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[Wolf68k]

WinAmp works with iPods, not sure about iPhones and iPads.

 

 

 

@H3NR1QU3

BartPE http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

That course didn't tell you about this? Let alone the other things you might need.

This might be a reason I'm glad I never spent the time and the money on a course like this and learned my info and skills solely online from the masses of others.

No offense to you, if anything it's an offense to the school/course.

[riquenunes]

I haven't finished it yet, but the teacher already said that you can create a bootable Windows CD, we'll probably learn that by next week or so, when we'll start to learn more about operating systems and such. For now we've learned only about hardware, so that's why we haven't learned that yet.

As for the other things that I would need, yes, he told us about CPU-Z, GPU-Z, Everest, or whatever program you like and so on.

Edited May 25, 2011 by H3NR1QU3

[sivispacem]

All right, I don't want to seem weird, but does anybody know how I can restore the blackness to the matte black surround of my old Sony SDM-E76D monitor? Somebody tried to clean it with surgical spirit in the past and the black dye or whatever it is seems to have been slightly rubbed off.

 

If not, is there anywhere I can find a new plastic surround to replace the old one with? Bear in mind, the monitor was manufactured in 2006.

Baby oil or peanut butter, applied with a cloth and then wiped off after a few hours. Tyre shine would also work. Basically, they restore the oil content in the plastic that is removed by things like sun, surgical spirit or heat.

[Ronnyboy]

How do you transfer music from an ipod (touch, 4th gen) to a computer? iTunes is either retarded or overprotective of their stuff, be I can't figure out a way to do it.

You cannot, you must get the music from another source, it won't let you transfer music from your ipod to the computer, you can play it, and transfer the file location, but not the file itself im afraid.

Not entirely true.

 

Download SharePod, put it on your iPod's directory and fire it up to extract music. I won't write a tutorial on how to use it, everything is in the menus.

 

I think it only works with the Classic iPods and maybe the nanos and minis with clickwheels as they have the older file structure - the touch and the brand new ones won't work I believe.

Worked on my sisters 4th gen iTouch, so you should be set.

[Wolf68k]

I haven't finished it yet, but the teacher already said that you can create a bootable Windows CD, we'll probably learn that by next week or so, when we'll start to learn more about operating systems and such. For now we've learned only about hardware, so that's why we haven't learned that yet.

As for the other things that I would need, yes, he told us about CPU-Z, GPU-Z, Everest, or whatever program you like and so on.

Everest is outdated unless you pay for the newer one.

SIW is still kind of updated on the free version

[Finn 7 five 11]

How do you transfer music from an ipod (touch, 4th gen) to a computer? iTunes is either retarded or overprotective of their stuff, be I can't figure out a way to do it.

You cannot, you must get the music from another source, it won't let you transfer music from your ipod to the computer, you can play it, and transfer the file location, but not the file itself im afraid.

Not entirely true.

 

Download SharePod, put it on your iPod's directory and fire it up to extract music. I won't write a tutorial on how to use it, everything is in the menus.

 

I think it only works with the Classic iPods and maybe the nanos and minis with clickwheels as they have the older file structure - the touch and the brand new ones won't work I believe.

Worked on my sisters 4th gen iTouch, so you should be set.

Ah, sorry for the wrong info, i didn't know there was software that allowed you to do this.

[Stinky12]

YouTube now supports 3D with Nvidia Vision!

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[okei]

All right, I don't want to seem weird, but does anybody know how I can restore the blackness to the matte black surround of my old Sony SDM-E76D monitor? Somebody tried to clean it with surgical spirit in the past and the black dye or whatever it is seems to have been slightly rubbed off.

 

If not, is there anywhere I can find a new plastic surround to replace the old one with? Bear in mind, the monitor was manufactured in 2006.

Baby oil or peanut butter, applied with a cloth and then wiped off after a few hours. Tyre shine would also work. Basically, they restore the oil content in the plastic that is removed by things like sun, surgical spirit or heat.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[Kwandilibro]

How do you transfer music from an ipod (touch, 4th gen) to a computer? iTunes is either retarded or overprotective of their stuff, be I can't figure out a way to do it.

You cannot, you must get the music from another source, it won't let you transfer music from your ipod to the computer, you can play it, and transfer the file location, but not the file itself im afraid.

Not entirely true.

 

Download SharePod, put it on your iPod's directory and fire it up to extract music. I won't write a tutorial on how to use it, everything is in the menus.

 

I think it only works with the Classic iPods and maybe the nanos and minis with clickwheels as they have the older file structure - the touch and the brand new ones won't work I believe.

Worked on my sisters 4th gen iTouch, so you should be set.

Alright, so it will work then. Thanks.

[Kwandilibro]

f*ck. I hate to double post, but Sharepod didn't work. I couldn't import my music to iTunes. Again, I have a 4th generation iPod Touch.

[d00d]

Were you able to export the music though and listen to it outside of iTunes?

[Slingaa]

Can anyone recommend a good Blu Ray player for under £100?

[Finn 7 five 11]

Can anyone recommend a good Blu Ray player for under £100?

