Posts by MidiMagic

Here's what the image looked like to me.

The left image is the original icon, enlarged and blurred to the amount of blur I saw. The right image is a reconstruction of what my brain did with the blur. And I saw the other icon as a cowboy afterward, because I was watching for the cowboy image.

The subjective reconstruction of a fuzzy image by the brain is often dependent of previous experience. This is why too many people turn ordinary objects at a distance into UFOs. In my case, there were cowboys and cowgirls in my family when I was a kid.

And I had never seen either icon before in any context. Both were new icons.

If you don't have control because of the download, unplug the network cable.

Then clear your cache and make sure your browser is set to return to the default start page, instead of trying to restore your last session.

This is malware, but it is easily defeated.

Do you have any idea how many people have spent a lot of time trying to find your "Cowboy"?

It's only because the resolution is so low when the icon is shrunk to the size used in the notification area (system tray), and because it persisted for only a second or two.

I don't need an eye doctor. Higher resolution is needed in the system tray. It was totally impossible to tell what that icon was, based on the image I had on my monitor. Windows reduced the image to only 16 pixels in each direction.

I am using a CRT monitor, so there is quite a bit of blur when the icon is that small. That is a matter of lack of budget, not eyesight problems.

The square of the drive blurred into the cowboy hat. The red X blurred into the face and neck. And the pipe blurred onto what looked like shoulders.

Here is an approximation of what I saw. Remember that it was there for only a second or two, and that it was half this size (a quarter of the area):

I want to be sure I understand what you are talking. Are you saying that a USB device like a wireless mouse or Bluetooth adapter works fine, but if the device has a cord there is a problem? I think I'm confused!

I am saying that each port remembers the LAST device used in it.

When you put a new device into the same jack, the computer forgets what was in there before.

The USB flash drives are so common and standardized that Windows now has a standard driver for them. It is easily found by Windows and automatically used.

Bluetooth is also so widely known and standardized that there is a standard driver for it.

If you use a stranger device (one that is not widely known or not standardized), it needs its own driver. Some devices have the drivers built into them in a ROM. Others use a disk.

My computer remembers my camera, and it has a cord. But the camera asks for its driver by name. Your devices might not.

Each of your USB sockets remembers whatever device was plugged into it the LAST time something was plugged in. It forgets anything that was plugged into it earlier.

You may not have to use the disk each time. You might need to just point the port to the already installed driver with Add/Remove Hardware in the Control Panel. Apparently your corded devices are not smart enough to do that.

It was a result of my hurry, which is why the icon never appeared when I was diligently searching for it.

"Network Drive Not Found."

When I was in a hurry, I turned on only the computer I needed to do a quick email check.

When I was doing the detailed search, the entire network was powered up. So the icon didn't show up.

I discovered its true nature when I used Paint to paste the icon, and went into zoom to align it.

It WAS related to the router. Before I had the router, I didn't have a network drive. I installed the network drive in the other computer at the same time I installed the router. But it wasn't the Cisco Kid.

When shrunken down, the "Network Drive Not Found: icon looks like a cowboy. See the attached illustration:

In the upper left corner is the system tray notification area of the computer. The icons are:

- Lexmark printer driver
- Symantec antivirus
- "The cowboy icon"

At the right of that is the icon I thought was the "other cowboy icon".

Then I blew up both of the "cowboy" icons and pasted them underneath:

- The "Network Drive Not Found" icon
- The driver icon for my camera

It is a case of too much scrunch in the icon to make it fit the system tray.

It also explains why Windows …

I got it! It stayed long enough to take a picture.

if the 'corded' device needs its own USb driver (from a supplied disk) it will not work 'autoamltically) withouthat driverbeing installed
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Each device has its own rules. It doesn't matter whether or not it has a cord. You just happen to have corded devices that behave one way and uncorded devices that behave another way.

But part of the problem is how often the devices are used, and whether each one is used in a separate USB port, or if they are all plugged into the same port in turn.

The system remembers the last device used in any given port. If two devices are plugged into the same port one after the other, the system remembers the latest one used.

then take a picture with a camera, and post it here. now I really want to know what is it too.

That sure didn't work.

My digital camera is too ready to save power. While I tried to watch for the icon, the camera turned itself off. It takes several seconds to turn it back on. The icon didn't appear, but if it had, the camera would not have gotten it.

Also, the camera does not have the resolution needed for a shot from at least 3 feet away. If I get closer, the image is out of focus because the lens is fixed focus. Either way, the small icons in the notification area become blurs. I can see the desktop icons, but not the little ones.

