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    Easy Way to Copy Account Settings to A New Account

    I have used the search function and came up with nada. I have been looking to copy the my administrator account settings to a limited user account as a way to improve security. However, I have spent a long time configuring everything. Is there an easy way to copy everything - windows settings...
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    What games for Intel Integrated 950 GMA

    Mark Rein vice president of Epic recently criticized Intel integarted graphics. I don't think anyone would disagree... However, let's try and look on the bright side... what games (classic/oldies etc) could you play on it? This is especially for those stuck on laptops ...or soon to be
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    Options for a portable laptop - Looking for good 14" WS, solid build at low cost

    Sorry for this typical thread but I need help with choosing a laptop. I'm looking for a laptop for potential travel and so needs to be very portable. 14" seems to be the perfect size but options seem more limited. Order of priority is: Size - eg. 14" widescreen for portability...
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    Next-gen chips and DRM

    As the title; What's the DRM implementations going to be with the future chips - Conroe and AM2?
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    Software to resize mpeg from (to fit on a DVD)

    Just wondering for videos taken with a digital video camera what is the best /easiest to use software to shrink down the video to fit on a DVD if its longer. This is similiar to how DVD Shrink might shrink VOB stuff down to fit on a single DVD-R
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    Best consumer accounting software - cheap and easy to use

    I'm currently helping out a charity organisation to get out of deficit after their funding got cut. After talking with their treasurer, I'm looking for the best solutions for a cheap and easily accessible accounting package to address and centralise all their financial information. The...
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    Hypothesis on the Conroe benchmarks results [Update]

    Extra links: Rahuul Sood's weblog of Voodoo PC expressing original concerns over the poor choice of the DFI board and more particularly the problems with the bios they choose. Anand's follow up test using the latest bios - FEAR corrected but otherwise 20-25% faster in games...
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    Test to confirm the AMD-60 numbers from the Conroe benchmark

    Reading the comments for the Conroe preview benchmarks there's a lot of people questioning the validity of the results. There's a simple way of sorting this. Does anyone have dual-core with 2MB cache overclocked to 2.8ghz with 1900XT crossfire to benchmark the FEAR demo? Good idea/bad idea?
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    RAM getting more expensive?

    Just wondering what was happening with RAM prices as they seem to have gone up recently - Crucial 2GB DDR has gone up about 10% (£125 to £138). What's likely to happen with future RAM prices - are they likely to go up more? Just wondering for several reasons: - Manufacturers shift to DDR2...
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    Best flash creation software & simple javascript

    What are the best 'automatic' flash + javascript creation software for simple effects. eg a colour bar shooting across the middle of a page and then various graphics appearing in a certain order. and a small box cylcing text from brief testimonials. I don't know flash / javascript as I...
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    Colourful crashes & Black screens at startup *Pics included*

    Repost from General as it's more suitable here: This is to help out a friend of mine. Symptoms are crashes in windows - first BSOD, now more recently colourful corruptions and even black screen/no video signal at startup. My first instinct is to question the RAM but can bad RAM cause no...
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    -=Help needed=- Colourful crashes & Black screens at startup *Pics included*

    This is to help out a friend of mine. What happens when your sticks go bad - can you get no video signal even from bios? Basically, he bought some Crucial Ballistix 2 x 1GB sticks but they seem to have died (or at least one of them). It seems the dreaded dying 1Gb Crucial Ballistix has...
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    Why does Anti-Vir always have to communicate/send data through the firewall?

    As the title says. When i tested out Anti-vir when i was using ZA I always needed to allow the modules access to the internet which they then used to communicate with eachother (as I understand). How come Anti-Vir needed to do that?
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    AMD?s planning an 'escape from confines of Intel?s x86 instruction set'

    I found a small article about the (possible) future trajectory AMD is planning for its CPU architecture and that it is looking to do a complete re-take on the x86 instruction set. Given the recent developments in non x86 archiectures I might have dismissed it but otherwise it's got me interested...
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    'Intel Core-Duo has 34 bugs in it'

    From DailyTech Further news/specific from geek.com
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    How long is 1GB RAM likely to be still be a good amount?

    Currently, there is a transition happening to where 2GB will become to mainstream gaming amount. However, how far are we away from that where mainstream games will benefit significantly from them? Yes, some games now currently use over 1GB RAM such as BF2 and the MMORPGs but they can be...
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    'Zonealarm spying on customers - ZA describes it as just a 'bug'...'

    Inquirer article. Wow is all I can say. If this is true I knew Zonealarm 6 was bad but not like that... What about pre Zonealarm 6 users (ver 5.5) - I wonder if they are included or not.
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    Forbes: Dell Looking to build AMD based machines...

    http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2005/11/20/afx2347168.html
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    Screen-test to test for motion blur - thinking a website?

    I was just wondering if a website exists that tests your monitor for its level of motion-blur for you. What I am thinking is with several lines of objects moving across the screen at different speeds and comments next to them of what it means if you see motion blur at a particular speed eg for...
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    Improving the Aspire QPack - design changes (long)

    I've been interested in trying out SFF and ended up checking out various SFF cases. There's not much in the way of choice but of all the cases the Aspire QPack seemed the closest, but I reckon their ways of improving it by a large margin. Fundamentally, by improving airflow cooling and reducing...
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    Belinea 20.1" Widescreen LCD - (Update) It's a great monitor!

    I'm just interested to know what people make of this Belinea 20.1" widescreen and primarily how it compares to the Dell 20" widescreen. UK prices this monitor is cheaper and looks quite compelling specs-wise. In fact it's specs look like a real step above the Dell monitor - although we all know...
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    Part of the reason why Intel sucks... Poor game code.

