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    Sony Vaio Laptop not booting. HELP!

    I have a Sony Vaio E series laptop bought this september, so its pretty new. Last night its battery ran out, and it automatically went to hibernate mode. After that I put it on charge. Now when I hit the power button it doesn't power on. The wireless, power and cpu lights all come on, but the...
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    video taken in digicam : need to reduce size

    I took a couple of videos from my digicam but their filesize is huge. Around 500 mb. how do i reduce their size? they are in avi format
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    Amit Agarwal's blog labnol.org

    His blog is impressive. its listed 40th on the topmost read blogs by technorati amongst other things. I think i read here on this site only, someone had posted in fight club i think, that he earns 40,000 per day from his blog. Is this true..? even if it isn't how does he make a living by...
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    Buying a flip or clamshell phone...

    I want to buy a flip or camshell phone. Could u guys recommend one under 15k? it should have a good camera, and maybe a music player. The good camera is important. And please do NOT say motorola Razr.... its extremely common.... let's just say that i want to stand apart from the crowd...
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    Removing icons from taskbar

    Some programs on closing, minimize to the taskbar. I want the program to keep on running and NOT show in the taskbar... or anywhere on the screen. Is there any way to do that??
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    How to reinstall Windows XP without reformatting?

    I would like to reinstall windows Xp (an original version). Thing is i'm not formatting my drive. I've got 4 partitions C,D,E,G (F is cd drive :D). G contains the OS. Since I've a lot of data and cannot take backup of them (anyway it'll take ages). So how do I go about it? PS :- I once...
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    External Hard DRive not working

    I have a Maxtor External Hard DRive which is USB 1.1 and 2.0(of course!) compliant. When I connect to my desktop it does not show up in my computer. Under device manager there is an exclamation mark against Mass Storage device and it says that the device cannot start. The drive works perfectly...
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    Mobile not switching on after a call??!!!

    My dad picked up a call and as soon as he clicked on the green phonewala button is mobile powered off. I then put it on charging but still it is not powering on. What could be the reason??
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    Windows media player not playing sound!!!

    I have no idea why this is happening but its only window media player which is not playing sound. Even when I open a video file it plays the video and shows the sound playing graph in the bottom tab, but no sound comes out from the speakers. I played the same file in Nero Showtime and the sound...
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    Help - How to get bookmarks back!!

    My firefox browser shut down unexpectedly and when i reopened it all my bookmarks were gone. How do i get them back? some of them were very important and i do not remember the sites i bookmarked. Please help!!
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    Converting pictures into a movie slideshow

    Is there any way to convert a lot of pictures (around 200) into a movie.... or like a movie slideshow? I think i read somewhere that you can make photos into a slideshow movie using windows movie maker.
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    Connection/broadband query

    The bandwidth offered in broadband is 256KBPS while the download is around 32 KBPS which is a number which is exactly divisible by 8. This all happens in all connections where the net speed is 'x' and its download is x/8. Why?
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    Gparted not Starting

    I thought of trying out Gparted after reading from this month's Fastrack (Its in the System Tools Section). I downloaded the iso file from the site and created a cd-rom. Went into the bios and put the first boot device as CD-ROM......and then the software did not work.......why? First of...
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    what does interface SATA mean?

    I'm thinking of buying the external maxtor onetouch III mini 60 GB. I was reading through some sites and found this Interface thing that I'm not quite able to understand. It says that its interface is SATA, does that mean that the drive is SATA? My PC has an ATA drive, will there be any...
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    Buying an External Hard Drive

    What are the things to be kept in mind while buying an external hard drive? Can you reccommend some good brands? I am basically looking for an external HDD with atleast 20 GB space.......... what is the price of such drives? I thought of opting for internal HDD with external case, but someone...
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    System restarts on its own

    My pc restarts on its own from time to time. Sometimes even while booting up it restarts.........when i'm working on a file it just restarts and i lose my work...also some prograzms have gone corrupt........ why is this happening? also plz tell me how to stop it.
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    How To Type Such Symbols?

    How do you type stuff like this?? •·.·´¯`·.·• (Your Nickname Here) •·.·´¯`·.·• .o0×X×0o. (Your Nickname Here) .o0×X×0o. (*)·´`·.¸.»ß£WÄR£ 1 höt ©hï©k·´`·.¸.»(*) (R)·:*:·ßöütïlï©ïöü§ ßït©h wï ättïtüdë·:*:·(K) I copied it from a site...
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    Browsing net with phone

    Does browsing net with your GPRS phone give good speeds? What if it has EDGE in it? I somewhere read that AIRTEL connection for net and unlimited downloads is Rs 150, and download speed is around 13to 14 kbps. That's much better than my 64 kbps broadband which gives 8 to 9 kbps download. So is...
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    Questions on RAM

    I have a motherboard which supports 266Mhz DDR Ram. I want to buy a new one. Problem is that I cannot find 266 Mhz RAM anywhere, only 333MHZ or 400Mhz. Will a 333Mhz RAM work on a motherboard which supports 266MHZ RAM?
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    video mp3 player

    I am thinking of buying a video mp3 player namely the Creative Zen VIsion M What i wud like to ask is, do you have to convert the video files into to a smaller resolution in order to play them on an mp3 player?? Won't the video automatically resize when i drag and drop it in the player??
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