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    PIO mode to DMA mode? translation?

    For anybody who is interested in this subject: I recently "re-installed" (with the repair option) win2k and somehow I could not get UDMA back whatever I tried. Finally I found the solution with google: unstall the IDE-controllers, reboot and UDMA was back!
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    Two harddrives - how to distinguish?

    And everybody who can't find the humor in my remark, must be the victim of...I dunno, maybe Invader Zim.
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    Two harddrives - how to distinguish?

    Bullocks! :)
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    Mouse has a mind of it's own

    As a substiture for a wife :)
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    Win 2000 Pro, rebooting

    How about making backups of the partition with the OS on it, on a regular basis? You problem would have been solved faster then you could type a message on this forum! (if you type slowly :)) Much less work than changing graphiccards, harddrives or even your wife!
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    Phone Line volume and constant connection

    At http://neptune.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/Electronik/Hayes.htm you can find the modemcommands. In this case you should use ATM0 (<--zero) to switch to "speaker always off". (ATM1 = "speaker on until connected" and ATM2 = "speaker always on") You have to enter these strings somewhere in your...
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    Problem during shut down

    http://www.google.com/search?q=+hijack+%22about%3Ablank%22
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    Mouse and Keyboard problems

    An "ad-hoc" solution would be to turn of "halt on keyboard-errors" in the bios (if the option is there in your bios of course)
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    Setting web page as home page

    spywareblaster could fix this. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/downloads.html
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    Rotated font

    I think I understand: he wants every character upside down individually. I just tried in Corel Printhouse and you can type a sentence and afterwards flip the whole sentence upside down. After that you even can edit the sentence (although the changes do not show "real time" anymore). This might...
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    Win 2k not booting

    Does your computer boot from a DOS-diskette anyway? And when it does, can you access the harddisk?
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    Win 2k not booting

    Try restoring the last backup of your system-partition, you surely created not too long ago. (Although there are rumours ppl still go through computerlife without backups! Can you believe that?)
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    on screen Keyboard

    http://www.passmark.com/products/keytest.htm
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    autocomplete in google

    I have met many people on forums and newsgroups with the problem they somehow had lost there autocomplete in google, but never somebody with a solution. There are solutions to autocomplete-problems, like found on http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306895, but on my computer that solution worked...
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    bizzare situation with windows 2000 pc

    I would clean the drive and the cd's very thoroughly. I do not say this will help, I say thit is what I would do :)

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