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Again, I am haunted by these. Some time ago I asked about eliminating unwanted zoom or windowpanes in the picture of an HDTV. But since we got a new cable box, the problem has returned with a vengeance. Windowpane screens are ever-present along the sides of the picture, and no amount of meddling I do with the settings get rid of them. 4x3, 16x9, 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i, they do nothing! My TV is rated up to 1080p, by the way. What should I do?-- The Ninth Bright Shiner 02:31, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice above ("restoring Vista backup to XP"), which I followed, but ran into a problem. I wrote to HP:
Their response was to rename the backup source (an external hard drive) and try again. Same error. Is there any way I can recover the files? -- Halcatalyst ( talk) 18:08, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
A friend has an office set up in shed in his back yard. With the recent winter temperatures here in the UK, he has been leaving a heater on in the office to keep the tempertature above freezing. Unfortunately, the heater does get turned off on some occasions. He recently had a problem where his PC (a Dell Hybrid, running Vista) refused to start. After a couple of hours he was eventually able to get it started and could run the various recovery options which claimed to have fixed some corruption on the system volume. Could disk corruption be caused by below freezing temperatures, or should he be looking for other causes such as malware? Astronaut ( talk) 19:54, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
I cannot get VLC media player to play a DVD on my computer. The DVD drive is active for a while, after a while the slider on the slider bar of VLC quickly moves from one end to the other, but nothing else happens. What do I need to do please? The DVD I've tried is dated 2000, and I am in Europe. Thanks 89.243.45.81 ( talk) 20:58, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I am sure that my DVD drive can read DVDs. And the DVDs are not scratched either. I'm hoping someone is going to explain what codecs or CSS decoders I would need to download and what exactly I do with them. 78.151.145.153 ( talk) 01:49, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Update: I've found that it works perfectly if I 'open' the DVD disk, then click on the VIDEO_TS folder, then click on the VIDEO_TS.IFO. VLC then starts and plays the whole movie - even the menu options work! If I merely click on the DVD drive then a Microsoft player starts up and, in short, asks for money. If I choose VLC to open the DVD drive then it will not play. I'd be interested to know if I can set things up to get the movie to play just by clicking on the DVD drive. Thanks Update2: after changing the region of my computer to Europe, I am now able to play movies by right-clicking on the DVD drive and choosing 'Play with VLC'. I wonder how I change the default DVD player from Microsoft to VLC? 78.151.96.82 ( talk) 20:46, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Deleting it--Jessica A Bruno 22:37, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
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Again, I am haunted by these. Some time ago I asked about eliminating unwanted zoom or windowpanes in the picture of an HDTV. But since we got a new cable box, the problem has returned with a vengeance. Windowpane screens are ever-present along the sides of the picture, and no amount of meddling I do with the settings get rid of them. 4x3, 16x9, 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i, they do nothing! My TV is rated up to 1080p, by the way. What should I do?-- The Ninth Bright Shiner 02:31, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice above ("restoring Vista backup to XP"), which I followed, but ran into a problem. I wrote to HP:
Their response was to rename the backup source (an external hard drive) and try again. Same error. Is there any way I can recover the files? -- Halcatalyst ( talk) 18:08, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
A friend has an office set up in shed in his back yard. With the recent winter temperatures here in the UK, he has been leaving a heater on in the office to keep the tempertature above freezing. Unfortunately, the heater does get turned off on some occasions. He recently had a problem where his PC (a Dell Hybrid, running Vista) refused to start. After a couple of hours he was eventually able to get it started and could run the various recovery options which claimed to have fixed some corruption on the system volume. Could disk corruption be caused by below freezing temperatures, or should he be looking for other causes such as malware? Astronaut ( talk) 19:54, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
I cannot get VLC media player to play a DVD on my computer. The DVD drive is active for a while, after a while the slider on the slider bar of VLC quickly moves from one end to the other, but nothing else happens. What do I need to do please? The DVD I've tried is dated 2000, and I am in Europe. Thanks 89.243.45.81 ( talk) 20:58, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I am sure that my DVD drive can read DVDs. And the DVDs are not scratched either. I'm hoping someone is going to explain what codecs or CSS decoders I would need to download and what exactly I do with them. 78.151.145.153 ( talk) 01:49, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Update: I've found that it works perfectly if I 'open' the DVD disk, then click on the VIDEO_TS folder, then click on the VIDEO_TS.IFO. VLC then starts and plays the whole movie - even the menu options work! If I merely click on the DVD drive then a Microsoft player starts up and, in short, asks for money. If I choose VLC to open the DVD drive then it will not play. I'd be interested to know if I can set things up to get the movie to play just by clicking on the DVD drive. Thanks Update2: after changing the region of my computer to Europe, I am now able to play movies by right-clicking on the DVD drive and choosing 'Play with VLC'. I wonder how I change the default DVD player from Microsoft to VLC? 78.151.96.82 ( talk) 20:46, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Deleting it--Jessica A Bruno 22:37, 24 December 2009 (UTC)