Posts by Kapitaen M

Oh, it is a "placeholder" for the default blue highlight.

From what I gathered here,

.button:focused {
    -fx-background-insets: 0, 0, 1, 2;
}

.button {
    -fx-background-insets: 0, 0, 1, 2;
}

takes away the effect and the buttons lose their anticipatory extra line of bounds.

I've been playing with JavaFX Scene Builder -- weirdly enough, all of my buttons have an extra pixel of height. The layout bounds are what I'd like, of course, but the boundsInLocal are always an extra vertical pixel long. This means the buttons aren't simply a pixel longer, it means there's a white bar affixed to the bottom of the buttons.

I'm wondering if this is like a "placeholder" for highlighting or similar. Seems like the boundsInLocal value is read-only, but I feel like this is only happening to me.

Thanks in advance

This is strange, but I often encounter the whole "last-used wallpaper" display during shutdown, because I too am not using desktop icons. I think this is just a consequence of disabling desktop icons, but I've never had issues right-clicking and changing my desktop wallpaper.

I would recommend changing your wallpaper from a separate application, whether it's an image viewer/editor like IrfanView (which has this "set image as wallpaper" feature) or the little sidebar panel in Windows Explorer, which has the "set as wallpaper" button visible when selecting images.

I'm sorry, but I'm a bit confused about whether you can't right-click when desktop icons are hidden or not. :x If so, that may not be a themes issue, but rather an effect brought on by some malicious application. I am hoping, of course, it would be more of a permissions issue instead of malware.

Did a little bit of searching, check this:
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-19119-no-sound-from-web-browser

Appears this issue isn't uncommon, and the original poster shares your symptoms.

In another forum: http://forums.techguy.org/web-email/482976-no-sound-browser-2.html,
and this final post might aid you:

"I had the same problem and carrying out the above will problaly resolve it. BAsically when windows does a fresh install and does not find a sound card, the default microsoft codecs are not installed. When you install the sound card drivers, most sound card drivers are clever enough to install the default Microsoft codecs for you, but some do not (like mine, it usually the "smaller" manufacturers that cut back on this - never had problem with creative sound cards!).
Anyways, you can check the codecs installed by going to control panel, sound and audio controllers, going to hardware tab, clicking the audio codecs entry and selecting properties. before you run the above fix, you will find 2-3 entries in there.

1. control panel, add hardware, next, YES hardware connected, goto bottom of list for add a new hardware device.
2. Install hardware manually (Advanced), select sound, video and game controllers, have disk and point to "C:\windows\system32" and file mmdriver.inf.
3. Select a codec to install, you maybe asked for windows xp disk.
4. repeat until all codecs are installed.

do not install the (MCI) ones as they are legacy."

I am noting that Windows Media Player is continuing to resurface with …

Found this on the interwebs... don't know how relevant it is, therefore, to "INVALID BOOT.INI" file.

[However if you get this message, "'attrib' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.", as I did, perform the following (must be logged on as an administrator):

Start >
Settings >
Control Panel >
System >
Advanced >
Environment Variables >
System Variables >
Locate and highlight Path >
Edit >
Add the following line of text (exactly as printed below) to the beginning of the Variable Value list:
C:\WINDOWS\system32;
Confirm by clicking OK to each request.]

Curious: have you tried removing all drivers, then rebooting? I keep thinking this has to do with Windows behaving funny specifically when trying to communicate with the sound device, yet....

This could have something to do with your media player, because VLC, for example sometimes manipulates my WAVE output if I adjust the internal program volume, even after the application is closed.

Lastly, I would consider a different set of 'sndrec32' and 'sndvol32' to copy. I also was hoping you could run an application, just to see if sound is audible in something like a game or other app? That may help determine the source of the problem. Maybe even grab a different media player, and play songs or movies, just to see what happens.

I wish you best of luck in the meanwhile, that's a truly irritating situation you got.

Not sure if this is exactly it, but try out a ALC888 install, that's what I think you need: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1265/Realtek_HD_Audio_2.09_2K/XP_.html

Just a note, I believe you are using a G45 Express Intel chipset, which helps determine the controller as ICH10, naturally. Hopefully your searches will be easier. Let me know if the above drivers are incorrect.

Haha, same here, schuchz. Best of luck to you, too!

Any more details on this? Sounds like something in that directory is trying to run, but was removed.

At least, do you recall removing any application recently, maybe even a piece of spyware or other malware?

CCleaner, of course, is an excellent cleaning resource. I use it often, coupled with RegSeeker to delete old registry entries and temporary files. RegSeeker has tons of uses and options, even some Windows tweaking.

I have found the actual 7-Zip File Manager to be one of the most stable, clean, and useful of compressors and extractors. I've tried 7-Zip derivatives and some "can-read-and-extract-everything" apps, but I've always come across some kind of issue or negative effect on my system that turns me away.

JKDefrag is my best friend, and the absolute greatest free defragging utility ever, along with some other cleaner uses. Don't forget to grab the GUI app as well.

foobar2000 is my definite choice for music-players (if you're willing to take a little time to explore its uses), and everything changed when I found VLC media player. Their recent UI overhaul was a welcome change.

Additionally, MediaCoder, AbiWord, GIMP, IrfanView, ImgBurn, and InfraRecorder are very useful. Don't overlook them.