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It turns out two other people in our office have the same issue on their HP laptop, but they hadn't noticed! I hooked up my home LCD monitor (with a 3ms response time) and it works like a dream - quick, sharp. I guess it's just the display on the laptop that has a slow response time. The...

Hello all. Can anyone tell me the differnce between a Pentium D 820 and a Pentium 4 (2.8G) 820? I plan to use it at home for photo / video editing, watching DVD's, and musical instrument multi-track recording. Thanks in advance, ga

Hi all. When I select any of the drawing objects (text boxes, arrows, callouts) in MS Office Word 2003, I see this temporary box that says "Create your drawing here", and I am forced to place my object outside of this box for it to be created. Can I turn this feature off? Thanks in advance, ga

Hello all. Can anyone offer help on the following: My new notebook comp. is painful to look at when I scroll, or pan anything. As soon as there is movement on screen, there is flicker and it's driving me nuts, not to mention the headaches. It's especially bad while on the web, with white...

Hi all. I'm inserting a picture from file (jpg) into Word 2002, and a 430 kB photo (on disk) comes in very fuzzy. As a check, I've copied the photo from word onto my desktop, and sure enough it's 1/10th the size. Can I control the amount of compression that Word does as I insert from file...

Hi all. My Pentium 2 - 466 with Win98 has one annoying feature: Even when I'm not using it, the hard drive always seems to be accessing or writing data. The only way to stop it is to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the task manager. As soon as that window is closed, it resumes its noise. I am...

Hey jtb: "No blame, no whining, no complaints. just "how can we improve the process"?" Very good approach. I think I will use that "How can we improve..." line. Seems like a very professional and effective way to communicate. Thanks for that. tg

Thank you all very much. GA

Hi all. Can anyone tell me why I get this file on my desktop every 2-3 weeks? The filename is simply: ~ Neither my antivirus, nor my spyware detection software are detecting anything. Thanks in advance. GA

Thanks very much for responding, all of you. It may be a different machine and monitor, although I need to check my records. What I'm understanding from your responses is that no colour info has been lost, so tweaking the gamma/brightness etc. settings for each photo using my current photo...

Hi all. Here's a troubling one. I've looked at JPEG files of scanned photos from 1999, and 75% of them are appearing MUCH darker than when originally saved. Is this a software issue, or has there been some degradation (on my hard drive...???) of the files? I know for a fact that I have not...

One of my colleagues has what looks like 2 personal folders open on Outlook 2000's folder list, but they are identical, each calling up the same .pst file and showing exactly the same inbox, outbox, contacts, etc. As a matter of fact, when I cleared the deleted items folder in one of...

Thanks for the input, everyone. Backupman: Can you suggest some reputable online backup companies? Or a web site that could help me choose? GA

How about this one: We would like to install a hard drive on my home PC to which a nightly (automated) backup could be made of all or some files from our office server. We have HAD it with unreliable tapes, forgotten tape switches, not bringing the tape off-site etc. We are also wary of...