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What causes the computer clock to change radically and how can I fix it?
My girlfriend just sent me the following photo:
Apparently that was what greeted her, along with a load of license expiry warnings, when she booted her laptop this morning. She then rebooted to be ...
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If my taskbar turns to a light blue color, does that mean I've been hacked?
I've noticed this happen at night randomly. My Windows 7 taskbar at the bottom of my personal laptop turns light blue for a bit, then after a while it goes back to its normal color.
At my company ...
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Where do I setup Windows 7 to not hibernate when laptop's lid is closed?
Where do I setup Windows 7 to not hibernate when laptop's lid is closed?
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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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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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Why isnt the ISO I burned to a DVD bootable?
I downloaded an ISO of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit From Digital River to try to restore a laptop.
I downloaded the ISO and burned it to a Memorex DVD and tried to boot the laptop from it using the ...
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disable windows battery feature
hi i have a laptop and i am trying to run a software that doesn’t work on the batteries based computers so i there a way to remove windows 7 battery so software will consider my laptop as a desktop
i ...
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laptop battery level never reaches 100%
When on mains power, the laptop battery shows not charging and the capacity fails to reach 100%.
I saw a similar issue on another laptop i had. entering device manager and deleting the battery driver ...
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Why is my battery not charging?
I have my battery at 95% and it's not charging while plugged in.
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate.
Do you know if it might be a setting somewhere?
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Windows 7 laptop license [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When reinstalling Windows 7, does the language, version, architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) or source (OEM, retail, or MSDN) matter?
I use Ubuntu almost exclusively. But, in ...
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Warning when battery is fully charged
I would like to get an alert (with sound) when my laptop battery is fully charged.
How can I do that?
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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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Use laptop A's LCD as secondary monitor for laptop B [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I use my laptop as a second monitor for my desk computer?
I have a working laptop (laptop A), but am interested in using the laptop's LCD as a secondary monitor for my ...
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have mouse move proportionately between two screens? [duplicate]
I have a computer with two screens.. A laptop with its screen. And another screen that I have connected to it that is much larger.
I can move my mouse from screen 1 (The laptop screen), left to ...
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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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