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  1. Started by Tanya,

    Hi. I have a new computer (our fourth), and am totally new to burning CD's. For some of the work that I do, I would like to burn data files to CDs, and have the ability to edit them from within the CD, and, save those edited files. Is this possible? "One" of the pre-loaded software that I have is "Nero Express." I have searched those help files exhaustively and cannot come up with an answer. I then called my IS brother-in-law who informs me that of course I should be able to do that - and just told me to read the help files. I then contacted Nero tech support, who informed me that in order to edit "on the fly" I need to get more software, i.e., "InCD." Does anyone…

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  2. Started by Thomas,

    hello everyone, been reading up on different posts here hoping to find an answer to a very nasty problem ive been having for 3 weeks now... anyways....this is the situation....P3-450MHz on a MSI mobo.(MS-6156BX), 196MB(PC100),asus agp vid, 3 x 18,4gig Atlas III 10rpm, adaptec AAA-133U2 RAID controller and onboard sound...for over 3 weeks now ive been attempting to get a clean load of win2000 on it. .. whats happening is that for whatever reason somewhere midway through the installation everything halts..let me try to explain in details whats going on: At the moment ive have configured a RAID 5 on RAID channel 3 and ive a plextor bootable cd-rom at RAID channel 2 for a boo…

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  3. Started by hellraiser,

    when i try to play battlefield vietnam my game just goes off no error message or anything, it goes off just before the loading screen and returns to my desktop, i have no idea whats wrong with it so i hope someone does if you know what is wrong please e-mail me

  4. Started by wattsup,

    I am looking for some software to limit internet access to certain web pages. Must work with internet explorer 6 and netscape 7. Does anyone have some good links????????

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  5. Started by JOHN45JOHN,

    I Have Outlook Express 6 On Windows Xp Working Fine Until A Few Days Ago....when I Open It Up The Proggy Opens But Dont Show My Emails And The Cursor Just Keeps Working As Soon As I Try To Click Anywhere On The Screen It Goes To The [not Responding] Mode And Then It Dont Want To Close.....so Xp Askes If I Want To End Now I Say Yes But It Dont End So I Repeat This 6 Or 7 Times And Then It Closes And Xp Askes Me Do I Want To Send An Error Report Which I Do Figuring That It Will Some How Help Me Or Others In The Future [lol]...when I Read The Error Report It Says Apphangs....oh By The Way If I Try To Send Email From Other Programs Like From Ie It Opens And I Can Send My Mail…

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  6. Started by MMoragne,

    What does this mean? And how is it solved? I have been getting shut downs in the middle of work and on line gaming. The screen suddenly goes BLUE with a bunch of text on it, but it shuts down quickly and I can't read it. I did catch something about updating BIOS this am during the last crash. The error log shows "Hanging application iexplore.exe, version 6.0.2600.0 hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0 hand address 0x00000000. Insight and direction would be greatly appreciated! Mo :confused:

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  7. Hi, I'm a dentist trying to hook my analog intraoral camera to my computers capture card. Presently, it is connected to two S-video TV's(in different rooms) through a switch box and a centralized printer in my office. The Sony printer has the ability to only capture one pic at a time(the one displayed on the TV). My objective in purchasing the capture card was to be able to capture multiple pics and store them on my dental management software and them print them as necessary on a bubble jet printer. My present Sony printer costs about $1.00 per pic. I have the wiring diagram of the existing hook up if someone would allow me to email it to them to help me out. So far, I ha…

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  8. Started by LI_Boy,

    :confused: Anyone have thoughts on what to use to build an HTPC? I have been thinking about Noise, Speed, Power needs,controllers for hard drives and Wireless Capabilities Anyone have thoughts of trying a laptop MOBO & centrino penitum M in one of those tiny low power cases not to sure how it would fit. I am just trying to pick others Brains for this HTPC idea. Does anyone have one that works seemlessly looks good and isnt noisy Thanks in Advance :D LI_Boy

