>>1406

No problem, post again if you want to anything else.

My external hard drive's USB port is not being recognized by my Vista. I've heard it's a common problem, but none of the common solutions (hard reset, cleaning USB ports, etc) are working. Halp?

>>1545
did you try a different port? even if you know the port works this sometimes helps. I know it's obvious but a common untried quick fixed.

I have been using a mouse for my laptop for the past few days, and I removed it today and I... can't find anything to do with the touchpad.

Like I go to the mouse settings and there's no touchpad options or information. Um... what do I do? I can't scroll with it and I'm having other minor annoyances. I just want to fix my settings but according to my computer no touchpad exists :I

>>1591
What brand of laptop, what OS, and what brand of mouse?

>>1593
Dell.... Intuos i think? Windows Vista, and it's a logitech cordless mouse

I know, I have a lot of shitty stuff, but I don't have money

>>1594
Nothing wrong with Dells, and Logitech is the bee's knees. And I'm sure it was either Vista or learn to LUNIX.

So has the trackpad disappeared from the device manager or does it just not have controls in the control panel anymore?

>>1595
ok, the trackpad/whatever works fine, it's just using mouse settings

here's a screencap of my control panel/mouse settings. there used to be a section for the touchpad, and i've gotten there before with relative ease so either i can't find it/am dumb, or it's disappeared

also there used to be a tracking thing next to the time and battery life icons down at the bottom, showing the tracking pad pressure etc... and it's completely gone

>>1596
Okay, sorry, I misunderstood. Thought your pad wasn't working at all.

Click on 'classic view' and open the item 'Device Manager.' It should present you with a tree, one branch of which is 'Mice and other pointing devices.' Open this branch. Does your pad appear there?

Hey, not sure if this is the right thread for this kind of question, but here goes: I've got a MacBook Pro and I've decided to finally get around to downloading something that can help me out with .RAR files and the like. The Unarchiver looks like a good choice, but I want to know what you think.

>>1598
Do you need to compress into RARs? Or just unpack them?

>>1599
Just unpacking.

>>1597
It does not. All that appears is the PS/2 Compatible Mouse

>>1600
Then I'd say go with either The Unarchiver, or the unofficial Mac port of 7zip. Personally, I'd feel more comfortable with 7zip as it's LGPL'd. But The Unarchiver does sound like it's a pretty good solution for Mac, and honestly, who knows how well an unsupported port is gonna run.

>>1601
Okay. I think what's going on here is that Windows is recognizing the trackpad (it's pretty good at picking up on the basic functionality of things like that), but somehow the software that ran the more trick functions (I imagine you used to be able to scroll windows by dragging down the right side of the bad and so forth) was either shat all over by the mouse drivers or outright uninstalled. Either dig up the CD that came with your compy, which will have the software for the trackpad on it, or look on the Dell website, which probably has it too.

>>1602
I went with my first choice, and so far I'm pretty damn happy with it.

>>1604
Good to hear. I might give it a whirl myself.

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For those who were wondering what was my problem I'm going to tell you what was it, I managed to solve it several days ago, but I forgot about this thread.

Anyway, the problem was about moving any kind of objects in the Drag&Drop style, whenever this action was taken the program would crash immediately; the cause was the Mouse's Driver, not because of an error in the installation, a bad, outdated, or updated version, but for the driver itself not being "compatible" (Or at least it looks like). The solution was quite simple, changing the mouse eventually solved everything; in my situation the second mouse is a bit big, contrary to the kind of mouse I use often which is small and way more easy to maneuver (For me, at least), so I'm forced to stick on switching between them for the moment, nothing serious, but at times a pain in the ass.
On a side note, the incompatibility may be due to the OS rather than the program, I used to work with the program on an old computer of mine (May rest in pieces) with WinXP and Photoshop 9 using the same mouse, everything was fine. Now I have changed computers, the only most major difference is the OS, which is Win7.


Hope this was useful for anyone.

>>1626

Out of curiosity, Win7 32 bit, or 64 bit?

This happens at start up and when trying to access my Nvidia control panel.
I've tries cleaning my registry, reinstalling C++, updating my Nvidia drivers but nothing seems to work.

