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Solved: Any tech support experts available provide help to a college student

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Hi, I have a college assignment where I must ask a few questions to someone involved in tech support. I have tried contacting friends and family, but I think it would be a good idea to get information from other sources as well.

If there is anyone here that is willing to assist me in this assignment, it would be greatly appreciated. If your unable to answer any of the questions, that is not a problem.

Some of the information that I need for the assignment is your name, title, company, background and experience in the field, credentials, professional affiliations.

And the questions are

1. What is the structure of their technical support environment? Is it Tiered and, if so, who's responsible for what level?


2. What kind of users are supported? Consider End User classifications addressed in your text when asking this question.


3. What kind of problems do they experience with their end users? How does the support person address these problems? Do they have a method they use for troubleshooting? Can they recall a specific incident where they learned a valuable troubleshooting technique or lesson?


4. How does the organization track their technical issues and calls for help? What software program/s do they use to keep track of their assets and calls for support? How often do they inventory their computer systems? Who participates in this initiative?


Thank you all.

Market Feasability Survery for University Project

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This is my project for one of my MIS classes. I need feedback about the product idea. Is it cool? Is it dumb? Would you buy it?

Also, participation in this short 6 question survery would be appreciated:
***Link Removed***

Thanks

Talk is cheap: Cell phones hit six billion worldwide

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Quote:

It’s something that we all knew but perhaps didn’t fully appreciate—just about all of us have cell phones now, and we use them a lot.

According to new figures published by the International Telecommunications Union on Thursday, the global population has purchased 6 billion cellphone subscriptions. Fully a third of those, for a total of two billion, are from China and India.
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ntrld is compressed

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I had a screen telling me system file was missing. I did a non destructive recovery and it tells me this now. I go back to recovery console and it says no hard drives are found with windows on it. I am trying to not do a fresh install since I have pictures that are very important to me that I have not backed up yet. Any help is greatly appreciated.

What do you think about this idea?

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Hey guys, I had a good idea and decided to make a video about it in my spare time, what do you think about it? Is it cool? Is it dumb? Would you buy it?

(FRT & Co. is an imaginary consulting company)

Image pop up or other

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I've got a Word Press Blog featuring images of birds. I've been looking for a better way to display the pictures, perhaps a pop up style or something else.
I've looked at several free options, but they don't seem to work for me. I'm fairly savvy, but maybe there's something I'm missing.
Can any one recommend a plugin that works?
Thanks.
http://hughvandervoort.com/wordpress/

Razer Carcharias Microphone suddenly stopped working.

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My Razer Carcharias Microphone has stopped working today after having no trouble before today.

I thought it was on mute, but it's not.

I tried multiple solutions with no success: Changing my mic to the rear jack, downloading sound card drivers, trying to change the settings in the recording tab of the volume settings...

The microphone does work on my laptop, so it's not broken either.

I'm at a loss and have no idea what could be wrong.

EDIT: Forgot to say: when I watch, for example, a youtube video the microphone reacts to the sound of the video. I've had this problem since I first had my headphones and my friends would also hear themselves when the volume settings were too high.

This wasn't a big problem however.

Continually getting Invalid Email msgs when trying to fill out webforms. Please help

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Continually getting Invalid Email msgs when trying to fill out webforms. Please help. My operating system is windows 7 ultimate and i use gmail ... everything formatted correctly but i keep getting "invalid email address" messages when I try to fill out any web forms. Can someone please help me?

Continually getting Invalid Email msgs when trying to fill out webforms.

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Continually getting Invalid Email msgs when trying to fill out webforms. Please help. My operating system is windows 7 ultimate and i use gmail ... everything formatted correctly but i keep getting "invalid email address" messages when I try to fill out any web forms. Can someone please help me?

Multimedia Audio Controller driver issue

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Hi guys I'm currently attempting to fix my friends computer. I have reinstalled a new legal copy of Windows XP 32-bit, and I have downloaded and installed most drivers except for one, the Multimedia Audio Controller. This driver has proven extremely difficult to locate as I have tried for several hours now. Without this driver update my friend is unable to play games etc, due to an apparent lack of sound device even though every other sound driver is perfectly fine. Below is the spec of the pc, could anyone help locate this driver?

