You didn't know this
Man, I haven’t posted here in a while. /c:
Surely, many of you have run into the infamous site ‘experts-exchange.com’ when trying to fix your computer. You know, it’s that one that has all those people who ask tough computer problems (uncanny the way they seem to always be same ones that you run into) , so that file-dweller super-geniuses can scurry into the picture and give them some helpful and informed answers to their (your) problems.
Yeah, too bad you have to set up payware/trial account thing to see any of the answers.
Really?
No, it’s a gyp.
Really. Try it yourself. See how long that webpage is? Yep, just scroll all the way down to the bottom of it to get to any of the stuff that matters. These chumps try to hide their information behind (below) a whole lot of nagverts and ’sitemaps’ to try and get ‘grandma-who-accidentaly-just-broke-the-Yahoos’ to subtract $12+ from her monthly income so that she can see something she could have probably gotten for free. Apparently, there is such thing as a free (Crippled) account for the site, but you get so much smoke blown in your face that you can’t get to it without looking hard. I know that people have to make a living, but they probably don’t have to stab the computer-illiterate in the back first.
Experts exchange does give solid advice, I can give it that. Unfortunately, it’s presentation makes it hard for regular end-users to find the information. ( Pretty creative gimmick, though. I bet they have sucked the money out of dozens of hapless blockheads. )
Somehow, exp/exch.com doesn’t seem like the website I would want to be stuck alone on a desert island with.
*-=_HAPPY NEW YEAR!_=-*
Inevitable fail. x__x
Of course, just exactly at 11:58 P.M. my xserver has to crash and I end up having to restart it, forcing Firefox to close, and thereby losing my place on the time.gov server. By the time Firefox finally came up, it was 20 seconds ’till and the server was overloaded. All I got was this lousy screenie.
+_+
Happy new year 2009.
I’m gonna go try get some sleep. Good morning.
Oc8
Do YOU want to find out how to make tacky and otherwise useless avatars like the one below?!??
Stay tuned…
Enthdegree discoveres Hibernate Mode
I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems like windows hides some functionality deep within forms, documented only buried deep within in the rats nest of the ‘windows help center’ texts. Most people who use windows know about hibernate mode. For those of you who are in the dark, hibernate mode is a mode where windows saves all of the info on open windows, and then stores it in a file somewhere. Then it turns off. The next time you decide to power on, you will have windows resume to just what it was before hibernate mode turned on. You might think that it’s cumbersome and useless for everyday use, but if you work with a laptop with a short-lived battery ( like me 
:tongue: ) its actually pretty useful.
Enough chitchat: here’s how to get to it rly fast:
Click on the ‘Turn Off Computer’ button from the windoze start menu, and when the dialog pops up push and hold shift. The ’standby’ button should now say ‘hibernate’ While still holding shift, drag your mouse over to it and click. It will start hibernating!
FINALLY figured out how to get Windows XP SP3
Sorry, I thought that my next post was going to be on USB linux. 
I haven’t posted in a while so I thought I would. I figured out how to goet Windows XP SP3 Update. The download on the ‘Windows Download Center’ is a hard to find link and it’s also broken. When I go to WindowsUpdate, I click ‘Custom Update’ so that I know what is coming onto my computer and what is being optimized. You can’t do that with Windows XP SP3. All you have to do is click ‘Express Update’, because for some reason it isn’t available through the ‘Custom’ button I always choose. 
I can’t believe it held me back for like 3 weeks. 
How to get rid of a corrupted folder or a corrupted shared file
A while back I remember that we had a secure wired network throughout all of our computers. It worked really nice when trying to move one file to another computer quickly and efficiently. It had to get unplugged, however after our big move, so now we just use FTP. I was cleaning up our computer yesterday, when I noticed a folder that was in the ’shared’ directory left behind from the network shutdown that I could not delete, rename, or much anything else! It was pretty annoying, since nothing was in it, and it was in a string of other folders that I wanted to delete also. Here’s how to get rid of it.
This only works if you get the
“
” error
Right click on the folder and select the ’sharing’ tab.
Uncheck ’share this folder on the network’ if it isn’t already.
Also, check ‘make this folder private’.
Ok out of it.
Make another folder in the same directory called the same thing. Os’s usually don’t allow that, but the folder is not technically *on* the harddrive, as windows says in their pretty little error message.
Windows isn’t case sensitive, but make the name an exact replica just to be sure.
You now have two folders named the same thing. 8cO
Open up the folder you created. (usually on the bottom. 
) and then try to open up the old corrupted one. If it doesn’t open, you spelled something wrong on the new one. Just rename it.
Once you have it right, delete it!
As for deleting .EXEcutables, just copy and paste one that works from your C:/Program Files directory and do the same as above.
