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FTC sues Intel...finally! [View all] Our amazing litigators at the FTC have finally decided to sue for Intel Corporation's decade of monopolistic abuses. It took Japan and the EU rocking
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He's tried loading the windows updates before and after installing a
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I've always done backups, and fortunately never needed to use them due to a crash, damaged hard drive, etc.
I want to change the hard drive i
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Ever since the Patch Tues updates this week, my Outlook Express has developed a peculiarity -
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1) Laptop (listed in specs) keeps shutting down automatically during movies (.AVI or DVD). But not during any other apps.
2) Even when
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I'm using a HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook pc with 64bit Windows Vista. The processor is a Core 2 duo running at 2GHz and the machine has 4GB memory. I wa
Windows 7 Premium, 64 bit or 32 bit? [View all] This is for my Dell Dimension 3000, with XP SP3, 2GB memory. I've been having some problems:
http://ww w.pcqanda.com/dc/dcb oard.php?az=show_top ic&foru
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It has the typi
You guys are appreciated [View all] I know this really belongs in the off topic forum, but I felt that it deserved a place here. I for one do appreciate what Jason, Shelly, Mike and the
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Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool 1.0.24.0 [View all] If you have a net book without a CD Rom this utility prepares a Thumb drive to install Win7
http://major geeks.com/Windows_7_ USBDVD_Download_Tool _d6
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