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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

    Thanks I read all that....got everything set up. However, I can't access my main computer from my laptop. I can access my laptop from my main. As far as I can see all network sharing settings are the same on both computers. 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

    Anyone?
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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 have Vista Home Premium....not xp pro =/
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    Best way to keep a constant backup.

    how do i do incrimental backups? does that come with acronis?
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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

    It's a brand new laptop that cost me 1500 bucks, and it's specs are faster than my desktop. It's got the core 2 duo cpu, 2gig ram, gforce 7600, 160gb hd, the works. To answer your question it only takes like 5-10 seconds to get to the vista screen....but then it takes another 3-4 minutes (or...
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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

    is there any performance difference?
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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!

    Do they all have that thing where you can swap in a flash drive to up your RAM usage? Forgot what it's called.
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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

    I'm not sure what model of x800 it is. I got it quite awhile ago. My FPS is pretty smooth, 40-60fps without maxed settings (no AA or AF). The only problem is the game gets choppy (like the hard drive gets accessed alot, and I'll get .5-1 second pauses every now and then) at which point it...
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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

    Boomerang - That fixed it, thanks bud
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    New XP Install

    Boomerang - I did globally enable raid, maybe thats it. I'll try it out now. Anways I couldn't get it to work with the windows install so I made a slipstream windows CD (took me forever to figure out how)...so I just reinstalled everything with the slipstream drives and it worked perfectly...
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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?

    I read the manual but it is for a completely different menu. It's for Via's bios not NVRAID, kinda sucks. Anyways this is the order I've done everything just so things don't get confused: Install HD 1, partition 30gig for windows, install windows 30gig partition. Install Latest Nforce...
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    Do I need a floppy to install RAID?

    Okay so I couldn't wait any longer for a response and I went ahead and put the 2nd drive in without reformatting it, figuring the raid thing would do all that automatically since it mirrors it. I enabled all the raid stuff in my bios and it took me to the nvraid bios thing. As I've never done...
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    Do I need a floppy to install RAID?

    Ok, I got the 1 drive in and windows installed on it. I haven't installed any drivers yet, just have a quick question. I allocated 30gig for the windows partition and the rest of the drive (450gig) is partitioned but unformated. Of course I will eventually format it but do I format it first and...
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    Do I need a floppy to install RAID?

    The mobo model is a chaintech VNF4/Ultra
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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

    I don't understand what the difference is then. Raid is at least a LIVE backup at all times, if one hard drive dies you will have a backup at that very instant that the hard drive died. Say I didn't have raid and just did periodic backups...What if I just finished writing an important document...
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    RAID Help

    Okay I just read that wikipedia site and now I think I'm even more confused =/ It looks like I need to impliment raid 1, to accomplish what I want. *shrug*
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    RAID Help

    Whats the best way to protect my data then? I'm not a fan of just copying my information over every single day to a separate drive. Plus that doesn't save me from have to reinstalling windows all over again (having to reinstall everything, losing all my remembered passwords etc) if my 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?

    Yes 500kb/sec is very consistent. Usually its 550-600, but never below 500. Wireless I'm usually sitting at 300. I live in Utah =D
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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?

    The router is like 10 feet away from the computer so I don't know why its so slow. The speed differences are HUGE compared to wired (but with my old D-Link wireless router it was pretty close to wired speeds, if not the same). And Yes I have wpa-psk security on.
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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???

    what do you mean before your 60 seconds is up??
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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...