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So I had a recent PC crash and have reformatted and reinstalled my Windows 7 SP1 OS Problem I am having is that after installing SP1, I am going to Computer..Properties and clicking on 'Activate Windows Now', but it is failing with the message "The product key you typed cannot be used to...

So I been reading around and apparently metro's IE doesn't support plugins. I have to use the Desktop version to use flash. The reasoning being that plugins use to much battery on laptops. Thing is, I'm on a freaking desktop Am I wrong about this? Or is there a way to install it? I was...

I'm loving the new Metro start page but I want it to remain maximized no matter what. It minimizes whenever I start a program. This gets really annoying since im on a dual monitor setup How do I keep it from minimizing

Is there a program that can effectively block or eliminate other programs auto-updaters (Java, Adobe, Etc) The windows 7 firewall doesnt reliably do so Any tips?

So I attempted to use the fancy Hibernate mode just to see what it does... Everything shut down, Good. Everything powered off, nice. Hit Power button and everything booted back up, check. Then... utter fail. Win 7 refuses to reactivate my usb ports. All of them are fucking useless except...

Everytime I drag a window past the top edge of the screen.... Windows 7 tries to maximize the window ..... No Idea why. How do I disable it

I'm stumped at the moment. My clearwire wimax ISP works flawlessly when attached to my laptop. Great downloads, always perfect signal, never dies out. Can game, dl music, anything. When I connect the SAME dongle to my PC.. it becomes a nightmare. Can never get above "Good" signal...

I've had the same old basic voice phone for the past 5 years with Sprint. No web access, no Sim card, no anything. Very basic Im going to upgrade but.. I have no idea how it works with the newer phones. I don't really want to be locked in with any provider (I'm military and constantly...

Just stumbled on this board while research for a build. Is that correct? Already a USB 3.0 Board? I'm thinking of pulling the trigger on this in January unless anyone can tell me a reason not to? I'm planning on ripping a ton of Blu-Ray movies for my HD Library and want to be able to transfer...

So my bud here has a really badass Zune app that basically posts a large mosaic of Album Art images on his desktop and Allows him to click any of them to start playing that particular album in a minimized WMP. Where can I find stuff like this for the Ipod/Itunes?

I'm able to connect to the network and access the web from other apps. For example, surfing the store on Windows media player and hearing radio is possible. But whenever I open IE7 i get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" I thought it was a spyware problem so I tried it in firefox...

Is there a free or cheap animated desktop application for vista home premium?

How can I save my firefox bookmarks online so I can load them at any computer? I'd rather not do the whole export->save->email->load thing Any extension?

Dont really know where to turn with this since apparently youtube has no feedback option. Anyway, ever since they started adding all that new shit all over the place... I've noticed alot of quirks with the player. Sometimes i'll get the circular loading icon non-stop even as the video is...

Alrite ive suffered thru the various quirks of vista over these past 6 months but this is the last straw... For whatever reason (and i've read that possibly DRM bull%@$). Vista has no multi-monitor spanning support. It's not on the horizon.. not in the works.. it just doesnt exist...

I have two computers with Windows Vista connected to a multiport DSL modem that acts as a lan. Before, to share files all I had to do was right-click-> Share folder and it would appear. Now though I only see the Icon for either PC in network places and Clicking on these icons gives me some...

I have a 780G board with a low voltage 3800+ Lima Setting a 10% overclock in the BIOS gets me a nice boost, but AMD overdrive for some reason has all these overclocking features (except IGP ocing) grayed out Whats the deal? I thought 780G was compatible with this shit??

I know 125w phenoms wont work but what about the 95W? I have the ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI board Also, are the Phenom fans significantly louder than a 65W brisbane fan?

Just got a new 780G based board and it was working so far until I tried to expand a youtube video to full screen... I just get a half black half white screen and the sound. I know this situation is caused by Hardware acceleration being checked in Adobe Flash settings on a low-end GPU... sure...

How can I test my RAID 1 setup to make sure everything is being replicated as it should be? Edit: Nevermind, just disabled the RAID and saw both drives popup and all is looking good. Mods can delete

I'm new to RAID installs and I have been wondering where the heck the drivers are located for RAID support All thats listed on the DVD is a few configuration settings files and MakeDisk.exe (which doesnt allow me to extract anything because I have no floppy I want to slipstream these with...

Ive never built a RAID system before... building this machine for an Electric company that requested RAID 1 and external backups. I have this board ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G I've set up the RAID 1 in the BIOS... I'm onto installing windows. First try it would not detect the RAID...

dedicated to various aspects of photography Anyone care to test it out? http://pixentric.net We have a large image file size restriction so hi-def is OK and lots of space on my host so post away

I'm building a new build (leaning towards an E2200) and Im trying to wade thru all the available chipsets/south/north over at newegg...but theres soo freaking many Whats the current best Integrated graphics from Nvidia/Intel/AMD? There's got to be a chart or something , somewhere? Any help

Im looking to build a new system around this chip does anyone have it? Where did you get it from or where can I get one?

Never done it before but since Im still waiting on my computer case to arrive I just put together the system outside of a case to see how it runs but Im not getting any video output? Everythings installed, shorted the power pins to turn it on..everything spins up including HD but no video Any...

This system has two partitions... one is a recovery partition with 10 gbs and the other is the main partition with 70 The user installed windows on the recovery partition though and has been using that so now the drive is full and cant do much of anything... Meanwhile the old main partition...

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Can I run one of these with just a heatsink and no fan? I'm fed up with the whirring sounds coming out of my computers and I'm looking to go noiseless. My dad's p4 2.8 Northwood has pretty much just a case fan with a huge heatsink and it's quiet as a mouse Intel low-volt cpus are still...

Does anyone know how I should go about recovering the serial # from an unbootable drive? It has WinXP home and I have my personal WinXP Home disc I want to use to boot from...but I wanna use the old key. Any help?

so far its great. The only distro that didnt completely crap out on me when I did something simple like restart the system,,, but I guess since its a little older package-wise.... its not recognizing my cardbus wifi adapter properly It recognizes theres a wifi card in there since its in...

My dad is an avid porn surfer with his 2004ish HP desktop and so its constantly ridden with spyware/porn what have you. Usually Im the one that removes all the malware. Well ... I went away to college a year and a half ago...and so he had to pay a couple guys to do the same thing while I was...

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Hello, I want to create a client (merely as a hobby and community thing) to work with Userpanes flash-based chat client Some lacking features of Userpane chat client: -Lack of Ignore feature -Lack of spam prevention feature -Memory hog -etc. It's very popular though since it's...

just wondering if anyone here has had a vista spyware infection. I remember back in old XPSP1 days having to be extremely careful which links I clicked in google or else risk having that SpywareDoctor shit installing itself automatically and starting to scan my harddrive. But on Vista...

So is it true there is an application that lets you use Skype on an Ipod touch? Where can I find this application?

wtf I unpacked a jar file with some classes, decompiled them....... now how do i get Vista to search within file contents? I know the search string exists in multiple files but I cant get vista search to look in the file contents!!

Is there a command or something that can be run from Xp or linux that'll let people know what if they have .NET and if so what version they have installed? Something like dxdiag but for .NET?

This poll brought on from another thread. How many have broadband versus dial-up?

Not a specific question but.. Why is it that we can still do web browsing on a computer thats 10 years old? Why isnt flash-style webdesign the norm by now? I remember surfing the web in 1999 and everything looked almost exactly the same as it does today... minus a few flash advertisements...