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Stop Windows 7 Laptop From Sleeping On Closing Lid

Abhishek — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:30:00 +0000

May new laptops running W indows 7 are configured in such a way that they go to sleep when you close their lid. This might be a really way of saving energy when not in use, but many people, like me, who will schedule some work on the laptop like backups or downloads may not like this feature.

By closing the lid, i just want to get some privacy so that nobody can see my laptop screen and I want the downloads and data backup to continue while I have closed the lid. Closing lid also helps to save power because display of the laptop also consumes considerable part of your laptop battery / power. However you can still turn off your display even when the lid is open using this tool called MonitorOff

In this post, I will give you a step by step guide on How To Prevent Windows 7 Laptop from Sleeping On Closing Lid.

Just follow these simple steps:

1. Go to Start > Control Panel > Power Options. Click on “Change plan settings” for the power plan that you usually use as shown below.

2. On this Edit Plan Settings Window, click on “Change advanced power settings”.

3. On this Power Options window as shown below, scroll to the “Power buttons and lid”, click on the small “+” symbol there, it will expand the options. Then click on the “+” symbol in front of “Lid close action” , click the “On battery” option and select the option called “Do nothing”, likewise click on “Plugged on” and select “Do nothing”.

Click apply and OK at the bottom of this window.

This is it, i hope you find this tutorial easy to follow, Check out – Computer Tips And Tricks articles on Trouble Fixers.

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Windows starts in safe mode everytime

Rohit — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:54 +0000

Trouble:

We got a mail from one of our readers saying “My computer starts in safe mode only, how to make it boot into normal mode“.

Cause of the problem?

This type of behaviour can occur, if you install Norton Antivirus 2001 on your windows XP computer.

Let’s see how can we fix this trouble.

Fix:

In order to solve this issue, disable the auto-protect feature of Norton AntiVirus 2001.

Follow these steps after disabling auto protect:

1. First restart your computer as expected it will boot Safe mode.

2. Open Start >> Run and type “msconfig”(without quotes) and press Enter.

3. Click the radio button which says Selective startup.

4. On the Static VxD tab, click to clear the NAVAP.VxD check box,and click OK.

5. Click on the Startup tab, now click to clear or uncheck the Norton Auto Protect check box, click apply and then ok.

7. Restart computer, it will now boot up in normal mode .

We this helps to fix the trouble, but still if your problem does not solve leave a comment at the bottom of the post.

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Fix remote desktop connection error "The connection was ended because of network error"

Rohit — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:16:04 +0000

Trouble:

One of our reader Rameshwar reported us a problem regarding remote desktop connection on windows XP. When he tries to connect to a specific machine on LAN, rather than getting connected Windows xp gives the following remote desktop connection error – “The connection was ended because of network error”

Let’s see how can we fix this remote desktop connection error.

Fix:

The main cause behind this problems is some problem in the registry entries at the following path:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TermServices\Parameters
Follow the procedure below to fix it.

1. Open Start >> Run and type regedit and press enter.

2. Navigate to the following path:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TermServices\Parameters

3. Now delete registry keys named Certificate, X500 Certificate and X509 Certificate ID values. (These keys will get auto generated after system restart with system default values, which is actually needed)

4. Exit Registry editor and restart your computer.

5. Try to establish a remote desktop connection by typing mstsc at Run Prompt.

Note: Always back up the registry before making any changes that may damage your system configuration.

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Internet Explorer crashes with a message "Iexplore.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close"

Rohit — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:20:03 +0000

Trouble:

One of our readers reported a problem with windows Internet Explorer, according to him suddenly at any time Internet Explorer closes abruptly with a message box which says

“Iexplore.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience”

If you click the Click here link at the bottom of the message box, error signature information that is similar to the following error signature information may appear:

App name: Iexplore.exe
App version: 6.0.2800.1106
Module name: Mo030414s.dll
Module version: 1.0.0.0
Offset: 000294cc

The signature may also list one of the following files instead of the mo030414s.dll file:

M030106shop.dll, M030206pohs.dll, Mdefshop.dll, Moaa030425s.dll, Moz030715s.dll

Fix:

This problem occurs because one of the following third party browser helper objects (BHO) is installed on your computer:

• BuyersPort

• Morpheus

• Morpheus Shopping Club

• WURLD Shopping Community

So you need to uninstall these browser helper objects from your Internet Explorer in order to resolve the IE crashing issue.

Follow the step by step procedure given below to uninstall these browser helper objects:

How to uninstall the browser helper objects:

1. Start >> Run and type iexplore

2. Go to Tools > Manage Add-ons > Enable or Disable Add-ons

3. A “Manage Add-ons ” dialog box will appear.

You can click the “Show” pull-down to only Show Add-ons currently loaded in Internet Explorer, or all add-ons used by Internet Explorer.

4. A list will show each add-on’s name, publisher, status, type, and file related to the add-on.
5. To disable an add-on, select the add-on then click the “Disable” radio button at the bottom left of the window.
6. Click “OK” when done.

Updated: on 23th May 2008

We have just received a user query regarding the same problem in internet explorer but solution to this problem is quite different.

