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    Building a new rig, advice wanted

    I want to build a new rig that will handle the new games that are being released. The components that I am looking at are: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115003 EVGA 320-P2-N811-AR GeForce...
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    WinXP, Deleting all but most recent restore points

    OS Windows XP home edition SP2. I used to be able to use the disk cleanup utility and have an option to delete all but the most recent restore points. There were two tabs, one for regular disk cleanup and another for other functions such as deleting restore points as described above...
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    Windows XP/Mozilla firefox problem

    I am having a recurring problem where I will be using my browser and my internet connection will abruptly drop out requiring a reset of my modem. After that I will open my browser again and my bookmarks will be gone and all of my browser settings have reverted to default settings. Any...
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    Heat problems with laptop running Ubuntu

    I have just installed Ubuntu 6.10, 2.6.17-11-generic kernel, on a Compaq Presario v6000z laptop with no changes made to the installation yet except for installing Nvidia drivers for the video chipset. The temperatures are so high ( 58c core temperature, 74c gpu temperature idle) that I...
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    Cannot install fax services in XP sp2

    I have tried to install fax services through the control panel add-remove windows components tab. During this process i had to manually copy some files that the install process couldn't find. I finally get a message that I "successfully completed the windows component wizard" but after...
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    Rebuilding security database in WinXP SP2

    I tried to rebuild a corrupt security database using instructions from article kb278316 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278316/. Step 5 has me adding the "security and configuration snap-in". When I get to this step I cannot find the security and configuration snap-in on the available...