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    Remote access of LAN

    I have a small home LAN consisting of 6 PCs. Four of the PCs are running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 and two of them are running Windows 10. I'd like to be able to connect to any of them remotely with my Win 10 laptop or Android tablet. Can some tell a newbie how to do this? Do I need a VPN? How...
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    Windows batch scripting question

    I need some help with Windows scripting. I have a bunch of DVDs rips stored on my PC that I watch with my Patriot Box Office (PBO) hardware media player. Unfortunately the PBO doesn't support symbolic links properly so I've had to create directory junctions instead. I've been typing the...
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    Windows 7 Home Premiun and iSCSI

    I have a HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 and I'm using Windows Media Center to record TV shows. I'm running out of hard drive space on the HTPC and adding more drives or swapping in larger drives isn't an option. But I have another PC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 that I use as a...
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    Firewire

    I have a old 2 bay external hard drive case that I connected to my PC (NOT a Mac) via Firewire 400 to record video. The case held 2 IDE hard drives and a IDE to Firewire bridgeboard. I'd like to reuse the case but update it to use SATA hard drives. So I need a new bridgeboard that supports two...
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    HTPC with WMC 7 and XBox 360 as media extender problem

    I had to rebuild my HTPC running Windows 7 x64 because of a bad hard drive. I replaced the hard drive and now when I try to use my XBox 360 with it doesn't work. Any idea as to what's wrong and how to fix it? I'm not running any kind of security software (AntiVirus, non-WIndows Firewall, etc). I...
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    Suggested MiniITX system build.

    I'm thinking about building a MiniITX system for web surfing, using RDP to access my other PCs, streaming video & playing DVD & Blurays (both physical disks and rips stored on my media server in ISO and file form). MKV support would be nice as well. I do not want to overclock or play games...
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    Maxtor Shared Storage Drive question

    I have a Maxtor Shared Storage Drive (MSS) which is a NAS connected to my wired Ethernet network. And I can no longer access the info on it and there are some files I need from it. I think that the hard drive may have been corrrupted. I pulled the hard drive out of the case and it spun up. The...
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    Longer 8087 to SATA reverse breakout cables needed

    I'm building a storage server in a Norco 4224 case. I need to connect the SATA ports on my motherboard (MSI FM2-A85XA-G65) with 8 SATA ports to the Norco's 8087 ports. I know I need 8087 to SATA reverse breakout cables in order to do so. I bought 2 Norco 8087 to SATA reverse breakout cables but...
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    MAC addresses not visible behind wireless bridge

    I have a XBox 360, Sony S-1100 Bluray player and a WDTV Live Plus all of which only offer wired Ethernet that I wanted to connect to my wired gigabit Ethernet network. But my network wiring doesn't run to the room that the XBox 360, etc are in. So I bought a Engenius ERB300H wireless N bridge in...
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    120 mm fans suggestions for Norco 4224 case.

    I'm buying a Norco 4224 case and I'm going to use the replacement fan mounting plate Norco sells that holds 3 120mm fans. Does anyone have suggestions for 120mm fans that are quiet ut still can do the job? These fans are going to be used in a environment with a good deal of static pressure. Some...
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    Mount Points and Windows Explorer.

    I have a PC running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium setup as a media server to hold my DVD rips and music. I was running out of drive letters so I changed over to using mount points for the drives instead. But now the drives don't show up in Windows Explorer. I need to copy things to and from the...
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    Windows Symbolic Link Question

    Is it possible to write a command creating a symbolic link between two directories when the target directory already exists? For example the command "mklink /D /J Aliens G:\SciFi" would create the NTFS junction point "Aliens" in the "G:\SciFi" directory. But the "Aliens" directory already exists...
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    Windows symbolic link problem

    I have a PC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 set up as a media server where I store my DVD rips. I play them with my Patriot Box Office (PBO) media player. I have the movie Alien ripped as files in the directory named Alien which is in turn stored in a directory named SciFi. I also want to...
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    Choosing a good tablet.

