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    Goodbye Anandtech

    This forum has now joined the others that I have left, because of the the unfounded unreasonable locking of a thread (Prophecy Timeline, in P&N). I really do not care why it was locked, because it was not inflamatory to anyone. If a forum is offended by discussing how Christian phophecy is...
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    Prophecy Timeline

    Considering the attitude that I have found to be prevalent in the forum, it might be counterproductive to start this thread with the title that I did, but that is unavoidable, because Biblical prophecy is unfolding in a manner, as never before. We have the advantage of being able to examine...
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    Desk Chairs

    I had a stroke a few years ago, which was brought on by desk chair cutting off circulation to my legs, and causing a blood clot to form. Since I'm now disabled, I spend more time than ever sitting at my desk, therefore my chair is more important than ever. I just replaced my old Walmart...
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    Registry Keys

    Going through my registry cleaner, I find alot of keys leading to files in other Windows OS installations. I understand when a key leads to a partition where it has placed an item, or where a program installation may have originated, but is there any good reason that a key to another OS should...
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    PVR150 Sound Problem

    I just connected a new antenna, and the picture is quite good, but the sound doesn't work at all, unless I select a station and then restart WinTV2000. Even then, if I change channels, I lose the sound again, until I repeat the procedure. I have been troubleshooting, but I find no problems...
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    Ownership

    Perhaps I have too much idle time, but I'm sitting here with my mind focused on an issue that I know is so basic to all people, that no one can be untouched by it...OWNERSHIP. But contrary to what one may think at first glance, it's not nearly as simple of an issue as it may appear. I expect...
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    Game Crashes

    I'm having a problem with a couple of games, particularly "The Longest Journey" and "Halo", in which they are crashing frequently. I did not have this problem with them installed on either XP x64 or x32. The graphics card is not getting hot, nor is it overclocked. I installed the latest patch...
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    30 Day Mail delivery??

    I mailed in for a rebate on a Zyxel router that I bought back in Early October. At first they said that it was scheduled for 1-3-07, but when I checked again, they had moved that to 1-15-07. I just checked again, and they said that it had been mailed on that date, but to allow 30 days for...
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    Email Links

    This is the only forum that I have been to, where that the links to a thread, in an email notification, always takes one to the first page of the thread, rather than to the page where the post being notified of is located. Not only would it be far more convenient for the membership for this to...
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    Bios Settings

    I've been poking around in the bios, and I found one item that I'm curious about...V-Link Voltage. Does anyone know exactly what this is? Whether anyone knows or not, could anyone give me a link to a guide on bios settings? Preferably for my motherboard, but any good general guide would do...
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    Startup Chkdsk

    Frequently, when I have a BSOD, when Windows reboots, it wants to run chkdsk on some partition on another drive from where the OS is, which is formatted FAT32. But none of my programs are located on these, and when the crash happens, I'm not doing anything to access them. I wouldn't be...
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    Page File

    I'm in the process of trying to cleanup a mess caused by a rogue program, and despite the fact that I have reinstalled everything that I can think of that might be associated, the problem still returns on occassion. This got me to thinking about the page file, because it stores data in a...
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    Games With A Saving Grace

    I have played a number of computer games, the last being CoD. I realize that no game is going to avoid killing, but I don't enjoy when that is all that a game is about. CoD was so simple, that the only time that I had to resort to a walkthrough, was in the first Russian level on the boats...
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    Unmovable Files

    This is a question of curiousity. When going to the defragmenter, there are always two blocks of unmovable files, with the smaller block first. They have always been in the same positions on the analyses bar, but when I just went their, the larger block had moved to the far end. Is this...
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    TCPIP.SYS BSOD

    I've gotten a couple of these today, which are totally new to me. I suspect that the cause is that I have done some uninstall and reinstall of the firewall, AV and even a item called memguard, that Opera requested that I install for diagnostics purposes of a bug report that I sent them. Things...
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    Converting An Animated .GIF To Non-Animated

    I have an avatar that I made several years ago, that I use on most of the forums. But a couple of them no longer allow animated avatars, so mine has disappeared there. I can't remember which program that I used, but I think that it was composed of 20 images in succession. How would I extract...
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    Modem Speaker Volume

    Perhaps it was in an older OS than MCE, but I could have sworn that there was a control to set the volume of the modem speaker. All that I could find was the on/off switch. If I'm not imagining it, where is it?
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    CoD Freezing

    99% of the time, the game runs fine. But, it seems to have an uncanny way of knowing exactly when to freeze, so that it causes me to get killed at the worst time. Is there a setting within or without it that would eliminate this problem?
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    Missing Program Windows

    They have been working fine, but all of a sudden, both SpeedFan, and Yankee Clipper are unable to open their main windows. It appears that they run okay in the System Tray...at least SpeedFan still gives temperature readouts in it's popup, but Yankee Clipper is of no use, if you can't open it's...
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    Enabling Disk Cache

