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Qui-Gon John

Another stupid MS move. It was much easier to browse through the cookies and delete ones you didn't want, but keep ones that are useful, like various bank sites, etc. I mistakenly wiped all the text name ones out and then found my bank no longer showed my computer registered, those kind of problems.

Qui-Gon John

I'll have to look next time I am on a Win 8 PC. But still STUPID that they took away that convenient option from within the Windows Defender (MSE) interface. Can you tell if the default scan in scheduled tasks runs a full or quick scan and can that be changed there as well?

Qui-Gon John

I have been using Microsoft Security Essentials for a couple years now. Ever since people here turned me onto it, I was using Avira before that. I use it on my own computers and most of the people I help with tech support issues. Shortly after Windows 8 came out, I found out that MSE was now incorpo...

Qui-Gon John

I just noticed that my computer has changed the way the file names for IE are showing up in Windows Explorer. I have XP SP2 with IE8. They used to have my profile name "owner" and then the website, such as [email]owner@www.cnn.com[1].txt[/email]. Now they appear with a random 8 character n...

Qui-Gon John

Hi, I am helping someone who is having problems with Delayed Delivery in Outlook 2007, running on Windows 7 Home Premium 64. Most of the time when choosing to delay sending the email just goes in the Outbox, instead of a data it says NONE and then the email is never sent, even after the time has pas...

Qui-Gon John

I don't think so. It is an Acer Aspire 5100, bought back in April 2007, just after Vista came out. Later I wiped that clean and installed Win 7 Home Premium. How could I check for that?

Qui-Gon John

I'm having a problem with my wife's laptop. It seems when it is running on the battery, the OS will freeze up more often than not, requiring a hard reboot. The only thing I have been able to track so far is that this seems to start while in Internet Explorer. If I run the laptop on battery and do ot...

Qui-Gon John

Hi YoS, as I said, it is connected to the PC via a USB Cable.

Qui-Gon John

I was helping someone with a Canon MF4150 Image Class and we have a strange problem. It is connected USB to a computer with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I installed all the usual Canon Drivers and Helper Apps. When we print, it responds right away, no problems. But when we scan, we open the progra...

Qui-Gon John

Thanks for the reply. I personally think he's out of luck. I looked around in the program and cannot even find a company name to see if they are still around. But when you run it, it makes (if not already there) a file called calendar.fil. In that is all the data, as well as user settings such as co...

Qui-Gon John

Hi all, another problem now regarding this same Old DOS-Based Calendar program. This guy apparently lost any old copies of the data file and his data file got corrupted. I have saved the corrupted file, in the meantime we created a new data file, but he's begging to get the old file repaired. He say...

Qui-Gon John

I've been helping someone try to figure out a strange issue. If she tries to use SEND TO MAIL RECIPIENT on anything, be it from with a Word doc or right-clicking anything else 2 strange things happen, first it open IE even though Firefox is set as her default browser, and it goes to her Hotmail, as ...

Qui-Gon John

But that is a PCIeX16, and the mobo only has PCIeX1.

I saw ATI/AMD Eyefinity, but they do not seem to have PCIeX1 either.

Qui-Gon John

While I realize that, is there any way to get the built-in video ports to not be disabled when inserting a video card. The motherboard only has (2) PCIeX1 slots and I cannot seem to find a multiple monitor video card in that format.

Qui-Gon John

I was helping someone who wants to add a third monitor to his HP6804. He currently has dual monitors already. How can I go about helping him do this? The motherboard has an integrated VGA & DVI and those are what is currently in use. The specs say they become disabled if you install a video card.

Qui-Gon John

Sava700, thanks, I will read over that blog when I get a little more time. RaisinCain, sorry, I did research, but it was along the lines of what features the device had, I was especially comparing whether I wanted this one or the Kindle Fire, (which we had seen over the Thanksgiving weekend, a visit...

Qui-Gon John

Are all the apps at the Android Marketplace safe?

Qui-Gon John

Hi all and Merry Christmas, We are getting a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus for Christmas. Mostly for my wife, (her gift - she wants it for games, mostly, maybe some reading), but I'll use it for Web & Skype when travelling, and possibly for GPS. Anyway, I just read a blurb on ZDNET about a lot of ...

Qui-Gon John

Thanks for the feedback. Strange that they have it work differently than Outlook Express and XP did. At least I know the problem is not that I had the wrong settings to get that to work.

