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According to the wikipedia article AOL Desktop is an Internet Suite that combines a browser, media center etc. However, what internet browser is it using exactly? I feel like this is a stupid question but I ask because I had a technical support question come in from a customer who was using this program. As the AOL browser itself was discontinued 7 years ago many websites no longer support it so I expected that to be his issue. I'd like to know for sure should I ever come across anyone else using this system. Thanks. 63.95.64.254 ( talk) 00:42, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Is it possible to get a free domain name that works just like a regular non-free domain name? What I found (e.g. http://www.dot.tk/ ) assumes that I already have a website somewhere under some domain name and only want a free redirect domain name. I already have a server running a website with a regular (non-free) domain and would like to experiment running a second website from the same server. Until I have decided on the final domain name for that second website, I'd like to use a free domain. Basically for testing the setting of my web and DNS server. So I don't really care on what the domain name is (could be "asfd962fa.tk" or whatever), as long as it is free and works like a normal domain name. bamse ( talk) 09:39, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
A user came in the office a bit ago complaining that she could click in a cell in Excel but then couldn't type anything in. I asked her to bring the laptop, a Toshiba running Win7, by and she did. What was open was Firefox and Lotus Notes but not Excel. I didn't ask her why it wasn't running when that's what she was complaining about. I was unable to get the left or right mouse buttons on the track pad to do anything though. It was as if they were clicking right through whatever window was there and clicking on the desktop. But the right button wasn't pulling up a contextual menu. I could move the pointer around with the track pad but not use the buttons. I eventually got an external track ball and was able to use that to check the mouse settings where I didn't find anything out of the ordinary. I then opened Excel and found that I could click in a cell and input text. So, I couldn't confirm the original issue. I closed Excel and tried the track pad and its buttons again. And just like that, they were working perfectly! The user was fine with that and went away but I'm still left wondering what could have caused the buttons not to function. Any ideas?
Note: This is not a request for medical or legal advice. Thank you, Dismas| (talk) 10:23, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
This developed further after I submitted the above question but I haven't had time to follow up here until now. She brought it back at the end of my shift saying that the buttons on the track pad were once again not working. So this issue comes and goes. One of my coworkers, who came in on the tail end of this, suggested that it might be a driver issue with the track pad. Today was my last day at work until Thursday and I won't see the user until Sunday, but when I do I will try to get a minute to update her track pad driver to see if that changes anything. Dismas| (talk) 17:08, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
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According to the wikipedia article AOL Desktop is an Internet Suite that combines a browser, media center etc. However, what internet browser is it using exactly? I feel like this is a stupid question but I ask because I had a technical support question come in from a customer who was using this program. As the AOL browser itself was discontinued 7 years ago many websites no longer support it so I expected that to be his issue. I'd like to know for sure should I ever come across anyone else using this system. Thanks. 63.95.64.254 ( talk) 00:42, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Is it possible to get a free domain name that works just like a regular non-free domain name? What I found (e.g. http://www.dot.tk/ ) assumes that I already have a website somewhere under some domain name and only want a free redirect domain name. I already have a server running a website with a regular (non-free) domain and would like to experiment running a second website from the same server. Until I have decided on the final domain name for that second website, I'd like to use a free domain. Basically for testing the setting of my web and DNS server. So I don't really care on what the domain name is (could be "asfd962fa.tk" or whatever), as long as it is free and works like a normal domain name. bamse ( talk) 09:39, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
A user came in the office a bit ago complaining that she could click in a cell in Excel but then couldn't type anything in. I asked her to bring the laptop, a Toshiba running Win7, by and she did. What was open was Firefox and Lotus Notes but not Excel. I didn't ask her why it wasn't running when that's what she was complaining about. I was unable to get the left or right mouse buttons on the track pad to do anything though. It was as if they were clicking right through whatever window was there and clicking on the desktop. But the right button wasn't pulling up a contextual menu. I could move the pointer around with the track pad but not use the buttons. I eventually got an external track ball and was able to use that to check the mouse settings where I didn't find anything out of the ordinary. I then opened Excel and found that I could click in a cell and input text. So, I couldn't confirm the original issue. I closed Excel and tried the track pad and its buttons again. And just like that, they were working perfectly! The user was fine with that and went away but I'm still left wondering what could have caused the buttons not to function. Any ideas?
Note: This is not a request for medical or legal advice. Thank you, Dismas| (talk) 10:23, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
This developed further after I submitted the above question but I haven't had time to follow up here until now. She brought it back at the end of my shift saying that the buttons on the track pad were once again not working. So this issue comes and goes. One of my coworkers, who came in on the tail end of this, suggested that it might be a driver issue with the track pad. Today was my last day at work until Thursday and I won't see the user until Sunday, but when I do I will try to get a minute to update her track pad driver to see if that changes anything. Dismas| (talk) 17:08, 5 November 2013 (UTC)