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  1. ricos0

    What kind of wallplate is this??

    I need help identifying a single-gang white plastic wallplate that has two horizontal side-by-side insert holes and each vertical edge (side) of the plate has about a 1/2 inch wide convex curve to it. The jacks (inserts) looked like ortronics but I didn't get a chance to take it apart to look...
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    Firewall blocks client PC

    I am running a typical home XP ICS networking two PCs. Firewall 4.02.6 is installed on the gateway machine connecting via local area connection NIC to cable modem and connecting to client PC via local area connection 2. All works well except when Firewall is filtering, IE in client is blocked...
  3. ricos0

    'Ghost' audio player in XP home?

    I have an annoying quirk that occurs intermittently in XP home: an audio track (actually one xmas tune I played from a CD last december) plays randomly with no player application running (when it's playing I look in Windows Task Manager where it shows no applications running). I have searched...
  4. ricos0

    Athlon Upgrade??

    I have a Gateway desktop with an Athlon K7 Thunderbird 800 Socket A and I'd like to upgrade to a 1.3 or 1.4 gig. Can I just remove the existing and replace it with a new boxed CPU using the existing heat-sink/fan? Or is there more involved than this. Would I be better off getting a new...
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    Snips Sharpening??

    Does anybody know a good way to sharpen snips? ;(especially after my buddy borrows them to cut the aramid when doing fiber)
  6. ricos0

    Font missing lower case 'y'?

    This problem just showed up a couple days ago - When I download email (Outlook Express) and also some documents into Word or Acrobat, the text (Times Roman) is missing the lower case 'y' character, resulting in something like this: Thank ou for our earl stor . If I change the text font to...
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    how to unlock 'lock web items on desktop' ?

    Fooling around on my xp home desktop, I inadvertantly selected the desktop 'Arrange icons by>' 'lock web items on desktop' switch (checked). Now my background is divided with a vertically split white screen that can be wiped with the mouse to within about an inch of the right edge screen (this...

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