Depends what you mean by good, you you just want a player? If so then just go to your local store and talk to a salesman.

 

Or do you want features other than just blu-ray playing?

[Kwandilibro]

Were you able to export the music though and listen to it outside of iTunes?

No. Sharepod claimed it exported all my tracks, and I could see them listed, but I couldn't open them. Not even with Windows Media Player. I also downloaded another program, Copytrans, but it only transferred 100 songs. And I have 930.

[Edmachine]

So, I reinstalled Windows 7, cleanly, and forgot to back up my bookmarks. I tried various software, none got me my file back. I need suggestions for the best tools to do the job. I really, really need those bookmarks. (yes, yes, stupid of me not to back them up)

[Fozzy Fozborne]

Hey guys, a fair percentage of the time when I try to put my laptop in sleep mode it stays on with the screen off and it never fully goes to sleep. The hard drive activity light continues to flash and the backlit keyboard stays on. To get it do anything else, I have to hold down the power button until it fully shuts down and restart it.

 

It's Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit with all the latest updates.

There are no other problems with the laptop.

 

Thanks.

[Barry Spock]

Hi,

 

I just got an old IBM thinkpad T42 and I put windows 7 on it. It's all fine except for the wifi. 7 isn't recognising it at all. I spent ages trying to set up an internet connection then I noticed that the little light for the wifi wasn't flickering at all. Wifi works fine with XP or Linux.

 

Anyone know what I can do?

[Wolf68k]

 

Hi,

 

I just got an old IBM thinkpad T42 and I put windows 7 on it. It's all fine except for the wifi. 7 isn't recognising it at all. I spent ages trying to set up an internet connection then I noticed that the little light for the wifi wasn't flickering at all. Wifi works fine with XP or Linux.

 

Anyone know what I can do?

Do you know exactly what the Wifi card is that's in there?

 

This shows 6 different possibilities. If you're dual booting with XP, then go into XP and look there to what is says.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-55386.html

 

 

 

@Fozzy Fozborne

When you say you're trying to put into sleep mode, do you actually mean that you're closing the laptop and all that stuff happens?

 

 

 

@Edmachine

It might be that when you reinstalled the OS it over wrote the area of the drive that the bookmarks were in.

Edited June 8, 2011 by Wolf68k

[KilnerLUFC]

May seem like a silly question, but am not exactly advanced. Anyway, I've noticed a recent drastic drop in speed on my PC, and wondered what some of the best ways/tools there are to try and sort this problem out. For examples, when I first open WMP11, it 'crashes' for like 10 minutes, before finally allowing me access. I have alot of music (around 100gb), but not so much that a media player should be finding it hard to cope. Then when I open Photoshop, that will also slow my PC down ALOT, and can crash my PC if I try to do too much. FF4 is also 'crashing' for me when I first load it up. Even trying to access Windows Exzplorer, such as My Computer, will cause the PC to freeze for abit.

 

I have around 6gb of space HDD space, and I know that's not the problem. I did a scan with AVG and that didn't really show me anything.

[Wolf68k]

First it sounds like you need to defrag more than anything. However I would have to suggest a full system cleaning.

Virus scan follwed by spyware scans (Spybot and malwarebytes both)

Registry cleaning, I use CCleaner for this it'll also clean out the temp files.

Then open commandline and type: chkdsk /f C: (or whatever your OS drive letter is). It'll ask if you want to run it on restart, yet Y for yes and restart and let it do it's thing.

When you get back from that run defrag.

 

If you want to go a step further. Before doing the defrag do this....

Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance->Settings->Advanced->Change

You didn't say if you're using XP or 7. For 7 you might have to uncheck a box at the top, no need for XP.

NOTE: If it's set to use managed size then write down the settings it so you can reset it later.

Select: No paging file

Click OK until you're out and which time it might ask to restart.

Restart and defrag.

After the defrag is over go back to the same settings and reset it what it was before.

This clears out the page file and then creates a new one.

[Garfield 2]

Will the Anteq Basic Power 350W handle:

X3 450 stock clocks

2GB DDR3 1333MHz

HD5670 1GB

320GB WD 7200RPM HDD?

[KilnerLUFC]

First it sounds like you need to defrag more than anything. However I would have to suggest a full system cleaning.

Virus scan follwed by spyware scans (Spybot and malwarebytes both)

Registry cleaning, I use CCleaner for this it'll also clean out the temp files.

Then open commandline and type: chkdsk /f C: (or whatever your OS drive letter is). It'll ask if you want to run it on restart, yet Y for yes and restart and let it do it's thing.

 

So I did the restart of the computer after running command prompt...and sh*t myself thinking my computer was bust. First off, AVG would not work at all and kept bringing error messages up. Then I go to the Defragger, and that tells me it can't run due to connection lost to the host, or something like that. I tried coming on here to ask what's up, but couldn't access any website apart from Google. When I tried logging on to a website, it told me to download an application from ofscet-stream or something like that. On the few websites I could log onto, all I got was the 'page info', as in the whole page was just HTML, and nothing else.