Also, my camera waits 1 second before taking the shot. It is likely the icon would have disappeared before I pointed and shot. And I have to tell it that I don't want the flash just before the shot, taking several seconds more.

I HATE menus on cameras. My last analog camera also had menus. I would prefer knobs that don't turn themselves back to "standard".

I just thought of a known cowboy that might fit my case:

The Cisco Kid

I have a Cisco router.

It seems to be appearing on Tuesdays. At least it did so the last three weeks. But it also appeared last Friday.

I need to know a lot more about any piece of software that I would download and install on my computer, especially if it runs all the time. Too many pieces of software run all the time. I can't use my music studio software when these are running.

And there are entirely too many programs that get upset if the Internet isn't available. That's why I had to block that one program from starting. If I pulled the Internet cable out to do some serious recording without the antivirus eating up time scanning the result, it constantly opened dialog boxes complaining about it until the Internet connection was restored.

I figured out the "1" process.

I did it myself three years ago, to keep a "greedy" piece of software from automatically starting itself. If I deleted it from the startup list, the software just put it back the next time it ran. So I edited the registry instead, putting the 1 into the executable file position. I had forgotten it.

I need that software, but my music studio software also needs the computer to be free of extraneous processes.

When the software runs, it checks to see if the startup registry entry is there, but doesn't check to see if the executable filename is valid. So I fooled the software, keeping it from putting itself back in the auto start list.

This trick has no adverse effect on the computer. The computer can't find the path "1" when starting, so that process dies.

On the icon issue, there are no adverse effects from the icon, and neither Symantec nor Defender has detected it as malware in the 6 months since I first noticed it. Since it appears only once a week, I am thinking it is an updater for some piece of software I have.

It first appeared about the same time I got the digital camera and the router.

I used to have software that showed me every icon in the computer, and its filename and location. But it ran on Windows 3.1. Is there something like that for Windows XP?

I did the msconfig startup search, looked at files in their locations, and checked the icon of each of the items. None of the items had an icon that matched this mystery icon.

It shows up only about once a week.

More on the image. The cowboy has an eyepatch on the right side of the orange circle in the image.

The icon stayed a while this time, but disappeared when I pressed the control key to take the snapshot.

Now I have another mystery. There is a process named 1 in the startup list. The path is also just a 1. The location is in the registry.

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

I am having the same trouble when I try to log in after clicking on a post notification email link. I log in, and repeatedly get the same screen telling me to log in. It is not the same screen I get if I make a typo in the login attempt.

Something is busted.

I am not having any trouble. I just wondered what the icon is.

Use the fill handle.

Once you have typed in a formula, you can select it (so the black outline is around it).

In the lower right corner of the black outline is a little black square. This is the fill handle. The mouse pointer becomes a black cross when it is over the fill handle (as opposed to the white selecting cross or the 4-arrow move pointer).

Grab the fill handle and drag it in the direction you wish to copy the formula for as many rows as you want. The formulas will be copied to the range you select when you drag.

The absolute and relative addressing modes will be preserved, addressing the cells as you intended.

Note that if the cell includes the name of a month, a month abbreviation, a quarter, a day of the week, or a day of the week abbreviation, the cells the fill handle copied to will increment those, making a list of successive months, quarters, or days of the week.

mon fills to

mon tue wed thu

1 qtr fills to

1 qtr 2 qtr 3 qtr 4 qtr

jan fills to

jan feb mar apr may

If you select two numbered cells with different numbers in them, and drag the fill handle in the same direction the cells are lined up in, it will create a series. For instance, if I start with these cells selected:

1 2

No, I didn't find it

It has a similar look, but I saw the original icon today, and it was different.

Clues:

- It does not appear every boot cycle. I rebooted again 4 times after I saw it, and it wasn't there.

- I tried capturing a screenshot of it the first time it appeared today, and didn't get it in time. It disappeared before I could get my hands to the keyboard.

- This is weird, but when I watch the icons appear and disappear in the system tray, they appear in a different order every time.

- I searched the computer for all .ico files. It was not there.

- The correct icon does not have any colors except a thin black outline, an orange circle, and a white background.

- The icon for the camera also appears sometimes during boot. I was thinking they were the same icon for a while. They have never appeared together.

- The general shape is:

- - Centered at the top is the black outlined white "crown of the hat" that looks like a parabola opening downward.

- - Under that is the outlined wide "brim" that goes clear across the icon, consisting of a very thin black-outlined white ellipse.

- - Centered under that is the filled in orange circular "face" the same width as the crown. It might be elliptical in the vertical direction.

- …

I saw fixed pixel sizes in your design. That works for only one screen resolution.

