Items filtered by date: December 2015

Does not turn on or do anything when power button is pressed

• this is most likely the power regulator has been blown, checked with multimeter to see if the power gets past the FETs and regualtor as per tutorial
• see if the laptop powers on with the battery and/or the mains
• clear bios sometimes works

when power button is pressed the fan powers up and lights turn on. they either follow a pattern of a laptop reseting or they stay on as you would expect normally and the hdd powers up but nothing on screen either internal or external

• this is most likely a faulty graphics chip and the solution is to reflow. sometimes it can be the chipset chip but this is rare unless there is not dedicated graphics chip in which case it is the chipset chip
• this can also be caused by a dodgy bios, clear bios

I can't create an empty text document. I right-clicked on my desktop, pointed on New and then I can't see the 'New Text Document' option. I was able to make empty text documents a few weeks ago, but now I can't because the option is lost from the menu. I guess some software modified it.

This fault can be caused by different routes

The following links are from Windows 7 - 'New Text Document' missing?

Solution 1

Search on the thread for 'How repair a missing New Text Document in the Context Menu for Windows 7'

this is a post which basically gets you to install a registry file to restore the damaged section of the registry

Solution 2

I had the same problem with "Text Document" missing from the New menu. In my case, the Default value in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt had been changed. All I had to do to fix the problem was to change the Default value back to txtfile

I know in XP that changing the file associations under HKEY_CURRENT_USER was optional, but I guess in Windows 7 it's mandatory.

The following link is from 'Windows 7 | Context Menu | new text file Missing?'

Solution 3

There is a registry file on this thread which might be the same as from seven forums

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• How to Add Shortcuts to the Windows 7 Context Menu with Icons
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I tried to install SP1 on a customer's Vista laptop today. It took about 2 hours then eventually a black screen appeared and it started working through 95,583 files until it reached 3790/95583 and stuck, where it remains now.

The white writing is as follows..

!! (4) !! 3790/95583 (wdf01000.sys)

The screen flickers as if trying to move on but can't get beyond this point.

I have tried restarting using last known good config but the same thing happens.

I have also tried the repair option of system restore but that ran for about 4 hours without anything happening.

Is there anything I can try or would it be easier to backup and reinstall from scratch?

I have fixed the problem by simply copying another copy of wdf01000.sys from the winxs folder to c:\windows\system32\drivers and the service pack installation carried on normally after that and Windows booted with everything working..

If you have access to phpMyAdmin, simply log in to the WHMCS database and run one the following commands using the SQL tab.

You need to replace www.yourdomain.com/whmcs/ with the correct URL to your installation, including trailing slash. You should then be able to access WHMCS again.

This is is to change url and disable SSL

UPDATE `tblconfiguration` SET value='http://www.yourdomain.com/whmcs/' WHERE setting='SystemURL';
UPDATE `tblconfiguration` SET value='' WHERE setting='SystemSSLURL';

This code changes both the nomal url and the SSL url

UPDATE `tblconfiguration` SET value='http://www.yourdomain.com/whmcs/' WHERE setting='SystemURL';
UPDATE `tblconfiguration` SET value='https://www.yourdomain.com/whmcs/' WHERE setting='SystemSSLURL'; 

Moving from Microsoft Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird can be a little bit tricky. You have to migrate the calendar, address book and messages separately. These obviously have to be exported from outlook and then imported to Thunderbird.

