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Acer laptop screen won't start unless I click fn+f4 help needed [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Acer laptop screen won't start unless i click fn+f4 I have an Acer laptop. When I turn it on, the screen turns on and then turns off before the Windows 7 login screen ...
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Laptop screen is suddenly rotated

I turned my laptop upside down to get some dust that had gathered under the keyboard to fall out. But then suddenly, everything was sideways. The entire desktop had turned 90 degrees, the trackpad ...
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How can I diagnose my PC regularly pausing / hanging up [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to diagnose repeated freezing of windows 7 (comes back alive in few seconds) I have a borrowed HP nx9420 laptop, running Windows 7 Pro, no SP. Very regularly, maybe every ...
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How to use second PC as extended monitor

I have 2 PC's (notebook). Both have Windows 7 32bit. They are cross connected with LAN cable. How to use PC 2 as extended monitor of PC 1 ? I want to achieve same effect as I would connect external ...
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Weird Slowness on My Win 7

I have dual boot (Ubuntu and Win7) on my computer for 2 months. My computer is Sony VAIO VPCF22S1E. It has i7 CPU and 8GB RAM There is a weird slowness for a few months on Windows 7 OS. While using ...
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Lenovo R61: Cannot shutdown/hibernate

Using a Lenovo R61, anytime I shutdown/hibernate the laptop restarts. Experience this problem on windows 7,8,Ubuntu Changes immediately before the problem started: Basically I have 2 HDD's, say A ...
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I modified my registry and now my laptop doesn't report its battery or power settings

I saved a backup of my registry and then made a change to it. After the change, the Windows 7 battery meter no longer reported how much battery power was left. I also was no longer able to change ...
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How do I reset the Windows password on an Acer Aspire One 753? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can reset Windows administrator password? I have an Acer Aspire One 753 notebook, but I don't know the password to the Windows 7 installation on it. How do I reboot it ...
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lenovo screen suddenly messed up

I have a new lenovo thinkpad E420. Was working fine all day yesterday after i did a fresh install of windows 7 x64 on it and installed all the lenovo drivers from their official support website. ...
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Laptop fan always on with AC, not always on with battery, despite being configured

My laptop occasionally gets somewhat hot, so I've configured my power plan in Windows 7 so that the fan should always be on whether powered by AC or battery. However the fans don't always run when ...
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I set my TV to 'extend' my laptop and to be primary display but

I set my TV to 'extend' my laptop screen and to be the primary display, but the TV won't display the primary duplicate display - I'm left with a laptop which just shows an area of blank screen. I can'...
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Why is all my RAM being used by Aero?

I have a new Acer laptop. Specs are Windows 7 Ultimate (x86), 2GB RAM, Core i5 480M, HD6550 gfx (1GB dedicated memory) card and 600GB HDD. Whenever I turn on the laptop, the computer is extremely ...
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Laptop screen brightness after restarting

I have a Compaq laptop and using Windows 7. when I change the display brightness for example to 80% and then restart the system, after restarting the display gets dim again and I have to move around ...
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How to get a clean Windows 7 install

So I got a new Asus laptop from BestBuy and you know how they customize it and put extra stuff on it and they don't give you the original OS disks anymore? Well... There's gotta be a way to get a ...
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Using a Netbook to create a Dual Monitor Setup [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can I use my laptop as a second monitor for my desk computer? I bought a Netbook, and so far I love it. However, I'd like to get a bit more utility out of it. When I'm at home ...
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