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Hello everyone In the past few weeks my desktop has started doing some weird things, namely locking up/crashing every 45 minutes or so. The crashes always occurred after the monitor went to sleep so I thought it might have something to do with that. I set the monitor to never go to sleep...

Hi Everyone I recently got a Dell Inspiron 1501 from one of my friends. The laptop appears to be about 5 or so years old. When I press the power button I hear a fan spin up quite loudly and a noise from the DVD drive. After that I can hear a fan running quietly. The power light and the...

My problem is that the XP computer cannot see the Vista computer, and the Vista computer can only kind of see the XP machine. I can ping the XP from vista but not the other way around. XP doesnt show up on the vista network map but if i enter the ip address of the xp machine i can access the...

Hi I am trying to export my contacts from MSN Messenger to Firebird. I can get a .ctt file but i dont know what to do with it. I cant import it because all i get is blank contacts. Any help? I got a csv file now but it wontimport correctly. All i get is the a few fields filled in but none...

I have a USB 2.0 external hard drive and I was just wondering if it would still work if I used a firewire cable instead. If it does work i figure it would give me faster transfer speeds, but I am just not sure if the driver would be compatible with firewire. Thanks

Fake Mailer - Free Download I am looking to mess with my friends by sending them fake emails, but the online ones that i have found require the from address to be a real one. I found this program, but am wary to download it in case of spyware, etc. Anyone ever used it, or know of something...

I am trying to set up port forwarding on my DLink DI-604 router, but when I go to its ip address and put in the default password i do not get access to it. Has anyone else had this problem and how do I fix it?

I am sorry if this is not the right forum to post this in but I am looking to buy a laptop and I was wondering if anyone knows of any sites with reviews of major manufacturers. Thanks

I am looking at buying a laptop for school. I saw this one in a flyer: BRAND: Toshiba PROCESSOR: Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo T5600 DISPLAY: 15.4" WXGA (1,280x800) TruBrite LCD MEMORY: 2GB DDR-2 SD RAM HARD DRIVE: 160 GB SATA hard drive (5,400 RPM) CD/DVD DRIVE: Super Multi...

I want to try IRC, but I have no idea of what client is good to use. I was looking at mIRC, but I want a free one that isnt a trial. I am running Windows XP. Any suggestions? EDIT: nevermind, i found Icechat 7 and it seems to be ok

If you have some old spare parts that you dont see yourself needing would you be able to send them to me? I am in school and like to fiddle around with computers, but dont really have any way of getting parts. My parents wont order things online, and I dont really have the money to buy parts...

I personally use FireFox and the only other browser that I have had experience with is IE. I like FF because of all of the extentions and the different skins. I have been hearing things recently that it isnt as secure as I think it is. Is this true? What is your favorite browser and why?

Until yesterday everything was fine, and then I decided to install a bunch of extentions. Now, I don't know if this is what caused the problem or not but now whenever I start FF I have to enable cookies again and when I close FF it forgets my choice. So now everytime it starts i have to enable...

Hey everyone. My friend wants to get a new computer, but not spend more than about $800 canadian. We need to allow about $200 for shipping bringing the grand total to $1000. I have picked out some parts but dont know if they are any good together. They are not the best parts, but they are...

On my grandparents computer it takes a very longtime to shut down. When I go to Start/Turn off computer and click on shutdown or restart it takes a very long time to turn off. (at least 10 min) I usually have to use the power button on the case to turn off the computer. Is this caused by...

Is there a way so that when I create a new profile (XP SP2) that all of my programs and desktop icons will be transfered over from my current profile? Thank you in advance

I was wondering how to set up remote administration on a PC. My grandparents are not very good with computers so i would like to set something up so that i could run the spyware checks, etc. from my computer. Both computers are running XP SP2. Any help would be appreciated.

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Well, first off I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this post, but I wasn't sure where to put it. Now to my question. Is there any way to block calls that come from skype to my home phone?

Hey I am looking for some software, preferably free, that will allow me to resize images. I mainly want to make pictures larger without them getting all pixelated. Does anyone know of any software that will allow me to do this? Thank you in advance.