Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread

[DanH]

Anyone know of a website or program that will allow me to customize and then print a Hebrew/English calendar? By customizing I mean mostly putting extra words on specific days.
TIA

use hebcal and then download it

[etech0]

use hebcal and then download it

Thanks! I found hebcal, and am able to download either a pdf or a ics. My question is how I can add more text to either of them (I'm guessing the ics) and print it in a nice format. Any ideas?

[DanH]

Thanks! I found hebcal, and am able to download either a pdf or a ics. My question is how I can add more text to either of them (I'm guessing the ics) and print it in a nice format. Any ideas?

maybe try importing to google calendar, editing on google, then exporting/printing/etc

[etech0]

maybe try importing to google calendar, editing on google, then exporting/printing/etc

Thanks, will try.

[avadah]

Does it ruin laptop speakers to play musoc for hours straight? Not at max volume but close to it.

[etech0]

Does it ruin laptop speakers to play musoc for hours straight? Not at max volume but close to it.

might ruin your ears

[@Yehuda]

Wifi help:

At home, we can have several laptops on the wifi at the same time, no problem. But, when I turn on my work laptop at home and connect to my wifi, everything's okay for 2 minutes and then all the laptops in the house (including the work one) get the little yellow exclamation point and can't access the internet anymore. (We're not even talking about trying to get onto my VPN, just regular wifi.) I'm not sure if it works if I turn off all the other devices and just try my work laptop. I hope to test that tonight.

Any ideas?
I'm not home now, but I'm looking for ideas to try once I get home.

[DanH]

Wifi help:

At home, we can have several laptops on the wifi at the same time, no problem. But, when I turn on my work laptop at home and connect to my wifi, everything's okay for 2 minutes and then all the laptops in the house (including the work one) get the little yellow exclamation point and can't access the internet anymore. (We're not even talking about trying to get onto my VPN, just regular wifi.) I'm not sure if it works if I turn off all the other devices and just try my work laptop. I hope to test that tonight.

Any ideas?
I'm not home now, but I'm looking for ideas to try once I get home.

Are they all DHCP?

[@Yehuda]

Are they all DHCP?

Not sure. How do I check?

[DanH]

Not sure. How do I check?

Go to network adapter properties. Also make sure that router is doing dhcp for all as well

[@Yehuda]

Go to network adapter properties. Also make sure that router is doing dhcp for all as well

Ok thanks. I'll have to look into that tonight.

[srap]

My computer screen went black covered with blue writing stating it was dumping the information...etc.  This has happened a few times in the past and was always able to start ok.  I attributed it (?) to having too many tabs opened in Chrome.
 
This time the computer is working fine, other browsers work, but Chrome  (uh,...with my 75 opened tabs  ) is not.  When I open Chrome a screen pops up with the orange Restore bar (for all my tabs) but I usually don't get to actually clicking it because another square pops up stating Windows is having problems and needs to close the program.  Each time I try to open Chrome again the Windows popup box appears earlier and earlier until I shut off the computer and start the same cycle again.
 
I restarted it, logged off and on, started in safe mode (which did not work), and finally did a restore to last known parameters all to no avail.  How do I get back my Chrome (with all the tabs preferably)?

[etech0]

My computer screen went black covered with blue writing stating it was dumping the information...etc.  This has happened a few times in the past and was always able to start ok.  I attributed it (?) to having too many tabs opened in Chrome.
 
This time the computer is working fine, other browsers work, but Chrome  (uh,...with my 75 opened tabs  ) is not.  When I open Chrome a screen pops up with the orange Restore bar (for all my tabs) but I usually don't get to actually clicking it because another square pops up stating Windows is having problems and needs to close the program.  Each time I try to open Chrome again the Windows popup box appears earlier and earlier until I shut off the computer and start the same cycle again.
 
I restarted it, logged off and on, started in safe mode (which did not work), and finally did a restore to last known parameters all to no avail.  How do I get back my Chrome (with all the tabs preferably)?

ouch!
Once you get your tabs back IY"H, there will be more things to try to get chrome to work again.

For starters, try following these instructions, starting from the "Data Loss Prevention" header.
http://lifehacker.com/how-can-i-restore-closed-tabs-after-accidentally-quitti-1452314285

[elikay]

Wow! talk about hoarders!

[srap]

Any chance on BUMPing?

[@Yehuda]

Go to network adapter properties. Also make sure that router is doing dhcp for all as well

Ok so my laptop is DHCP. How do I check if the router is?

[Ergel]

Wife got a Lenovo y410p laptop. I put in an SSD drive. It was lightning fast. She's been using it a couple of months and it suddenly slowed down considerably. It lags when you type. Why would this happen to such a new laptop? How do I fix it?

[yoshyosh]

Wife got a Lenovo y410p laptop. I put in an SSD drive. It was lightning fast. She's been using it a couple of months and it suddenly slowed down considerably. It lags when you type. Why would this happen to such a new laptop? How do I fix it?

You can try starting here
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=19267.0

[Mutty]

On Office 7 on one of my machines I get a crazy blinking cursor. All the googling gets me is to update my printer drivers, shut down start ups, etc. Nothing seems to work. Figured I'd take a stab at it with you folks. Anyone have this problem (it only happens in the office applications like word or outlook). But more importantly, anyone have have a solution that actually works. Been spending days on this.

[etech0]

On Office 7 on one of my machines I get a crazy blinking cursor. All the googling gets me is to update my printer drivers, shut down start ups, etc. Nothing seems to work. Figured I'd take a stab at it with you folks. Anyone have this problem (it only happens in the office applications like word or outlook). But more importantly, anyone have have a solution that actually works. Been spending days on this.

want to post a screenshot?