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    Windows 7 / XP Dual Boot Help

    I was able to use the win7 repair disc to remotely load the XP registry hive I modified, modified it back, and XP boots now. Not sure about that stupid MS tech article, followed it twice, both resulted in XP not able to boot. As to why it's using "E" - it's because it's being installed to...
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    Windows 7 / XP Dual Boot Help

    I made a mistake earlier. C: (partition 1) (where Windows 7 resides) is what XP is claiming is its system drive, E: (partition 3, where I told it to install to) is where it says the boot sector/partition resides. Arg, this is retarded, I told it to install on partition 3, it should install...
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    Windows 7 / XP Dual Boot Help

    I really don't care what drive letter it installs to, installing to E: is just fine with me. My problem is that it separated the boot and the system partitions. I am UNABLE to unmount the C: drive (partition 1) from the disk management utility, and that's because that's marked as the boot...
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    Windows 7 / XP Dual Boot Help

    So I have 7 installed on partition 1, I installed XP on partition 3. I'm aware (and expected) the MBR to be overwritten and that Win7 would be temporarily offline until I repaired the MBR, then added XP back to the list. So I did that, it finished installing, it booted into XP, then I go to...
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    Spam / Spyware / Return Mail -- HELP!

    Okay, that's what I was getting at. I was wondering if since it was harvested, and sent back to a 'central' db of addresses, then any cleaning up at this point on their end. Opposed to one of my dad's friends being on the bot-net and their computer being 'fixable' or not..
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    Spam / Spyware / Return Mail -- HELP!

    So in other words, my dad's computer is fine..but his e-mail is pretty much hosed? My dad doesn't know anybody in SK or Spain. So it's just a mass distributed phishing attack? It seems like somebody on his contacts list got harvested - though I would have thought that their computers...
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    Spam / Spyware / Return Mail -- HELP!

    Yeah, I'm not sure if that's the case and he has some spyware, or what. At one point I changed his PW and it seemed the e-mails ceased (few trickled through)..but they started back about 12-24 hours later. I'm not sure if that's indicative that there's a virus on his computer that's sending...
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    Spam / Spyware / Return Mail -- HELP!

    I thought it was 'backscatter' also (before I knew what the name was, lol), but it really made me wonder if these were just the failures, then it had to be sending TONS out...and if this was the case, how did ONE person not respond to ANY of them? ALL of their spam filters got them? Just seems...
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    Spam / Spyware / Return Mail -- HELP!

    Hey, My dad is getting these reply messages, such as 'no such recipient', 'auto reply..', 'mail delivery failure', etc. I don't do IT, but I'm trying to help him the best I can. The frequency is EXTREMELY high for a personal system behind a router, about 5 e-mails every 1/2 day. AVG...
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    HDDs going away

    You may not like this answer and I still appreciate your comment but the OC is not the issue, I can pretty much rule that out. It's been running 2 years flat with the same OC, haven't touched anything OC related in the BIOS since then. I did not change the PCI speed, though. NTFS. Yeah...
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    HDDs going away

    Hey, I've been having this issue where when I copy a hefty size (like 20GB) to one of my HDDs the drive stops responding. This causes a variety of issues because Windows's copying program is waiting for a device response but never gets it. So explorer chokes on itself for like 10 minutes...
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    Antec 900/1200 Popularity

    All in all it's not the end of the world, but dammit this case is going to be the death of me. I'll find a way to jam an extra (5th) drive in there. It just pissed me off about how people were jerking off over this case so hard (2 years ago, when I bought it), and I was always like "this thing...
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    Post your Mouse and Keyboard pics

    I don't quite feel like taking a picture, but here's one: Standard iMac wired alluminum keyboard with 2x USB 2.0. I love the key press-down (I'm a laptop kind of guy), the larger travel distances of some of the other keyboards annoys me a lot, love how compact it is (no fat, just enough rom...
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    Antec 900/1200 Popularity

    Hey, I did my build 2 Summer's ago, so it's about 2 years old right now (it's in my sig). Ironic how with how fast paced the tech industry moves, my computer is still a tank by what's on the market today - so I'm happy...except for one part. The case. My friend had the Antec 900-II...
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    Dual Drive Enclosure Shopping Help

    Wow, sounds like something's wrong there. You sure it wasn't the drive itself? Or too much bandwidth on that USB controller? What's the difference between that and an enclosure except the enclosure gives it some form of protection? I've never seen anything like that...it looks like...
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