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Hi - I'm working on setting up office 2007 on my mom's Yoga 3 pro. I have a Yoga 2 pro. When I try to run setup - it immediately asks me to install a key. On her computer, it doesn't give me a place to enter the key. On mine - it does. See below: http://imgur.com/a/Wnfdv I tried also...

My mom is thinking about getting a Yoga 3 pro. When at home, I expect she'd enjoy using a larger monitor, so I was thinking about advising her to also acquire a similarly high resolution monitor like the Viewsonic VX2880ML. My question is this - can the Yoga 3 pro drive a monitor like that at...

My girlfriend is retiring her iphone 4S (in favor of an Android device) - but would like to transfer all her purchased music from her iphone to her ipod touch. She is not set up to sync either device with her computer (but can set that up if needs be). She does not have/use itunes. Any...

Hi - I've been a laptop user for many years and I've struggled with one thing: storage. Hard drives don't seem to like me - they typically last about a year around me. Maybe two if I'm lucky. I always need an external hard drive for my laptop as the internals just aren't big enough - but they...

Hi - I am in the market for a new laptop. I need to have it in my hands before the end of the week. So I'm hoping to get it chosen and ordered todayish. What brands can be trusted these days? It used to be IBM, but is Lenovo still OK? What about Samsung? Acer? Dell? etc. As for what I want - I...

Hi - my apartment building has a building wide wifi network. It works great for my computer, but Android devices struggle with it. I've found one android device that works on it out of about ten tested. The latest to fail is my Google Chromecast. I'm pretty fed up with this - so I have an...

Hi - I need to buy two replacement laptop batteries, one for an HP laptop and the other for an Asus laptop. The HP battery is $120 on their website, which of course is a bit nuts. I haven't found a source for an Asus brand battery for the Asus laptop yet, but I'm assuming the pricing will be...

Hi - I am working on choosing a laptop for my girlfriend. She wants small, light, sturdy, and cheap. She will be running Windows. I really like the Lenovo Thinkpad X230, as it weighs 2.9lbs, costs $700 for the base model, and seems to have decent specs. I'd probably ditch the HDD and get a...

Hi - my trusty Dell 600M that I bought in August of 2003 is starting to show signs of age... Last night it simply wouldn't turn on. Luckily, I have two spare laptops to harvest parts from (another 600M and a 500M) so I was able to get it up and running again. But I think this is a sign that I...

Hi - this may be a strange request... Or maybe not. I want a ridiculously fast hard drive. If it clears itself whenever it loses power - I don't care. It'll be used for temporary storage only. I have a simulation program that I run quite frequently (LTSpice) that stores all variables to my hard...

Hi - as a test of an idea I was working on - I tried making a simple pounds <> kilograms converter. I had a feeling it was gonna have a problem though - and I was right. Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) If Target = Range("H4") Then Range("I4").Value =...

Hi - I'd like to have excel formulas spit out things in units that I'm more used to. So instead of using scientific notation - ie 1E3, 25E7, I'd rather see 1K, 250M, etc. Is there any way to force Excel to do this? Additionally, is there any way to make Excel add on the unit to answer to a...

Howdy - it's time for me to get a netbook. There are two things that it must have: bluetooth and a webcam. I would strongly prefer an SSD, so that I don't have to worry about bumping it a lot. Portability + battery life are key - so a computer that maximized those would be awesome. Smaller...

Hi there - I've been using a shoddy webcam for skyping. It hasn't worked too well... Video quality sucks, audio is awful and cuts out regularly. Yeah. So - I want a good quality setup for skype video chats. This, to me, means good webcam + headset with noise canceling. For the webcam - I've...

I don't care what anybody says - Windows ME rocks. :cool: Hmm ok not really but my dad needs a way of transferring files between his old computer (running Windows ME) and his new computer (XP Pro). Anybody know if Windows ME can handle thumb drives? If not - any suggestions for a similar...

Hi there - I am having weird Skype problems. Specifically, my audio cuts in and out. This means that it'll be working perfectly then suddenly it sounds like somebody is blowing on my mic with a turbo-boosted industrial fan. There is no trace of my voice in the signal once it has cut out like...

Hi there - I want to password protect some specific folders and one entire drive in Windows XP Pro. Everything is formatted NTFS. The drive is an external - and I'd like it to be unusable unless you enter a password. The individual folders are on my primary boot drive and again I'd like you to...

Hey there - some web sites have right click disabled for whatever reason. It boggles my mind. Anyways - I remember years back seeing some sort of work around that disabled this. Anybody know how to do this in Firefox? I think when I saw it it was before Firefox had even come out. Similarly...

Hi there - I have a Dell 600M with a 1.6GHz Pentium M. It was running fine and then suddenly just started going sluggishly as all hell. I was finally able to close enough things to get it usable again - but on a whim I checked the CPU speed (by right clicking on my computer and going to...

Hi - my brother wants to set up a website for his new business. He put up a google pages website, but the URL is really long. He wants to buy a domain name and have it forward to the google pages website. What's the cheapest/easiest way to do this? Thanks!

