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What is the name of the Windows System Menu button? I am talking about the round glass-orb looking object (on a Windows 7 operating system) that appears in the lower left of the screen -- usually -- that you can click on to see the menu selection of programs on your compter.

I have an ipod. How to Load Video Songs and Movies to IPOD? Can you help me. I tried in many ways but was not successful.

I was trying to install Microsoft Office Home and Student."E:/ There is not enough space on the disk" was the error code I got. Also, the C hard drive is full. I was wondering how to clean it up without deleting anything.

Hi., I am using windows xp sp3.from past month i cant able to access registry entries(when i type regedit in run it shows registry entries are disabled by your administrator but 'm logging in with administrator account only)also cant see hidden files and folders(when i mark show hidden folders after apply it goes back to do not show hidden...

Hi, I have a large number of makefiles, which I want to convert to unix format so that I can run them using cygwin bash program. I can convert them one by one using the "Convert to Unix Format" feature of Notepad++. Is there any way in Notepad++ that I can apply this command to all the files in one go? Thanks.

All videos play slow and skip on my pc Ok My Pc is pretty new and whenever i play itunes music or videos on my pc or on youtube.com my pc slows down quite abit and the videos skip threw jittery n jerky and i miss all the video it stops plays agen like 3seconds later can anyone help

I have a camera that is sending a motion-jpeg stream over a network in real time, and I would like to open the stream and view the video in Windows Media Player. Firefox and VLC are able to show me the video, but Windows Media Player just says "Connecting to..." for forever. I think this is because the stream has no end - its just playing live. ...

I want to create a .bat file (or any other type of file where I can have the user one-click) to map a network drive. Right now I can open the command prompt and type: net use Z: \\server\foldername\ employee ("employee" is the password) Which mostly solves the problems I was having before when I mapped the network drive through tools ->...

what I want to know is can I run an os from a pen drive instead of installing to hard drive.

Hello Im using Ontrack Easyrecovery to recover some files ive overwritten on my hdd. but the files filetyp is .mddata and .mdinfo and is not listed in the RawRecovery File Types. And such i need to add it manually. To do that i need to find out the Filetype signature and offset in hex. This is the info in the program: The following...

I have a drive that crashed, now non-bootable. I can slave the drive and see the system files but I need certain registry keys from the non-bootable drive and inport it to the new registry. OS is XP with sp2.

hello im interested into making a driver that will load a ring3 dll into a ring3 process, this is because a malicious program is blocking any dll injection method, and i need to inject a dll anyways in some process. how can this be done from a kernelmode driver, any information is appreciated. ideas?

I have a sandisk ultra 32Gb flash drive, it worked, but know if I want to connect to any pc, it shows for one second then it dissapeard, I can not see it on my computer to format it. Is there a program that can fix this for me. I have also delete usb mass storage device, and when I put the flash back it shows that it have picked itv up, but it...

I'm hoping someone could tell me how I would go about changing the appearance of the text-insertion cursor in Windows. I need it to appear as it does exactly in Command Prompt, a horizontal block, or an underscore, if this is possible ? Thanks

We changed internet providers last weekend and ever since then I get the 'Internet Explorer can not connect" when I try to access www.weather.gov. Never happened before and the site is not down

Does anyone know where I can find a video driver for a Diamond Multimedia Stealth 2500 video card. I have tried the Diamond website, CNET, and Googled the crap out of it. It seems like every link I find on Google steers you down the road to a link for a driver updater program that you have to pay for. I am running XP Home. The tag on the chip...

Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound device installed on your computer, it might be in use by another program, or it might not be functioning properly. however it will play sound from the internet What can i do to fix this problem?

Before you jump the gun and tell me I've configured ports wrong on my NAT router, read on. I'm using FileZilla, configured to use Passive mode and has my external host name/IP address My router is a cisco/linksys WRT54G and port forwarding is setup on the ports configured above in FileZilla server. I can connect using ftp://localhost,...

A day or two ago AVAST! AntiVirus warned me I was attempting to access a dangerous website. (I don't remember what website it was.) I took the warning and didn't access the website. Later I did a sweep with AVAST! It reported three malware infections. All 3 were of High severity and of the same type (Win32:Malware-gen). Two of the infections...

I am using window vista, and for all this time my window live was working fine until Microsoft suggested to upgrade to the latest version, which I did. And guess what! After I had download the latest version, I can't sing into it at all. Eveytime I try to sing in, a message such as "Window live messenger has stop working" Although it did say...

Hi, In my office for one user, if we try to user remote desktop from his machine, system will restart, I tried in different login, system restore not worked, I repaired the OS, its XP Pro...what else I can try to solve this...If anything require please ask me... Thanks ...Reddy...

I have a program that is writing hexdecimal only in a file( random character). Regardless the content of the file, I named the file with *.sse extension. How can I represent these type of files with new icon, so the icon appears with .sse extension instead the default icon. Using visual studio and the operating system is windows XP.

Under Windows and Internet environment, what is the best way to tranfer a big file ( about 27M ) between two remote computers? Does windows have commands to support this (e.g. ftp & ftpd)? Thank you!

I am trying to set up a subversion and windows service, but I keep on getting an 1053 error (along the line of "cannot start the service in a timely fashion"). I have tried the approaches on the net, but I get the same error, regardless of all my efforts. Below are the approaches that I took: I have tried: sc create snservice binpath=...

Hi. We used to trigg an application in VSS by ssaddin.ini, that did some file-replication for sql-scripts to a server, and run those on some databases on that server when check-in those scripts. (That application was written in VB6.) Is there a correspondingly function to use in TFS? I just want to start some application that does those things...