When saving VirtualDub settings (.vcf) files, It Doesn’t Store Codec Or Compression (Xvid, DivX, etc.) Information! I am using VirtualDub 1.9.8. I have a folder full of large avi files and I want to convert each file down to a smaller Xvid compressed avi, and also rename it in the process. I did a Google […]

I did multiple google searches for the following search terms: “Netflix down, Netflix site down, Netflix not working, Netflix Outage, Netflix Instant Watching Trouble, Netflix problems December 8 2009, what’s wrong with netflix?“, none of which returned any relevant results for the last 24 hours. So, I decided to blog about it in case anyone

So, yesterday I was so frustrated about computer problems. I worked for 12 hours trying to resolve this strange issue. Here it is: 3 total computers connected to router, 2 laptops-both wireless, and one desktop by ethernet cable. Internet Explorer 7 won’t load any pages except localhost, nor will Firefox 3, and can’t ping websites

There seems to be some dynamically generated websites that use this format in their “keywords”: [search term]’ Stats Any sites that return that in the search results are probably click-sites, bogus sites generated on the spot based on whatever terms you are searching for, for the sole purpose of gaining the webmaster $$$ based on

(This was all done in October 2009) PROGRAMS AND FILES REMOVED: Start > Right-Click and choose “Properties” START MENU Enable only the following: Select “Classic Start menu” Click on “Customize” button Display Administrative Tools Display Run Enable dragging and dropping Expand Control Panel Expand Printers Show Small Icons in Start menu TASKBAR (NOTE: These changes

As of this date (10/22/09) my recommendation is not to install IE8 on XP. I had it installed for over two months after having used v. 7 for about 4 months. IE8 was slow to load, slow to launch tabs, and just slow overall … like a fat hog. Don’t do it to yourself …

The following was found on Geekstogo.com   Click Start > Run > type in the Run dialogue box type C:WINDOWS$NtUninstallKB940157$spuninstspunist.exe This should uninstall that partitcular update. Also I think it is listed in Add/Remove programs. You may have to select “show updates”. The above process should remove Windows Search 4 NOTE: I tried uninstalling from

Yesterday I experienced a problem where my 2nd (SLAVE) SATA drive would only show as “unformatted’ in both Windows XP Disk Management and in Easus Partition Manager 4.0 Home. Subsequent googling revealed that a solution that has worked for that problem is to install any service pack for XP. I downloaded and installed XP SP3

Long story short, the solution to this seems to be upgrading to the latest service pack. Apparently Windows XP (no service packs) can’t recognize certain sizes of SATA drive. Here is an excerpt from a web article, with more information: … Last week, my desktop died, reboot looping and the whole works. tried many things,