Hit Any Key...

Computer Help and Support based on my own experiences.

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"I drew this myself from a open-source piece of clipart a long time ago. This version of this pic I lay my copyright on. Any other version, including the one one with the duck, I lay No claim to. And yes there is a version with a duck. Do a Google image search for "hitanykey" :-)

Copyright © Terry Hollett 2005 / terryhollett (at) gmail (dot) com

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WHATS NEW AS OF Feb 23, 2024:

[Dell Vostro Powering On And Off]

[Cleaning Sticky Plastic ]

[Paste Text Without Formatting]

[Open A .CSV File Properly]


  • [1150 Free Movies Online]

  • [4K Downloader Not Downloading YouTube Videos]

  • [Add A Drive Letter To The Send To Menu]

  • [Add A Picture-In-Picture Effect To A Video]

  • [Add More Apps To CCleaner List]

  • [Add Or Change Your Password With Command Prompt]

  • [Add Remove File Details To Windows Explorer]

  • [Adding A Switch To My Network]

  • [Adding Funds To Your Amazon Account]

  • [Adding Page Numbers - OpenOffice]

  • [Adding Or Removing Folders To Windows Libraries ]

  • [Adding Subtitles To A Movie]

  • [Adjusting Borders Of Printed Web Pages]

  • [Adjusting Page Margins In OpenOffice And LibreOffice]

  • [Adjusting The Size Of Speed Dials In Opera]

  • [ALT Codes For Special Characters ]

  • [Automatically Save .JFIF As .JPG ]

  • [Avast Bootable USB]

  • [Blast From The Past (Oct 2002) ]

  • [Block Certain Friends From Receiving A Post From You On Facebook]

  • [Bluring Pictures With PhotoFiltre7]

  • [Burning A CD/DVD With Windows 10]

  • [Burning An ISO With BurAware]

  • [Burning Movies - DVD / Converting FAT32 to NTFS / Now the Actual Burning]

  • [Bypass "This Server's Security Certificate Is Revoked!"]

  • [Cannot Sign Out Of Facebook]

  • [Can't Install Chrome On Windows S Mode]

  • [Change AutoPlay Options.]

  • [Change Facebook Language 2021 Version]

  • [Change The Default Text In OpenOffice / LibreOffice]

  • [Change The Look Of VLC With Skins]

  • [ Change The Theme Of The Opera Browser]

  • [Change The Zoom, Aspect Ratio and Cropping In VLC]

  • [Changing A Hard Drive In HP Notebook – 15-bs023ca / Fix Flashing Circles And Erratic Mouse ]

  • [Changing Backgrounds With Adobe PhotoShop 7]

  • [Changing Birthdate On Facebook]

  • [Changing Facebook Status]

  • [Changing High Contrast Settings]

  • [Change Your Background Pictures Automatically With Windows Slideshow Options]

  • [Changing Your Wireless Channel]

  • [Chrome Not Working (Win 10) / Very Slow Windows 7 Laptop / Resetting Compaq Laptops]

  • [Chrome - This extension is managed and cannot be removed or disabled. Original date April 17, 2013 UPDATED October 28, 2015]

  • [Chrome Interface To Big]

  • [Chrome Using 50% Of CPU Constantly]

  • [Cleaning Sticky Plastic ]

  • [Close Out A Yahoo Email Account]

  • [Colour Black And White Photos - The Program]

  • [Control Your Mouse With A Keyboard]

  • [Convert And Burn DVD From Your Movie]

  • [Convert Animated GIF To Video]

  • [Converting Animated GIFS To WEBP Format...]

