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Two months ago I purchased a 60A2020 and a Panasonic BD10. At the same time I upgraded my Dish Net service to HD. Thanks to everyone here I've extremely happy with my setup. This last week something has changed in setup with the satellite signal. Instead of displaying 16:9 HD channels across the...

I'm looking for a new 2.1 setup for my computer. While I have a great 5.1 setup in the living room, I listen to music almost exclusively while on my computer. I've considered studio monitors but I really don't know anything about them. I'm looking for speakers that would fit on a bookshelf and I...

When I save a pic from a website, the saved icon appears as if it doesn't recognize the file type. If I click on the saved image, I get a window asking me what program I want to use to display it. How do I fix this so when I save a jpeg it remains a jpeg on my computer?

Last week I purchased Galaxies and I've really enjoyed it. I have been completely frustrated though with my computers lack of ability to play this game without hesitation. So I'm turning to the HTF computer experts once again. What part(s) of my computer need to be upgraded to play this game...

XP won't allow me to sa ve jpg files correctly. Instead they are saved as bmp. How do I correct this?

I have 2 identical 60GB harddrives. I'd like to use one as a backup either running parallel with the other one or saving a copy every month. I am running XP and my motherboard does not have raid capabilities. What are my options? Kevin

How do I remove the Windows Messennger icon from my system tray? I'm running XP and despite not using messenger I have been unable to remove this icon. Kevin

I'm tired of having to use the keyboard and a mouse for gaming. I'd like to get a controller that will work well with Jedi Outcast and has programmable buttons. Any recommedations?

Last night I installed the driver for my memory card reader (camera) and the automated update seemed to go just fine. Later when I closed an open window the computer shut down and went in to auto-reboot mode. Now I can not get it to completely bring up XP again. It either goes into auto-reboot...

When I started to re-install XP last night it showed that my C: drive is partitioned with NTFS format. It also showed that I have 8mb of an unpartitioned area on my drive. Huh?? Is this an area XP sets aside for processing?

My computer is struggling to boot up the last 2 days. Once yesterday and today I've received a message during startup that tells me that my hard drive could possibly fail and that I should back up my data. Yesterday it ended up booting up ok but today was a different story. Today it took 15...

Using the Home Theater Sound & Vision calibration disk I followed along and with the directions and was able to calibrate everything on my Toshiba TW40F80 except my contrast. I could not get the top two areas to blend together as one. Is this an issue with my TV or with the disk?

After purchasing an S-video cable from Better Cables and being blown away by the results, I decided to look into changing my audio interconnect cables as well. When I looked through Better Cables website I saw that I had a choice between RCA connectors and Bullet Plug RCA connectors. This is the...

When I click on a web-link that should bring up a new email with the To: address filled in I get the following error message, 'Could not perform this operation because the default email client is not properly installed'. How do I reconnect Outlook Express to the default? Thanks!

I bought a CanoScan D1250U2F scanner and I can't get XP (home edition) to recognize it. I have tried the add new hardware function without success. I even tried unplugging my canon printer and hooking the scanner to it's usb connection. I finally gave up and called Canon technical support but...

Included in some of the LOTR dvd's is a coupon to purchase a One Ring replica from The Noble Collection for $75 instead of $129. I am waiting to purchase the 4-disc version of LOTR instead of the current one however I am very interested in purchasing this ring. If you got this coupon and are not...

After downloading a plug-in for Quicktime, it now attempts to play mpg files. Most of the time it is unable to play these files. How do I keep quicktime playing mov files and have Windows Media Player playing mpg's?

When I put a diskette in my floppy drive it spends several seconds trying to read it and then asks me to insert a diskette in drive a:. Has my 3 month old floppy drive failed?

I have the following drives installed in my computer: A: Floppy Drive C: Hard Drive D: CD-RW E: DVD F: Camera Memory Card Reader Under XP Home Edition when I click on My Computer I see an additional drive labeled G: CD Drive. When I double click on the icon it says 'Please Insert a...

I want to purchase a general purpose scanner with the best resolution possible for under $200. I do not need the ability to scan slides or negatives. I've been looking at the Canon and Microtek scanners and reading reviews about them but it's difficult to make a decision without seeing an...

I gave my old P3 600mhz computer to my mom over the weekend. After hooking it up to her monitor I could see that the settings for her monitor were way off. The Windows desktop appeared as though the screen area was set to 1280 x 1024 when in fact it was set to 1024 x 768. So I bumped it down...

When I turn on the guest account and then later switch back to my account to turn off the guest account XP crashes with a message saying that it's saving everything from memory to the hard drive. This is a new problem because I was able to manage the guest account earlier without XP crashing...

My kids started playing Starcraft last night and noticed that the game was squeezed together by an inch on each side of my screen. It seems strange since all of the windows applications fill the full screen. How do I adjust this? Windows XP GeForce3 TI 200

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The start button in XP has several defined areas. In the upper left area Internet Explorer and Outlook Express have predefined links. Somehow I have moved the Outlook Express link down into the frequently used programs area. How do I move it back? Is there a way to manage all of the...

On my old computer I used to receive a lot of email spam. When I changed my isp the spamming stopped completely. This week I setup my isp account on my new computer and have had little time to do anything more than read email and go to some forums I follow. I was frustrated this morning to...

After installing all the new parts the computer won't boot up properly. The lights on the CD-RW and DVD-ROM blink alternately. Outside of that theres no response, no effort to read any of the drives, including the hard drive. I've tried changing the IDE plugs at the mobo in both primary and...

I recently installed a CD-RW and I've enjoyed burning some cd's. After copying a couple of music cd's I tried to copy a game cd but the cd drives would pop open and I would get a report that didn't say much. I'm guessing that it's some type of copy protection but I'm surprised I didn't have...

I'm going to build a second computer and I'd like to use the Antec SX635 mid-tower. For those that have used Antec cases how do you like them? I plan on adding 2 fans to the front of the fan. Will this be enough to keep this system cool? Are the Antec fans quiet? Also it comes with a 350w...

I'm going to add a simple DVD drive to my system but I've heard of problems that some have had reading certain DVD's. Is there a clear choice for a bug free drive or is it the luck of the draw.