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Sometimes, users are so hellbent on hating you that they'll remember your IP address so that you don't escape their hate just by changing your username.
Then you figure out how to change your IP address.
There are two other methods of users still figuring out who you are, that I know of:
What are some other, more technical methods of finding out who you were? How commonly are those methods employed, and how do you circumvent said methods? -- 70.179.163.168 ( talk) 00:28, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
i got water on my laptop keyboard and the arrow buttons are going crazy and the rest of the keyboard is shot. i have a usb keyboard, but the wild normal laptop overrides it. is there a way to disable it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.181.202.2 ( talk) 01:24, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I have a dos base software name 'cross' which is use in retail medicine shop. I have dell inspiron laptop with core i3 processer. in my laptop i install windox xp and the software runnim=ng well I also used a epson dot matrix printer. to print out from printer I use two operation 1. control panel-add hardware-wizard-I have already attached hardware-add new hardware-network adapter-loopback adapter and 2. c:\documents and setting\administrator>net use lpt1 \\computer name\shaired printer name then show ... the command completed successfully but now I install windos 7 ultimate in my laptop, my software running well in my laptop.I want to print out by printer I performed operation 2 before operation 1 and it happens many times e:\user\Supriyo>net use lpt1 \\computer mane\shaired printer name it show ... the command completed sucessfully but I can not get print then I performed operation 1 and then 2 but it show system error 85 occured the local device name is already in use what can I do to get print in windos 7 ultimate. Gonsusona ( talk) 02:35, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
ok I will try it. Gonsusona ( talk) 10:33, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I have a laptop with a nVidia 540M graphic card and Windows 7 64 bits. Is it possible to stretch the screen rather than having two huge black bars on each side of the screen when I'm running older games that don't have built-in support for widescreen, nor fan-made hacks? My nVidia control panel only has options for custom settings like AA filtering, even with the latest drivers. Same thing for the Intel graphical drivers thingy. Actually I believe there's an option (It's in French and I'm used to English computing terms, quite ironically) but there's only one choice (something to the effect of center screen (FUUU). I also tried using the «maximize» option of shortcuts. Doesn't work either.
I'm thinking about installing a Windows XP 32 bits partition, because a significant number of older games either don't run or they run very badly (brillant Microsoft engineers decided to dump 16 bits support in Win 7 x64 - despite a lot of early 2000s applications still relying on it to some extent). Will this also fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.18.145.160 ( talk) 06:38, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I did not know about the whole 16 bits thing, sorry. I stand corrected.
Oddly enough, I just unlocked the stretching option in the Intel Graphical Drivers thingy. After fiddling around and pressing the hotkey for enable/disable panel fitting which is CTRL+ALT+F11, My desktop changed to a "center screen" mode (I had the two ugly black bars on my desktop). But under Intel Graphical Device, I now had three options, so I choose to revert to default, which was supposed to stretch in the first place, and I maxed my resolution, as it had been downgraded. Now the games are shown correctly, and there is only one choice under "stretching", like before.
Probably a registry bug or something? This is weird (but cool) Raskolkhan ( talk) 18:36, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I would like to install IMEs for Hindi, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. However, I'd like to find a way to do so without needing MS office first so that I can type in those languages without it. Thanks. -- 70.179.163.168 ( talk) 08:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Dell had me reinstall Windows while saving all my previous files to windows.old. I tried opening MS Office from there but I couldn't. Since it came with the laptop, I asked them to send me a replacement copy but they said I had to pay for another one (if they practically mandated a reinstall, then I ought to get software that originally came with the system replaced for free.) Because of this, next year, my next laptop will not be from Dell.
How do I take the MS office files from the windows.old folders anyhow so that I can get them to work again? Are there other (legal) ways to get MS office to work again for free? -- 70.179.163.168 ( talk) 08:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I just looked for an article [1] only to realize it was one of those stupid Kluwer abstracts that changes to another page ( [2]) if you have JavaScript disabled, or are running NoScript, etc. Normally when I don't have the patience for this I just hit the Stop button as it's loading. But voila, I can't find a stop button on Firefox 5.0, even in the section to customize the menu. Fortunately control-U does work, so I managed to get a look at the source:
<noscript> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=/_layouts/1033/OAKS.Journals/Error/JavaScript.html" /> </noscript>
Anyway, how do I keep Firefox from doing this when I don't want it, and where did the stop button go? Wnt ( talk) 13:48, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
According to Defraggler, pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys (among some other things, including some supposedly random gibberish under C:\System Volume Information\ - what exactly is that anyway?) make up roughly 22% of the defragmented files on my Windows 7 laptop. Should I just let these files be, or should I go actually take the time to defrag them? 141.153.215.229 ( talk) 17:11, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I find Microsoft Word a frustrating and counterintuitive program, but I am compelled to use it in the office. Is there a way I could set up the particular preferences that I have to make a document remotely readable and apply them to any file I open? Specifically I'm talking about: font, line spacing, point size, indents, page display as Draft, language marked as English (UK) not English (US), page zoom set at 100%, etc.
It seems that I can alter these parameters laboriously, one by one, and save them as default preferences, but that only applies to files I create from scratch. When I open a document created by someone else (which applies to 95 per cent of the documents I have to work with), it retains their settings. Is there an easy (ideally single-step) way to apply my own preferential settings to such documents without having to go through the tiresome process of individually going to the respective pull-down menus and changing the font, line spacing, point size, indents, page display, language, page zoom, etc? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.100.56 ( talk) 19:23, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
The best you'll be able to find, IMO, is re-saving as RTF (which is a text format, not binary), and then parse out what you don't like. You can even convert from RTF to something more popular like HTML fairly easily and parse that instead. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 22:14, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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Sometimes, users are so hellbent on hating you that they'll remember your IP address so that you don't escape their hate just by changing your username.
