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    External hardisk not working?

    Hi, I connected in my external hardisk to find that windows continuously keeps on reading it without stopping (forever). The windows explorer window hangs. I would like to check if my hardisk is gone forever... but I would like to try, for example, to see if formatting might fix the problem...
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    msn messenger

    Hi, In msn messenger, the people who come online, I know that I can keep them on my list or delete them or block them. But, I want to do something else... I want the status of certain people to be not shown (always offline) and keep them on the list without deleting or blocking. I mean... I...
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    Homeopathy - Interesting claims!

    I came across a couple of videos on Homeopathy. I don't believe in it and this explanation might help some to get convinced as to why!! and to some who believed an eye-opener!! :) I by default open thread in Fight club :D *youtube.com/watch?v=BWE1tH93G9U&feature=related Here, you can see...
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    Windows Live messenger saved conversations

    Ok, I can not explain fully. The situation is that, my friend has recently come to know that her Ex-boyfriend had been spying on her hotmail Email account (He told her over phone about a mail that she received). Now she has changed the password. The other thing she is worried about is if he...
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    music players functionality

    In these music players like Winamp (or anything else), is there a functionality, like, in case you wanted to play 1 particular part of a song, say, 02:34 to 02:59 minutes of the song again and again.. could you sort of "subloop" the song?? Do you guys understand what I mean?? It would be awesome!
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    emoticons for MSN

    Hi, I have searched to some extent, but couldn't get a hold of something as good and big as say gigasmileys.. Where can I get such big ones and lots of them?? animated of course... for MSN messenger (windows live) thks.
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    ffdshow like codecs Ubuntu Gutsy

    Hi, I just configured ubuntu gutsy with Mac4Lin (thks a million to infra_red_dude) and it looks awesome!! I was trying to install media player classic as it is by far the most configurable player I have known.. for both Audio and Video. usually, I use ffdshow codec and use 1) Mixer, 2)...
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    MUST SEE Tamil movie: Yaarukku yaro, Sam Anderson HERO

    OMG, If you havn't seen this movie... please see it!! You can console yourself that this is the worst!!! Unfortunately, the movie is only in tamil... This superhit movie will be dubbed/even remade sooner or later I guess.. Otherwise.. bollywood is seriously missing a spicy one! to give a clue...
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    Windows vista - Mac equivalent programs?

    Hi, I found in the MAC exclusive post about these two programs Delicious Library - An applications to catalogue your collection of Books, Movies, Music and Games done Mac style. It is a lovely application. Cha-Ching - An application to manage your personal finances, one of the most...
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    visual C++ error

    Hey guys, I am working on a program in VC++ with MFC to calculate the fourier transform of the real-time input data and display it back. I have windows 2000 with SP2 along with IC Imaging control (a software/library required) and DirectX SDK ver 9 and Microsoft Visual studio 6 (i have tried...
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    Ipod & Flac format

    Hi, I managed to collect very good quality, Flac format, songs for some movies and i wanted to transfer to my Ipod. but the damn thing doesnt recognize this format. I would want to have the conversion of Flac to mp3 as the last option. has any1 played flac in ipod ? is there any additional...
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    ubuntu, linux, firefox, another small but irritating issue...

    Hi, My search went futile in getting an answer for solving this silly yet very nagging issue in firefox. When you open a tab, the blinking cursor is active in the location bar so that we can directly start typing. Similarly, when we click on the mouse on the existing address, in windows...
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    gmail question

    Hi, Is there an option/filters in gmail for automatically marking the mails from certain ID to be "READ". And also, is there any filter for allowing certain mails after being read to be applied the label and to be skipped off the inbox?? I mean, the filter in this case should check for read...
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    firefox query

    Hi, In firefox, when i download a torrent or rar file or for some specific file types, even if the "remember this option" (or whatever equivalent) is highlighted, it just keeps on popping again and again. It is annoying when u download many files. How can I stop firefox from asking this save...
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    Audio boost Vista Vaio

    Hi, I have sony vaio with Vista installed. I find the movies and audio files and in general the windows default sounds too very low for a maximum volume. I have installed Vista codec pack. I have tried boosting in the AC3 filter but it only works for Ac3 coded movies (i guess or i dont feel a...
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    ubuntu 7.04, firefox query

    Hi, I have ubuntu 7.04 up and running fine! I love it so far, except for 1 little problem of installing fritz 10 using wine. But, that is for another post! :) now, my question is that, in firefox, everytime i have to browse the page earlier, i used to press backspace in windows. However...
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    winamp mobile - p2k - motoroal l7 issue!

    Hi, I have a motorola L7 mobile with 1 GB memory card in it. Recently I installed Winamp mobile and tried to play some songs but in vain. I browsed thro' some forums and came to know that I have to dump all my songs in the b\mobile\audio folder. There is a software called P2k which is to be...
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    partition shows unallocated -urgent help pls!!

    Hi, I had vista installed... and i had to install windows 2000 for running a VC++ program of mine which screwed everything. I had to install vista again. So, i formatted using paragon partition manager and after installing vista, now, a 70 GB drive is not shown. It shows unallocated...
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    directX earlier version and vista

    Hi, I am working on a VC++ project which uses dshow.h file, from a previous release of directX SDK. It is compatible with windows 2000 sp2 and below. Now, i have windows vista... :( is it possible somehow to run the program? DirectX SDK older version gets installed... but when i compile...
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    disk space issue

    Hi, I have sony vaio laptop with windows vista and a 160 GB hardisk. I have 3 partitions with 40, 70 and 30 GB as shown in vista. Now, a 160 GB by manufacturers specifications comes to arnd 149 GB. but now 10 GB is missing?? I used paragon partition manager to find that the 70 GB is...
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