    I'm new to tablet computing and I'm looking at buying one of 4 different tablets: Sero 7 Pro with 8GB, Acer Iconia 8GB A1-810-L615 Tablet, Asus ME-102 Memo Pad with 16GB, Dell Venue 8 with 8 GB of memory. These are all Android tablets. I have no interest in a tablet running Windows and I can't...
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    Windows 7 problem with creating new User account

    I have a HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64. From a Administrator account I created a new Standard account with a password. But when I tried to login to the new account I got the following error message: "This User Profile failed the logon. User Profile cannot be loaded". Following...
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    Invisible Shares question.

    Is it possible to make certain shares invisible to some user accounts but not others? I know that by adding a $ to the share name I can make the account invisible to everyone but I don't want that. I set up an account on my PC so that my WDTV Live media player could access my DVD/Bluray rips...
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    Wireless bridging question.

    I have a wired network but I want to use a couple wired media players in a place where I can't run a Ethernet cable so I want to use a wireless router and wireless bridge to connect them to my network. I was using two D-Link DIR-601 routers with one of them flashed with DD-WRT to act as a...
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    Reading data from external drive.

    I have a 3 TB 3.5 inch Toshiba Canvio external hard drive which I've formatted as a GPT disk in order to use the full 3 TB. I've found that with Seagate 3 TB and 4 TB external hard drives even if you use GPT if you remove the hard drive from the external case and try to use as a regular drive...
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    Media server program to transcode .WTV files.

    I have a WDTV Live Plus and I use it to watch Netflix and DVD ISOs. Now I'd like to use it to watch the TV shows recorded on my Windows Media Center 7 machine. All of the TV programs are recorded as copy freely so that's not a problem. I know that the WDTV can't view WTV files natively. But I...
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    Making wireless bridge on wired network

    I have a wired network with a wired Linksys BEFSR41 router which handles PPPOE for my DSL account and acts as a DHCP server. I want to add a wireless bridge to this setup so I that can use a older media player that only supports wired Ethernet. I also have two D-Link DIR-601 rev A1 wireless...
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    Cloning and shrinking SSD partition?

    I had been using a 64 GB SSD on my HTPC running Windows Home Premium x64. I then used Clonezilla to clone it to a 128 GB SSD and then used Disk Management to extend the partition to the rest of the drive. I've now realized that the HTPC doesn't really need a 128 GB SSD (the 64 GB SSD was only a...
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    Question about Windows XP junctions and links

    Is there a way to list all the junctions and symbolic links used on a computer running Windows XP and save that listing to a text file?
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    Deciding on motherboard for media server.

    I'm thinking about putting together a new PC to act as a media server as my old one is failing. I won't be doing any gaming or overclocking or web surfing. I may run software RAID like FlexRAID or unRAID on it. I want to have as many onboard SATA ports as possible so I can add lots of hard...
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    Modernizing Media Server?

    I have a old media server to hold my DVD rips and TV recordings that I built back in 2005 using a CoolerMaster CM Stacker case and five 3-into-2 drive cages. It has a 2.6 ghz P4 with 1.5 Gb of memory running XP Pro SP2. It has a 3Ware 7506-12 PATA RAID controller with 12 PATA drives partitioned...
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    Printing on mixed Windows 7 and Windows XP network

    I have a wired home network consisting of 3 computrs running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium SP1 and 2 computers running 32 bit Windows XP SP3. I also have 2 HP printers, a HP LasertJet 1012 and HP OfficeJet 7210. Both printers are attached to the Win 7 computers and work fine. But now I'm trying to...
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    WMC 7 and hard drive spin up time.

    I'm running out of hard drive space on my HTPC which uses Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I want to add a 4 bay external drive case in order to get more space. But the external case I want to use spins down the drives after a period of inactivity and there's no way to change this behavior. So if...
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    Setting up iSCSI system

    I have a HTPC running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium and I'm using WMC7 to record TV shows. Unfortunately I've run out of hard drive space on the HTPC. But I also have a media server which holds all my movies and it has plenty of space. So I'd like to record TV shows onto my media server instead. My...
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    Finding specs for hard drive in USB case.

