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GAGAN187 @GAGAN187 (287) • India 11 Jan 09

Selling a laptop tomorrow, can anyone give me the quickest way to clear the hard drive and a checklist of things i need to have deleted??

hard drive

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vishnu_badlapur If you have an OS now, just full format all the drives from windows(except the OS'd drive) and then boot from Windows Installation CD and format the OS's drive. For full format from command promt do "format y:" y is the drive you want to format. If you use...

11 Jan 09

marcosarb @marcosarb (23) • Brazil 9 Jan 09

I want to know more what it is!

computers

sata

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vishnu_badlapur SATA is Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. It is a type of interface for block transfer devices like that of hard disk. Older HDDs where based on Parallels if you have seen an older HDD data cable, you will see that it is a broad cable with either 40 or 80...

11 Jan 09

sharadagrawal278 @sharadagrawal278 (183) • India 8 Jan 09

Hi friends, nower days keyboard, mouse and other computer accessories are available in both ways, Wireless and with wire. So which one do u use ? I use wirefull version.

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vishnu_badlapur I use a wired one. When I bought my new computer I was considering wireless options, particularly bluetooth ones. But here in India, bluetooth keyboards and mouse are way too highly priced that wired ones. So I settled in for a wired one because those are 90%...

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adrainsean @adrainsean (109) • India 8 Jan 09

Recently jeremy shoemaker a great blogger of shoemoney.com has been gifted by intel a I7 quad core computer which is currently the fastest working desktop machine. it is said the shoemoney has a lot of followers at Intel Head...

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vishnu_badlapur WHY DIDN'T I BLOG!!!!!! My GOD, the specs of this computer is just WOW.... But probably I would change those two displays for 19 inch ones... What on earth will make this piece of hardware to be fully utilized? I don't think there are enough applications for...

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sandeepjain242 @sandeepjain242 (448) • India 8 Jan 09

Is there any good software that can do this? The images are in gif format and I need t o convert those to MS word files.

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vishnu_badlapur You need to do an OCR(Optical Character Recognition) of that GIF image. The best OCR software available is Abbyy Fine Reader, but it is not a freeware. But if you want to do it only a limited times you can try the trials or demos from their site:...

8 Jan 09

cuboidtrilogy @cuboidtrilogy (74) • India 6 Jan 09

I've a 512MB RAM in my pc....but nowadays every1 has atleast a 1GB RAM....!!!the problem is that i've only 2 slot on my motherboard comprising of (2x256)MB....if i purchase a separate 1GB RAM...the other two RAM's would be useless...

motherboard

ram

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vishnu_badlapur spoiledbrat802 has already answered your question. Just to add some info: All pen drives cannot be used to save the page files. Another thing is that only Windows Vista supports this feature and is call "Readyboost". All pen drives cannot be used for...

7 Jan 09

dhaksha80 @dhaksha80 (143) • Singapore 6 Jan 09

What is the maximum number of responses in mylot discussions and who has that maximum responses and what was the topic?. As far as i know there are 72 responses for the discussion Sleeping while travelling. What do you think? Is...

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vishnu_badlapur I think maximum responses I have received till today is 26... Now, don't laugh ok!!!!

6 Jan 09

anetteh @anetteh (3590) • Sweden 6 Jan 09

I made a payment request this morning for both wordlinx and Linkgrand and guess what? I have recievde both of them this evening. That´s $15. Together with Hits4Pay´s payament I got a couple of days ago, it add upp to $40 in one...

been paid

payments done

ptc payments

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vishnu_badlapur Yes but I do not like linkgrand much.... There are so less adds and per click amount is also less... I have some 4.7$ so I will stop using linkgrand once I reach payout. Have you tried bux3.com and bux.to? Do they work?

6 Jan 09

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melvill @melvill (392) • Philippines 6 Jan 09

Hello guyz. I just want to know if there is a web developer or php programmer here in mylot? I mean a member? Can i have some advice with you? I want to be a web developer. As of now I studying php, mysql, html and javascript. Can...

developer

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vishnu_badlapur Advice? What kind of advice do you need? For any web-development reference go to w3schools.com. This site has a very good collection of tutorials and references that can help you a lot. I am a computer engineering student and have learned JSP and ASP for...

6 Jan 09

prajwal2222 @prajwal2222 (118) • India 5 Jan 09

as you when you search anything on google as far as the keyword is concerned you see the links are displayed not according to the keyword you typed but the order they are paid to google when you type mobile you see the nokia site...

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vishnu_badlapur You are mistaken my friend..... Google does take money from websites to display ads while search results are displayed but those ads are clearly mentioned as "Sponsored". Other links that are not mentioned as Sponsored are purely websites that are indexed by...

