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I read that a good way to repair IE is to uninstall it, then reboot, and the computer will prompt you to download it. Will the computer be able to download it without IE installed? (I also have Firefox installed.) Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:21, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:23, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I just now got around to doing that and it didn't work. I turned off IE9 as described and rebooted. Then I tried to run the IE9 install program. It would not run because it said that a newer version was installed. So I went back and turned IE9 back on in the control panel, but it won't come back at all. IE.exe doesn't even show up in the search. What now to get IE and Windows Update back? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:34, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
On Windows, when you click on the red X in the upper right hand corner, this normally shuts down a program. However, Spotify minimizes itself to the task bar. Is there a way to get red X to exit the program? I just find this annoying and I don't see anything in the settings that lets me change this behavior. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 17:22, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed that with some applications in Windows XP (MS Access 2007, for one), an originally maximized window would at some point shrink a little. The window is still technically maximized (the function of the middle button in the minimize-restore-close set of buttons in the top right corner is still "restore down"), but there is a one- or two-pixel area on each side of the window clicking on which brings to the foreground whatever window is in the background. If "restore down" is clicked, the window shrinks as expected, and maximizing it back maximizes it properly (without the one-pixel strips on the sides). I can't figure out what may be causing this behavior, and it is pretty annoying as these few pixels are occasionally all that it takes for scroll bars to appear within Access. Any ideas?— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); May 15, 2012; 18:53 (UTC)
I have been doing simple AJAX refreshs of things like a number that changes its value over time or of some text field. I was wondering if I can use AJAX to refresh a page in the following way and if so, how to do it (in principle)? The site is an internet auction and the page I want to refresh is the list of a user's winning auctions, i.e. the list of all active auctions that a user has been bidding in and in which the user is currently the highest bidder. Each item in the list consists of various types of data (image, text description, current bid price, etc.). For simplicity, let's say it is arranged in an array/table where each row corresponds to an item and there are columns for image, description, bid price, etc. If the user is overbid for an item or if an auction ends (i.e. the user wins the auction) this item should disappear from the table, i.e. the row should disappear. Can I do this with AJAX? bamse ( talk) 21:45, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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I read that a good way to repair IE is to uninstall it, then reboot, and the computer will prompt you to download it. Will the computer be able to download it without IE installed? (I also have Firefox installed.) Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:21, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:23, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I just now got around to doing that and it didn't work. I turned off IE9 as described and rebooted. Then I tried to run the IE9 install program. It would not run because it said that a newer version was installed. So I went back and turned IE9 back on in the control panel, but it won't come back at all. IE.exe doesn't even show up in the search. What now to get IE and Windows Update back? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:34, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
On Windows, when you click on the red X in the upper right hand corner, this normally shuts down a program. However, Spotify minimizes itself to the task bar. Is there a way to get red X to exit the program? I just find this annoying and I don't see anything in the settings that lets me change this behavior. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 17:22, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed that with some applications in Windows XP (MS Access 2007, for one), an originally maximized window would at some point shrink a little. The window is still technically maximized (the function of the middle button in the minimize-restore-close set of buttons in the top right corner is still "restore down"), but there is a one- or two-pixel area on each side of the window clicking on which brings to the foreground whatever window is in the background. If "restore down" is clicked, the window shrinks as expected, and maximizing it back maximizes it properly (without the one-pixel strips on the sides). I can't figure out what may be causing this behavior, and it is pretty annoying as these few pixels are occasionally all that it takes for scroll bars to appear within Access. Any ideas?— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); May 15, 2012; 18:53 (UTC)
I have been doing simple AJAX refreshs of things like a number that changes its value over time or of some text field. I was wondering if I can use AJAX to refresh a page in the following way and if so, how to do it (in principle)? The site is an internet auction and the page I want to refresh is the list of a user's winning auctions, i.e. the list of all active auctions that a user has been bidding in and in which the user is currently the highest bidder. Each item in the list consists of various types of data (image, text description, current bid price, etc.). For simplicity, let's say it is arranged in an array/table where each row corresponds to an item and there are columns for image, description, bid price, etc. If the user is overbid for an item or if an auction ends (i.e. the user wins the auction) this item should disappear from the table, i.e. the row should disappear. Can I do this with AJAX? bamse ( talk) 21:45, 15 May 2012 (UTC)