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Feb 08, 2010 at 07:35 PM

How to crash Windows 7
Contributed by Ed Wiget   
Nov 24, 2009 at 06:37 PM

Took me less than 24 hours of owning Windows 7 Home Premium before I figured out a way to crash it.

This is a hard lock and requires power off to restore.

What you need:

2 x external usb disks

1 x very large file (I used a dvd iso file for testing) located on your desktop

Insert the two usb disks.  It doesn't matter which goes where or what drive letter they are assigned, however, you need to know what drive letters are assigned to them (My Computer)

Open up Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management

Browse to Storage - Disk Management

Start to copy the large file to either of the USB disks.

Before the file copy completes, change the drive letter of the 2nd usb disk to any unused drive letter (make sure you change the drive letter of the disk not being copied too)

The file copy will come to a screeching halt, even though it is being copied to the usb drive that didnt have the drive letter changed.

Within about 20 minutes, explorer will stop responding.

CTRL + SHIFT + ESC to open task manager

Attempt to kill running processes, even attempt to kill explorer.....

The system is hard locked and totally unresponsive.  CPU Usage will be near 0%  On my system, memory was at about 2.6GB out of 8GB.

Eventually even the start menu stopped working.  Only recourse was to power cycle the system.

On reboot, I was able to duplicate this repeatedly.

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New Logitech Wireless Keyboard & Mouse Missing Scroll Lock Fix
Contributed by Ed Wiget   
Sep 11, 2009 at 08:10 AM

So, I bought this new logitech wireless keyboard and mouse from walmarts.  I get home and my dual computer / single monitor display through a kvm switch wouldn't work because the keyboard doesn't have a scroll lock key (which you press twice to activate the kvm switch to switch to another computer).  I use Linux, so the fix was really easy.

First, some details:  The combo package is labeled as Logitech Cordless Desktop LX310 Laser.  It includes a Y-RAZ71 keyboard and a mouse with a tilt-wheel (unknown part number).

The keyboard does not have a scroll lock key.  However, moving the tilt-wheel twice to the left or right activates scroll lock and switches the kvm switch.  This method works in both windows and linux computers without any other settings.  On windows, if you click start-run and type osk for on-screen keyboard and move the tilt-wheel, you will see it does in fact highlight the scroll lock key on the keyboard.

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If you don't know me, dont judge me.....
Contributed by Ed Wiget   
Aug 26, 2009 at 12:23 PM

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." (Matthew 7:1-5)

.....he forbade unkind, unjustified and improper censure resulting from hasty and superficial investigation, and without regard for the well being of the person, or persons, criticized.

 

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