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I want to change the color scheme of the command prompt in Windows, ideally a default of 0a (green color on black background). How can I change this? Solution: Open a Command Prompt, click the icon (top-left), select Properties. Choose Colors, adjust to taste. It will ask you if you want to save the colour…
Last night my 500 GB Seagate hard drive was fine but this morning it suddenly started crashing, somehow I made it work after a chkdsk but 2 partitions show space is full now but it wasn’t when the drive was fine. The 3rd partition one is also acting weird. Whenever I try to open any…
Is it possible on to switch a console to full-screen in Windows XP on a single monitor? Meaning on a dual monitor that only the left (or right) screen displays the console while the other one remains on Windows. By full-screen I mean true-fullscreen mode, not just resizing (maximize) to fill in the screen. Solution:…
I would like to allow concurrent users on an XP install, but I was wondering if there was a way to do it with out swapping dll’s and booting into safe mode. (Registry changes are fine) Solution: No, that’s not possible. The restriction is hard coded into the terminal server dll’s provided with Windows XP….
I have a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium with Norton Internet Security 2009. I like to help my father and sister by connecting their PCs over the internet and taking full control. My father has Windows Vista Home Premium and my sister has Windows XP SP3. Both of them are using McAfee Internet Security…
When you right-click save-as a web page in FF, the page is saved along with a folder containing any associated media that page needs (images, js, etc). My problem is that I want to reorganise the associated media folder, but wherever I move this folder, the saved .html file is moved as well. ARGH! I…
Is it possible to “upmix” (split) stereo output from games, winamp, youtube and so on through 5.1 speaker set? Movies from DVD or some games uses all 6 speakers, but most of today’s usage does not. I know foobar2000 can upmix stereo MP3 to all speakers, I’d like to process all stereo sound that way….
I’ve got a USB stick with multiple Partitions on it (FAT32 (active), FAT32, Ext2, but that’s another story) and it seems like that my Windows XP can only mount the first partition of the stick. If I try to mount the second one using the volume manager it tells me that I need to make…
I have a Vista-based media center, and two XP-based desktop computers, all on a simple home WLAN network (DSL/WLAN router). The Vista computer can see all other computers and transfer/modify files shared on XP, but my XP computers see only each other and not the Vista computer — why? I can ping the Vista computer…
After two months of working correctly, I am experiencing an strange and very annoying problem. My mouse pointer is moving on its own. If I move the mouse to the left, as soon as I stop the movement, the pointer runs again to the far right. This makes the mouse totally unusable. The mouse device…
