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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?

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...

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...

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...

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

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

I am going to buy the Acer Ferrari 3400, and am going to upgrade the memory to 1GB of Cusair XMS PC3200 notebook memory. I was looking at the hard drive and want to upgrade that as well, since it is 4200 rpm and that can be a large bottleneck. (i know that not all speed is based upon the rpm...

I am interersted in purchasing a new laptop because i am going to be going to college. I am looking for a good reliable laptop and think that i found a good match. I am curious as to what you all thought about it, and any pros or cons. I really want to know everything about this laptop before...

I just reformatted and reinstalled XP on an older dell machine that i have and i started to have an odd problem. when i go to shutdown the system, it will just restart as opposed to turning off. I have installed all the latest updates (SP2 etc...) and there is no fix. is there something within...

I have just reformatted and reinstalled XP on an older dell. I updated to SP2 and all of the windows update. Now when i click shutdown on the computer, it just restarts. the computer will do an endless loop of restarting, and will not shutdown unless i hold down the shutdown button. is this...

I own a Samsung 193p, and there are some smuges on the screen etc... what do you all think is the best way to clean the screen?

I am looking into getting a new LCD monitor for everyday use (i bought one for a friend and tried it out for a little bit, and i loved it). My question to the rest of OSNN is: do you like LCDs for everyday use and how do they typically hold up over long periods of use etc... I tried the Samsung...

i plugged my 120GB drive into my other computer (to transfer backup files). however, when i boot it up, the dirver is installed correctly, but it isn't visable in my computer, whats the deal? how can i access it?

I try to boot windows and the screen will load, then the system will restart. I had had enough of my problems so i decided to do a recovery re-insall of XP, then when i loaded the XP disc in, it didn't give the option for the recovery install, it just skipped it. What can i do to get this...

i turned on my system today and something odd happened. the boot process was never ending. the windows logo came up and then the bar just went across the bottom or the screen, stuck while booting. When i turn the system on in safe mode, the system stalls while loading MUP.SYS. help me...

I am designing a site (1st one) and using frontpage (yes i know, im new to HTML.) What i want to know is how do i insert a video into HTML, so that a new window opens and the movie plays within the window? Basically a blank page with the move inserted and playing in the middle (like apple.com...

I have the outlook backup data files from my desktop's Outlook 2003 program. Now i am on a temporary computer and i want to use outlook for e-mail and schedualing. Can i use the data backups from outlook 2003 with the outlook 2002 program? and if not, can i get around this some way?

over the weekend my 200gb HDD died and now im and stuck with a dead hard drive with all my data on it. I have tried to revive it, but it will not work. the head keeps smacking the platters (clicking noise). so my question is: what company does data recovery of a drive for the smallest cost...

yesterday my slave hard drive failed on me which basically killed all my data. Not that bad, as long as i could still get into windows. when i turned on the machine to try to get into windows from just the master (all jumper settings changed) windows would not boot. so i went into the...

I have 2 HDDs, both WD (see sig.) the 200GB drive that i have stopped working today, when it turns on all it will do is just spin. Now on that drive i have everything i have been collecting for the past 3-4 years around the internet. so is there anyway to do any data recovery? it will...