    After running Bootvis, I noticed that it said that the write cache was not enabled. Looking at the Device Manager, the 2 PATA drives have this enabled, but the 3 SATA drives have the items greyed out. Is there a way to control this?
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    Grub Errors

    I just reinstalled SuSe 10.0 on my multi-boot system, because of Grub errors on the previous installation. However, the new installation behaves in much the same fashion as before. If I set boot sequence to the drive with SuSe, I get a Grub Stage 1.5 error 17. And If I boot to the drive that...
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    Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Installation

    I started to install Ubuntu, but when I got to the partitioner, it was not as I'm accustomed to in other distros. The best that I could tell, it listed each partition, with a window to set the mount point, but this is where I got lost. Is these merely mount points, so that other partitions are...
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    Found.0000/.chk

    I know what .chk files are, but I don't know what to do with them. Is there a specific action that I should take, or just delete them?
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    Keyboard Tray Lock

    I have a metal and glass desk, which came with a sliding tray for the keyboard. But it has no way to lock into place. I use a large "paper clip" attached to the rail to block it, but this always slides out of place. I got to wondering if there is some kind of push button lock that I could...
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    Ignore

    Wrong Forum.
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    Relettering Partitions

    I tried to I like to assign letters to partitions that make sense to me. I have done this in the past without any problems, but this time, when I changed a letter, it disappeared from the list of available letters, so that it couldn't be reused. which defeats my original purpose. Is there some...
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    Windows Updates

    I just tried to run the initial updates for MCE. The scanning worked fine, and the list appeared, but after selecting what I wanted and clicking to install, each update started normally, but got about halfway complete and the progress bar zapped to the right, and the update was marked as...
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    Zone Alarm Et. Al.

    About every other time that I boot, zlclient.exe and vsmon.exe, both of which belong to Zone Alarm, never cease to stop running, and since they can't be terminated with the Task Manager, I find myself rebooting too often. If I don't find a solution to this quickly, I'm going looking for another...
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    Reinstalling a Program

    While trying to troubleshoot a problem that I'm having installing programs from my DVD burner, an installation crashed after nearly completing. The program directory is there, but it doesn't appear in the start menu, but more importantly, it appears in Add/Remove programs, but when I try to...
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    Nero 7 Ultra Edition - Enhanced

    I have Nero 6 OEM, which came with my optical drives, but I noticed that CompUSA has this newer version available for $40. But, looking at the features, I see nothing too compelling. It has Showtime, but so does Nero 6. However, it requires buying another plugin to use it, and I already have...
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    MCE Message Queing

    I found this function when going through the options in Add/Remove Programs and installed it, but have been having second thoughts about it since. Every time that I connect to the internet, ZA pops an alert that it is trying to connect, and I keep blocking it, because I have no idea of what it...
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    Acronis True Image

    I need to clone an OS to another HD on my system, but I have never done anything like that before, except with Dantz Retrospect Express...but it didn't make the clone bootable. Does True Image...or would I have to do something more manually?
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    Trans OS Program Installation

    I think that I already know the answer to this question, but I'm going to ask anyway. On a mutlti-boot system, is there anyway that you can install a program in one OS from another? To run an installation is the easy part, but to have it register itself in an OS other than the active...
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    TV Antenna

    This is probably beneath the dignity of the forum, or at least too far back in the memory of some of the members, but I stumbled over my rabbit ears last night, because the only place that I can put them for a good picture is in the floor in front of my patio door. So I need to replace it, but...
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    Nero InCD

    I have not used this function for quite a while, because it caused x64 to crash. But I have an old disk that I made some time ago on XP x32. I forgot what's even on it, so I tried to read it on my MCE installation. Although I installed both InCD and the reader, it doesn't do anything when I...
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    Connecting Burner to Controller Card

    When I first installed THIS controller card, I only had the data ribbon connected to a DVD burner, because I didn't have a molex splitter to connect the power. However, the machine wouldn't boot at all with it connected. Usually, when I have done something like this with a device connected to...
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    Boot Menu

    I tried using BOOTCFG /REBUILD in the Recovery Console to modify the boot menu to include all of my Windows OSs. I have x64 and MCE on one SATA connected to the onboard controller, and a new copy of MCE on another HD connected to a controller card. I had thought that the new install would have...
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    Pioneer 111D crashing with BSOD

    I just did a fresh install of MCE, and at first, the drive was working as it should. But earlier today, it failed the installation of my printer driver, and afterward would cause Windows to freeze regardless of which program disk that I tried to run on it. At first, it just froze and I had to...
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    Power Supply Stalling

    This is not a new problem, but it seems to be getting worse over time. If I unplug the power supply from the outlet, it takes several minutes before it will start up. It will often start momentarily and cutoff several times before staying on. Vaguely recalling some discussions about this sort...
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    Controller Card Drivers?

    My controller card finally arrived, and I have scanned the manual, and browsed the CD. Installing the card and it SATA/RAID drivers seem straight forward enough, but the CD contains alot of other folders, which seem to deal with various forms of USB, Bluetooth, Irda, etc., this confuses me...