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    floppy detected as 5.25" A drive

    I have a old desktop that runs on some customized dos software and its motherboard going to give way so I decided to do this: I cloned the hard drive to my presario M2000 which runs on 915 chipset. As the chipset doesn't support ME, I get big display of 640x800 with no sound and so on but...
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    Outlook Archive Problem.

    I use outlook express for my mail needs until one day it become so huge in dbx that i decided to change to outlook 2003. I successfully imported every message using the outlook import function. The problem I am facing now is the archive which I need it so badly is not working?? I...
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    Computer auto partial on?

    Everytime when I turn on the AC, without pushing the power switch for the CPU, all the 3 fans.. CPU fan, back panel and side panel fun automatic turn on..... any idea?
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    Marking Surfed Link.

    Hi all, I have this question: Whenever I am in a forum, I will choose the topic that I am interested and read them. But the problem is sometime I get mixed up with the links that I read and unread. The method now I use is using shift+click to open up a new window for every topic. (IE6)...
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    outlook express problem.

    Hi all, I am using windows XP pro, recently I am having this on and off problem with outlook express. When I receive a email, I could see the From: Date: To: Cc: Subject: But when I print it out, I could only see the message but no of the above appear on the print out. It doesn't...
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    Browseui.dll Related To Outlook Express?

    The funny thing is that there is no system retore point at all, not even the date is in, just a blank space. Tried SFC /SCANNOW but finished without error. Now I realised that when I want to create a new account in control panel, I can't key in anything in the 'name box', no blinking cusor...
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    Browseui.dll Related To Outlook Express?

    Hi all, I have a pc that can't start to desktop with a error on missing browseui.dll error, therefore I copy from a working XP machine and paste into system32 and it is fine with all my desktop icon appears. The thing now is I can't seem to type anything in my outlook express, but when I type...
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    Computer Hang Without Reason?

    ok, Here is it: 1. The winxp is a new installation so I doubt so it is virus, norton 2006 full updated and scan without detected anything. 2. When it hang, I could do anything, not ctrl + alt + del, not moving mouse, not even numlock light on off and so on, have to do a hard reset. 3. I...
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    Computer Hang Without Reason?

    One think I would like to highlight is that when the pc hang, the hard disk light is fully lighten up.....
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    Computer Hang Without Reason?

    Thanks. Have check with the shop, they say its a AcBel 250w SFX power for mini casing, enough to run.... Hope they are right. Here is the details on the power supply : http://www.acbel.com/PDF/P_PC/SFX_250W.PDF
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    Computer Hang Without Reason?

    This is the new CPU that I got a week ago. - MSI PM890M-L LGA775 Motherboard - Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86Ghz Processor - Cosair 1GB (2 x 512MB) 667DDR2 RAM - 250GB Segate SATA II 7200RPM (16MB) Harddisk - MSI Nvidia NX7300LE-TD256E 256MB PCI-E Card - Integrated...
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    My wireless problem.

    I am using WinXP SP2 I have a BEFW11S4, currently I have 5 users connected using wireless and its working fine. I got a new laptop and tried to connect to the router but it prompts "wireless network not available please try refresh you network" when I click on my SSID. Normally for new...
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    Need help on locking my USB portable drive.

    Hi all, I just got a usb 80gb portable harddrive not long ago for my work stuff. I move around alot to show my works to people but I am a careless person too... always leaving things behind. I am wondering is that any software that can lockup my entire 80gb drive and prompt for password...
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    Need a super super popup stopper.

    Help, I am flooded with popups and I have tried many popup stoppers tools and still can't get the one that works... The popup stoppers I tried do get rid of normal popups but not the type that appears as a picture in the middle of my desktop..... No windows title... can command my tools to...
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    Just a outlook express question.

    I am having a new email address for other purchase. My first email : user@email.com always goes to inbox and that is correct. My I have the second email : user2@email.com I need the method to auto sort the 2 different accounts in different folder.... Like example : I will create a new...
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    Need help on buying new D.I.Y PC.

    Thanks guys, Now I think I have some idea but please correct me if I am wrong. 1. Still get single core cpu lilke : P4 3.0 640 (775) and above as GrammatonJP says "excel sucks.. its single threaded and doens't benefit from dual cores or multithreaded cpu" (Actually, I wanted to get dual...
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    Need help on buying new D.I.Y PC.

