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The "explorer" task on my computer in task manager always take 99 of CPU. I updated and did a full system scan with Norton anti-virus and found nothing. Can anyone help me? Here is my system (all i know about it):
Northwood P4 2.4A Msi sis 650 chipset Nvidia GF4 MX440 Seagate baca 4 80G 768Mb ddr333
OEM windows xp pro with SP2 Rockvee 21:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Are .lnk shortcuts the only way in Windows XP to put the same copy of a file in more than one folder hierarchy (e.g. ...\People by Year of Birth\1977\By Occupation\Writers\By Nationality\American\ and ...\People by Occupation\Writers\By Nationality\American\By Year of Birth\1977\), or are there other ways? Any that are cross-platform and portable? Neon Merlin 02:33, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I know that this is a valid python computer language statement
if X > 5: Y = 9
But what about this? All on the same line
if X > 5: Y = 9
Ohanian 02:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, all on one line is legal. The entry in the reference manual gives the syntax. -- KSmrq T 04:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to get a g-mail address, but I've heard you have to be invited by someone who already has one. Can anybody help me? My email addy is my WP username @telus.net. Anchoress 02:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I need a program that accepts some text as input and outputs it scrolling at predetermined speed as an .avi file.
If there's no such program, maybe you could suggest some clever way to do it.
It must be scrolling and it must be .avi
Any ideas? 212.199.22.55 05:09, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
When looking at a page like List of Nunavut birds the syllabics show fine in Firefox but in in Maxthon or IE7 I just see the little boxes. If I copy and paste from Maxthon into MS Word to edit, then the syllabics show up fine. The strange thing is that it's just on my home computer, all of the work computers show everything fine in both browsers. How do I get the syllabics back? Originally posted at "Miscellaneous" by error. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 05:38, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Someone may have broke something in an edit, go to the history page and check who has edited it and check an older version. TehKewl1 07:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I've added another internal hard drive to my computer. Recently, though, the drive has become entirely innaccessable. I can't open it. I often can't view it's properties, and even selecting the drive without opening it in my windows explorer browser causes the little hourglass to pop up and my computer to slow to a crawl for a minute or two. I tried to reinstall a program that I had already installed on that drive, and the program's setup file recognized the file on the non-functioning drive and asked (or rather mandated) that that version of the program be uninstalled before the new one be installed. So i said OK, uninstall the program on the crappy drive, but although the setup utility could apparently detect the old version of the program, it could not delete it. When i try to open the drive, i get "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." What's going on? The drive crashed pretty suddenly. Any ideas? Sashafklein 06:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps the drive cable wasn't plugged in all the way and came partially loose. Try unplugging the cable and plugging it back in again. StuRat 12:58, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I tried replugging the drive cable, and it doesn't do anything, though i'd thought it would. The drive does show up on the explorer manager, and although when the drive shut down, I lost some really important files, I managed, a day after the drive started screwing up (and yes, making really disconcerting clickity noises)to access the drive and remove the important files before it screwed up again, that time for good. Any ideas about how i might delete that file or tell my computer to ignore the drive? Sashafklein 17:40, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Hiya, I need to run a Halo Dedicated Server from a room next door to the wifi router. Once I have an el-cheapo system I can shove a wifi card in and get everything up and running. My question is - would there be any significant increase in lag (from wired to wifi? I know wired is faster but would this noticeable affect performance for an internet game server? cheers, SMC 10:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I live in a rural area where there aren't any broadband options available. We have dialup, and that's it. No dsl, cable, wimax, etc. For the last 3 years, I've been using direcway satellite broadband, but recently decided to cancel their service. Here's my question: are there any other broadband options available? I really don't want to get dialup or another satellite provider. For example, cingular has a service called media net-- is there anyway I can get an unlimited media net subscription and tie a cell phone into a router somehow? (I'm not talking about evdo, just regular slow cingular internet access).
