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I need a laptop. A high-end, sturdy, machine that's meant to stand the test of time for 3-4 years. Operating system (Windows/OSX) doesnt matter. I at least 4hrs battery life I'd like USB 3.0 (I mean... it's 2010) I'd like an eSata port I don't need firewire 800 HDMI would be...

I use a linksys router, WRT300N with my ancient laptop, an IBM Thinkpad, T23. It's got a wireless card and a built in NIC card that both read that they're connected, yet, for some reason, I can't connect with either the router utility (192.168.1.1) OR the WAN/Internet via web or any other...

SO I got AOE 2 a while ago and i play it on my system. It was working fine in SP2. Then I stopped for a bit, maybe a month. Having only installed a couple choice windows updates in teh last little bit, i turn on AOE 2 and once i get in game, the pointer moves to the top most corner of the...

SO I got AOE 2 a while ago and i play it on my system. It was working fine in SP2. Then I stopped for a bit, maybe a month. Having only installed a couple choice windows updates in teh last little bit, i turn on AOE 2 and once i get in game, the pointer moves to the top most corner of the...

Does antone know what can be done to make the forward and back buttons of my Logitech MX 900 mouse work in firefox? I have the latest versions of both the mouse drivers and the browser software and no dice. It's actually never worked, these forward and back buttons, in firefox, all the time...

OK, so I'm working in this place and I'm dying to check my email...but they locked out the site. I tried a host of other sites in which you can check you pop enabled accounts, but I'm figuring the firewall here's plocked out all the pop ports, so if it's trying to pull off any kind of access...

Any of you know how to (1) get outlook (2003) to restore all your mail and stuff via an older *.PST file and (2) Get outlook to use that PST file on a drive other than C?

My axim is just under a year old and it's on the blink. The earphones don't work. I plug in and find myself twisting the plugged in earphones and pushing and pulling hte plug until i find sound....which then only usually comes out of the left side earphone speaker. Then there's the issue...

So i have this emachines T2542 on my hands-- 2.53 celeron D machine with 256meg of 333 ddr ram. Pressing the button on the front won't start it. At all. I mean nothing happens. No fans begin, no monitor turns on-- nothing at all occurs. SO I opened it up and took a look inside to check that...

OK, so about 3 days ago, I told msconfig to load up windows without using the win.ini (XP, SP2, All critical updates on a p4 2.6 HT w/ 1gb ram) So i turned the machine off, turned it on, and it booted up, but SLOWLY. It was fine until it got to the "Windows XP" with the scrolling purple bar...

Anyone ever play this calssic from 2001? I just got into itand I'm having some trouble figuring out how to build additional capitols, like when you take over someone elses lands and then want to set up shop. I can make those storage pits easily enough, but capitols..no clue. Anyone?

OK. I ran chkdisk on a drive via the windows XP option to fix the errors on a disk before sart-up. I rebooted the machine, and when I returned to it, 40gb was missing, including my documents (poetry, fiction, classwork, resumes, ALL OF MY PICTURES, etc.) What as left was a hidden folder...

SO, I've installed divx 6, along with the reccomended xvid codec from doom9.org, ac3 filters and all that jazz and I'm still having ttouble playing certain xvid files-- most notably those mark pdtv-xvid-fov from the battlestar galactica pilot that i backed up something like 6 months ago. I had a...

OK, so I just installed XP onto my new 250gb sata drive on what the mobo calls IDE channel 3. I have the ide set-up on the board in enhanced mode, which should, according to it, allow for six drives over the 4 ide channels (for simplicity let's call them ch. 1-4) So IDE channel 1 has no...

