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    wireless auto negotiation

    That's exactly what I wanted to know. Thank you for the clarity.
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    wireless auto negotiation

    When Skyping with my brother, our connection is half duplex. We are both connecting wirelessly. It appears that wired connections auto negotiate in their default configuration and set the connection to half or full duplex according to the results of the negotiation, but how does a wireless...
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    vBulletin Plugin Suggestions

    I would like to be able to see what the last time was that a user logged in, as we can now. I don't remember seeing this feature on vBulletin forums. It is a helpful feature for the FS/T forum.
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    Help me get my HDD back

    The controller driver may be corrupt. Remove the controller in Device Manager and restart the machine; allowing it to be redetected and reinstalled.
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    Help me get my HDD back

    Is it present in the BIOS? Is it SATA? Is the system drive SATA? Does it just disappear when it is running hot?
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    Tool to see my pc specs?

    WinAudit has come a long way in the last 5 years or so, but if you want a more detailed view of your hardware, have a look at System Info Viewer. http://www.softpedia.com/get/S...formation-Viewer.shtml For more software information, Belarc Advisor will recover the product keys that you will...
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    Tool to see my pc specs?

    WinAudit has come a long way in the last 5 years or so, but if you want a more detailed view of your hardware, have a look at System Info Viewer. http://www.softpedia.com/get/S...formation-Viewer.shtml For more software information, Belarc Advisor will recover the product keys that you will...
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    Windows XP on D - want to move to C

    The big hammer would be my preference if I had someplace else to temporarily hold my data, except that I'd have nuked the diagnostic partition as well, for all that it is worth. Then it would be easy to create the primary partition on the first part of the disk and it wouldn't matter whether the...
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    Windows XP on D - want to move to C

    The original partition must have been a primary partition. The Windows installation disc will not give you the option to create a second primary partition; it automatically creates an extended partition. The problem is that Windows assigns the letter C to the first primary partition. As it...
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    Comp won't turn on

    Carefully examine the board for bad caps. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=195 http://home.earthlink.net/~doniteli/index27.htm Do you have a different PSU that you can swap in?
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    Memory mystery, at least a logical puzzle

    Do both machines have the same BIOS version and chipset driver?
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    Windows XP on D - want to move to C

    Can you show us a printscreen of Disk Management, so we can see what you have for Primary and Extended/Logical partitions? (Right-click My Computer and choose Manage > Disk Management) The free Easus Partition Manager is a good tool for manipulating partitions. It works much like Partition...
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    Recover Hard Drive

    Did you delete a partition or just a bunch of files?
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    Windows Locking Up at Start Up

    Do a virus scan in safe mode, or start up in Safe Mode with networking and do an online scan. http://usa.kaspersky.com/produ...free-virus-scanner.php
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    Motherboard fire

    A common source of motherboard fires is cross-connected onboard USB pins.
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    Computer booting up less and less often

    Random behaviour usually indicates a capacitor problem; sometimes on the motherboard and sometimes in the Power Supply. Examine the motherboard for bad caps. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=195 http://home.earthlink.net/~doniteli/index27.htm Do you have another Power Supply...
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    Failure to boot...please help

    If there is no beeping, the vid card memory and CPU are probably OK. The problem is most likely the mobo or PSU. Examine the board for swollen, domed or leaky capacitors. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=195 http://home.earthlink.net/~doniteli/index27.htm Do you have another...
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    Private Message Notifier

    Bug report: Using W2K, cannot shutdown as long as the app is running in the tray. It just keeps giving message, "Cannot synchronize with the server. Ensure.....". If I close it manually, shutdown is no problem. /pax
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    Private Message Notifier

    Well, it finally went. Highlighting and overwriting wasn't cutting it. Manually erasing everything before inputting, for some reason, worked. Serendipity or coincidence?
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    Private Message Notifier

    I'm getting the same error as the others. The forum ID is the number "1"?
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    "No connection to the internet is currently available"

