Its happening to what I beileve is a legit copy of Windows, it happened before with win7 when reinstalling same program, VLC PLAYER. That time it went unrepaired for 9 mos. It prevents me from lowering a movie to work on something.
l'm in the hospital now and will not access any of my tools or a...
In the top right corner of the page on your desktop is a hyphen, a square, and an x. Those are controls which allow you to configure the rectangle be it a square or page. Sometimes I lose them when reinstalling programs or folders. How to reinstall?
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Hello. It sure has been rough livining without sound. I poked around on Google and conversed with a few friends and fixed it. My research told me that several picked up the problem while working with youtube, as did I. Links for the curious.
This entered on duck, duck, go. thinkpad...
I'm mobile for awhile so I've not had access to my tools meaning my 6 other thinkpads, my library and tools. Usually these problems are traced to a switch that I've bumped, but I've checked and found no solutions. Thanks for any and all assistance. I'm working on my email so I must take advice...
For the past 5 years I’ve done a backup of my Windows computers. I take a program like Acronis True Image and make a clone of the install. I then put the original installation away as a backup and I can copy that original install back to the hard drive if there is a failure due to virus, human...
I tried the suggestions above but all remains the same. The only thing I get is a black screen with the following text "ThinkPad (large text) and under that in considerably smaller text To interrupt normal startup, press Enter."
Its the same old song, nothing changes. However, I am lucky I have...
My computer won't boot after a Windows 10 update. The computer had a message on it to reboot after win update. Now all I get is the initial splash screen.
What should I do so it will boot?
Thanks some of you know what I'm talking about. Yes, I do remember "indexing" was one of the things it restricted or put a stop to. There were 3 to 5 things it stopped or curtailed which it claimed were shortening the life of SSDs. This took place about 3 years ago.
You may be right though, such...
I just put in 2 two terrabyte SSDs at a cost of $555.00 so I want to take care of them. A couple years ago I put in a free program that had the SSD discontinue some activities that are rough on SSDs. I had to sign up for the program in order to download or license it. Then the program just ran...
Thank you guys. I finally found the one I had before, maybe I'm not as thrilled with it as I remember I was looking for a PDF reader with as few features as possible so it wouldn't take up space on my screen. I wanted space to read the PDF rather than massive toolbars. The one I got is Expert...
Thank you for your replies. I did get the new Thinkpad laptops yesterday, a W541 and a X201 wth an I7 at 2.67GHZ. I'll start installing new 2TB SSDs tommorrow and then maxing out the RAM. I'm a Thinkpad fanboy with much more than 10 of them. I cringe at the thought of a consumer laptop.
Could I...
I need good free PDF reader for Windows 10. A PDF reader that doesn't do much just for reading. I had a good one last month but that computer died after 4 years. But the happy ending is that I just got 2 new Thinkpads, a W541 and a X201 with an I7 at 2.67GHZ.
Now I need a new PDF reader for Win 10.
I just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad W541 i7-4810MQ 2.8GHZ 16GB 240GB SSD W10 k1100 1080 SE 29-02. I'm putting in a 2TB Seagate Barracuda SSD. Then I'm moving to 32GB of RAM. What RAM and should I go with 2 16GB sticks?
Thank you for any and all guidance.
Yes, you are correct , computers are still a big part of my life, but for different reasons. A foot injury has kept me non-ambulatory for several months. I’ve found myself lying around healing. I’m still collecting Thinkpads and I realized that I’ve not bought a laptop for 4 years and if I’m...
I’m not a gamer, but I play about 4 flavors of Unreal Tournament, Deathmatches are quick and easy to learn, no difficult commands like Medal of Honor.
These days I buy used corporate Thinkpads, max upgrade them and drive them until they drop, consumer laptops are low quality and don’t last...
Canon PIXMA MG2522 All-in-One Inkjet Printer in store or online, $19.00.
I saw them at 3 stores in east bay area, San Francisco Bay Area.
Online linked for the lazy:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Canon-PIXMA-MG2522-All-in-One-Inkjet-Printer/108208974
Thanks for your feedback. I must go through the list of 6 free alternatives and try something out. Regarding the Google, I try to use as little Google stuff as possible because they are too big and collecting too much information on people.
I need to sharpen the focus on my needs of what I've...
Thanks for your assistance. These sights have been checked out and bookmarked. You know how it is, sometimes you're building a new rig, sometimes you're troubleshooting or sometimes just off topic. I've been around for over 20 years and the place I'm thinking of was a large, well known gamers...
SKYPE as usual and Microsoft is pathetic to work with oh so often. Re-verify, go to account live, somethings wrong and we don't know what it is, but if we find it will let you know. After hours trying to pay up on my SKYPE out account, I'm done.
