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    Windows 7 How activate webcam Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook A530?

    Thanks for the reply biggie. Yes, the webcam works OK which was what I wanted to establish in the first place as I am selling the notebook and want no 'loose ends'. The graphics driver I found bundled with chipset-, audio- etc drivers in Fujitsu Siemens d/l area and just ran them all after...
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    Windows 7 How activate webcam Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook A530?

    I just found this webcam test page: trust.com/service/webcam and that's all it took: the cam works fine :)
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    Windows 7 How activate webcam Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook A530?

    Hi BIGBEARDJEDI, I deleted the quoted text, no disrespect meant ;) Yes, it sounds like you know your s...stuff, a good start. This is how the cam shows up in Device Manager: So it's working properly, great. But where do I go from here? Why does this have to be worse than pulling teeth?
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    Windows 7 How activate webcam Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook A530?

    I recently aquired this notebook 2:nd hand - no manual, natch - and wonder how to activate the built-in webcam. I have googled the phrase in the subject expecting a straightforward answer to a straightforward question but get zilch, nada or else pages that promise to give the answer if I just...
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    Windows 7 How remove write protection from usb drive

    Yeah well, the funny thing is that before I got rid of the write-protection by way of DiskPart as per your suggestion, the StorageDevicePolicies value was set to zero...anyway the drive is OK on that count now.
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    Windows 7 I need to format? Again?

    Does the drive have an external power source or is it powered via USB? Via USB. I have tried switching cables as I have a bunch (though none brand-new); same thing. Also, it doesn't seem to be a hardware/connection problem as the message pops up after some 5 minutes regardless of the cable...
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    Windows 7 I need to format? Again?

    Does the external usb drive stay connected full time? Yes. When you reboot how soon before the pop up message? Perhaps five minutes. Is the external drive connected....directly to the PC? Yes. Have you tried moving it to a different usb port? Yeah, same difference. Is there any firmware for the...
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    Windows 7 I need to format? Again?

    As of a few days an external drive connected via USB has generated this error message: popping up every few minutes, despite the disk being recently wiped, repartitioned and fomatted and working well. Why is this? It stopped being fun a long time ago...what can I do? (Windows 7 Ultimate SP1)
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    Windows 7 How remove write protection from usb drive

    Yep, DiskPart did it. Thanks bassfisher, yet again. I'll quote myself from elsewhere on the forum and say how sweet it is to belong to a community like this and get friendly, informed, knowledgeable answers to ones little queries. Love it.
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    Windows 7 How remove write protection from usb drive

    Already did that but thanks Pat.
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    Windows 7 USB-attached drive is not found

    "LOL...we all have those moments..." I believe they are called Senior Moments...well, at 56 perhaps I have to get used to them. "...glad you got it all sorted out." Well, if you're half as glad as I am, then I'm twice as happy as you bassfisher.
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    Windows 7 How remove write protection from usb drive

    An external USB-connected HDD is write-protected after reformatting. How do I remove the write-protection? I tried a tip I found on several sites where the suggested solution is to set the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies value to zero, but that didn't...
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    Windows 7 USB-attached drive is not found

    It turned out to be a case related to and caused by deficiencies in internal memory - mine that is. I had recently deleted the volume in Disk Management but neglected to create and format a new volume. Thanks for the Disk Management tip which, when I started DM and finished the job on the drive...
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    Windows 7 USB-attached drive is not found

    An external drive of mine that is attached via USB suddenly does not show up in Explorer. When I connected it to a different machine the driver installed OK and the drive was ID'd correctly as ST3160021A - but doesn't show up in Explorerer on that machine either. Looking at the drives' LED...
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    How monitor and document data traffic?

    Thanks ComputerGeek. I got a tip last week to check out IPERF and I'm sure it's a great piece of software...if you're the sysadmin for a big company because it was $1900 and, ahem, out of my price range. I just now followed your link and it seems that Bitmeter is open-source donate-if-useful...
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