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    Creative Zen Vision M

    I know the player is a couple years old, but I just bought it refurb. I'm trying to copy all my music on to it and I'm running into a problem. All my music is .mp3, but apparently some are not compatible with the zen. It won't even let me copy them over -- an error message pops up, saying it's...
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    Zune

    There's pretty much one thing holding me back from buying a Zune, and that's the software. I downloaded the software to try it out, and it's messing with my metadata. Specifically, it's stripping some (not all) of my mp3s of their embedded album art. I have "automatically update album art and...
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    can't download or save anything with firefox

    I try to download something, and the download box never shows up. I just tried right clicking an image, clicked save as, and nothing happened. Same for downloading anything. I can't even save a web page. I'm using the latest version of firefox (I assume the autoupdate updates to the latest...
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    bioshock hangs during loading

    The loading goes fine at first, then the screens & quotes stop changing, and nothing happens. My harddrive isn't going, the dvd isnt spinning, nothing. After a little while of this, the harddrive starts back up again and loading finishes. Does this happen to anyone else? athlon xp 2700+...
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    cannot display scaled 1280x1024

    My screen (on an Acer TravelMate 8100) cannot display 1280x1024 in scaled mode -- only in 1:1 mode. The screen will go black, and then green colors (sorta looks like a gas) will move in towards the center of the screen from the edges. Eventually the screen turns a very dark shade of gray. I know...
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    External harddrive not recognized

    My external harddrive sometimes fails to show up in Explorer. The power light is on, and there are no signs that it's not working other than the fact that it doesn't show up. Restarting the computer doesn't help, although shutting it off seems to cause the problem (if it's working, it'll work...
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    background image in a div...

    I want to have a div box have a background image. I'm trying to use background-image.... but no image shows up. Nothing. Not even a red X. This is how it looks: #header { background-image: url(header.jpg); } The image is in the same directory as the page itself. Why isn't this showing...
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    looking for an html code editor

    I'm looking for an editor that would be just like notepad, but with context highlighting. I don't want it to reformat my code or anything: just a plain text editor with html/css context highlighting. Anyone know of such a thing? Thanks.
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    How do you design for IE...

    ...it seems like IE is fairly consistant in doing what I don't want it to do or not doing what I want it to do. My site is perfect (well ok, its not that great, but it displays perfectly) in Firefox. The problems seem to mainly involve CSS. There's nothing site-breaking so far, but just some...
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    Question about LCD scaling/aspect ratios

    Specifically, I'm talking about the Viewsonic VX2025 (16:10) and am wondering if you can choose whether or not you want the image scaled. I don't want a 4:3 stretched across the screen. I know I can do this on my laptop through the display properties. Is this an ability of the video drivers, the...
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    Facebook not working for anyone else?

    It says my password isn't correct when I go to log in. I've tried resetting it to another password, but this also does not work. Anyone else experiencing this, or is it just me?
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    Booting programs off external harddrive

    Is it possible to boot programs from an external harddrive onto multiple computers? (not at the same time, of course). I would assume it would be; all I would need to do is install it from computer A onto the harddrive, hook the harddrive up to computer B, and install it again to the same...
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    Effects on different objects from one mouseover

    I'm trying to get different effects to be applied to different objects when the user mouses over something. Just for example, lets say I want the box the user mouses over to turn blue and another box across the screen to turn red. I'm not quite sure how to implement this, I'm just learning CSS...
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    Quick question...

    Is there a way to display the same information on multiple pages without having to manually type it out on every page? (besides using frames). For example, if i wanted to display "last updated" information at the bottom of all the pages, is there a way to edit one file and have it show up on all...
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    So I'm trying to copy an image in photoshop...

    I'm trying to copy an image that I have open in photoshop to the clipboard so I can paste it, but I cannot copy it. The option under the Edit menu is greyed out. Control-C doesn't work either. I don't understand why it would do that. I can copy in other applications (FireFox, MS Word). I tried...
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    Laptop Security

    I'm going off to college quite soon, and I will have a laptop. I'm looking for recommendations on security devices. Do those locks really work well? I mean the bike lock type things that like plug into the side of the laptop. Also, I'm looking at a motion sensor that would be attached to the...
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    When setting a picture as a desktop background

    my friend has a picture as her background, but the original image has been deleted. she would like to have the original picture file. Since she still has it as her background, I can only assume windows must have saved it to another file. Does anyone know where this file is?
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    CD Drive causes computer to hang

    When my CD drive starts spinning, it causes my computer to hang for maybe 4 seconds. I assume during this time it's getting up to its maximum speed? It's very annoying, especially during games. Is there any way to prevent this? I'm on my laptop (Acer 8100). My desktop's cd drive doesn't do...
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    how to locate a Diablo 2 LOD CD key

    I have diablo 2 LOD installed on my desktop, and now i want to install it on my laptop. However, I cannot find that little paper sleeve that the LOD cd came in, which means i am without a cd for the expansion. Does anyone know of a way to find the CD key in the registry? I tried google, but if...
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    Question about operating systems on laptops

    I know many companies like to install all kinds of software on the computer, and I also know many companies give you a "restore disk" and not the actual Windows XP disk or whatever. I have two questions. I've been looking at IBM's thinkpad notebooks, and you're able to choose which operating...
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    So who took the AP Calculus Exam today?

    How do you think you did? I'm thinking I got a 3 or 4. Probably a 3...
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    I want to learn some programming...

    I've done some very very basic programming with HTML, and I've also done some programming on the TI-83 and TI-86 calculators, both of which use the same language (I believe it's BASIC?). I want to do more, and I want to get into Java. First, is Java a good place to start? Second, are...
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    What's this in Libya?

    Google maps :shocked:
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    Computer freezes

    My computer often freezes completely - ctrl alt del doesnt work, the entire OS is frozen it seems - but this only happens during games. When it freezes, the speakers emit a constant, very high-pitched noise. I've scanned with Norton and Ad-Aware but nothing has come up. Could this be due to...