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First question: I get these URLs off the net, and I have one from PC Magazine's review from last year and another older one, that ranks how various AV programs detect various malware. Generally the industry paid-for versions that are #1 are Norton and Kaspersky (though Kaspersky only detected...

Hello everyone. The eyelet that the hook on the heat sink hooks to broke off from the motherboard so the heatsink isn't touching the chipset (not the cpu). So now the computer won't boot and I'm afraid my notherboard is toast but I don't see any visible signs of damage. Nothing melted or black or...

Hello again Geniuses :-) This my first attempt at Imageshack.us. I have 2 pics there and would appreciate if you could tell me whether this CD is usable for an installation or just a recovery disk. This should be the link: http://profile.imageshack.us/user/valh007/

'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process' is what the avast! anti-virus program says for various files. A list of files is given. Should I be checking to see whether these same files are not being scanned or accessed the next time I scan? Or is that being...

It used to be said that Linux was good for any old boat anchor you had lying around. Is that still true? Are there bad hardware choices? What about old laptops? I need to get Ubuntu up and running with ethernet and USB. Thanks!

Hello again Experts :-) I have recently bought the internal components for a "new" computer: an ASUS motherboard M4A88TD-V, an AMD CPU, a Corsier 750 PSU, and an older empty 750GB Seagate HD. I have tried to install Win XP and failed, and whether the reason is that the DVD or Win XP is faulty,...

I'm interested in comparing a tablet with docking station and solid state HDD, say arounnd 50 GB with say 1 GB memory (or maybe 2 GB), running Android OS to a $500 laptop of the same price running a traditional mechanical HDD, Windows 7, and say a Core 2 duo or i3 Intel chip with 2 GB or more...

Is there a way to set the default YouTube video playback to low-quality? It is cool for instant access to golden oldies (and some new stuff I should become familiar with). Using low-quality video by defaul might help with the playback speed.

I have a gamer pc running XP-SP3 that seems to work less well the longer it is used. When I get disgusted enough I reformat and reinstall everything -- about once or twice a year. Is there a practical method to do this quickly? I have heard of "ghosting" but have zero experience with it. Thanks.

Hey everyone, It's been a little while since i posted a thread, hows everyone doing? anyways, to the short and gritty...... I'm building a new gaming rig and would like some of the communities opinions....

Just what the title says. Do you really feel good using a PC you have disinfected? Don't you feel better with a known PC that never had a virus? Do you eat your own cooking? BTW while this was my first Windows virus in a long while, I still have confidence in Windows and would never switch to...

Both the pc & mac are connected to the monitor via hdmi; no idea what DAC the monitor is using at its headphone out. The Mac mini is getting sound from the monitor while the pc is still using the HT Claro as primary sound out. For the Mac, the monitor headphone out is connected to the M-audio 30...

My friend has a relatively new Win7pro system (I don't have the specs at the moment) and we added a USB 2.0 card (Rosewill NEC 4+1 Port USB2.0 PCI CARD Model RC-101 ). Now if he has anything plugged into that card on boot the system doesn't make it past the post screen before it locks up, but if...

Can a virus reinfect your PC even if you do an Acronis restore? I suppose there are two answers: a theoretical and practical, the latter being something you've actually seen or heard about. Please feel free to share both. I am more concerned with practical answers. Assuming somehow a virus can...

Looks like it might be made by Sysinternals guys. http://sites.google.com/site/rootrepeal/

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I noticed that Microsoft Windows Update is now behaving oddly for XP. You get to a page that says it will no longer update a pc running SP2 but even if you manually install SP3 it says the same thing.

I have a folder with about 35GB of data and, after I started moving file after file, from one column F: to another N:, it seemed very slow and tedious. I could not select all the files, not even 2 together, and I thought about renaming the two folders. I renamed N with O, but it ended up with...

Is there any thing unique in a usb kvm vs a powered usb hub, other than the vga port? The hub should send all signals to the computer. And isn't a kvm just a "hub" with a switch?