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I have a lenovo g530 and the screen keeps flickering on occasion. Sometimes it is worse than others, and sometimes it doesn’t seem to do it at all. I was able to capture a video of it so you could see what is happening. I kinda wanted someone else’s opinion before I open it up…
I have a Microsoft LifeCam HD sitting atop my monitor. Today, completely out of the blue, its light came on — I was simply browsing the web (in Chrome) when it happened. After about 5 minutes the webcam turned off. Naturally, I immediately suspected my ex-wife (when in doubt, I always suspect her), but she…
About a month ago, Facebook stopped loading on any browser on my Windows 7 PC. I figured it was a virus, and yesterday, I wiped my computer clean and formatted everything because the entire thing has been sluggish lately. I am typing this on my freshly wiped Windows 7 Ultimate x64 computer, and the only…
I would like to open the Volume Control popup directly without using the mouse or keyboard. Currently, I am using AutoHotkey to press Win+B to focus on the system tray, Left to highlight the Volume Control icon , and then Enter to bring up the popup. I assume that this is possible, considering that you…
I have trouble to schedule a task I wrote. Basically I created a .bat file which executes an R script (script.R). When I double click the .bar file, it gets executed. I can see a result file and also some kind of log file in script.Rout. When I try to run everything in the scheduler…
I activated bitlocker with my drive and when it was encrypting something the power was suddenly interrupted. When I returned to my drive and entered the unlock password, The bitlocker wizard is not responding! Tried to wait for an hour but to no avail. Is there any way I can access the files again? Solution:…
I watch a lot of movie’s on my computer which is connected to my TV. Problem is i built the pc to be a gaming computer and it has the power supply to match (1200w). Is there a way to set it into a “Low power mode” whilst i am playing a movie to use…
I was trying to put the Windows 8 Consumer Preview onto a thumb drive, when I was asked if I was OK with wiping it (I said yes I as it was blank). I had to sleep my computer during the wiping, and now I can’t do anything with my dive. When I put it…
I have an application to run on a dedicated kiosk. I want to disable any key on Windows7. I want to block Alt+Ctr+Del, that users can’t shutdown the system. I want to disable Alt , Ctrl keys that users can’t use Alt+Ctrl+Del, I use this Scancode Map REGEDIT5 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlKeyboard Layout]”Scancode Map”=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,09,00,00,00,00,00,5b,e0,00,00,5c,e0,00,00,5d,e0,00,00, 44,00,00,00,1d,00,00,00,38,00,00,00,1d,e0,00,00,38,e0,00,00,00,00 But don’t work…
What’s the sparse file attribute on NTFS partitions and how can one remove it? Using Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Solution: Nicole Hamilton provided the description of what sparse files are.Let’s learn it with an experiment. Creating a Sparse File Start a Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator. Creating large file: fsutil file createnew…
