Pictures as Thumbnails Vista

November 12, 2009 by  
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I recently help a lady with her Laptop running Vista and she wanted her pictures to show as thumbnails instead of Icons. If you go to Documents, then go to Organize, then choose Folder and Search options, then open the View tab, uncheck the first line that reads Always show icons, never thumbnails. Click Apply and OK, your pictures should now be displayed as thumbnails. This works in Vista and Windows 7.

Windows 7 and Linksys Network card

November 7, 2009 by  
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I just recently installed Windows 7 on one of my computers which had a Linksys NC100TX Network card in it. 7 will not load drivers for it and Linksys has no updated drivers for this card. I bought a brand new Linksys LNE100TX EtherFast card and that will not work with 7 either, it is not even listed on the box that it will work with Vista and I learned on the web that Linksys does not plan to make driver updates for these cards. So before you install 7 use the compatibility program and see if your Network card will work. I will no longer be buying any Linksys products. I bought a new D-Link Network card and it says on the box that it will work with Vista so it should work fine with 7, I ended up putting in a Realtech Network card in place of the Linksys and it work perfectly and they had new drivers for it that I downloaded and installed. I guess Linksys doe not give a hoot about their customers so why should I give a hoot about them. I can not believe they did not even update their drivers for Vista, sad shame on you Linksys.

Dell Dimension 2400 Physical Memory Dump Error

November 7, 2009 by  
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Here is some of the page info, to read the rest go here XP Dell Dimension 2400 Physical Memory Dump Error

I worked on a dell dimension 2400 that had lost the onboard video, Start Menu, Task Bar, internet and it only had PCI slots no AGP or PCI express slots. I work on family and friends computers for free, so I looked around the basement and came up with an old PCI 3dfx Voodoo 3 card, I really wondered if XP the OS on the computer would even have drivers for it. I put it in the number one PCI slot, that slot is always reserved for a video card and hooked the monitor cable to it and it worked. I tried booting the computer and was able to get into the BIOS. I was going to disable the onboard video but it only gave me the option for Auto or Onboard, so it got set to Auto. So now I had a monitor to see what was going on with the computer. The owner said she had no Start Menu or Task Bar and could not get online, that she kept getting error messages, the first one I got was a IPmon.exe error message. I did a search on Google and most sites indicated it was a malicious Trojan. I rebooted into Safe Mode and download Malwarebytes on my flash drive and then dragged it onto the wounded computers Desktop. It installed but gave a message error when I tried to open it.


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