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    windows explorer keeps 'flickering' !!!

    when i am browsing my files, often lately, i'll be in a folder, and the window will seem like it is in some sort of constant activity and it will flicker every other second. this interrupts whatever action i am performing. if i am renaming a file, it will deselect the file, for instance...
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    Hotmail is really trying to get rid of me...

    Both a friend and i who are on the same ISP and have been non-paying Outlook Express Hotmail users for years, are now getting our logins rejected and mailbox emptied sporadically every day (sometimes within a matter of minutes). When I try to send mail with my hotmail account in OE, or even...
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    Renamer with Explorer Shell Integration ???

    I have a huge mp3 collection. Its very annoying to be browsing my colleciton in Windows Explorer and to find an album (folder) of songs that I need renamed before I move them to my Mp3 Player, then to have to open up my Renamer Program and navigate through my dense filetree AGAIN to rename that...
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    friendster: blurry photos

    does anyone know why when i upload a photo to friendster and then view my own 'full photo' it looks all JPG compressed and blurry whereas everyone else's looks very crisp still? thanks :]
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    friendster: blurry photos

    anyone know why when i try to upload a photo to friendster and then view the 'full photo' mine always look really JPG compressed and blurry whereas everyone elses looks nice and crisp?
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    Drag + Drop : Win XP : ANNOYING!!!

    Tell me if you've ever noticed this.... You have a HUGE mp3 collection or something like that with 100s of folders within folder and you are trying to sort things out in 'Windows Explorer' by dragging and dropping the folders around, or even by using CTRL-C/CTRL-V. And everytime you just try...
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    I need that unclaimed 2 gigabytes!!! How?

    On my C: primary drive, I only gave 5 gigs for windows and apps. OOPS, NOT ENOUGH SPACE! I have : C: 5 gigs - OS and apps e: 500 megs - some stupid old swap disk partition from windows 98 which i need to get rid of! f: 29 gigs - all my STUFF UNPARTITIONED 2 GIGS - I need this! I am on...
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    Sync Favorites across multiple computers?

    hey guys, im looking for a bookmark synchronizer. the only app ive found that does it is called FavoriteSync but you need an FTP server and it auto uploads them and downloads them on all PCs its set up on. Of course, everyone doesnt have or want to bother with FTP, seems odd that there isnt...
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    How do YOU move 30 GIGS ? (WindowsXp)

    I am reformatting, one of my partitions, I just want to move it to another drive and then move it back when Im done reformatting. Is there any risk in just using windows cut and paste to move that many files at once (30 gigs) ? I know there is programs like Norton Ghost and stuff, Ive...
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    three monitors with two cards?

    Hey guys, Anyone know if I get a DualDisplay card like a matrox g400 or 550, and then add another cheap old card in, it will give me three? can i just keep adding video cards and get more monitors? not sure how that works in WindowsXP. Do those cheap old cards for the extra monitors with...
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    whats wrong with cheap a$$ monitors?

    Hey guys, I am looking to pick up a few extra monitors for my multi-view audio recording machines. I see monitors in the papers and stuff for $20 all the time 15s, 17s, etc.... Whats the downside to cheap monitors exactly? The main thing I am concerned with if anything is health issues. If...
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    how do i know what size chipset fan to get?

    My AMD 761 chipset fan went out. I want to replace but find no info in the manual or searching any forum about how i can go about finding out exactly what I need to replace or any sort of size info. Is there just some standard chipset fan or something?
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    EIGHT IDE drives with the Gigabyte 7N400 Pro??

    I am really confused about the "IDE: 4x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Max" listing for this board I keep seeing. Is this really 8 independent IDE Controller Ports that I could have 2 drives on each cable? or does it have something to do with RAID? I do not want to overclock, and I do not want to use...
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    Ignore this accidental post. Sorry. :\

    Dont click the button twice!
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    HD Partition "unformatted" only when CD Drive is connected WTF?

    Ok, check this out, Im in Windows XP I have Two maxtor harddrives on IDE 0 and now a new WD 120GB as master on IDE 1. This setup works fine, BUT When I try to hook my CDR drive back up as master on IDE 1 and set the WD as slave on that channel one of the partitions on the master drive on IDE...
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    Windows(XP) Minor Annoyances: hard to describe, easy to resolve

    hey guys, ive had this couple of annoyances with windows xp for a long time but they are hard to explain and search for, so they never get resolved. i finally thought id take a stab. first: windows xp does this thing to the pulldown menus at the top of the screen where it doesnt show you all...
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    RecordNow Max: VERY basic question.

    I posted this over on the Stomp forums but i feel like im getting nothing but blank and confused stares.... Im trying to do something VERY SIMPLE and VERY BASIC here, that every other recording software ive EVER used has been able to do: when i add a FOLDER to my RNM project from my hard drive...
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    ASUS has the most annoying website EVAR!!!

    grrrr, ive been navigating this beast for an hour trying to find possibly the most needed thing someone could want from that site in the year 2003: INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO UPDATE YOUR BIOS UNDER WINDOWS XP! im posting this here because maybe any other asus MOBO user could help me, i dont know...
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    Moving Data from CDrom drive turns computer into SLUDGE!

    Hey guys, Ive got a PIII 744mhz, with 512 Ram here, just a storage machine basically. Ive got two decent 7200rpm maxtors on one IDE channel, and a 50 something-x cdwriter on the other IDE channel. When I move data around on this computer, or when i copy something to or from it over the...
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    how do i get IE to ask before opening an mp3 file in WMPlayer?

    what the subject says.... its been really annoying not having control over what it does when i put an mp3 link in the browser window and just want to download it but it goes and plays it in the the little Windows Media Player on the left side of my browser! i want it to ask me to OPEN or SAVE...
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    *ignore this message* oops :\

    darn busted mouse :P
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    Extending a Laptop Network Cable ?

    Hi folks, quick and easy question if you dont mind i am borrowing a friends laptop and its got a very short network cable attached to it, one end is the little thin PCMCIA (whatever its called) adapter to the laptop 3com card, and the other end is a regular cat5 end of course. I need this guy...
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    Whats more important: SEEKTIME or HD CACHE ?

    Ive been looking over seagates line of drives, mainly because they are quiet. But cant decide between their older model which has a slower seektime but higher cache within my price range. Their newer model (7200.7) has 2mb cache but is generally a bit faster. What does the extra cache do for...