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Created by woolf on December 29, 2011 11:47:37
Last update: December 29, 2011 11:48:11
My Dell laptop wasn't able to use an external monitor after a week's vacation. The symptoms were:
No response when pressing Fn+F8 to swtich displays.
"No signal" on external monitor.
Bring up "Screen Resolution" dialog, only one monitor is avaiable.
Click "Advanced settings" in "Screen Resolution" dialog, Adapter Type displays "VgaSave".
There's no "Display adapters" section in Device Manager .
Solution: re-install the video display driver. My laptop came with Nvidia GPU so I reinstalled the Nvidia driver. Download the driver pack from Dell. The Windows 7 CAB file is about 1GB, which indludes all kinds of drivers.
Created by woolf on December 29, 2011 10:12:53
Last update: December 29, 2011 10:14:17
To identify the display driver info with the DirectX Diagnostic Tool included in Widnows 7 and Vista:
Bring up the "Run" dialog with the Win button
Type dxdiag and press Enter.
Click the Diaplay tab.
Created by woolf on September 07, 2011 08:16:10
Last update: September 07, 2011 08:17:09
Follow these steps to restore the Gnome panel if you deleted it by accident:
Open a terminal by bringing up the Run dialog and entering gnome-terminal
In the terminal enter:
$ gconftool-2 --shutdown
$ rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps...
Created by woolf on September 07, 2011 08:09:03
Last update: September 07, 2011 08:09:03
Use the shortcut Alt+F2 to bring up the "Run" dialog. This may be handy when you lost the Gnome panel on the desktop.
Created by woolf on June 25, 2011 10:55:08
Last update: June 25, 2011 10:57:15
My C drive was seriously fragmented with about 20% free space. So I ran the built-in Windows disk defrag utility. To my surprise it doesn't work at all! I tried to defragment multiple times and every time it comes back without doing much work. Then I realized that perhaps it didn't know how to get the job done and needed some help. Here's the list of things I did to help the defragmentor out: Relocate the paging file to a different drive and reboot. If the paging file ( pagefile.sys ) is seriously fragmented, it can't be defragmented, and in turn it blocks other files from being defragmented. If you only have one drive (C:), try to make it smaller or eliminate it entirely for...
Created by woolf on October 22, 2010 03:24:32
Last update: October 22, 2010 03:25:14
ProductivityPortfolio has an excellent explanation about Hibernate and Standby . To restate the key points: Standby Enters low power mode by cutting off items such as hard drive and monitor Computer is still running Data is stored in RAM for quick recovery You may lose data when power runs out Hibernate Computer is shutdown and is no longer consuming power Data is saved to hard disk Wake up is not as fast as from Standby, but may be faster than Power On. Additional Notes: Check the Power Options applet in the control panel to see if you can turn on Hibernate (in the following screenshot, Hibernate cannot be enabled since there's not enough disk space). To bring up the Hibernate option when shutting down, hold...
Created by woolf on June 16, 2010 16:55:37
Last update: June 21, 2010 02:46:05
Windows XP has built-in capability for burning folders/files onto a CD ROM. Use the Recording tab in the CD-ROM drive properties dialog to configure the options:
However, it doesn't have the capability to burn ISO images. On the MS site it was suggested that ISO Recorder would do the job. I tried it on two different machines and both failed with " generic error ". I'm running Windows XP professional SP2 on both.
Update: Actually the above error for ISO Recorder was caused by a monitoring program the company installed to block CD-ROM write access. Although unsuccessful, ISO Recorder actually went further than other programs. cdburn.exe from the Windows 2003 Resource Kit died at 0% without emitting any error message.
Created by woolf on July 30, 2009 23:08:23
Last update: July 30, 2009 23:09:30
This works for Excel 2003 and Excel 2007.
Bring up the Folder Options dialog (My Computer ->Tools -> Folder Options).
Select File Types , highlight XLSX (or XLS for 2003), click Advanced .
Uncheck "Browse in same window".
Highlight Open , click Edit .
Change the end of Application used to perform action to: EXCEL.EXE" "%1" . Empty DDE Message and DDE Application Not Running .
Created by woolf on April 17, 2009 01:51:27
Last update: April 17, 2009 02:20:52
Configuration
Bring up the System Properties dialog and click the System Restore tab.
Usage
Bring up the System Restore tool from the Accessories -> System Tools -> System Restore menu.
Cleanup
Open disk properties (right click on the drive, select properties), in the general tab click Disk Cleanup , click the More Options tab to clean up space used by System Restore .
Reference
Windows XP System Restore Is Easy to Use
Created by woolf on March 27, 2009 23:42:40
Last update: April 01, 2009 20:29:16
It's so frustrating. When you print out an outlook message with pictures in it, the images come out blank. I found a check box in the print dialog, checked it and it worked.
Additional note : This is the Print dialog you bring up from the main window File menu. If you double click and open the message, open the Print dialog from the message window, it's a different dialog! My outlook version is 2003 SP3.
Additional note 2 : And this works only when you double click to open the message first. It doesn't work when printing out of the main window.
