ClareJonsson

Vista does not Suck. for heavens sake I wish people would stop saying that, it's new that's all. You're the kinda person who said XP sucked when it just came out, but now you think it's the biz, remember the change from 98/2K to XP? Well this is just the same scenario. Another thing, what makes you assume the CD-ROM is drive E:? It might be on your system but not on others. In fact it's more likely to be drive D: than E:. Oh and it's easier to get a command prompt by typing cmd into the search box. and if you have UAC turned on, hold down CTRL+SHIFT while pressing enter will give you an administrative command prompt.

You're talking about UAC. Take a look at THIS ARTICLE. it also shows you how to turn it off.

I'm sorry, I like guides that are really useful and may help people with their system problems, but this has quite a few problems, here's the main ones off the top of my head. 1. Reformatting isn't the solution, it's a bit like cutting your hand off because your thumb has a thorn. Your statement that computers more than 4 years ago have recovery partitions is completely untrue. Where's your guide on building Windows from scratch using a windows install disc. Don't forget to download all the drivers before hand including chipset and network!!! Reformatting is always the LAST resort, as stated in various posts above, you should first try and treat the problems, a competent technician can have windows running smoothly again in less than an hour. 2. Your section on backing up is way too general and people who are not experienced are going to loose a lot of data. You didn't mention backing up emails and internet favorites for a start. Oh and backing up to a zip folder, forget it, that is definitely not advisable. Soo many times I have seen people trying to recover files from a large zip only to be told it's corrupt, and if you cannot fix it everything is lost. Ever heard of putting your eggs in one basket? 3. Cleaning is fine, very good on that as one of the biggest killers of PCs is heat caused by dust build up. By the way, substitute compressed air for a vacuum cleaner and a small brush. It's better than blowing dust into the air (I should know, I work in a very busy I.T. Centre). Asking people to use a wet towel without stressing the need to unplug it from the mains is mental, a lot of people have different ideas of what is damp and wet. 4. You never mentioned static precautions whilst delving into the PC, you really should have. I admire your idea in writing this tutorial, but it was way too general and full of holes, I get the feeling you have a lack of experience and could do with a little more research. You could have collaborated with the rest of us and pooled all the knowledge together and THEN written the guide. Good on you for trying though.

Go to the driver download page for the manufacturer of your laptop, if anyone has updated drivers, they will.

I run full screen on 1440x900, and the way I get full screen to work is to: 1. Enter the game. 2. Change resolution to 800x600. 3. Click full screen (This usually fails and returns to non full screen). 4. Change resolution to 1440x900. 5. Click Full Screen. Sometimes I have to do the above 3 or 4 times going back and forth between resolutions while trying full screen. But it usually works after a minute or so.

I wrote a section on Assist-X here about enabling the processor on your network card. Basically you set DisableTaskOffload to 0 in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters. If DisableTaskOffload doesn't exist, then create it as a REG_DWORD.

Can you start windows in Safe mode?

The Lag isn't just on Vista, it happens on XP too, and apparently it's something Jagex are going to have to sort out.

This happens to me as well, but it's random, sometimes I get that kinda thing, sometimes just a white screen, sometimes full screen mode works, but it only works 10% of the time. I have updated my drivers and tried reducing the graphics levels but it makes no difference. I have put it down to the HD version being in Beta stage. Is there a bug report section for the HD version somewhere? I have a few things to report.

The MFT is nothing to do with system restore. But you can delete a lot of restore points and rubbish if you want. MFT is the Master File Table, it's the table that contains all your file names, where they are on the disk etc. A bit like the File Allocation Table on a FAT system. C:\System Volume Information is where your restore points are kept, it us usually hidden. Also look in your windows folder and you can remove anything starting with a $, these are roll backs for updates. You don't need them. Both the above you will need to show all files and folders and probably show files marked as system.

This will happen on CTR (Cathode Ray Tube) screens. The screen is coated with phosphor, and 3 electron guns (Red, Green and Blue) are fired at the phosphor which causes it to glow. The downside is that the guns will burn into the phosphor any static image. This is why screen savers came about, to prevent burn-in on the screens of people using things like Word processors that will have the menus in the same place day in day out. TFT monitors do not suffer from burn-in, but Plasma screens do.