    I have a friend who uses excel speadsheets heavy duty type, he will open up like 20 plus worksheets at a time..... It started to hang and crash after the 20 sheets onwards.... So he upgraded to 768MB RAM, before that was 256MB, and it crash a little less time but still crash sometimes and...
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    Need help on wireless keyboard and mouse.

    Hi, we are upgrading our office to be as cordless as possibe... But before I go shopping, I have feedback from friends that wireless keyboard and mouse can only have max 2 pieces (same band and model) in a small area within 3 metres. If the 3rd piece come in, then I will have some conflicts...
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    Language encoding help needed.

    He is using japanese Winxpsp2 default input method. I have tried forward to a few webmail by different provider but same result. Any suggestion?
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    Language encoding help needed.

    I have tried on few machines, all same result.
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    Language encoding help needed.

    Hi, I have this problem with view japanese language using webmail. When I tried to open up the japanese email it shows : "???????·??????????·??···?????·?????·???????????????????·??·???????··???·?????·????..... and so on" I have tried all the encoding options but it just won't work...
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    Need help on NT 5.

    Hi, I have a workstation running as a simple file server (NT 5.0). I created a user by the name of francis with a log in password so that he can access to the files shared. The user took the notebook(winxp pro) away for holiday and change his log in password. When he is back, he say...
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    Need help on my dell computer

    Oh, ok. Thank you very much.
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    Need help on my dell computer

    Hi, I have a dell desktop that comes with XP home edition, I have lost my restore cd and get a copy of oem xp home edition from a friend and load it in. Before I did the reformat, I extracted the licence key using magic key finder. It works fine with installing and the key. The problem...
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    Need help on outlook express

    My emails are working fine, just that I want the addresses to show in the left lower panel thats all. Thanks.
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    Need help on outlook express

    Hi, it happens yesterday when I open up my outlook express, the contacts panel on the lower left corner becomes blank... I click on the address book and luckily the contacts are still in there. How can I get back the contacts list again? The panel is there but just empty....
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    Please help me on this mail merge.

    Sorry to miss out this, I am using MS Access XP for database and MS Word XP for mail merge.
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    Please help me on this mail merge.

    Hi, I have a database of my friends birthdays for the whole year. I tried to create a birthday letter mail merge but it printed out the whole year. So I decided to do a query on every month, I did it and have 12 query in the mail data.mdb. My problem is i can't add the query as data source...
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    Please help on my wireless setup.

    I have setup a wireless network inside my friends car show room. It is a shop surrounded by glass panels and a classic car parking in the middle. My problem is that sometime my pc show signal very good but sometime can scanning for half an hour without locating the router(which is on the...
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    Help, can't copy and paste files in winxp.

    I can't seems to copy or cut any files from one location to another. There are no error messages. Just right click copy and when want to paste...the paste command is grey faded. Please help.
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    PC333 RAM Problem ?

    Hi, I have a pc with 128MB PC266 DDR RAM. Using Win98. Went get a piece of 256MB PC333 DDR yesterday. Plug in the RAM, can boot and see in bios 384MB but window protection error. Put 1 RAM at a time, no such problem. Try long time last nite, finally give up. Use the new 256MB instead. But...
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    Dos Expert Please Help.

    Got this command from somewhere else. Works fine on my winxp machine but not win98... any idea ? for /F %%i in ('date /T') do set TODAY=%%i
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    Dos Expert Please Help.

    Hi, I would like to create a directory with current date. Using dos command prompt Anyone know whats the command ?? what i mean is example : c:\directory 26-12-2003 when ever the date is today. Need to know this as i can't use the explorer because I am doing it in a batch file.
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    Yahoo messenger user pls help.

    I am using the latest version of yahoo messenger with router and adsl line, I realised that recently a lot of backdoor trojan virus and is coming in.... and my norton antivirus can't do anything to it. What is the best way to block all these virus ? Firewall ?? Thanks.
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    Yahoo messenger user pls help.

    I am using the latest version of yahoo messenger with router and adsl line, I realised that recently a lot of backdoor trojan virus and is coming in.... and my norton antivirus can't do anything to it. What is the best way to block all these virus ? Firewall ?? Thanks.