    Interesting article at Extremtech discussing what lack of code optimizations negatively affect P4 performance. Of course, if code was properly optimized AMD64 as well as P4 would benefit (albeit probably P4 would see a much larger % increase). I guess this also alludes to several other...
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    Best way of hosting files on bitorrent and cheaply?

    I'm a bit sketchy as to how bitorrent works as I haven't got to using it myself. I'm just looking to host a few small files (all legal) and was wondering what the best way of doing it was and at the cheapest cost. What are the best programs to use? Also, can that be done when trying to have 3+...
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    RIAA backs rootkits

    Here. Wow.
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    Gigabyte are doing cases... When did that happen?

    I spotted this through an ad running at the top of the page actually (they're advertising seems to be pretty aggressive on anandtech atm) Seems they have three different cases that you can see here. Seem pretty futuristic looking and seem to promise good cooling. Their 3D Aurora perhaps...
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    Inquirer: "AMD's K10 delayed or dead"

    I just came across this article on the inquirer and I was wondering what people made of it. Is that really likely to be true? Could AMD be suffering the same delay problems as they did with K8? While they don't have to figure out hypertransport anymore, perhaps with AMD's smaller R&D...
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    Audigy 4 OEM good? Compared to Audigy 2 ZS?

    I found what seems to be a rather good deal with an Audigy 4 OEM (£17 inc VAT) and was wondering if it was a good card? - that it wasn't some sort of castrated version. Also what is the difference between an Audigy 2 ZS and Audigy 4 really? (Both OEM). As I understand it they're pretty much...
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    bah! Needing assistance with new build - Full of problems... (Updated - Not anymore!)

    Updated 01/10/05 It now works and is overclocked to 2.6ghz @ 1.5V :). Sorry for the slow update - my dissertation was demanding being worked on a bit. --------------------- I'll try and keep it short: I've been building a new PC for my brother but it?s been nothing short of a hellish...
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    How come the Artic Cooling Freezer 64 or Vapochill Micro Ultra Low Noise haven't been more popular?

    Question is as in the the title - how come they seem to have been largely ignored. For example one test at insanetek puts the Freezer 64 remarkable close to the XP90 of within less than 3C when the Thermaltake is only using a 32CFM fan compared to the XP90 using a 87CFM fan (!) In their...
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    Critique this build - do you give the green light?

    I'll try and keep this short and simple. This build is for my brother and all parts are researched and their choice can be reasoned. The focus is on performance at low noise only using quality parts. The only additional thing to bear in mind is that these parts are chosen with UK pricing and...
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    Any way to overclock/underclock an AMD XP in Windows?

    As my title says I'm looking for any tools to change the clock of my AMD XP while in windows. Currently, my computer produces way too much heat such as it makes my room uncomfortably hot rather quickly. I know something like this should be possible as the nforce 2 tuner tool changes the fsb...
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    Best quiet DVD-RW?

    I've used my NEC2510 with great success and has been pretty quiet to boot. However, how are the later generation of drives looking regards quality/quiet performance?
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    What 2x 1GB RAM of these choices

    Crucial's UK prices for value 1GB RAM sticks have gone up somewhat in the last few weeks by about 25% so it isn't quite the good deal compared to everything it was before. Now in fact Crucial Value is the same price as Corsair DDR 3200C2PT (as seen here)which runs at 2-3-2 (or typically...
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    Intel's Next Gen - Conroe - what do you make of the speculation?

    Like others I've been quietly following the speculation on what Intel's new Conroe design may actually be. Anandtech's article was interesting. However, I found a far more radical interpretation on theinquirer.net - crazy idea, if Intel did pull that off. And if squeezed between Yonah and...
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    Twist on the P180 design - what do you think?

    Was thinking of a different style of case design of how easy it would be to mimic BTX with an ATX setup and have great cooling. How about having a P180 style of case but instead of having an exhaust fan at the back of the case near the top instead have that rear 120mm fan in-line with the...
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    Help choosing - For overclockability, silence, PCI-E slots and then good audio. Possible?

    I am helping build two computers - one for family, one for a friend. However, I don't want to screw up. I know this is the sort of question covered before, but no motherboard currently meets the criteria I need. However, I am willing to do some modding if that helps me achieve these goals so...
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    Any 'Free' Handybits software (Easycrypto, Voice etc) is not 'free' of spyware

    Just to give a small heads up that Handybits software (www.handybits.com) which includes Easycrypto and Handybits Voice both of which are recommended on many sites as a quality piece of spywarefree software - but it's not it includes Teknum Updater . Teknum is quite a hassle to get rid of...
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    Strange noise from PSU - clicking?

    Hiya, basically something that has been occuring for a while now but haven't thought to deal with except now again when I'm tweaking a few things on my PC and giving it an MOT. Basically, the PSU (a Zalman 400W rev A so 15A on +12V) emits a clicking sound which is quite sporadic but regular...
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    PhysX (PPU) - it'll need PCI-E 4x ...so who's ready?

    Having read up a bit more on the PhysX Processing Unit (PPU) is seems the future revisions will be wanting to use PCI Express 4x. Now is it me or are no boards supporting that currently outside of the DFI? Even the new ATI chipset is lacking enough PCI-E lanes and is sticking to only using...
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    Quick Q: Running a 4x PCI-E Card on a 8x PCI-E Slot. Possible?

    The title says it all. Ageia are planning to release the PPU on PCI-E 4x (as well as regular PCI but that's a diff matter) so I was wondering if it would run fine on a faster PCI-E socket eg 8x or 16x.