I've been trying to figure something out for hours, and nothing was coming to mind. Thanks in advance!! 65.12.181.204 16:09, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
how does one access, BIOS. I've been told to poke around bios as a possible way to change the lighting on my laptop. 70.108.144.2
Generally the brightness settings of the screens of laptops are controlled by drivers within the OS. However, some a have a 'battery power LCD dim' setting. If you provide the exact model of the laptop I can give you more specific instructions. Ronaldh 13:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
You can download bittorrents without BitTorrent, right, for example, through Opera, or, also, you could download bittorents throught Shareaza, but in the end, you still need BitTorrent to open the files, right? Danke. 100110100 18:47, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
whateveritis.torrent
file with your web browser, and then open that with one of any number of
BitTorrent clients (of which the official client is but one). That will directly download the mp3, mpg, avi, iso, or whatever file(s) the whateveritis.torrent
file specifies. So you really need a browser, any old BitTorrent client, and something to display/print/burn/view the things you download. --
Finlay McWalter |
Talk 18:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Hi everybody I need your help. I own an mp3 player from Jwin and the buttons on top are stuck. They can be pushed down but inderneath the plastic button there is nothing to push it is stuck down? If anyone can help me plese let me know. I really need my Mp3 player!!
Thanks Chris
Lately I have had problems with my email service and I looked at google's Gmail. It looked very interesting but you have to be invited to use the email system. I really dont know anybody who has an account with them. Could someone please help?? My email is (removed).
Thank You Very Much
Done
Theresa Knott |
Taste the Korn 20:22, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
my email is (removed again)
I know - that's where I sent it to. Check your email. The invite should be there. I removed it from here to a) stop spam and b) prevent you getting multiple invites. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 20:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
OK thanks very much. I cant wait!!
How do I reset bios to default settings ? Hhnnrr 21:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I asked a similar question a few weeks ago but about a different file format. My camera only takes .MOV video clips, which cannot be edited by Adobe Premier of Windows Movie Maker. Is it possible to convert these .MOV to editable files like .AVI or .MPEG or something? Any help is appreciated! Robinoke 22:34, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Answered
See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science#computational neurosciences.
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The "explorer" task on my computer in task manager always take 99 of CPU. I updated and did a full system scan with Norton anti-virus and found nothing. Can anyone help me? Here is my system (all i know about it):
Northwood P4 2.4A Msi sis 650 chipset Nvidia GF4 MX440 Seagate baca 4 80G 768Mb ddr333
OEM windows xp pro with SP2 Rockvee 21:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Are .lnk shortcuts the only way in Windows XP to put the same copy of a file in more than one folder hierarchy (e.g. ...\People by Year of Birth\1977\By Occupation\Writers\By Nationality\American\ and ...\People by Occupation\Writers\By Nationality\American\By Year of Birth\1977\), or are there other ways? Any that are cross-platform and portable? Neon Merlin 02:33, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I know that this is a valid python computer language statement
if X > 5: Y = 9
But what about this? All on the same line
if X > 5: Y = 9
Ohanian 02:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, all on one line is legal. The entry in the reference manual gives the syntax. -- KSmrq T 04:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to get a g-mail address, but I've heard you have to be invited by someone who already has one. Can anybody help me? My email addy is my WP username @telus.net. Anchoress 02:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I need a program that accepts some text as input and outputs it scrolling at predetermined speed as an .avi file.
If there's no such program, maybe you could suggest some clever way to do it.
