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I’m suffering from the dreaded Radeon mouse cursor corruption. The problem is intermittent and can be “solved” by putting the computer to sleep or restarting it. I hope simply restarting the graphics drivers will remove the symptoms of the problem. This question would seem to indicate that restarting the graphics drivers is possible in Windows […]

On my old XP machine I would simply copy shortcuts into the %userprofile%SendTo folder. On Windows-7 this folder is hidden, and I don’t have access to it (which surprised me, it is my SendTo folder after all). Is there an “approved” way of adding to my Send To menu that I’m unaware of? Or do

The only way I found so far to have a normal web surfing, while the uTorrent is on, is to limit its bandwidth usage. There is a smarter way where the torrent can use the remaining bandwidth? Solution: 1-Choose a good ISP The bottleneck could be at your ISP’s DSLAM / CMTS, and if your

I just upgraded my 3 year old computer (Core 2 Duo to Athlon II), but I intend to keep my original hard disk. I have two OS on the HDD, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. After inserting the hard disk to the new computer, Ubuntu works just fine, but Windows does not even start. I

First of all I’d like to say I’ve read topics but I have not been able to find an answer. I’ve had a power cut and when my PC with Windows 7 64-bit (12Gb RAM / Core i7) reboot, I’ve lost my perfectly working Internet connection. Now there’s an “unknown network = Public network” instead.

When my Windows 7 machine crashes, I can’t find any information in the event logs that can help me track down the problem. Is there a setting I can turn on to log more information so I can capture the last action taken before the OS crashes? I’m more interested in how to troubleshot these

I am using Google Chrome. I re-installed it today as it was crashing when I start it. I guess may be that this was due to any of my Extensions or Google Update. I disabled my extensions but it was still crashing. Now I installed an old version of chrome from http://www.oldapps.com/google_chrome.php. However, Chrome automaticallyuppdates

When you browse a website, the “favicon” icon shows up in the tab or next to the URL (or next to the bookmark). If I want that graphic, is there a way to download it directly from the site? I’d prefer to download it directly from the web, but if all else fails, I’ll dig

HP Pavilion complains about Bitlocker saying TPM is not found. Is there a setting that I need to enable in the motherboard or is there an update for it? Solution: It’s possible to encrypt your OS drive with BitLocker, but if your system does not have a built-in TPM, the only other options are to

If I play Google Music, or a Youtube video in the Chrome browser, and then open a new tab and start typing the address bar, the audio will quickly cut in and out as I am typing (with almost every letter I type). It also is choppy if I play the video and start typing