SPECCY SUMMARY --

Operating System
Microsoft Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
CPU
Intel Xeon
Nocona 90nm Technology
Intel Xeon
Nocona 90nm Technology
RAM
4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 213MHz (3-3-3-?)
Motherboard
Hewlett-Packard 08B8h (XU1 PROCESSOR) 59 °C
Graphics
Default Monitor (800x600@60Hz)
1024MB ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series (XFX Pine Group) 41 °C
Hard Drives
149GB Seagate ST3160815AS (SATA) 34 °C
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Audio
AMD High Definition Audio Device

Solved: Yahoo home page current event photos

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A strange thing just started that I have no idea how to resolve. My daughter emailed several pictures to my laptop from her cell phone. After downloading the pictures they open in my Picasa photo editor. However, I can no scroll and there are now thumbnails of all the pictures that show up on my Yahoo home page. All the current event pictures. Does anyone know what happened and/or how to prevent this. I'm Windows 7 on an Asus laptop with 4 GB RAM.

internet connection ?

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I dual booted win xp and win 7 home premium 64 bit. I also have DSL connection always on. For win 7 the internet connection is automatic, just turning on internet explorer and it is connected. For win XP it is much more difficult: it says the 1394 connection is connected but internet explorer always says " the page cannot be displayed". I am at a lost here. I remember every time like this in the past I had to call my dsl isp ( frontier.com ) to get help. So can someone help me ?

Slow loading pages

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Hi

I hope this is the correct forum for this query.

I don't know why but my pages take a long time to load about 30secs, so I am spending time waiting for that dreaded circle thing to stop going round and round.

I am on a fast connection so this should not be the case.

Please can anyone help rather than me searching google and making a mess of things.

Many thanks

need help /w updating windows media player to 2.5.0.1 / OverDrive Medi

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Having a problem downloading audio books? The suggestions I got did nothing. My OverDrive Media Consol would not update by click file and then upgrade. So, I went on the internet in search of a 2.5.0.1 media player security upgrade. No such creature. But the website

http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/...en/indivit.asp

was given to me to update my software. But the button was shadowed and I was unable to click on it to download. Well I finally found answer.

What you need to know and pass on to others having this problem is to go to http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/...en/indivit.asp
as stated above.. Look at the toolbar and you will see a "broken or torn page" icon. Click on the broken page icon on the tool bar and the “upgrade” button will appear. Now you can upgrade!

I hope I have helped you,

It seems like I have a "hidden firewall"

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I'll try to detail this post as well as possible.

I recently (2 months ago) built a computer, I put in the specs when registering so wherever that's found, you can look for my specs there.

I installed a 64-bit Windows 7 operating system. This had been used on another computer which I threw away the hard drive for, and I was having trouble with activation stuff so I used removeWAT since I did pay for a copy. I include that detail only because it might in some way be the cause of this problem, but I highly doubt it and it would be odd if it was the cause.

Anyway, before I got an antivirus or any other program I installed parental control software on my computer (Safe eyes). I connected the computer through an ethernet cable to my modem/router (not sure which it is, never took the time to learn).

When I ran the "test" the program provided to see if it worked correctly, it said the test failed. I then fully installed the program ignoring the test, and the software simply didn't block anything. Usually when it's not logged into a profile, it blocks all internet access. But this time it was not logged in and anything could be accessed.

After a long tech-support call spanning solutions such as winsock resets and internet explorer options and other stuff, the tech support team could not find what was wrong. My firewall is off, I don't have an antivirus, so nothing should be blocking the software.

I uninstalled the parental control software and installed another one called mobicip, which has been working fine.

No further problems occurred until we fast-forward to a couple of days ago, when I tried to install the planetside 2 (a game) beta. When I ran the installer/downloader program, a logo showed and stayed, and the program never moved forward as if it was being kept back.

Well, you guys probably don't know anything about that game so I won't go into specifics. But for both the parental controls and this game, the only answers were "something is blocking it". Very vague.


TL;DR

Two programs I tried to run seemingly randomly are being blocked by "something". I don't have an active AV or firewall, and I highly doubt I got a virus since I haven't really done internet browsing on that comp.

I have not been able to find a solution ANYWHERE. My computer is the same as any other computer.

Internet Connected, but not working!

