The Great RAID Level 5 - Transcript

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David Lawrence: Your icons back alright tell me what*s going on?

David: All of them like My Documents and the Recycle Bin and everything else and like that has disappeared from the screen. What I had done was I had went to save a shortcut to a webpage that I wanted to visit back often. And I somehow activated active desktop, and the whole webpage was now on my screen and running all the time. Well I fiddled with something and finally got rid of that but when as I did that all my icons disappeared.

David Lawrence: So the easiest thing for you to do is to back into themes desktop and themes and just pick the Windows basic Windows desktop. You know just reset your theme and then restart your computer and everything should be fine. If you have you know your description is to what goes on leaves much many details to interpretation, I don*t know whether along the path there some preferences might have been changed saying hide icons. But usually just simply going in to the themes for your desktop and choosing you know Windows, Windows large, Windows enhanced anything that says the Windows theme on it or any of the built-in Windows themes should bring everything back to snuff and then restart your machine and make sure that it does that when you restart as well okay.

David: Ok I am going to get there and try thank you.

David Lawrence: Alright I appreciate it, 180039 online is our telephone number 18003966546. It's 19 before the hour and my name is David Lawrence and we go to Randy, hey Randy you are Online Tonight with David Lawrence, hello.

Randy: Hi how are you?

David Lawrence: I am fine thank you for asking.

Randy: Great, we acquired a used gateway computer from what I understand it kind of top of the line, had XP on it, got two processors and giga RAM and I mean the whole 9 yards. Once I got it, I kind of got used to it and I wanted an upgrade of the few things like Media Player. I upgraded that to 10 and after I did that my DVD player, we will not play DVD so I didn*t check of it before. But I did some investigation and found out that the DVD RAM which I never heard of compared to a DVD ROM. Well then I said there is no decoder installed and there was also no region defined.

David Lawrence: Right so what*s happened here and you know again you bought it used and I am assuming that whoever sold it to you didn*t give you the original discs.

Randy: I have got the driver disc.

David Lawrence: Right but you have --

Randy: And then the program disc.

David Lawrence: But do you have the original operating system disc, the one with the-- I mean this is the downside to buying used equipment. If you are not going to get the whole package with the original discs that came with the system or at least instructions on how to create your own restore and repair discs from the data that*s on the hard drive. You are kind of stuck without that you can go back in and reset back to 9 or 8 or 7 or whatever version of Windows Media Player it was. But often times these devices, the DVD devices, the CD devices and so on are depended especially on the lower price machines, they are dependent on Microsoft*s system level software. And so when you change that if you don*t end up going to the site of the manufacturer of the drive, in this case the DVD drive. And updating the driver for Windows Media Player 10, all of a sudden things will stop working. Now I don*t know whether going to the gateway site and getting the updated drivers that are compatible with Windows Media Player 10 will help. It usually doesn*t change the format, I mean you are either DVD ROM, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD RAM, DVD RW this is just you have touched on a nerve here with me.

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