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I have a Dell Inspiron 5537 laptop with windows 8 installed in it. It works all fine. Recently however I am experiencing problems installing VLC media player on it. Whenever I click on the setup I get an error that says, "NCIS Error: error launching installer". What might be causing this problem? Is VLC not compatible with Windows 8?

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I have Microsoft Office 2007 installed on my Windows 7 laptop. I am trying to paste some data into it and it keeps on giving me the error 30600 and suddenly the program crashes. I have tried rerunning the program a number of time but the same results. What is error 30600? How can I solve my issue?

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2014 has seen a boom in the number of smart-watches being released from different mobile companies. Major players in the industry such as Motorola, LG, Apple and most recently Alcatel have already presented their flagships to the public. In early age of mobile industry, mobile touch-screens were mostly resistive. What are the advantages of capacitive against resistive? Resistive touch-screen are they more suitable to be used in the case of smart-watches? Given the rise of capacitive technology, can resistive make a comeback? Given the small size of the screen for watches, can resistive ones provide more...

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I bought a new Microsoft Surface from an online store. I turned it on and now it tells me to connect a Microsoft account to my recently bought surface. When I enter my information, i get the error " We're sorry, but something went wrong. This user wasn't added to this PC. Error: 0x800b0101". Did this PC belong to someone else before me? What is this error? How can I fix it?

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Someone just plugged in a bad flash drive or downloaded a Malware in one of the computers on the network in the library. As all the computers are interconnected, the Malware has progressed and attacked the entire network. What can I do to efficiently remove the Malware? It keeps on coming up. Also what is a good network strategy so that all the computers do not get attacked? Please help.

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Whenever I enable the Java Plug-In in Mozilla Firefox, I get this error that Java Plug-In has stopped working and is disabled for your security. I don't see a reason why it should be blocked. Is it really not safe to use? What are the problems with Java that make it unsafe? How can I make it work so it doesn't crash?

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Is it possible to ping a computer that is connected to more than one physical adapter; wireless and Cabled connection? what address would you use to ping the computer? How can you establish the number of computers within the network if the they have different sub-masks but connect to several default gateways? Is there a way that all the different subnet can be listed and how can I achieve this?

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Is it possible to use whatsApp application to chat in Windows? I want to be able to view my contact list and send pictures and chats from my computer while I'm  away from my phone. How would you achieve this? Is there a whats application for the windows available for download? If so where can I get this download?

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