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    Can't Get Sound on Vista

    When I installed vista on my new machine, and I try to play a sound file it says the audioses.dll file is missing or corrupt or something. I thought it was my onboard sound drivers so I went out and bought an audigy SE. It's doing the same thing with the audigy installed. Any ideas?
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    How do I set up sharing between 2 comps w/ Vista

    I've got a laptop and pc both connected wireless to my router. Both have Vista Home Premium on them. I want to back up stuff on my laptop every night to my PC wirelessly. I also want complete file sharing between the 2. How do I set this up? Is there anywhere I can read about how to do...
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    Need a new mobo....any suggestions?

    I just got my K9N Neo from Newegg. Nothing but problems. I'm taking it back. Anyways I need a mobo for my AMD x2 System, that runs in vista flawlessly, is not finicky about RAM, and just plain works. Price is not an issue, but needs to be reasonable (I think they are all under 200 anyway)...
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    Need a new mobo....any suggestions?

    I just got my K9N Neo from Newegg. Nothing but problems. I'm taking it back. Anyways I need a mobo for my AMD x2 System, that runs in vista flawlessly, is not finicky about RAM, and just plain works. Price is not an issue, but needs to be reasonable (I think they are all under 200 anyway)...
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    MSI K9N NEO Woes

    I ordered a new amd 4600+ system with an MSI K9N Neo. Nothing but troubles. I couldn't install vista NOR xp, until I realized the board is picky about my dual channel setup. That took about 4 hours to finally figure out. So I take out a stick of ram for single channel use. Vista...
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    Resizing laptop partition with Acronis software in Vista?

    I'm trying to resize and create another drive on my laptop. I want it partitioned so my OS is on 1 partition and my data is on another. I figured I'd use acronis's disk manager suite to do this since everyone gives it rave reviews. However, is this compatible with Vista? And when I format...
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    Best way to keep a constant backup.

    I need to have constant backup of my data. Scenerio: I work mostly on my laptop. I also have 2 500gig drives in mirror raid on my desktop. Every night I want to easily transfer the data on my laptop to a partition set up on my desktop for backup. Once a week I want to backup the...
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    New Laptop came with Vista - Slow Booting Up

    Ok this is my first laptop purchase ever, AND my first time using Vista, so I could be jumping the gun here. Anyway I bought an HP pavilon dv9000 series laptop yesterday. It came with vista home premium. However, it takes sometimes up to 4-5minutes to completely boot up. Is this normal...
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    Installing .Net Framework 1.1 on Vista

    A program I need doesn't work on Vista. Their support team says I need to install .Net framework 1.1 on vista. Is it okay to install an earlier version of .net on vista? Will it affect anying?
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    Cnet Reviews Vista 7.8/10

    Dunno if this has already been posted. Just thought people would like to see: http://reviews.cnet.com/Windows_Vista_U...13603.html?categoryId=1042&tag=bubbl_1
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    So many versions of Vista!

    I want to buy Vista when it's released. I went to amazon to see how much it was. I see about 50 different Vista programs on sale for pre-order. Home, Basic, Premium, Business, Ultimate, 32bit, 64bit, blah blah yada yada. How do I know which one is right for me? Is there a website...
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    Need the ultimate WoW Rig

    Since the release of the expansion I just go re-addicted. Shame on me!! Anyway I've got some christmas money that's burning a hole in my pocket. My current rig has an ATI x800, AMD x64 1.8ghz, Chaintech VNF4Ultra, 1gig Ram, Samsung 22" Widescreen LCD. As is, my computer plays WoW OK. I...
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    New XP Install

    I just bought a couple new 500gigs that are in a Raid 1 config that have my new install of windows. My old install had an older 80gig SATA drive, but now I need to get some critical info off it. I plugged it in after I installed windows on the 500's and now I can't get windows to see the old...
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    Do I need a floppy to install RAID?

    So I just bought a couple SATA WD 500gig hard-drives. I want to install windows from scratch on my chaintech nvidia board in RAID 1 (using the onboard controller). I don't have a floppy drive but I've read on the internet that its the only way to install RAID and SATA to set up windows...
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    RAID Help

    One of my hard drives died and its going to cost me alot more then just the cost of a new hard drive. I had a ton of important information that is irreplacable. I don't want this happening again so I'm going to try RAID out, although I've never used it. My mobo supports raid 0, raid 1, and raid...
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    Is this normal?

    Is it normal for wireless speeds to be considerably lower than wired speeds? Wired speeds are ~500KB/sec. Wireless = 250-300KB/sec. I just bought a netgear WGR614 router and its sitting in the room across the hallway (maybe 10-15ft away, no big obstructions, not far at all). I think I'm gonna...
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    New Wireless setup..wtf?

    Okay, so my old wireless D-link 802.11b router broke the other day. I went to circuit city and bought a netgear 802.11g router and a netgear 802.11g USB adapter. The problem is I'm getting exteremely slow speeds (~100KB/ps down) with the new setup. My previous wireless D-Link setup would get...
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    Internet not working..arghhh!!

    On my main comp my internet just stopped working after I woke up this morning. I was on the phone with comcast tech support for over 3 hours and nothing got resolved. Comcast said the modem pings just fine and everything is working on their end so its something messed up with my windows...
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    Quick question about IE

    Whenever Internet Exlporer opens a new window it opens a really small sized window. How do I make it so it defaults to a full screen whwnever it opens a new window. Stupid question, I know, but it's getting really annoying hitting the maximize button every single time I open a new window with IE.
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    DrWatson Program Debugger???

    I'm getting random crashes with my computer. It's an Athlon64 300+, Chaintech VNF4U mobo running xp pro. It usually happens when I try to access windows explorer. It locks up and an error screen comes up saying that there is an Error with DrWatson Program Debugger..and then a little screen comes...
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    Games anyone???

    K i'm at a loss with the selection of games right now. Nothing is holding my interest. I played WoW for a couple months but that lost interest fast. I just finished Dungeon Siege II and didn't really like it that much. I remember back in the day, games like xcom and civ3 I could play day in and...
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    Movie files look funny...help!

    K I installed the new forceware drivers for my 6800 but now all my movie files (avi mpeg etc) look funny. They are in color but it looks like an 8bit version of it. What is going on? It also happens in any media player (WMP, WINDVD, ETC). Can anyone help me out???
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    Thermal Paste degrading?

    K I have a really really old tube of Arctic Silver 3. It's probably like 3-4 years old. My problem is I keep having to re-apply it because my CPU temp keeps creeping up. It will be like 45-47C idle when I first apply. After a week or so its idle temp gets over 50-52C. Then I'll re-apply it and...