1. Your post is not clear. There are FOUR pictures involved in the startup process. The FIRST picture is the BIOS logo which is nearly impossible to change. The SECOND picture is the Windows bootup screen. Some users has hacked the background pictures (don't ask me how). The THIRD picture is the WindowRead more

    Your post is not clear. There are FOUR pictures involved in the startup process.

    The FIRST picture is the BIOS logo which is nearly impossible to change.

    The SECOND picture is the Windows bootup screen. Some users has hacked the background pictures (don’t ask me how).

    The THIRD picture is the Windows logon screen background. Information about how to change it is given HERE.

    The FOURTH picture is your desktop. See Post #1 above for information how to change it.

    Now please tell us which of the FOUR pictures are you asking about?

    i_Xp/Vista/W7User

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  2. You say I note…This has always been a noisy drive. Also, now the led just blinks intermittently.How noisey, and what type if noise…; clicks, ticking, groans etc…? Any of those could/would suggest a drive is possibly faulty - on it's way out; even if like that from the start. Most drives these days aRead more

    You say I note…

    This has always been a noisy drive. Also, now the led just blinks intermittently.

    How noisey, and what type if noise…; clicks, ticking, groans etc…?

    Any of those could/would suggest a drive is possibly faulty – on it’s way out; even if like that from the start. Most drives these days are pretty quiet overall. Although sometimes a usb-case/housing can act as sound amplifier to a modest degree… and as a result a drive sound a little noisier than it might otherwise; especially during actual seek ‘n read/write operations by the drive’s head… But if in general spin mode it is noisey… I’d be somewhat concerned overall… regardless

    However, as you have the same situation with another drive installed… it does not sound like it’s the (original) drive itself; but likely something internal re’ the motherboard; even something as simple as a loose connection… Not entirely unknown for onboard connectors to loosen etc… But that of course means “going inside”… and not everyone is really into that routine…

    On-board power supply “might be failing; the chips are reasonably robust these days; but then they can fail… Even plug-in chips can work loose (although not very often an occurrence these days – unless one is really violent with the kit…)?

    If you put the original drive into another system, does it show there – at least try to boot etc; does the drive led (if there is one on that system) show/indicate there is a drive there? Even better of course connect to another system via usb adapter (as suggested earlier)? I f the drive shows up via usb – then it’s not the drive… Something is amiss in the drive’s laptop original home…

    I find a usb-adpater kit invaluable these days; both to test a drive, and also to temporarily access one via a working system…

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  3. Presumably this the letter P and the letter O (not zero); and all was well until recently?Can you test the system with a plug-in (usb) keyboard to see it the problem persist or not?Have you spilt anything over the keyboard?Possibly (with all power mains/battery) removed gently prise the key cap offRead more

    Presumably this the letter P and the letter O (not zero); and all was well until recently?

    Can you test the system with a plug-in (usb) keyboard to see it the problem persist or not?

    Have you spilt anything over the keyboard?

    Possibly (with all power mains/battery) removed gently prise the key cap off the affected letters and see if there is anything underneath that ought not to be there?

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  4. Normally you use a utility to clone the hard drive to the new one, shut down and swap out the drives and it will boot from it. The manufacturer of the new drive you purchased offers this utility FREE for download if you purchased the drive without a software disk. This is what I would recommend. IfRead more

    Normally you use a utility to clone the hard drive to the new one, shut down and swap out the drives and it will boot from it. The manufacturer of the new drive you purchased offers this utility FREE for download if you purchased the drive without a software disk. This is what I would recommend. If the new drive is larger than the older one you may end up with a partition of about the size of the old drive. You can use Disk Manager to either extend this partition or to use the additional unassigned space to create a new partition.

    You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.

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  5. I can go through these logs & look for clues.Please download Farbar Recovery Scan Tool and save it onto your Desktop. If your default download location is not the Desktop, drag it out of it's location onto the Desktop.http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/dow...If we have to run Farbar more than once,Read more

    I can go through these logs & look for clues.

