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Difficulty Moderate Steps 11 Time Required 20 - 30 minutes Sections 2 Keyboard 4 steps Fan 7 steps Flags 0 BackToshiba Satellite L455-S5000 Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications Introduction Note: Before starting any removal or installation, remember to turn off the device and to remove it from the power source. What you need Step 1...

Difficulty Easy Steps 4 Time Required 5 minutes Sections 1 Battery 4 steps Flags 3 In Progress This guide is a work in progress. Reload periodically to see the latest changes! Member-Contributed Guide An awesome member of our community made this guide. It is not managed by iFixit staff. Needs Transcription This guide is in video form only. Help make it more accessible by transcribing each action of the procedure into a separate step and adding photos....

The example below will be for Linux, but once you have it installed on Windows or Mac, you can run the same command as shown below. Download and Install FFmpeg First you’ll need to download and install FFmpeg. Most distributions have FFmpeg in the software repositories, although some support may have been stripped out of it for software patent reasons. Regardless, for our purposes a fairly plain version of FFmpeg will do....

Difficulty Moderate Steps 11 Time Required 30 - 45 minutes Sections 3 Charging Port 4 steps Speaker 2 steps Rear Facing Camera 5 steps Flags 1 Needs Better Images Better photos will improve this guide. Help out by taking, editing, or uploading new ones! BackVerizon Ellipsis 7 Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications...

Difficulty Moderate Steps 9 Time Required 15 - 20 minutes Sections 2 Display Assembly 7 steps LCD Screen 2 steps Flags 0 BackVTech Kidizoom Action Cam Full Screen Options History Save to Favorites Download PDF Edit Translate Get Shareable Link Embed This Guide Notify Me of Changes Stop Notifications Introduction What you need Step 1 Display Assembly Make sure that the master power switch is set to the (O) position. Make sure that the master power switch is set to the (O) position....

Alternatively called cursor keys, direction keys, and navigation keys, the arrow keys are usually located between the standard section and the numeric pad on computer keyboards. It is made up of four keys: the left arrow (back arrow), up arrow, down arrow, and the right arrow (forward arrow). The picture is an example of what the arrow keys may look like on your keyboard. Overview of a keyboard In the picture below, the Saitek gaming keyboard shows where the arrow keys can be found....

Alternatively known as a defective pixel, a dead pixel describes pixels that no longer light up. This issue can occur with any LCD, such as those used with desktop computers, televisions, mobile devices, and laptop screens. Dead pixels are often easiest to detect against a white background. A stuck pixel is where the pixel illuminates but doesn’t change color. For example, a pixel may have changed to yellow and remains yellow when it should have turned to another color....

A double bucky is a term for pressing two modifier keys on a computer’s keyboard at the same time. Historically, the modifier keys (Ctrl and Alt, for instance) are called “Buckies” after Niklaus Wirth, a computer scientist whose nickname was “Bucky.” Wirth coined the term at Stanford University in 1964, after making the suggestion to use an additional key to set the eighth bit of a 7-bit ASCII character when typing....

A dynamic disk is a disk drive that uses Logical Disk Manager (a small database) to process information on the disk such as volume letter, volume label, volume size, and more. This database is located in one megabyte of space at the end of the disk. Dynamic disks offer some features that typical ones do not, such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple disks. Disk, Hard drive terms

Sometimes spelled fanboi, a fanboy describes someone overly obsessed with a company, product, or service. For example, an Apple or Microsoft fanboy may criticize another company’s competing product or service while having little knowledge about what they’re criticizing. Computer slang, Fan, Fanboy fee, Slang, Troll

Alternatively called IEEE-1394, FireWire is a digital bus with a bandwidth of 400-800 Mbps and higher. It can handle up to 63 units on the same bus, is hot swappable, and supports PnP (plug and play) devices. It was first developed by Apple in 1995. Users more familiar with USB can consider FireWire similar to USB, as they have some similarities. Like USB, FireWire has several devices, such as removable drives and cameras....

A heap may refer to any of the following: A large, dynamic pool of memory that can be utilized by data that are created when a program executes. The heap is not to be confused with a stack, whose memory allocation is predetermined in LIFO order. A specialized data structure that’s both partially sorted and tree based in the respect that all parent nodes are larger than those of the children....

Defined in IEC 60027-2, a kibibit, or kibit, is a unit representing 210 (1,024) bits. Kibibit vs. other data measurements Bit, Computer abbreviations, Kibi, Kibibyte, Kilobit, Measurements Related information Compare kibibit and other measurements with our conversion tool. How much is 1 byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc.?

USB ports are fantastic, but they also open up your computer to a peculiar vulnerability: voltage. While a USB port is designed to handle just a few volts of electricity, a USB kill stick forces hundreds of volts into your computer, destroying all the sensitive electrical components inside. How does it do this, and should you ever use one? How Does a USB Kill Stick Work? From the outside, a USB kill stick can look like any other USB thumb drive....

In computer graphics, a vector graphic or vector image is an image made up paths (lines with a starting and ending points). These paths, all based on mathematical expressions, consist of basic geometric shapes, such as lines, polygons, and curves. The key advantage of using vector graphics instead of raster images is their ability to scale without compromising image quality. For example, you could use a vector graphic to help make a banner or sign....

Video editing software is any software program capable of editing, modifying, generating, or manipulating a video or movie file. With a video editor, you can remove sections of the video, cut and arrange a video to give it a better flow, or add effects to enhance the video. Video editing software Today, there are several video editing programs that edit your videos. Below is a list of some top video editing programs....

The term virtual desktop refers to an expanded or enhanced GUI for a user’s operating system, beyond the limits of the actual display. Most modern operating systems feature the ability to position application windows in a virtual desktop, where they remain hidden until that virtual desktop is selected. Virtual desktops enable the user to organize multiple applications on separate desktops, reduce visual clutter, and increase productivity. In Windows 10, the Task View provides an interface that adds or removes virtual desktops, and switches between them....

A Windows minidump is a small file that is saved to your computer each time the computer stops unexpectedly, for example when you get a BSoD. This file is stored in the C:\Windows\minidump or C:\Winnt\minidump directory depending on your version of Windows. An example of a file name could be “Mini030409-01.dmp”. In this example, 03 is the month, 04 the day, 09 the year, and -01 the number of the dump file....

First released in 2002, Arch Linux is a Linux distribution for i686 and x86-64 computer architectures. Its design focuses on simplicity, security, and efficiency. Unlike other operating systems that use discrete versions, Arch Linux updates on a rolling release model, offering continuous, incremental upgrades to keep the system up-to-date. Variations of Arch Linux ArchBSD, which uses the FreeBSD kernel rather than the Linux kernel ArchHurd, which uses the GNU Hurd kernel rather than the Linux kernel Arch Linux ARM, which runs on ARM devices including the Raspberry Pi ArchBang Linux, which implements an Openbox-based desktop environment inspired by Crunchbang Linux Architecture, BSD, Crunchbang Linux, GNU, Kernel, Linux, Operating System terms, Raspberry Pi

Difficulty Moderate Steps 12 Time Required 30 minutes - 1 hour Sections 1 LCD Screen 12 steps Flags 3 Bullets! Better coordination with markups and the color/type of bullets will help make this guide more clear! Incorrect Tools Help make this guide better by using the correct tools in images and/or text. Needs Better Images Better photos will improve this guide. Help out by taking, editing, or uploading new ones!...