Originally Posted by stp (Post 1318468)

Probably because he didn't know more. A lot of primary tech support seems lost if they step outside the standard FAQ walkthroughs.

Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1318472)

Do you have a usb drive? While at work you download it and put it on that, then when you go home install it from the drive. I keep a folder full of the drivers for all my laptop's hardware so whenever I have to reformat (which is semi frequent), they're all in one place and I can immediately begin to install them.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1318474)

Computer malfunctions can be from any number of things. I can't say with any certainty without physically checking it myself or knowing absolutely everything you've done with it. But certain things do help to point to likely causes. If it worked before, but suddenly stopped working, it's still either a hardware or a software problem. You have to figure out what you did from the point where it worked until the point where it didn't.

Obviously, you can go overboard and wipe the whole computer and reinstall everything to determine whether it's a software issue or not. If it is, you'll probably fix it. You just won't know what caused it and might do it again. The reason that's suggested so often is because it's usually quicker and easier than actually tracking down the problem, but it comes at the cost of starting from scratch. Fortunately you would be able to back up any pertinent data prior to doing this.

Another option is to use your last known good configuration, or reverting to a previous restore point. This is less drastic than a complete wipe, but there's no guarantee that it will solve the issue.

Ultimately, you can decide to do the detective work and try to figure out what changed, or you can just go back to a working restore point, or if that fails, revert back to the factory image and have to reinstall all the software you've installed since you had the PC. If I were you, I'd do the less-drastic stuff first. I just have limited information, so I can't recommend anything beyond that, besides just telling you to make sure that the computer is, indeed, seeing the camera (Device Manager), and whether the most recent drivers are installed or reinstalled. Apart from that, you can start uninstalling other 3rd party software that you've installed since the time it was working to now, and see if any of them were conflicting.

Just do the least-drastic/crazy stuff first.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1318558)

Assuming you have a Windows and not Mac OS, if you see the device in Device Manager but there's a yellow exclamation mark beside it, like the one to the very left of this image
http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/...0_77A1DB41.png
that means there's something stopping it from working, that it';s conflicting with another device on your computer. So it may show but not be accessible, as it were. Just a point in case you do see it and don't know what it means...

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1318708)

I'm using Windows 8, 64 bit. I can't see the camera in the device manager, does anyone have any idea what cameras tend to be called in the device manager? Or what part of the components it's part of?

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1318708)

I'm using Windows 8, 64 bit. I can't see the camera in the device manager, does anyone have any idea what cameras tend to be called in the device manager? Or what part of the components it's part of?

Originally Posted by Burning Down (Post 1318724)

It should be under "Imaging Devices".

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1318745)

But will it actually have camera in the name or webcam?

Originally Posted by Burning Down (Post 1318748)

Mine says "1.3M HD Webcam"

Depends on the brand of webcam they've put in there. Take a look.

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1318758)

Okay I did look thoroughly and didn't see anything so perhaps a driver is what I need. But I'll check when I get home.

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1318758)

Okay I did look thoroughly and didn't see anything so perhaps a driver is what I need. But I'll check when I get home.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1318769)

If you don't see the name of the camera in device manager, the driver is not installed. Look on the hardware list for your computer (can probably find a service tag number underneath the computer on a sticker to enter into your laptop's manufacturer site) then when you find out what camera manufacturer and model it is, you can go to their site and download the latest 64bit driver for your model and install it. Alternatively, you can just look at the driver list for your laptop model on your laptop's manufacturer site and find the camera drivers there.

Originally Posted by stp (Post 1318777)

I thought Windows usually pops up with a new hardware dialogue when it finds something attached that's not set up?

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1318779)

Furthermore, Windows is ass bad at actually searching the internet for drivers.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1318779)

Also, the integrated camera on her laptop isn't a plug-and-play device, and that's where you get that prompt.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1318798)

Yea, I never trust Windows to do anything aside from what its own functionality dictates. When it comes to 3rd party stuff, relying on Windows to have a better idea than the actual manufacturers of that 3rd party stuff is definitely a misappropriation of confidence. 3rd party manufacturers builds their drivers based on the OS. Not the other way around. So I go with the manufacturer every time.

Originally Posted by stp (Post 1318802)

Was the laptop running Windows 8 when you got it or did you upgrade?

