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    Want to run a Linux distro and WinXP on the same system

    Just to add another alternative to the discussion -- http://wubi-installer.org/ I've actually tried this under WinXP and Vista. The Wubi installer will either automatically download Ubuntu and install it for you (best used with a solid, fast Internet connection) or it will work with a...
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    Windows XP won't recognize login password

    This is truly strange. The thing is that these operating systems will save the keyboard state that was last in use when you shut them down. You can see some pretty odd effects from that. For example -- If I log on to my notebook computer using remote desktop from my desktop system (which...
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    Travel Notebook?

    What will work best for you depends very much on personal tastes and budget. Let me just tell you my experience. First of all, I'm 77-78" and 200 lbs. Airline accommodations for me can be a bit tight (leg-room-wise) even on those occasions when I get treated to business or first class. If I...
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    How much does it typically cost to recover data from a HD?

    Sew sari! <snark> But our discussion was tangentially related to helping your friend avoid future embarrassments. . . . I'll shut up now. :o
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    How much does it typically cost to recover data from a HD?

    I guess I'm just partially stuck back in the "time bomb" mentality. Was anyone here, besides me, affected by Ashton-Tate and the DB III+ memo field fiasco? With issues like that one you were safest having a complete backup for at least each week, if not each day, over the history of the...
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    How much does it typically cost to recover data from a HD?

    Heh. For at least some people a serious data loss will help them achieve the motivation needed to be sure that the backups to external media do get done. I don't have a lot of sympathy for those who get kicked in the left grape and offer the right one. ;) Now, insofar as where you get your...
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    I don't understand the blind loyalty people have towards emacs

    Bwa-ha-ha-ha! You're hopeless! But I do sympathize. For me the crushing loss came when I could no longer use PC Write (the old one, not the thing that they call PC Write nowadays). Once you get past the learning curve of any powerful text editor it becomes your special buddy, maybe even your...
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    How much does it typically cost to recover data from a HD?

    Another opinion on backup methods. I've been an avid backer-upper ever since it had to be done with floppies. Hard drives are good for certain types of backup purposes, but there's a place for "permanent" backups, too. I've been using optical discs since they first became available -- the old...
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    Unknown PCI Device - What is it?

    You could use a utility like this one to help you identify the device so that you can look up a driver for it.
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    How much does it typically cost to recover data from a HD?

    I am specifically saying that you have specifically overcome any specific doubts I may have had. Ya, it sounds like a job for OnTrack or someone similar. But you really have to want the data back to do that. Hey, did you get to give your friend the "Thou shalt always back up thy data!"...
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    How much does it typically cost to recover data from a HD?

    Well, before you go the expensive route -- you didn't specifically say that you had tried slaving the drive on another system. If you haven't tried that, I'd give it a shot before going to a data recovery company. But freezer tricks and attempts to reboot the drive as a system drive are not...
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    Wireless Print Server

    Yeah. I'm looking for something, too. I have two USB-connected printers that I'd like to stick in a rack with my wireless router and cable modem. I've looked at the devices mentioned so far and haven't exactly been blown away. Rather than spend something in the neighborhood of a hundred bucks...
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    OpenDNS, KeePass, AppRocket

    Not familiar with the other two, but I can recommend KeePass very highly. I think that you should be able to adjust to working with it pretty easily. Of course your working habits would have to change to accommodate the fact that you would now be working with a system which stores your username...
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    Windows XP won't recognize login password

    Oh, well then I got nuthin'! But I'll watch with interest, and look around to see if I can find something. It's a weird one all right. I hope you find out what it is, and share it with us. Might be a fun thing to know.
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    Windows XP won't recognize login password

    You mentioned the CapsLock, but how about NumLock? If this is a notebook computer, and your NumLock state is different for the two states, perhaps...?
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    So my laptop took a little tumble....

    Under those circumstances the thing I'd worry most about would be the stupid hinges. Inspiron hinges have been a sore point with me (and lots of other people) for a long time. I had an Inspiron 7500 (really cheap plastic case) that suffered FIVE hinge failures -- and it was never dropped even...
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    Vista Annoyances Help Please?

    I think the real Fisher Price still sells nice, colorful blocks for those who miss the Windows XP interface! :laugh:
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    HP - Vista Support for Recent Devices

    Well, using the TWAIN drivers and IrfanView I can get really poor quality b&w scans off of the 4670 in Vista. Would work for faxing, which I don't do. No purpose in bothering, really. I'm not much of a scanner user anyway. But whatever scanner I use in the future, it ain't gonna be an HP. Nor...
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    HP - Vista Support for Recent Devices

    Okay, I was told to be patient and wait for announcements on support for Vista. Last night I looked up new driver availability for my HP ScanJet 4670. This scanner was purchased new about 2 years ago. The FIRST OS for which it was designed was WinXP. It was NOT cheap. It was about the top of the...
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    Can't allow scripted window in IE even though I elect to do so.

    Did you try adding anandtech.com to your list of trusted sites? (Either that or changing the security settings for the Internet zone?) I wouldn't think it would give you this much grief with the default setup, though. I haven't added the site to the trusted list, and I'm running IE7 under...
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    Vista Annoyances Help Please?

