Sandisk Sansa Clip volume too low

Using my sansa clip with a Sennheiser PMX 680 headphone I noticed the volume was pretty low on max volume.
The reason was I set the region to Europe. Too get more volume out of it you have to reset it to region "Rest of the World":
(source: http://www.avforums.com/forums/portable-music-mp3/1181368-sansa-clip-too-quiet.html)

1.Turn on your Sansa Clip
2.Make a note of any settings you would like to keep (we're going to reset them in a minute)
3.Select 'Settings' from the main menu
4.Select 'Reset All'
5.Select 'Yes'
6.Select your language of choice (English for me)
7.Select 'Rest of World' as your region
8.Optionally: ◦Scroll through the settings menu to 'Volume' ◦Select 'High'
9.Set the volume as you normally would - you should have lots more oomph now

language setting for skydrive

MS has stopped Myphone apps for backup of my mobile phone and switches to skydrive. I noticed my language setting was not as desired.
Log into Windows Live and go to:
http://home.live.com/options/language

Here you can change the language

Show advanced settings for Network cards

Source: http://www.techrena.net/windows/view-change-network-adapter-card-priority-binding-order-windows-7/

Go to Control Panel > Network and Internet (View network status and tasks)> Change adapter settings and now you will now be in “Network Connections” window.

2. Now press Alt button and a hidden menu will appear beneath the location bar.

Dell Dimension 5150 amber light flashing (solved)

at startup of my Dell it failed showing an amberlight flashing. Due to it's age I replaced the cmos battery but that didn't help. I opened the powersupply and saw some elco's that were brown on top. Funny was that I could get it to run by setting the reset switch on the motherboard and reconnect power. It would than flash amber fast and after a few seconds boot itself up. So I was sure nothing wrong with the pc itself. I found on the internet This pc uses a standard psu so I replaced it with an Antec BP350-EC and everything fitted nicely and my DELL is back in good shape.

Audio: Do not map through this device

A setting used in DAW in XP known as "Do not map through this device" has been replaced in Win7 by "Exclusive Mode", see Control Panel => Manage Sound Devices => Highlight your sound card => Open Properties => Advanced Tab

change connection order LAN/WLAN Windows7

If your win7 is connected to LAN and WLAN you can set priority going to Network Connections. There is a hidden menu that can be made visible by the the use of the ALT-key. Now you can change the order.

Plextor PX-L890SA only recognized as CDROM (solved)

The burner was connected to GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5 rev 2.1 motherboard. This board has 2 SATA controllers:

1 AMD South Bridge: 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors supporting up to 6 SATA 6Gb/s devices
1 Gigabyte SATA2 controller: 2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors supporting up to 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices

I connected the disk for OS and Plextor to this Gigabyte controller in AHCI mode
Plextor worked fine during installation of WIN7-64bit.

After installation of OS I tried to burn a disk and then it appeared the disk was recognized only as a CDROM-device not capable of erasing/burning disks. This was also revealed by the plexutilities self test where all results were negative. (Upgrading firmware from 1.03 to 1.05 did not help either)

In order to finish the installation I bought another PX-L890SA and to my surprise it showed same behavior. I could not believe 2 burners were in error so I connected the burner to the Southbridge controller (also AHCI-mode) and to sum it up: All went fine: Plexutilities selftest all OK, and burning CD-RW without problem.

Hopefully this can help you in future situations,