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Forum: General Discussion 15 Mar 2013
Replies: 10
Views: 317
Posted By HowardWoodard
Thanks Jaycee. You are absolutely right and that...

Thanks Jaycee. You are absolutely right and that would be a good way of re-organizing it but I like it this [non-hierarchical] way. Maybe I'm just a jumbled up kind of person. :)

Hopefully I...
Forum: General Discussion 15 Mar 2013
Replies: 10
Views: 317
Posted By HowardWoodard
Here is the Speccy link:...

Here is the Speccy link: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/dfGSePnGATPu6GF0otNoFTV

Here is my desktop:
Forum: General Discussion 14 Mar 2013
Replies: 10
Views: 317
Posted By HowardWoodard
Yes, I unticked the auto arrange. No sort was...

Yes, I unticked the auto arrange. No sort was selected.

I'll try the speccy tomorrow. That looks like what I was looking for in terms of getting to the bottom of this. I have a pretty powerful...
Forum: General Discussion 14 Mar 2013
Replies: 10
Views: 317
Posted By HowardWoodard
I changed my google search a bit and came up with...

I changed my google search a bit and came up with the following potential solution(s)...

Save desktop icons position and restore when needed in windows 7 - Microsoft Community...
Forum: General Discussion 14 Mar 2013
Replies: 10
Views: 317
Posted By HowardWoodard
Thanks both of you. There used to be a utility...

Thanks both of you. There used to be a utility -- I don't think its been updated since XP, maybe Vista -- that would allow you to save and/or restore the desktop.

I'm interested in what is...
Forum: General Discussion 14 Mar 2013
Replies: 10
Views: 317
Posted By HowardWoodard
Desktop icons play hide and go seek...

I like to keep a lot of my programs on my desktop and I group similar function programs together.

Occasionally my screen will blink, the icons will change to placeholders and then sequentially...
Forum: Drivers 09 Mar 2013
Replies: 5
Views: 730
Posted By HowardWoodard
Well, the clue was the fact that there were...

Well, the clue was the fact that there were entries for NVIDIA in the Registry's enumeration section that I could not delete. Even though the device had been uninstalled those entries remained.
...
Forum: Drivers 09 Mar 2013
Replies: 5
Views: 730
Posted By HowardWoodard
Thanks. I am a long time user of Driver Sweeper...

Thanks. I am a long time user of Driver Sweeper which is now Driver Fusion. It did find and remove some entries -- see original post -- but did not solve the problem.

Clearly, whenever Windows...
Forum: Drivers 08 Mar 2013
Replies: 5
Views: 730
Posted By HowardWoodard
I first tried to update the Realtek driver but it...

I first tried to update the Realtek driver but it said that I already had the latest one. Then I uninstalled it and reinstalled. At first it appeared that it had worked. I had the AMD high def...
Forum: Drivers 08 Mar 2013
Replies: 5
Views: 730
Posted By HowardWoodard
Can't stop nVidia HD audio driver from loading

This PC is running an ATI Radeon graphics card on an MSI motherboard with an Intel processor.

Recently I removed an NVidia graphics card and replaced it with the current ATI one.

All of the...
Forum: General Discussion 06 Feb 2013
Replies: 0
Views: 356
Posted By HowardWoodard
Windows Live Communications Platform Stopped Working

Just within the past few weeks I've started getting this error occasionally. I've noticed that when it occurs the personal profile picture that usually shows when I am signed it for WL Mail or WL...
Forum: Browsers & Mail 05 Feb 2013
Replies: 4
Views: 455
Posted By HowardWoodard
Heard from google this morning. They said that...

Heard from google this morning. They said that it is a known problem and they are working on it. Don't change your system.
Forum: Browsers & Mail 03 Feb 2013
Replies: 4
Views: 455
Posted By HowardWoodard
Google "More" and "Search Tools" buttons no longer working...

