Posts by tag: troubleshooting
Missing Notification Area Icons in Windows 7
Almost after every other system boot (Windows 7 on my Dell laptop), some notification area icons tend to disappear (while the corresponding processes/services are running issue-free). The “champions” are the volume and the power icons, although they are not the only ones affected. And I’m not talking about those “show icon and/or notification” modes which [...]
Whimsy HTC Desire
A couple of weeks ago, my smartphone HTC Desire HD running on Android 2.3.5 started to completely freak out: ·· USB tethering ceased to start automatically when the device got connected to a computer’s USB port. ·· When making or accepting calls, the speaker started to turn on at the very beginning of the conversation. [...]
Disappearing Preview in Avid Studio
After having installed Avid Studio on my Dell XPS 17 laptop (purchased in October 2011, running Windows 7 64 bit with Intel Core i7-2720QM @ 2.20 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M with DirectX 11 and 1 GB dedicated RAM), I faced a pretty nasty problem: whenever I played a [...]
MacBook Forgetting Wireless Network
Everything had worked just fine until my wireless router waved everyone goodbye and I had to replace it. The model of the new device was slightly different, though, but it did “understand” the settings loaded from backup configuration and — voilà, my mobile devices were back online within minutes. The only thing I adjusted in [...]