    Is there a program that will read the specifications (size, interface [SATA or IDE], model number, etc) of a external HD connected by USB?
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    Windows 7 Activation Problem.

    I bought a Windows 7 Upgrade Family Pack which is good for use on 3 PCs. The first PC I used it on had it's motherboard (Intel P67) bricked by a bad flash from Intel. I replaced the motherboard and re-used the same CPU and got Microsoft to activate it online. I then built another computer and...
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    Secure erasing Kingston HyperX SSD

    I have a Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD and I'm trying to find a way to secure erase it. I looked on Kingston's web site and couldn't find anything. So I called Kingston and they recommended a program called HDDErase. But I had already found and tried that program and it failed. It hung up when...
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    Clean install of Windows 7 with Upgrade version not Full version

    I bought the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Family Pack and want to use it on a clean installation on my newly built computer and I don't want to do the double installation trick. I tried using these instructions http://blog.chriskankiewicz.com/post/10/windows-7-activation-hack/ . But when I...
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    Older PSU OO with new motherboard?

    I have a MicroATX case with a PSU in which the motherboard went bad. I ordered the BioStar A730LC3 AM3 motherboard (http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=612#spec). The case is equipped with a 400w Seasonic Super Silencer...
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    AHCI Windows installation and two SSDs

    I've read that in order to get the most out of a SSD the BIOS should be set to AHCI before installing Windows 7. I've also read that all hard drives should be disconnected from the system when doing this. Well I have not one but two SSDs and I was wondering if I should have both connected or...
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    Case bracket for USB 2.0 ports wanted

    I have six USB 2.0 ports on my motherboard but only two USB 2.0 connectors in the front of my case which is all I need. I need more USB 2.0 connectors in the back of my case. Does anyone know of a expansion card bracket (not a expansion card itself) that has 2 or more USB 2.0 connectors that I...
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    Looking for PCIe x1 SATA III card

    I'm looking a for a PCIe X1 SATA 3 card with at least 2 intenal SATA ports so I can add some extra SATA ports to a Intel Z77 motherboard. I'll be running Windows 7 x64. I've looked at the SATA 3 expansion cards on Newegg and they all seem to have one sort of problem or another. Can anyone...
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    Intel 330 SSD or Kinston HyperX 3K?

    I have a choice between a 120 GB Kingston HyperX 3K SSD and a 180 GB Intel 330 SSD. I don't play games but I might do some video encoding (converting old VHS and Laserdiscs to DVDs). Mostly I'm going to be using the machine for regular things like web surfing. So which is the better SSD for...
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    Mixing memory sticks with different voltages?

    I have a Intel DZ77BH-55K motherboard and I bought 8 Gb of this memory for it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145315 that runs at 1.35 volts. Now I want to add another 8 Gb of memory like this...
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    Upgrade Intel motherboard for Ivy Bridge CPU.

    I have a Intel DH67CL motherboard and used to have a i5-2500k Sandy Bridge CPU in it. I sold off the 2500k and bought a new i7-3770k Ivy Bridge CPU. Then I found out that the motherboard needs a BIOS update in order to use the Ivy Bridge CPU and that neither me nor my friends have a Sandy Bridge...
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    Reliable, quality USB 3.0 hub wanted

    I'm looking for a good powered 5 to 7 port USB 3.0 hub for use with both USB 2.0 and 3.0. I've looked at a lot of the USB 3.0 hubs on Newegg and they seem to have a lot of problems and bad reviews especially in mixed USB 2.0 and 3.0 environments. I know USB 3.0 is relatively new but I thought...
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    PCI NOT PCI Express (E)Sata card available?

    I've run out of Sata ports on my motherboard and I'd like to add some more. The motherboard I'm using only has 3 PCIe slots and I'm using them. But I do have 3 PCI slots unused. So I'm looking for a PCI card (not PCIe) so I can add more ports. I'd like a card that has both Sata and ESata ports...