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Cube Talk 7X U51GT will not charge or turn on

Sometimes you can get the screen to flash, briefly, when pressing and holding the on key. This can happen when the tablet battery is pretty much completely depleted. It should boot when plugged in to a charger, but some (most?) chargers are too wussy to supply all of the current the tablet wants.  So the tablet starts up, decides the charger ain't cutting it, and shuts down again.  (Or maybe it's the power supply system of the tablet at fault - it can't draw more than a certain amount of current.  Or both.) One solution is to use a USB battery pack instead of a wall charger.  Battery packs are rarely limited in their output current, and can deliver 2.5A or more if the tablet demands it.  This can sometimes let the tablet boot normally and it will start the normal recharging process - and besides which, it will recharge faster.  Banggood often has Xiomi packs on for good prices, I recommend everyone to pick one up. Another solution may be to use a h...

Sudden inability to drag maximized windows in Windows 7

Problem:  You used to be able to drag a maximized window to "un-maximize" it.  Now you can't. Solution:  Per this post at SuperUser , uncheck "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the the screen" in Control Panel / Ease of Access Center / Make it easier to focus on tasks. Note:  It might take several seconds for Windows to apply this setting after hitting "OK" or "Apply".  If you test it too early, it may seem like nothing changed.  Wait 10 seconds and try again before deciding that unchecking the feature did not work.

Fixing Excel "Cannot shift objects on sheet" without deleting all your comments

You probably already know by now that "Cannot shift objects on sheet" is probably caused by a misbehaving comment.  It prevents you from hiding columns; in some cases it might also prevent you from inserting columns. Deleting all your comments is one solution.  If you have a lot of comments, this will not be a preferable solution. Another solution that is not frequently mentioned is to fix all the comments so that they are set to "move and size with cells".  The misbehaving comment is probably not so set. It is possible to do this manually.  Obviously with anything more than about 10 comments, this is impractical.  Besides, your comments are probably all over the damn place since they have not been moving with their target cell. To fix this, you can use " A macro to un-mess Excel comments ", as posted at  m2otech.com.  This macro changes all comments to "move and size with cells", plus some other cleanup. After running the macro, I was ...

Googlebar Lite mysteriously disappears and will not show

Problem:  Googlebar Lite mysteriously disappears from Firefox.  "Googlebar Lite" is checked in Toolbars, but Firefox shows an empty toolbar instead of the Googlebar Lite toolbar. Solution:  Try enabling "Additional Toolbar" or "Additional Toolbar (2)".  That may cause your Googlebar Lite toolbar to show again. Hey, it worked for me.  Don't ask me why.