[WIN7] Fox News Website Videos have "disappeared"
They used to play flawlessly. Then about two weeks or so ago they stopped playing. The rest of the web site works fine. I have never seen this type of problem. When you choose a video to play all that...
View ArticleVista reinstall - need the dvd
I have to replace the hard drive on my friend's computer. Luckily, the windows sticker is the old kind that doesn't rub off so I can still read the Windows Vista Key. However, I don't have a Vista DVD...
View Article[WIN8] Anyone tried the refresh/reinstall options in 8?
I am very curious if anyone has had the chance yet to try the refresh/reinstall options new to 8 and how effective they are in comparison to a traditional nuke&pave. I am one of those people that...
View Article[WIN7] Do you need to reinstall software if software is on a 2nd
I am planning on building a new PC with 2 HD (1TB and 500GB). I am planning on putting WIN7 on the 1TB then using the 500GB HD to install software & save photos and music. Reason I am doing this is...
View ArticlePassing email addy thru URL to live login
To access my live mail, I have a shortcut to https://login.live.com/login.srf that has a bunch of parms passed in the URL, one of which is a redirect to mail.live.com but it requires that I enter my...
View Articleneed advice on excel book
I have been using vba and sql for years, access and sql databases. I don't know much about excel and I ran into some I wanted to modify. I need a good book talking about find, copy, move across...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Preview Available Now!
Today in the keynote at BUILD we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Preview that can be downloaded here. Make sure to visit Somasegar's blog for a look at what's new in this release of...
View Article[WIN8] Ethernet doesn't have a valid IP configuration
Windows 8 HP Pavillion Desktop Linksys Router OOL Cable modem After a night of basic working on my desktop - no updating, no CCleaning, no new install I woke to see an exclamation point warning sign on...
View Article[WIN7] Outlook.com question.......
I do not have a down arrow next to the outlook logo. Any ideas? Thanks ............Butchie
View Article[WIN8] Win 8 hosed my drive (again!)
Some time ago, I posted on here that my system has 2 hard drives in it, a 1.5TB drive I added for Win8 alone, and a 500GB that was split into 3 partitions, an XP MCE partition, a Vista partition, and a...
View Article[Info] Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 4.0 released
A toolkit for deploying and configuring security mitigation technologies. The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. Note:...
View Article[WIN8] windows 8.1
My better half has window 8 on notebook we got before yesterday when notebook started up went to charm tile page but now it skips and goes to desktop which i think is part of 8.1. Was upgrade included...
View Article[IE] IE 10 (Good or Bad) on WIN 7?
Must be already a topic on this, but I would like to know how everyone here thinks of IE 10 on WIN 7? I just hate all the nagging screens that IE 8 will be unsupported and should upgrade to a newer...
View Article[WIN7] error code 9c59
IE 10 update is failing with the code "9c59". I ran the troubleshooter for ms updater and it says it's fixed but it still fails. Any ideas? thanks
View Article[Excel] Need Excel Guru to help with my Timesheet
I would like some help fine tuning an excel time sheet I made to use at work. The Excel document is formatted for two pages but is printed on one sheet of paper in duplex mode. Each project we enter on...
View Article[News] Internet Explorer 11 is coming to Windows 7
It appears that the company fully intends to make IE11 available to Windows 7 users as well. While Microsoft opened up about this fact, it wasn't so keen to offer up any timing expectations. Thus,...
View Article[Vista] WiFi connection issue's.
On a eMachine d620 laptop, win vista, when connecting to my home network, it says, identifying network, there are packets being sent but 0 received. I have had Att come out and they replaced the...
View Article[Excel] Pivot Chart labels on chart (Excel 2007)
It used to be that it was possible to filter pivot chart selections "on the page" - there would be grey buttons that could be clicked to change filter settings. In 2007 I am getting a "PivotChart...
View Article[WIN7] Drive cloning
I have a hard drive that developed some bad sectors (CHKDSK C: /R has fixed it for now) and will probably need to clone over to a new drive. How picky is Win7 about changing a drive? Will it require...
View ArticleWindows 8 Pro Reports Touch Support When There is None.
I just noticed that Windows 8 Pro 64bit system info indicates that my system has single input touch when it clearly does not have touch supported monitors (3x standard 27" non-touch monitors). Odd,......
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