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- Windows XP Hardware >> Do we (nearly) all use totally oversized power supply units ?Recently I bought a power device for measuring the real power needed by a computer.
I put this measuring device just between the computers power cable and the power plugin in the wall.
After some days of measuring I was really surprised.
My computer (AMD Athlon XP 64 + PCIexpress) need on average 82 Watt!
Maximum during these days was 112 Watt.
So why do I need a 350 power supply unit in my computer?
Moreover 350W - 400W seems to be the standard.
When one take into account that the power supply unit operates most efficently only
when its is near to full capacity then it seems to me that all these 350W power supply units
are completely oversized.
150W would be sufficient.
All these gamers which run a high level video/graphic cards could buy a 400W PSU.
But for the "normal" office user this is bull shit.
Am I right ? Or what is the reason for these high capacity PSU ?
Jason
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- Windows XP MovieMaker >> Easily confusedI have a DV tape with four different videos on it. I captured the first one with
Movie Maker, did some editing, and saved the final product in two formats, one
as high quality video (NTSC)which produced a .wmv and a second as DV-AVI which
produced a .avi. Did the same thing with the second file which worked as well.
On the third video on the tape, I got as far as producing the .wmv file, but
cannot produce the .avi file. When I try, the screen shows the "Save Movie
Wizard", acts as though the translation and saving is going along OK, until it
reaches 99% at which point it just continues ad infinitum and the computer will
not respond to stop the action.
In summary, three files all on the same tape, shot with the same camera, and two
work well all the way through a WMM session while the third fails to complete.
I've yet to find a similar case on any of the usual URLs. Anyone with a suggestion?
Jim
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- Windows XP Network >> ISSUESI have two issues, first of all, whenever I choose to shut
down my computer, a box pops up telling me the WIN MIN is
closing, and that I can choose END NOW to close it however
whatever it is doing will not be saved. What is WIN MIN?
Also, when I check the system performance after hitting
the CTRL + ALT + DELETE, there are the normal system
things going on, however there is also something called
svchost.exe running under two users, first being Local
Service and the second being Network Service. What are
these?
Thanks!
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- Windows XP Network >> Slow workgroup conncetioni im currently tryin to connect four pc's to a LAN at my student flat, we
have our hub and all the correct connections, we can currently see each
other but the show workgroup takes ages to show the connected computers.
once shown viewing folders is fast but every time you go back to view the
workgroup ts always slow in showing the connected computers.
any idea????????
any suggestions welcome
mike
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- Windows XP Setup >> Merge SP2 into orig XP install CDHi,
I've heard that it is possible to copy the contents of the original XP
install CD to a disk directory and merge XP SP2 into that directory and then
burn a new CD with XP-SP2 on it.
How do I do this?
regards
Tor
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- Windows XP Support >> Help & Support hangsHi.
My Help & Support Center no longer works as it should (I am using XP
Home). When I open it (from the Start menu or via F1), nothing seems to
happen. Then, after a few minutes, the help center does open, but when I
type something in the search field and hit Enter, the windows turns all
white and the programme stops responding.
I have tried all the suggestions at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com, but
nothing has helped. I also found a KB article that described the
symptoms, but the only available solution was to install the latest SP,
and I already have that.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I don't remember when it
started, but it used to work.
Mikkel
--
"At first just a rustle of canvas
And the gentlest breath on my face
But a galloping line of white horses
Said that soon we were in for a race"
Sting - The Wild Wild Sea
http://www.mzh.dk
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- Windows XP Network >> Problem setting up network - Help me please!Hope you can help. Tried for hours!
I have set up a home network, consisting of router (wireless) plus 2 PC's -
1 wired and 1 wireless.
The wireless one works ok and when I want to view workgroup computers shows
both computers on the network. The wired one comes back with:
"Home is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently
available."
I tried swapping network cards over and still had the same message on the
same PC.
I tried pinging from the problem PC - it could ping the gateway and the
other PC but not itself.
I still have access to Internet for e-mail and stuff.
PLEASE HELP!!!!
Cheers
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- Windows XP >> Preffered DCHi,
In my environment i have 2 Dcs at HO and 5 others at remote site at same
domain. When one of the PC tries to login it searches for remote Dcs and
generating network traffic. How I can put perferred DC setting so it will
look for HO Dcs only.
Please advice
regards
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> [Error number: 0x80072EE4]Error message received during update of Windows.
Both 'discussion' and 'troubleshooter' do not recognize
this error number, although in a list of error numbers
there are a few similar. Email to Microsoft has produced
no response re: error number 0x80072EE4.
