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    Strange devices in device manger after app. installs

    Alright, so I had my parents buy this E-machine. It was such a sweet deal I couldn't resist, plus they're gonna need a decent PC when I take mine with me. T3395, 3000+ Sempron 512K L2, 333FSB, 256MB DDR 3200, 80GB, DVD/CD-RW, Integrated GeForce 4MX, and so on. Also came with a 17" CRT. All...
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    Slow XP Shutdown

    So I've got my 36GB Raptors in RAID 0 -- they're fast as hell. It takes about 10 seconds to get to the desktop. Only problem is that it takes at least that logn to shutdown as well. It just stops at the "Windows is shutting down" screen with no harddrive activity. Then finally the harddrives...
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    Problem Ghosting to RAID 0 Raptors

    I just got my two 36GB Raptors in today and I set them up as RAID 0. After doing that I used an XP boot disk (floppy) to get to MS-DOS, then I ran PowerQuest Ghost and attempted to ghost my main drive to them. It would get about 75% through and get an error (attached as error.txt)...
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    System/Boot Volumes and all that stuff

    Alright, so here's a long story short: I got a new 120GB harddrive and was attempting to get everything from my old one to my new one exactly how it is, but with different partition sizes. It turned into a nightmare and I spent hours figuring everything out/formatting/partitioning/ghosting...
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    XP Start Menu - Customize the commonly used programs?

    Alright, so here's a pic of my start menu. The area of the shortcuts to the commonly used programs, such as AIM, Word, and notepad in mine -- is it possible to put what you want in there? Or arrange them even? So far I haven't been able to figure out if there is a special folder that contains...
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    Royale Theme - No Common Tasks themed?

    I downloaded the Royale theme for Windows Media Center Edition -- it's pretty cool. Only thing is that it's not theming the "Common Tasks" portion of explorer when viewing folders. Take a look below and see what I mean. Is there any fix for this?
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    Forgotten(?) Password on 512MB Cruzer...

    Well well, it seems that I have forgotten the password on my 512MB USB Sandisk Cruzer. It'd the CruzerLock 2 program that's giving me problems. It's really not that big of a deal because I didn't have any encrypted files on there, it's just that I really wanted to be able to use it and I...
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    Doom 3 problems

    Didn't want to post this under the games section since it's not as popular, and a game is an application anyway, right? :) Anyways, my game is saved at the very end of Delta Labs 3. When I complete that level and start to load Delta Labs 4, the loading bar gets about 1/4 of the way then...
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    Autorun/autoplay not functioning

    Just starting within the past week, CDs and DVDs no longer autorun or autoplay. CDs with autorun.inf don't do anything. Windows doesn't even pop up the "what do you want to do with this CD" box where you have all the choices, like "view files with explorer" and whatnot. There are only two...
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    Processes in memory: need an app

    Well here I am with Windows XP SP2 and a 19 day uptime. RAM usage is at 514MB. With SP1 it never went that high. First off, why is memory usage up so much in SP2? Second, is there some application out there that can show me every single process running in my memory? Task manager just...
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    Right click on movie = black screen

    I don't know if this is being caused by Windows Media Player 9 or SP2 since I just installed them both almost at the same time, but whenever I right click any movie file, the screen goes black for a second and then a preview thumbnail is shown in the lower left corner of the folder I'm viewing...
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    Removing SP2 Archived Files

    What's the best way to go about deleting all of the files that SP2 archived? Can I just delete the folder? Would I also have to find the uninstall registry entry and remove that? Anything else to do? Is there some better way?
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    Dial-up ISP shopping

    Since I still can't get broadband, I'm looking for another dial-up ISP. Right now I'm on PeoplePC. It's great since I got rid of their toolbar and use the windows dialer instead of their bulky one. Only one problem, every 4 hours it disconnects. The Windows dialer will automatically...
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    MP3 filename to ID3 AND ID3v2 tags?

    I've been looking for an MP3 ID3 tag editing program that will look at the filename and fill in the corresponding ID3 tags, BOTH ID3v1 and v2. I've found a program called 123Tag that does a nice job, but it only does 1. A few others I've found are shareware and expire in 10 days or so and also...
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    Lost .jpg and .gif picture formats in IE

    When I right click a picture and click "save picture as", the only option I have is .bmp. I know I used to have .jpg and .gif listed before, but for some reason they're just gone now. How do I get them back?
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    Signature not showing

    I can't get my signature to show up in my posts for some reason. Hardly anyone else's shows up either. I do have "show signatures" checked in the options. What's the dealio? OK. Last time I posted I didn't have a signature. This time I did. I noticed it had a little box next to "show...
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    All games crash - help

    On the system I've sold to a friend (eck.cjb.net), we tried to put games on it and every single game crashed. We've tried about 4 games: Splinter Cell, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, and two I can't remember. All of them would run, but some would freeze before we even got to the menu like...
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    Problems Installing XP

    On the system I've sold (eck.cjb.net), I'm having a little trouble with XP. First, I got XP installed and everything was good. Then I installed the VIA 4.49 Hyperions and XP started crashing. I figured it was the drivers. I coulnd't try to uninstall the drivers or XP would crash. It seems...
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    Harddrive Problems

    Today, I went to put XP on my computer I'm selling (http://eck.cjb.net/), and all was going good, so it seemed. I went through the process, created a partition, formatted using NTFS (not quick), and setup had copied all the files to the harddrive and wanted to restart. So I did, then when it...
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    Looking for another case fan

    After only about a year of constant use, my Thermaltake Smart Case Fan II has apparently went out. Now, I need (want) a new case fan. I'm looking for some recommendations on an 80 or 90mm case fan. It should be fairly quiet (don't want to hear it over my already waayyy loud GeForce FX 5900)...
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