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eBay-related FAQ's
Online Auction Abbreviations & Acronyms New 1-6-03Internet Acronyms & Abbreviations
Acronyms & Shorthand - Netlingo
Chat Acronyms
Chat Board Acronyms
Doing business on eBay
eBay email addresses to help you out:
Spam tracking
Terminology & Definitions Glossary
General eBay questions
Choosing A Hosting Company For A Web Site New 1/25/03Web Site Hosting Terminology New 8/01
Netscape Communicator Cache
Clearing your browsers cache
How to have more than one web page open
Why have Multiple browsers? Updated 4/3/00
"Free" ISP's 3/8/00
Auction Page Images instruction/ Free Web Pages
A way to make Animations 1/22/00
How to post .gif's, etc. on eBay
Grab Error Messages With Paint
Bad auction tactics
Different accounts / ID's on eBay
Bid Shielding "Scam"
Seasonal nature & timing of sales
Merchandise for auctions
Auction Assistant, Auction Submit(tm) batch lister, etc. Updated 1/4/00
Pretty good auction sales terms
How I can put a visitor counter on my auction? 1/15/00
Other Help Pages, Information, and Links about eBay Added 4/3/00
Help Links by eobcards.comWilly's (wcdc) Incredibly Useful Information
The Big Blue Post
Cherbear's Helpers Page
Ebay Cafe Scrapbook
JIMSAC's Links
Buying on eBay
Buying on eBay By Alice KingBuying / Selling SW
eBay closing MS auctions Updated 1/4/00
Why is Office 97, etc. so cheap?
(Office 97) assume it's OEM when the $ is $23.00?
Buying a Car, etc.; sight unseen:
General computer-related FAQ's
Apple - MAC
Spider-boy's Mac Help 2/9/00
Mac links and information Updated 10/26/02
ParPats Mac links 2/12/00
PC - IBM Compatable
General PC Startup Troubleshooting TipsNew 1-7/03I wanna PC :) Updated 4/4/00
WRT the $400 eMachines PC
What is RAM, type, etc.
Can I test Y2K on my PC?
Setting up COM ports
How many kb in a mb?
Advantage of a USB modem, SCSI/USB zip?
My computer just locks up
Opinion on a New System
Do clones have the same quality as name brands?
System Back-up
Will a DVD take the place of your regular CD ROM?
How can I make a drive copy?
Implementing USB: discussion
What is my CPU speed and my RAM ?
I want to buy a CD writer
What is the difference between cache and ram?
Changing the boot sequence
Ink jet refills
Boot-up failures starting to occur
Running 2 separate printer drivers
Can I use FPM RAM in place of EDO RAM?
Problem booting up
Fiber channel drive information
Installing a PCI card in a windows NT system
Vintage Computer Information
WEB TV
Useful info about WEB TVWEB TV info from magieb
Upgrading PC Hardware
A 2003 New system buy New 1-15-03Laptop Hard drive Installation New 10-26-02
Comparison of 21 Power Supplies New October 21, 02
Moving old drive to new Drive New 7/17/01
Utilities for Partitioning a Drive 3/12/00
Can I upgrade my 486 PC?
CD-ROM set up in an old 486-66 PC
Can I run a 4.3 gig HD in a 486dx33 machine?
Info on installing a IDE CD-ROM
Upgrading from a 8X CD-ROM
Getting an IDE CD-ROM working on an older AMD 5x86
Can I upgrade this Packard Bell? Updated 1/4/00
Do the Pentium overdrive chips work? Updated 1/16/00
Upgrade 166 Pentium CPU, ? AMD
Wanting to jazz up a system
Installing old harddrive into a new computer
Adding a larger hard drive
I need more CPU and more memory
Hardware
General PC Hardware Troubleshooting Tips New 1/8/03Boot Problems New 5/19/02
Need help identifying your Motherboard? New 11/17/01
My computer is taking longer and longer to boot up. NEW 4/18/00
Beep Codes during Boot-up 3/5/00
Another beep codes page 6/21/03
Clean your Machine! 2/19/00
Where to go to get information on CD burners 2/9/00
CD-R or CDR-W drives; how are these connected?
Can I improve my PC to modem performance?
ATI All-in-Wonder: Not All Wonderful?
I cant get computer to boot with new HD.
Replacing the hard drive with a EIDE, IDE, or SCSI
Is the Intel II processor the best out there?/ AMD versus PII/III
Advanced Micro Devices performance
Having troubles with my CD ROM
Motherboard Choice
I wanna Digital Camera
Digital Cameras Updated 1/30/00
Serial port connection for Camera
Other PC Mechanics & support
Scanners - The Ten Commandments of SCSI
Scanner & SCSI card add
Overclocking
Building a computer : P3 or K7?
What is a MCA Riser Card?
What is RAM with "EEPROM"
Cooling Fan Mounting
Memory problem on K2-350
System problem with dos 6.22 and win 3.1
Hard Drives & Storage Devices
Quesions about recordable CD Rom disks New 2/9/02How to install a new hard drive without reinstalling software
What size partition for HD?
How can I clean up my HD?
Removing a Hard Disk Password:
What is the difference between IDE, EIDE and SCSI?
Problem w/ two HD's?
hard drive limit set at 540 Mb
Reading MFM drives
Iomega 2 gig Internal Ditto tape drive
Back-up Drives
How Do I ??
