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    WMP 10 Problem

    yup, it was a driver issue. why does nvidia do this
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    WMP 10 Problem

    no new codecs, but i tried it on ATI multimedia center
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    WMP 10 Problem

    Recently when i try to video mpeg files in WMP they seem washed out and really white. When i view them in another player, they are fine. I tried to re-install WMP 10, but no luck. Any ideas?
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    Outlook question

    i take it that alot of people moved the thunderbird and then back. while we are on the subject, is there an easy way to trasnfer favorites back and forth between the two browsers?
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    Outlook question

    What about the e-mail messages though? What if I want to transfer them over so that I have them on file within outlook to look up older messages etc...
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    Outlook question

    thanks, ill try it
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    Outlook question

    I switched from outlook to thunderbird, which was good. But after 3 months of use, i find that i miss some features of outlook, so I want to switch back. Is there a way to import the addresses back into outlook from thunderbird? (Thunderbird was able to take the address book and e-mails from...
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    Problem with Wireless Connection

    it was a winsock problem, thanks so much for that. i am curious though, what is a winsock and what did i actually do by resetting it?
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    Problem with Wireless Connection

    i don't want to change it to assigned IPs because i would have to set every computer on my network, and I don't think its worth it. I have another laptop (802.11b) and it works fine. I switched between B-only and G-only broadcasting, and still had no luck. i am getting frustrated, however this...
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    Problem with Wireless Connection

    hey guys, thanks for the replies. I have checked the settings and everything is on obtain DNS and IP automatically, so I am unsure of what else to do. The problem is still here, and while connected to the router, i can edit information, however i cannot access the outside internet.
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    Problem with Wireless Connection

    forgot to mention: i tried turning the windows firewall on and off without any luck, and also there is no WEP (abviously because i could connect to it and view the status)
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    Problem with Wireless Connection

    I recently bought a new laptop (HP zd8000) and I love the thing. I bought it with Home Edition and then reformatted and installed my own legally bought from Staples Professional edition. The zd8000 has a broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN card installed, and i have a linksys WRT54G router. The wired...
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    External Hard Drive

    does the drive that i mentioned above in my first post, does it just mount as a normal drive so that i can drag and drop files to it? just curious. With maxtor i don't think i would use the one touch backup portion for that reason.
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    External Hard Drive

    yea i was planning on USB, more readily available. any suggestions on the actual drives though?
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    External Hard Drive

    hey guys, i am looking to get a 250GB 8MB cache 7200 RPM drive that is external. I was looking at the LACIE 300703U 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IEEE1394a External Hard Drive - Retail which my laptop does have a firewire port, however not alot of other computers do. I basically want a plug and...
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    Automator

    Mac OSX Tiger is going to have a program called Automater within the finder. Is there a program for windows that does the same thing? kinda like a batch renaming process. i think it would be cool to have that in windows. demo of automater working
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    unknown file extension

    when i tried to use an MP4 format, i got this error:
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    unknown file extension

    a vob is a no go as well, i am going to google the extensions for quicktime. Lee: the problem is that it didn't have a file extension to begin with, i am trying to figure out what type of file it is
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    unknown file extension

    both quicktime and wmp, both say that they cannot recognize and use it. what is the full list of quicktime supported files, i can just try each of them.
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    unknown file extension

    i have a large media file (2GB) that was given to me without a file extension. The file was burned on a mac using quicktime, however using .mov, .mpg, .mpeg, and .mpv extensions the file will not open. any ideas on how i can get the file to open? -Thanks for any help
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