Windows 7: Where is the log of shutdowns?
The underlying problem: I have a user on a Windows 7 machine who claims that they always close all open windows (FireFox, Thunderbird, MS Office, ...) and then shut down the PC - yet sometimes when they boot the machine, the user claims that the machine would come up and show all application windows...
Is there a way of forcing a hardlink on fat32?
Both cp -l and ln refuse to create hard links on Fat32 FS, even when used with -F option by root. This is a sensible behaviour, since having fat no reference count it is really likely to mess up things. Yet is there a way to force different directory entries to point to the same start block, under m...
Windows 8.1 - resolving host [dns]
I've moved to a new location yesterday, but i ca ot reach any sites because it hangs in chrome on "resolving host". I've thought this was a router issue, but after putting my laptop on the same lan cable i knew it was something with my computer, this is because on the laptop it works just fine. I've...
Taskbar buttons customization
Please observe(link to official Microsoft website): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/change-how-buttons-appear-on-the-taskbar I wa a know how can I make my taskbar buttons look like "Always combine, hide labels", but without combining feature. Probably, it's not possible with standard win...
Laptop overclock
Is it usual to a laptop made by dell (inspiron N4050) with i5 processor have the processor ru ing at 3.0 GHz without any overclock settings? The temperature surpass 80 ºC sometimes. Thank you.
Slow computer on low wattage charger
Following these instructions can potentially lead to hardware damage or even fire. You're doing it at your own responsibility. If you can't help it and need to use this specific underpowered power adapter but don't want to pretty much end up with a useless brick due to a severely throttled CPU, I ju...
dd-wrt (build build 23808) static IP for connected devices
I have set a device in "static leases" to 192.168.1.102. In the "DHCP Clients" the IP is that of the one above, yet when I try to access a webui for the services ru ing they're on 192.168.1.128? This was the original IP address that dd-wrt set and I have noticed that there's an * with that IP on "Ac...
Reduce Weight Fast Though Lollipops Is Popped By Energy
Actbiotics But on the other hand lots of people make of believing anything they see on Television, the oversight. I'm referring to the Weight Loss workout plans where folks lose weight by doing nothing or perhaps the total reverse where body-builders and skilled athletes discuss their types of devel...
operations process in a comouter
Is it true that all high-level operations in a computer (say, copying, pasting, web surfing, ru ing apps etc) are all finally converted to micro-operations (say, arithmetic, logical and shift) and then done?
DNSUnlocker ads in Firefox
I'm getting bombarded with ads in my browser "Brought to you by DNSUnlocker". This seems to only be effecting one site, and only in Firefox. The site however is a local development version of a site I'm building. If I use a different browser, or a I use "Private Browsing" in Firefox it doesn't seem ...
Update Windows 10 to the latest build on Dell Vostro 3550
On my Dell Vostro 3550, I have updated from Windows 7 to Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 and then finally to Windows 10 when it was launched. I have noticed recently that my machine is not ru ing the latest build and is still ru ing build 10240 which I believe is the release build. I have tried fixing Wind...
Converting CSV decimal time value in SQL select statement
I have a CSV file I'm loading into a dataset. The time field is actually a decimal value since the type is set to General. How can I convert this time (not Date) to hh:mm format in the SQL statement. I'm using C# to create the dataset. I'm guessing I need to cast but can't seem to find a solution. T...
files are not getting added in jump list, say, in notepad+
in w8-32 bit, as well as in w10-64 bit, new files that I open and use and save in some software are not automatically getting added to jump. I am observing this in notepad+ If jump list is a feature provided by windows, it should automatically work on all software whose icon I have pi ed on taskbar....