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Why doesn't Windows 7 wake up from sleep?
I upgraded my Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate (RTM) and after that it doesn't wake up from sleep. When I power it on it turns on but nothing happens, but if I press the reset button it boots and then wakes up, I mean, it doesn't reboot Win 7, it actually wakes up. Anyone have any clue about su…
kill -9 programs but they still hang on
I tried to kill all my background jobs submit earlier under KUbuntu by Although this command immediately gave the message like [1] Killed myjob1 [2] Killed myjob2 I can still see their processes hanging in the output of top and the CPU and memory usages are not changed in the output of uptime and f…
Pin "View Local Services" to Windows 7 Taskbar?
I have to view the Windows services often and would like to pin the "View Local Services" to the Windows 7 taskbar somehow. It doesn't work when I try to drag it from the start menu, nor can I drag a shortcut to it. Is there another way to do this?
How to recover folder converted to file by check disk?
After turning on my computer, check disk checked my flash drive and converted corrupted folder to a file. How can I recover data from converted folder? Below is the message I found in bootex.log file on my hard drive after conversion happened. Checking file system on E: The type of the file system …
Gmail "Message left on the server", how to automatically delete them?
In the last few weeks, I've been receiving many alerts from Gmail while reading emails from another account. The warnings, for example, read , because they contain some virus or dangerous attachment (spam, naturally). I'm wondering if there is a way to tell Gmail to automatically delete those messa…
How do I install MS-DOS 6.22 upgrade in a virtual machine without bootable DOS 6.0 installation media?
I am trying to create an MS-DOS 6.22 virtual machine in VMware. I have MS-DOS 6.0 and the 6.22 upgrade from the MSDN subscriber downloads. In order to install the 6.22 upgrade, I have to install 6.0 first. The 6.22 download includes .IMG files from which I can boot, but the 6.0 download does not. I…
How can I display the list of all packages installed on my Debian system?
How can I get the list of all packages installed on my Debian system (I know this one is easy)? And also a list of all packages marked as manual? I am thinking about system upgrade, but I can't remember all these things I installed over the years :)
On Ubuntu, why "sudo apt-get" sometimes and "sudo aptitude" other times?
I was trying to figure out how to install libgtk2.0-dev and found that I have to use instead of Why these two different ways of getting stuff?
How do I embed video in PowerPoint with relative paths?
I'm using PowerPoint 2003. Does anyone know how to embed a video in a PowerPoint presentation in such a way that it can be moved to another computer? Possible solutions I'm considering: Actually embed the video file into the powerpoint file. This would be ideal, but I don't know how to do this. Ins…
What is the impact of leaving a laptop in "sleep" mode (while on battery power)?
How much battery would leaving my laptop at "sleep" mode consume? is the consumption low enough so that it would be safe to leave the laptop sleeping at nights regularily and using it tommorow? What's the recommended period of time for which I should not turn it off, but let it sleep. (for example,…
Creating a local library with network shares/drives
I think the Windows 7 library feature is great - once you understand how it works, but it's pretty frustrating that you can't add network drives/shares to a library. I fully understand that in some circumstances users might find it confusing to have something available one minute and not the next -…
iPhone 3G refuses to transfer purchased apps to iTunes
My iPhone 3G refuses to transfer purchased apps to iTunes. This is causing me major problems with syncing. Whenever I attempt to transfer apps from the iPhone to iTunes it goes through the motions, but never actually transfers anything. It displays the various apps in the info area at the top of th…
A good keyboard macro program for Ubuntu?
I'm looking for a good keyboard macro program for Ubuntu Linux? I want to easily be able to "start recording" have it record all keys pressed. Then when I stop recording save it. then I want to be able to call the macro by hitting a special key and selecting the sequence. having to open a text file…
Convert image to text
I got a scanned image document from bank and I want to convert it to normal text document with images in Ubuntu. Is there any tool for it ?
Tool for comparing two images?
I have two images that are slightly different. (The second is actually generated by some manipulation in MatLab). I need some way to compare these two images.Some utility that can highlight where the differences are. [I know this can be done in Matlab, but I don't want to do it that way. Some easie…
How best to manually uninstall a program in windows 7/vista
I have a program whose uninstall program is giving me grief, it has an error partway through uninstall, stops and rolls back. I would like to uninstall this product manually so what is the best way to go about doing this?
Is there an alternative to 'chkdsk'?
On windows we have that runs during startup. Also there is one more way to check disk that is by using disk defragmenters analyze feature. But these are some of the windows official ways to check disk for errors. Is there any 3rd party alternative for ?
How to download list of files from a file server?
How would I download a list of files from a file server like this one http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/ ? I suppose I could use wget but then it tries to get all the links and the html file as well. Is there a better tool to accomplish this?
What is the way to use FTP and Notepad++ (without using its build-in FTP or a FTP client like FileZilla)?
I use Notepad++ for more than 2 years now, and there's only 1 thing that it needs for me to be perfect: a actually-working-ftp-plugin. It has an FTP plugin, written by someone that meanwhile left the project (by meanwhile I mean a long time ago), and since then nobody had courage to improve it. The…
How to actually read ebooks?
As more and more books appear in electronic form, I'm looking for a way to actually read them. Just staring at the PDFs on screen isn't enough. I want to: Highlight important parts and put notes and bookmarks there. Have some kind of synchronization mechanism, since I use one computer at work and a…