I need a good boffin.

[Silent Majority]

Hello, my name's James and I'm a big fan of the Clash.

My laptop plays noise through the speakers and my headphones. If my headphones are in, there's nothing I want less than noise through the speakers.

So far I have:

Updated drivers.
Manged the audio device, making Headphones the primary output.
Ditto, for the Speakers and Headphones option.
Fucked about with the sound card.

Any other options?

[Rat Patrol]

Hello, my name's James and I'm a big fan of the Clash.

My laptop plays noise through the speakers and my headphones. If my headphones are in, there's nothing I want less than noise through the speakers.

So far I have:

Updated drivers.
Manged the audio device, making Headphones the primary output.
Ditto, for the Speakers and Headphones option.
Fucked about with the sound card.

Any other options?

I suggest becoming bitterly disillusioned with The Clash and blaming Mick Jones for not giving you a better computer.

[Chuck Mangione]

Hello, my name's James and I'm a big fan of the Clash.

My laptop plays noise through the speakers and my headphones. If my headphones are in, there's nothing I want less than noise through the speakers.

So far I have:

Updated drivers.
Manged the audio device, making Headphones the primary output.
Ditto, for the Speakers and Headphones option.
Fucked about with the sound card.

Any other options?

I suggest becoming bitterly disillusioned with The Clash and blaming Mick Jones for not giving you a better computer.

What he said.

[Dr. Medulla]

Hello, my name's James and I'm a big fan of the Clash.

My laptop plays noise through the speakers and my headphones. If my headphones are in, there's nothing I want less than noise through the speakers.

So far I have:

Updated drivers.
Manged the audio device, making Headphones the primary output.
Ditto, for the Speakers and Headphones option.
Fucked about with the sound card.

Any other options?

I suggest becoming bitterly disillusioned with The Clash and blaming Mick Jones for not giving you a better computer.

What he said.

I've used that argument to successfully beat a murder charge and avoid child support payments for four kids. The judge practically wanted to make the little bastards pay me when I spoke about Ellen Foley.

[Marky Dread]

Hello, my name's James and I'm the leader of the Clash.

So far I have:

Updated Bernie.
Manged the audio device by sacking our drummer.
Replaced the best musician in the band with two new players .
Fucked about with the sound of our latest album.

Any other options?

Split up.

[biopunk]

Manged the audio device?

Hello, James.

I like the Clash two!


James, you should never, ever, give electronic audio components mange!

We'll need to determine the type first. There are two.

Demodectic mange - these are mites that usually live on the hair follicles of dogs.
The dog will appear to have inflamed red patches of skin.
This form isn't generally contagious and not really of great concern to humans, as cases are quite rare.

Sarcoptic mange - these burrowing mites are also called canine scabies.
They will cause intense itching, resulting in hair loss and infection.
You definitely do not want these in your home, around your pets or in your audio equipment!


But seriously:

Are the headphone jacks and plugs clean?
Are you using noise cancelling headphones?
Are the input/output levels set to "high" in your sound preferences?

[Heston]

Can anyone help? In the past week the scrollbar on the side of my computer has changed. I used to be able to click on an arrow thing at the bottom of the bar and scroll down slowly, but now there's just open space at the bottom of the bar and it jerks quickly down the page when I click on it. Hope I've explained this right. Cheers.

[dd_]

Can anyone help? In the past week the scrollbar on the side of my computer has changed. I used to be able to click on an arrow thing at the bottom of the bar and scroll down slowly, but now there's just open space at the bottom of the bar and it jerks quickly down the page when I click on it. Hope I've explained this right. Cheers.

Is this only while in Internet Explorer window (or another Internet browser)? If so, click on the Maximize button (square box, middle button) in the top right corner of the window.

[Heston]

Can anyone help? In the past week the scrollbar on the side of my computer has changed. I used to be able to click on an arrow thing at the bottom of the bar and scroll down slowly, but now there's just open space at the bottom of the bar and it jerks quickly down the page when I click on it. Hope I've explained this right. Cheers.

Is this only while in Internet Explorer window (or another Internet browser)? If so, click on the Maximize button (square box, middle button) in the top right corner of the window.

No joy. It's as if the bottom task bar is covering where I used to scroll down. Google Chrome by the way.

[Flex]

Can anyone help? In the past week the scrollbar on the side of my computer has changed. I used to be able to click on an arrow thing at the bottom of the bar and scroll down slowly, but now there's just open space at the bottom of the bar and it jerks quickly down the page when I click on it. Hope I've explained this right. Cheers.

Google Chrome's most recent update removed those buttons. I just use the scroll wheel of my mouse, so I didn't even notice they were gone until pretty recently.

You can add an extension to bring them back. More details here: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/18/restor ... le-chrome/

[Heston]

Can anyone help? In the past week the scrollbar on the side of my computer has changed. I used to be able to click on an arrow thing at the bottom of the bar and scroll down slowly, but now there's just open space at the bottom of the bar and it jerks quickly down the page when I click on it. Hope I've explained this right. Cheers.

Google Chrome's most recent update removed those buttons. I just use the scroll wheel of my mouse, so I didn't even notice they were gone until pretty recently.

You can add an extension to bring them back. More details here: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/18/restor ... le-chrome/

Worked straight away. I want to have your robot babies.

[Marky Dread]

Can anyone help? In the past week the scrollbar on the side of my computer has changed. I used to be able to click on an arrow thing at the bottom of the bar and scroll down slowly, but now there's just open space at the bottom of the bar and it jerks quickly down the page when I click on it. Hope I've explained this right. Cheers.

Google Chrome's most recent update removed those buttons. I just use the scroll wheel of my mouse, so I didn't even notice they were gone until pretty recently.

You can add an extension to bring them back. More details here: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/18/restor ... le-chrome/

Worked straight away. I want to have your robot babies.

It was Flex's evil Chrome Robot buddy that caused your pain in the first place.

Good work Flex.

[muppet hi fi]

Just downloaded a disc burning program called CDBurner XP, and first it gave me a tool bar I didn't wasn't, made that go away, but now random words on various pages are highlighted with links to fuck knows what.
Anybody know what's up with this and how to make it go away?

[Flex]

Just downloaded a disc burning program called CDBurner XP, and first it gave me a tool bar I didn't wasn't, made that go away, but now random words on various pages are highlighted with links to fuck knows what.
Anybody know what's up with this and how to make it go away?

The problem isn't CDBurnerXP per se, but that you (probably) downloaded the program from a site like download.com or similar. Go to add/remove programs and sort the installed programs by date installed. You should find the offending software as having been installed the same time as CDBurnerXP. It may be called "Text Enhance" or similar. Let me know if you can't figure out what the program is that needs to be uninstalled.

[Heston]

Just downloaded a disc burning program called CDBurner XP, and first it gave me a tool bar I didn't wasn't, made that go away, but now random words on various pages are highlighted with links to fuck knows what.
Anybody know what's up with this and how to make it go away?

The problem isn't CDBurnerXP per se, but that you (probably) downloaded the program from a site like download.com or similar. Go to add/remove programs and sort the installed programs by date installed. You should find the offending software as having been installed the same time as CDBurnerXP. It may be called "Text Enhance" or similar. Let me know if you can't figure out what the program is that needs to be uninstalled.

I've had the same problem before and Flex's instructions are the way ahead.