Then you figure out how to change your IP address.
There are two other methods of users still figuring out who you are, that I know of:
What are some other, more technical methods of finding out who you were? How commonly are those methods employed, and how do you circumvent said methods? -- 70.179.163.168 ( talk) 00:28, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
i got water on my laptop keyboard and the arrow buttons are going crazy and the rest of the keyboard is shot. i have a usb keyboard, but the wild normal laptop overrides it. is there a way to disable it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.181.202.2 ( talk) 01:24, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I have a dos base software name 'cross' which is use in retail medicine shop. I have dell inspiron laptop with core i3 processer. in my laptop i install windox xp and the software runnim=ng well I also used a epson dot matrix printer. to print out from printer I use two operation 1. control panel-add hardware-wizard-I have already attached hardware-add new hardware-network adapter-loopback adapter and 2. c:\documents and setting\administrator>net use lpt1 \\computer name\shaired printer name then show ... the command completed successfully but now I install windos 7 ultimate in my laptop, my software running well in my laptop.I want to print out by printer I performed operation 2 before operation 1 and it happens many times e:\user\Supriyo>net use lpt1 \\computer mane\shaired printer name it show ... the command completed sucessfully but I can not get print then I performed operation 1 and then 2 but it show system error 85 occured the local device name is already in use what can I do to get print in windos 7 ultimate. Gonsusona ( talk) 02:35, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
ok I will try it. Gonsusona ( talk) 10:33, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I have a laptop with a nVidia 540M graphic card and Windows 7 64 bits. Is it possible to stretch the screen rather than having two huge black bars on each side of the screen when I'm running older games that don't have built-in support for widescreen, nor fan-made hacks? My nVidia control panel only has options for custom settings like AA filtering, even with the latest drivers. Same thing for the Intel graphical drivers thingy. Actually I believe there's an option (It's in French and I'm used to English computing terms, quite ironically) but there's only one choice (something to the effect of center screen (FUUU). I also tried using the «maximize» option of shortcuts. Doesn't work either.
I'm thinking about installing a Windows XP 32 bits partition, because a significant number of older games either don't run or they run very badly (brillant Microsoft engineers decided to dump 16 bits support in Win 7 x64 - despite a lot of early 2000s applications still relying on it to some extent). Will this also fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.18.145.160 ( talk) 06:38, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I did not know about the whole 16 bits thing, sorry. I stand corrected.
Oddly enough, I just unlocked the stretching option in the Intel Graphical Drivers thingy. After fiddling around and pressing the hotkey for enable/disable panel fitting which is CTRL+ALT+F11, My desktop changed to a "center screen" mode (I had the two ugly black bars on my desktop). But under Intel Graphical Device, I now had three options, so I choose to revert to default, which was supposed to stretch in the first place, and I maxed my resolution, as it had been downgraded. Now the games are shown correctly, and there is only one choice under "stretching", like before.
Probably a registry bug or something? This is weird (but cool) Raskolkhan ( talk) 18:36, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I would like to install IMEs for Hindi, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. However, I'd like to find a way to do so without needing MS office first so that I can type in those languages without it. Thanks. -- 70.179.163.168 ( talk) 08:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Dell had me reinstall Windows while saving all my previous files to windows.old. I tried opening MS Office from there but I couldn't. Since it came with the laptop, I asked them to send me a replacement copy but they said I had to pay for another one (if they practically mandated a reinstall, then I ought to get software that originally came with the system replaced for free.) Because of this, next year, my next laptop will not be from Dell.
How do I take the MS office files from the windows.old folders anyhow so that I can get them to work again? Are there other (legal) ways to get MS office to work again for free? -- 70.179.163.168 ( talk) 08:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I just looked for an article [1] only to realize it was one of those stupid Kluwer abstracts that changes to another page ( [2]) if you have JavaScript disabled, or are running NoScript, etc. Normally when I don't have the patience for this I just hit the Stop button as it's loading. But voila, I can't find a stop button on Firefox 5.0, even in the section to customize the menu. Fortunately control-U does work, so I managed to get a look at the source:
<noscript> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=/_layouts/1033/OAKS.Journals/Error/JavaScript.html" /> </noscript>
Anyway, how do I keep Firefox from doing this when I don't want it, and where did the stop button go? Wnt ( talk) 13:48, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
According to Defraggler, pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys (among some other things, including some supposedly random gibberish under C:\System Volume Information\ - what exactly is that anyway?) make up roughly 22% of the defragmented files on my Windows 7 laptop. Should I just let these files be, or should I go actually take the time to defrag them? 141.153.215.229 ( talk) 17:11, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I find Microsoft Word a frustrating and counterintuitive program, but I am compelled to use it in the office. Is there a way I could set up the particular preferences that I have to make a document remotely readable and apply them to any file I open? Specifically I'm talking about: font, line spacing, point size, indents, page display as Draft, language marked as English (UK) not English (US), page zoom set at 100%, etc.
It seems that I can alter these parameters laboriously, one by one, and save them as default preferences, but that only applies to files I create from scratch. When I open a document created by someone else (which applies to 95 per cent of the documents I have to work with), it retains their settings. Is there an easy (ideally single-step) way to apply my own preferential settings to such documents without having to go through the tiresome process of individually going to the respective pull-down menus and changing the font, line spacing, point size, indents, page display, language, page zoom, etc? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.100.56 ( talk) 19:23, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
The best you'll be able to find, IMO, is re-saving as RTF (which is a text format, not binary), and then parse out what you don't like. You can even convert from RTF to something more popular like HTML fairly easily and parse that instead. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 22:14, 14 August 2011 (UTC)