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When I moved to a new area, the only option for TV was Satellite, and I ended up with DirecTV. I’ve been pleased with it other than the DirecTV DVR functionality. The menus are a bit less intuitive than my wife was used to with our now-dormant ReplayTV, and I miss the networking ability that...

I'm having trouble helping my dad get a hard drive up and running after his attempt to uninstall Norton Ghost 10 (as part of the System Works 2006 Premier package). He installed NSW 2006 on his one and only hard drive and I gave him an external drive to hold his backups. He couldn't get Ghost...

Following a recent XP reinstall, everything is back to where it should be, but I can't find some of my Outlook mail messages. I transferred my outlook.pst and archive.pst to another drive, then put them in the corresponding folder on my C: drive and had all my current items. Messages beyond...

Since relocating my PC and hooking everything up (nothing changed inside case), I'm experiencing a two-minute delay when rebooting. My PC hangs on the BIOS Version screen (not the actual BIOS settings screen) where it says "Phoenix BIOS" and gives the version number. From a boot-up when the...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a notebook cooler? My Dell 600m runs pretty hot, and I'm looking to try and reduce the wear and tear on it. I think the heat issue caused my first battery to die on me (thank you warranty), and I'd like to prevent this from happening again. I've seen the...

I'm having a heck of a time with an IE Script Error that happens when a program of mine opens up a web page window to look at items on eBay, and wanted to see if you had any thoughts. I've been searching all over the web and have tried IE settings such as "Disable Scrip Debugging (check...

While my PC was powering up, everything shut off as if it had been turned off (complete shut down). When I tried to restart it, only the fans (two case fans, CPU fan and graphics card fan) and cathode light tube would come on. The light tube would only come on about half as bright as normal, and...

Has anyone been doing any comparisons of Multi-Function Printers (MFP) lately? I'm looking at an inkjet MFP that will have light to medium duty in our home. The two models that I've got my eye on are the Epson cx4600 and the HP 1315. Both can be had for ~$100, and pcmagazine likes the 1315 in...

My dad's PC has no Windows sounds. All the sound files are in the proper place (C:WindowsMedia), but they're not being used. Songs can be played/heard with Windows Media Player, and if he played any games I think he'd hear those as well. The lack of sound seems to be confined to Windows...

Does anyone have an idea of how I can verify the transfer speed of a supposed USB 2.0 card? It was sold as 2.0, but I'd like to check it out. My mobo has 2.0 ports and I was thinking I could time the transfer of a large file from a jump drive to my hard drive, then do the same file to the...

When right-clicking on folders, everything works as it should. However, when I right-click on hard disks or optical drives (drives with removable storage), it takes a minute or longer before the menu pops up and allows me to explore, check properties, etc. Any idea how this can be improved? Thanks.

When sending attachments to my dad, he often claims that there's nothing to open. However, copies I send to myself at my home/work Outlook and Yahoo accounts have the attachments as I intended. He uses Outlook Express, and I'm not sure if there's a setting that he needs to tweak, or if his ISP...

When making an mp3 CD for playback in cars, regular players, etc., is one limited by the 74/80 minute time limit, or can you max out a disc's capacity? In playing around with it, it seems that you can make an mp3 data disc that can use all the disc's space, but can only be played on a PC or...

I just reinstalled Word 2000 and noticed that some fonts (Bradley Hand, Bernhard Mod, Balloon, etc.) are missing. I couldn't locate any extra fonts on my CD, and don't know how I would have picked up any extras in the past or lost them during this current install. On my work PC, Word 2000 has...

Is the fan on a graphics card (ATI Radeon 8500LE/128MB) supposed to run continuously, or only when the card gets beyond a certain temperature? Thanks for any insight.

I never got into song/file downloading back when Napster was the rage, but am now interested in getting songs from the web. I'm looking to make CD-mixes, and I don't have an mp3 player. I've seen various services offering unlimited downloads for $1 per month, $1 per song, and a number of...

I have a both a desktop and notebook PC in my home setup, and they're joined by a Netgear wireless router (WGR 614). My network is working as intended with the exception of logging into the Nortel Contivity Extranet Client that allows me to VPN into my work computer. Both of my computers are...

Hey again, Have a quick question regarding the meaning of "integrated" or "embedded" wireless capability included in notebook computers. When present, these terms mean that wireless capability is incorporated without taking away the available PCI slot (as you'd do when adding a wireless...

Hey there, I'm a desktop kind of guy, but am finding that I "need" a notebook computer, and my preferred vendor (ABS PC) doesn't offer notebooks. I'm looking to have an upper limit of around ~$1K. I noticed that the local Best Buy flyer had some pretty good looking setups, but figured I might...

Hey there, I've noticed that I no longer have the info bar on the bottom of my IE 6 browser pane. It's the one where in the lower left of the pane it would display the website name when you moved the cursor over a site or link on a page, and on the right side it would show the status bar...

I have a list of approx 1800 files in a folder, and I'd like to know if there's a way to simply print out the filenames (don't want to print out contents for this). Any ideas? I'm running XP. Thanks.

Hey everyone, Due to a major goof on my part, I fouled up my system to where the only way out was a reinstall of XP. Most everything seems to have survived, although I will have to reorganize everything (ARRRGGGHHH!). However, I can't find my e-mail folders/contact list anywhere. I'm using...

All, When trying to access my IE "Internet Options" in the "Tools" menu, I get the error message "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." This is my home PC, and I couldn't locate anything right off the bat...

Following an uninstall of Pinnacle 8, I've been attempting to re-install it with no luck. InstallShield quits and the error I get is: "An installation support file 'C:...(long path to temp folder)...{53EF6570-21A4-47ED-A40A-E6470A5677A3}1394bus.sys" could not be installed. Incorrect...

I'm working on a movie project (editing DV clips into a movie), and I'm having a problem with my authoring software constantly "hanging" and giving me the "Not Responding" message, forcing me to close the program out. This happens with any program I've tried including Windows Movie Maker2...

With a DVD burner, is it possible to copy data and non-protected/non-copyrighted DVDs “on the fly” if a separate DVD-ROM is added to a system, or must the info/image be transferred to the hard drive then burned to a DVD? I’d like to be able to just pop a data DVD into a DVD-ROM drive, a blank...

I just got a new machine up and running, and am new to Windows XP. When I choose the user log off to switch between users, a program status window pops up and goes through a sequence to log off. The program that runs is "tfswctrl.exe". I don't remember if it did this the first few times I logged...

In my new PC, I put in an AverMedia Stereo TV Tuner Card and have found that several channels have enough interference so as to make them nearly unwatchable. Other channels look pristine, so I don't think the card is the issue. The "fine tune" function offered in the card's set-up menu does...

Does the 3D aquarium/fish screensaver that I've seen running on the monitors at a few retail stores come on the home version of XP, or do you have to get the XP Plus! graphics add-on (~$20 extra)? I forgot to ask the salespeople, and I was looking to get it when I make my computer upgrade in a...

Hey everyone, Has anyone had an opportunity to check out Onkyo's new SR 600 receiver? I know it has just come out so it may be tough to find locally, but a couple Onkyo authorized internet dealers have this receiver at the same price (shipping included) as the Denon 1802. I am saving for the...