So we would like to provide the following links for the solving your computer trouble.

Otherwise it would be better to go in the details of the error message you are seeing and then let us know.

We hope the information provided above will help you fix the trouble.

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Recorded DVD or CD contains data but appears blank in windows xp

Rohit — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:50:01 +0000

Trouble:

Sometimes it happens that when you insert a recorded data DVD or CD into your CD or DVD reader but rather then displaying the data it displays the disc as blank.

Note: It’s not your CD or DVD reader fault at all when it reports the recorded media as blank.

This problem may occur when you use certain third-party Image Mastering API (IMAPI) CD-burning software to record data to a recordable CD or DVD. Lets see how this trouble can be fixed.

Fix:

The problem mainly occurs because the IMAPI CD-burning software which you use for writing CD or DVD changes the sub-header bits on the disc to a format that Microsoft Windows XP cannot read correctly.

But don’t worry as you can easily fix the issue by installing the latest service pack provided by Microsoft, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows XP by clicking here.

If you have any other problems related to this one please leave a comment at the end of this post we will be glad to help you out.

Tip: You can refer to this link to troubleshoot the common problems which occur in CD or DVD reading in Windows XP.

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USB pen drive detected but doesn’t show up in My Computer

Rohit — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:12:07 +0000

Trouble:

You may have faced a problem when you insert your pen drive and it gets detected very easily but it doesn’t show up as a drive icon in My Computer. The computer detects the pen drive but data on pen drive is not visible as the pen drive is not visible in My Computer (Explorer).

This problem occurs mainly when windows XP fails to allocate a drive letter to your portable drive(pen drive). It occurs mostly with new pen drives connected to your computer for the first time. If you face such problem then it may not be the pen drive’s fault, rather it may be windows trouble.

Fix:

You can fix this issue by following some simple steps given below.

1. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.

2. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window will appear.

3. On this disk management window, you can see some drives including the portable drive. Right click on your portable drive and click change drive letter and paths.

4. Now a assign a new drive letter which is not being used by any of your drives in My Computer.

5. After assigning the new drive letter your portable drive will show up in my computer with other drives

We hope the above solution will help to fix this trouble.

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How to avoid chkdsk disk scan at every time booting windows

Rohit — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:36:24 +0000

Trouble:

Recently we received a problem from one of the readers on system run a chkdsk disk scan again and again at every time on booting windows.

Let’s see how we can solve the problem of disk scan running every time of boot on windows.

Fix:

Disc scan is one of the protective feature of windows which runs to clean any cross-links or bad sectors that may be generated because of the improper shutdown of windows due to some reason. So, when ever you shutdown your system in some improper way ,the next time you boot your windows you will see scan disk running which you can stop by pressing an key on time.

But in some cases as experienced by some of the windows users, disk scan runs every time they reboot, this happens because of the following reasons:

1. Improper shutdown(most common).

2. External hard drive or portable drive attached which causes scan disk to scan them at every reboot.

3. chkdsk was not allowed to be completed at the time of boot.

Above reasons are normally the most common reasons behind this problem, but none of them matches with your case then, you probably have a dirty volume on your hard drive which has some bad sectors which does not get repaired at the time of reboot.

Here is a link to info about understanding of dirty volumes.

So, at every reboot chkdsk tries to repair those dirty bits on those bad sectors on your hard drive in those specific partitions.

But, don’t worry as you can simply fix this problem of disc scanning at every reboot.

Just follow the procedure given below:

You need to do a manual chkdsk on all the partitions or physical hard drives.

1. Open start>>run and type “cmd”(without double quotes)

2. Type “chkntfs /x ”(without double quotes) For example: chkntfs /x d:

3. Run this command for all the partitions of your hard drive.

4. Reboot your computer properly it will not do a disk scan again.

We hope this solves your problem…do lets us know through comments if you have any issues.

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No beep at start-up. Computer does not boot.

Abhishek — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:59:47 +0000

Trouble:

Some times we turn on the computer and it does not turn on. There is no beep (sometimes many beeps in a pattern), or any kind of display and the computer does not boot. This happens when POST (power on self test) for the computer fails. Lets see why this happens and what to do in such cases.

Fix:

POST(power on self test) is a test which is done by the computer every time it is powered on. This test, all the physical hardware components of the computer are detected and tested for proper working. If any of the critical computer component is faulty or not detected, the POST fails. After this test fails, the computer does not go further and does not boot. There can be several reasons for failure of POST.

One of the most common reason is faulty or loose RAM module. So next time your computer does not give a beep at start-up and does not boot, perform the following checks.

Check that the RAM module is properly inserted in the RAM slot. If not, correct it.
If there is lots of dust around it, clean it with a DRY cloth gently. If needed, remove the RAM module from the RAM slot carefully and clean the contacts with DRY cloth and insert it back carefully.

The above two checks will Fix the trouble in most of the cases.

NOTE: If there are more than one beeps in some pattern and the computer is not starting, refer to the beep code corresponding to your BIOS to know the reason for failure see this link.

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