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I have been having a constant problem with my internet, I've tried sooo hard to fix it but so far it seems like the things I've done have only worked temporarily. I can connect to the internet, connect to my router using wireless and Lan, but I cannot run updates, load any webpages on any browser (takes to long to respond). I also cannot ping any site other than my router, or my ip.

Things I've tried:
Checking all settings, everything looks okay. No proxy set up, nor do the browsers have proxy enabled.
Changing my ethernet or wireless cards, sometimes will fix temporarily but now none are working to fix they all do the same thing.
Reformatting or repairing my XP
Resetting Winsock,flushing DNS
Resetting or release/renewing my IP
Resetting the Router
I've checked my ipconfig all and all the settings are correct and all things enabled that should be
If I plug the Lan cable into a laptop (the way I'm online right now) it works fine but the laptop is really old and runs slow, and I prefer my desktop anyway.
Checked for virus and malware or spyware... Removed antivirus and firewall...
Removed most recent updates

Still no permanent solutions. Hubby's computer is plugged into the same router and works fine. I just don't get it. Please help!! Even my blackberry can connect to the router!:(

From WinXP Guest acct can't use Runas Admin

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From winxp pro sp3 guest acct need emergency access to admin acct. cause i have no keyboard driver was deleted from device manager. (runas /user:Eric cmd.exe)Eric = admin i type my password and receive runas error: unable to run cmd.exe: error 5 access is denied. I believe my seclogon serv. is disabed if this is why I am unable to use runas how do i start this service without admin rights in dos. On screen keyboard is all I have and carpel tunnel real soon.

Solved: Wireless Zero Config not detecting networks

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So I recently put in a new hard drive on my laptop and installed XP sp3. I installed the wlan driver via HP's website. The driver appeared in Device Manager and was said to be enabled and working. And it was, because Network Stumbler was able to find networks. But Wireless Zero Configuration couldn't find any, so I couldn't connect to wifi. Then I went to the Windows update site and applied a bunch of updates, one of which was for my wlan driver. I was hoping one of the other 100+ applied to WZC. After rebooting, WZC found my network and connected just fine. I thought problem solved. But then after rebooting again, it stopped working. When Windows loads, the wireless icon says 'Acquiring network address' forever. It says the SSID and signal strength (Excellent) but can't acquire address, and when I view the list of available wireless networks, it's empty (empty after refreshing as well). So it seems to know the network is there but it says no networks are in range. Just like before, NetStumbler finds the networks (if only it could also connect to networks so I wouldn't need WZC at all...). My laptop's wireless button is on, wlan is on, my BIOS isn't preventing wireless connections, I don't have any AV or software firewall installed. I'm out of ideas.

Browsers not responding

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In Windows XP that I have on a different partition both Firefox and IE8 have stopped responding.
The home page will load but when I try to go to any of the bookmarks, nothing happens. When I go to close the browser I get a message that says this program is not responding. This just started this afternoon. I haven't recently added any new programs, I scanned with both Malwarebytes and Microsoft Security Essentials and both scans came up clean.
I am not having this problem in Windows 7. The next question is why am I still running XP?
I am trying to get my wife to switch but she is very resistant to anything that might be a little different when it comes to technology. I might have to just tell her that XP is too old.
In the meantime does anyone have any ideas about what may be causing this?
Thanks

Upgrading Hardware - First Time Upgrading

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Hello,

I am currently wanting to begin the process of upgrading various parts of my computer in the upcoming months. The first item I would like to do upgrade is the RAM. I am currently using 8BG (4x2) and would like to double that. I was thinking of going with the Corsair Vengeance 2x8. Eventually I would like to have a pretty sick gaming computer. As of right now, it can handle a lot but can struggle from time to time if I crank up the graphic settings.

I guess the reason I am posting this is to ask a few questions. Would upgrading RAM be a good starting point if wanting to upgrade other hardware as well. I was thinking of also swapping out the video card, cpu, and adding some fans (when I get money that is). I must sound like a complete novice right now lol.. but, I am ready to finally go through with this because my computer is starting to feel like it is getting behind the times in terms of speed and performance haha. Anyway, any insight into this topic and or first time upgrading, specifically with the RAM, would be grrreat. Thanks.
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