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Probably a BSOD which triggers an auto-reboot.Open the start menu, right-click on "Computer" and choose "Properties". In the window that opens, click on "Advanced System Settings". Now in the "Startup and recovery" part, click on settings. There, uncheck "Automatically Restart".Next time your system fails, you'll get a BSOD with an error code (style 0x000007FABD). Googl'ing this error code should give you some info. If it's not clear, feel free to post the error code here

so i have installed Paint.NET on my machine as my default image editor and used it quite often for editing photos to throw on facebook and stuff
then out of the blue the icon on taskbar and startmenu programs gets the empty (or missing) icon... now i can be quite particular and find it annoying and unpleasant to look at so i decided to re-install the program... now a few days later i notice it's gone missing again...

has anyone experience this before with any other particular program?

It might be a problem with your icon cache, try rebuildling it: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

Understandable yet really sad to hear Wutske. Hopefully this does not mean that you're going to stop posting too. The best way to have your account cancelled is as yordan suggested, by contacting Xisto - Support.
But chances are, that if you send a ticket first support will ask you to login to your client area and submit a cancellation request through there. Since typically, only a website owner has access to his client area(where you check invoices and mycent). So login to your account at Xisto - Support.com and add the cancellation request.

In the cancellation request, specify 3 things :-

1. Immediate / End of billing period - Immediate cancellation means that your account will be terminated once cancellation request has been confirmed by the user. End of the billing period would mean that your account would be cancelled on its next due date.

2. Backup - Yes / No - Cancellation = termination of data so mention clearly whether you need a backup generated or not. Backups can be generated by you or by a support person.

3. Refunds - In the same cancellation request, specify your invoice id and ask for a refund. I am sure they will refund you for the unused period.

Good luck with everything wutske and hopefully see you around.

Ok, thanks . The request was sent so it'll all end soon

Hello,after many years I've decided that I don't need my hosting at a Xisto anymore and I'd like to terminate my hosting account (mainly because I hardly use it anymore).Is there a certain procudure to following ? Also, I've been quite late with this and my new hosting plan will start 19th and a part of the invoice has already been payed using myCents, is there still a way to cancel this invoice in order to stop my hosting plan ?

Ow, so instead of running it full-screen, you want to black banding ? You should be looking for the "flat panel scaling" option in the nVidia settings menu and set it to "Do not scale"

A quick search yield the result: tadaa

You can't . Such an old game is not designed to handle 16/9 resolutions, it can properly place the GUI elements and all that stuff.Also, it can't handle the high resolutions because it's lacking the high resolution texture maps.With some luck there's a Warcraft III mod out there that allows you to get it running at 16/9 and then have your graphics card upscale the image to fit your monitor (which will look ugly and blurry )

Thanks for bringing it up again . Just installed Mint 14 - Cinamon edition over my Fedora 17 and I'm quite happy with it, it surely gotten even more mature since Mint 10.I must say that it's refreshing to see that there's at least on linux distribution that looks really nice (Ubuntu is fine too, but Mint is more refreshing).However, it's much slower compared to Fedora 17. Logging in was instant and the Gnome 3 'tablet style' start menu were actually really easy to use (and I even miss it on Mint).

Ok so i've received the Note 2 but i'm having problem with Samsung Mobile MTP device
When i fire up Kies PC Sync tool it is stuck on Loading/Syncing my phone - so i'm back online looking for solution to this

I have installed the latest drive which comes with latest Kies Software for Galaxy Note 2 (downloaded from Sammy website)

If it's an MTP device then it should just show up without any problems on your computer. However, I had a similar problem with my Windows Mobile device and it turnoud out that the DHCP service must be running (by default it's running, but some people prefer to disable this if your pc has a fixed IP).

Keep us informed which one you will decide, android tablets seem rather interesting, but seems that they have very interesting apps inluded by their manufacturer. I also would like to understand the sytem backup/restore process. I guess that these kind of toys will be very sensitive to virus attacks, and the few backup-restore methods I found on the web seem rather complicated.

I have an Android tablet and to be honest, you shouldn't worry too much about back-ups nowadays: everything you do is in the cloud (whether you like it or not). Your contacts, mails, photo's, video's are all stored in your Google account and so are the apps you've bought. Office documents and larger files can be synced using (Drop)Box.
As you state, it are indeed the manufacturers apps that make or break a tablet. I have Cyanogenmod ROM installed on my tablet and compared to what you get with Samsung it's really a useless ROM (in terms of: you don't get any fun stuff).
Viruses are indeed a common problem with Android, there are virus scanners but I highly doubt their efficiency. As usual, common sense is the best safety measure (tough a virus scanner, firewall and permission revoker can get you pretty far too).

