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I thought that maybe the heat problem was caused by arching. I took apart the panel, I was able to get to the ccfl bulb. As far as I can tell it has just one on the bottom. I noticed the side with the heat had a loose wire. It must have been making contact(it was working), but still arching(creating heat) just a little. I resoldered it, and it is now running cool. Right now I feel like a king :-)

I have this much invested, I think I am going to buy a screen and at least try and break even. The sceen has a model number "L141x1-1A" (made by acer). I found this one on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=103001428391 I am sure this screen is used in many different laptops. If I knew what laptops used it, I might be able to find a better price. I am having touble figuring out which other laptops use this screen. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. edit added later// since the screen was unworking, I tried a little harder to ger inside. I was able to get to the bottom ccf

I have it running with the screen completely out. The heat is being gereated inside the sealed panel(lcd). One of two things come to mind. their is some sort of bad connection inside the panel which is generating heat(need sa new screen). The second possibility is the new inverter I got is slightly incompatible. It looks identicle and according to the specs it is the correct one. My gut says the screen is bad.

nothing that I can remember. I am going to look again today. I think the heat is originating directly from the screen(glass). I am going to open it up again today, and let the screen run while completely out of the casing. I will be able to tell exactly where the heat is coming from.

yup 14 year old girl(she thinks she is an adult, this happened over the past few months) 10 year old girl 7 year old boy

well I got it reassembled. At first it seemed to be working great. As it ran the bottom left corner started to turn black. I noticed that part of the screen was hot. If I put my thumb on that corner, the color would come back. It seemed that my thumb making contact caused it to cool and the lcd returned to normal. The big question is, "what is causeing the corner to get hot".

I managed to get the screen off the laptop. I then did my best to disassemble the screen into pieces. As far as I could tell, the ccfls are not replacable, they appered to be built into the screen. I decided I would test the output from the inverter. It was not giving any noticable voltage. I decided to order a new inverter. This came today. I hooked up the new inverter, but it still was not outputting any voltage. But, the inverter did solve the problem. The screen now is working. I was under the impression you could test an inverter to see if it was outputting voltage as a way to see if it

I came up with a great plan. I am going to let my kids use this computer to do anything. I am going to keep IE on low security settings, and let them install whatever they like. They won't know what to do with themselves. This will be a big treat for them. I currently donot let them use IE, firefox only. The are running on limited accounts. I pretty much do not let them install anything, even with my approval. My only thought about not doing this is, they might forget when they are on the "good" computer.

I have been installing anything and everything like a crazed mad man. I am still not getting any popups. grrr.

I have an clean xp computer, currently unused, that I would love to infect. I would like to fill it up with as much crap as possible, then practice cleaning it. Any suggestions to where I can find some nasty stuff would be appreciated. I am to impatient to surf the web using bad practices, that is probably what I will end up having to do.

cool, I see whats happening :-) when I run the system call MoveFileEx , a new value is added to the key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

I am trying to make sense of what your are doing. Using the method above, does that add an entry to the registry that tells windows to delete at reboot? Does using the system call MoveFileEx automatically add this entry for you?

Thanks :-)

I thnk I need to be spoon fed. Can you show me how you would code that? huh? import win32api win32api.MoveFileEx()

I am not following you. Isn't that what I am using?

I tried it, among any other possible variation.

the above code works with VB, I am trying to use python to call MoveFileEx. To be honest I do not really understand how vb works. Does it need to be compiled?

I was also using that for a reference, is it incorrect? Can null be used as an argument somehow?

I tried None without quotes, but it would not let me do it C:/Python24/pythonw.exe -u "C:/Documents and Settings/shane/Desktop/deletereboot.py" Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Documents and Settings/shane/Desktop/deletereboot.py", line 4, in ? win32file.MoveFileEx("C:/Documents and Settings/shane/Desktop/test.txt", None , win32file.MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) TypeError: None is not a valid string in this context

Inspired by Matt's project i was seeing if I could use python to delete a file upon reboot. I am only able to rename it at reboot, I can't figure out the syntax to set the destination to null. Below is what works to rename the file import win32file import win32api win32file.MoveFileEx("test.txt", "test2.txt" , win32file.MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) how can I set the destination to null, to delete upon reboot?

I respect your desision not to post it, but........ If it was me I would post it in the programming section with a huge disclaimer.

I am not really understanding what is happening. When you are finished(or what you have so far), I would like to look at your batch script if possible. I might learn something in the process.

thats cool :-) , that looks like a fun project

what language are you using to script it in?

are you making some script to remove spyware?