Hi All, I have a dell laptop purchased in March 2011, Dell warranty got expired in March 2012. Now from last 1 week my Laptop is making noise. I called to dell and they said that i will have to extend my warranty for another year which will take 9000 INR ( $167). Should I extend the warranty?
Hi, guys. How can I get Windows Action Center's little flag in the system tray to stop saying "Backup In Progress" on Windows 8? It's driving me nuts. I disabled the Windows Backup service completely and turned off File Recovery. Nothing that I can tell is using any disk I/O whatsoever. It's just a visual cue that seems totally wrong considering my disk is only using about 50 KB/s of sporadic writes.
Dell guy was on phone call with me and he told me to check condition of HDD using a tool on boot. and that tool shows and error for HDD. I gave error number to dell guy and hel told that this error number mean my hdd is going to die soon and i should take backup my data
@Bob Personally? I don't give a flying cheese monkey if it says "Diarrhea in progress", as long as it's only a visual glitch and not actually doing anything (which I can clearly tell it's not from task manager)
I'm not sure if my dad would be ok with the action center icon entirely disappearing though
I ran into this a while ago. Basically what happens is the Windows 8 bootloader chains the Windows 7 bootloader after you select it. But because of how Windows 8 handles booting (by loading the OS before showing the menu), it means the computer has to reboot.
The solution is basically to have th...
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@Bob it's about 60% here. we're being buffeted by the outer bands. Unfortunately they said it picked up strength to 85 mph winds and it's also landing tonight about 20 miles south of where they originally predicted
@JitendraVyas Well, that means nothing bad happened yet. I don't know if a Dell utility can let you do a SMART test, but I'd just take this opportunity to back everything up anyway and be ready to replace the drive, if you don't want to do it just yet.
the office manager said "use your best judgment" and 40% of the people ... did so... and concluded that it would be ok to go to work when the commute home will probably involve 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS
How can I get Windows Action Center's little flag in the notification area to stop saying "Backup In Progress" on Windows 8? It's driving me nuts. I disabled the Windows Backup service completely and turned off File Recovery. Nothing that I can tell is using any disk I/O whatsoever, by examining ...
@Bob "Hi, this is Yiqun from Microsoft, can you please check your CPU usage and perform Defrag, and let me know, if it resolves your problem. Thank You, Yiqun Min / Microsoft Product Support Associate Professional"
Try ftp://147.32.97.62:5000, not http://147.32.97.62:5000
the http one redirects
oh wait
Status: Connecting to 147.32.97.62:5000...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Error: Connection timed out
Error: Could not connect to server
Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-10-29 12:32 EDT Nmap scan report for isc-hlavni.mk.cvut.cz (147.32.97.62) Host is up (0.15s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE 5001/tcp open commplex-link
Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-10-29 12:33 EDT Nmap scan report for isc-hlavni.mk.cvut.cz (147.32.97.62) Host is up (0.15s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE 5000/tcp open upnp
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.39 seconds
it probably has some port knocking protocol where you have to connect to ports 5000 through 5007 using IPX and attempt to start a game of Warcraft 2, then when that fails, wait 37.3 seconds and connect to port 12 over UDP...
nmap is like "wtf is this"
wireshark is like "invalid packet received, TCP exception raised"
@JitendraVyas That does mean you've got some bad sectors on the drive. That can indicate that it's starting to fail. So, as was suggested before, back up :)
But yeah, the noise could be caused by the failing HDD, too. Usually the culprit is one of the moving parts, and in a laptop, that's typically either the HDD or the fans, and if your HDD is failing, that's a good indicator that it's coming from that too.
But after replacing the HDD (which needs to happen anyway), if you still hear the noise, then you can start worrying about figuring out what else it could be.
@HaydnWVN Well, like I said, it probably is a moving part. If, after replacing the HDD, it still makes noise, we can worry about what else it could be :P
I saw this post : How do I change the tile image of a Modern UI application? but it didn't contain any method to change the image of the Windows Store tile.
Can anyone please tell me how can I do that?
Once you have purchased the warranty and if any other part let’s say if the HDD needs to be replaced in that case you will have to pay no extra money as you have just purchased the warranty.
Excluding the battery every hardware part are covered under warranty.
one thing i'd suggest is to make sure the log level is maxed out and look at the log files to see how it's parsing the configuration directives and which files it's reading from
@JitendraVyas Oh, you don't have the warranty right now? If it's cheaper to get a new HDD and you don't think you'll need the warranty for anything else, I'd skip buying an extra one.
I rarely find reason to purchase an extended warranty.
@JitendraVyas Well, it's your call if you feel it's worth the $185 to buy the warranty or if you'd rather just buy your own HDD and install it yourself.
I am looking for a way to enable God-Mode in Windows 8, does anyone know how to do this or is it even possible?
If you are not sure what I am talking about take a look here.
My school provides Windows 8 through MSDN. My system specs seem to fit the minimum system requirements for Windows 8. I ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant, and it seems to indicate that my computer is compatible with Windows 8 (Screenshots).
When I run the Windows 8 installer, it says:
What ...
@sidran32 yes it my call. i will have to decide. But i'm curious to know what was the reason of HDD bad sectors? can it happen again with new HDD? how can i prevent it?
@JitendraVyas The best way to prevent it is to not let the drive/laptop get dropped or banged around in general, especially when turned on. Other than that, it's more or less something that happens over time as drives age. Though it can happen quickly if there's a defect in the drive.
@JitendraVyas For instance, I had an external USB hard drive that I accidentally knocked off a shelf while it was switched on. I instantly lost about half my storage space when it did that (and I even tried catching it to break the fall). Though luckily for me, I only lost free space, so I could pull my data off it.
I saw this post : How do I change the tile image of a Modern UI application? but it didn't contain any method to change the image of the Windows Store tile.
Can anyone please tell me how can I do that?
I am looking for a way to enable God-Mode in Windows 8, does anyone know how to do this or is it even possible?
If you are not sure what I am talking about take a look here.
My school provides Windows 8 through MSDN. My system specs seem to fit the minimum system requirements for Windows 8. I ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant, and it seems to indicate that my computer is compatible with Windows 8 (Screenshots).
When I run the Windows 8 installer, it says:
What ...