I'm looking for another VOIP service so I can...
The problem is that optical media is so flippant. Back in the day there were very few standards with different chemicals and dyes being used. The most dangerous thing is simply to let optical media sit on the shelf and disentegrate. I don't really back anything up to optical media anymore.
The...
OK, I'll try an order with GOG and later I can get some more flavors of Unreal Tournament. I don't know how long my older discs will hold up.
Thank you SPBHM and TheElf.
I haven't been here much lately. I've been here since the mid-90's when we were shaking things up in the hot deals section...
I'm not really a gamer and the only game I play are different flavors of Unreal Tournament. I like death matches and instant action sometimes for excitement. I've got about 6 discs which I purchased when I find them. I would never play others, so no steam or gaming memberships.
I see people...
There's a big gaming forum that I haven't looked at in 5 or 6 years. People have posted pictures of their rigs in their computer rooms and they are pretty impressive. There are several hundred pics of setups. I want to go there and look around, get some ideas. I need a good fantasy. Thanks.
"Craigslist drops personal ads after passage of sex trafficking bill."
Looking for love or a “casual encounter”? You’ll have to find someplace other than Craigslist.
The venerable online classifieds site removed its “personals” section this week, after Congress sent a bill to President Donald...
You can join all the ham radio forums you want, but you're not allowed to post until they check your aura or something so I put the question here.
I’m trying to reconfigure a 2.4 GHZ WIFI antenna to make it work better. I use an Alfa AWUS036NHR v2 USB active antenna to access public Internet...
A drop down box from top left of screen keeps asking me "Would you like to receive notifications from this site?" Never, never, never from any site. Damn push technology, I don't want anyone sending me any more crap, the question is like asking you if you'd like to increase your incoming spam...
Thanks, I'll view the drive again in my computer room, then I'll install the correct backup with the free copy of Acronis True Image that I get from the drive manufacturers utilities.
What is the name of this computer on a network?
I'm collecting files and information from a corrupted hard drive. I'm viewing the WIN 7 Laptop Drive via an external hard drive enclosure connected by USB. I'm grabbing important recent files that I've been working with. If this hard drive was...
I've been buying lots of Seagate Hard Drives so I downloaded their Diskwizard software and used it to create a bootable USB Flash Drive.
I booted into that and I'm creating a "Disk and Partition Backup." I'll then backup "My Data" which is supposed to be a backup of files and folders. I've got...
Like you said, the approach is dependent on the tools available. I've downloaded Knoppix which is a linux distro that can be run from USB.
I have several docking stations with CD/DVD Drives for X201, but I'm mobile and they are a full days travel away.
I'm looking over the Seagate Diskwizard...
Burpo gave you some good ideas. I like ergonomic stuff. I often look at the Varidesk, I see them selling often on Craigslist, but I'm in Silicon Valley, Craigslist SF Bay Area. I may try a Varidesk eventually.
Need to boot dead laptop from USB...WIN 7 Pro. It was hanging during shutdown...I held down power button to shut it down...now it only boots to startup repair and says no fix, corrupt file.
I have 2 Thinkpad X201, WIN 7 Pro, one won't boot, other is just fine, neither has a CD/DVD Drive. Both...
We all know that Yahoo emails were hacked a couple years ago, all email accounts were compromised. Yahoo took a couple years to realize this.
They've now locked me out of my email because I refuse to give them some more security information to compromise. So they screw up, crap security, and...
As long as we're talking Ccleaner...I've never found it's free space wiper to work...it shuts off always unfinished...Dereks Boot'N'Nuke went paid software...So...
What would be best choice for a very good free space drive wiper?
Thanks in anticipation.
My version is Windows 7 Professional.
I'd check task manager and Firefox was not running, but Ccleaner said it was and needed to close Firefox.
Yep! I took care of that! I got rid of the portable phone. I got rid of tablets too, I think tablets are designed not to last.
Deleting cookies and...
I have more than one PC. I downloaded the application to remove Adobe Flash. I've been running without Adobe Flash on all my Windows machines. I run Win 7. I'm quite happy to be rid of this insidious program. I can still watch YouTube.
Everytime I open Ccleaner to dump my cookies, trackers and whatnot it stalls asking me if I want it to close Firefox, then it asks me if I want to force Firefox to close in order to finish the cleaning. According to my observations Firefox is not running or has already been closed by me. This...
They're a decent deal and it's my hobby so I light fooling with them. The difficult part here is the 8 GB of DDR2,SODIMM, 667MHZ which is currently going for $115.00 on up. I've replaced it on 3 of my T61, but I'm waiting for the price to drop to finish 4 or 5 machines. I've got lots of docking...
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