>>1629
*tried

>>1627

Win7 32 bit

>>1629

Have you tried uninstalling your nVidia drivers and then reinstalling? If not, try uninstalling it, then restarting to boot in safe mode (when your computer is starting up, tap f8 until you see the boot menu) to run NFR to make sure everything from the the old install is gone. After that, start up as usual and install the newest drivers for your vidya card.

http://majorgeeks.com/Nasty_File_Remover_d3233.html

Firefox is doing this thing where if I open media in a different tab (youtube link, flash animation, quicktime file, etc) it reloads the tab. It wasn't that bad at first, but if I open a music playlist or something in a different tab and am listening to it, then it'll reload if I click on the tab and start the whole thing over again.

I just upgraded to the newest Firefox version hoping for a fix and it still persists.

Hey guys, how do I switch audio from my HDMI connection to my speakers?

>>1636
It worked!
Thank you Askal.

Hey, I just downloaded the newest version of iTunes because for some reason that was the only way I could download Adventure Time episodes. Now it's telling me that I need to download Safari 4.0.3 (my current version is 3.1.2) via Software Update. The problem is that Software Update doesn't have Safari 4.0.3 on its list of available software. What do?

>>1647
are you sure that that's your only way?

>>1647

>can only download through itunes

what the fuck are you smoking?

>>1650
>>1652
I meant that I can only download them through iTunes if I got the upgrade, not that I can only download them through iTunes. It's a matter of personal preference.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am unable to make a new topic so I have to ask here.
My 8800gtx broke recently. Does anyone know of a better card for realitivly cheap?

I have my PC hooked up to my Samsung LCD TV via HDMI.

Before my old video card kicked it, no sound would come out of the TV, only the Tower itself. So I bought some speakers, and they are attached to the PC via USB and microphone/headphone jacks.

After I replaced my video card with a 1GB ASUS ENGT220, but now it's the reverse: Sound comes through the TV, not the speakers.

Problem is, I want my speakers to have sound. Say I'm playing a game. Someone messages me, speakers make a sound, I change format to HDMI 1, answer. I've been missing a lot of messages lately because I don't hear anything.

So, how do I restore sound to my speakers, preferrably turning off the audio to

>>1693
my HDMI. Fucking Tab key.

>>1694
>>1693

How is your HDMI cable connected? One male end to the tv, another male end on your graphics card? If the HDMI cable is connected to the Graphics card it wont allow any sound through. So you've probably connected it to the motherboard, if that's even possible.

In any case, You could just buy an HDMI-DVI cable and connect that to your tv and graphics card.

How do I run old games on Windows 7? I found my Sims 1 discs and some others. Pop them in, but they don't seem to read.

They worked when this comp was running Vista, weirdly enough.

>>1749
Same deal. Install Homeworld, the Neverhood, Age of Empires, Submarine titans. I load up any of them, my TV goes black. "Video mode not supported". I alt+tab, I'm back on my desktop. What the fuck?

Fucking fuck I hate to ask for help ever with computers but here I am, mooching off the wisdom of /tek/.

This was a while ago and I may just need a new mobo or something, but here goes:

I had an Acer desktop, it was pretty bad but better than my current machine. Now, when I hit the power on this Acer, nothing happens. If I unplug the power cable and then plug that shit back in, it powers on, the fans spin and shit but unfortunately it does not post and does not give me any beep codes. I think I know the cause: before all this I installed a new PSU. It worked for several weeks afterwards however and switching out the new PSU with the old one does nothing?
Can I fix it?
Is it fucked?

So I've been using winamp because iTunes makes my computer work too hard, and recently noticed that one of my albums won't play. I took a look at the files and they're marked as m4p files. I did some research and apparently this is a result of me getting the files off of the iTunes store. Is there some kind of plugin I can download for winamp that will let me play these songs?

>>1749
Try compatibility mode on the properties tab of the program.
>>1919
It's probably your motherboard then, check if there's any blowed out capacitors (they look bloated and may leak liquid). Also check all the connections are right.
>>1929
Those files have drm. I suggest downloading again, from torrents or megaupload.
>>1674
$100-$120. HD 4870, I think you can get one of these with rebates. $150~ HD 5770 $170-230~ GTX 460.
A HD 4890 is fine too if you can get it under $170

>>1933
>>1749 here, I can't even get the discs to read

>>1993
Well you're much better off downloading the iso and burning a new copy then.

