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    How were home PCs used in 1996?

    i used the internet on my old isa us robotics 28.8kbps modem. i was rocking a pentium 120Mhz with 16MB of ram! also has a 1MB or 2MB PCI video card and a sound blaster sound card. 56Kbps modems did come out, but there was no point in upgrading sense my phones lines were old and the fastest...
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    Laptop Over-heating

    What is the exact model of laptop you have? More then likely what has happened is dust has built up in the head sync and is causing it to over heat. i have seen this happen more times then not. see if you can google your laptops model type to see if the whole bottom needs to come off or just a...
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    Can getting angry get u faster customer service

    no, it won't. If I had it my way, it would make you wait longer
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    Image Compression Formats

    I just save everything in a jpeg. works well for me
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    Vista Anti Virus 2011 Virus, how to remove

    I work in IT and I have seen this many times before. Heres what I do. I have a copy of the file called rkill.com. you can find it by googling it. place it on your desktop and then double click it. it kills all unneeded processed in windows without going into safe mode. you may have to continue...
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    Firefox Problems

    1st, your SOL on that account. 2nd, you need to download and install flash for firefox, you can do that here http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
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    8GB RAM with 64-bit OS - is it worth it?

    a lot of people say even anything more than 2 gigs of ram is pointless you are right however, ram is ultra cheap. i would only suggest doing if you are going to plan on using this system for a very long time (like 5+ years) you can get all 8 gigs now, and use the 32-bit OS for now, then...
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    I've decided I don't like firefox.

    I am not looking though 95 replies, but FYI, netscape is pretty much firefix with minor diffrences, though still an awesome browser
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    Need help building a new computer.

    what he said... anyone who buys a GTX these days is pretty much has more money than brains... the GT is very close to the GTX
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    Routers

    what kind of router do you have. theres usually a button on the back of bottom that you can only depress with the pin or something, hold it in until the lights on the front start going crazy, it means its going through its reboot phase
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    What type of email do you recommend?

    Gmail all the way. and you can use POP and IMAP services with Gmail as well and use THEIR servers, not your ISP's, even if they selectively block port 25
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    DSL Connetion Problems

    The reason that happened is because EMI from the computer was interfering with the modem. happens quite a bit actually. I use to do technical support for a DSL ISP and i would suggest that to people who were having connection problems, and of course, they think that despite i did the job for 5...
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    Which brand of graphics card do you prefer?

    i was a very loyal ATI fan boy for a very long time. Then I bought my new comp with a x300 in it. i knew it was going to play games badly, but it had terrible linux support,. so i got my current geforce 6600, and it work fantastically under linux, and well, been hooked on nvidia ever since. I...
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    Can you get viruses just by clicking e-mail subject?

    generally no, you have to execute the file first what email program are you using?
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    2 video memory (?) related queries

    what are your system specs
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