Sometime over the last few weeks Google's "More" drop-down and its "Search Tools" menu items have quit working in IE10. The other buttons that let you select web, images, shopping, etc. still work...
Forum: System Security 31 Jan 2013
Replies: 2
Views: 485
Posted By HowardWoodard
Thanks. I don't have any of the programs that...

Thanks. I don't have any of the programs that [might] use a dongle.

I removed it from the firewall, deleted the directory and all of its files, disabled the service and deleted the registry...
Forum: System Security 30 Jan 2013
Replies: 2
Views: 485
Posted By HowardWoodard
Why is codemeter from WIBU systems on my system and running?

I was looking at what programs Norton is allowing through the firewall and saw an entry for codemeter (WIBU Systems AG). I checked and it is in my registry as well as being a service that gets...
Forum: General Discussion 10 Dec 2012
Replies: 1
Views: 499
Posted By HowardWoodard
Can't change files' created and modified dates...

I would [almost] swear that I used to be able to click on a file in Windows Explorer and then add or change it's details such as the dates. I may be "misremembering" but I think I could do it at the...
Forum: Hardware & Devices 28 Jun 2012
Replies: 7
Views: 10,663
Posted By HowardWoodard
Sorry. Even though I followed this advice I...

Sorry. Even though I followed this advice I failed to provide feedback or an update.

It worked. ...but I don't know why. Doesn't it get these names from the phone itself and doesn't it associate...
Forum: Drivers 28 Jun 2012
Replies: 4
Views: 680
Posted By HowardWoodard
I stepped through that and it looks like it...

I stepped through that and it looks like it cleaned up a lot of Flash and Shockwave entries and that may have fixed the BSOD but the registry entries that I was asking about are still there.

Do...
Forum: Drivers 28 Jun 2012
Replies: 4
Views: 680
Posted By HowardWoodard
Thanks. I was there once before but apparently...

Thanks. I was there once before but apparently didn't scroll down far enough. :o

I'll step through it and report back the results here.
Forum: Drivers 28 Jun 2012
Replies: 4
Views: 680
Posted By HowardWoodard
What are the bad driver list registry entries?

I have been getting the occasional BSOD and while trying to figure it out I ran across two entries named...

sw3dbaddriverlist1
sw3dbaddriverlist2

...both associated with Adobe's Shockwave...
Forum: Hardware & Devices 14 Nov 2011
Replies: 7
Views: 10,663
Posted By HowardWoodard
Hi and thanks for your reply. I didn't make it...

Hi and thanks for your reply. I didn't make it clear in my first post but I'm unable to change the device name in properties. The field show up, I can place the cursor in it, I can select the text,...
Forum: Hardware & Devices 13 Nov 2011
Replies: 7
Views: 10,663
Posted By HowardWoodard
How do I change the name that shows up as the device name in autoplay?

Yesterday I updated my and my wife's iPhones to 5.01 -- now that is a nightmare story in itself. I could never get it to work on my PC -- simply would not install the mobile device drivers no matter...
Forum: Hardware & Devices 11 Jan 2010
Replies: 1
Views: 2,878
Posted By HowardWoodard
Is there anyone here who has an iPod Touch and an...

Is there anyone here who has an iPod Touch and an All-in-One, preferrably an HP All-in-One, printer working successfully together on a desktop machine of any type and Windows OS?

I would love...
Forum: Hardware & Devices 07 Jan 2010
Replies: 1
Views: 2,878
Posted By HowardWoodard
Sync issues with iPod Touch...

I don't mean to SPAM this board with the same issue that othyers have previously reported and discussed but this iPod sync issue doesn't seem to ever get solved in any of the threads that I have...
Forum: Hardware & Devices 07 Jan 2010
Replies: 7
Views: 4,458
Posted By HowardWoodard
It may be a conflict with another storage device

I built a new computer for my daughter and put 32 bit Windows 7 Premium on it. The first thing I discovered was that her old HP All-in-One did not have any Windows 7 drivers. So I went out and bought...
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