5 Jan 09

majed124 @majed124 (49) 4 Jan 09

i've got a pretty good pc my spesc are; Model :- Acer Aspire M1610 CPU :- Inter(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz Ram :- 1GB GPU :- Sis Mirage 3 Graphics OS :- Windows Vista Home Premium HDD :- 160GB what are...

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vishnu_badlapur Here is mine: 2.4GHZ Intel Quad Core Processor 2GB RAM 500GB HDD 19inch DELL TFT Monitor DG35EC Motherboard with On-Board graphics Vista Home Premium

5 Jan 09

kishorebabu4u @kishorebabu4u (76) • India 5 Jan 09

I downloaded one movie from torrents, that file extension is "wmv". It is not opening but it is fully downloaded correctly. when i am trying to open this is connecting to internet. but it is not playing. please let me know when...

file not playing

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vishnu_badlapur Most probably you do not have codecs for that video file but another thing that may also have happened is that the video may be copy protected and requires a license to play. So it connects to the internet to download the license. If it cannot download the...

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rameshkumaar57 @rameshkumaar57 (5908) • India 5 Jan 09

I play a lot of games in the computer, and road rash is one of my favourites, yesterday I purchased road Rash 2 as I got it in a bargain price. Latter on, after coming home, I found out that my computer is having vista and road...

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vishnu_badlapur There are couple of things that you can try. If you are not able to run the setup itself, 1. I think Vista only warns you against the installation. If this is the case, you can ignore the warning and continue installation. 2. Try to run it in compatibility...

5 Jan 09

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shadown_Luna @shadown_Luna (82) • United States 3 Jan 09

So i'm learning java and I got this book, "Java for the absolute beginner"...and its been a great help. I got the the basic GUI part: Frames and Components...and I typed up the source code for the most basic window, that lets you...

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vishnu_badlapur Still you can't run the program? Just now I ran the program without any errors to make sure it works. Please supply following info: Which JDK you are using? How are you running the program? (I mean, each step) Are you sure you did not do any typing...

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ajrox1810 @ajrox1810 (992) • India 3 Jan 09

I am so happy. I got a pair of Wireless Keyboard and Mouse and I am beginning to love it. They are really helpful when I want to watch movies on my computer, or do simple tasks like disk defragmentation, etc from my bed! It...

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vishnu_badlapur I too love wireless keyboard and mouse but only the bluetooth ones. VHS and IR wireless are not at all good. IT ones should have line of sight problem and VHS ones have very less range are prone to hindrances from other wireless devices. I never had a chance...

4 Jan 09

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Pleiades @Pleiades (846) • United States 3 Jan 09

By this, I don't mean pulling out some alchol wipes and wiping down each key. No, this is a simple task that unless you get creeped out by weird things, then don't do it. I started doing this because I worked at a telemarketing...

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vishnu_badlapur Yeah... most times I too find myself cleaning keyboards and mouse. I don't like to see dirty things around me. The only other computer I use(that is not mine) is any of the hundreds of computers in my college. Whenever I go for my practicals to the lab, I...

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henryjoe @henryjoe (249) • Malaysia 4 Jan 09

The computer mouse,arguably the single most important consumer gadget of the digital era,marked its 40th birthday recently.Some say the mouse is a simple,intuitive and cheap way to move a cursor round a screen.It can't be replaced...

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vishnu_badlapur No doubt that mouse is not going to go off the screen for a long period. At least not still the default way of using the computers change. By that I mean, today we consider computer as a machine that has a monitor that sits in front of us and their is an input...

4 Jan 09

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shadown_Luna @shadown_Luna (82) • United States 3 Jan 09

So i'm learning java and I got this book, "Java for the absolute beginner"...and its been a great help. I got the the basic GUI part: Frames and Components...and I typed up the source code for the most basic window, that lets you...

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vishnu_badlapur Here is the final program that run: import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; class ComponentTestFrame extends Frame implements...

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shadown_Luna @shadown_Luna (82) • United States 3 Jan 09

So i'm learning java and I got this book, "Java for the absolute beginner"...and its been a great help. I got the the basic GUI part: Frames and Components...and I typed up the source code for the most basic window, that lets you...

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vishnu_badlapur The code that you have provided seems to be fine. To implement listeners, avoid using the Listener interfaces. You should use Adapter classes for this. Because, if you use interfaces you will have to override all the methods in the class like here, you have...

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titaniumsoul @titaniumsoul (1191) • Singapore 3 Jan 09

Hi, I am facing some problems with recovering my PC to factory default settings. Firstly, I have lost the Windows XP Operating System Disk given by the manufacture company for every new PC being purchased. Secondly, I...

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vishnu_badlapur Is this your notebook or desktop computer? Some branded computers have a recovery key, which, while pressed on starting the computer will automatically restore the OS as it was when bought. But if you do not have that facility, you will have to find a new...

3 Jan 09

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