How to do VGA to TV conversion New 1/11/03How to Empty the Browser Cache New 12/16/01
Clearing Password from BIOS New 8/18/01
How to do labels on the computer? New 7/17/01
Searching for an email address New 7/17/01
How do I make my Mitsubishi DJ1000 camera work?
How can I save email when I format my c: drive
How do I backup Netscape mail before deleting Netscape Updated 4/4/00
How do I save music in WAV format Updated 4/19/00
How do I move files from one PC to another?
How do you get rid of non DOS partitions?
Way to hack into SGI (Iris Indigo) machine
Clearing your browsers cache Updated 4/4/00
How to have more than one web page open
How to install video card
Dealing with "system memory is running extremely low" Warning 1/4/00
Monitors & Video
Troubleshooting no sound in Windows New 8/7/01My new BIG monitor flickers New 7/17/01
Blotchy video during boot
New monitor on new system
About computer monitors
Video card discussion Updated 2/17/00
Can I run Two monitors? Updated 10/23/02
Networking & Communications
Can't connect to certain Web Sites New 1/5/03About FirewallsNew 11/16/02
I want to network three computers and two printers New 12/25/01
What is the difference between a modem and a winmodem? 4/14/00
How can you find out who made your modem? 4/2/00
Unexpected Telephone Charges NEW 3/29/00
Optimize your Phone connection 2/19/00
Making a small network work 2/22/00
Networking two computers together?
How do I make networked PC's share files? 2/22/00
Difference between NT and windoz 9x
Installing Windows NT Server on a Large IDE Hard Disk
How can I set up a LAN?
What's required to set up a small ISP?
Telnet/Unix?
Modem not seeing phone line?
Changing Browser/ISP Updated 1/4/00
Lucent winmodem: update the drivers
Modem stuck in park?/ install problems
I want to set up a Web BBS
Proxy server
Is a cable modem a specialized modem.
56K modem won't go faster than xx.x k
Turn DUN's Redial Option ON In Win98
Software
101 Windows Tips & Tricks (for Windows98) New 6/3/03General PC Software Troubleshooting Tips New 1/8/03
Ridding/Avoiding spyware/hijackware on your PC - Gator and Xupiter RemovalUpdated 2/25/03
KazaA Discussions New 8/2/02
How to Clean Up Iexplore.exe Errors New 2/9/02
Non-bypassable password set up. New 7/17/01
What's the registry edit to get rid of the right click? New 7/17/01
Deleting a trial program, Registry edit NEW 4/5/00
Optout will stop tsadbot or the aureate spyware on your computer NEW 4/3/00
Virus, parasite, worm, and trojan horse information Updated 12/25/01
Removing McAfee Antivirus New 8/18/01
Download Insurance (interrupt - continue SW)
MAC Plus Software
The best FTP client
Scanner drivers
"freeware" is software
How to get by thinkpad password?
Reset PW on LT,w/ Win 3.1
Picture viewer
Editing pictures. crop, re-size, etc.
Trouble using Adobe Photo Deluxe 1/4/00
Scanning photographs versus a Digital Camera
TIFF - tagged image file format
WEB TV & Images
Files won't open, can't open email pictures
Experience with MCaFEE
How to load and run multiple OS's
Patch for the K6-2 problem
PSX games on PC
Drivers
What is MAPI?
What is MIME encoding?
On Loading NT
Linux references
Multiple windows in Linux
Files with an extension of cxx
"No operating system" error 1/4/00
Installing a Printer & Scanner on a new PC 1/7/00
Why doesn't my scanner scan? NEW 3/24/00
Windows
WinDOwS © Tricks · Secrets · Bugs · Fixes by axcel216New 2/17/02Registry errors on start up New 2/9/02
Managing your Startup Profile Updated 12/8/02
Windows FAQ's by DUX Computer Digest Added 1/8/02
Extracting Files From the Windows CD New 1/8/02
Restore/Backup your Registry Updated 3/15/03
My Mouse pointer jitters around New 12/29/01
Creating a Windows CD from a Recovery Disk New 12/08/01
Backing up IE & O/OE files: New 12/02/01
KNOWLEDGE BASE LINKS: COMMANDS, UTILITIES & FILES New 11/04/01
winme defrag is faster than win 9X defrag Updated 3/28/02
Can I run a DOS game in Windows ME? New 7/17/01
Installing Win 98 Updated 2/11/03
How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 5 4/17/00
My PC hangs or Restarts when I shut it down 1/30/00
Windows protection errors 1/29/00
Windows protection errors
invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll NEW 3/5/00
Lost short cut problem?
Windows 98 wont recognize floppy
Loading Windows 95
(re)installing Windows 95 Updated 4/8/00
Boot Disk Procedure
What is Fat32 and USB?
Changing Win95 to Win3.x
How do I re-install win95/98?
Problem Installing win98
Getting new load to boot
System will NOT boot up and load Win 98
Win 95/98 comments
Install over a version of Win98
DOS in Win 98
Microsoft Registry Checker
What is regclean?
Win 95 only boots to safe mode
Lost internal CDROM
Conflicting IRQ settings
Booting from HDD w/ OS setup files
Changing password with the IE5.0 autocomplete
Just for Fun
"The Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer" 2/14/00
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