Has anyone gotten this error message before? What does it
mean? How can the error be resolved? Can future updates
be completed WITHOUT the service pack 2 we were
attempting to download?
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> minimizing windows for memory gainThere is a difference when minimizing windows from the
task bar or the active title bar. Minimized from the task
bar there is no difference in memory usage. Minimized
from the active window bar, memory usage drops
dramatically. When restored, memory usage is less then
prior to minimizing from the active title bar. Why the
difference? Also, since memory usage is important, how
can I "one click" active title bar minimize all the
windows ?
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- Windows XP Setup >> Task Scheduler and Norton SystemWorksI cannot get Norton SystemWorks Profession 2004 to do a daily virus scan.
It was easy to do with Norton SystemWorks 2002 and Windows 98.
I have called Norton Help, and not wanting to pay, all they would tell me
was that it was a Windows XP problem. I have researched their database, as
they suggested, and found no resolution.
I currently have a virus scan scheduled to run daily at 3:00 am. The last
time it ran was 5-20-04 and is scheduled to run next on 5-29-04. I have
other tasks scheduled, none on a daily basis, and they seem to run as
scheduled. There is no status indicated for any of the schedules.
Here is the task currently scheduled to run:
C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\NORTON~1\Navw32.exe /task:"C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Norton
AntiVirus\Tasks\mycomp.sca"
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- Windows XP >> disj consistency check takws agesRunning xp, p4 3.0 Ghz and 512 mb Ram. Upon restart after a power switch off
shut down, the system checks for consistency on the fat32/ntfs system. Just
wondering how it will take to do this as mine took more than 6 hours to do
such a check.
I do not know where/how/when did I mess up the system. The only thing change
was the graphic card, which I do not think it should affects the system and
after that doing the same thing as kids usually do, play games. Load the
default in bios, its the same. Any idea as how to resollve the issue, thanks
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JFosdick
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Windows XP >> windows explorer shuts down when reading CD
Ok here it goes. I have done a clean install twice now and have the same
problem.
when in "My Computer" if I click on the CD or DVD drive it satrts to read he
disc and then hangs. If I click on something else then the drive is no
longer recognizes the drive. the result is I cannot load any software or
files.
the stats:
Xp home
athlon with 1.3 ghz
2 clean installs with same problem
1 DVD drive (philips) and 1 CD drive
any help before I have to put it in the shop again would eb appreciated.
Windows XP941
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30 12:51:56 CST 2004 |
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Windows XP >> windows explorer shuts down when reading CD
What is the brand name of your pc.
"scott" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
news:vvxSb.142874$EMail@HideDomain.com...
> Ok here it goes. I have done a clean install twice now and have the same
> problem.
> when in "My Computer" if I click on the CD or DVD drive it satrts to read
he
> disc and then hangs. If I click on something else then the drive is no
> longer recognizes the drive. the result is I cannot load any software or
> files.
> the stats:
> Xp home
> athlon with 1.3 ghz
> 2 clean installs with same problem
> 1 DVD drive (philips) and 1 CD drive
> any help before I have to put it in the shop again would eb appreciated.
>
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- Windows XP >> Error 5009 - No definition of "objWMP"I like listen to Microsoft Webcasts and seminars from the following web
pages:
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/webcasts/ondemand.mspx
Unfortunately, when I am tiring to do that I get the the following message:
Error 5009 - No definition of "objWMP"
I got this error many times. The only solution that I know is just
reinstalling the whole system.
After that everything is OK for some short period of time (maybe week or
two).
After that I am not able to listen the webcasts at all.
Does anybody know what the solution of that problem is?
I also reinstalled Windows Media Player 9.0 and nothing happened.
Regards,
Andrzej
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- Windows XP >> no sound on the laptopI upgraded from windows me to windows xp professional, now the sound doesn't work. It says the sound card is already in use. I have no applications running in the windows task bar. I need sound again on the lap top, can some one give me suggestions
Thanx in advanc
Halo
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- Windows XP Hardware >> IEEE 1394 adaptor card. Driver will not loadI have fitted an PCI to Firewire IEEE 1394 host adaptor
card to system. When started message appears "New
hardware found" however driver will not load. Device
manager indicates error "Device not configured correctly
Code 1" Have read K.B. Article 125174 which indicates
problem is with loading driver, however have followed
instructions but will not load. Have tried three
different brands of card yet all experience the same
problem. Manufactures advise that it is problem with
system loading driver. Has anyone experienced the same
problem which I understand is fairly common.
