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Remove Filter  | Here is the order of what happened. Some of it seems weird: 1. I downloaded a web page with Firefox Save Page As. The site should be trustwoirthy (a local newspaper). 2. I edited the HTML file with Notepad to remove everything (ads, scripts, etc) from the page except the …  |
| | I have an HP 7600 tower. When I try to commect a microphone, the Recording tab on the Sound window says "No audio devices are installed." Right clicked to show hidden and disconnected devices. None found. Troubleshoot recording could not find the trouble. Speaker Driver tests as the current driver: … |
| | I keep getting the following error when using certain websites: "The connection has been reset." I never see it with other websites. Does this indicate a bad internet connection, something wrong with the website, site overload, or a denial of service attack? |
| | I made the following css: .mo {font-family: monospace; font-size: 9pt;} td {border: solid thin #000000; padding: 4pt;} With the following html (part of a table) <td class="mo">abcdefg <br />hijklmn</td> The text is not displaying in a monospaced font in Firefox. The i is narrower and the m is wider. The … |
| | My brother has Windows XP with a large number of art programs that don't work in newer versions of Windows. Last thrusday, he got a an art file from a colleague with a .rar extension. He downloaded WinZip to open it. It would not open the art file. Now the … |
| | Several keyboard keys in Daniweb are doing the wrong things. - Occasionally backspace is taking me back to previous pages instead of removing characters. - The END key takes me to the beginning of the line instead of the end of the line. - I occasionally find myself navigating where … |
| | I wrote a web page with one Russian word in it, using the Cyrillic alphabet character entity names (found in a list of all Unicode characters that I have). The page works fine in every browser I tried. But the W3C validator won't validate the page because the Cyrillic character …  |
| | I had the Yahoo Real Player until Yahoo discontinued it. The player continued to work, but was not updated. The problem is that the computer it was installed on died. The replacement computer has XP on it, but not Real Player. I tried to get a new version of Real … |
| | My computer stopped booting normally 3 days ago. Here are the particulars: - The computer is a Dell Optiplex 840 with 1 MB RAN and 40 GB hard drive. - I have Windows XP because I have legacy software that can't be upgraded. - I have a USB keyboard and … |
| | I have a Dell Optiplex PC with a legal copy of Windows XP. But the Dell hardware seems to be failing. The problem is that the XP distribution CD I got with the computer is a Dell distribution disk, possibly with files specific to Dell (It says both Dell and … |
| | I don't need a Rolex - real or fake. A Rolodex would be much more useful to me. Yet the one kind of spam my spam filters never remove is offers for real or replica Rolex watches. I have absolutely no need of either. But they seem to have ways …  |
| | I want to copy a folder full of folders to a backup on another disk. But if a duplicate filename already exists on the other disk, I want Windows to prompt to ask whether or not to replace the file for each file separately. Windows XP just gives me the … |
| | When I roll the mouse over any ad, the rest of the screen goes black. That is extremely annoying. It also makes it hard to navigate. Ads should not control the site. I keep a list of the ads that cause probolems on websites, and make sure to NOT do … |
| | My DSL connection failed. They reset it, but now the router no longer works. The DSL works if I plug one computer into the modem. The ATT man told me I have to bypass the PPPOE in the router to make it work. How do I do this? I have … |
| | A popup keep bothering me on daniweb pages asking me to share with my social network. I don't like social media, and want to get rid of it.  |
| | How do you make a style that affects the font attributes of [B]only[/B] the numbers in ordered lists (ol) without affecting the contents of the list items? No kludges please, and the solution must validate as XHTML 1.0 strict. |
| | I teach a beginners class using Excel. During an examination, some of my students misread the instructions (provided by the department, not by me). These are the kinds of errors only a novice could make. This caused the following two errors to occur. - Instead of just putting data into … |
| | I have relative links in a menu page of the form: [CODE]<li><a href="info.htm#part1">See Part 1 of the problem</a></li>[/CODE] In the target page, the anchor is made as follows: [CODE]<h1><a name="part1">Part 1 of the Problem</a></h1>[/CODE] Now, after upgrading to Firefox 4, I am getting a 405 error: URL /Part1.html not found. … |
| | Normally, when I put a photo on a website, the photo stays the same aspect ratio on both widescreen and normal monitors. But I have one web page where I need to resize the photos to all be the same width. I used the CSS width attribute, with an inch …  |
| | The W3C validator site is not working right for me. A few other sites (but not many) also say the file I sent is blank. Other sites are working with no troubles, and receive uploads normally. The facts: - Two different computers are doing the same thing. - Both computers … |
| | I need to search for all files on my computer that contain certain html tags. I tried the search function that comes with Windows Explorer (My Computer), and it can't find html tags, even in files I know contain them. I have Windows XP. |
| | I need a way to practice using PHP and MySQL. But I have the following limitations: 1. My ISP requires me to change my URLs if I upgrade to its service which provides PHP and MySQL. 2. If I change my URLs, all of the resumes I already sent out … |
| | When I start my computer, I see a strange icon I don't recognize in my system tray. It is picture of a cowboy with an orange face and a white cowboy hat. It shows up for just a few seconds during start-up, then vanishes. If I try to doubleclick it, … |