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  9. Started by teqmod,

    Hi all, I am new to the forum and have a major problem with XP I am hoping you can help me with. The machine will not obtain an address from the DHCP server. When I do an IPconfig this is the results: C:\Documents and Settings>ipconfig Windows 2000 IP Configuration There is no reference to even the NIC. The NIC has been replaced by the first admin who was on the scene. I have installed and additional USB NIC to see if I could get anything with no results I thought it had something to do with a corrupt TCP/IP stack so I used the netsh int ip reset with no results. I then removed the winsock & winsock2 reg keys and reinstalled TCP/IP from disk and recie…

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  10. Started by MuNkY-MaGiC,

    Uhh i have been deletin alot of spyware and such and now my norton internet security wont open... [Norton AntiVirus has encountered an internal program error. Uninstal and re-install Norton AntiVirus]3002,1530 what do i do to fix this?? :confused: :eek: someone plz help my email address is PimpDaddy_Josh@yahoo.com or you can catch me on Y!M-PimpDaddy_Josh ty.

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  11. Ok I have this folder on my desktop and I can't delete it. I have tried going into safe mode and deleting it that didn't work I have taken ownership over the folder and I still cannot delete it. The error I get when I attempt to delete it is: Cannot delete .unwise : Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name. I have gone int my task manager and made sure no other programs where using it but I still can't get rid of it. If someone could help me I would appreaciate it. Thanks.

  12. I am at the end of my rope with my system. My system was functioning until I changed PC cases. I am particular about anti-static wrist straps etc and take the usual precautions. Previously, my PC was slowish but I think that it just needed a reformat. Post case change, I have had several odd errors. It led me to reformat the hard disk and since I wanted more space, I bought a new 250gb SATA drive. I get all manner of BSOD errors, usually surrounding sysdata.xml and some other file, and I am most prone to it when I use DVDDecrypter, MS Word or Nero. Since they are mainly the only progs on my drive I cannot be sure if it is flaky with everything or not. And also, the co…

  13. Started by dubstyles,

    2 problems with task manager: OK, this one has been going on for a few months but it hasn't caused a problem until now. My task manager and I XP home edition does not have a border. There are no tabs at the top, no pull down menus, no minimize and close buttons. I can still close it by right clicking in the system tray, and I can still change pages using Ctrl+Tab. I have reinstalled XP and nothing has changed. I can’t even comprehend what could have caused this problem. Now recently, I have removed a ton of viruses from my computer, (13) including the Trojan that rewrites the systme32/drivers/etc/hosts file and blocks antivirus sites and NAV live update. Since…

  14. I am currently running windows XP on my system (specs are Asus A7V8X motherboard, 1 gig DDR ram, 2800xp processor and a 9600pro graphics card) but occasionaly getting the "blue screen of death" come up saying an error has ocured from winacusb.sys - i then have to restart my computer. Anyone know why this is happening? Any information greatfully accepted :D thanks

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  15. Started by Damien Frost,

    Hello there, Seems i've got a bit of a problem with my Windows 2k. I can't get some of the .exe software on my harddisk to work. These .exe aren't from programs already installed on my system but are like the .exe game demos or other software setup programs. Could it be some core system Win2k file is already corrupted? Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks! :) Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195) Service Pack 4 AMD Duron Processor, MMX, 3DNow, ~800MHz 256MB RAM Memory DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902) Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB AGP 8X Creative Vibra 128

  16. Started by AWS,

    I am adding a new site to the network and I need someone to create logo for the new site. The site will be Extreme Web Dev and will reside at http://extremewebdev.com. The domain currently points to this site. I am developing the site on the dev server. The colors of the site will be done in greys, whites and a lighter blue than we use here. The person that submits the logo that is used will receive a VIP title and in the future access to a VIP lounge. Thanks.

