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New hard drive problems
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Pauljb
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21. November 2006 @ 10:18 |
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Hi, i just recieved my new 250gb western digital 8mb cache ide har disk, managed to get windows to release it was over 137gb and all that. but the only problem now is that when i open it in windows xp, the window comes up in with a wee picture of a photo at the bottom left, i.e. windows has the whole drive set to display photos!
Such a trival thing but i am stumped on what to do to fix it, i tried everything i knew with customizing the folders, but the problem is windows wont let u customize the whole drive itself?
Any ideas?
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21. November 2006 @ 13:36 |
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can u post a screenshot?
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Pauljb
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22. November 2006 @ 05:10 |
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22. November 2006 @ 08:37 |
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what "wee" thing r u talking about?
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22. November 2006 @ 11:28 |
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You will see a watermark of a picture on the bottom right of the screen cap. Alos, you will notice the 'picture toolbar' on the left side of the screen.
I have never seen that before, but I will take a look and see if I can find a solution.
~Rich
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23. November 2006 @ 10:33 |
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See that double up-arrow by "Picture tasks"? Click it to hide it. I'm not sure if you can permanently save this state without a registry hack, but try this: go to Tools->Folder Options->View and tick "Remember each folder's view settings" if it's not already checked. Then click Apply to All Folders.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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Pauljb
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23. November 2006 @ 22:55 |
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hi guys, thanks for your suggestions but unfortunately none of them have worked?
Any other ideas? is there a way to change it in the registery like u said?
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24. November 2006 @ 08:02 |
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There's another way. Right-click in the folder - you may even be able to right-click the hard drive itself - and select Properties. Then select the Customize tab. On the top item, Use this folder type as template, select Documents or something. That'll get rid of the Picture Tasks junk.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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Pauljb
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25. November 2006 @ 07:22 |
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sorry dude tried that, but cause it is at opening page of the hard drive it just brings up properites to do with teh hard drive!
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25. November 2006 @ 23:51 |
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Click the drive and go into (explore) it. Select your root folder (or everything) and do the procedure I mentioned above, but be sure to click the box that applies it to subfolders as well.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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Pauljb
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28. November 2006 @ 09:11 |
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sorry, nothing is working at all
does anyone have any ideas?
anyone know how to change the registery?
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