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I use teamviewer a lot for this, there are times at work, I work for the local school district, where I need to access a blocked page, so I remote into my server at home, download the file, save it to the server and transfer it using the teamviewer file transfer, it makes it really nice especially ...

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You could use Bluescreenview to dissect the BSODs

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

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Welcome to two months ago: http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/the-gaga-saga/ http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/gaga-update/ tl;dr - Al had a parody idea and asked Gaga for permission to write it and donate profits to Human Rights Campaign. "She'd have to hear it", they said, so he recorded ...

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So on my Media Center, I am currently running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit, and having XBMC as my Media Center software to play my Movies, TV Shows, Music, and NES, SNES, N64 games. A problem I run into is a bunch of my Video's and TV shows were ripped at different Audio levels, so I could be watching ...

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So Krom, let me pick your brain on this, so I get what your saying as far as the software RAID and using FreeNAS for the software RAID setup. So for me, right now I don't have a spare box to a free NAS setup, and a dedicated box for a HTPC. So right now, would you suggest ditching the hardware RAID ...

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Yeah right now I am planning on moving the direction of having a low powered HTPC, and a NAS for data, the machine that is my current HTPC was my old gaming rig, and surprisingly it is pretty quiet. So as of right now until I can get the money to move to that kind of setup? Would you say my best bet ...

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So right now in my Media Center PC/Server I have 2 1 TB drives in RAID 1, and currently I have a little less then 200 GB left in the thing, from adding movies, tv shows, music etc onto it. Right now I have this mobo in it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813187021 And 4 GB of ...

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Its been a while since I have used CCleaner, but what things are now in it that makes it a good program, it always seemed to cause problems for me, what features do you use or not use in it?

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I say respond to it, and give him the address and phone number of the local police station. Or if you have any friends who are police, you can give him there address.

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So I have ripping a lot of movies and shows for my media server, and I have a bunch of movies that are not found in IMDB, but I found a app that can meta tag for me, the problem is the videos need to already in a folder that is named the movie. So I am not sure if there is a app out there that can ...

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VMs are good for a whole lot more than "pirating software", for instance I test ran the DBBs conversion to phpbb 3.x in a virtual machine. A VM makes a good test environment/sandbox for almost anything software related. I also use VMs to isolate the host from applications that I only have a one ...

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What I normally do with my VMs is I do most of my Torrents in VMs, and test any app or movie in it, also run a virus scan on the downloads I do before I transfer them to my PC.

I also usually run any apps I havent used before in a VM just to make sure it works and if its something I want installed.

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When it comes to your full screen, when you launch the VM, there is a drop down menu, I think its the machine drop down menu, I would look but I am on my mac right now, but its in one of the drop down menus to do full screen, and then once your in full screen you can mouse over to the the top of the ...

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I use VMware player all the time. Have you tried opening your VM in full screen? I have seen sometimes that the if its windowed it may not work, also are you using a wireless mouse and keyboard? There might be a chance it may not be working. And just to make sure I am understanding correctly, did ...

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Thenior,

Thanks for the heads up, luckily I don't need much range on the router, I mainly needed it for the Gigabit speeds, but just from what I have read, I like all the settings you can do on it, looking forward to it when it gets here.

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This is the card I decided on. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127551 And this is the router I decided on. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833168050 And got myself a second monitor so I can finally go dual screens. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product ...

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MSI is good
Also a fan of Dell

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So within the next little bit I should be able to upgrade my 9800 GT to something better. Right now my price range is Between $150-$175, I have always been a nVidia fan, but have no problem going to ATI if its the better deal. This is the card I am considering going to. http://www.newegg.com/Product ...

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Try turning off your encryption just to rule that out.

General rule of troubleshooting go very basic when you can then add stuff in as you go.

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If it came with your inspirion then its not a real dvd.

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Sounds like its the DVD to me, is that a retail DVD? I have seen that kind of error come up when your using a OEM DVD (IE from Dell or HP etc) on non branded hardware.