    Thank-you for the reply. I did chase down those things but eventually found the problem in HKEY_Current User\Software\Google\NavClient\1.1\promo, which key supports the Feb 14th Valentine skin on the Google Toolbar. Uninstalling the toolbar caused the problem to correct itself immediately...
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    "No connection to the internet is currently available"

    When I click on IE6, instead of getting the Dialup Connection dialog box, it opens offline and opens a dialog box that says, "Work Offline No connection to the internet is currently available. To view content that has been saved on your computer, click Work Offline. Click Try again to attempt to...
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    Dual channel DDR question

    Thankyou for a simple and clear answer. Life's instruction book in one sentence.
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    Dual channel DDR question

    Do both dimms have to be the same size for dual channel to work?
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    how many ways to ZIP IT ?

    This is where your copy of ToniArts Easy Cleaner will come in handy for you. I just updated my AVG install this very minute so the problem must lie with your installation. If you are new to WinZip, run it using the Wizard interface. It will unzip compressed download files and file them in...
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    Drive remapping freeware?

    Is anyone aware of a freeware app that will remap drives that have been moved or had their letters changed, much like WinDoctor or PM's DriveMapper?
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    No IP in winipcfg

    Hmmm, if I had taken the time to check the Network Properties box, I bet I would have discovered the reason that there is no IP is because it is using a different protocol, like NetBeui.
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    No IP in winipcfg

    I was asked to take a look at a small office network in hopes of enabling internet connection sharing. The network consists of 3 win98 (first edition) PCs. They are presently networked for file and printer sharing. When I checked WINIPCFG /all for an IP, all I found was a MAC address and a...
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    Can you put windows XP updates on a disc???

    I am not sure what you are asking. If you just want to clone your old drive to the new one, there are any number of ways to do that, using Ghost, Partition Magic, Drive Copy or the easiest way, perhaps is to just use the software that came with your new disk to do it. If you didn't get software...
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    WinME lost system restore - can't find ATRACE.DLL

    Yeah, just send him a copy of the extacted file in Windows\System. It will only be 10 or 20 KB, so there's not much point in compressing it. Oops, he has no profile.
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    WinME lost system restore - can't find ATRACE.DLL

    The file you are seeing may not be in Windows\System where the registry is looking for it or it may be corrupted and should be replaced. You could download a copy online but you would have to make sure that you are getting the correct version (I believe there are two different versions of this...
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    "Parameter is Incorrect"

    If that was a FAT32 partition, you may be able to recover that partition with Cristophe Grenier's TESTDISK (freeware). DrD has conveniently placed it on a stripped down 98SE bootdisk which is available HERE. Choose the wpartnfix.exe file Download it to a Windows folder like My Docs or whatever...
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    Major and very strange problem!

    Can you try a different monitor? When you say you "hooked in a different floppy" does that mean you swapped out the drive and the new drive is still seeking the floppy disk? Is it still beeping?
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    Drive image or drive copy?

    Thanks Dave, that clears it up for me.
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    Drive image or drive copy?

    Can somebody explain the diffeerence between an "image" and a "copy"? Is there a difference between a boot image and a copy of a boot disk? What is an ISO image? What is the difference between a drive image and a drive copy?
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    How to move pagefile

    Got her sorted, thanks guys. It's nice to be able to defrag to 100% again.
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    How to move pagefile

    So I can just move it and windows will somehow find it or do I have to create a shortcut or something like that?
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    How to move pagefile

    I would like to move my pagefile in W2K to another drive. I have 512 MB RAM and am looking to create a 768MB pagefile. I have done some reading on the subject and it was suggested that some of the page file remain on the system partition. How is that possible? All suggestions welcome.
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    %windir%???

    What is the significance of these percentage signs? Are they simply indicating that the term is variable?
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    networked comps sharing 56k dialup connection?

    That can work just fine. The only downside to it is that the gateway computer has to be running in order for the client to get on line. If that is not a problem and you have a network card installed in each computer then all you have to do is a little configuring which is well described at...