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My Computer Desktop Files Changed Names

I created a shortcut on my desktop and I changed the name of it, now I can't open it or find the original file

It's because you changed the name !
The computer cannot associate it with the original file or program

I have a html file saved as file:///Users/Name/Desktop/File.html - How do I make this a public link?

From your question i deduce you are just starting on computer concepts.This is a bit more complex than you might have imagined.You first need to understand how looking at an html file basically works.It involves theese steps:1 - a user, anywhere in the world with internet access, opens up his browser and types in a url. 2 - the browser understands that url as the ip address of the html doc you want to access and the doc name. How it understands it is a bit complex and not really important at this point. An ip address is an address used to locate computers on the internet.      For example when you type     www.example.com/index.html. The browser decodes www.example.com into a ip address like 132.278.10.245 and it understands that you want the doc named index.html located in the computer with that ip address.3 - the browser sends a request to the computer with the ip address asking for the html file you specified. This is done via an http request, just so you start associating terms.4 - the other computer responds with the specified html document.5 - the browser renders (shows) the html document in the user's screen.Ip addresses are a bit tricky.Because for regular users, like im assuming you are, ip addresses change with time. They are called dynamic ip addresses because they tipically change daily.This would make it difficult for a user to find your html document because the address of your computer will be changing from time to time. Difficult not impossible.You have two broad optionsThe first one is making the html doc accessible directly from your personal computer. I wouldnt recommend this. First, it will be a challenge if you are a begginer. It will also make you vulnerable to security attacks, specially if you are not hundred percent sure about what you are doing.The second one is to host the file in a server with a fixed ip address. You could even buy a domain, make it point at your website and have your own public website with your html doc.Both this options are hard for a begginer. You would need to do some serious studying to get any up and running. Maybe not hard but they will take you some time. It will be gratifying though!If you want to go ahead id suggest searching about http requests, web servers and basic networking. PM me and i can give you more in detail advice about how to tackle this challenge.

There is a virus on my computer that keeps changing its name.?

You can do an online scan for viruses and spyware for free from the major vendors. Some of these require Internet Explorer to run because of Active-X

Trend-Micro
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Computer Associates
http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/pestscan/
Panda Software
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/
Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/?langid=ie&venid=sym
Mcafee Free Scan
http://us.mcafee.com/root/catalog.asp?catid=free
Kaspersky Scanner
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
Microsoft Protection Scanner
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/center/howsafe.htm?s_cid=mscom_msrt
F-Secure
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/olsbeta.shtml
BitDefender
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html



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What does "If you change a file name extension, the file may become unusable" mean?

This isn't a computer problem. You simply enabled Windows to show the extension after a file's name when viewing it through desktop or Windows Explorer. This means instead of viewing a JPG image as "Example", you'll see it as "Example.jpg".

You must not re-name the actual file extension (in this case, .jpg) as it makes the file-type different and possibly corrupted.

Solving this is pretty simple:
1. Open Folder Options
>>On XP, it should be under Options (or Tools), Folder Options
>>On Vista/7, press start and search Folder Options.
2. Click the View tab
3. Scroll a bit down the Advanced settings square until you find the option "Hide extensions for known file types"
4. Click the option to remove the checkmark from that option.
5. Click Apply, and click OK.
6. Extensions for known file types such as JPG, WMV, PNG, MP3, and so forth will be removed while viewing them, making renewing simpler.

File / virus / worm??? keeps changing my desktop background on every restart?

recurring file gdmae.bmp automatically loads itself as my desktop background on every restart. common easy to use removal techniques (spyware s+d, AVG, others) don't work. It doesn't do anything terribly malicious, simply changes my desktop background on every restart, changes the top of internet explorer to say "gdooey mae" automatically replicates the file gdmae.bmp upon deletion and automatically transfers to any flash drive that is put into the computer and any other computer that the flash drive is connected to in the future. It is more annoying than malicious, but that doesn't make it ok. I can find nothing meaningful by googling it... anyone else out there have this problem (look at the top of your explorer - which i rarely use)

any help is appreciated.

How do I rename a Git repository's folder on my computer without changing the name of the project?

Git doesn't care what the name of the directory is that the checkout (the local copy of the files is in), so you can just rename the folder and it will still work. When you do the initial 'git clone', you can specify the name of the directory to create, e.g. 'git clone git@github.com:kippspencer/somelongrepository.git myproject' will create directory 'myproject' and clone the files in there. If you do not specify a destination for the local copy, it will just create one with the same name as the repository, which is what you're seeing.

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