  • [Convert PDF To Image]

  • [Convert PDF To Image Using PDFill]

  • [Copy A CD/DVD With CDBurnerXP]

  • [Copy Link To Highlight]

  • [Copy Pictures From iPhone To PC]

  • [Copy VHS Movie To DVD]

  • [Copy VHS Movie To DVD / Voice And Video Out Of Sync]

  • [Copying A Compact Cassette To Computer Then Splitting With Audacity]

  • [Cordless Phone Battery Not Charging]

  • [Corrupted Recycle.bin? / Roblox Error Update Code 0x8007002 / Customize Your Logon Screen]

  • [Corrupted Registration Database - Vista]

  • [Corrupted SD Card / Picture Folders Not Retaining It's Thumbnail View / WindowsLiveUpdate.exe Virus]

  • [Could not load file or assembly "serviceStack. Text, Version=1.0.0.0. Culture=neutral, PublicKey Token=null" or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. / Hp Pavilion Laptop Will Not Power On]

  • [CPU Fan Stopping - How To Fix]

  • [Crashing Video Drivers Or Malware]

  • [Create A Local Account During Windows 10 Install]

  • [Creating A Bootable Linux USB Drive With Rufus]

  • [Create A Contact Sheet With XnView]

  • [Create A Video Using Windows 10 Camera App ]

  • [Creating A New Profile In Firefox]

  • [ Creating A Partition With Microsoft Disk Management - Unmovable Files At The End Of The Drive]

  • [Creating A Playlist In VLC]

  • [Creating Custom Thumbnails For Opera Speed Dials]

  • [Creating Greeting Cards In OpenOffice Draw]

  • [Crop Video With Free Crop Videos]

  • [Cropping A Video With Avidemux]

  • [C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop is not accessible after Win10 update.]

  • [Custom Colours In Photofiltre]

  • [Deactivate Facebook]

  • [Dell Vostro Powering On And Off]

  • [Different Wallpapers On Dual Monitors ]

  • [Disable/Enable/Remove Extensions]

  • [Disable Facebook's Auto-Play Videos]

  • [Disable Auto-Play Videos On Twitter]

  • [Disable Continue Shopping In Opera]

  • [Disable Media Streaming For Privacy / Deleting Files From DVR List]

  • [Disable Opera Opening At System Startup]

  • [Disable Titles Showing On Videos VLC]

  • [Disable “Windows XP and Vista will No Longer be Supported” Yellow Infobar in Google Chrome]

  • [Disable YouTube Auto-play]

  • [Disc Copy With ImgBurn]

  • [DISM-GUI]

  • [Docking and Undocking The Controller Bar VLC]

  • [Doing A Reverse Image Search - Google]

  • [Download An Attachment In Gmail]

  • [Download Older Versions Of VLC]

  • [Download PDF IN Opera]

  • [Download PDF Files In Opera Updated July 2022]

  • [Download Twitter Videos With sssTwitter Extension]

  • [Download Videos With Youtube-dl / Converting Or Videos With Youtube-dl-gui / Merging Videos With Youtube-dl-gui]

  • [Download Youtube Videos With Avast Secure Browser ]

  • [Download Youtube Videos With 4K Video Downloader]

  • [Downloading Youtube Videos With VLC]

  • [Download Videos from Twitter]

  • [Dual Monitors]

  • [EasyCAP TV Capture On Windows 10]

  • [Easy Way To Open CMD Prompt To A Folder]

  • [Emojis In Your Emails]

  • [Enable Flash In Chrome On Facebook]

  • [Enable Or Disable Santa Hat On VLC Logo]

  • [ERUNT - Registry Backup]

  • [Extend Your Battery Life(charge) - Android]

  • [FaceBook Cannot Process Video]

  • [Facebook Chat Not Working / Unblocking Flash In Chrome / Unblock Flash Firefox ]

  • [Fill Tool Not Working Properly – PhotoFiltre]

  • [Finalize A DVD Made On A Different Device]

  • [Finding Forgotten Passwords Hidden In Browser]

  • [Find Passwords Hidden In Browser With WebBrowserPassView]

  • [Find Your Stolen/Lost Camera ]

  • [Firefox and Seamonkey Crash Printing To PDF - SOLVED]

  • [Firefox Menus Too Large]

  • [Fix Black Screen On VLC]

  • [Fix Choppy Video When Streaming YouTube In VLC]

  • [Fix Diskette Drive 0 Seek Failure ]

  • [Fix Error Code 2 In BurnAware]

  • [Fixing A Non-Booting Laptop, Or So I Thought.]

  • [Fix McUICnt.exe Entry point Not Found. / Not Able To Hear Voice But Can Hear Music In Video / Fixing Razer Blackwindow Te Chroma v2 / Fixing A Non-Booting Laptop, Or So I Thought.]

