Subscriber JPB wrote to report about what was really happening in his problem discussed in Windows Media Player and Windows 7: I finally figured it out. It took a lot of research. There was nothing I could find in the registry or anywhere that was triggering this. Finally, I discovered it — it was my [...]
Do I Need an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)?
Do I Need an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)? I’m beginning to think that I really do… For a lot of years, I kept UPS’s supplying power to all of my family’s computers. I was concerned over power outages and their impacts on the data structure on my hard drives. I wasn’t concerned with power outages [...]
Windows Media Player and Windows 7
Long-time subscriber J. P. Biddle wrote with a question about Windows Media Player running on Windows 7: I have an interesting question. I noticed in Windows 7 64 bit under active tasks windows media player. I try to kill it but you can’t or it comes right back. It’s not listed under start up. Is [...]
Warning: Unresponsive Script Error
Subscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand (not Australia, as I mistakenly wrote in an earlier article) to ask about a fairly common problem. Most web sites have some JavaScript, whether it’s used for interactivity, automatic page updating (e.g., quibids.com updating with every bid that anyone makes), as part of their advertizing, etc. Our web [...]
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