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    Windows 7 - quick launch slow to populate icons

    Responding to an ancient post here! This quick launch lag has bothered me for years, and I've just learned to live with it. It only lags once per reboot cycle, so it was kind of livable. However, I just ran Windows update for the first time in a couple months... downloaded several...
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    Software which can generate checksum for large, deep directory

    There are all sorts of files. Audio, video, text, you name it. Basically it is my master archive of every piece of data I've ever cared about. Around 1TB. I am giving a little consideration to the sync manager option you mention, but I've never used one. I have a bad taste in my mouth for...
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    Software which can generate checksum for large, deep directory

    I have quite a bit of data that I backup on two external drives which I keep at two separate locations. I call it my ghetto RAID, and I'm sure plenty of people would never use such a system, but I do. :eek: I don't like relying on backup/synchronization software, so I manually maintain each...
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    Win7: Browser launching at startup, virus with a sense of humor?

    I just created a new user to see if it happened with him, and sure enough it doesn't happen with the new user. So, I got out Wingrep and searched the old user folder (which was small enough that it didn't crash Wingrep like an entire C: search did), and I found one entry that made me...
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    Win7: Browser launching at startup, virus with a sense of humor?

    Well... here is something interesting! I removed FF for grins. With FF gone, IE was my default again. Sure enough, it did launch... but it only tried to connect to http://homegroup/ Which means FF was adding in the www and com... which makes me even more suspicious this is not a virus but...
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    Win7: Browser launching at startup, virus with a sense of humor?

    Tried every suggestion here, minus the system restore and reinstall. ;-) If I have to I will do a reinstall in a few weeks when I have time. What a stumper. :-(
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    Win7: Browser launching at startup, virus with a sense of humor?

    Yes, sorry I should have specified that.
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    Win7: Browser launching at startup, virus with a sense of humor?

    I am at my wit's end here. Earlier today I was unable to accomplish something which has never been a problem for me in the past. Simple file transfers over a local network between two Windows 7 PC's. I still haven't got to the bottom of it, but a newer problem has sprung up which would be pretty...
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    Question about UPS max wattage

    Sounds interesting, but I build too much stuff myself. See example: http://www.matthoover.com/gallery/skydiving-videos/Phyxius_Project-HQ.html I think for this one I'll just pay the pros.
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    Question about UPS max wattage

    In normal conditions, no I never pull that much. But using OCCT PSU tester (which puts CPU and GPU to 100%) I managed to reach 570W. 920 @ 3.8GHz ATI 4890 4 HDD's 8 LED fans I idle at 220W... in my normal use I never break 400W. But the OCCT app showed that I CAN approach 600W. And no, none...
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    Question about UPS max wattage

    I have never owned a UPS and I am thinking about getting one, not so much for the traditional reasons of "saving my work" if the power goes out... but more because I have been doing a lot of firmware flashing lately... both my BIOS and my SSD as they keep releasing revisions, and I thought to...
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    Just ordered the Dell UltraSharp 2209WA

    I have about 40 stuck pixels (red blue and green) but in normal viewing I just don't see them. It actually took me over 2 months to even realize this! They are all along the bottom, and the screen must be black, and my face must be very close to actually notice. On my 720p 40" TV I have ONE...
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    Just ordered the Dell UltraSharp 2209WA

    Yeh, I wouldn't expect it to get better or worse with time or based on which way you use it. It's just the way the mechanism was built, it "zeros out" at the wrong place. Did you butt yours together the same way I did to force it to be fixed? Although, if you use yours permanently in portrait...
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    Just ordered the Dell UltraSharp 2209WA

    I have two of these and I have noticed recently a problem with both that I haven't seen anybody else comment on. Because of the portrait mode option, I can't seem to get the displays to sit perfectly level. Basically, they are clocked a degree or two (guessing) in the clockwise direction. The...
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    Just ordered the Dell UltraSharp 2209WA

    One of my favorite (i.e. least favorite) things in life is when you the customer know more about the product that you're buying than the sales agent. Even when I bought my freaking car the Toyota guy had half his details about my model wrong. Part of it is that some of these people are idiots...
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