Messages

• Moving messages from Thunderbird to Outlook Express and Outlook - An Old method
• Outlook Alternatives: Moving from Outlook to Thunderbird
• From Outlook to Thunderbird and Back Again
• Switching to Thunderbird - includes migrating messages

Address Book

• Thunderbird - Importing Outlook Emails and Addressbooks

Calendar

• Calendar Project - Home of Lightning and Sunbird®
• Exporting Outlook 2010 Calendar
• How do I import Outlook calendar items into Thunderbird calendar?
• Importing Calendar From Microsoft Outlook To Mozilla Lightning
• Mozilla Sunbird: Import Your Outlook Calendar Appointments

Other

• How to Export and Archive Your Emails in Thunderbird
• MozBackup - Backup tool for Firefox and Thunderbird
• Mozilla Thunderbird: Collection of Tips, Tools and Tutorials
• mozillaZine Forums - Official Sunbird and Sunshine Forum
• Thunderbird Signatures
• mozillaZine Signatures - Thunderbird

Have you ever loaded a video on the Internet and, instead of the video playing, you got a weird, greenish-tinted screen that moved a bit but didn’t let you see the video? I had that problem for months, and finally solved it about a week ago. I’d been planning to write a post, but apparently now I don’t have to. Amit Agarwal, as he always does, explains how to solve the green screen problem:

If you refresh the web page, the ‘green screen’ problem might vanish temporarily but it is very likely to stage a comeback in your next browsing session. And this problem is not specific to YouTube but any video website that uses the Adobe Flash Player.

The fix is however simple. While you are on a video page, right click anywhere inside the Flash Player and choose settings. Now click the first tab that says Display (look for the monitor icon) and uncheck “Enable Hardware Acceleration.”

If that doesn’t make sense, watch the screencast in his post to see exactly how to do it.

To remove SPTD you should do the next:
 

and

If your system has some problems with SPTD installation you can do as follows:
 

Are either of these procedures the answer I'm looking for? I'm new enough that, while I did locate the key, and "Start"(DWORD), I don't know *how* to change the value to 4.

To just disable the driver

1.Create a new Text Document (.txt) File.
2.Rename it as "SPTD.reg".
3. Right-Click the file and select "Edit"
It will open in notepad or wordpad.
4. Copy and Paste the following below in the "SPTD.reg" and save and Double-Click it to run and click yes when asked to and restart your computer and your SPTD Service is disabled.(Copy as is)

{code}Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\sptd] "Start"=dword:00000004 {/code}

I recently installed Adobe Acrobat X on mac, and when I opened up firefox I noticed that I got a new addon titled "Adobe Acrobat - Create PDF 1.0." The uninstall and disable buttons are not greyed out, but when I try to uninstall the addon and restart firefox it's still there. I could not find a settings in adobe acrobat to disable this addon, but one peculiar point was in preferences under "internet" the "display pdf in browser using" option was checked and greyed out. However, I do not know whether this is pertinent to this problem. How do I get rid of the addon? Adobe acrobat x did not install any additional plugins. Any help would be appreciated.

im getting an when visiting my website or uploading something to a website, ie uploading a module zip file in joomla.

Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
or
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit

This can be solved by one of 2 ways

• Use another Browser
• It's a cookie problem. Either clear your cache and delete your cookies, or go into the cookies folder and delete the cookies for that site manually.

It’s all set for Firefox 7 final release on September 27th of this month, Mozilla follows Chrome and Opera removes http:// protocol and trailing slash by default in the location bar for user friendly and better readability, that means you can only view or for that matter Firefox shows www.Example.com in the address bar. It may be confusing for novice users, here is how to enable or show http:// in the location bar again.

NB: But Firefox will display https:// prefix in the URL bar to let the users know they’re are on secured page and when you copy and paste URLs Firefox will include http prefix.

Answer

1. Type “about:config “ in the address bar
2. Search for browser.urlbar.trimURLs
3. Double click on the browser.urlbar.trimURLs key to change its boolean value from true to false.

Now type any website URL in the browser, HTTP:// will be shown greyed out (not highlighted) for a change in Firefox 7 when compared to previous versions.

Update: Set “browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled” preference to false after the above mentioned steps to remove the highlighting.

Links

• Enable/Show “http://” URL Prefix in Firefox 7 Location Bar | Techdows
• How to Bring Back “http://” in Firefox 7
• Disable Domain Highlighting in Firefox