  • [Fix Monitors Not Going Into Sleep Mode]

  • [Fix Paused Updates In Thunderbird]

  • [Fix Printer Not Printing.]

  • [Fix Stalled Downloads In 4K Downloader]

  • [Fix WebGL Is Required To Play This Game ]

  • [Fix Windows Doesn't Automatically Assign A Drive Letter]

  • [Fixing Black Screen On Second Monitor]

  • [Fix Your Connection Is Not Private - Opera]

  • [Forgotten Windows Login Password]

  • [Forgotten Wireless Password]

  • [Formatting 64GB USB Drive to FAT32]

  • [Gateway Freezing Up, Rebooting, BSOD]

  • [Gateway Laptop - Windows 8.1 - Battery 79% But Not Charging / No Sound After Windows 10 Upgrade]

  • [Generate Your Own QR Codes]

  • [Get Rid Of Green Lines On Videos - VLC]

  • [Get Thunderbird To Launch At System Startup]

  • [Grammar]

  • [Hack A Desktop And Recover Pictures]

  • [Have I Been PWNED?]

  • [Hide / Unhide Desktop Icons]

  • [Hooking Up A Hard Drive Using USB]

  • [How To Align A Canon Printer]

  • [How To Block Someone On Facebook]

  • [How To Cancel A Subscription Payment Through PayPal]

  • [How To Create A New Power Plan]

  • [How To Customize VLC Controller Toolbar]

  • [How to Disable Automatic Bullets OpenOffice/LibreOffice ]

  • [How To Fix com.google.process.gapps has stopped / Aeroplan Sign-up Issues]

  • [How To Fix ERR_SSL_VERSION_INTERFERENCE In Chrome]

  • [How To Fix No New Options In Right-Click Context Menu.]

  • [How To Fix problems Starting Up Media Streaming]

  • [How To Fix The Connection Was Reset.]

  • [How To Fix VLC Player Crashing When Taking A Screenshot]

  • [How To Merge MP3's Using Merge MP3 And Audacity /How To Amplify A MP3 With Aidacity ]

  • [How To Monitor Your Computers CPU Temperature.]

  • [How To Pin A Folder / Quick Launch Menu To The Taskbar]

  • [How To Print Up A Part Of A Webpage]

  • [How To Record Any Audio Of The Internet]

  • [How To Remove The Input Indicator Or Language Bar]

  • [How To Roll Back A Driver]

  • [How To Rotate Pictures In Windows File Explorer]

  • [How To Set A Canon Printer To Auto Shut Down / Turn On / How To Connect Remotely With Teamviewer]

  • [How To Set Up A Network]

  • [How To Take Snapshot Of A PDF With Foxit ]

  • [How To Undock A Playlist In VLC]

  • [How To Upload Videos To Facebook (And Pictures)]

  • [How To Use Clipboard History]

  • [How To Use Revo Uninstaller]

  • [I Can No Longer Update My Computer - Error(s) found: Code 80070005 - SOLVED]

  • [IDE To USB]

  • [I Lost My Ability To Access My Shared Folders On My Network Computer. / Creating A GodMode Folder In Windows / No Sound On Computer When Using HDMI Cable To TV ]

  • [ If Your Language Preference Gets Changed And You Can't Read What Your Doing]

  • [Install Chrome Extensions In Opera]

  • [Install Second Hard Drive In A Laptop]

  • [Item Not Found After Windows Update - 64bit Security Updates Screws Up Windows Explorer]

  • [Keyboard Not Working Error (Code 19)]

  • [Keyboard Not Working In Any Browser]

  • [Let's Go Incognito]

  • [Links In SeaMonkey Email Will Not Open In Default Browser / Disable Opera Auto-update]

  • [Loading An ISO With Virtual Clone Drive ]

  • [Loop A Segment Of Video In VLC]

  • [Macrium Update Error HTTP 403]

  • [Make Text Larger In File Explorer - Windows 10]

  • [Making A Clone Backup Of Your Harddrive With Macrium Reflect]

  • [Making A MP3 Disc With Burnaware Free]