| | I am searching for the latest developments on an engineering problem. The problem is that the search engines return thousands of pages on the subject, most of which I have read many times. Is there any way to limit a web search to sites that appeared within the last month? |
| | Another annoying ad. This one is an Ampex ad. When I click on a posted screenshot to display it, the ad displays on top of the screenshot, so I can't see the right side of it. |
| | This just started yesterday. When I view your pages that contain moving ads, some of the times I click on things, I get two clicks, but not a double click: - I click on the scroll arrows, and get two lines of scroll. - I click on the scrollbar and … |
| | My students are permitted to search DaniWeb for answers concerning web design. The classroom erupted this week, because there is a stupid ad from SitePal that makes the computers talk. Must ad companies become more and more annoying??? They are NOT going to sell their product by making people mad. … |
| | There is now a reason to use tables and css for layout, instead of divs and css. Employers now prefer the table method. Our technical school instructors are now teaching this, instead of div and css. Why? Job performance! It takes an average of four times as long to create … |
| | I want to do the following: - Connect to DSL from two computers. - Transfer files between the two computers. - Use one printer from either computer. - Occasionally isolate one computer from this setup when running certain software (due to latency requirements) The computers each have one Ethernet port …  |
| | Design your pages for accessibility. In my position as a college instructor, I see many places where fancy web page design gets people with visual problems, dyslexia, or learning disabilities into trouble. Here are my suggestions for making your web pages more accessible: 1. No angry fruit salad. If you … |
| | I posted a question about this several months ago, but the search function is so bad that I can't find it again. I again have an image that is being overlapped by a table below it in Firefox. This happens whenever the following is true: - The image file is … |
| | The search function is totally useless. I am searching for an old post I made on fixing a problem with Firefox overlapping images with tables placed below them. The solution was in the post. But the search function will not find the post. Instead, it is finding posts that have …  |
| | What kinds of microphones work with soundcards? I have some old microphones, and wonder if they can be used. They are not microphones intended for computer use, but for handheld cassette recorders.  |
| | I can't log in using Firefox. When I click on the Member Login button, nothing happens. The windows for username and password do not appear. If I go to a forum post and try to reply, it tells me to login. If I click on the login link, it returns … |
| | What changed? A web page that worked for over a year suddenly started overlapping an image on top of a table presented under it. The table used to render lower, completely below the image. I didn't change the code. The image is the lower of two .gif images, and the … |
| | Firefox 2 issue when posting and reading threads. Whenever I post today, I get a perpetual "loading" animation. I have to refresh the screen to see the post. I cannot edit a post, I get the perpetual "loading" animation. Using refresh brings back the original page, not the edit screen. … |
| | Is there an easy (and free) way to copy just the audio portion of an .flv file to another file? Or is there a way to get PowerPoint to play just the audio portion of an .flv file. A co-worker made an .flv video of an event on campus. I … |
| | My Office 2007 just arrived. But it came on DVDs. But I don't have a DVD drive. Short of buying a drive I don't otherwise need, is there any way to install it? I must have it installed in two days. |
| | I have several questions on antivirus and antispyware software: I am trying to settle on a set of antivirus and antispyware products to use. The problem is that I get interactions. 1. Is windows Defender any good? Does it handle spyware as well as viruses? 2. Is there any way …  |
| | Can I move the DSL modem's Ethernet cable back and forth between two computers? If so, is there anything special I need to know to do it?  |
| | I can't install any Windows XP upgrades, including Service Pack 3, after the following sequence of events: 1. I used SpyBot to check for spyware. It found 8 objects and removed them. 2. The next time I turned on my computer, it immediately logged off my user name each time … |
| | The sidebars on the DaniWeb pages match the vertical scrollbar in Firefox. When the handle is at the other end, it's hard to tell if you are on the bar or not. Could we have some contrast here? |
| | My computer was OK this morning. I am running Windows XP. When I started it up after coming home from work, all kinds of things were changed: - The display theme changed from Windows Classic to Windows XP. - My wallpaper selection is gone. - The color scheme I carefully … |
| | There is a Trojan Horse appearing on some websites that claims that it "needs an updated driver" to display a video or similar file. It won't let you back out from installing the "upgrade," opening the same window again and again. But it is no upgrade; it is a Trojan …  |
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| | The links to mark the entire topic as read are gone. Or at least I can't find them. |
| | When I start PowerPoint at work, all of the premade slide templates are there when I start working. When I start PowerPoint at home, the image of each template takes about 15 second to appear in the task pane, so it is several minutes before they are all visible. Why … |
| | Why are the icons in My computer all nearly alike now? All of them (except the folders) now look like little blue pieces of paper with a very tiny little picture of the icon that used to be there inside. I can't visually tell them apart now. This makes it … |
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