My hard drive w/ Win XP decided to just up and die. It won't even turn off or send a signal to a monitor. I went out and bought a new computer w/ Vista. My problem is, how do I recover what was on the old hard drive if I can't see anything on a monitor? Will I have to pay a recovery service or is it gone forever?
View 4 RepliesThe monitor just displays the "no signal" message. when the PC is turned off. I have looked long and hard for an answer, Anyone else have an issue with this? I have a 3 year old 19 in Sony Flat screen. I just reinstalled the OS from the 64 bit to the 32 bit and had the same problem with both. I've Goggled this and had no luck finding an answer.
View 9 Replies View Relatedthe display doesn't turn off after the configured time set in the active power plan. The screensaver works fine, so it's not that (for example) a mouse is giving random input. Also, when I shut down the computer, the display jumps to powersaving, so the display works fine. I've already tried a lot of things to solve it........
View 7 Replies View RelatedThere is no doubt that all of the security features in Windows Vista will help keep your computer secure. However, these features become less valuable when they are not turned on by default. One feature, known as user account auditing, is not turned on by default. With this feature is turned off, anyone with physical access or remote access to through a hole in your firewall (such an opening for Remote Desktop) can use a brute force attack against your user account for as long as they want without getting noticed at all. How? The default audit security policy is configured to not log any account logon events, successful or failed.
This allows an attacker to try to hack your accounts for as long as it takes to break in. There are a few ways to protect against this that I am going to go over in my next article about the Account Lockout policy. But first, it is important to turn on this account auditing so that you can see who may be trying to break into your accounts. After you have adjusted the auditing security policy, you will be able to see any account attacks including the account that they tried to logon with and where the request came from.
Let's get started and turn on audition for failed logon events:
Click on the Start Button and key in secpol.msc in the box and hit Enter.
Navigate through Local Policies and Audit Policy.
Right click on Audit account logon events policy and select Properties.
Check the Failure box and hit OK.
Right click on Audit logon events policy and select Properties.
Check the Failure box and hit OK. Your screen should now look like the figure below:
Close Local Security Policy editor.
Your computer has now been configured to log all failed user account logon attempts....
I have my Vista laptop (HP) hooked up to an external monitor, I have been using the sleep mode at night. The laptop is closed and on a shelf that is very hard to get to. I would like to shut it off at night. I can shut it off with the keyboard. Is there any way possibly software controlled to turn it back on? To reach the power button on the laptop you must first raise the lid which there is not room to do
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View 9 Replies View RelatedRunning Windows Vista Ultimate. Display turns off after about fifteen minutes regardless of whether I am actively using the computer or not. The only way to turn the display back on is to close and then open the lid. This disconnets me from AOL, so I have to sign back on again, and if I was emailing, I might lose my current email. Under Power Options, I have 'Turn off the display' set to Never for both On Battery and Plugged in. Under 'Put the computer to sleep' I have both On battery and Plugged in set to never. Nonetheless, the display still shuts off while I am working. What do I need to do to prevent the display from turning off at odd intervals?
View 6 Replies View RelatedRight now I am running a vista machine with 2 monitors one widescreen and my old one. I keep all my sidebar gadgets to the other monitor so I can monitor temps and system diagnostics. Today, my sidebar is on my main monitor and no mater what I do it won't go back to monitor-2, no mater what the setting is in the sidebar properties. What is going on here?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am embarrassed to ask it. Previously I had WindowsXP on my laptop - to turn it off you went to Start, Turn Off Computer. This laptop is using Vista, and I cannot find anything comparable. Last night I turned it off using the off-on button, so got the Windows did not shut off properly message when I turned it on; and I have a "thing" about leaving my computer on overnight. Also, is there a way of hiding all the command bars to "hide" like you can with the taskbar on the bottom?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to turn off UAC, but without having the nagging notification on the taskbar afterwards?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have an old-school program that creates its directory at a hard-corded directory in C's root (C:xxx). Now, I don't want to run it with administrative privileges, I changed the directory's security permissions to (everyone - full control) and make them inherited to all its sub-directories. The program reads & writes fine with existing files. But the program creates a c file inside its directory and tries to let a C compiler on a network drive compile it. That 92s when the problem comes in. It creates the c file all right, but the c compiler cannot read it (saying =93permission denied=94). If I turn UAC off, I don 92t get errors, but I don 92t want to turn it off.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI know this isn't a Graphics Card related thing, but it is the closest I can get.
At the moment I have a Hyundai ImageQuest Q17, and I think it's way to small, that's why I will be doing a student job in the Summer Vacation, what screen do you guys recommend? Here are a few things it should have.
- Good brand, a brand you can trust.
- Widescreen
- 19' or up
- NO reflecting screen
- DVI
- Compatible with Vista
What do you guys recommend?
Windows 3d flip simply keeps switching from the application window to the 3D stack. Any click causes the applications to stack. Click again and the application reopens. Click anywhere in the sindow and I am back at the stack. How do I turn this off?
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View 9 Replies View Relatedhow do I turn on macaffee in vista home premium? It was working last nite until I put it into sleep mode. Today macaffe is disabled in the taskbar and am wondering how to turn it back on,
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am taking a test in my computer, and the requirements say that my computer is not ready because I need to turn off my pop up blocker. Where or how do I turn these off? I use Vista Ultimate and have Office 2007, Internet Explorer 8.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedIve had my Dell laptop for about 3 years and for the past year or so I have been unable to turn off my comp because everytime I do Windows never starts properly and makes me so system repair a couple times until finally it will boot properly after about an hour of repair. If anyone knows or has heard of a similar problem please let me know. (I have reformatted my comp a couple times in an effort to fix this and any other tech problems my Dell gives me)
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View 5 Replies View Relatedi'm having problem with my tower like it would always turn off and than on and than off and than on but like i could log on still and than it would turn off and run a restore or something
View 6 Replies View Relatedhave amd 64 dual core processer. running vistax64 vista told us to do somthing to improve performance and restart computer. when tried to restart computer would not even turn on. removed battery from mother board , left it out for a while and put it back in. computer would turn on it got first screen telling what processer got loading bar, which finished. it did not beep after. got clicks instead and screen went blank. nothing more.
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View 4 Replies View Relatedcan you turn off the thing that says are you sure you want to start this program when you start it up like this:
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