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I have two licenses to Office Home and Business 2021. Both are tied to one main MS Account. I would like computer A to use license 1, and computer B to use license 2. If I have office on both computers logged into the same main MS Account, will that cause any problems?

Not sure whether to put this in CPU, memory, or video category. I bought a new dell optiplex tower. It has a core i5-3470 3.2 Ghz processor, with an integrated intel HD graphics 2500 GPU. The dell diagnostic utility reported bad video memory. I also tested with this software...

I have a dead hard drive that I’d like to recover some data from it. It’s a western digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS, 500 GB 3.5” SATA drive. It keeps spinning up, spinning up, spinning up. The bios recognizes it, but it will not finish the post sequence. I don’t think there is a clicking...

I have a Dell laptop that I'd like to upgrade to a touchscreen for Windows 8. Is it possible to just swap out screens for a new touchscreen? If so, what general parts do I need? If not, is there any other way to upgrade to a touchscreen?

I’m having problems with a brother inkjet printer, printing yellow. The sample “Print Quality Check” page prints a grid for each color. The yellow grid prints the first and a partial second line, but the rest of the yellow lines do not print. When I print a line of yellow text, the entire...

We had a color laser printer. After a few months, the color toner cartridges were almost empty, even though we print in B&W almost exclusively. My understanding is that most printers will use some small color to prevent the cartridges from drying up. I’m not sure this is true, or if it’s...

I just picked up a couple of bargain bin flight games. I was thinking about getting a flight stick and rudder pedals. I was wondering what I need to know about compatibility. Do I need to know anything besides basic drivers? Do I need to research each and every game if it’s compatible with...

I have a desktop computer. I'd like to attach a USB hard drive to the desktop for backup purposes. My question is, are there any problems with having a USB hard drive attached pretty much 24/7. For example, are there any problems during reboots and normal day to day activities?

I have a Vista laptop that is BSODing on me. The only way I can access the laptop is through the repair menu, or from UBCD4win boot cd. I’d like to debug the minidump file. However, I can’t get it to create a minidump file. I’ve found the registry branch “crashcontrol”, which I can...

This is a really dumb question. I have a dell laptop & genuine key, plus a vista dvd. I'm basically wanting to re-install windows vista. If I pop in the vista cd, click "install", it mentions it will move the existing windows folder to windows.old. My question is, will the pre-existing...

I was trying to fix an all-in-one inkjet printer. It always seemed to error out with these errors Scanner Failure Bad Print Head When it occasionally did print, it always printed only black, very poor quality. ----------------------------------------------- I tried swapping out...

My understanding is that if I need to replace a DVD drive on a laptop, I need to buy a drive that's designed specifically for my laptop. However, I've been seeing some generic slimline IDE DVD writers, and I was wondering if I could get one of those, maybe if I used the original caddy or...

Lets say I have a 1,000 foot box of Cat5e cable. Is there a gadget I can attach to the box that will measure the length of cable I'm pulling out of the box? I know there are those wheels that you can walk with to measure distance, but I need something that will attach to the box and...

This is a dumb question, but can I just install the latest .net framework 3.5, or do I need to install version 1, then version 2, then version 3. The system requirements page does not mention previous versions of .net framework as a prerequisite. In other words, is .net framework v3.5...

I have the following machine AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 4 GB Ram I’m looking at buying a Radeon HD 3870. It uses a PCIe v2.0 interface, but my motherboard has a PCIe v1.0 slot. My understanding is that the newer card will be backward compatible, and will work in the older slot. My...

I've never bought anything from preplogic, but this seemed like a good deal. If you buy a preplogic practice exam, they will send a coupon for a free exam voucher (worth up to $155). The downside is it takes forever to get the exam voucher. Most practice exams cost around $109 to $119...

I can fix any laptop issue that has a bay, like memory, hard drives, optical drives, mini pci cards, cardbus cards, etc. My question is if I wanted to do some computer repair on the side, should I know how to tear down a laptop to the motherboard level, to maybe replace a bad motherboard or...

I have the opportunity to install wireless antennas for local people here. However, I don't have any experience with either attaching antennas to the home, or running cable through finished housing. My question is what would be the best way to learn how to run cable through finished homes, or...

I haven't kept up with video cards. I have a machine which only has a PCI Express 1x slot in it, and I need a recommendation on a video card to add. The only thing I've been able to find is a Radeon X1550, at newegg (part number N82E16814161079). This is a decent, midrange card, right...

I have an old dos app that I'm trying to run on any newer os between win 98 and xp. The dos application runs fine, as the keyboard shortcuts work perfectly. However the dos application doesn't display correctly on the screen. I've tried using application compatibility on XP. It displays...

I have a laptop with a 12.1" screen that we use outdoors. The bright sunlight makes it difficult to see the laptop screen. I was referred to a 3m product, which is a privacy filter. However, they said that it would also help stop the sunlight from washing out the screen. The 3m product...

I have a laptop that requires 15.6v and 3.2 amps for DC input. I'm looking for replacement ac adapters for the laptop, and have come across one that provides 3.75 amps and 15 to 16 volts. I'm "electronicly challenged" :) and was wondering if to much amperage was ok?

I'm throwing a new motherboard into an old case and wiring up the front usb ports to the new motherboard. This is my first time wiring up front usb ports. Question 1 is does the +5v wire hook into "vcc" header? The other header available that the wire could hook into is "usboc" (and I don't...

I'm trying to put together a print ad and all I need is something to put some black trim around the characters/fonts to make them slightly stand out more. Wordart in MS products blows chunks to put it mildly. It won't allow much formatting like I can do in a simple text box at all. Anyway...

I have a small workgroup. There is one windows 98 1st edition machine that has a printer directly attached. It's shared out and acting as a windows print server. There are two other xp sp2 machines in the same workgroup. There's also another print server appliance for some other printers...

What is required for win XP and 98 to print to each other? I have three machines. xp1 and win 98 cannot print to each other, but a third xp machine can print to either of the above with no problems. I'll try some ascii art below. xp1 printer ----------------cannot print to each other...

When is using scsi parity a good idea, and not a good idea. I assume that parity will constrain throughput, and like in ram, the parity really isn't needed most of the time. Would parity for scsi hard drives and tape drives make sense, or is it not needed?

I need to back up a dos system to a tape drive. Does anyone know of any good tape backup software for dos, or any tape backup software in general? The only authors I know of are Veritas, Tapeware, Brightstore, and Retrospect. Tapeware makes a dos version that I'm having problems with and...

I have a machine that wouldn't boot one morning. The bios sees the drive and my partitioning software see's the drive as 100% free space. I've tried fdisk /mbr and fixboot, but neither utility can see any fixed disk. I've scanned for viruses, but the scanner didn't scan any mbr or boot...

I don't know much a about cabling and I need to run it through a trailer. I think I can handle drilling holes through the floor and getting the actual cable ran, but what about wallplates? I'm guessing the walls won't allow a standard wallplate installation, so how should I handle this? I...

I'm fixing up a couple older machines and need to allocate a pentium 133 and pentium 200 to the best destination. I'm setting up smoothwall or possibly a leaf router depending on who shares dialup better. I'd like to leave the door open for vpn passthrough. Starband satellite is a...

I had a couple customers ask for prices on new systems. After putting together a quote on hp systems I went to hp direct and their selling price was $50 below what I can buy much slower systems for. My question is, is there any way I can offer branded systems for a fair price. I could...

This very topic may be a little out of my league, but it can't hurt to ask. I'm starting to set up a tiny little computer repair and networking company and need some suppliers of parts, branded systems, and software. I was looking at www.pcwholesale.com because from their front page they...