#290
/ July 2, 2009 / 1:40 min.
How to rollback a device driver
A PC can connect to an unlimited number of devices. Printers, scanners, DVD players, TV cards, external hard drivers, and so much more. The link between a device and the computer is the device driver
. Sometimes a device starts behaving strangely and one thing you can try to fix it is to rollback its device driver
.
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show notes
- In
Windows Vista click on Start then on Control Panel.
- In Control Panel click on
Device Manager
and in Vista click Continue.
- The
Device Manager
shows all of the devices connected to your computer.
- In Windows XP right-click on My Computer and select Properties.
- In the dialog that opens click the Device tab.
- In XP and Visa select a device you want to rollback, like the DVD player.
- Click on the device and highlight it.
- Right-click and select Properties.
- Click on the Driver tab.
- If you have
updated drivers
you'll have the Rollback option available.
- If not Windows will tell you there's no backup and ask if you want to run the troubleshooter.
- If a backup driver exists Windows will roll it back to the previous version.
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#613
/ March 12, 2010 / 1:54 min.
You probably already use
PayPal to pony up purchases made online. It's safer than exposing your credit card info to a retailer you may not have done business with yet. Well, now
PayPal is available on your Android phone
so you can send money to someone while on the go. Great for paying up for bar bets if nothing else...
#612
/ March 12, 2010 / 1:32 min.
Every time you install a piece of software, you're presented with page upon page of legalese, detailing how you're allowed to use the software and how you're not. This is the
End User License Agreement or EULA
, pronounced E U L A or often, just u-la.
#611
/ March 11, 2010 / 1:02 min.
Wireless Application Protocol or WAP is a standard for accessing the mobile web and its content on mobile phones. Everything from email delivery to browsing the web on our phones came about thanks to WAP. Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.
#610
/ March 11, 2010 / 1:50 min.
When you're in the world of
wireless networking
there are lots of terms, lots of acronyms, and lots of things that seem to make little sense.
SSID
is one such acronym, which Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.
#609
/ March 10, 2010 / 2:55 min.
PixelPipe is a cool site that lets you
share photos, videos
and more with over 100 other sites. Upload once and send your photos and videos to a bunch of different social networking and blogging sites. This saves you updating hundreds of different
social media, photo or video
sharing pages individually. Now you can use
PixelPipe right from your iPhone
with this
awesome free iPhone app
.
#608
/ March 10, 2010 / 1:16 min.
As you travel around the Internet, visiting Web sites, occasionally you'll get a "404." It could be an image heavy page, it could be just text. It might be funny, it might be serious.
What is a 404?
Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains these "page not found" error pages.
#607
/ March 9, 2010 / 1:56 min.
Sticky notes
have changed the way many people work. You just jot a note down on one and stick someplace. On a table, a desk, a screen, a keyboard or on the wall. Having your monitor plastered with physical sticky notes is the past though. Tacking virtual sticky notes to your computer desktop is the way to go. Doc shows us
where to find Sticky Notes in Windows 7
.
#606
/ March 9, 2010 / 1:06 min.
You hear a lot of talk about "
Android" lately. The
mobile operating system from Google
has caught on in smartphones and other mobile devices. But
what exactly is Android
? Why should you care about Android? Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.
#605
/ March 8, 2010 / 1:38 min.
Hypertext
is used to generate links that lead you from one place to another. At first glance it's almost magical. You see text, you click on it, and it takes you someplace new.
Hypertext is the foundation of the World Wide Web.
Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.
#604
/ March 8, 2010 / 1:53 min.
PixelPipe is a cool online service for
sharing photos, videos, text
and more. We love it so it stands to reason, we want it on our Android handsets as well. Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan offers a
guided tour of PixelPipe on Android
.
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