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My mp3 player does not work anymore, so I bought a new one (this type). It's basically the same than the one I had, both are X-view, both have the same buttons and use, but the new one has 4 GB instead of 2. But there's a problem. If I turned off the old one, when I turned it on again it was still at the song I last played; there are hundreds of songs so it took months to reach back the begining and repeat the songs (so, I could load the MP3 with songs just once and it was never repetitive... well, it was, but with months between each repeat, who notices?). But the new one does not do this: when I turn it off, and turn it on later, it's back at the first song. Sure, I could scroll manually to the one I last heard, but who would want to scroll hundreds of times? (I can not even keep the button pressed, that just goes fast forward inside the song, not advancing though several songs). Perhaps I could load just a dozen of songs each day and change them, but that would be so uncomfortable, and which would be the point of having 4 GB of space then?
I know that MP3 players are capable to remember the last song: the last I had, and the previous one, both could, and I see no reason why would such a feature be removed from new models. Is there a way to configure or "fix" this machine, or should I go back to the place where I bought it and request my money back? Cambalachero (talk) 00:20, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I could always type in a web site address and hit enter to go there, but for the last month or so (around when Firefox upgraded), this has no longer worked. Now I have to hit the little arrow which appears on the right side of the type-in window. I'm running Firefox 10.0.2 on Windows XP SP3. Is there a way to enable enter again ? StuRat (talk) 01:16, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks all. StuRat (talk) 20:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Yesterday, I scanned a paper document with a Xerox scanner, which sent the resulting scan to my work e-mail as a PDF document. My work computer runs Windows 7, and uses PDF Complete as its document viewer. This viewer had trouble opening the PDF document: it froze up the computer for minutes, taking over 1 gigabyte of memory. When the document finally opened, it just showed the pictures, not any text. The exact same document opens fine on my father's computer, which runs Windows Vista and uses Adobe Acrobat, and on my home computer, which runs Fedora 14 Linux and uses Evince. What could be the reason that the document doesn't open properly on my work computer? JIP | Talk 07:11, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
At work we've been recently migrated to Windows 7. I have some problems with it as compared to our previous OS, Vista.
1) One of the ways I personally used the Start Menu in Vista (and XP at home) was that I would name a shortcut, for example, "Winamp", and pin it to the Start Menu, hit the Windows key on the keyboard, then hit "W", which would immediately open up my "Winamp" shortcut. Vista's (default, but changeable) and 7's behavior when typing "W" just types it in the "Search programs and files" field. Is there a way to either restore the classic Start Menu without modifying the system (remember, I'm at work), or disable the "Search programs and files" field so my "Win -> W" shortcut will work? The option to switch to a classic Start Menu seems to be gone from 7.
2) Ever since XP, multiple windows would collapse into a single button. When you clicked the button, both XP and Vista would bring up a vertical column of long rectangles (the best way I can describe it >_>) displaying all the open windows. 7 instead displays a horizontal row with a thumbnail of what the window is. How do I restore the vertical column behavior?
2a) Collapsing windows into a single button displayed how many windows were collapsed into that button. 7 does not seem to...?
3) Is there any way to disable the ability to drag items around your taskbar? It seems like it would be helpful but to me it's just annoying, especially if I accidentally move it when trying to restore/maximize a window.
4) Pressing Alt-Tab and then holding Alt for a second or two has a very unusual behavior. It will either bring the window the mouse happens to be over into view ("peeking" [a term I pulled from Windows 7's button in the systray] at the desktop if it happens to not be maximized), or switch to the next window "in line" even though I'm still holding Alt. How do I restore the original behavior?
5) When you right-click a button in the taskbar, there is always an option to close all the windows if there are multiple. 7 changes it so that the option to close all windows appears ABOVE all the buttons, whereas previous versions of the OS appeared a few pixels to the right of wherever your mouse pointer was (very small, but very annoying). Reversion to previous behavior possible?
Other problems I would ask at a Firefox help forum, but it couldn't hurt to ask here:
6) With the 7 migration came an upgrade from 3.x to 10.x. When you have lots of tabs open and close them with a middle mouse click, 3.x and previous would close the tab and resize the other tabs to "fill the void" in the tabs "bar". 10.x closes the tab, but does not resize the other tabs until you move the mouse away from the tabs bar. Again, any way to restore the previous behavior?
7) Is there a way to disable the orange "Firefox bar" in the upper-lefthand corner without extensions?
8) By default (it seems), the tabs appear in what was previously the menu bar's location. I have gotten them back to their original spot, but is there a way to move the bookmarks-and-address bar (the navigation toolbar) up to where the tabs were by default?
9) 3.x and previous had the Addons open up in another, small window. Firefox 10.x opens it up in a tab. Any way to restore the window behavior?\
EDIT: Gave unique numbers as per suggestion below.
Thanks! -- 143.85.199.242 (talk) 19:44, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I noticed a few minutes ago that a file I scanned from my printer to a memory card had the date modified/created as "3/1/2012 5:21 AM" despite the fact my computer's clock shows the date and time being mid-afternoon on February 29. Figuring the printer had just forgotten about leap year I reset the printer's date to 2/29/2012 with the correct time, but ever since then whenever I try to scan something the printer restarts itself. The printer is a Lexmark S400 Series. Is this error perhaps caused by the printer somehow being incompatible with leap days, and if so why would Lexmark (or any other manufacturer of an electronic device) make them incompatible with leap days to the point where the device ceases to function when the date and time is set to February 29, even if that is the correct date? Thanks in advance, Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 21:48, 29 February 2012 (UTC)