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    Internet Explorer Closing Itself

    This is so much a request for help as just a curiosity. Background: On Friday I recieved a call from an individual who was trying to open internet explorer, everytime he did it immediatly closed afterwards. I took a look at the system and in the end uninstalled the Yahoo tool bar, afterwards...
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    Corsair XMS Twinx1024-3200XL Pro Memory

    I have a package of the above Memory that I am think of selling, I`ve been using it for about 6 months, it`s never been overclocked etc. and it`s been scanned with Memtest and come back clean. Unfortunatly I want to move up to 2GB of Memory and the stupid big a$$ zalman cooler I`m using covers...
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    Creating Professional Image CD's

    I'm looking for software that will allow me to create a professional images cd along with a preview program built in. Basically we have say 16 folders each with multiple images in it. I would like a piece of software that would essentially allow me to create a menu so that clients could pop...
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    Notebook CPU's

    I'm looking a new notebooks and am wondering if anybody has any sites that have reviews and comparisons on some of the various notebook processors, pentium m, core duo, turion64, etc. Suggestions for a processor would also be appreciated. TIA James
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    USB Network Adapters

    Well I still stand by the fact that I am getting better signal strength and speeds with my USB apdapters then I ever did with my PCI Cards. That said though I have having one issue, and hoping somebody here might have an idea. My USB adapters keep losing connection, it's not random or anything...
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    Drive Space Dilemma

    I know this gets talked about quite a bit on the forum, but I couldn't find anything directly related to my questions. A little bit of background, I have a system running as a ftp server. Right now it has 4 drives -- All are PATA, 2 300GB Data Drives in USB Enclosures, 1 400GB IDE Backup...
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    Video Conversion Program

    I currently have a video that I would like to convert to a more standard format (preferably mpeg2) with the intention of burning it to dvd. The video is supposedly encoded in x264 (mpeg-4 AVC) format and the audio in Vorbis, the file is in OGG format (as a container I assume). For the life of...
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    AGP and PCI-E

    Does anybody know of an AMD mobo that has both AGP and PCI-E. I have a BFG 6600GT OC AGP card, I would like to be able to upgrade from my 3000XP+ to an AMD64, but I don't want to have to buy a new PCI-E card since my 6600 is working fine for me and I don't want to buy a board with AGP now and...
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    Another new computer question

    So as stated in my XP64 for noobs thread I am building a computer for an acquaintence. I have a couple more questions though. Here's the specs I'm looking at: AMD64 3200+ OCZ 1024 PC3200 Dual Channel Kit Seagate 7200.7 160GB SATA W/NCQ LG Super Multi DVD Write (GSA-4163B) Creative Labs SB...
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    X64 on a newbies computer

    I'm building a gaming computer for a friend of mine. I don't consider him to be technologically competent. What would you suggest, XP or XP64?? I don't really want a call every second night because something isn't working on XP64, and wouldn't really trust him in a duel boot situation. On...
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    Help with ISO Image

    So I have an ISO Image that is 656MB (or something of the sort) and I need to make a change to a text file on the image. I've used UltraISO and winrar to open the image and extract the file. I make my changes, dump the file back into the ISO and then rebuild the Image, but the image becomes...
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    Mac compression program

    A friend of mine is looking for a program (preferably free) that will allow him to create a zip file on a Mac that can be unzipped on both mac and pc systems. He would like it to be able to be password protected and to require that password on both OS' before opening as well. Anybody have any...
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    [FS] For those interested in a Zen Micro

    http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5777560205 I love the thing, but I just don't use it enough to warrent the price I paid and the store I bought it at won't let me take it back. If an OSNN Member is interested I will sell it too them for $200 CAD (Approx $156 US -- I think) +...
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    IPod Mini (4GB) - silver

    ***EDIT*** Item is sold ***EDIT*** I'm gonna throw this on ebay in a couple days if I don't get any replys here. But I figured I'd try here first. The mini is 2 days old, I've only used it once. It comes with the belt clip, usb cable, headphones, and itunes disc. I've decided that...
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    Backup Software

    I'm looking for software to run an automatic backup every few days. I have 3 drives in the computer and a 4th IDE removable drive. 2 of the drives need to be backed up completely and the 3rd drive only has various folders that need to be backed up and they all go onto the removable drive. I...
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    Pls Help -- Outta Ideas

    I think this ones a doozy but i could be wrong. A little background, I have 2 computers running off of two power bars/surge protectors off of 2 different outlets but on the same circut in my house. I turned off my FTP server today and noticed something strange, the red power light would not go...
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    Any Ideas??

    Wondering if anyone here has any ideas on this. I have a computer that up until last night seemed to be working fine, all of a sudden it won't POST. I've disconnected all drives, still nothing, removed the RAM (Computer should still post without RAM right??) and even tried a different PSU...
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    KOTOR II -- impressions??

    I saw a comment in the farcry thread, so I figured I'd throw this up. Just wanted to get people impressions on this game, I personallywasdissapointed. I won't go into to many details because I don'twant tospoil anything for people, but these are my general thoughts: 1. I found that the...
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    Harddrive -- at a loss

    I'm trying to back up some dataoff a machine for some friends.They were running WinME, booted up oneday to a BSOD, bythe time I got to the computer it had stopped bootingonce past the POST. The most important thing is to back up herpictures, which of course she never backed up before, because we...
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    D-Link DI-604 and VPN

    I have, what i hope to be, a quick question. I'm not very knowledgable with the whole VPN thing but I've read around including any posts I could find on the forum here so I hope that I have a fairly decent grasp on it, of course I could be wrong and would appreciate it if somebody could point...
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