anyone know a quick way of doing this? at the moment my method is based around using a cmd prompt "dir >filelist.txt", then opening/importing the txt file in excel. the problem with that is i need a way to customize...
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    cd overburning

    using nero 5.5.10.15, i've set the "expert > overburning" option to allow overburning to 82 minutes (for some files which are 700.5 MB - which i think should be fine) but nero still gives me "not enough space on media" error. anyone have any tips how to get the overburning working? using...
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    best Geforce 3 ultra driver?

    can anyone recommend the best (detonator) driver version they think is best to use for a GeForce 3 ultra, under win XP pro sp2 ? thinking need for speed underground, unreal tour, etc cheers