Posts by MidiMagic

That sounds like it is trying to access the floppy drive instead of the CD drive. Check the BIOS boot settings.

You could also have a corrupt driver, or the wrong driver for the drive.

The problem is that, when you combined C: and D: into a single drive, it changed the drive letters on the second drive (and all higher drives). The BIOS always uses the lowest available drive letter for the next drive or partition it finds. It makes this setting every time the computer boots, using the drives it actually finds.

Instead of being the E: and F: drives, your second drive partitions are now D: and E: because the old D: drive is gone.

So you need to change the boot program settings to boot from D: instead of E: for the second drive.

Your CD drive has also been relettered, probably to F:.

Check all of your .bat files and shortcuts. They may also try to access files on the wrong drive. If one fails, just open the properties and change the drive letter to the next lower one.

Sounds like a reinstall is in order. Some files are missing.

It's to keep people from kicking the computer off the desk when the screensaver interrupts a movie.

I have the opposite problem - the screensaver comes on when I am burning a CDR.

File compression slows things down.

It could also be that your internet connection is slow.

Or maybe you have thousands of letters in your inbox.

Virtual memory is on the DISK, not in RAM.

- Is your hard disk nearly full?

- Are you running a program that needs resources beyond your system's capabilities?

Did you accidentally remap the keyboard?

I'd say that something zxnrbled the boot sector on your master drive.

You need to change a BIOS setting:

Boot CD, then C drive.

Put the Windows install CD in and boot. It will then reinstall Windows and fix that.

Warning: If it can't fix the boot sector, it may reformat the entire hard disk.

Check the following:

- Hard disk exposed to strong magnetic field (e.g. a subwoofer).
- TWO spyware-checker or antivirus programs are running. They go nuts checking each other out as suspects, and eat up the time.
- You have an antivirus or spyware-checker set to do a full scan on startup.
- Hard disk damage.

First, learn to spell. I had to run that through my Chi decoder to understand it.

It's either BIOS settings or a hardware problem. It might be that your hard disk is not rotating.

Reinstall the game. A file is corrupted.

It could also be an anti-piracy device if the game is not legit.

Did you try the refresh option in My Computer? The old info might be cached somewhere.

This could be just a setting, on either your router or imposed by your ISP.

I can think of several problems:

- If you replaced a dial-up modem, the settings in Control Panel / Network Connections may still be trying to use the dial up.

- Your browsers may still be trying to use the dial-up driver.

- Using two computers with the same DSL is tricky, because the performance levels may be unequal. The DSL provider uses test software to find out what performance level your line, DSL CoDec, and computer can handle. Switching computers on it drives this software nutsy. A router may be needed on the ethernet side of the DSL CoDec.

- Are you using an ethernet Codec for one computer, and a USB CoDec for the other? That will really confuse the service provider's computer.

- Are the telephone filters installed correctly? DSL won't work right without them.

It also won't recognize the disk if it forgot what type of hard disk it is. The procedure to forget the password protection also makes it forget this.

If you can get Windows Install to run from CD, it might find the correct type. It might also format the hard disk.

That's the answer.

The programs were written for older versions of Windows, and are trying to use a deprecated function. Microsoft removed that function for some reason.

This is one reason I believe that operating systems should not be allowed to be changed.

Is this the search in My Computer, or some other search?

Are you accidentally trying to search network drives? That will slow down everything to nightcrawler speed.

Check for:
- spyware and viruses
- bad Windows install (reinstall)

This sounds like either a damaged windows install or hardware trouble.

All is NOT fine if you get to that screen.

Question: is there a disk in the floppy or CD drive? If so, Windows might be trying to boot from there. Remove the disk and try again.

It's also possible that your BIOS settings have been corrupted. On some computers, failure of a battery causes this.

Check the following:

- Virus or spyware
- Static electricity affecting computer
- Damaged or replaced driver file (installed something else that has its own version)
- Two pieces of software fighting for control of the soundcard.
- Installed software changed settings (check your audio mixer)
- Loose card in the computer
- Bad memory stick
- Bad video card
- Bad soundcard

Check the following:

- Spyware and other malware on your computer.

- Something is wrong with a website you are visiting.

- Installing another program somehow damaged IE installation. Try a reinstall.

- A file is missing or has been moved.

The problem is that, if the browser window isn't wide enough to hold all of the divs, the format will fall apart. Different browsers make it fall apart in different ways here.

IE stacks the images on top of each other vertically in a single-file column.

