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February 2

Which file stores the SORT ORDER of the "Favorites Bar" (Bookmarks bar) for InternetExplorer v11(Windows 7) ?

Somehow the sort order of my IE Favorites Bar sometimes switches to Alphabetical (which in my case pushes the really useful favorites-bar-buttons out of the screen) ;-(
Therefore I want to make a backup copy of the sort order that I myself have chosen to put them in.
So far I have found out that the links themselves are stored in the folder:
C:\Users\<My Windows7 Username>\Favorites\Links   (and that the (latter) real folder name: "Links" in some cases appears as "Favorites Bar" instead.)
But where and how is the links' sort order stored?
Could you please give me some clues to solving my problem?
--  178.232.61.211 (talk) 07:07, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Flex band(?) of a cellphone

Hello everyone, My cellphone is broken and I know exactly what it has. The flex band(? don't know if that is the right word in English) of the slide-Out keyboardgot broken. I have been searching on the internet but I don't know the exact term to look for it. Can someone give me a hint or something? The phone is a Samsung Galaxy Appeal SGH-i827 Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 15:59, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

a ribbon cable, or a flexible flat cable? — LongHairedFop (talk) 16:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Those phones are selling on eBay with "Buy It Now" prices around $40 [1] You could probably bid on one and get it for less than that. There are a few non-functioning SHG i827's on eBay for $9.99 [2]. It's possible that those might have broken keyboard sliders - but it's more likely that they have dead batteries or cracked screens and that the keyboard slider part that you need would be usable. I find it hard to believe that a spare parts reseller would sell you any replacement part for as little as $10.

How confident are you that you could replace the part if you had it? Cellphones are notoriously difficult to disassemble and reassemble - and the parts inside are amazingly fiddly. You might just be better off buying a refurbished one for $40 and using the one you have now for spare parts in the future.

I admire your goal of repairing this phone though - more people should think about repairing otherwise perfectly good electronics rather than just tossing them out for the next shiney thing! SteveBaker (talk) 16:40, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

It was a gift and I like pretty much my cellphone. Comparing it to my old Motorola Z3 which is the one I am using until I get the other one fixed. I can repare it. It is not a big deal, I just need to find the FFC. I have repaired a few cellphones and iPods and computers. Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 16:52, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

SteveBaker, I found the FFC on eBay. Thanks for the link :D. You are a darling! Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 17:01, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

It says "AT&T Galaxy Appeal Samsung I827 Ear Earpiece Speaker Light Sensor Flex Cable", I don't know if this would work for the screen or just for the audio. When the phone started to break it started also with trouble in the speaker and the proximity sensor. I just don't want to spend the money for nothing. Any advice or suggestion or opinion? Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 19:55, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

It's hard to know - but you initially said that your keyboard was the problem. If other subsystems are also failing, then all bets are off - who knows what underlying problem is manifesting with all of these symptoms. IMHO, (and as I said before) - you should spend $10 on a non-working phone and have replacement parts for absolutely everything except the one thing that failed on that phone. If you can find one where the description says that the screen is cracked - then that would be best because it's highly likely that the cracked screen is the only thing wrong with it - which means that all of the other parts are probably working perfectly. At that point, you could take the screen from your phone and put it into the broken phone and be fairly sure that everything will work OK...or you can replace parts in your phone one at a time from the broken one until everything works.

However, BEWARE, phones are insanely complicated little contraptions and just taking one apart and getting it back together again can be a challenge. So you need a certain confidence that you can do this successfully. Hence, my backup advice is that this phone is not the latest, greatest thing anymore - so they are getting very cheap on the second-hand market. I found lots of perfectly good examples on eBay for $40 - and that's probably a good deal when compared to the risk of spending money on parts for your current phone and then failing to fix it or making matters worse. SteveBaker (talk) 15:46, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Canadian Based Internet Providers

I have a list of Canadian internet providers, but have been unable to verify if any one of them is completely Canadian based....i.e., Canadian owned, operated and with all servers, etc. in Canada.

Does anyone have that99.233.249.200 (talk) 16:50, 2 February 2015 (UTC) information?

Media folder in Ubuntu 12.04

Hello again guys! I have a problem with some USB ports in a computer. The PC doesn't recognize any flash memory. So, when I go to the media folder in the root, it doesn't even show the folder of the user, which has to be there. Someone knows anything about this? Thanks in advance. I restarted the pc, tried some code lines... and nothing works. Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 21:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

According to this your first option is to sudo apt get install usbmount which should enable auto-mounting of USB devices. If not, then follow these instructions on how to manually mount a USB device. RegistryKey^(RegEdit) 23:12, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

THank you. I will try this asap Miss Bono ^{[hello, hello!]} 19:50, 3 February 2015 (UTC)