    Darn you, stash! I had kind of noticed that gap but had managed to relegate it to the background so that it wouldn't bug me. Now that you've formalized it in my mind -- IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS! (And, yes, I was shouting.) :disgust: Oh well, I have to agree with you about UAC. I can't, for the...
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    DEP Error

    Thank you. Exactly the point I wanted to make -- and could have made more clearly. Any time a Windows component fails muster by DEP standards you have to at least suspect that the fault lies with something that has been added to the mix, not with the Windows component itself.
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    DEP Error

    I have seen applications which interact with various Windows components cause those Windows components to run afoul of DEP. Eample: Interestingly enough an application called SnagIt (by TechSmith) causes a reproducible situation in which Windows Explorer (in Windows XP SP2 and Vista RTM) gets...
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    Anyone find Vista RTM too buggy for use?

    I finally got Vista. This situation was just plain weird. All day long yesterday I would go to the TechNet Online site, sign on, and simply not get offered the link to downloads and product keys. In other workds, there's a little block of text on the top right of the sign on page that looks...
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    Anyone find Vista RTM too buggy for use?

    Maybe lots of people are downloading it today in anticipation of TURKEY DAY. ;) Too bad Microsoft doesn't just like, you know, have their site be honest and let you know they can't service your request because of heavy traffic. The messages that come up make you think something is wrong...
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    Anyone find Vista RTM too buggy for use?

    Heh. I got along fine with RC1. But, for some reason, Microsoft keeps sending me in a loop every time I try to get to the download page for RTM. Been trying for a couple of days. Damned site keeps telling me it's encountering an error in retrieving my benefits information (Technet Plus...
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    How can I prevent applications from stealing focus in XP...PERMANENTLYY?

    This "feature" (not exclusive, BTW, to Windows) was the cause of my eventual loss of religion, something neither war nor an evil first wife had been able to effect. A GUI's main disadvantage over the CLI, IMO, is that it is going to do SOMETHING (mainly select something or execute something)...
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    How to disable the Recent folder in XP's Open dialog box?

    As long as this system is not a domain member I'd say the easy way to do this, and to get a handle on a lot of other useful cutomizations of the OS, would be to install the TweakUI PowerToy. There's a Common Dialogs / Places Bar setup in there that lets you customize the Open/Save dialog pretty...
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    Vista RC2 Released

    Yeah, that stuff didn't bother me much at all. I actually didn't mind the warnings and confirmation dialogs, and I played with the features of UAC as a limited user, too. What bugged me more was when the installation procedure and the OS itself made decisions and just told me about them, without...
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    Vista RC2 Released

    "They should make a "Windows Vista Yes-I-Have-Some-Sort-Of-Idea-WTF-I'm-Doing Edition" without all that." Exactly how I felt. Installing it and getting the hardware and software I use to work was complicated ONLY by the hand-holding and the "here-let-me-do-that-for-you" behavior of the OS and...
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    Is there a way I can clean up my bookmarks?

    Another possibility is Available Here. It's a freeware download called AM-Deadlink at that site. There's a support forum there, and the software is VERY good at going through Internet Explorer favorites. You can use its Options menu to configure it to look through Opera and Mozilla bookmark...
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    Does the commend line scare you?

    Eh, to each his own. But I do have to say that it's the GUI that I find scary. Let's take Windows Explorer, for instance. There I am moving my mouse cursor over the folder list. I sneeze or somethin distracts me, and the old index finger hits that left mouse button. Huh? Did something move...
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    12" laptops?

    Danged old eyes and danged old shakey hands. Double post. Sorry.
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    12" laptops?

    You might try Dynamism.com. A little pricey, but nice stuff and good support. I use one of the Panasonic R3s. (Current generation is R5). It has run like a top and is quite rugged.
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    Vista drops support for HDCP in 32bit Versions

    I'm so confused by this thread. I bought this neat little notebook (a Dell M70) about a year-and-a-half ago. I am so disgusted to learn that its native resolution isn't 1920x1200. Oh wait...
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    Woman: Background is reason for US airport security alarm

    Now THERE is the attitude that everyone the world over really loves. Excellent. Truly. Excellent. An Amerkun way of looking at things, indeed! I'm not serious about this suggestion, except from the standpoint of meaning that I wish it could be like this... Let everyone who loves the DHS'...
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    POLL: Do you use system restore?

    I have nothing against System Restore when it's used for immediate reversal of an installation that can't seem to correct or undo itself. And, under the right circumstances, it can be useful for getting a farkled system back up and running. But it disturbs me when I see someone use it to go...
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    Something weird is going on with Windows Updates

    A few days down the road from the problem I reported in an earlier message on this thread I got the "DEP is closing such-and-such" message about Windows Explorer! The desktop instance of Explorer closed and restarted, and nothing untoward has happened since. But this behavior made me decide to...
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    DEP Gets Snarky with nVidia Driver Helper Service!

    A few days down the road I got the "DEP is closing such-and-such" message about Windows Explorer! The desktop instance of Explorer closed and restarted, and nothing untoward has happened since. But this behavior made me decide to go ahead and call PSS, as Stash suggested in another thread...
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    Something weird is going on with Windows Updates

    Thanks for that information. I'm in the midst of several non-related calamities at the moment, but I've made a note of the information you've provided. I'll be taking your advice at the earliest opportunity. Regards, Ross PS: If I get any kind of resolution I'll post it here.