March 11, 2010, 8:37 PM
I’ve noticed that on my primary machine, at nearly all times, the Windows Media Player process was running hidden in the background consuming a unnecessary portion of my system’s RAM. First, I thought it was related to some iPod syncing software that I had run some time ago, or perhaps even with the last.fm service, but after some further investigation, I discovered it was actually related to my G15 and its LCD panel.
The fix is to untick the Windows Media Sideshow Gadget which can be done by going to the Control Panel and then going into “Windows SideShow”. After that, there were no more ghost WMP process that I’ve noticed on my system.
Reference: [1]
March 11, 2010, 8:31 PM
In the process of trying to upgrade a household computer from Windows XP to Windows 7, I noticed that the Windows 7 installer hung at the blue background. No warning/error message or prompt was given, and I had to do some research in order to get the installer to work properly. After a few tries, and disabling features such as USB support and the CPU Turbo Mode (in the BIOS), solutions that had apparently worked for other people, there was still no progress. After some more searching, I found the way to fix this problem was to disable the Floppy Drive in the BIOS, as the computer did not acutally have one installed. After that switch was made, the installer was working fine.
Reference: [1]
February 28, 2010, 7:44 PM
While setting up my new laptop with applications, I noticed that GTK based applications (mainly Pidgin and XChat), that if you hit backspace in an empty text field, the system beep is triggered. (This is sounded regardless of your audio settings.) This can be easily fixed by editing the “.gtkrc” file that exists in ‘etc\gtk-2.0′ your GTK installation directory and also possibly in your home directory. Using a text editor capable of preserving UNIX file encodings, create/edit this file, and add the following line to the file:
gtk-error-bell = 0
You should now find that the beep no longer occurs after restarting the application and/or system.
References: [1], [2]