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- Windows XP Setup >> Application Information Popups (ie NOT internet popups)Can anyone help? (I do apologise if this has already been answered, but
trying to find this was hard, mainly giving me regular popups)
Many applications popup [Yes | No] Popups or [Cancel | Continue] etc, etc
and while a machine is not doing anything else these are fine, but when you
are busy typing often any key, or an Enter will choose the default offered.
I find this rather annoying when I am busy typing something (like this) and
you see something pop up and before your brain can read and answer it and
click the answer you've already typed something and your choice has been made
for you.
My question is, can these be sent to the background (like MSN Messenger
behaves when a new contact types something - it DOES NOT annoy you but waits
behind until you are ready).
Unfortunately (sorry, I'm an Aussie and we usually ask and answer a question
in the same breathe - "How you doing? Alright!") I guess this may be down to
the application writers ("oh we'll be smart, we'll pop it up above ANY other
application, even the current one they are using").
Has Vista looked in to this?
Thanks heaps, I will get off of my soapbox now
And yes, I'm alright.
Leon
Perth, Western Australia
(and very proud of our socceroos - 0-2 against Brazil - Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie Oi
Oi Oi!)
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- Windows XP Network >> WinXP with Windows 2000 Server HangsI have just migrated from a Server 4.0 platform to Server
2000 platform. All my machines that run 98 and 2000
workstation work with no problems. However all my XPpro
machines will not work. If I was to unplug the network
cable, log in, let everything load and then plug the
network cable back in, the computer runs fine. But if do
the same thing with the network cable plugged in before I
log in, the machine locks up as soon as I try to load a
program.
Has anybody had this problem before and know what the fix
is?
Thank You.
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- Windows XP Setup >> adding sound to my desktopHi peeps,
I downloaded a background image on my desktop, and I
would like to add sound to it if I can, my computer is
Windows XP. I have a disk with sound on it which I want
to use on my desktop but how I do that is a mystery to me.
What folder do I need to save the sound in, as I have
tried saving on the hard disk, but when I try to find it,
its not there.
Help please
Kenny
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- Windows XP Support >> scanner problemI have a HP scanner, Scanjet 3300C. I cannot get it to work with Windows XP
home edition even though I have supposedly downloaded (a few times) the
required software fixes. What am I doing wrong?
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Karen
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- Windows XP >> runas.exe /savecred IssueHi All,
XP Professional
I've been using runas for some desktop shortcuts. Mostly VB apps. This has
been working great for a couple weeks now except lately one user has been
getting prompted for the Administrator password when trying to launch the
mentioned VB app.
Nobody else is having the problem.
The PC's were set up at the same time and all apps were set to runas
Adminstator. I put in the passwords myself when launching the app for the
first time. Nobody else has experienced any problems except this one user.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Sherman
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- Windows XP Network >> Networking/Hard DriveHi
I removed my hard drive from a dsl account, I am wondering
should I have used sysprep to prepare the drive for
removal from the network. I did this to format the drive
(it was acting funky) and thought that it might have been
infected. I then did a low level format with all zeros I
followed up with a fresh install from a cd-rom boot, only
it would not see it at booting it would fly right by the
boot from cd rom question that it asked. So my question
is, is sysprep a program that might have helped me in this
episode (Ticket) Oh I mention all this because I read once
that the sid# is involved with sysprep I am guessing for
sercurity reasons and removing the drive with all things
considered may have responed better when the reinstall was
attemped.
Thanks
Dbarselow
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- Windows XP Setup >> Safe ModeI am trying to install a program & I get that I can't install "While running
in safe mode" What does that mean?
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rkent
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- Windows XP Setup >> Is a floppy drive necessary for the transfer wizard?When using the files transfer wizard, I plan to create a wizard disk on CD in
the new computer so I can run it on the old one to complete the transfer and
then connect the 2 with a USB cable. The floppy drive on my old computer
doesnâ??t work. Will that matter at all, or should the wizard just transfer the
files through the cables without me having to store anything on the floppy?
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- Windows XP >> Dos PromptI am running XP Home Edition. I have been advised to run Chkdsk/f but I have been unable to determine how to return to a DOS prompt to do it. Thanks for your assistance.
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> screen saver off during safe modehi,
i like to defrag and do some scans in safe mode
but my screen saver will NOT turn off.
i ran a check with pc pitshop and under improvements it shows
"disable screen saver when defragmentation in process"
Current value "none"
could you please advise what i need to do,
thanx in advance
lear
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