Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread

[Genocidicbunny]

Because sometimes the wrong thing pops up?

 

[Zelig]

So then you edit the start menu so that the right thing pops up.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well, I figured how to make it easier. I doisabled "Open submenus when I pause on them with the mouse pointer" so now I have to click so random folders don't pop up on me. As I have to click.

 

[Zelig]

Well, I figured how to make it easier. I doisabled "Open submenus when I pause on them with the mouse pointer" so now I have to click so random folders don't pop up on me. As I have to click.

That sounds really slow.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Sometimes the computer's faster than me. So not really.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have this fancy keyboard, and there's a button (looks like two really distorted puzzle pieces) that turns on a little orange light by the "lock" lights and disables the Print Screen. Is there a name for it? I tried to google but all I got were webmasters asking how to disable it with ActiveX. I did find somehting about a "forward button" but further googling ("forward button keyboard") didn't work.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What's it called when you have people who claim they're such experts on an OS just because they used it longer than you, but they don't even know half the features about it?

 

[Perfection]

People in the presence of an arrogant child.

 

[Macha]

2 questions:

How do I disable Vista's "C: is full" nag? I have an empty 250GB D: drive.

Is it possible to move System folders (such as Desktop or Downloads) to another drive?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Switch the C and D drives around in the drive managment?

Another silly question: I read that a screenshot is of what the video card is outputting. So if there was some way to save clipboards between reboots, and you had a bad driver and it made a funky pattern on the screen, could that be made into a screenshot?

 

[Turner]

No, that wouldn't work. Then you'd have the OS trying to boot off of an empty disk, and it wouldn't load.

I would move some files off of your C: drive. Your temporary internet files are probably set too high (shouldn't be more than a couple hundred meg) and your system restore is probably too high as well.

You should be able to move your swap file off of the C: drive....maybe not. Linux uses a different partition for the swap file. I'm hoping that Windows has the same capability...never bothered to check.

Turning hibernation off should free up space too, if it's turned on.

 

[lndm]

There is a way to stop the OS from nagging about drive space (with XP, anyway). Can't remember but I had a hard time finding it whatever. Might be in the recycle bin properties or maybe a registry value.

System folders can be moved, never tried it, but the paths are held in environment variables. There must be some apps out there to do this automatically.

WRT the video memory. I've witnessed that using Linux/XWindows. Just as X is restarting after a reboot, it begins with the last screen from the previous boot. Video cards these days have a lot of memory so that frames can be prepared and switched to. Therefore there are typically many frames sitting in the card at a time. Since vista uses direct-x, the boot time memory is unlikely to interfere with the last windows frame.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

No, that wouldn't work. Then you'd have the OS trying to boot off of an empty disk, and it wouldn't load.

Oops. Darnit.

If a CD explodes in the drive, is the drive unusable? (Hasn't happened, fortunately. Just wondering.)

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Oops. Darnit.

If a CD explodes in the drive, is the drive unusable? (Hasn't happened, fortunately. Just wondering.)

Didnt you ask this already? Pretty much yes, there are gonna be little pieces of the cd everywhere and you're gonna want to get them out, they may damage discs or make the drive not work at all.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Didnt you ask this already? Pretty much yes, there are gonna be little pieces of the cd everywhere and you're gonna want to get them out, they may damage discs or make the drive not work at all.

I don't think I did, but I think someone else asked about their CD exploding, and since I ask so many questions people probably mix me up with others.

 

[lndm]

I've never seen a disc shatter in the drive, has anyone here?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I've never seen a disc shatter in the drive, has anyone here?

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=310683 (recent)
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=115455 (2005)

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

In a fit of carelessness, I accidentally closed my laptop while there was a small object on the keyboard. The area of impact on the LCD screen is now covered in what appears to be black ink, while colored lines along the vertical and horizontal axes have appeared. Will these problems get worse? Can it be repaired?

 

[lndm]

Sorry to hear about that, ICBM , but it can be fixed (replaced).


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[SS-18 ICBM]

Sorry to hear about that, ICBM , but it can be fixed (replaced).

So the monitor has to be replaced? Or (God forbid) the laptop?