Well, after tightening a loose mobo *****, unplugging and re-plugging the mobo power plug, I finally tried just shorting the switch. Touched pins...
The power LED is a green one on the back belonging to the power supply. The motherboard's power LED is on the front. There's three twisted pairs...
This PC won't turn on at all. You push the power button and nothing happens. No CPU fan noise, no hard disk spinning, nothing. The only thing that...
Out of the blue, my laptop will become completely unresponsive. Both my bt mouse and keyboard die, so there's no Ctrl-Alt-Del, even if USB mice...
I had to disable "Microsoft Updates" and revert to "Windows Updates" in order for the website to work. Why doesn't MU work?
Ok, after reformatting, running chkdsk /r and defragmentating, the computer is much more responsive. The motherboard can accept up to 1GB of RAM,...
This XP machine always seems to run rather sluggishly. The hard drive light is always on and shutdowns always hang on the "Windows is shutting...
Why does Google Earth not have a start menu shortcut in Windows 7? I tried manually creating my own shortcut, but after an auto-update, the...
Well I tried disabling the Windows Media Player sharing through both network options and services.msc, but the bug still persists. I reverted...
Sorry to double post, but the laptop yielded a hit: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/620598/powercfg_requests.JPG
Wake from shutdown and wake on pattern match already are disabled on the desktop with a gigabit NIC and the laptop with wireless g (both run Win7...
It seems like there is a bug with Windows 7 and its HomeGroup feature: Win7 PCs linked together to share files and printers do not automatically...
Good News I obtained a Windows XP Home disc and used sfc /scannow and I got mouse settings back along with the fonts folder and the admin tools...
My computer is missing this file and it appears to be the reason why I can't access mouse options anymore. As I do not have a Windows XP CD, but...
I don't have a DVD burner and I didn't want to ask someone to waste a disc, I extracted contents of the .ISO with 7-Zip and started the installer...
You might want to post the contents of task manager after the system is done booting.
Huh, -270 shrinks the buttons down to the icon and a letter. Edit: I measured it from some wikipedia image with a pixel ruler and it's 160...
I made the buttons too big :p I'm trying to reset the size.
Quick question here: What's the number you have for the "MinWidth" entry in the "HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Desktop/WindowMetrics" key?
Well, this is unfortunate. I disabled system restore and I don't have a XP CD. My Acronis backups from spring don't have a copy of boot.ini...
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