http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Forum: Windows 7 en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:00:49 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/ground-noise#post-120728 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:58:04 +0000 dface12 120728@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>No, no noise in the headphones whatsoever! Can't seem to isolate where the problem is arising. I'm finding more and more stories about electrolytic capacitors causing static noise but these capacitors could be in almost any of my components couldn't they? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/ground-noise#post-120727 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:42:35 +0000 LH 120727@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Does it happen with just headphones, plugged into the headphone socket ? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/ground-noise#post-120726 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:41:32 +0000 dface12 120726@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Had a bit of a breakthrough - the sound is significantly less through the speakers when I remove the headphones from the mixer. Still hear the grinding scrolling noise though. Anyone?? Sorry for the hasty posts, it's driving me nuts not being able to use my monitors. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/edit-word#post-120723 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:13:59 +0000 whs 120723@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>See note below</p> <p><img src="http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii36/whs37/HTG20/wordfonts.png"></p> <p>PS: made a mistake, step 4 is not OK but "Default" on the left. Just saw that but too lazy to redo it all - lol. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/ground-noise#post-120722 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:58:11 +0000 dface12 120722@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Ah noooo... what part of the PC would that most likely involve? Couldn't think of the best way to ask for more info on that! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/edit-word#post-120720 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:47:39 +0000 tonygreg 120720@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>You covered this topic many moons ago, but i've forgotten. How do you set your own font in ms word? You described a way to set your font size. I don't like the default and i want to change it to 16. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/ground-noise#post-120719 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:46:58 +0000 LH 120719@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>That sounds like a bad electrolytic capacitor in the circuit. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/homegroup-problem#post-120716 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:57:04 +0000 tmonkey2394 120716@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Once I check my desktop it says I have a HomeGroup but if I have check my laptop it is not showing that I have created a HomeGroup. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/homegroup-problem#post-120714 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:45:05 +0000 ispalten 120714@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Did you follow the steps in the link above?</p> <p>If you did, where did it fail, which step?</p> <p>Irv S&gt; </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/ground-noise#post-120703 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:28:24 +0000 dface12 120703@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi again fellow geeks! (so soon)</p> <p>I've just built my first PC from scratch (ish) with an ASUS P5QPL-AM motherboard, Intel Q8400, Crucial Ballistix 4gb kit and my old (but healthy) Maxtor HDD and PCI Audiophile2496 - graphics card on its way ;) The spec may be irrelevant for my problem but thought I'd declare it to see if anyone has any feelings on the choices I made! The build went swimmingly - my only struggle being jitters about how much pressure I could safely exert on the CPU and motherboard when installing my bad-ass Zalman heatsink!</p> <p>So the problem is...I use my computer mainly to make music. But, since installing Windows 7 and switching the PC on for the first time, I have a bubbling, crackling noise coming from my left monitor speaker that begins to be heard as Windows 7 is loading up and gets worse when I scroll up and down program windows - it's then almost like a ZX spectrum loading, whirring sound. My audio travels: From Audiophile output into small Yamaha mixing desk, out to powered speakers. There is also a feed from the mixing desk's output back into the Audiophile input. I never experienced this sound using my old PC and this mixing desk. Thankfully, I can't hear the sound from my mixing desk's headphone output.</p> <p>I am moderately learned about ground loops but have very limited electrical knowledge! The sound I am hearing is the exact same sound I hear through speakers when plugging a laptop into a mixing desk and then plugging in the laptop charger. Could this be a ground loop? A friend has judged it a ground loop and recommended removing the earth wire from a 6-way and then powering all my audio gear and PC with it. How safe do people consider this? I have heard differing opinions.</p> <p>Please, please, please help if you can! </p> <p>Thankyou :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/homegroup-problem#post-120691 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:31:15 +0000 tmonkey2394 120691@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I put a password on my desktop one, which that one is the one that I created the home group. I don't know what is problem but it says that I have no Home Groups created on the network but how do I get it on the network? </p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Tyler </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/win-7-start-menus#post-120686 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:59:47 +0000 at0mic 120686@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5303510/csmenu-brings-the-classic-start-menu-back-to-windows-7">CSMenu</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/localhost-gives-blank-page-iis-7-windows-7#post-120681 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:08:23 +0000 brothersun 120681@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I turned on IIS in control panel but <a href="http://localhost" rel="nofollow">http://localhost</a> and <a href="http://127.0.0.1" rel="nofollow">http://127.0.0.1</a> gives just a blank page (no error). If I browse to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\iisstart then I get the IIS7 welcome page that should be displayed at <a href="http://localhost." rel="nofollow">http://localhost.</a> Also, I installed CF9, and I can access the CF Administrator at <a href="http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/Administrator," rel="nofollow">http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/Administrator,</a> however all the images are broken. Any ideas? TIA, Robert </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/win-7-start-menus#post-120680 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:07:43 +0000 mancow911 120680@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Anyone know if &#38; how you can change the start menu back<br /> to the "Classic" style.</p> <p>Was always available until now.</p> <p>I would like to get ris of the "Search Programs And Files" box<br /> and just use the old style menus if it can be done... </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-7-formatting-c-drive#post-120679 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:54:36 +0000 whs 120679@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Why don`t you just delete the folders on C:. If it does not let you, open the folders and delete the files inside one by one - then the empty folder. That usually works. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-7-formatting-c-drive#post-120671 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:48:23 +0000 JMPrice 120671@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I performed a clean install of Windows 7 Professional on one of my harddrives ("E"). It all works very well. I would like to recover the space on my "C" drive (contains Windows RC and programs that have already been re-installed on "E", but I can't reformat as it contains system files. Can I move the system files to my "E" drive so that I can format the "C" drive? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/bluetooth-and-performance#post-120656 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:57:54 +0000 ispalten 120656@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I've got a wireless bluetooth Logitech MS Keyboard and Mouse. I've seen no degradation at all? I initially had a wire mouse and keyboard, and if there is/was any degradation, it wasn't apparent to me.</p> <p>Depending on the frequency of your router though, wireless phones can cause problems. Most routers are 2.4GHZ and older phones are this same frequency. Newer routers now run dual band, 2.4GHZ and 5.0GHZ, and newer phones run at 6.0 which minimizes the problems.</p> <p>Irv S. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/homegroup-problem#post-120655 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:53:24 +0000 ispalten 120655@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Tyler, </p> <p>Did you do the password 'thing'?</p> <p>Here is a 'walkthru' on <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/13/windows-7-homegroup-overview">HOW TO MAKE A HOMEGROUP</a>, maybe that will clear it up for you.</p> <p>Irv S. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/router-question#post-120653 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:43:24 +0000 ispalten 120653@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Some routers take a phrase and from that generate a string of hexidecimal numbers. Further, some will generate a set of hexidecimal numbers and you select the one you want to use.</p> <p>So, if you want to connect another computer, you'd enter the same passphrase (it will always generate the same numbers but some network devices may not and you'd have to use the string of numbers). </p> <p>See <a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/od/wirelessfaqs/f/wep_keys.htm">HERE</a> for more info.</p> <p>Irv S. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/deleting-partition#post-120641 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:55:55 +0000 LH 120641@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Is your W7 a full installation disk, or an upgrade ? </p>