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1318800)

I have noticed it always says the most updated driver is installed with other devices. I will definitely check up on the driver via the model. But now the computer is not even letting me access the internet since a cable was put in and now I have no idea to get the setting back to what it was so I can access it. I am so ****ing sick of this **** I just want to take the damn thing back honestly.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1318813)

What do you mean "since a cable was put in"?
Are you talking about no longer using wireless, and now using a wired Ethernet cable?

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1318816)

I'm talking about the manager of my boarding house connecting my computer to the modem via cable and he couldn't access the internet because there is something my computer is doing to block it. This has happened before where it's said the connection is limited and I've had to mess around and try and get it back to normal. I can't remember how to do it and it's driving me crazy.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1318819)

If it's a router, wireless or otherwise, and you were fine connecting wirelessly but now you can't connect with the wired connection, ask whether the router has MAC address filtering. If it does, this basically requires any device connected to it, wirelessly or not, to have their MAC address entered into the "allow" list. Since your wireless network card and your wired network card are two separate physical entities, and MAC addresses are physically dictated on the device and are unique, you will have a different MAC address for each. And if only your wireless network card's MAC address is allowed, then obviously your wired one won't be.

If this is the case, you will have to get whoever manages the router to add your wired network card's MAC address to the allowed list in the router. You can find this mac address by doing an IPCONFIG /ALL in a command prompt.

Originally Posted by stp (Post 1318822)

Just as an aside where would this MAC filtering be implemented? I just got a Netgear N300 router and have been trying to set up an IP phone which is connected to one of the ethernet ports. I don't think it would be MAC filtered as all other connections (1 wired, several wireless) get through without issues but just to eliminate the possibility would this be in my modem settings somewhere?

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1318824)

If you just want to make sure you're NOT filtering MAC addresses, you would just log in and ensure no MAC filtering is enabled, in the configuration as described above.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1318819)

Well we need to figure out whether you're connecting to an actual modem or a router. Ideally, you should have a router connected to the modem, then your computer connected to the router. This will allow more than one computer to utilize the single IP address that gets assigned to the modem from your ISP.
Routers will be able to use NAT, which lets multiple internal computers use private IP addresses to communicate over a single public, routable IP address.

The reason I bring that up is because if it really is a "modem", like a cable modem or what have you, and it doesn't have an integrated router, then only one PC can connect and actually have internet because there's no NAT.

So, that's something you have to confirm.

If it's a router, wireless or otherwise, and you were fine connecting wirelessly but now you can't connect with the wired connection, ask whether the router has MAC address filtering. If it does, this basically requires any device connected to it, wirelessly or not, to have their MAC address entered into the "allow" list. Since your wireless network card and your wired network card are two separate physical entities, and MAC addresses are physically dictated on the device and are unique, you will have a different MAC address for each. And if only your wireless network card's MAC address is allowed, then obviously your wired one won't be.

If this is the case, you will have to get whoever manages the router to add your wired network card's MAC address to the allowed list in the router. You can find this mac address by doing an IPCONFIG /ALL in a command prompt.

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1318827)

We are due to set up MAC addresses as part of a Gargoyle system but as far as I know it hasn't been set up yet. However, I will have to check this. It definitely is a router because more than one people are connected to it ~ 10 people. I've found my mac address before because we originally on this system. I'll see what I can find out about this and the webcam and get back to you when I'm next available. Thanks so much for your help hun. xxx

Originally Posted by P A N (Post 1319321)

is there a way to look inside a rar file/package without extracting the files?

Originally Posted by Plankton (Post 1319322)

Get Winrar.

WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

Originally Posted by P A N (Post 1319323)

fanx! :thumb:

Originally Posted by Ki (Post 1319324)

Just don't get suckered into paying for it. They'll tell you constantly that you need to pay for the full version, but it never stops letting you use it for free.

Originally Posted by P A N (Post 1319323)

fanx! :thumb:

Originally Posted by PoorOldPo (Post 1320418)

So someone wants to pay me for an artist commision album cover I did for them. I set up a paypal. What next? what do I need to give them in order for them to send the money to my account? And then how do I get that money? Will it go into my bank account straight?(remember i'm a techno retard)

I now have an account on paypal, so what next?