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Cycovision
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Yeah, I think there's a hardware fault somewhere 
Or..... BIOS update needed?
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Danny_BFC
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I dont really fancy updating the Bios, will take the PC to the barebones except the Capture Card and see whats what
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paul101
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grrr
firefox theme updates; service pack updates; avast updates; messenger updates... theyre taking hold 
expee service pack 3 installed today 
tho it is quite funny hearing every computer going ring ring ring all at the same time 
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arien617
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It's a help thread, Paul. Not tell us what you did to your computer today thread. 
Finally got my PC down to repair, Cyco.
Not good news.
The guy said even with the HDD out and in a caddy, he can't access it.
Summat about the boot sectore being too corrupt.
You reckon there might be any way other than for me to sit here with a 1GB mem. stick and move everything over one mem. stick load at a time or uploading to DigitalVault.
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Cycovision
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Ouch! Not really, to be honest I'd be tempted to invest in a larger memory stick if I could.
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arien617
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Doesn't accept any form of new hardware or software. :\
If I do disk repair etc. more often in the future would it help prevent summat like this happening?
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Cycovision
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Sorry, I forgot about that
It depends what caused the hard drive to fail really. Sounds like hardware to me if the boot sector is totally unrecoverable so in this case, I don't think it would have helped.
But yes, M$ Scandisk isn't as useless as a lot of people think and running it every six months or so will help to stop small errors building up into big problems.
Might speed up loading times a little too, even with today's super fast machines 
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arien617
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I'll get to doing that on the lappy so it doesn't go down the same road..
And actually the PC is 4-5 years old so it wasn't totally unexpected.
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paul101
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hi, i have Google toolbar that spel cheks my speling (because i cant spell to save myself  )
i have a problem... i accidentally added a word i didn't want to add, how can i delete it? 
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Cycovision
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Copy 'n' paste the following into the run command box (click 'Start', then 'run')
notepad "%HOMEPATH%\Application Data\Google\User Dictionary.txt"
Notepad will open with your added words listed. Just delete the one you don't want and click 'file', then 'save' then exit notepad.
Job's a good 'un
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paul101
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nope, not working
maybe the spell check is under Firefox? :S
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Cycovision
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Similar process in firefox:
1. Open your application data folder. On XP or Vista, go to your Start menu and hit Run (or just press Windows-R) and paste in %APPDATA%MozillaFirefoxProfiles; on your Mac, navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles
2. Find your profile folder, which by default should look something like xxxxxxxx.default.
3. Inside your profile folder, find the file called persdict.dat and open it up in your text editor of choice.
4. Now just find the misspelling, delete it, and save.
Don't forget that you can access these system folders by browsing rather than typing them into the run command box but you have to make hidden folders, files and system files visible via the "tools - folder options" dialogue in any windows folder (such as "my documents"). The path in XP is normally "C:documents and settings*your name*..."
EDIT:
Try looking here too:
C:\Documents and Settings\*your name*\Local Settings\Application Data\Google
The backslashes in the file path addresses keep screwing up when I post or edit a post so don't forget to put them in / delete them as appropriate!
[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2007-12-21 19:16 ] |
paul101
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it works with Firefox, i only have "Xbox" saved (before i downloaded the google toolbar)
so must be the Google one... problem i cant get it to work :S
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paul101
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On 2007-12-21 20:10:30, Cycovision wrote:
EDIT:
Try looking here too:
C:Documents and Settings*your name*Local SettingsApplication DataGoogle
The backslashes in the file path addresses keep screwing up when I post or edit a post so don't forget to put them in / delete them as appropriate!
[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2007-12-21 19:16 ]
tryed that too, it just comes up with a folder "custom buttons" and a nero media player file called "autofill" :S
should i try uninstalling the tool bar then installing it again??
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Cycovision
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try a windows search for *.txt
Google toolbar definitely uses a text file so it must be there somewhere
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Posted: 2007-12-18 18:01