It must be scrolling and it must be .avi
Any ideas? 212.199.22.55 05:09, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
When looking at a page like List of Nunavut birds the syllabics show fine in Firefox but in in Maxthon or IE7 I just see the little boxes. If I copy and paste from Maxthon into MS Word to edit, then the syllabics show up fine. The strange thing is that it's just on my home computer, all of the work computers show everything fine in both browsers. How do I get the syllabics back? Originally posted at "Miscellaneous" by error. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 05:38, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Someone may have broke something in an edit, go to the history page and check who has edited it and check an older version. TehKewl1 07:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I've added another internal hard drive to my computer. Recently, though, the drive has become entirely innaccessable. I can't open it. I often can't view it's properties, and even selecting the drive without opening it in my windows explorer browser causes the little hourglass to pop up and my computer to slow to a crawl for a minute or two. I tried to reinstall a program that I had already installed on that drive, and the program's setup file recognized the file on the non-functioning drive and asked (or rather mandated) that that version of the program be uninstalled before the new one be installed. So i said OK, uninstall the program on the crappy drive, but although the setup utility could apparently detect the old version of the program, it could not delete it. When i try to open the drive, i get "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." What's going on? The drive crashed pretty suddenly. Any ideas? Sashafklein 06:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps the drive cable wasn't plugged in all the way and came partially loose. Try unplugging the cable and plugging it back in again. StuRat 12:58, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I tried replugging the drive cable, and it doesn't do anything, though i'd thought it would. The drive does show up on the explorer manager, and although when the drive shut down, I lost some really important files, I managed, a day after the drive started screwing up (and yes, making really disconcerting clickity noises)to access the drive and remove the important files before it screwed up again, that time for good. Any ideas about how i might delete that file or tell my computer to ignore the drive? Sashafklein 17:40, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Hiya, I need to run a Halo Dedicated Server from a room next door to the wifi router. Once I have an el-cheapo system I can shove a wifi card in and get everything up and running. My question is - would there be any significant increase in lag (from wired to wifi? I know wired is faster but would this noticeable affect performance for an internet game server? cheers, SMC 10:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I live in a rural area where there aren't any broadband options available. We have dialup, and that's it. No dsl, cable, wimax, etc. For the last 3 years, I've been using direcway satellite broadband, but recently decided to cancel their service. Here's my question: are there any other broadband options available? I really don't want to get dialup or another satellite provider. For example, cingular has a service called media net-- is there anyway I can get an unlimited media net subscription and tie a cell phone into a router somehow? (I'm not talking about evdo, just regular slow cingular internet access).
I've been trying to figure something out for hours, and nothing was coming to mind. Thanks in advance!! 65.12.181.204 16:09, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
how does one access, BIOS. I've been told to poke around bios as a possible way to change the lighting on my laptop. 70.108.144.2
Generally the brightness settings of the screens of laptops are controlled by drivers within the OS. However, some a have a 'battery power LCD dim' setting. If you provide the exact model of the laptop I can give you more specific instructions. Ronaldh 13:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
You can download bittorrents without BitTorrent, right, for example, through Opera, or, also, you could download bittorents throught Shareaza, but in the end, you still need BitTorrent to open the files, right? Danke. 100110100 18:47, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
whateveritis.torrent
file with your web browser, and then open that with one of any number of
BitTorrent clients (of which the official client is but one). That will directly download the mp3, mpg, avi, iso, or whatever file(s) the whateveritis.torrent
file specifies. So you really need a browser, any old BitTorrent client, and something to display/print/burn/view the things you download. --
Finlay McWalter |
Talk 18:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Hi everybody I need your help. I own an mp3 player from Jwin and the buttons on top are stuck. They can be pushed down but inderneath the plastic button there is nothing to push it is stuck down? If anyone can help me plese let me know. I really need my Mp3 player!!
Thanks Chris
Lately I have had problems with my email service and I looked at google's Gmail. It looked very interesting but you have to be invited to use the email system. I really dont know anybody who has an account with them. Could someone please help?? My email is (removed).
Thank You Very Much
Done
Theresa Knott |
Taste the Korn 20:22, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
my email is (removed again)
I know - that's where I sent it to. Check your email. The invite should be there. I removed it from here to a) stop spam and b) prevent you getting multiple invites. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 20:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
OK thanks very much. I cant wait!!
How do I reset bios to default settings ? Hhnnrr 21:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I asked a similar question a few weeks ago but about a different file format. My camera only takes .MOV video clips, which cannot be edited by Adobe Premier of Windows Movie Maker. Is it possible to convert these .MOV to editable files like .AVI or .MPEG or something? Any help is appreciated! Robinoke 22:34, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Answered
See Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science#computational neurosciences.