  • [Making Animated GIFs]

  • [Making A Video Smaller In Size With HandBrake]

  • [Making Your Own Simple Paper CD Cases]

  • [Malwarebytes - Switch From The Premium To The Free Version]

  • [Malwarebytes - Unable to connect the Service]

  • [Manage Opera Speed Dials]

  • [MAME - Basic Setup And Use ]

  • [Maximize Window With keyboard Shortcut]

  • [Media Creation Tool Error 0x80042405 - 0xA001B]

  • [Microphone Not Working Windows 10]

  • [Migrating Seamonkey Email To Thunderbird ]

  • [Mirror Your Phone On Your Computer ]

  • [Movie Not Showing On Stream]

  • [Moving A Window With Your Keyboard]

  • [Network Activity Indicator]

  • [Network Error - Windows Cannot Access...]

  • [Network Printing From Lubuntu]

  • [Network Sharing With Lubuntu]

  • [Networking With A Crossover Cable]

  • [New Acer Aspire X1430 - 64bit issues / Dell Angel USB TV Tuner And Windows Media Center IR Tuner / Windows 7 is not genuine BUT IT IS]

  • [New Home And FileZilla]

  • [No New Options In Right-Click Context Menu / RPC Server Not Available While Printing On Network Shared Printer / Taking Screen Shots And Recording Clips With VLC]

  • [One Click Or Two]

  • [Open A .CSV File Properly]

  • [Open A HTML File With # In The Title]

  • [Open Notepad++ In A Different Instance]

  • [Opera Browser Reader Mode]

  • [Opera - Disable / Enable Notifications]

  • [Opera Interface To Big]

  • [Opera - Links Not Displaying Bottom Of Screen]

  • [Opera - Transfer Bookmarks And Speed Dial To Another Computer]

  • [Opera Tip: Open Tab In New Window]

  • [Opera VPN Not Connecting]

  • [Paste Text Without Formatting]

  • [PayPal Log-in Issue With Mobile]

  • [PC To TV Streaming Not Working]

  • [PhotoFiltre – Fill Tool Workaround]

  • [Playing Classic Games In DOSBox]

  • [Playing Flash Files In The Flashless Age]

  • [Play More Than One Video At A Time VLC]

  • [Play Video In VLC On Second Monitor]

  • [Play Video On Second Monitor From Batch file – VLC]

  • [Pop Out Videos In Opera]

  • [Printing Envelopes In OpenOffice And LibreOffice]

  • [Printer And Scanner Settings Crashing]

  • [Printing From Android]

  • [Print Up DVD Labels With CD/DVD Label Maker]

  • [Printing Up Borderless On A Canon Printer]

  • [Print Multiple Pictures To A PDF]

  • [Print My Fonts]

  • [Print Up DVD Labels With CD/DVD Label Maker]

  • [Print Up Password List In Bitwarden ]

  • [Print Up Your Saved Passwords - LastPass]

  • [Problems Viewing .JFIF Files]

  • [Problems With Camera Batteries]

  • [Quicker Navigation Tip]

  • [Reading CBZ Or CBR Files]

  • [Read The Manual]

  • [Recover Corrupted Hard Drive Using MiniTool Partition Wizard]

  • [Recover Files From Old Norton Ghost Backup]

  • [Recovering Photos From A Corrupted SD Card / Black Thumbnails Windows 8 / Goodbye Opera ]

  • [Removing Alternative Data Streams - ADS How To Remove The Unblock Button From The Properties Tab Of Your Files]

  • [Removing Audio From Video Using VLC]

  • [Remove Duplicate Pictures From Computer]

  • [Remove Meta Data From Pictures - Privacy]

  • [Remove Network Shares]

  • [Remove Subtitles With MKVToolNix]

  • [Replacing A Burned Out Power Supply]

  • [Reporting Fake Friend Request Facebook]

  • [Resetting A Screwed Up Vista Laptop / Recording Sound From A Webpage]

  • [Reset Opera / Atl + P Not Working]

  • [Restore Tabbed Browsing In Xnview]

  • [Reveal the Hidden Password Behind The Stars]

  • [Reviving A Dead Printer ]

