Recent content by pjfarr

Is it possible to search a 7-Zip folder (foldername.7z) for a particular word in a filename? For instance, I have a 7z folder full of clipart images in different formats (PNG, JPG, BMP, etc.) There are filenames such as "Fence-with-cat-sitting-on-it.jpg", "windowsill_with_cat_looking_out.png"...

Many times I use a keyboard shortcut I made to manually put my PC to sleep if I know I'm done with it for the day. The CMD embedded in the shortcut is the popular: C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState sleep. It works, no problem. The thing is I have a task scheduled to...

Ms Geek, there should be a national holiday in your honor. This did it for me! The wifi connection on this less-than-4-month-old HP ENVY laptop has been so sloooooooow from day 1 and taking me sloooooooowly to the brink of insanity. I found myself actually starting to avoid using it. When...

I just noticed something I didn't before. When the laptop lid is up, the laptop screen is on and garbled. When I press the "Sleep" button the laptop screen suddenly clears up and shows a perfect picture in the 2 seconds before it goes off into sleep mode.

Thanks for your response. I could boot into the BIOS, but the screen was garbled there too and I couldn't tell what was what and so just booted into Windows (Vista, BTW). The Windows "Welcome Music" played through the TV's speakers. The key combo on the VAIO is Fn+F8 to go into external...

My father-in-law gave us his old VAIO laptop because the screen was garbled and he didn't want to pay to fix it. We hooked it up to our LCD TV (via VGA — I think...that's the cable with the blue connectors, right?) and the picture was perfect (not garbled like on the laptop's screen). So we've...