Qui-Gon John

Florirs, Your reply was a bit confusing. As I don't need to restore anything. I just need to get Outlook to send emails that are clicked on from a web browser "mailto" link, without having to actually open up Outlook. In other words, start computer, browse web, click any "mailto"...

Qui-Gon John

I don't think so. Do you think that would make the difference?

Qui-Gon John

Hi, hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I helped someone out and I wiped their drive clean then installed a clean copy of Windows 7 Home Premium x64. This was out of the MS package and no "brand name extra junk loaded". Then I installed MS Office 2007 with Outlook. He only wants Outloo...

Qui-Gon John

It turned out that it was the USB, I moved the printer to a different USB port and it cleared up.

Thanks for the help.

Qui-Gon John

Thankee mates! Now at least I have some idea of where to look. I thought it related to the battery backup because when I was there last, I noticed when she printed it set off the alarm on the UPS. So I thought maybe the battery no longer held a charge and when it tripped over, she lost power. That i...

Qui-Gon John

I'm putting this in hardware, but it could be software as well, if so, sorry. I have to look at a computer tomorrow that the user claims that everytime she clicks to print anything, the PC cuts off and then restarts. She had it on a battery backup and I instructed her to connect the computers power ...

Qui-Gon John

Well I used CCleaner again, only this time told it to zap everything related to IE & Firefox. Now after typing the login info into IE, instead of a blank screen, it acts like the password is wrong. But we tried it in Firefox and that works now, so the password is correct. At least she can use if...

Qui-Gon John

I had checked for proxy settings and most malware issues, used Ccleaner, Malwarebytes and have Avira Anti-Vir on there. I haven't yet done any of the rootkit & autoruns mentioned. But I want to next try cleaning completely the cache and cookies. I usually have Ccleaner clear the cache, but not t...

Qui-Gon John

I am helping someone who cannot log onto Facebook. They get the login screen, but after entering their name & pwd, they get a blank screen that says "Diagnose Connection Problem". Other internet sites are fine. This is Vista 32 and using IE8. Tried latest Firefox, same problem. I even ...

Qui-Gon John

Thanks, just tried it. I wonder if some Windows Update was pushing that change as I have seen a lot more computers configured that way in the last few weeks.

Qui-Gon John

The article mentions in Window Explorer, but does this also affect the desktop icons?

Qui-Gon John

This may be a dumb question, but I cannot find the answer anywhere, Google searches and looking at various settings. My (2) Windows 7 computers, the desktop icons look like normal icons and if you click them once they get selected/highlighted, that's it. But on several other peoples computers I've s...

Qui-Gon John

Thanks, not sure about Macrium. I did this on this same server back in March 2007 using Acronis. Booted to Acronis, took a full image from the old RAID Array. Replaced the drives then booted to Acronis and restored the image onto the new blank RAID Array and that worked. Acronis just treated it like...

Qui-Gon John

I need to help an office out that says their current server has 2 hard drives in RAID 0 and the want to go to mirrored, RAID 1. I am recommending that we pull the current hard drives, install 2 new hard drives and create a RAID 1 array with those. Then boot to their Macrium Reflect disk and restore ...

Qui-Gon John

Yes, but now, if I recall correctly, I think I disabled TS after reading an article on services not really needed on a home computer.

Qui-Gon John

Thanks all, Ken just told me about this. I had a good bday.

Qui-Gon John

Thanks, didn't realize there was a birthday thread.

Qui-Gon John

Last weekend I was helping someone how had the svchost.exe virus and I would go into tm and stop the service, I could distinguish the correct instance of svchost because most list SYSTEM or LOCAL SERVICE as the User Name running it, but this one listed OWNER. So I was looking in my tm and found that...

Qui-Gon John

But Dell also has one of the worst, the clam-shell case, with release buttons on the top and the bottom, you have to push both at the same time and they can be real hard to open as the hinges are often very tight.

Qui-Gon John

That's what I thought, but I can't seem to get it to come free. It still feels very tight, even when I lift the tabs, as if there are more screws somewhere that I am missing.

Qui-Gon John

I am trying to remove the Front Bezel Assembly on a Dell Dimension C521 and am running into problems. Also, Google searches I have done for help on this, only tell me how to remove the normal side access panel, not the Front Bezel. I have removed the CD Drive, the CPU Heat Sink, the Front I/O Board,...

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