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Whoami
Member
08-02-2001
| Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 9:16 am
Well, that not only didn't work, it now replaced the icon in my Favorites Bar with the Yahoo logo now too. LOL. Before, the logo on my Favorites Bar at least remained a TVCH logo. Now all the icons (Favorites Bar, Tab, and Address Bar) are all showing the Yahoo icon in place of TVCH. 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 9:43 am
whoami, are you running Norton by any chance? Also, you might try closing all your windows, choose internet options in control panel, click on ie8 and then advanced, then restore to defaults. Or,you might wait for someone smarter than me, because I am not sure what else that might effect! But both the above worked for me on my PCs. ETA: also, I found this, when clearing the history: "On the Delete Browsing History screen, you may have to uncheck the "Preserve Favorites websites data" box to get the incorrect favicons deleted."
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Whoami
Member
08-02-2001
| Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 10:37 am
Yay! I got my icons back! LOL. I did the uncheck the "Preserve Favorite websites data" box trick. Thanks! Oh, and yes I am running Norton. Why, do you think they had something to do with it?
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 11:05 am
Microsoft blames them for the favicons problem. Oddly enough it does seem to occur more frequently for those using Norton.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, October 15, 2010 - 7:40 pm
I have a new HP, it has windows 7. Is there a way to change the contrast? The desktop seems to white/bright and the menu/toolbar is too big and I can't figure out where to find the area to change either of those things. Anyone know where I can fix either? TIA
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, October 15, 2010 - 8:24 pm
In these situations the right mouse button is your friend. Right click on the thing that you want to modify and then select properties. So right click on the Start button and then select properties. Select the Taskbar tab and then select Use Small Icons. With respect to the contrast, right click on any empty area of the desktop. You'll probably see a menu where you can drill down to make those adjustments. Hope that helps.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Friday, October 15, 2010 - 9:03 pm
Has anyone seen or heard of a Microsoft Store before? This is in the same nearby shopping center as an Apple Store. Copycatting?
Photo taken with my iPhone and edited with iPhoto. 
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, October 15, 2010 - 9:31 pm
Thanks Jimmer, that is very cool.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Friday, October 15, 2010 - 9:42 pm
Look like currently there are just four locations. Oak Brook, IL number 5?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, October 18, 2010 - 4:24 am
There's both an Apple store and a Microsoft store in one of our local (and more upscale) malls here. I won't go into the Apple store, and haven't been to the mall to check out the Microsoft store. The Microsoft store opened several months ago to great fanfare.
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Sia
Member
03-10-2002
| Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 5:54 am
Please help me figure out what I've done to change settings, making things more difficult for myself. I've unintentionally changed something, apparently, and when I list an item for sale at Amazon.com's seller's marketplace, instead of the usual "Your item is listed" message and summary of the item I've just posted, now I'm getting "Sorry, your session has expired or you haven't signed in." But I HAVE signed in, and it hasn't been more than 30 minutes since my sign-in. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Friday, October 29, 2010 - 2:54 am
Ok I have A Netgear N wireless router and have a desktop hard wired in to that,then I have a Laptop and another desk top with an N adapter,so all of a sudden the laptop and desktop with adapter keep losing the router,went and bought a new router thinking that was it,but the same thing happened again.Don't know why all of a sudden it keeps losing the router.My network keeps disappearing to.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, October 29, 2010 - 5:00 am
Check with your ISP (cable? DSL?) and make sure that you're not getting hiccups in the packets coming in. If there's even a bit of a inconsistency in the inbound network connection, your router will drop the line. Start with your ISP and then work back to your computers.
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Friday, October 29, 2010 - 6:18 am
Thanks Costa,will do
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, October 29, 2010 - 7:40 pm
Mictay, you have probably already done this, but just in case you haven't ... My aging wireless router has also started disappearing from time to time. When it does, I go unplug it from the electric power and from the hardwired cable modem, leave them both unplugged for less than a minute and plug them back in, and thus far it has been reappearing. The fact that the new router doesn't appear either would suggest that such a simple solution will not work for you, but it might help somebody else. Best of luck to you.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, October 30, 2010 - 1:02 pm
Juju, you can buy a new gigabit router for less than $80. Just sayin'... 
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Sunday, October 31, 2010 - 1:03 pm
Thanks Juju,I did do that several times,I kept getting a message saying my network was "hidden" so I googled that and I found a lot of info,what I could understand was that maybe windows 7 has a bug of some sort with IE or a windows update is interfering with connection.Or that I needed to update a driver,I did a system restore before the last round of updates and then made sure I had updated network driver something like that,It seems to have worked.However when I shut my laptop off a couple hours ago it did the updates,so now i'm going to see how it works,if I have any problems i'll do a system restore again and do the updates one by one to see which one is messing it up.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, October 31, 2010 - 5:01 pm
Good for you, Mictay. You will get there.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 7:06 am
I have a dumb question. A while ago, I posted that my laptop's DVD-RW wasn't working properly. As it turned out, the lens was dirty, so it was a pretty easy fix involving rubbing alcohol, q tips, and not much more. Flash forward to last night. Again, I need to clean the DVD-RW. Oooops. In the process of cleaning it, the "lens" came off and....yeah. Is this something I can fix? Does it need to be professionally repaired? And if it needs to be professionally repaired, is it cheaper and easier to buy an external DVD-RW instead? TIA.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 7:23 am
I don't know anything about replacing lenses, but I will say that the cost of external DVD-RWs have come down significantly in recent years. I'd call your local computer store and ask how much to repair and/or replace the thing, and then go check out your fave retailer for external ones. I think internal DVD-RWs are faster, so it might be worth it to replace the internal one.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 10:28 am
VIRUS WARNING: Just wanted to warn people about a Thinkpoint program that pops up on the screen. It looks exactly like a Microsoft product and warns you about a trojan horse on your computer. However, IT IS THE TROJAN HORSE! If you click yes, it runs what appears to be a scan and tells you that you need to 'buy' additional software. NOTE: It does not let you do anything until you pay. From the internet: Think Point is a rogue anti-spyware application which was created to lie to computer user about the security status of his machine. In reality, this scam is not capable to detect any computer trouble because it is a masked virus which will use security or other exploits to reach the targeted Operating System. As soon as Trojan infiltrates computer through misleading alert of fake Microsoft Security Essentials, it will start appearing on the desktop and then will continuously interrupt into a normal your PCs functionality. This alert presents Think Point as a “world’s leading security solution” which after checking PC for malware has detected some viruses, like Unknown Win32/Trojan. Additionally, rogue starts claiming that some of the viruses detected can’t be restored because of the heuristic module which is missing. However, Think Point offers to install these required modules but then asks paying ninety or more dollars. It's been more active in the past week. There is a way out, which I've posted below. But it takes awhile to figure out how to get back your computer in order to clean out the Thinkpoint virus. http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-remove-thinkpoint-uninstall.html I have a virus program on my computer, but it did not stop it.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 11:18 am
ThinkPoint has been part of SYMC's AV and ID signatures since October 2007. It's based on Trojan.FakeAV.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 12:48 pm
Very helpful link, Kookliebird. I have had one of those av viruses, and it is very annoying stuff. Naturally, I got it right before I was going on some trip and had to spend five hours figuring out how to get rid of it. Mine was not this exact one, so I don't know if these instructions would have helped me. I know these are simpler steps than what I had to go through.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 1:11 pm
Costa, I know it's been around awhile, but from what I've read, it's making a re-emergence just in the last few weeks.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 3:58 pm
My point was that if you have SYMC, you are already protected. Likely also McAfee and any other reputable AV vendor.
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