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A friend has given me his laptop to take a look at, the problem is it has a power on password and a bios admin password both of which I or he doesn't know. Could I take it apart and remove the cmos battery just like a desktop to reset bios settings? Any help greatly appreciated. The laptop...

There has to be a way to run this as Administrator. You just right click in xp and can run as administrator or different user but this doesn't work for windows7. I have a program that needs to be removed but only goes half way then states you must be admin. I can log off and back on but it...

A friend has forgotten their password for their laptop which using windows 7. What is an easy method to reset that password, there's no other admin accounts so I can't log in at all. Anyone have a good easy to use boot program that will reset the passwords for me thanks. I always thought you...

Was going to buy a cheap mobo for sis pc. The mobo in question is ASUS P5G41T-M LX. It has intergrated graphics and PCIe slot, just curious if the intergrated graphics would still somehow run in the background and share memory even when I use the PCIe slot. Silly question I know, i would assume...

Cool thank you. I'll repost back when I get the board.

My old mobo has died GA-EP43T-UD3L and I'm thinking of replace it with Asus P5G41T-M LX, it's cheap and seems to fit what I need. Bit of a silly question but I noticed it said DDR3 1333(O.C.)/1066/800. I have 1333Mhz memory, why does it say (O.C)? is it only overclocked memory of that speed...

If the motherboard is faulty would it still power up? My sister turned her pc off at the wall after shutting down and this morning it won't turn on. My brother said he measured the psu and it seems to be "all good" The pc is dead in the water, nothing turning on so I assume straight away it's...

Thanks a bunch :D

Have been using sleep instead of shut down over the past week and curious about the power output. I only really use the pc 1-3hours a day and it's sleeping the rest.

Trying to dual boot win7 and XP but doesn't seem to work. I have been using easyBCD and I think the problem is the drives change depending on OS. xp has windows with c and win7 has it on c as well where as they are different drives. Any ideas or any way I can change my boot drive letter...

Is there any hotkey combination or program that would allow me to force hibernate, maybe a gkey macro? and does hibernate awaken from scheduled tasks?

my 4850 scores 7.3 Doesn't seem very consistent with scores

Bit of reading while my backup was doing it's thing. Appears it's an issue with media player networking service . You can read more on it here http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/50f3ff7a-2ae7-41c1-ac92-41edaed1e2f9 to sum it up: the short fix for now is...

Not really much help here but I have been using windows backup over the past few days. The first backup took about 4-5hours then I backed up the following day only having installed a few small things and alien vs predator, it still took well over an hour. I did search around a bit while my...

I used to get this error just after installing a second OS and booting up. What worked for me was using the repair utility on the windows cd.