Firefox overlaps the images, hiding parts of them behind other images.

Netscape puts a horizontal scroll bar on the screen.

With tables, all three browsers add the scroll bar when the format doesn't fit.

The real problem is that the W3C deprecators are thinking of the newspaper format, and don't expect anyone to be publishing anything other than a newspaper. So they took out everything that isn't compatible with newspaper format.

I don't see any difference.

Why not just change the background color, instead of messing with transparency.

You are making this too hard.

Why not just have a truncted version of each file displayed on your master page (including an a tag for the link), and open a new page for each of the four files?

The following code is the only kind of code which can accept a clicked link:

<a name="job1">Here is the point to land on</a>

This is defined for only a (anchor) tags.

But the name attribute does different things with other tags:

<object title="Explore Site" name="addform" type="text" data="pbook.txt">

In the above code, it identifies the object, so other objects on the same page can talk to it. It has nothing to do with following an a link.

In the map tag, name identifies the map for use by javascript.

In the select dropdown list, name gives the name of the click line for the choice.

In the input tag, name gives the name of the field for javascript use.

All of these uses are different uses of the name attribute in different tags. They have nothing in common.

The gray margins are just margin syles applied to the body tag. The darker gray is the border attribute.

It can't be done in a way that works with all screen resolutions.

Anything you set up for one screen resolution will get moved when the browser is resized or the screen resolution changes.

There is no way to specify the bottom of the browser window.

If the font doesn't exist on the user's computer, there is no way the browser can display it.

Suggestions:

- A link to a page which can download the font for the user.

- A link to a page with an alternate english translation of your page.

The a tag's name marker is not the same as the name function for other tags. Each tag has its own attributes.

You have the table and form tags tangled.

The form tag must not be between table and its tr.

You don't need a gif file. I have done it with style sheets, with foreground and background colors the same and a line of alternating . with <br /> .

Put this inside its own div.

That was the problem I reported some time ago, except that the dropdown showed over the ad. But the clicks on the ad worked instead of the clicks on the dropdown.

Are we talking "rogue" instead of "rouge"? Rouge is red makeup.

Might it be a case of a character mismatch? I, l, and 1, or O and 0, for instance.

Or it might be a zxnrbl in the connection garbling a character.

No moving ads.

They are extremely distracting.

If you are on a university, the problem may be that the email and web functions are on different hosts. This is done to prevent spam.

Thus, the web connection the user has can't access the email host which is not connected. So the send mail function can't possibly work.

But the browser doesn't know that. It loads everything in the frame before it can render it.

In IE:

Select tools / internet options / advanced

Then scroll down in the scroll window to:

Play animations in webpage

Check the box.

You have to restart IE for it to take effect.

I have some legacy software which fights with IE

I don't kjnow your drive.

There are certain byte combinations for any communications link which are gobbled by the link itself. So any binary file protocol must be designed to avoid such combinations.

Easy.

You may have accidentally logged into a guest account.

Use Start / Log Off accountname

Look for volume control in the following place:

start / settings / control panel / sound and audio devices / volume / advanced (top)

I'd say a necessary Windows file is missing from the hard drive.

It might be the residue from malware.

Why?

- Homework BEFORE video games
- No downloading
- Business files on computer

The point is, it's NOT YOUR COMPUTER.

Probably power supply, CPU, or RAM.

Several possibilities:

- There are incompatibilities between certain burners and certain brands of CD recordables. Because no manufacturer wants to pay royalties, ecah uses his own dye formula. It's hard to make a burner which works with all. So each burner has some CDRs it won't work with.

- Older CD cleaner discs ruin CDR and DVD drive lenses. I prefer canned air.

- Condensed moisture on the optics?

Why not use the .bat file to start one, then the other.

There are many different ways images are stored in image files.

.bmp files use half, one, two, or three bytes per pixel to encode that pixel. The pixels are arranged in rows from left to right, one row at a time, from the top to the bottom. A header on the front tells the file attributes and image dimensions.

.gif and .jpg use compression techniques to shrink the file size, by taking groups of identical pixels and recording the group size and color.

.cdr files (line tracing) use line and curve descriptions for the edges of the regions, and field descriptions for the fill style inside them.

The problem is not flash, but opening a new window to put it in.

Why make it complicated? Keep it simple:

make a button, and link it to a page containing a movie.

<a href="mymoviepage.htm"><img src="pictureofmybutton.jpg" /></a>

Don't pester the reader with moving geegaws.