The thing with Apple is that if they offer you the ability to upgrade to a newer version of iOS it means it's going to run stable and smooth. If they can't guarantee a high quality experience then you'll just have to buy their new hardware .Besides, what's wrong with a 2 year old phone

@Cinnamon: I'm quite curious what you mean by "more than MySQL can handle". As far as I know, MySQL is a powerfull database which is used in many production environments with extremely high loads and huge datasets. I'm quite sure that the performance bottleneck will be on the hardware side and not on the software side (except when you fail to define indexes and stuff like that ). I can guarantee that even a simple query takes a few seconds on a production DB2 server if you're searching inside a table with +100.000.000 entries ;)If you have non-relational data to store you also might look into NoSQL databases like MongoDB.

Using shared folders should be the quickest way since it's just a disk-to-disk copy without it going through the network or USB. However, maybe the fact that you use NAT makes things slower inside VB (I always use a bridged network connection, this way I also have quick access to all my network shares).

Hello Xisto,I'd like to address the problem with the recent spamming issues on the forums. There are a lot of spambots which are bumping old posts and mess up newer posts and some of them just post crap as 'guests'. This is really annoying because I often use the 'Show new content' button which now acts like a 'Show all posts with spam' button. It's also annoying because it makes it harder for me to gain myCents because I just can't find any interesting and active topics.Please do something about these problems Eg.1) disable guests2) better capthca on registration3) auto-close all posts which are older than 2-3 months4) Posting URLs is not allowed in the first x days after registration + you need at least 5-10 posts without URLs ...

Sorry, no way for a private person to increase the signal.A phone company has to put an antenna closer to your home, the current antenna is to far away.
Maybe you should look the people living around you, if they have a smarphone and if they are satisfied, ask them which company provide their phone and switch to that one.

I think he want to increase the WiFi signal in his house.

There are several ways to increase your WiFi signal:
1) Turn your wifi antenna's (or just turn the wifi router if it's doesn't have external antenna's). Most wifi antenna's are slightly directional which means they send more energy in certain directions.
2) If possible, install a better antenna on your wifi router. These antenna's boost the signal with a few dB in certain directions (so in certain places it'll be better and in other places it'll be worse!). This is not possible if you can't swap the antenna's on your wifi router.
3) This highly depends on your wifi router, but certain firmwares allow you to boost the WiFi signal. You also disable power saving features to get a more powerful signal.
4) Get a 802.11n WiFi router if: your cell phone supports it and if you don't already have on.
5) Get a WiFi repeater

it would probably be just the quick screen/lock kinda thing thats currently available with mobile devices... but you never know, maybe they are or have worked on a work-around for this... but to be honest if i would be able to own one of these anytime soon - i wouldn't careless about this at all lol

I guess it'll survive a week or two in stand-by considering that it doesn't need to keep a radio power all the time . But then again, it's not nice you won't be able to use your camera after leaving it two weeks on the shelf .
On the other hand, it's a nice camera with great specs and it'd be cool that you could share some high quality pics while traveling without the need of a laptop. On the other hand ... I prefer my dSLR

and of course it is much simpler than a proper programming language...
so for me if I'm encouraging or helping a person to do programming, i would suggest he/she start with mark-up language and styling (like HTML/XML/CSS) then later on add to it some scripting (say python/php), then finally move to C/C++/Java and so forth

I would personally advise people to go for c++ if they really want to learn how to program. It's not that hard to learn and you can really focus on the basics (flow control, exception handling, etc ...) and you can also go a lot deeper using pointers and memory management (this is a must, even if you don't need it anymore in modern programming languages, the basics of memory management still remain interesting to know).

I think its one of the best language to start with if someone without any programming knowledge would wanna start doing some programming...

Indeed, besides, you'll get the hang of working with tags, learn to do stuff in a well organized manner and you'll learn how to use google too

i wonder if it charges through MicroUSB as well... yes it will be a pain if boot-time will be an issue, mind you it probably be utilizing some android hibernation feature that quickly goes back on - Android power off/on wouldn't be ideal for a Camera...
and one wouldn't wanna recharge the camera every 2nd day or so hehe

I'm not sure how they'll do it. A deep hibernation requires some time, a normal stand-by requires energy and a cold boot is just slow , so now matter how they do it, it'll be bad .