Agree with you there, that way you know what is going on with your code. That depends on one thing... How it spits out the code to be used later. If you have enough of a grasp (or just the ability to learn [bleep] fast) of HTML, CSS, Image Maps, and how to make things just fit together, then you may be able to re-fit the code afterward to whatever the heck you need. :geek: :thumbsup: (But hey, that's just my opinion. :-k ...) ~D. V. Devnull Sorry but I disagree, it's definitely not a good thing to let some program slice an image up and create a web page for you. I have tried this kind of thing in the past and every time I ended up with a complete mess. Most have no concept of CSS and how it can manage the site more efficiently, and the ones that did made such a complete half assed job it made me laugh. Image slicing software is only good for one thing, helping you decide where to slice the image up, but I personally will do that using PaintShop Pro and a neat device I have called my Eyes :). A professional web developer has all sorts of tools at their disposal, all in the aid of making their life easier. Anything they can use to speed up the process of developing a site will be used (Nobody wants to spend hours on something when there's an easier way). No professional developer I know (including myself) would use anything like the kind of software's you're talking about. it's anti-productive and leads to all sorts of hassles. Believe me when I say that if an auto slice tool was up to the job, the professionals would be using it.

Maybe Connorb is just involved in graphics and not the actual coding?

Er no Fixed spaces are not exactly a solution. I will give you an example of the kind of thing we web devs are up against: The way IE and Firefox deals with widths/heights and padding in CSS are different. i.e. if you define a div that has a width and height of 100px, and a padding of 4px all round, then that box will be bigger in Firefox, why? Well IE will keep the box size to 100px x 100px and pad it inwards, but Firefox will add the padding to it, so the box will end up 108px x 108px, things like that can be a real pain :( If you want to see the above in action, take a look HERE. The boxes will be different in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Actually yeah, the only hard thing about CSS is cross browser compatibility. Things that look perfect in FF may be completely different in IE, and that is the thorn in the side of web developers. The rest is pretty darn simple! As I said in an earlier post, from the image pienaple supplied us with, I had that chopped up, and the page written in about an hour, and that was taking my time and I had breakfast in the middle of that too! It won't take anyone long to get to grips with CSS especially with all the online tutorials plus help from people like the fab guys on forums like this :)

This could also be a virus, run a full virus and spyware scan on your system. One way to find out if it's hardware or not is do the following: Turn your PC on, and enter the BIOS setup. Leave it there and if the CD Drawer opens on it's own, then it's hardware. If it only opens on it's own whilst in Windows, then it's software causing it.

Try working your way through this HTML tutorial: Link. Once you have done that, take a look at this CSS Tutorial: Link. if you have any questions, just ask :)

See the Code View Button highlighted in the image below: Click it, this is what you should be using to edit web pages. And below I have highlighted the way to see the CSS inspector: I will look for usefull tutorials for you later on.

That's okay, it only took an hour and I was bored :) Well I used Paintshop Pro and cut out the relevant sections of the image. I then created DIVS and used CSS to place the images in the DIVs in the correct place on the webpage. You won't be able to use Dreamweavers Design (WYSIWYG) View to edit that page, you need to use the code view and edit the code directly. The thing about the design view is you are not getting a true representation of what the site will actually look like in a browser, especially because things look different in IE and Firefox. I really would get to grips with HTML and CSS, you will find website creation much more fun. Anyway, to edit the page, switch to Dreamweavers code mode by clicking View, and selecting Code. Don't forget that there's 2 files that control this page: 1. Index.html - This is the raw HTML but has no formatting information. 2. css/main.css - This is the style sheet and contains all the formatting for the site. Good luck, Clare. P.S. Don't forget you need to unpack the entire zip to a folder, you need the two folders images and CSS as well as index.html. Without them you will only get the raw text.

Hiper PSUs are also extremely good. This is the one I have: Hiper Type R Love the fact that it's modular, and quiet. Another bonus is that the fan stays on for a few minutes after shut down to cool it off. Also the case of the PSU is kinda mesh like, designed to assist in cooling :).

By farone of the best ways to secure in my mind. Absolutely, and don't forget to set your router not to broadcast it's ID.

Some routers also have MAC address filtering, use it if yours does.

You should really learn a bit of CSS, the whole page can be controlled via that. There's loads of tutorials online too! And to show you how, here's your site coded in CSS/HTML: CLICK HERE. You will notice there is no formatting in the actual HTML, it's all done in the style sheet. And here's the source: DOWNLOAD.

Yep, you're 100% correct. SVCHOST is not a program by itself, it is used by other programs to connect to resources such as Windows Updates.

It sounds like you have 3 faults on your laptop: 1. Obviously the battery needs replacing. Batteries are considered consumables by the manufacturer. No way round this but to replace it. 2. The power socket on your laptop has a dry joint, this is what is causing it to shut down when you wiggle the cable. This is incredibly common on laptops and it's one of the things we repair the most. Basically it needs soldering, but this is not something you can do yourself as you need to completely dismantle the system and take out the motherboard. 3. The inverter is dying, this is probably what is causing the screen going black intermittently. Yet again, this is pretty common on laptops and is quite easy for a technician to repair. See here for more details.