>>2015
Wilco, much obliged.

Welp, I tried going other places, but I can't seem to figure it out. Recently, firefox and everything else has started going really slow. I try to click on anything, and it'll just go "pale" and say "not responding." It used to be that I could have MSE, bittorrent, zune, firefox, and mIRC open at once, but now even just having one thing open is laggy.

I tried looking at task manger, and my physical memory is in the 90s%. But I'm only running about 60 processes and others in my family are using more processes then I am, and wind up using much less physical memory then I do. What gives? What is gobbling up all my physical memory?

The physical memory will stay at the 90% region for a while, before it makes a steep drop down to the 20% region and then it starts slowly climbing back up to 90%.

I tried restarting, disk defrag, registry cleaner, cccleaner, MSE, but nothing seems to be working.

Any advice?

I do believe either my monitor is dieing, or my mother tried to go against all guidance and sense and actually clean the LCD screen the way she would a CRT...
sigh.

This entire episode has been weird.

Okay. So, I wake up early this morning to discover my computer's resolution has been compromised and changed, and the icons enlarged. Thing is, I didn't mess with any of those settings. The screen looks as though it's.. neglecting the girth of some text and emphasizing others. I autotune it. It doesn't help. I readjust the resolution manually in Vista. That helps and changes it back.

Just to make certain I'm not imagining shit, I shut down and start it back up. The resolution is again very messed up and the icons are very large. The desktop background is larger and wider than the screen frame. Argh. I go back to Vista's "adjust the settings" panel to try and change the resolution again.

And what the fuck? The resolution is already set at 1280-1024. Yeah, very funny computer. The icons are as large and fragmented as NES sprites and text looks like chicken scratch in MS Paint because the resolution is 1280-1024. Lying fucking machine.

Just dicking around, I go into the NVIDIA settings. I turn the 3D controls all the way down to performance over beauty. Woah! Transmogrification!.. I then set it to 1280-1024. Boom. Everything that was being problematic is fixed.

A friend of mine asked me to screen shot and post what the weird glitch made my text look like to see if it was my monitor or my desktop that was screwing things up. So I did. They said everything on the screen looked fine to them. Satisfied, I deleted the screencap and decided the problem was the monitor.

Now I'm not so sure it's the monitor. Now I'm worried that, yet again, this god damned model of video card is screwing up. I've had more trouble with this model of card than anything I can imagine. Best Buy has gone through _three_ refurbished replacement cards because they keep dieing. The last time they replaced a dead hard drive.

I really hope it's not the motherboard or the power supply. I keep telling them to check them for problems, they just keep ignoring them.

The only thing I can think of that could cause this weird episode to happen independent of the hardware being damaged is if the power went out a few hours earlier. And somehow it just.. changed the display settings. And that's all.
So now my resolution and fonts are back to normal, the monitor seems fine, and the desktop tower is functioning normally.

>>2113
This could be dumb but...Windows safety mode?

So the PC my man and I put together is pretty win; we've got it hooked up to our lovely 46" in the living room. The problem is one of good ol' "can't see shit captain" since of course we are viewing very small text from over 6' away.

We want to keep the 1920x1080 resolution since that's native for the TV, but at the same time we want a font/size that actually looks good. So we've set the DPI to 180% which is works most of the time except for the fact that uless the font is bolded, much of the text onscreen looks kind of glow-y (for lack of a better word), especially when we are talking about dark text on a non-white background.

I've played with the color settings but it ain't helping. Thoughts on improving visibility?

>>2114
If safety mode, it never specifies itself as such. This damned desktop has had it, it's just a matter of time before kablooey and we really can't afford a new one right now.
How would I be able to tell if it's in safe mode? Everything looks and acts normally, it never gives any indication it's in safe mode in the disturbingly long, suspenseful startup. Usually whenever there was a problem it'd prompt that. But this just starts up "normally" (like an old man with gimpy legs.)

>>2116
I'll be honest, I was throwing a really wild guess out there, so I doubt you're in safe mode. Generally the screen will show 'safe mode' in each corner.

Youtube loading like molassas. Check what's up.
Notice my RAM seems awful low. available memory is disturbingly low.
Run Microsoft Security Essentials.
Java exploit found.

Feels good man.

>>2109
When in doubt, format.