I looked at my wd 250 sata drive in the BIOS and it was read as 250 gb (IC7 Max 3). Then I went to use it as the system drive in a new install of windows xp pro and the windows xp installer proggie that booted off the CD rejected the 233gb partion that was already on it. It made me delete the...

anyone know of a good CHEAP ide controller card for a JBOD machine that I have running in my house. I'm planning on putting a couple 250gb drives in that machine as I upgrade my main rig. The machine runs XP Pro SP II and is a 1ghz pIII with a gig of SD RAM (133mhz) Thanks in advance for...

anyone know where I can get some pocket PC games? like anything more hardcore than tetris would be appreciated. Space invadersand defender would be nice. I don't even see pocket PC as a category on something as large as ebgames.com! I'm also looking for warcraft or some other strategy game....

I go this program cause it was recommended for converting my dvds to wmv for my x-box media library..... but when i start the proggie nothing happens. I get a small hour glass next t othe mouse and then i look in the task manager i see the process running and taking something like 50% of the...

I got som comic book files as a gift and like....they're in *.CBR. Which proggiereads that? or *.CBZ for that matter?

I lost my beloved (and ancient) Motorola v70 tonight at a movie theatre. I need a new phone. I'm in NY, so VZ has the best reception but their customer service and lack of GSM (i travel alot) kinda suck. anyone know a good bluetooth enabled phone out there that won't cost me an arm and a...

I've read that i can grab the ST1 drive out of it and use it in my PDA-- thing is-- can I put another (smaller) CF card in it to use as a lesser mp3 player? Cause otherwise I might just go cheapie and buy one on ebay for $179.00. Maybe someone here knows the answer. Your thoughts?

I'm running empire earth (legit retail) on XP SP1 and it's got this weird issue. The came comes up and i escape through all the cut scenes. I get to the main menu where all the buttons are (new game, etc) and then, I can't click on anything. My mouse is covered by their UI, so everything...

i recently got the rs 120 wireles headphones by Sennheiser for my PC. They come with 2 nimh batts (AAA) and I was thinking-- aren't these these the batts witheht *memory* problem? I looked it up and i'm kinda right. the LION batts are the ones that you can charge a little of or a lot of with...

I'm having trouble getting my x50v's wifi up and running. it sees my network via the ssid, but it just sort of doesnt connect.... I don't have wep on my router or anything secure like that--it's just born free nad ready to accept anyone or thing so long as hte mac address is approved. So...

SO I got the micro and it had this battery problem. I charge it when I get it and about 45 minutes later it gave the indication of being fully charged. So i tuen it on and it dies within five minutes. I charge it again, this time forh te proscribed three hours. I go to use it again and it...

OK, so if i slap a 5gig microdrive in this thing will it suffice as an mp3 player? like, i had a palm for a while but i sort of exited this market years ago. I know this stuff plays well w/ the other MPS products, so that attracts me. My main thing is that i'd like a portable music device...

So their changing the NOVA to an app rather than just a HUGE website tracker. Here's a forum discussing it: http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8240 Here's the slashdot articla about it. http://slashdot.org/articles/04/12/02/2016244.shtml?tid=95 for my part, the thingabout...

So I'm thinking I want to upgrade to a reasonably priced triple head set-up. GOnna use a 9800 pro 128 and a PCI (NOT express) 9100 dual head card. I currently use a Dell 2100FP for my main display and was thinking that I could flank it with two $300 17" ones. Anyone have any suggestions...

So I have this MAX3 mobo w/ NO lpt port on it. It's not a problem really, i don't even have a floppy drive, i'm so hip I cuold be a Mac, right? well here's the problem...I was cleaning up and came across an old 64mb samsung YEPP MP3 player among my older tech. Sure, not exactly an iRiver...

So yah, it's an old game(2001 or 2) , but i have old tastes. I'm running XP SP1 and my config is in my sig. The game looks fine and runs ok but every once in a while it mysteriously dissapears and i'm back on the desktop. I'm running things at 1600x1220 and i'm disabling my second mon, a...

So I have T-Mobile and am due to like,get a new contract. I'm using a Moto v70 and i want to move over to AT&T so I can use the new Moto v505....with crazzy rebates. How do I get all of the phone nummber data off of my current SIM card for t-mobile? Like, i wanna be able to pull that data into...