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    35 DOTA2 Beta Keys being given away this week

    Ironbelly Studios is a startup game development studio, to try and get people excited about their game they're doing a free weekly game giveaway on their Facebook page. This week they're handing out 35 DOTA2 beta keys, so head on over and check out how to win...
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    Vista network issue

    Alright finally fixed it It turns out that the customer originally had tried to remove the Norton trial that came with the machine and for whatever reason there was some protocol that was left over that was blocking the http traffic. Disabled and removed the protocol and ran the norton...
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    Vista network issue

    ya, i actually installed firefox for testing purposes so it was installed after this started happening, still ill try reinstalling ie
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    Vista network issue

    fair enough about reinstalling IE but why would it also effect firefox?
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    Vista network issue

    unfortunately it didnt work and i have done a scan externally with avg and malwarebytes. One other kinda quirky issue ive noticed is that sometimes when i try to go out to other pages (yahoo, msnbc, etc...) it re-routes it to http:/// and says the address is not valid. I checked the hosts...
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    Vista network issue

    i took out the drive, plugged it into another machine and scanned it with avg8.5 pro and malwarebytes anti-malware
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    Vista network issue

    Not sure what you mean by tcp/ip reset, just release and renew? If so then yes. I tried manually configuring DNS but it didnt work, I wouldnt think that DNS would be an issue since im able to ping by name and it resolves an IP. And for restoring defaults, it is already set at defaults and ive...
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    Vista network issue

    Hey all, I've got a little vista issue thats been killing me So a customer comes in with a Vista Home Premium machine that cant browse the internet. The machine can get an IP, it can ping but not browse. Messengers work, but whenever I try to browse the internet on IE or firefox it says page...
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    break a vista password

    ya that worked like a charm, found the walkthrough on this page http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9015738 and was a nice quick fix once i found that thanks alot to everyone who responded
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    break a vista password

    So im working on a customer's vista machine, turns out he doesnt remember his login password because he just uses the fingerprint scanner. I got him to log in with his fingerprint but cant remove or change his password because to do some requires that he enters his current password. Anyone know...
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    is pcie2.0 worth it

    i was just about to buy my new machine and realized that the 4870 is pcie 2.0 x16 and the motherboard i was going to buy doesnt have 2.0 I know that that it is backwards compatible but wasnt sure if the computer was going to bottleneck because its not 2.0
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    questions for my new power supply

    So im gonna be ordering up the parts for my next machine but one thing i keep getting hung up on is what kinda power supply i should get. Here are the specs of what im gonna order q6600 2x WD500gb sata asus hd4870 4gb pc2 6400 so ive been doing some reading and seems like alot of people...
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    think itll fit?

    actually that poster asked if it would block the ram, i was worried about the other heatsink on the motherboard
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    Need some help

    HP Pavilion DV9000 Vista Ultimate 64bit So this kid brought in his laptop to my shop today, his story is that he was transfering a bunch of music off his machine for his friend then it he said it was not responding so he went into task manager and started killing programs that were running...
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    think itll fit?

    So i've been researching getting a new machine and i've landed on some hardware, gonna go with a q6600 with a XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 cooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233003) and GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3R mobo...
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