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    Slipstream XP SP3 onto Sliplstreamed SP2

    Does anyone know of any issues with sliplstreaming Windows XP SP3 onto a Windows SP1a with SP2 slipstreamed onto it already? John
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    Internet Search engine redirect

    Morning, come across a problem with searching using any search engine. When I try to load any of the websites the search engine brings up, be it msn, google, ask etc I get a random, usually peverse website. I have included the hijackthis log. Any ideas? John Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1...
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    Windows Update showing updates I already have

    Simple one I hope. At home I dont have broadband so I downloaded IE7 at work and istalled it at home. The problem is that Windows Update keeps showing me IE7 as an update. Is there a way to tell it that I have IE7? I know I can get it to stop showing me the update by ticking the little box but...
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    Wrong .co.uk

    Think I may have a virus problem but Norton cannot find it. Please help. I have three machines networked, one having the internet connection and the others sharing it. My problem lies with the two sharing machines. Whenever I use IE7 to look at a website ending in .co.uk I get sent to a...
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    DVD Drive problems

    First off, a little breakdown of my drive setup I have my HD on my first IDE cable. I have My DVD drive on my second IDE cable as master and my DVD-RW as slave. Im running XP home SP2. My problem is that the DVD drive has decided that it will stop transfering data when it feels like it...
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    ATA Cable

    Is there any problems with fitting the ATA cable backwards, i.e. plugging the blue end into my HD/CD and the other end into the motherboard? I ask because I connect my HD and CD-rom on one cable and my DVD-R on the second cable. The cable between HD and CD-rom will only reach if it is in...
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    Lights on, nobody home.

    My father in law, bless him has buggered his computer. You switch the power on, the fans kick in, the lights on the keyboard flash but thats it. No POST beep and I cannot get into the bios screen. I have reset the CMOS by use of the jumper pins. I have checked the connections to the HD...
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    Spool32 woes

    I have two machines both running win98se. One machine is hooked up to a HP laserjet 2200. The other prints to it through printer sharing. The problem I have is the one without the printer gets a spool32 error. There is no set pattern to it, it may work, it may not and it may also appear even...
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    Nvidia Forceware 71.89

    Just downloaded the 71.89 driver from nvidia. My card is a Gforce FX5600 128mb running on winxp sp2. Problem is that when I tried to install it, everything seemingly went to plan. Rebooted and got the BSOD saying something about a page fault. Sorry to be a little vague, been been unable to...
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    Xp network drives

    We have three machines in our network. One running XP pro, one XP home and one win98se. The pro machine is our 'server' and on it we have a program that the other machines need to see the data for. The way the program works we create a network drive f: and the program grabs the info that way...
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    Little windows animated logo

    You know the little logo top right that spins into the world when you are loading web pages. Once-upon-a-windows98 I found the picture that the animation was pulled from. It had each frame of the animation one ontop of the other like a filmstrip. I cannot remember where it was and want to...
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    Begin2search

    I have been hijacked. God knows how but I ended up with the begin2search toolbar. Found the uninstall program which removed the toolbar but now, random words on IE are hyperlinked to begin2search pages. I say random but anybody who has seen it knows what I mean. I have tried ad aware/spybot...
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    New icon, what is it

    I have just discovered a new icon next to the clock (see attatched). What s it? The only information I can give is it only appears the first time I load up Outlook express after booting up my pc and it will not do anything when I double click or right click it.
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    Upgrade my audigy

    I have a SB Audigy soundcard (1, not a 2). Great bit of kit but I wish to add the box bit that goes into the front of my pc with all the connectors. Is it possible to buy just that bit rather than buy a complete new card? God, dont you just love people who know all the correct technical jargon.
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    Freeview TV Tuner

    I am looking for a TV Tuner card/usb device that will let me watch freeview digital tv on my pc, any ideas?
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    Unlimited broadband

    In a month or so I move into a broadband enabled area so I am looking for providers. I am with Tiscali dialup at the mo. I wouldnt be bothered looking around coz the package 'looks' good, unlimited access at 512k for 24.99, but they recently p*ssd me off recently (another story). The top and...
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    XP Writer query

    I have a windows xp with a cd writer and a dvd writer. For no reason one day xp decided not to recognise the drives as writers so I cant use the internal writer program (not that I do often but I would like the choice). Nero recognises them but not xp. I went into the drives properties and...
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    XP DVD-RW problem

    Hopefully a simple one I have windows xp pro and an LG DVD-RW drive. With the drive came a rather nice blank DVD-RW disc. Problem is, Windows xp won't burn on it. XP says the DVD is full or not formatted. I have formatted it and the drive says it is 4.67 or somthing GB free space but no go...
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    Widescreen

    I have a an nVidia Geforce fx 5600 with TV out. Is there any way to set the tv out to give correct proportions for a widescreen 16:9 format. The current all work on 4:3 normal tv layout.
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    Quicktime quandry

    Simple one realy. I want to know where the quicktime internet plugin's cache store the clips it shows on the web. I want to be able to store stuff like movie trailers on my pc and not have to download them evertime I want to watch a .mov trailer.
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