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My Windows 7 system makes an intermittent ding sound (like a single chime, or bell).  I don’t know which process does it.  So, my question is: Is there software/method out there that can tell me which processes are currently sending output to the sound device? Solution: Fire up the volume control which will list all […]

What is the shortest route to Device Manager? Solution: Click on the Start menu and type (or type the same in a command-line window, CMD.EXE): devmgmt.msc Or you can just type Device Manager and it should come up.

I was using another account before. Let me call it account A. And I deleted a lot of files to the Recycle Bin at that time. But before I removed account A I forgot to empty the Recycle Bin. My question is, are my files still there? I’ve searched and found that the Recycle Bin

I have a brand new flash drive (one week old) that has become marked as read only, by Windows, Kubuntu and a bootable partitioner. Why did this happen? Is it fixable? If it is, how can I fix this? The problem Firstly, this drive is new. It’s certainly not been used enough to die from

This is a very peculiar problem with a station on our network.  The client pc is running Windows 7 Pro.  What makes this problem interesting is that this client is the only node on the network that seems to be experiencing this proglem.  When I try to ping a specific Win 08 server by host

  Possible Duplicate:  How to avoid bit torrent to degrade my connection performance without limiting bandwidth usage?   I’m not a regular “torrenter”, but I use µTorrent occasionally to download large files quickly (the Ubuntu CD, for instance). While µTorrent is running, my internet seems to slow down to a crawl. I get about a

My computer seems to randomly turn itself on, usually in the middle of the night when I’m asleep. It’s in my bedroom so it wakes me up. I’m running Windows 7 and I don’t know if it’s trying to runs updates but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything once it’s on. It only seems

I am using win 7 64 bit. I tried the solution given here, didn’t help.  David’s answer makes me think this is futile.  Is there anything else to try? Updates: Notice that I have a graphic card on my motherboard (with 512MB), so in theory, it doesn’t need any external memory.  Also, notice the BIOS

I use HD Tune to measure performance of the hard drive.  The tests typically take 2-3 minutes and the transfer rate of a regular hard drive decreases dramatically as the test comes to a close. However, the SSD drive performance stays the same over (pic below) the life of the test.  This happens on all

After connecting from my home via remote desktop, both my screens are black when I arrive at work. The only thing I can see is a mouse pointer on one of the screens. I then seem to have only two choices: rebooting or working from a remote desktop connection, which works fine. It did happen