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I missed that it was a clean install on a defective drive that was the issue. Bad drive, toss it, drives are cheap these days.

Well if they would legalize pot and lower the drinking age then they wouldn't be huffing computer cleaner and paint.

Did you hear that South Korean banks thought they had been hacked by North Korea until someone discovered that their antivirus had not been renewed or updated and they had caught a virus.

My bet is that just as in Win7 case something is preventing the drive from being "locked" to allow a chkdsk /f to work Did Chkdsk /r work What about chkdsk /f /r http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-performance/win-xp-chkdsk-f-does-not-run-at-startup/ab902846-5058-42bc-9f0e-7d29fc2c1c6f?msgId=ccb250ec-6db8-4d62-884d-a9ad3ced78c2 Use chkntfs to reset chkdsk to default behavior in command prompt chkntfs /D Might want to try speedefrag it is used to schedule defrag to run on next boot, but will run chkdsk as part of the process. Freeware, just watch that it does not try to

Well most other options are going to cost you more than paypal or google wallet.

Has it always had this? If so it could be that the reflector behind the screen which spreads the light is "imperfect" got a bit warped... If this is the case, not much you can do but live with it. Besides that it depends on what type of backlight (Fluorescent or LED)you have. Fluorescent the bulb could be goign out. LED it could be a bad emitter.

I don't have one but the concept looks pretty simple http://www.mythtv.org/ A spare computer with plenty of drive space and a capture card (well a spare may not be needed; but it would be best so that you can do other things while it is recording without any compromises.).

Yeah I miss Marty, think of him every time they report another earthquake down NZ way. He joins the long line of old friends who have passed. At least someone let us know rather than just leaving us wondering why he no longer posted.

Okay, I will start looking for new posts and even if I don't know the answer will attempt to reassure the poster that help is on the way.

Read this http://www.thecomputerparamedic.com/?p=61

It now redirects to http://www.g4tv.com which is still up for a while. I think the on air change takes place some time next month. (April 22 by the site). http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/730099/g4-to-be-rebranded-as-the-esquire-network-on-april-22nd/ It was good while it lasted. Thanks to all who put in time and effort to share the knowledge. It was nice that they kept it up as long as they did. They did not have to, they never had to even add a tech board, but were kind enough to listen to me when I asked them to before the merger with TechTV. Then they reversed course and kept it

Probably should be under world and politics but since there is so little traffic any post is a good post. I think the problem is that their leadership has a false world view. They do not see reality. They had several failed A bomb tests and finally got one with a 10 Kiloton yield (less than the first three bombs the US made which all were in the 15-20 Kiloton yield range). They appear to take months to years to build a bomb so in the future they may have a few, compared to the thousands of 750 Kiloton yield ones we have sitting around. They have tested some missiles, but not all that great

Put the link in your sig on other forums you are a member of. Same with Facebook if you use it (is there a besttechie facebook page? If so like it). Link to articles on the main site.

Interesting. I do not think that "life evolved on a meteorite" although some of the organics required could certainly have done so. It does sound "feasible" that life could have evolved elsewhere before it evolved here on Earth and that a meteorite collision with say Mars could have ejected material which wound up falling on Earth as Meteorites bringing some life with it. But that leaves us with the question of why Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes. Were one the other or both brought here? Basically most of the life on Earth is composed of cells with two pools of genetic material. One is the cell

Wow, more and more folks. Greetings Shadow Thomas and Novi. Good to hear that you are still around.

I have a possible explanation. It seems the Microsoft integrated Flash into IE10 for windows 7 , 8, and RT To protect from security holes they decided to use a white list and only sites which they approved would be allowed to have active content in the browser or desktop player. Gee, smooth move ex lax Turns out that so few sites submitted themselves to Microsoft for approval and adding to the white list that hey have issued an update to change it to a black list where all sites will be allowed and they will have a black list of sites which antivirus and malware experts have determined to be i

Avast 8 (free for home use) is out. If you have avast, go to the user interface => maintenance => program update and get it. It now includes a software updater which is similar to the Secunia PSI. It scans your computer for programs with known security holes and checks for updates and patches. Some it will automatically prompt you to get the update. Some you have to open the new (improved interface) select software updates and click "fix now" and it will either automatically update / patch or will bring you to the download site for the latest version. Many nice improvements in the user i

It would cost too much to send Honey Boo Boo and her mom to the moon, although they could take up a collection.

If it is happening on startup the most likely cause is that an wav file for a sound file is corrupt and it crashes the sound card so hard it corrupts the driver. Try changing all the sounds in control panel / sounds to none

For some time now the Computer Emergency Response Team has recommended uninstalling Java Runtime Environment due to security holes which allow zero day exploits. Each time one gets patched a new one appears. For some time I took the attitude that as long as they were rapidly patching holes, and the number of exploit sites were minimal it was not that much of a risk to average users. However, with the recent use of a hacked site to use this exploit to penetrate the in house networks at Apple and Facebook and the rapid spread of infected sites I now agree that it is time to just uninstall Java R

Seeing all these old names from the past reminds me of how many we have lost. Still it is good to see so many old friends still around and willing to stop in and say hello.

I thought you were going to post a movie (MPG), thought you were going to recommend a new movie editor or camera.

Wow, hadn't realized they had been on for so long. Time has flown by these last two years. The demise of G4 has me looking for stuff to have on in the background and I started watching more YouToo (time warner channel 103 here) I had ignored EP Daily, The Electronic Playground as I figured it was as bad as it had been on G4Techtv But I started watching it recently and it has come a long way since then. It really is good enough to put on my "watch regularly" list. Good game reviews, tech reviews, tech news, movie reviews and much much more. I deifinitely urge folks if they have YouToo in their

I'll be stopping in here more regularly , and causehead and dogsnharmony too as things wind down at G4 to keep in touch with old friends. G4 has been a ghost of what it used to be for some time now. Gotta go to the doctors tomorrow; had a fever last night and should have called today. Felt like I had a Urinary tract infection this morning, and it got worse throughout the day. Now I have blood in my urine. Since I have no spleen I hit my emergency antibiotics and will go to the doc tomorrow for more potent stuff. Last time this happened I awas on Floxin for thirty days.

Can you download the fixit tool in the user account and then right click and choose "run as administrator"?