mrtee

mrtee

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Look in event viewer, are you getting "bad block" errors on the drive? There are 2 LASERs in the drive the LASER for DVD might be bad. Had the same problem with an HP combo writer, they replaced it. Then the replacement did the same thing, of course the warrenty was expired then. <img src="http://images3.stardock.com/wc/icons/wc.gif" border=0 alt="Posted via WinCustomize Browser/Stardock Cent

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Disciples II, the splash screen appears, click on either game, the screen disappears, cursor shows working in background, the splash screen reappears. The same thing happens when clicking on the .exe in each of the folders as well. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game twice. Robin Hood, the splash screen appears, the movie plays, it starts to load (bar at bottom of screen) to about 95% approx. and crashes. Just tried to load

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It's from Lockergnome, about helping seniors with problem solving (Sherman's Senior Helpers). It's called the Monty Hall effect. CHANGE door choice. The odds are better.

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I had the "bad block" problem with a HP CDRW. The laser went bad. HP replaced it, then that one went bad. The UDMA mode on the controller will drop to PIO if repeated errors are logged on the drive (applies to HDDs as well) see "IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur" http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817472 Just my 2¢ worth, Jeff <a href="../r

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The hospital that I work at (in houskeeping) built a new facility in 2000. I sat in on a couple of the prebuild sessions. The room where we dispose of garbage wasn't going to have any heat in it, which is not good in Wisconsin. It took me 20 miutes to convince them that since there were hose bibs and steam lines in the room that the lines would freeze in winter without heat. The lines still froze. They also put in a garage door (to take bi

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The XP recovery console command is fixmbr. Fixmbr Repairs the master boot record of the boot disk. The fixmbr command is only available when you are using the Recovery Console. fixmbr [device_name] Parameter device_name The device (drive) on which you want to write a new master boot record. The name can be obtained from the output of the map command. An example of a device name is: \Device\HardDisk0

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For Outlook I use backup from MS. Depending on your version from here http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=DC&Query=outlook+backup For Outlook express I use e-Backup from http://www.inachis.com/index.htm they ask for a registration fee but........... Works great for newsgroups as well. Incredermail? I don't use it. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" bor

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This is found on the help web page for ObjectZip: Archive files are presented and treated like a folder to provide a common metaphor with other uses of Explorer on your system. View, sort, and manipulate the contents of ZIP files like regular Windows folders. Integrated into Explorer to reduce the overhead of a standalone app and to help ensure compatibility with "new" versions of Windows. Works on Windows 98, ME, 2000, and the forthcoming Windows XP.

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