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I bought myself a new laptop today (MSI GT70 Dragon Edition 2) with Windows 8 preinstalled. It came with a disk with all the drivers and stuff, installed them all. It rebooted fine after that, and then when I turned the laptop off, started it an hour later, it gives me some bad attitude. It gets to the Start screen okay. But when I click on any of the buttons on the start screen,such as desktop or whatever, the screen flashes black, with the Synoptics Pointer Device frame in the back round. It flashes for about 3 seconds and then it restarts and I have to login again, same procedure over and over. Ive tried pressing F8 for safe mode, but now when I research Windows 8 safe mode, apparently there is no safe mode. I want to get into safe mode so I can uninstall the nVidia drivers. I had a similar instance on my desktop when I installed the Drivers. Removing them worked. Any help on how I can uninstall these drivers? Answer Try to boot Windows and interrupt the boot with CRTL + ALT + DEL...

A friend backed up an in accessible Windows 7 partition to a big (close to 1TB) external USB drive using KNOPIX. Unfortunately the umlauts and accents in the file names of his extensive music collection now appear garbled (UTF8 vs ISO xxx, I guess) when he accesses that drive from Windows. My guess is he needs to mount the two drives in a 'special way,' that takes the diacritics translation into account, on KNOPIX? Or do you have another idea what went wrong? This is the second part of a windows/linux problem I'm having. See how-does-one-mount-a-partition-in-windows-7 for the other part Answer Make sure your system (Knoppix) is using an Unicode-based locale (UTF-8): $ locale LANG=en_US.utf-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf-8" [skipped irrelevant settings] LC_ALL= If the LANG or LC_CTYPE variables do not end in .utf-8 (or .utf8 ), fix them: run locale -a and make sure it lists the needed locale (i.e. en_US.utf-8 ); if the locale is not listed, uncomment it in ...

Can you please tell me what each field of the Windows command ipconfig /displaydns means please? Answer The fields in the output of /displaydns correspond to the fields of an actual DNS reply. In a DNS server's database, each piece of data is a "resource record" . "Record name" is the name you query DNS for, and the records (addresses or something else) belong to that name. "Record type" is the type, displayed as a number - although more commonly they are referred to by their names, internally (in the DNS protocol) each has a number. Type 1 is "A" for "address", an IPv4 address. (IPv6 uses type 28, "AAAA", for an address four times as long.) "PTR", type 12, is a "pointer" to a hostname - most commonly used when mapping an IP address back to its name . "CNAME" is "canonical name". "Time To Live" is the time in seconds after which the cache entry must expire. "Data...

How can spell checking be turned off for a portion of a OneNote page? The set language form does not have a checkbox (like the one for Word 2010 has). There are over 100 languages to choose from, but all of then will perform some sort of proofing. Answer I'm afraid this is not possible. In order for this to happen, a OneNote page would have to be come much more complicated, there is no way to 'fine-tune' spell-checking that specifically. However, you can tinker with the spell checking options in Tools -> Spelling -> Spelling Options : Try experimenting with some of the highlighted options above. For example, you can have it suggest words from the main dictionary only, or use a custom dictionary, or even edit the word list yourself... You can also disable spell checking or only have it check it in one sweep . To have it check in one sweep, uncheck Check spelling as you type .

My PC shows that the system reserved and the windows partitions are fragmented above 10%. I kept the defrag option running within Windows but there is no impact on the fragmentation percentage. I was wondering if I can run defragmentation when system boots up, so the files are not locked. But I cannot find any way to schedule a defragmentation on boot. Is there a way to do it, the way Check Disk utility runs at boot in its own UI? Edit: In the screenshot, the system partition and windows partition are both fragmented. Funny thing is, after every click of "Analyze button", it displays different values. I have tried to use command prompt during boot, but that didn't allow the defrag command. I will try to take a picture of that and post it here. Screenshot of the smart defrag tool Answer I was wondering if I can run defragmentation when system boots up? You can use IObit Smart Defrag for this. It has an option to perform a "Boot Time Defrag": IObit Smart Defrag...

I regularly get an Application error followed by a Windows Error Reporting event when I've started explorer multiple times to copy or move data. The running action windows stay open, thus I can easily re-open explorer again by clicking the "From" and "To" links, but it's still annoying. The error: Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16433, time stamp: 0x50763312 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.2.9200.16579, time stamp: 0x51637f77 Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x00000000000ebd59 Faulting process id: 0x2b58 Faulting application start time: 0x01ce807d7eba15ac Faulting application path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Report Id: bd4a60ea-ec70-11e2-be77-0024e8305414 Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: The report: Fault bucket 108782508, type 4 Event Name: APPCRASH Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: explorer.exe P2: 6.2....

I am using Google Chrome. I re-installed it today as it was crashing when I start it. I guess may be that this was due to any of my Extensions or Google Update. I disabled my extensions but it was still crashing. Now I installed an old version of chrome from http://www.oldapps.com/google_chrome.php . However, Chrome automaticallyuppdates itself (although Windows asks me before installing and I don't grant it permissions, its still annoying to get Google update asking me permission after a couple of minutes. I saw the question at Disable auto-update of Google Chrome however, it doesn't seem to hlp me. i disabled the service and I stopped it as well, but the problem still persists. I also tried to look into the registry according to the following link: http://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-disable-google-chrome-updates/ but the "Policies" section of my registry doesn't contain any folder called "Google". I use Windows 7 - 64 bit Home Premium Service pack 1. Co...