I've never heard of any application being able to do stuff like that, at least not on windows. To me it looks more like something that could be done in linux .

My best guess is that you create a batch file for every stick and store it there and as soon as you insert the stick your computer you just launch the batch file.

xcopy ./dirToCopy c:/destination/to/copy/to /E /Q /H /R /T /Ydel ./dirToCopy /F /S /Qmsg * Copy process finished

This will copy and overwrite all existing files and afterwards remove the files from you USB drive. If everything is finished you'll get a pop-up.

Ps. you might also try something like Microsoft SyncToy or SyncBack...

This argument is never endin that which is cloud. Well as we know every server is hosted in datacenter, and also with vps and other cloud system. so exactly what is cloud does cloud didnt have any downtime or link that. well its a bit of question in my mind which remain UN-answered.

The only difference betsween VPS and "the cloud" is that you know exactly where your data is hosted with a VPS, if it's hosted in the cloud it might be in the USA, Africa, China, ... It can be anywhere and you don't know where it is.

I don't really understand your problem. First you say you don't have access but then you say you can use LogMeIn to connect to the computer .

Great tuto, but this probably won't do for most people; you could write a whole book on repairing computers and still not cover every aspect of the process. First of all, the most important part of the process is based on knowledge, intuition and some good guessing. I know by experience that I shouldn't start testing the memory when my computer says "bootable media not present". You've also listed a load of stuff that can break down, but I've never seen a case causing a malfunction (unless you've failed to correctly install the hardware in the case, but that's a user error) and you've forgotten stuff like the graphics card.Second, you talk about repairing a computer, which means you're stating that something is broken, but when a computer stops working, it's often caused by a software problem and not a hardware, so you have to be sure that it's not just a corrupted driver that prevents your computer from working. Here I'd like to second infotronix's advice that BSOD information should be analyzed (if present) or that any other error message should be analyzed before starting the slow and painful testing procedure.Third, you're going to take out the CPU before checking it's temperature and you even suggest to hold you're hand near the cooler even tough this thing can reach temperature near boiling point ? That is just foolish ! Besides, if you don't know what you're doing you should never remove a CPU from it's socket. It's sensitive equipment and the application of cooling paste is a very important step which must be done in a correct matter and you've never mentioned that you must discharge yourself or wear special ESD-protection equipment.I'm sorry for being so hard on your tutorial, but I'm doing this to protect you and other people that read your guide. Your guide is far from complete and can possibly cause physical damage (but to the user and the hardware).

hehe couldn't agree more... i started learning HTML (my first touch on some programming language (markup) - some would argue doing html isn't programming - but in my view it is) out of personal interest to put up a simple website, so i went to w3schools and went through most of the html tutorials/guides there... it was really helpful, especially for myself as i haven't had any programming experience prior to that...
i also tried self learning CSS for sometime... i wish i had kept going with them but then lost interest when i met wordpress (CMS)... although understanding HTML and CSS is very very handy when working on CMS themes... i had to learn php though (which i still haven't gotten pass basics)

HTML would probably not pass as a programming language as it doesn't provide any basic programming features like flow control, exception handling and method/object definitions. However, it's a great markup language to know which might help you learn other languages (for example, you could learn Java EE and use HTML as the front-end which is much nicer and easier to work with than the default Java GUI frameworks).

OK, but think about the following : with standard USB cables, we are familiar with plugging and unplugging a cable at any time, at any end.With the micro-usb cables, you have to always be careful plugging the small end first, the big plug secondly. Because the big side has a big plug, correctly guided inside the socket. And the small-end plug is smaller, less correctly guided, and has to be plugged when there is no current inside, until each contact is correctly fitting the corresponding side in the device. Else, while inserting the small edge connector, you can touch the wrong electrode and, if the other side is connected, call too much power from the USB outlet of your PC, draining more power than your PC main power supply can offer.

That would indicate a serious malfunction in the USB controller since USB standards specify a maximum current of 500mA at 5V (in fact, unless more power is 'asked' by the device, a standard USB port should only be able to supply 100mA at 5V).
Some, non-standard ports, do give 1A at 5V, but this is still a lot lower than what your PSU can deliver.

I am seriously wondering what the added value of "the cloud" is when it comes to virus scanners. Afaik you still need to have the latest definition updates on your computer and they shouldn't be different from those on the Avira "cloud". This might sound a bit paranoia and it's one of the most used arguments when it comes to cloud based services, but I don't feel safe uploading my personal files to a cloud to which viruses are sent on a daily base...