I've tried all the different browsers, and like Google Chrome best. But it has two problems which bother me. Neither problem happens in Internet...
I had the same problem. Try this. Go into "Power Options" in your Control Panel. Find where it says "Require a password on wakeup." Click on...
There should be a sentence you can click on to let you change the password option. Something like "Change settings that are currently unavailable. "
Sorry, my mistake, the laptop is a Presario V6700. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try them tomorrow.
An update on this issue. I switched my computer so that it would hibernate instead of sleep when the lid was shut. For two weeks that worked....
Unfortunately, the problem with the optical disk drive returns sporadically. Just the same as my laptop going to sleep and then not waking up....
Thanks for the link about dealio. That does not seem to be a likely culprit for this. That leaves, as you say, a bit of a mystery. On the...
Well, this is interesting. I had two thoughts about what the problem might be. One is, I thought I might have some sort of virus. So I used...
I tried cleaning the lens. That did not help. (Although I'm not sure how good a job I did. I was not sure where the lens was, and may have just...
My laptop (Compaq Presario V6700) is almost three years old now. It still works well, but today I tried to update a file and found a problem. The...
Thanks for the link. That's exactly what I needed. Unfortunately, though, nothing I've tried has worked. I updated drivers, updated the BIOS,...
Unfortunately, the problem is back. Or I should say, it reappears every three or four days. I then have to reboot by hand from sleep....
That seems to have solved this pesky problem. Don't know why, but it did. Great call, mattman.
Thanks. That's a good suggestion -- one that I had not thought of. I used a restore point as far back as I could go. Unfortunately, going back...
My Compaq Presario V7600 laptop runs Windows Vista. About a month ago, the laptop automatically updated Vista. Then it crashed. After rebooting...
Thanks for the prompt reply. As it turns out, I was poking around and found out how to get the desktop icons back. I right-clicked on the...
We have a desktop computer running Windows XP. My son runs a separate user account and got hit by a virus, windefragmenter. My user did not have a...
I like to come here for socializing. Or to The Truth About Cars (ttac.com), another Web site I frequent.
After more experience with blocking ads by changing the hosts file, I gave up. I decided to go back to my original hosts file. Some ads that I...
I tried blocking ads by modifying the hosts file. It seems to block a few of the ads. But not many. The Adblock for Chrome program does a lot...
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