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I'm thinking maybe I wouldn't have
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Email clients [View all] Oh, this pains me greatly, but the end of XP has got me thinking that there's no way to hold out with buying another computer compatible with the drea
Excell Formulas [View all] Hi all,I am trying to set up an excell spreadsheet to keep track of my bank accounts, what I can not seem to do is get the formula correct, I would li
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I have a number of downloaded movies (mostly 720p) which play perfe
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Something weird going on... [View all] Running Win 7(64) and Firefox and Thunderbird, after a day of leaving those running, I ran this SuperAntiSpyware scan to find 80 some items! The reaso
Replace SATA HD w/SSD [View all] Been spoiled by my new laptop with SSD hard drive. Want to change the drive in my Dell Inspiron All-in-One to SSD and use the 2TB SATA as an external
DUAL-BOOT [View all] I have a dual boot with windows 7 and XP on one of my computers.
I would like to move on from XP since I have it installed on a different computer b
change Windows 8 administrator [View all] My son was given a new computer by his mo-in-law. She had put herself on as administrator. How can he change the computer to him being the administra
Chkdsk stuck at 29% repaired [View all] Win 8 Pro..I am trying to fix an error that is causing my desktop to randomlly reboot.
I wanted to run chkdsk from safe mode, however, tapping f8
Net Market Share stats for November 2013 [View all] A big surprise for November was the large number of Windows 7 installations. Comparing October to November, Windows 8.x did have a slightly larger mon
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Malwarebytes [View all] What is your opinion,
Is malwarebytes Pro a good idea to have.
I have used the free offering for a long time and am considering the pay-for soft
Strange Warning [View all] When signing on to two different web sites this am, I received a message on the the warning bar that pops up asking me if I wanted to install 516d209a
Replaceing CPU [View all] Hello again,
This is a first for me. Given a desktop with the name NexLink on the front. Local Agway dealer had it and it 'Stopped'. He called his
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Removed CPU fan to clean. On next start up I get "ERROR: PC CPU fan has failed." All fans are indeed spinning. Will
Apple ID [View all] I have a iPad that I use that I purchased last year. On monday my wife and I purchased a new iPad Air & she is going to use the new one.
When I set
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