Unable to see buttons on a Netbook screen

Steve — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:18:28 +0000

Netbooks by their nature have small screens, many which have a vertical resolution which is on 600px. The problem with this is that many web pages and some applications have dialog boxes or popups where the buttons you’d like to click (like OK and SAVE!) are often off the bottom of the screen and unreachable.

One solution to this is AltMove which is a program that allows you to press the ALT key and then left click the problem window and move it up until you can see the missing buttons.

Prevent Windows rebooting after automatic updates

Steve — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:35:43 +0000

Problem:

Windows has a nasty habit sometimes of downloading and installing automatic updates and then prompting you to restart the PC. You then are given the option to postpone the restart, which is fine if you’re actually at your PC, but if you’re not then Windows just decides to do it anyway and you just might not have wanted your server or PC to reboot exactly when it did!

Solution:

You can prevent Windows Automatic Updates from rebooting your machine by editing a group policy setting.

Click on START then RUN
Type gpedit.msc
Expand Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update
Double-click “No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations”
Select “Enabled”, then click OK and close the Group Policy configuration program.

Windows should now never automatically reboot after an automatic update.

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Unable to see buttons on a Netbook screen

Prevent Windows rebooting after automatic updates