    Please download Farbar Recovery Scan Tool and save it onto your Desktop. If your default download location is not the Desktop, drag it out of it’s location onto the Desktop.
    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/dow…
    If we have to run Farbar more than once, refer this SS.
    http://i.imgur.com/yUxNw0j.gif
    Note: You need to run the version compatible with your system. If you are not sure which version applies to your system download both of them and try to run them. Only one of them will run on your system, that will be the right version.
    Double-click to run it. When the tool opens click Yes to disclaimer.
    Press Scan button.
    It will make a log (FRST.txt) on the Desktop.
    The first time the tool is run, it makes also another log (Addition.txt) on the Desktop.
    The logs are large, upload them. No time delays/Captcha-I’m not a Robot/account/registration needed. Give us the links please.
    http://www.fileconvoy.com/index.php
    https://i.imgur.com/7UiiqWr.gif
    https://i.imgur.com/6N1gfOj.gif

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  6. This is obivously a homework problem or you would use perl or awk to swap fields 2 and 3.How about making a effort? I will get you started to cut the first 3 fields into seperate files, use the cut command:# column 1cut -d " " -f 1 mytable.txt > col1.txtNow do the same thing for the 2nd and 3 colRead more

    This is obivously a homework problem or you would use perl or awk to swap fields 2 and 3.

    How about making a effort? I will get you started to cut the first 3 fields into seperate files, use the cut command:

    # column 1
    cut -d ” ” -f 1 mytable.txt > col1.txt

    Now do the same thing for the 2nd and 3 columns
    cut -d ” ” -f 2 mytable.txt > col2.txt
    cut -d ” ” -f 3 mytable.txt > col3.txt

    And to get the rest of the file from column 4 on:
    cut -d ” ” -f 4- > colrest.txt

    Now, use the paste command to glue the parts together in the proper order.

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  7. It DOES================C:\temp>if exist *.bat echo yy=====================================If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2

    It DOES
    ================
    C:\temp>if exist *.bat echo y
    y

    =====================================
    If at first you don’t succeed, you’re about average.

    M2

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  8. Test this... Assumes your current date format is dd/mmm/yy@echo off cls setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set month=%date:~3,3% set Day=%date:~0,2% set year=%date:~7,2% set nbr=0 for %%1 in (Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec) do ( set /a nbr+=1 echo %month%|findstr /i /b "%%1" >nulRead more

    Test this… Assumes your current date format is dd/mmm/yy

    @echo off
    cls
    setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
    
    set month=%date:~3,3%
    set Day=%date:~0,2%
    set year=%date:~7,2%
    
    set nbr=0
    for %%1 in (Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec) do (
      set /a nbr+=1
      echo %month%|findstr /i /b "%%1" >nul&& goto finis
    )
    
    :finis
    if %nbr% lss 10 set nbr=0%nbr%
    
    echo.&echo.;
    echo The month of %month% is month number %nbr%
    echo.
    echo Current date = %nbr%-%day%-%year% 
    
    

    Please come back & tell us if your problem is resolved.

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  9. Unfortunately no, batch scripts cannot amend a file in situ, the result must be written to a new file.Please come back & tell us if your problem is resolved.

    Unfortunately no, batch scripts cannot amend a file in situ, the result must be written to a new file.

    Please come back & tell us if your problem is resolved.

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  10. That would be the command you would need to run inside the batchfile to invoke putty.You could also run that from the command line to invoke putty as well.The "yourusername@yourserverlocationIusemyddns " portion would need to be tailored to your system. Most routers don't have a DNS "name" and the dRead more

    That would be the command you would need to run inside the batchfile to invoke putty.

    You could also run that from the command line to invoke putty as well.

    The “yourusername@yourserverlocationIusemyddns ” portion would need to be tailored to your system. Most routers don’t have a DNS “name” and the default login on most is username = admin, password = admin. So, assuming your router is at 192.168.1.1 your putty command would look as follows:

    putty.exe admin@192.168.1.1 -pw admin

    It matters not how straight the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate;
    I am the captain of my soul.

    ***William Henley***

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