Congratulations...only another 171,476 words to go. ;)

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In your URL form (The place where you type your web addresses) type:

1. about:config
2. Press OK on the warning
3. In the filter form near the top, type: browser.backspace_action
4. Double-click the preference and type 2 in the value field, then press OK.

That will unmap the backspace key from the back button, and you won't have that problem anymore.

Thank you very much! :D

Installed Windows 7 64-bit professional here a while ago :) No problem at all with anything.

I installed windows 7 today and i'm having some problems with driver software. HP QuickPlay apparently isn't compatible with windows 7 yet :(

Downloaded the new version of iTunes and it wont play any of the new tunes I download, it won't accept them into the library. I they they are in MPEG4 format which iTunes should support :(
If you can help, thank you :)

Sorry for the double post but I fixed it :).

How do you find out the graphics card details of your computer using a Windows Vista Home Premium? I need to know how many gHz my comp can run on so I can play a game I want to buy on it.

use this freeware app called gpu-z, it will tell you what gfx card you have
GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility

alternatively, go here, download their helper app, and enter the name of the game you're interested in. it will scan your machine and let you know if you're worthy.

Can You Run It

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Oh come on! You don't need more programs to get information about your hardware :p:

Simpler way : In Windows, just click the start menu, choose run and write "dxdiag". Press enter!

...but more is better

That may be if your hobby is bloating your computer with software you have little use for. ;)

oh come on! GPU-Z is a single exe that doesn't need to be installed and doesn't write to the registry. stick it on a storage partition and use it when you need it. or just delete it when you're done. it's a handy utility, and it offer a lot more info than dxdiag.

I wouldn't call it handy if it does something you don't need it for, but I haven't tried it so I won't say that the amount of info you get from it is not satisfactory ..

.. But I'd say the information you can get from dxdiag without the program is. There's a lot of info on those dx tabs! Only very rarely should anyone have a need for a lot more info about their hardware/system than you find there.

dxdiag will tell you basic information, which might help someone who just wants to know basic info about their system. In Kaleigh's case, dxdiag is fine.

Where CPUZ comes in handy is that it gives you VERY detailed information about your CPU, motherboard, caches, memory, memory slots and timing, graphics, etc. CPUZ is a must-have if you ever want to upgrade any parts in your computer and need a reference to details that actually matter when you're deciding what's going to be compatible.
For it being the very small, very free, and very detailed program it is, it's just worth it and is far easier to use than physically disassembling your computer and hunting for decals and information after you realize that dxdiag failed to provide important information and you, say, ended up buying DDR3 RAM when your motherboard doesn't even support it.

It's a good benchmarking tool and although a lot of the information given would probably go over most non-tech people's head's, at least they'd be able to use it when asked by someone who needs that information if they're reccommending upgrades or diagnosing problems/compatibility issues.

There really isn't a reason NOT to use CPUZ over dxdiag, unless your hard-drive is so full that you can't spare 1.68 MB of space for a straight up executable.

HELP I got this goddamn Windows System Defender thing on my computer from a website. I stopped the process, and I thought I got rid of the .dll files, registry keys, and all that crap. But, there's a folder left under C:/LocalData called Defence which contains an application called smss. I'm pretty sure it's from the damn spyware thing. I never clicked anything, just immediately ended the process. But I can't delete that folder because it says I need permission, and if I give permission, it keeps prompting that I need permission over and over if I click try again. Any ideas?

try running Malwarebytes in safe mode, that should do the trick...

You're likely not the only one who has a problem with this so there's a lot of good information on the net.

I did a google search and got lots of results -> results

Yeah, this happened to me not too long ago. I ended up downloading an extra antivirus (had kaspersky or some **** on my computer, so I downloaded AVG on top of it) and it cleared it up pretty quickly. You'll have to go back and delete one of the antivirus' once the Defender crap is gone, but it was all pretty easy peasy.

Yeah... **** it I'm wiping everything and restoring. I think I downloaded a bad file, I have all sorts of questionable stuff after downloading a supposed album.

That's kind of a drastic response to a single malware incident, but do what you gotta do.
Afterwards, it'd be a good idea for you to install one of the two top free anti-virus programs available on the net: AVAST, or AVG. Both are great, but I personally vouch for Avast.

When that's all set up, resume life... but make this one small change: Scan everything you download from uncertain sources with your virus program prior to opening/executing.
Avast will alert you when there's malware present in any data that is being downloaded to your computer, or if malware attempts to download itself to your computer, Avast will alert you and let you abort the connection... This basically prevents viruses and spyware from ever getting on your computer in the first place, but if something sneaks past in a user-initiated download, you can doublesure by right clicking the file and selecting "scan filename".
Quick, easy, painless.

My computer hasn't been infected with any kind of malware in over 3 years.
Not too shabby if you ask me.

Fixed. I was just pissed and being over dramatic, not going to actually wipe my computer :rofl: I have McAfee, and it blocked 1 trojan, but I had another malware file that was continuously disabling my virus software. *Sigh* I know it's stupid, but I got lazy and stopped checking all the folders I was downloading like I should have :( I think I've learned my lesson, I'd rather not have to spend 5 hours removing crap I shouldn't have had in the first place... Oh well.

you should set up something with a real time scanner. i use ESET Smart Security and it's quite good. unobtrusive, low memory footprint, and it scans everything i download. it quarantines bad files immediately.

Lately my music files have been overwriting songs when I add them. When I try to play the new songs, it says it can't find them. But if I do a search for what I just added, It shows some stuff I already had(and is the new songs). This is really frustrating. I use mediamonkey.