 

Tried to ctrl+alt+del, but that also got an error and kept shutting down. Any window I had open would also automatically shut down.

 

Restarted the PC (had to hold button in because it wouldn't even let me restart), and now it all seems to be running smoothly, but I've got AVG, CCleaner and the defragger running to quickly sort whatever is going on out.

 

Cheers for the help, will report back when finished.

[yoječ]

@Garfield 2: yup, w/o any problems.

[Tommy-Vercetti19]

Got a question guys. If i want to install the 64bit version of W7 on my PC will that mean I'll lose all of my music, pictures and downloads? I have windows on a separate HDD.

[Wolf68k]

Well unless someone says I'm completely wrong again...as usual it seems

If the music and what not is on a completely different drive from the OS then you won't lose anything.

[Tommy-Vercetti19]

I have my music pictures and downloads on a 1TB drive and then my system on a 120GB drive. Just making sure because I don't want to loose all my music. Is there any notable differences between x64 and x32?

[SWEETSAPRIK]

The only differences are "under the hood", everything is still where it was on a 32bit version. That's assuming that you're going from the 32bit version to the 64bit version of the same OS.

 

Also, if you're unfortunate enough to use IE, 64bit Windows OSs have both a normal (32bit), and a 64bit version. That's probably because lots of things don't come in a 64bit version, flash for example, and the 64bit version of IE can't use a 32bit plugin. Almost everything else is the same though, and while you won't get much better performance of a 32bit program on a 64bit OS (unless you get a lot more RAM than you had previously), so far I haven't run across a 32bit executable that I wanted to use and couldn't.

 

When I switched I went from 32bit XP with a [email protected], 512MB of RAM, and a 128MB videocard, to 64bit Vista with a Core2 [email protected], 8GB of RAM, and a 1GB videocard. So I saw increases in everything, even 32bit programs. Also, while there isn't any one program that I use which needs or can even use 8GB, having a bit extra is quite nice. On my last PC I had to kill every process I could just to run a game. On this machine I can run GTAIV with all the settings maxed, and still leave a bunch of stuff running, like my IM/IRC programs, and stufff like Rainmeter, speedfan, taskman, process explorer, firefox, etc.

 

In terms of performance, the most noticeable difference will obviously be using a 64bit program, many programs now have a 64bit version. For example, when I first switched to a 64bit OS I grabbed the 64bit version of GIMP (and every other program I used that had a 64bit version) to see the difference. With GIMP I opened the biggest picture I could find on my HD (a 13096 x 13616 pixel jpg), and then I opened like 450 copies of it trying to crash GIMP or cause it to crap itself, and I couldn't even get it to slow down. I also tried the same kind of comparisons with a bunch of other programs. I've seen lots of them perform better than their 32bit counterparts, including ones you wouldn't expect to see much improvement in, like programs that use very little RAM and lots of CPU. That said, you see the biggest improvement in programs that use a lot of RAM. Graphics programs, picture or video editors, etc.

 

I also started checking places that list 64bit software, (one of my favorites is this site, more specifically this part of it), not only does it show me when a 64bit program that I use has a new version, but I've come across lots of things I wouldn't even have thought to look for had I not seen them listed.

 

That said, anyone running less than 4GB of RAM might not want to switch. Being able to use more RAM is far from the only benefit of a 64bit OS, but it's the simple most noticeable one that most people immediately think of. Also, while 64bit versions of programs can perform better than their 32bit versions, they're also usually slightly larger in filesize. I personally would use a 64bit OS no matter how much RAM I had, but if you're running less than 4-6GB of RAM you might see improvement in a specific program, but not see much improvement in your system overall.

 

[Tommy-Vercetti19]

Thanks! Extremely informative post! I've just upgraded and i'm just waiting for my wireless adapter to download it's drivers (64bit, took ages to find, found it on the chipset's manufacturer website) Them i'm going to upgrade my Photoshop to x64 as i run in x32. It feels great to have that extra 500MB of RAM, have 4GB but was using x32. Should be a great benifit to me since i do a alot of work with Graphics programs.

 

I've noticed a folder saying 'Program Files x86', is this required or can it be deleted?

 

Thanks again!

[SWEETSAPRIK]

No, you absolutely need that.

 

In a 64bit version of Windows "Program Files" is the folder where the 64bit programs are installed, and "Program Files (x86)" is the folder where the 32bit programs go. There are still a ton of programs that don't have 64bit versions. Many don't see the need for it, as the performance increase in some types of programs would be negligible (Firefox for example), and most 32bit programs now work fine in a 64bit OS.

 

[Tommy-Vercetti19]

Ah, i see. Thanks, that's all cleared up now. I'll leave that be. After having non stop blue screens there. It wouldn't stay up long enough, but i did see 'Memory Manager' come up. I'm stumped at what could be causing these BSOD's.

 

EDIT: I've barely been able to fix this since i't been freezing and i've been getting BSOD's constantly. I've had to revert back to x32 and the problems still remain.

Edited June 13, 2011 by Tommy-Vercetti19