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I am considering two options for my next laptop. I am torn between a sager 6658 and an Acer Aspire V3-772G-7616. I am almost set on the Acer, but I was wondering if anyone here with recent experiences with it (especially the Aspire v3) can tell me about their build quality. My last experience...

Hello, all I have a problem that I thought someone here might be able to help. I have about 3000 MS word documents, and I want to merge just the first page of each into a single word document. I've run across many ways of merging that many files together, but I've yet to find a way to merge...

I've been having issues with my internet connection. Severe lag spikes and packet loss that happen every few seconds. It is the type of stuff that is unnoticeable if just browsing the web, but very noticeable when playing games and streaming videos. Here's a few representative pingtests...

So I have a list of over 1000 articles that I want to have the full records as displayed in a specific academic database. I have the list of titles and authors, and obviously things would be much easier if they were automated. I've been looking into making a firefox macro to take care of this...

So I cloned my old 250gb hd into my new hdd. It is my new boot disk and etc. I started up the computer and everything seems to be working fine. However, I am running into a problem when I try to use windows 7 back up utility: I get an error message that says "Windows backp failed while...

I just saw that the version of acronis that I have is not compatible with windows 7 64 bit. I am about to buy an oem hd, and I was wondering what is a good program to clone the drive that can be installed on a windows 7

Now this might sound a bit silly, but after reading a few comments that windows 7 doesn't say or ask much during installation, I thought I should be better safe than sorry. I want to install windows 7 on my current c:\ partition. I can't back up the d: and e: partitions in this disk so I...

Hi, Several of the AM3 mobo's say this with regards to memory slots: 4x DDR3-1666(OC)/1333/1066 DIMMs I had never seen the "OC" designation on specs before. Does this mean that it will only take ddr3 1333 memory (which can then be overclocked to 1666) or that in order to use 1666 you have...

I've just started having some issues while playing wow in my old video card (6600gt) and I was wondering if anyone has experienced something similar. All in all, I just want to make sure it is indeed a video card issue before i buy a new one. Here is what is happening: a while after logging...

Hi, all I decided to rma my old hd because it was running way too hot. I've just received the new one, but I've been having problems cloning it. I've used the wd tools and acronis true image, but both time I got an "error loading OS" message (I use xp home edition). I clone it the automatic way...

Hello, all I am having a problem with most torrent clients. The only torrent program that works in my system is bit torrent itself. Azureus, utorrent and bitcomet all work for about 5 minutes than close down. Is there anyway to prevent this? Here's some info on my system - I use nod32 and...

Hi, I think I am having a problem with my wd2500ks drive. I left my computer on for a couple of days, and now after restarting it it takes a lot longer to go from the BIOS screen to the windows start up screen. But the thing is, after it loads, everything seems to work fine (and just as fast as...

Hi, all I am looking for tele and wide lenses for my new finepix s5200. There are just so many options and things to consider that I haven't been able to settle on one. Does anyone know of good brands/models that are not too expensive? I've seen some raynox moderately priced at ebay. Thanks

So, which do you think is more effective in cooling a hdd: 1- this 120mm fan 2- or this 80mm fan with hdd cooling device any ideas?

Hi all I have a wd 2500ks and it is running super hot. Early this morning I had it at 70c. Because the airflow in my case is poor, I just ordered another one. But in the mean time, I pulled the hdd from its slot and I am now using it outside the case. The thing is, even outside the case the...

Hi, all I just upgraded to a x2 3800+ a couple of months ago. Did some really minor overclocking (10%) at stock voltage and cooling. At the time, idle temps were around 37 c and full load would take it to 51c. I recently upgraded the hd from an ide to a sata2, and the weather is also getting...

Hi, all after I installed my new sata hd, that icon for "safely removing hardware" appeared in the taskbar. Is there any way to remove that button? I dont want to accidentally click there and stop the hd...

Hi, all Im a noob when it comes to internet security. I have zone alarms free firewall, and I also have netgear's wireless router. Do I still need the firewall when I have the router? The only advantage seems to be that I can control which programs have access to the net more easily...

Hi, all I am going to buy a wd caviar 250 gb sata drive and right now I have two options: buying the bare drive over the internet or buying the retail package at the store. The difference in price is about 25 dollars. Is there anything that comes with the retail package that would make it worth...

Hello, all I am posting this thread because I am unsure of how to proceed here. I am trying to upgrade the drivers for my xfx geforce 6600gt pcie card, but the thing is, the most up to date drivers in nvidia's website are different from the most uptodate ones on xfx's website. Which one should...

Hi, all I've been trying to decide between these two mobos and I still havent been able to make up my mind. I am upgrading to an AMD 64 x2 3800+. The reason I am undecided is the ASrock has both an agp and a pcie slot. Considering I am not a big gamer and most of the games I play do not require...