So, how do I shut off the track pad on my ASUS X550CA Laptop?

Posted on 15 Aug 2015 by infotechcomputing

Apple Macbook Pro (Early 2008) 17″ Trackpad (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Track pad on a laptop is a useful tool, however, I found out early on, it got to be more of a nuance when I tried searching for something on the internet.

YouTube, had several people who had different ideas, however since I was working with Windows 8.1 at the time, this being a tablet format nothing worked.

To give you an example, I would try to type inside the search field, and I would end up with garbage as the text. This would then delete itself and it got to be so frustrating. I went as far as switching to a large keyboard for a while. I was at my wits ends and just thought that it was something I was going to have to deal with.



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I feel the Lord lead me to the answer when I thought of giving it one last try on the internet. It was like there it was, so I figured well it wasn’t going to be easy, having to go through the Bios, my thinking was why there of all places. So, I gave it a shot and sure enough it was just what I needed. Thank You Lord Jesus.

We will be working on Windows 10,

When you open Windows 10, click on the Microsoft Windows logo,

menu tab

Once you click on this, you will see the New Start Menu, move down where you see settings.

double-click on settings

Go to Security and Update

Click on Recovery:

Off to the Right is Advanced Startup>

Click restart.

When the computer restarts, click Troubleshoot

Once you see Advanced Options then click UEFI Firmware Settings>

Click Restart

The BIOS Will open up click on the Advanced Tab>Internal Pointing

device>

Click the + or minus to disable Internal pointing device(Track pad).

press F-10 to save and exit.

The computer will restart and you should have no other problems with the tracking pad.

Putting God First

I can’t get my cd to play, is there something I can do?

Posted on 27 Jun 2015 by infotechcomputing

Let’s say we have some music or videos and the disc is not playing. Today we are going to be using Windows Vista, and what were are going to be doing is taking files that are not working and placing them on a new compact disc. To get started, go the start button. You will notice that off to the right is a set of tabs, click on computer and a window will pop open. computer WorkGroup

Locate the Cd-ROM, Right click, on disc, then Left click this will open the files on the disc.

(Remember, each mouse has two parts, a left side and a right side. so if you are right clicking, use the right side.)

(Below is what pictures of files on computer)

(Setting up a Folder)

On setting up a folder, Go to the desktop, right-click, and a menu will open up move down to where you see NEW, then click on FOLDER

(Drag and Drop)

After naming the folder,

Set both folders, next to each other (The blank folder and the computer folder)

The next step is to highlight those songs or videos you wish to copy. While holding down the shift key, hold down the arrow key that points down. This function will high-light your files. You can either Right or Left-click then Drag contents to the empty folder.

Now, you have the option to play your music from the desktop .

To do this Right click on the folder, when the menu opens up, it will ask if you wish to open the file, choose either open or Play whichever player is set as the default.. “Play with VLC media player. Once you click on this the player should take over.

The next step is to transfer the files to a compact disc,. The way to carry out this is to open Computer Window, Left click on the file FOLDER on the desktop and drag it over to the device labeled DVD RW Drive and release. You will be prompted to insert a BLANK disc, after the computer has set up the disc for formatting, your files will be transferred and you’ll be on your way, to listening to favorite music.

Remember, Focus on Jesus, not your problem

Putting God First

God Bless

Corrupted files? Try this

Posted on 23 Jul 2014 by infotechcomputing

Sometime files gets corrupted or for whatever reason come up missing. like what happened, the other day when I was working on a friends computer. An error occurred for the task manager “The service cannot accept control messages at this time.”

To get to the Task Manager, Right-click the Task-Bar then click on the Task Manager.

To resolve these kind of issues, you can use what is known as SFC/SCANNOW, or the system File Checker. What this program does, is search your operating system, and if it finds a file that needs replacing due to corruption, it will replace it for you.

In order for this work, you will need the operating disc, for that particular OS, if you don’t have one, you can always borrow one for this operation.

if you are using Windows Xp, and you want to get to Command prompt click start >all programs >accessories, >command prompt >run as administrator, i have provided a link below:

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/system_file_checker.mspx?mfr=true

If your running Vista or Windows 7 click on the start button, in the search field type in Command Prompt, when you have the link, Right click and choose “Run as Administrator. For Windows 8, go to the Start Menu, Desktop, hit the Windows Key + C, then type in the search field “Command Prompt” Right-Click “Run as Administrator” Once getting to the Command Prompt, you should see C/ from here then type sfc/scannow and press the enter key,

This will probably take a little time, so you might want to go and do something for a while. after it is finished it will let you know if it found anything. It will usually tell you what was found. Once done, go ahead and close the window or if your a new techie, just type Exit, tap the power button and the computer should shut off. Then go and restart the system. Hope this helped. Putting God First, God Bless.

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