  • [Reviving Dead Laptop – Hard Restart Power Supply. ]

  • [Ripping Audio CD Using WMP And VLC]

  • [Rootkits]

  • [Rotating A PDF]

  • [Saving A Image From A Web Page For Your Background]

  • [Saving A Transcript From Your Favourite YouTube Videos]

  • [Saving FaceBook Posts And Links]

  • [Saving Facebook Videos]

  • [Scroll Inactive Windows]

  • [Scrolling Issues Windos 10 File Explorer]

  • [Seamonkey Browser Corrupted By Flash Update / Speaking Of Backups Here Are My Choices:]

  • [Seamonky Email Will Not Remember Email Password / Tououchpad Not Working On Gateway Laptop]

  • [Second Hard Drive Not Working In Desktop]

  • [Select Audio Track VLC / Trouble Signing Into Facebook]

  • [Send Sound Clips Through FaceBook Messenger]

  • [Setting Foxit Reader As Default Windows 10]

  • [Setting LibreOffice As Your Default Program]

  • [Sharing A Monitor With Multiple Computers]

  • [Show A Picture Slideshow In VLC]

  • [Show Video Name In Window Title VLC ]

  • [Simple Sticky Notes]

  • [Sort Lists Alphabetically In OpenOffice / LibreOffice]

  • [Sound Volume Not Working - Windows 7 / Printing From Emails Witout The Fluff / Ripping DVDs - No Sound On AVI Files / Overheating PC / Svchost.exe Eating Up CPU Cycles / Subscribing To RSS Feeds With Seamonkey]

  • [Span A Picture Over Multiple Monitors]

  • [Speed And Privacy With Opera]

  • [Speeding Up Your Computer]

  • [Splitting MP4 With Free MP4 Splitter]

  • [Stay Away From Free DVD Maker Unless You Enjoy Malware And Rootkit's Galore]

  • [Streaming Video From Archive.com]

  • [Stream Videos Using VLC Over Private Networks]

  • [Streaming With PotPlayer]

  • [Take Panoramic Pics With Android]

  • [Taking Screenshots With MPC - Media Player Classic ]

  • [Testing Your Computer's Memory ]

  • [The security certificate has expired or is not yet valid / From My Opera Blog]

  • [The Simplest Way To Fix A Computer]

  • [To Page Or Not To Page? - No Paging File Brings Backup Programs To A Crawl]

  • [To Wish Or Not To Wish.com]

  • [Transfer Pictures From Android To PC Using Bluetooth ]

  • [Transferring Pictures From Computer To Camera/Phone]

  • [Turn Off Active Status On Facebook]

  • [Turn Off The Lights]

  • [Unable To Change The Taskbar Colour]

  • [Undelete Photos iPhone]

  • [Unhide Windows Hidden Files]

  • [Universal Android Battery Charger ]

  • [Upload Encrypted Files To Google Drive ]

  • [Using/Creating Animated Backgrounds In Opera]

  • [Using A Video As A Wallpaper Using VLC Part 1 / Using A Video As A Wallpaper Using VLC Part 2]

  • [Using Ninite To Reinstall All Your Apps]

  • [Using Your Monitor As A TV]

  • [Unknown Devices]

  • [View Ink Levels With A Canon Printer]

  • [Viewing And Converting HEIC Files]

  • [Wallpaper Randomizer Stuck On Certain Wallpapers / Copying A Compact Cassette To CD / Problems Updating iPhone]

  • [Wallpaper Slideshow Not Working Windows 7 ]

  • [Watching Movies Full Screen In VLC]

  • [ What I Use]

  • [Who's On Your Network?]

  • [Windows 10 Camera App Not Working]

  • [Windows 10 Not Saving WiFi Settings]

  • [Windows Could Not Start The Windows Audio Service: Error 1068]

  • [Windows Explorer Crashing]

  • [Windows Failed To Start Because Of RapportHades.sys]

  • [Windows Not Displaying Storage On Android Tablet]

  • [www.mallskils.site Is A Scam]

  • [VPN Connected But No Internet]

  • [Your Computer Is Infected Call 1-800-XXX-XXX-X]

  • [Zooming In Or Out Of A Webpage]


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