The trouble may be as simple as the Vista computer having a different screen resolution (number of pixels available vertical and horizontal on the screen).

When you test your design, try opening the page in a browser that is restored down (so it doesn't fill the entire desktop). If the trouble happens there, you made your design so it works at only one screen size.

To design for varying screen resolutions, use:

em to size things relative to the font size.
% to size things relative to the screen width.

Note that you can NOT make a page that just fills the screen, and have it work on all screen resolutions, browsers, and aspect ratios. Different computers and settings will change the sizes of things.

And too many bosses expect a page that always just fills the screen. But the way the Internet works won't allow that.

It's OVER, not on top of. And the drop down might extend on the flash, temporarily when the menu is in use. Never seen that before?

Too many uses for the same word.

Can I just say that what MidiMagic is saying is not completely true..?
I'm not a Dreamweaver expert or whatsoever, and stumbled upon this article cause I'm trying to do the same thing... Eventually I just solved it with frames. I used a bottom frame in which I put the menu, then it will stay in the bottom when the page is scaled...
You might have figured it out in the meantime [a year has passed since your question] but I wanted to let you know anyway...
Hope this is the information you were looking for!

/edit: let us know if you're not familiar with frames ; )

How did you get it to move the frame to fit the different screen sizes?

I found it.

It's my new digital camera's interface package.

The icon is badly distorted when it's shrunk down to the mini size to fit in the tray. It is so unlike the desktop icon that I didn't recognize it.

The "cowboy hat" is the logo of the company. The "man's face", the "green grass" behind, and the "blue sky" are actually a shrunken version of a rainbow of color surrounding the logo.

It goes away quickly when the camera isn't connected.

It stays put when I connect the camera.

I think they tried to fit too much into the icon.

I tried that. But the icon appears before I have control. The icon is already gone when the screen is captured.

This happens as soon as the Windows desktop appears, before the keyboard and mouse do anything.

The icon is just the head of a cowboy (orange) in a white 10 gallon hat.

Could this have anything to do with initializing my Cisco router, my Siemens DSL modem, or my AT&T DSL account? The icon started appearing about the time I bought the router.

Other thoughts I had include Windows Defender, the flash drive I am using for a network drive, and one of my media players.

you can do one thing. you can check your startup program what was start with you os. go run and type msconfig. click startup tab. I think u can see it here. or if it run after disappear you can find out in process tab of windows task manager.

This does not identify which process goes with the icon.

I do not have control yet when I first see it.

I was really wondering if someone recognized the icon.

The only way to completely remove vocals from a recording without damaging other parts is to have the original multitrack recording the recording studio had when it recorded the song. But they aren't going to let you have access to that (If it's your song, that's different).

Or you can buy a karaoke version of the song, if it is offered.

What those vocal-removing machines or programs do is phase-cancel anything panned to where the vocals in the song are. But this has some serious drawbacks:

1. Anything else panned to the same location is also removed. Since the vocals are usually panned to center, and the kick and snare drums are also usually panned to center, the vocal remover removes them too.

2. If there is any distortion in the recording, the vocal (and the snare and kick) will leak through, especially in the higher frequencies, as a buzzing or tinny sound.

3. If the reverb of the vocal is panned elsewhere, it won't be removed.

4. Parts that are panned near to the vocal in the original recording will be diminished, compared to the parts that are panned farther away from the vocal. So the instrument balance shifts, favoring the harmony instruments usually panned wide over the melody instruments usually panned close to the vocal.

5. The resulting recording is always mono.

6. The data compression techniques used to make small mp3 files may prevent such devices or software from …

No web page is allowed to browse the local folders of the client computer. This is a security violation. It is illegal in many countries.

The only function allowed to have partial access to the folders of the client computer is the ftp upload/download function, under the direction of the client user himself.

You can do browsing of the folders of the portion of the server the web page owner has control over.

Well ok, I found out how to make GIFS from movies. But now I have ran into a new problem inserting them into other pics and still having them to play. Every time I copy and paste the animated gif to where I want it, its just one frame and does not play. How do I fix this?

You can't paste an animated .gif into another image. You have to either make the entire large image part of the animated .gif when you create it, or you have to place the animated image on top of the other image in the web page itself. You might try making the other image the background of some object.

Games do not just happen. You have to code every action, and everything that happens. It is lots of hard work.

This is the problem with taking the easy way out.

If you hard code your html, you can put things where you want them with much greater control.

But there is still the matter of browser incompatibilities.

You can't design a web page like you design a Word document. It will look different on different computers and different browsers.

