CD-ROM Not Recognized

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Bullfrog117

Deleting UpperFilter and Lower Filter registry entries usually does the trick. Or replacing the system32/drivers/ files with working drivers. Usually gets corrupted by viruses (they don’t want you installing anti-viruses via optical media I guess).

http://sillydog.org/forum/sdt_9200.php

Internet Explorer Cannot Display The Webpage

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Bullfrog117

The antivirus virus will try to disable Windows communicating with the outside world by enabling the proxy service. There are two ways to disable it: Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Connection -> LAN Connection or you can get to the same Internet Options from Control Panel. Yeesh.

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-45192-internet-explorer-cannot-display-the-webpage

MSConfig Entry Deletion

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Bullfrog117

Locations of the entries in MSConfig
The enabled/checked items are populated from the following registry locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run

-and-

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Windows
Values named Run & Load

The disabled entries are present in these locations:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Shared Tools \ MSConfig \ startupreg
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Shared Tools \ MSConfig \ startupfolder

(source: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/MSCONFIG.htm)

Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6.3 Won’t Display Background Colors On Windows XP Service Pack 3

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Bullfrog117

For normal websites like MSN.com. It wasn’t Tools -> Internet Options -> Colors; those were all set correctly. Installing Google Chrome appeared to work fine, but then certain websites weren’t behaving correctly (due to their poor programming), so another solution was needed. It turns out that the High Contrast option was checked under Control Panel -> Accessibility Options -> Display and that solved the whole problem. Weird way of dealing with contrast, Microsoft, but at least the forums of the web saved me. Yeesh.

Helpful links:

Windows XP: High Contrast: Choose a High Contrast Color Combination to Improve Screen Resolution
Corrupt and missing images in IE, Firefox and throughout the OS
Missing Web Page Colors – D-A-L Computer Help – solution is here, the post by cooper1111

Google Search Terms:

firefox internet explorer missing colors
related:www.windowsbbs.com/windows-xp/65674-corrupt-missing-images-ie-firefox-throughout-os.html firefox internet explorer missing colors

Enable Administrator Account – Windows Vista, 7

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Bullfrog117

On Windows Vista or 7, click Start button and type cmd to search for the command console. Right click it and select “Run as Administrator.” From there run:
net user Administrator/ active:yes

Vista/7 Administrator Account June 15th, 2010
Run cmd.exe as administrator
net user administrator /active:yes

http://computerperformance.co.uk/vista/vista_adminstrator_activate.html

CTX S501A Troubleshoot Key Lock

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Bullfrog117

So I can’t turn the monitor on or off. There is a Key Lock display when you plug the AC cord in. The internet is less than helpful. All I can find is some forum post reply that says push two buttons or hold down ESC and ENTER when powering the monitor on…yeah, THAT sounds like a good idea. So let’s push random combinations of buttons on the monitor until somethig happens…

EUREKA!

Volume Up key + Auto key = Key Lock toggle on/off

WordPress Upgrade Buggy

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Bullfrog117

It erased my categories, but some browsing the wordpress forums found me this manual repair. Thank goodness for the intrawebs!

David Cumps » WordPress 2.6 Upgrade – Categories Missing

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