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shadowninty wrote: »That'll take days! (for me at least, I get 80KB/s upload
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Unless you only have a few documents.
I'd backup it to an external hard drive! A large Memory card could be big enough too...
*sigh* Don't have access to either at the moment
Its mainly photos, most of them are on facebook, either private or public, so I *sorta* have them backed up that way. Started backing them up online a few weeks ago, but ya, its taking forever. Only have about a quarter of them up.0 -
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QueenOfLeon wrote: »Oh hai computer genii. My laptop screen is flashing every time I click something, every few letters I type, and when I scroll down on pages etc. What's wrong?
What programs did you uninstall last night out of interest? And did this happen before then?0 -
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QueenOfLeon wrote: »Oh hai computer genii. My laptop screen is flashing every time I click something, every few letters I type, and when I scroll down on pages etc. What's wrong?
That's not a great explanation of the problem, is your whole screen flashing?
Or is it just the window?
Sound like the whole screen from the way you describe it.
And how exactly does it flash?
Does it flash once when you click a key?
I would try booting up in safe mode and seeing if that clears the problem.
Also does it happen outside windows? Ie when you first boot up you get some options before you go into windows, you could try going into the bios (don't change anything or save and changes if you accidently do).
When a key is pressed it generates an interrupt, same goes for scroll, maybe that is interfering with the screen.
Could possibly be a virus, possibly a (badly written) keyboard logger (just a guess). So I would virus scan. The virus would probably not work in safe mode, but it not working in safe mode don't mean it is a virus.
You could also try downloading Linux and burning to a disk and seeing if that has the same problem, but that's a fair bit of work.
I would try some virus scans, also hijackthis and such like, but be careful as some anti virus stuff you can download can be a kind of virus so get any stuff from a well know legit site.
Like this one:-
http://download.cnet.com/windows/security-software/?tag=rb_content;main
But it may just be a corrupted table which controls the screen attributes in the browser. Does it happen in other browsers? As I said your explaination ain't reallly very helpful.0 -
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What it'd be worth doing is keeping all your files in your Dropbox folder. This is what I do, I have my Video, Music, Pictures and Documents folder linked into the folder. It works seamlessly (at least in Ubuntu) and you'd only notice by the little shortcut arrow on the folders
This way your stuff is always being backed up, and you can access the files everywhere too!
eh, actually do you have Dropbox?
If you dont you could sign up using my refferal :L
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Works the same in windows. Only thing is that a recent change of TOS means that dropbox can apparently access (legally) all of the files you upload. There was a thread in the photography forum recently saying that dropbox have the right to use any photos you upload at their own discretion from Sept 1st.shadowninty wrote: »What it'd be worth doing is keeping all your files in your Dropbox folder. This is what I do, I have my Video, Music, Pictures and Documents folder linked into the folder. It works seamlessly (at least in Ubuntu) and you'd only notice by the little shortcut arrow on the folders0 -
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