Computer Help and Tips

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

....Rick: For info....I did go in and reset to 10 min. last night after I wrote the above post but again this morning I had one or so incoming e-mails duplicate themselves...I'm not going to be too too concerned about it and I suppose just live with it. I simply delete the extra one and go on. It really does pose the question in my mind thougth...Why...? Especially doing it on 2 different computers...

Since you could put everything I know about a puter on the head of a pin, they always tell me to make some change, save it and then re-boot! So I am a professional save and re-boot person! Would that help?

Jen

[Modelcar]

Rick and Jen....I uninstalled the other computer and intended to remove a bunch of photos, etc...from it and maybe transfer those to this new one but I haven't done any of that....So no contact between that and this computer....And I've been thinking about just not removing any of the stuff and saving it....Don't want to take a chance to contaminate this one if there happens to be anything of that nature in there...Thanks though, to you both.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by daveklepper

Also, go into DOS if you know how. If you don't get someone to show you. Then delete all deletable files in Windows/temp. Preferably do this before you use Deframentator. Unless you are an expert, don't go into DOS for any othe purpose. You can also use 'My Computer," - "C" - "Windows" - "Temporary" to delete the temp files. Once you delete a lot of them at once you might notice an improvement in computer speed in some applications. Dave Klepper

OK.. million Dollar Question, how do you access DOS in Win. XP??

[Rick Gates]

Kevin- If it's just cleaning up temp. files you want to do in Window XP, you may access it by going to "Control Panel" left click "Performance & Maintenence" left click "Free up space on your hard disk" you will wait a minute or two while Windows calculates this and the you will see another window to check which things you want to delete. Or, you can get there by left clicking "My Computer" Right click on "C:/ Hard drive, Choose "Properties" and left click "Disk cleanup." If you really want to go into DOS and are fimiliar with the language and know what you are doing, you may want to try going into "Safe Mode." To do this, you must reboot and during startup, when you see the "Blue " Window screen (you only have a second or two) you hit the F7 or F8 key (I not sure I remember correctly which one) and that will bring up a screen giving you the options of running in "Safe" or repair mode, DOS, etc. You must know your stuff when using these features or it is VERY easy to foul up your system settings and crash. Hope this helps.

[Rick Gates]

By the way Kevin, since I'm not trusting my memory as to which key F7 or 8) your bill has been reduced to one half million dollars. Cash only please. TY.[:D]

[Anonymous]

Your computer running slow? Get Ad-aware or Spybot, and run them. You'd be surprised at the junk that gets put on your computer just by regular surfing, not even counting "other" sites.
Preferably use both programs to scan your drive once every week or two.
Just one thing though:
after they scan your hard drive and before you click to start the clean-up step, make sure that any of the files that say "Windows Media Player" anywhere in their names are NOT checked. (funny that a windows program comes up as spyware. hmmmm.)

But, these programs will remove all the crap that gets placed on your computer and loads into the computer's memory, thereby slowing it down. It's well worth the half hour a week. Run it while you eat dinner or watch a TV show.

These utilities are available at these 2 links:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

[fuzzybroken]

Somebody help me with this:

I've been trying to upload some pictures onto my Epson PhotoCenter. Problem is, after starting to upload, the pictures just STOP UPLOADING. Eventually I'll get an error message stating that "the document contains no data" (Firefox) or "Cannot find page" (IE). The only thing that seems to help with uploading is downloading something else at the same time. What can I do to get my pictures online???

Thanks,
-Mark Hintz
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman


OK.. million Dollar Question, how do you access DOS in Win. XP??

START, RUN, "CMD" in the box and ENTER. Should see a black screen with something like: C:\Documents and Settings\Kevin>

[Anonymous]

Ok next Question for all you computer Saveys

My computer has a lot of Spyware in it, I dlete it all, but most of it comes back.. How do I permanently get rid of it?

It is even slow right now.. I don't want to spend 500 bucks at a professional, jsut so he can pick his nose click a few buttons, and poof all gone!

Will "clean up disk" work?

Actually this problem is so bad, I can't even use internet explorer anymore. I jsut open it and all of the sudden i hear the sound "click" throuhg the speakers, tehn the window becomes a back burner thing, So i click on it with the mouse and 10 secondes later it it does the same thing, sometimes an add will pop up, very annoying, however, Netscape seems to be imune.. anyone know anyhting.. if you do.. i'd be REally greatful

[Modelcar]

Kevin....My computer has been slowing down now for some time and it kind of sneaks up on one...So 2 nights ago we unloaded the "temporary files", and it had a snoot full of them and it made a world of difference to it...This is a new computer just put in service in January and it has plenty of power. My point is, it can add up before one knows it and it starts to effect the operation of your unit. So you might check such a thing and see if you have a bunch of "temp. files" accumulated that you can dump. It might really help you. I knew they were there as I had checked it with skan disk but wasn't sure it was safe to get rid of them....

[swknox]

The advise about deleting temp internet files is a good one and something I do about every 2 weeks but be carful about deleting cookies. Its better to go through and delete each one, one at a time because sights like trains.com and others use cookies to identify you when you log on (so you don't have to keep entering your name and password). Everytime I would delete cookies then the sights I visit most like trains.com I would have to put my name and password back in and hit the save to remember button. Also here is a BIGGIE. I use internet dialup with one of those internet dial up programs that makes it go 5 times faster. It works great - when it works. These programs use something called a proxy server so it has to be on once installed on your system or else when you dial up and you leave it off or it fails to come on for some reason then you won't be able to get on to the net through internet explorer. Trust me I just whent through this about 4 days ago, 1 whole day with out visiting trains.com [banghead] [censored] This is what my Dial up tech told me, while using this program (5x speed) if you don't want to use it you must disable it because of the proxy server, if you just delete it say using add or delete program option in the control panel than you will not be able to view internet sights, you can sign on but when you click on internet explorer it will be blank with a message like "can't establish contact with ISP". Trust me its not worth the time or extra money to use a program like this.

[daveklepper]

Have a set of tweezers handy if you use the A-drive often . Sometimes a bad floppy will loose or loosen its protective slide while in the A-drive, and a tweezer is the best bet to drag the floppy out without damaging anything. One has to manipulate the tweezers firmly with the left hand while pushing in the release button with the right hand. Do it smoothly and carefully and for gosh sakes don't force anything. If the protective slide remains behind the tweezers can also drag it out. Dave Klepper

[Modelcar]

....Sounds like good advice. In my case of the temorary internet files, I was surprised to see such add up so quick and taking up so much space. My computer wizz fixed it now so we don't add them up after the one use they get using the unit. Hopefully, now they won't accumulate again like they have been and filling up my hard drive space. I'm of course still limited in speed by the internet dialup which isn't bad but the computer function really does fine now...

[Anonymous]

Thnaks Guys,

this problem is much deaper though, They get emptied weekly, this is somehting that has installed itself, and is making Interent explorer almsot impossible to use. i've done the add/remove program thing, and removed evryhting i don't know,

Virus scan- nothing, latest definitions
Spyware scan- 1 or two things, deleted after

I can't figure out what is making this computer slow, it's programmed NOT to keep history, TIF (temporary interent files) are deleted
and no programs that i don't know what they are are on the computer