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Just wondering, is there a reason why you are using VirtualPC instead of VMware player or Virtualbox?

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Of course XBox and PS3 are centralized and straightfoward. It's a single company in both cases, with developers releasing games for their platform to take advantage of their user base. PCs lack this characteristic. The main problem with what you want, I would think, is that there will always be ...

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So one thing I like is having access to my physical copy of my PC games but also having access to a digital copy of games. I know many of you buy your games from Steam. But one thing why steam isn't my #1 platform to buy games is because I like buying my games and having a physical copy of the game ...

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So just to give a update on this, I hooked the drive to my work provided Macbook, and I got even slower writes to it, and then I took the drive out of the external enclosure. And used a SATA to USB adapter, got about the same performance on that. Formated exFat, NTFS, or HFS it didn't matter. Then I ...

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It ranges from a few meg files, like my MP3 and I am also doing my Movies, 1-2 GB on those and my game ISO collection, 500 MB - 8 GB on those files.

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So I have been backing up my server, and I have noticed that my USB speeds are going at around 11 Megabytes a second to my spare Terabyte hard drive, that speed seems rather slow then it should be, or is it right and it just seems slower? I am copying on windows 7 64 bit, copying files from my ...

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So in my newly built machine I have ran into a snag that I am a little stumped on how to fix. I am trying to get my front audio jacks to work, and to mute my speakers when they are plugged in. This is the motherboard I have. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130254 And this is ...

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Commercial discs are still burned...... I would try the disks in a different drive, also do other DVDs have the same issue?

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Is there any programs that would let me remotely install software? I have a media center PC, and when I fine apps or addons for it, I dont want to have to VNC in or hookup a mouse or a keyboard to it to install software.

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If you mainly are just using the machine for web surfing and little to no gaming at all then the Intel would just be fine. No reason to spend money on a video card if you not gonna utilize it, also if this is for a laptop, then the machine will use less power on the intel since its not designed for ...

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Crap, I figured that was the case, guess I am waiting till I can get comcast here, its in the city, just not in all parts of it.

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Ok, so I have now been in my new condo for about a week and a half now, and I have ran into a dilemma. When I setup everything, first they setup everything with standard deff set top box, which is no biggie to switch to a HD box. Right now the way windows media center see's the Direct TV signal it ...

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I agree with Krom on the not getting a gaming laptop, they are nice only if you are on the road a ton or if you are HUGE into Lan parties, I used to host a bunch at my house but I then realized I barely gamed at other people's house and the power intensive machine just made it a burdon more then ...

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One of a few things I have seen, 1 you may need to install the driver directly from Realtek, I have seen realtek soundcards only liking that driver. Also a issue I saw on a laptop I had with Vista on it, it had a realtek card. And you need to open the sound section in control panel and in either the ...

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Yeah I am pretty sure I can still use comcast, the thing is our HOA is $155 a month which includes DirectTV and Utah Broadband, which is crap internet.

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Well that is one thing that I am sort of stuck right now, me and my wife are moving in about a week, so we are losing our comcast and getting Direct TV, not by choice mind you, its part of the HOA for our condo, and the plans were when we move, place the order for the media center machine parts ...

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Should be enough. The problem with TV tuner cards usually shows up if you want to record encrypted channels with them. You need a special kind of tuner for those, and they're kind of expensive. Might depend on your cable provider though. Yeah, don't use a TV tuner card. Instead get a more simple ...

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I have few questions. In the next month or so I will be building a media center PC, well upgrading my desktop and using my old box as a media center PC. The Specs will be basically this. AMD Socket 939 4600+ 4 GB of DDR 400 RAM Probably will have like a Nvidia 9400 or something tossed into it. For ...

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Also to add into it, one thing that makes troubleshooting pretty easy, or at least makes sure its the OS and not a network issue. Carry around a Linux Live CD, and pop that thing in, and if you can get on, then we know that the hardware is at least functional enough to get online, still possible it ...

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