So I downloaded an album that came as a 40 minute long track, any way I can separate the songs?

< Computer challenged

hopefully it came with a .cue file! if it did, use the freeware Cue Splitter. if not, you can either do it manually with something like MP3 Direct Cut, or you can just download it from someplace else...

Thanks! I'll try 'em out.

I've a problem with my iPod/iTunes.
When I plug my iPod in, it says that everythings synced which is all well and fine.
But then when I go into Music it tells me theres no content, yet when I'm on the iPod summary page in iTunes, the music still takes up X gbs, and TV Shows still take up X gbs, except theres nothing there. At all. Apps are still there. Just all my content says it's syncing one, but it isn't yet iTunes is claiming the space up, with nothingness!! :( it's making me sad, cause it's 4am, im tired. And need some music to nod off to :(, please help someone? :(

ipods are finicky things. the music gets sent there all scrambled up. well not literally, but each track gets a random name and goes into a random folder, then a database is written to tell the ipod where to find everything and how to put it all back together.

your database is corrupted. it happens sometimes. nothing you can do but reset it with itunes and sync it again.

Yeah I fixed it last night, took me til almost 5am. I'm not a happy chappy. :( but eventually I fixed it, thank you very much for the help :)

I just have a really simple question:

How can my I.P address show that I'm in Netherlands, when I'm very far from there?

You're either browsing through a proxy server located in the Netherlands, or your Internet Service Provider is based there.

Does anyone with any knowledge of Macs know how I could make my macbook stop overheating? After I've been using it for a while, it overheats and the fan goes crazy loud. The only thing I've done to help is put books under each corner to elevate it off the desk when I'm using it but I don't know if that really does anything lol... does anyone know of any way to make it run slower and cooler or something?

Well, I don't have much Mac experience, but overheating is overheating, regardless of the brand.
In most cases, your computer will have a mechanism to shut itself off immediately if it overheats to the point of near damaging.
But if you're simply just hearing a loud fan kick in, then your fan is just loud, and it's kicking in like normal fans kick in when the computer's temperature rises beyond a specific level.
But if your fan sounds like it's abnormally loud, and you're hearing some obvious signs of wrongness, you may just have to change out your fan.
Usually that's a better step to try first, as it's cheaper than just assuming your computer is overheating and buying something more expensive for it.

There are also free programs available on the web that can monitor and tell you what temperature your main hardware is running at.
You can then compare your readings to the average safe temperatures that you'll undoubtedly also be able to find on the web.


Either way, one obvious rule I like to observe, that I always see people ignore, is:
Never put your laptop directly on your bed or any like-surface. The venting underneath the laptop won't function and eventually your hardware will suffer over time. I see this all the time, and no matter how often I warn, people don't take it to heart. These are, 90 percent of the time, the same people who come to me later and complain about overheating issues. And usually by then, it's far too late.

Cool, thanks for the advice. Seriously Freebase, you're so clever.. what would I do without your quality tech advice?! Anywho, I guess it's just a case of having a really loud fan because I haven't noticed any other problems per se other than the fan going crazy. And after doing a search on the net, other owners of Macbooks seem to report the same thing.

And yeah, I rarely put my laptop on soft surfaces like my bed, but now that you've said that I'm definitely going to avoid it! And hopefully elevating it off the desk with my makeshift 'stand' will help, too.

I might check out some of those monitoring programs or go to the Apple store and ask them if my fan sounds normal (even though most of the store people there are twats who pretend to know stuff when they really don't, grr.)

Anyway, thanks for the input! :)

do you have any pets in the house? cat hair makes quick work of heat sinks and fan housings.

not sure how easy it is to dig into a macbook, but i make a bi-annual ritual out of cleaning my laptop. remove the cover, disassemble the fans, blow out the massive chunks of dust with canned air, and clean everything down with diluted alcohol and cotton swabs.

after an hour's work or so, the thing runs cool and quiet for another few months before it gets gummed up again...

I forgot to reply to that.

Well the problem is, that sometimes the I.P address somehow changes and shows that I'm in Leb, so I get these errors that I have "Wrong I.P adress" or something.
It usually is annoying when I restart my computer and get all the sites in Dutch, so I have to guess how I can change the language back.

How are you normally viewing your IP info?
Assuming you're not already doing it directly from your gateway device (router), try the following:

If you're using DSL, try logging into your router to see what your WAN IP address is. The WAN IP is the one your Internet Service Provider leases to you for a certain amount of time, and is the IP address you and the other computers behind your router will use to communicate over the internet. If that IP address is not the IP address you're having issues with, then you can safely assume that you're using a dynamic proxy service outside your ISP, in which case you just need to disable proxy wherever you have it enabled.

To log into your router, simply go to the command prompt and type IPCONFIG and enter. Your gateway address is the address of the inside network interface of your router. That will be the address you put in the URL bar of your browser. Entering that IP should bring you to the software interface of your router.


Ya know something, I just remembered that when I was in Iraq, there was a civilian satellite internet thing set up and there was a bunch of access points set up for wireless. Well, the ISP providing the service was based out of Germany, so our IPs were obviously german registered. Every time I'd go to certain sites, the default language would be in German. I never could get around that except by using a U.S. Proxy server, but your transfer speeds can be lower that way.

Anyway, if you find out that you're not using any kind of proxy service and the IP your ISP gives you is the only one you're communicating with, then your IP should always be registered with your ISP's region. If this is the case, and you're getting odd IP addresses, your ISP is doing something fishy and it's something you need to contact them about.

Which ISP are you using, btw?
AKA.. what company is providing your internet service.
And is it DSL, Cable, or Dialup?