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I currently have a spare PC with me, a 2.4Ghz P4 with 2GB RAM, a 40GB HDD, nVidia geForce 4 graphics card. Now this is not currently in use, as I'm making use of a Compaq Laptop, a Dell Laptop and a fairly powerful AMD based PC. Now I'm wondering what to do with the spare PC. I thought of...

I just put together a system with old parts I acquired from a friend. Its an AMD 3800 64, 2GB RAM, and a WinFast PX6800GT PCI-E Graphics Card. Now when I boot, every thing seems to run normal, except that there is no display on the screen. The graphics card seems to be running (gpu fan is...

Hey all.. I was planning to build a new desktop system and i've got my hands on an old desktop from someone who was getting rid of his. Its an HP Pavilion 714a, with a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz Processor, an NVidia GeForce 4200 Graphics card. Now to get it running I plan to get a 1GB Ram (DDR, so it's...

I've been using ubuntu for many years now, and am quite familiar with apt-get for installing / upgrading packages. My university serves house mirrors of the repositories so by changing the source.list file, I can use those serves which save me from using my internet bandwidth to update /...

I wanted to install Fedora 7, Ubuntu 7.04 and Windows XP Pro as a triple boot on my system. I firstly installed XP, after which I installed Ubuntu, followed by fedora. Now I can boot into both fedora and xp, but I've lost the option to boot into Ubuntu. How do i get it back? Right now all i get...

I neet to set up a network at home, and I need help on how to go about it. Here's my setup. I have two laptops and one desktop. I have an internet connection coming via a LAN cable, which I use occassionally. I also have a wireless connection (shared from my friend's router). And finally, I...

I'm currently running Windows XP & Mac OS x86 on my system, and am quite satisfied. I've recently got the Windows Vista Ultimate DVD and want to know if its worth the switch. I've worked on Vista (breifly), and haven't really felt that I was missing out on anything. There was a significant...

I'm looking to sell my current laptop so I can get a newer one. These are the specs... Brand: Compaq Presario HP Model: M2202TU Processor: Intel Celeron Mobile 1.3Ghz RAM: 256MB Chipset: Intel 945 Graphics: Intel 945GM Mobile Express Graphics Video Memory: 64MB Hard Disk: 40GB Optical...

I downloaded the 30 day trial version of Acrobat Pro 8.0. Now each time I try to run the install, nothing seems to happen. Opening up task manager shows that no new task has been executed, no installer...nothing! I tried taking a screenshot the very instant i ran the installer, and I got a...

Hi... Everytime I log into WinXP, the My Documents folder automatically opens up. Thought its not much of a problem, how do I stop this from happening? Cheers

I've been using Ubuntu on my system for over a year now, dual boot with windows xp. So far I've just used it as a 'fun' operating system, to surf the web, try out new things such as Beryl etc etc. But when I decided to give it a go as a full fledged OS, i've noticed that the OS runs much slower...

Hi there... How do I get my HP Deskjet 3550 running under Ubuntu? There aren't any drivers at the HP website...

Hi all.. Ubuntu Edgy run's great when i'm plugged in, but the moment I switch to my battery on my laptop, I get a funny problem. I get a message '99% battery remaining, 6minutes remaining'. Then it goes to '97% battery remaining. Critical power. 2minutes remaining'. And finally it goes to 96%...

Ubuntu networking problem!!! BACK AGAIN! Things were working great in Ubuntu until last night when my internet connection does not seem to work anymore!! I connect via my university LAN. The lan connection is automatically established as it usually is, but everytime there is absolutely no data...

I have a dual boot Ubuntu & Windows XP system. Recently, after upgrading to Edgy Eft (6.10), I used the gParted tool from Ubuntu to increase the swap space. Now everything went off fine, and both operating systems don't have any problems. Expect that in windows, if I open partition magic, it...

One problem (if it can be called a problem) I've noticed in linux systems I've tried out on my computer (Ubuntu / Fedora), is that even though they all run on 1024x768 screen resolution, I seem to be getting more 'viewing area' in Windows running the same resolution!! To explain what I mean...

Just installed Ubuntu Edgy Eft, and as usual...things are working great! My one long standing problem with ubuntu has finally been solved! No more jerky video playback :D But just a small query.... When I insert my USB pen drive....I can read from it, but cannot write onto it!! It says "You do...

I recently had a virus on my comp, which had set itself to execute each time I access my external HDD. That is, each time I double clicked the drive icon on my external HDD, the virus would spring up. Luckily avast caught it each time. On closer examination I found that it had changed the...

Hi there.. I have a question regarding yahoo mail beta. When I first log into yahoo, the mail welcome screen fills in the whole browser area, as shown in attachment yahoo1.jpg. But when I go to my inbox, or any other folder, the yahoo viewing pane shifts inside to the left, and I get a blank...

Hi all... Now when a CD/DVD/Media is inserted in winXP, a autorun pop's up. I want to know how to add my custom application in that autorun menu. Say for example, when I insert a DVD, I get options to play with WMP and so on. How do I add my own application there, say Media Player Classic? Or...