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January 25

Chinese Webs

Hello. I visit Chinese websites regularly and it's common for them to open always a new tab when clicking a link, even though I've set my preferences to have them open in the same tab. To make this clear, I give an example: in [1] if I click in Unsere Themen it open in the same Tab. But, on the contrary, in a chinese web (for exmaple. [2]) no matter where I click and no matter whether it is in Chinese, English or German, it always opens in a new tab. This is inconvenient and very annoying: after ten clicks the top taskbar is full. Why is it like this? Is there a way to configure my PC to prevent this from happening? Thank you. Leonprimer (talk) 19:49, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Looking at the page source (HTML) for english.news.cn site, the links are defined like <a href="...url..." target="_blank">...title...</a>. The target="_blank" part instructs the browser to open the link in a new page (or tab). I do not know of any preferences that would force replacing the current page - only selecting between new tab vs new page. -- Tom N talk/contrib 00:35, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Volume control on my pc

Win 10. There's a little picture of a speaker towards the right-hand side of the bottom edge of my screen. When I point my mouse at it it says "Speakers: 100%". I used to be able to click on it and a box would open up with the volume control in it. Now when I click on it nothing happens. I think the change happened in the last week or so. How do I make it open up the box again? Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 20:47, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

I have Windows 10 also. When I right-click on that little speaker, I can select Open Sound Settings. Do you have that feature? --←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:20, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

No, nothing happens with left- or right-click. DuncanHill (talk) 20:19, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

And rebooting doesn't fix it, right? --←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:36, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Looking for the problem, I found 4 suggestions: restart windows explorer, restart sound services, update driver and do the audio troubleshooter. If you restarted your computer, the first two would have fixed the problem. The audio drivers shouldn't need updating if you didn't change anything ("shouldn't" doesn't mean that it won't do anything, computers are sometimes strange like that). The last suggestion is the first one I'd try, and may point you to the problem. You can find it under "settings>update and security>troubleshoot>additional troubleshooters". Hope this helps! Rmvandijk (talk) 12:17, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks all. It has fixed itself - but I had done a deep scan, deep clean, reset startup, and a few other housekeeping things, and am not sure at what point it got fixed! But I will try to remember the tips here in case it happens again. DuncanHill (talk) 10:50, 1 February 2022 (UTC)