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Archive for the Tag ‘Microsoft Windows’

January 13, 2010

Where’s my DVD drive gone?

I turned on my computer a few days ago and realised that my D: drive didn’t appear in Explorer any more. Is my computer damaged?

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November 25, 2009

How do I change the letter of a disk?

For some reason, the Drive F: on my computer is suddenly called Drive G:. I’m not quite sure how it happened, but I want to change it back as I have a number of batch files that aren’t working now. Where can I do this?

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May 24, 2009

Why doesn’t Outlook Express let me see .JPG pictures?

Why is Outlook Express (Version 6) removing .jpg attachments attachements from my emails I send on grounds of ‘safety’? I accept that certain files may be dangerous, but surely .jpg files are innocuous.

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March 26, 2009

How do I get my icons back?

After changing some options to do with my desktop theme I have lost the My Computer and Control Panel icons from the Desktop. How can I get them back?

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September 14, 2008

Why won’t my Vista machine play DVDs?

I used to be able to play DVD movies in my Windows XP computer, but when I put them in my new PC it says “Windows Media Player cannot play DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on the computer”. What’s wrong?

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