I discovered that not having enough memory in the computer also causes this. The computer is swapping things out to disk and bringing them back in.

Position absolute causes computers with different screen resolutions to totally mess up the rendering. On top of that, IE renders it wrong. Never use it.

Any time you define something in pixels or absolute positioning that exceeds the window size, stuff like that happens. Use relative positions and percentage widths.

What kind of template?

A template for use in designing web pages belongs on your computer where you design the pages.

A template in css belongs wherever your pages expect it to be on the server.

Any other kind of template belongs where that kind of template is needed.

I found this on a search on the web a few seconds ago. The key seems to be to place the center align for the text in the body.

This is a known bug in IE rendering.

Absolute positioning is another known bug in IE. It does not render the same as other browsers render it.

If there is no doctype, it throws the browser into quirks mode. Quirks mode causes browsers to do things they don't normally do to try to render the page so everything is visible.

If you want to scan the files on the server, you need a server-side script, not javascript.

You can't look at the files on the client's computer for security reasons.

Whose exam is this?

Don't use negative sizes. You can't predict how a browser will interpret them.

Note that if the user's browser does not have the font you are using on yours, the results may be unpredictable.

There are many things that affect download speed:

1. The speed of your server
2. How busy your server is
3. Where your server is located within the Internet (that ultra busy site "next door" using up all of the bandwidth gubbies of the trunk lines)
4. The size of the page
5. The number of files in the page
6. How long a server-side script on the page takes to run
7. If the page has ads on it, all of the above factors applied to the ad server and the ad itself
8. How long any ad takes to run
9. The speed of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) of the user
10. How busy the user's ISP is
11. Where the user's ISP is located within the Internet
12. The speed of the user's computer
13. The configuration of the user's computer (enough memory, antivirus settings, which browser, etc)
14. The number of windows and processes open on the user's computer (more windows and processes, slower speed)
15. If the display resolution is an odd size, the time to convert the page to fit the display
16. How long a client-side script takes to run on the user's computer

What IS it doing wrong? Be specific.

Why would anyone want a clickable link on top of a moving background? That seems like it would be very hard for the user to see or use.

This definitely does not meet the new requirements in some countries that websites be accessible to the disabled (including dyslexia). Your site may be blocked in such countries.

I am not sure what you want.

If you are wanting to deal with an established dealer in these things, we can't recommend things like that. Use Google or Yahoo search engines for that.

If you are looking for a place to host your website, try freewebhosting.com to find sites. They can recommend such places.

Note that the traffic will be what you make of your site, not what the hosting site gets. The content of your pages will determine how much traffic they get.

Actually, IE implements fixed positioning wrong. It does not follow the standard.

Lots of hard work writing the scripts to handle the messages.

Plus the server must be able to handle both scripts and some kind of database.

Just nest two box objects, each with one of those values. Put the % one on the outside. Make sure the padding on the outside one and the margin of the inside one are both set to 0.

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, My Computer opens. If I right click it, it disappears.

It usually disappears within about 10 seconds after it appears.

Does anyone recognize this?

Format the disk and then install ME from the original disk.

An "update" is not possible when going to a different version of the operating system. The update replaces minor components that have changed in the same version.

The full XP install would not have formatted the disk unless you told it to. It would have removed ME and replaced it with XP. But it might need some files removed to fit, since XP is bigger.

Now you have a mess, and formatting may be the only option.

You might try installing XP again. It might pick up where it left off, providing your interruption didn't damage the existing disk format.

If the disk format was damaged, formatting might be the only way to get it back.

Width: 100%;

You can set the size of the image to as perce4ntage of the screen width with the width style.

You can't put a unit on 0 if you expect it to work with all browsers.

If the computers do not have that font installed on them, they can't use it.

Font is local to the computer. The fact that YOU have the font when you write the page does not mean that the person viewing the page has that font installed on his computer.

Try to stick to the fonts that come with Windows.

The source file you give is a filename, but you are using it as a url. Where is this HARD_Rock.eot file stored? Your relative address says that it should be uploaded with the files onto the server. Is it?

Does the server you are using allow serving fonts?

If you have a script grabbing the individual characters from the keyboard, it also has to grab the backspace and remove one character from the buffer.

0px is an invalid style. Leave the px or other units of measure off the 0 values. Otherwise, some browsers go into quirks mode or throw out the style and use the default.

You do have a top padding on the body.

It's malware. I just had the same problem.

The only way I could get control was to unplug the Internet connection, then start the browser. After the page load failed, I could change the settings to not automatically load the last page used. The malware had changed the setting to download the last page used if the browser closed unexpectedly.