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  17. Started by Wblankenship,

    I just bought an External USB hard drive backup system for my small company. It works just like they said it would. I plugged it in and the OS recognized the five drives as if they were installed in the local machine. The problem is, when I pull the drives to take off site on Friday and throw next weeks drive in all my drives get new letters. This is causing me to have to redo my backup schedule for the new drive letters. Anyone have any suggestions on what to do?

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  18. Started by sam101,

    I'm having problems installing Win 89 on a laptop with a AMD Athlon64 chip, from what i can gather these problems are not uncommon, can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance Sam101 :confused:

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  19. I simply dont get this, and its sooooooooooo frustrating, i just recently got my first pc (old mac user) i have a ASUS k8v se deluxe mobo, AMD 64 3200, 6800 gt, 1 gig ram, and when i run CoD i gte avg fps of 40-60, which i thought was weird, but understandable, but then when i got ahold of 3dmark03, i realized that i was getting a score of 6500, when everyone else gets 11,000 or more, whats the problem here? makes NO sense AT ALL, can somone please help me

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  20. Ive downloaded the free 64 bit xp beta from ms site, but theres no install product id, nor in the confirmation email i had from ms, so what product install id are you supposed to use. Thanks Stickygreen

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  21. Started by cschmidt,

    I'd like to erase EVERYTHING from my computer because it's giving me so many pop up screens when I turn it on....it's almost always something different... I don't know if it's because of WinME but it's driving me crazy and I figured that maybe if I take everything out and install a new operating system, maybe it'll work better. I would like to know how I can go about in doing that, though. Can someone enlighten me? :-| Thanks a lot, CS

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  22. have an MSI K7N2-IL2 Motherboad with nVidia GeForce FX5900 Ultra w/ Athlon 3000+ processor 512 MB ram running XP Home SP2 I tried installing SAGEM F@st 800/840 USB modem and connected to the internet for about 20 minutes. After that I got a blank screen and window restarted. Everytime I click on the connect it reboots whenever it gets to 'veryfying Username and password' . Updating drivers never helped either. Sagem Suggested: Unexpected reboot of the PC while surfing on the Internet ? Problem seen on some PCs with Windows 2000 and GeForce2MX graphic card :Launch the diagnostics application of the modem using the "SAGEM F@st800-840/DSLMON" command in the …

  23. My system MSI K7N2-IL2 Motherboad with nVidia GeForce FX5900 Ultra w/ Athlon 3000+ processor 512 MB ram running XP Home SP2 I tried installing SAGEM F@st 800/840 USB modem and connected to the internet for about 20 minutes. After that I got a blank screen and window restarted. Everytime I click on the connect it reboots whenever it gets to 'veryfying Username and password' . Updating drivers never helped either. Sagem Suggested: Unexpected reboot of the PC while surfing on the Internet ? Problem seen on some PCs with Windows 2000 and GeForce2MX graphic card :Launch the diagnostics application of the modem using the "SAGEM F@st800-840/DSLMON" command in the "St…

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  24. Started by daveuk,

    hi, i've just bought a connect 3d radeon 9600 128mb graphics card, i've tried all the 4.x catalyst drivers and everytime the screen goes blank, comes back on and says vpu recover send error report graphics card not responding to driver. I am currently using catalyst 3.6 and i'm stable for the time being. My system p4 3ghz 800fsb 1.5gig ddr400 ram asrock p4vt8+ mobo (can't find a lot of info on this tho) fast writes is off, write combining is off, its connected at 8x AGP. via drivers up to date, i don't think this card needs a separate power supply, uses .13micron architecture. it's driving me up the wall lol, is it a card problem or compatibility problem?…

  25. Started by Clorox,

    i have a ge force fx5700 and when i go to play games i either get runtime error or it just crashes to a black screen and i hear sound for probably 5 more seconds then i need to turn off the power...How do i fix this?.. i have a 430 watt antec power supply , amd 2400+ , 512 ddr ram, mobo is albatron kx400+ pro

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