random questions re: The Dark Knight and Windows Desktop Manager

[edenfalling]

I saw The Dark Knight twice and still cannot remember: at the second climax of the film, does Harvey explicitly tell Gordon that Ramirez was working for Maroni? Or would Gordon have to figure it out after the fact?

I ask because this is relevant to a story I may or may not end up writing.

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On another topic altogether: yesterday my computer told me that Windows Desktop Manager had failed or shut down or something. Since then, I keep losing the VGA feed to the monitor, my computer tower makes strange, desperate beeping noises, and/or the screen display just freezes and the mouse indicator vanishes. So far it has always started working again after a couple tries shutting it down and restarting, but that's not going to work forever, and I would very much like to fix this.

Except I cannot find any program file on my computer labeled Windows Desktop Manager.

I run Vista on an HP Pavilion (or something like that). Can anyone help?

Comments

[iponly.livejournal.com]

I've only seen Dark Night once, but I don't remember Harvey saying anything to Gordon about any of the other specific vengences he took.

[edenfalling]

Fair enough; he wasn't exactly in his right mind by then. *sigh* Poor Harvey.

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

According to what I can gather from Microsoft's knowledge base, Desktop Window Manager is an integral part of the Vista OS that deals with display issues, so it isn't a separate program that you could repair individually (unfortunately).

Have you installed any patches on your system recently? (One of those could have mucked it up.)

Is your computer under warranty anywhere that you could take it to have OS restore processes run on it?

I don't know nearly as much about Vista as I do about XP, so I can't give more specific advice than 'check with a pro because you're dealing with a fundamental OS component here'...

[edenfalling]

I think it's still under a 1-year warranty from Best Buy, and I paid through the nose for Geek Squad services, so... I'll call them Thursday or Friday, when I have several hours clear in a row.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

You might want to check that all your display drivers are installed and working. If this happened yesterday, you can also backup any documents then roll back the computer to your last restore point/a few days ago.

[edenfalling]

Display drivers? I will check, not that I have any real idea what I'm looking for. *sigh* Rolling the entire computer back sounds a bit drastic -- if nothing is obviously screwy with the drivers, I will call Best Buy and bitch at them instead, since I think I'm still under warranty until November.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

Go to Control Panel, Device Manager. Click on Display adaptors then check the properties of your graphics card. Drivers will be under there and it will give you options to update, scan for changes etc.

Rollback is actually not a very drastic move. It doesn't even effect your documents, I just always back up as a precaution. Vista automatically creates multiple restore points so rolling back a few days should be an easy option. (I've done it plenty of times, usually when I install something that starts messing up my computer. You roll in back to the restore point that windows automatically creates whenever you install something and voila.)

[eatsyourface.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember Harvey raging at Gordon about how he had Ramirez and ___ investigated when he was in IA, and that he warned Gordon, but that Gordon didn't listen. (But you already know that?)

[edenfalling]

I think that was earlier, though, maybe when they both met Batman on the roof by the spotlight? He complained about Gordon working with "scum like Wurtz and Ramirez" and then, "Oh yeah, that's right, I almost had your rookie cold on a racketeering charge," or something like that.

Unless he indulged in an "I told you so" moment at the warehouse, referring back to that previous conversation?

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Maybe I should go see the movie again. (Not that this would be a hardship!)

[eatsyourface.livejournal.com]

*g*

I am pretty sure that it also happened after Harvey's face got half-melted off, around the time when Gordon's family was being held hostage. (But a third viewing wouldn't hurt. >=D)