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    Windows takes me to Welcome Screen after so long of no activity

    Hey all, after installing VS.NET, Windows XP started to like to take me to my welcome screen after a while of no activity and I forgot where the option is to turn it off, so can anyone help me out? btw, I'm using XP Pro SP2 so you know which version of windows I'm using. Thank you.
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    help... system won't boot (monitor won't go into "comp on" mode)

    hey all... I'm having problems with my custom built system. The whole system is about 3 years old, the motherboard is about a year and a half old. Anyways... I went to take a nap and when I woke up, the monitor had gray pixals (about 5x5 pixal squears) all over the monitor, so I just restarted...
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    Cannot file/printer share thru. wireless

    Hey all, I'm having a bit of a problem. My whole network is wireless, all computers could connect to the net, it's just that they can't see each other to do any file sharing or printer sharing. I used to be able too but onces I upgraded my old system from 98SE to XP Home, they are not able to...
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    Linux Networking Server

    Okey, I'm not really sure if this should be here or not but it does envole Linux and networking so I'll just keep it in here... if you believe this should be somewhere else, then can a mod or admin move it to the correct section? Anyways, on to what I'm about to say... I search around and all...
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    WinXP still freezes after a format??

    Okey, I have no clue what's going on here... I'm really starting to think it's more of a hard drive problem then what I'm running on.. Okey, about 20 days ago (about 5 days before I formated), it started to really lag and slow down and such and it was almost to the 6th month = format time...
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    Captive: The first free NTFS read/write filesystem for GNU/Linux

    Jan Kratochvil created the first full read and write free access to NTFS disk drives. "This compatibility was achieved in the Wine way by using the original Microsoft Windows ntfs.sys driver. It emulates the required subsystems of the Microsoft Windows kernel by reusing one of the original...
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    getting my default icons back (for images) from imaging programs that steals...

    hey all... I'm too tired right now to even put up with windows right now -_-;; after installing Fireworks, fireworks stolled all the assoustions to point to it -_-;; I know how to put it back, but the icon image doesn't change back... any ideals how to change it back?? thanks
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    what the hell?? 1 GB lift?? last time I checked it was only 107 gigs lift

    okey... now I'm really confused... before I last rebooted into Safemode Commend Prompt, I checked the drive space for my G drive and it says I had about 107 gigs lift... went into Safe Mode Commend Prompt and typed in the following: chkdsk g: /f /r my G drive was formatted as NTFS, btw...
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    deleting files that crashes your system when try to delete??

    Okey, how in hell do I delete a file off of my G drive if it just crashes my computer?? and this file is a crupited AVI file that I was downloading but because of network interferncase and such it cruptied the file >.< any help would be helpful
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    2 questions about logon stuff

    okey, I installed .NET Frame thingy off of windowsupdate.com and now I'm being forced to click on my user name to get access and I found out when I looked into the user accounts thingy I see "ASP.NET Machine A..." that has been added, so my first question is that is it alright to delete this...
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    Hot keys on Microsoft Ineternet Keyboard Pro does not work

    I don't know if this is the right forum or not, but just awhile ago I got out of RH and went onto Windows XP and I pressed the Calculator key on my keyboard to open AIM but it didn't open, so then I tried other hot keys with the same efficed, nothing's happening. can someone knows a way to fix...
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    after installtion of new drive, comp. boots up too slow now

    Okey, I've just installed a 250 gig hard drive into my system... instead of having it hooked up to the motherboard, it's connected to some controller card all by itself... I still have my main hard drive (C) and my old download drive (D) on the same riben that goes into the mother board...
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    one more upgrading question

    okey, my last upgrading question (whoo, maybe I should of put all my upgrading question in my thread -_-') anyways, while waiting for my last question to be answer in the hardware forum, here's my last, and final, question *hears everyone jumps up for joy* okey, should I format my C drive...
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    -P LED and +P LED??

    can someone explane to me what -P LED and +P LED is?? I know it has something to do with some sort of LED light but I don't know what -P and +P is -_-' thanks for any help.
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    cpu cooler -- thermal grease??

    okey, I got a new motherboard, processor, RAM for the motherboard and even a CPU cooler... now my question is, I'm at the part where I'm putting the cpu cooler on, where do I place the thermal grease?? do I put it on the bottom of the heatsenk part of the cpu cooler or on the cpu itself?? And...
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    Upgrading motherboard and prosseser soon, hopefully...

    hey all... I'm going to upgrade my motherboard and prosseser soon (well... hopefully) and I need to know what I should keep in mind when upgrading... like do I need better fans to keep it cool and such and what do I do if XP Pro complains about it... thanks for any help :)
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    Windows 98 installtion help for a friend

    okey, I'm trying to help out a friend with installing Windows 98 on a custom built system... he got it partiton and formated but whenever he tries to install, he just get errors (and I even saw the errors), one of the errors was something about true type fonts and the other was general...
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    Setting up an wireless network -- need help

    Okey, I really need help getting this up... I have a Netgear Wireless router (the one that plugs into a hub and you can hook it up thru. USB to configure it) and the computer that has the hub hooked up to is running XP Pro (my computer)... a Netgear Wireless PCI card for my sister's notebook...
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    Themes for KDE or GNOME

    where can I find some themes for KDE or GNOME?? thanks btw... if I posted in the wrong thread, please me to the correct thread, I still don't know where to post stuff :rolleyes:
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    Thinking of installing Linux as second OS

    like the title says, I was thinking of linstalling LInux as a second OS. what I was going to do is use something like PartitionMagic to resize the partiton to install Linux on, but my question is, which linux should I use?? right now I'm downloading Red Hat but now I'm thinking of getting...
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