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    safe to delete old windows xp install directory?

    This is a followup to an earlier thread...for various reasons involving a new MB installation, I ended up with my new, current version of windows installed to c:\windows1. My original install is to C;\windows. After I pull anything useful from that directory, is it safe to delete it? I'm...
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    Forced to load new copy of winxp with new MB - how to revert back

    I bought a new motherboard/cpu (ecs gf8200 if that makes a difference) to upgrade my failing dell 4600C. I first booted the new machine with a random old harddrive I had around, and it kinda booted, but I got a blue screen of death. But it did boot successfully through POST, which was my real...
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    recovering vista home premium from home basic disk

    Recently my friend's sony viao crashed hard. Blue screen of death no matter what they tried (normal boot, safe mode, etc). They asked for my help, since i'm reasonably proficient at fixing simpler things and figuring out what is wrong and how best to fix it, and usually can save them time and...
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    Princeton LCD dead or usable?

    I have a 17" princeton LCD (senergy 714) that is just out of warranty when it started failing - the screen would intermittantly fail to synch after being on for awhile. Turning it off and waiting awhile restored it, now it refuses to synch at all. (by "refusing to synch" I mean that the image...
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    How to determine right memory for a motherboard

    I recently got a barebones kit that included the PC CHips A13G+ GEforce6100 motherboard, along with 1 GB of slow pc4200 memory. I want to upgrade the memory, but I get confused when I go to newegg and find all kinds of nearly-identical 1GB offerings (I'm looking at 2X1GB of dual channel PC6400...
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    Its always march 10th on my PC...win xp

    Ever since the DST change, my PC is always on March 10th, roughly around midnight. I can't change it...I open up the clock, and make the time correct, but when I click APPLY (or OK) it just reverts back to march 10th, 11:45Pm or so. I tried applying the latest DST patch from microsoft, says it...
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    limit access to internet for children

    We have a PC that is shared between the parents and some teens. We (the parents) use the internet all the time for the usual useful purposes (buying online for example), but we've had nothing but troubles with the teens abusing it (visiting inappropriate sites, staying up all night chatting...
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    ethernet crashes gateway win98 machine

    I'm trying to set up a small home network for a friend (the usual, I got drafted to help....sigh...). Their main PC is a new winxp machine that connects to the net via dsl, and has their printer attached to it. Their older PC is a gateway essential 450, circa 1999, with win98SE. They want to...