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Remove Filter  | I have an HP 7600 tower. When I try to commect a microphone, the Recording tab on the Sound window says "No audio devices are installed." Right clicked to show hidden and disconnected devices. None found. Troubleshoot recording could not find the trouble. Speaker Driver tests as the current driver: … |
| | I keep getting the following error when using certain websites: "The connection has been reset." I never see it with other websites. Does this indicate a bad internet connection, something wrong with the website, site overload, or a denial of service attack? |
| | I made the following css: .mo {font-family: monospace; font-size: 9pt;} td {border: solid thin #000000; padding: 4pt;} With the following html (part of a table) <td class="mo">abcdefg <br />hijklmn</td> The text is not displaying in a monospaced font in Firefox. The i is narrower and the m is wider. The … |
| | My brother has Windows XP with a large number of art programs that don't work in newer versions of Windows. Last thrusday, he got a an art file from a colleague with a .rar extension. He downloaded WinZip to open it. It would not open the art file. Now the … |
| | I had the Yahoo Real Player until Yahoo discontinued it. The player continued to work, but was not updated. The problem is that the computer it was installed on died. The replacement computer has XP on it, but not Real Player. I tried to get a new version of Real … |
| | My computer stopped booting normally 3 days ago. Here are the particulars: - The computer is a Dell Optiplex 840 with 1 MB RAN and 40 GB hard drive. - I have Windows XP because I have legacy software that can't be upgraded. - I have a USB keyboard and … |
| | How do you make a style that affects the font attributes of [B]only[/B] the numbers in ordered lists (ol) without affecting the contents of the list items? No kludges please, and the solution must validate as XHTML 1.0 strict.  |
| | I teach a beginners class using Excel. During an examination, some of my students misread the instructions (provided by the department, not by me). These are the kinds of errors only a novice could make. This caused the following two errors to occur. - Instead of just putting data into … |
| | I have relative links in a menu page of the form: [CODE]<li><a href="info.htm#part1">See Part 1 of the problem</a></li>[/CODE] In the target page, the anchor is made as follows: [CODE]<h1><a name="part1">Part 1 of the Problem</a></h1>[/CODE] Now, after upgrading to Firefox 4, I am getting a 405 error: URL /Part1.html not found. … |
| | Normally, when I put a photo on a website, the photo stays the same aspect ratio on both widescreen and normal monitors. But I have one web page where I need to resize the photos to all be the same width. I used the CSS width attribute, with an inch …  |
| | The W3C validator site is not working right for me. A few other sites (but not many) also say the file I sent is blank. Other sites are working with no troubles, and receive uploads normally. The facts: - Two different computers are doing the same thing. - Both computers … |
| | I need to search for all files on my computer that contain certain html tags. I tried the search function that comes with Windows Explorer (My Computer), and it can't find html tags, even in files I know contain them. I have Windows XP. |
| | When I start my computer, I see a strange icon I don't recognize in my system tray. It is picture of a cowboy with an orange face and a white cowboy hat. It shows up for just a few seconds during start-up, then vanishes. If I try to doubleclick it, … |
| | I am searching for the latest developments on an engineering problem. The problem is that the search engines return thousands of pages on the subject, most of which I have read many times. Is there any way to limit a web search to sites that appeared within the last month? |
| | I want to do the following: - Connect to DSL from two computers. - Transfer files between the two computers. - Use one printer from either computer. - Occasionally isolate one computer from this setup when running certain software (due to latency requirements) The computers each have one Ethernet port …  |
| | I posted a question about this several months ago, but the search function is so bad that I can't find it again. I again have an image that is being overlapped by a table below it in Firefox. This happens whenever the following is true: - The image file is … |
| | What kinds of microphones work with soundcards? I have some old microphones, and wonder if they can be used. They are not microphones intended for computer use, but for handheld cassette recorders.  |
| | Firefox 2 issue when posting and reading threads. Whenever I post today, I get a perpetual "loading" animation. I have to refresh the screen to see the post. I cannot edit a post, I get the perpetual "loading" animation. Using refresh brings back the original page, not the edit screen. … |
| | Is there an easy (and free) way to copy just the audio portion of an .flv file to another file? Or is there a way to get PowerPoint to play just the audio portion of an .flv file. A co-worker made an .flv video of an event on campus. I … |
| | My Office 2007 just arrived. But it came on DVDs. But I don't have a DVD drive. Short of buying a drive I don't otherwise need, is there any way to install it? I must have it installed in two days. |
| | I can't install any Windows XP upgrades, including Service Pack 3, after the following sequence of events: 1. I used SpyBot to check for spyware. It found 8 objects and removed them. 2. The next time I turned on my computer, it immediately logged off my user name each time … |
| | The links to mark the entire topic as read are gone. Or at least I can't find them.  |
| | I am again having troubles with some of the same things: - The tooltips are appearing fast enough to be pesky when I move the mouse to an item. They seem about 3 times as fast as they used to be last week. - I am again losing the text-insertion … |
| | Several times today, the page has refreshed by itself while I was entering a post. One time it happened while I was editing a post (the edit box disappeared and the unedited page reappeared). Each time, I lost the text I entered. GRIMBIMBLES MOOMSNOPS! (An exclamation from an old Pogo …  |
| | How do I get rid of this square full of text that chases my cursor around the forum topic lists like an angry bee. It is annoying, especially when the text spills out from the square and covers other text. It used to appear only if I hovered over the …  |
| | XHTML has removed the "name" attribute. But the JavaScript method for reading radio buttons requires the "name" attribute to be the same on each radio button. W3C says to use "id", but that no more than one "id" is valid. I need to write an XHTML page with radio buttons. … |
| | How can I get JavaScript to display values and attributes when they are written to input boxes by the script, instead of waiting for a rather lengthy (10 sec) calculation to finish? - IE does not change the boxes at all, until after the script finishes. - FF displays the … |
| | When I am trying to use the Quick Reply box, the page sometimes starts shifting up or down so the Quick Reply box scrolls off the screen. Then I can't type without moving the vertical scroll bar to bring the box back. |
| | OK, I know how to address all of the radio buttons on a page as an array, and address all of the radio buttons in a single group as an array. And I know how to create multidimensional objects in JavaScript. But how can I create a two-dimensional array of … |
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