Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[aimeeandbeatles]

Anyone know how to remember which end of battery is the +?

 

[Cutlass]

It's typically marked on the label.

 

[Love]

Is there a way of transporting itunes album artwork, If i have exactly the same music library?

I seriously don't want to do the whole thing again.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's typically marked on the label.

Except not on mine. I mean, how to remember which end of the battery is which when you put them in? Cause my camera doesn't have those metal wire thing that curls up.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Also, does anyone have any systems for organizing bookmarks? Mine's turning out to get really messy....

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Folders and tags.

 

[Cutlass]

Except not on mine. I mean, how to remember which end of the battery is which when you put them in? Cause my camera doesn't have those metal wire thing that curls up.

On the typical cylinder shaped battery the end with the nipple is positive and the flat end is negative.

 

[Methos]

Also, does anyone have any systems for organizing bookmarks? Mine's turning out to get really messy....

If I remember correctly you're using FF. When on the bookmark (the star should be gold), just click on the star and then add tags to the bookmark. This way you just have to type in your tag or tags in the address bar and every favorite (and recent site you've visited) will show in the address bar drop down list.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Thanks.

Silly question: I've been organizing my bookmarks in Firefox. However, sometimes I search for certain bookmarks within a folder, but when I drag-and-drop them to another folder (in the left pane), it doesn't work properly. Either it doesn't move at all, or it just creates copies. Any idea if there's any settings I need to change?

 

[Maniacal]

Every time my roomate turns on his computer he has to do a reinstall/setup from the cd for our linksys router, it only started doing this a couple of weeks ago but has gotten more and more ridiculous. I don't have any problem at all, it is just his computer and only recently. He is running the Windows 7 release client and we have cable internet. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

 

[PeteAtoms]

I've been looking into the upcoming Google Wave and Mozilla Raindrop projects coming out. What are peoples' impressions of these?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I havent looked into Raindrop. Google Wave on the other hand seems like an interesting idea, and Im anxious to give it a try. Unfortunately, invites dry up faster than a river in the desert...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I convinced my mom to let me open up one of my old computers (yay!). However, the casing is one solid piece. There are some screws along the sides in the back, but none on the sides, front, or bottom. Any idea how to get it open?

Pic is blurry, those shiny round things are screws and I have a screwdriver that fits:

Spoiler :

 

[Padma]

Usually, you remove the 4 screws that hold the case to the back, and then slide the case backwards until any clips are free, and pull it off.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

OK, I'll try that. As soon as I find my screwdriver. It went missing ... again ...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Every time I reboot, I get a missing/corrupted winload.exe and have to put in the Vista CD. Every time. What is going on? Is it something to do with my weird Windows Update programs? Is my hard drive about to implode?

I googled it and didn't get much help. I got a couple of answers on how to fix it, but not why it keeps hapepning.

 

[Turner]

Did you try the fixes? Who cares why it's happening if it's fixed? If it keeps happening, then maybe figure out why. Otherwise, fix it and move on.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It works if I pop the install CD in. The thing is, it keeps happening, over and over. Every time I reboot.

EDIT: Here's the message, in case you're wondering exactly:
http://www.technoish.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/winload_exe_vista_missing_or_corrupt.jpg

 

[Cutlass]

Search the windows cd for the winload.exe file. Copy that file to the \windows\system32 folder. Overwrite the existing file. See if that helps you.

 

[Turner]

Did you actually do anything to try and fix it, or are you just skipping through the error?