Howdy - is there any way to make Windows treat a directory on my hard drive like the root folder of a CD-ROM? The only way I know of right now is to create an ISO of that directory and then mount it with Daemon Tools. However - if I want to make any changes to that directory I then have to go...

Hi - occasionally it seems people designing their websites will use a very large image in their HTML page and then resize it with the IMG tag as opposed to resizing the actual source file. I see this pretty regularly - especially in academic pages for whatever reason. The weird thing is I can...

Howdy - I'm going to be building a new desktop computer... eventually. In the meantime, I just have a laptop (Dell 600M with 14" XGA screen). I'm holding off on buying the desktop for some specific components to come out - but nothing's stopping me from buying the monitors so I figure I can...

Hey there - is it safe to use a laptop on a train or car or anything else along those lines? I occasionally do it - but I always worry about how the vibrations and hard stops and whatnot might be affecting my hard drive. I suppose an SSD would probably take care of the problem - but for those of...

Hey there - I do alot of dev work for microcontrollers. I code almost exclusively for them in C. Occasionally I like to test out an especially complicated section of code on my PC before trying it on the microcontroller. I've been using Bloodshed's Dev-C++ for this, but it is not perfect...

Howdy - I'd like to post my resume on my website. My resume is in the PDF format, naturally. I would ideally like to include my e-mail address on my resume. However, is there any way to do that without making me completely open to spam bots? I have my e-mail address posted on my website by using...

Hi there - I'd like to register a domain name, and put a small static website on there. Maybe even have one associated POP3 e-mail. It will eventually be used for a business - but for now, it'll mostly be a placeholder. The domain name is available, I have already verified that. How would I...

Hi there - I've run into a bit of an odd problem. The second a transfer starts over bittorrent from my computer my router (D-Link DI-624 - believe you me, I didn't choose it) restarts. However after the restart, it is just fine for bittorrenting. Occasionally it'll restart a couple times in a...

Hi there - my aunt recently got a Linksys WRT150N and I was given the task of installing it. It is wired directly (via a CAT5E Ethernet cable) to her computer. When I log in to it (http://192.168.1.1/) it takes 30 seconds to a minute to load the main page. Similarly, when trying to switch to...

Hi - I need to choose a 22" monitor for a non-profit organization. They don't have any crazy needs for it - it just needs to work. It'll be used mostly for lots of spreadsheet stuffs. I was thinking the Acer AL2216Wbd, as it's fairly cheap ($235 shipped) and seems to get fairly good reviews...

Hi - I'm trying to choose a monitor - would like to order it over the weekend. I definitely want it to be at least 24". I'm sick of my 14" laptop monitor :p. What I can't decide is if I should go bigger or not. Are there good monitors past 24", or are the larger ones really not meant for general...

Hi there - I've been trying to choose components for a while. The release of the 8800GT finally made things easier though. How does this look?: Intel Xeon X3220 G0 Stepping 2.4GHz $283.00 EVGA e-GeForce 8800GT SSC 512MB $299.99 Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 $89.99 Abit IP35 Pro...

Hi there - I want to build a new computer - and I'd like to put in an 8800GT in it (thinking about this guy) - but Newegg seems to have been OOS since the 8800GT was announced. Any recommendations? Thanks!

Hi - I'm in the middle of switching over from one hard drive to another. Part of that was moving all my programming work over. This has been a very gradual process for me, so I am a little worried that I could have accidentally done some programming work on the old hard drive. What I'd like...

Hi there - I need to get a 24" monitor. It'll be used mainly for eCAD, 3D CAD, watching movies, and occasional gaming. Ideally - I'd like to find a way that I can hook up an XBox to it as well. Budget is whatever it needs to be. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi there - I was just thinking about this... I used to be all about the Q2, Q3A, CS, DOD, UT, BF1942, etc. back in the day (read: 4-5 years ago). I first had an MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0A and then moved on to a Logitech MX500. I stopped gaming during college (not enough time) - and...

Hi there - I'm looking at putting together this system: https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=7462628&WishListTitle=Potential+ATX+build Intel Q6600 G0 $280 EVGA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB $550 Abit IP35 Pro $178 Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800...

Hi there - I'm considering one of these two mobos for a Q6600 build. As best as I can tell, the only feature I'm really losing by going from the IP-35 Pro ($158) to the DS3R ($130) is firewire (and extra Ethernet as well, though I doubt I'd ever use that). I don't need firewire, though I...

Hi there - I'm planning on putting together a new computer with a Q6600 and probably one of the IP35s. Right now the X38 mobos are way too spendy for my blood - but would it make sense to wait a month or so for X38 prices to drop? Or maybe they'll stay up where they are? Thanks!

Hi there - I had been planning on building a new mATX rig with a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R and an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. Unfortunately, I just realized (correct me if I'm wrong) that since I want to use both PCI slots, my video card selection will be greatly limited. (as a large percentage of...