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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 9:27 pm
After downloading and installing the latest version of AdAware, run the program and use the 'Update' feature to get the latest definition files. Next use the following guidelines for the most thorough scan possible:- Click on the configuration Windows button.
- Click on Scanning, and choose the following settings to:
- "Scan within archives"
- "Scan active processes"
- "Scan registry"
- "Deepscan registry"
- "Scan my IE Favorites for banned URL's"
- "Scan my host's file"
- Then click on Tweaks, go to "Cleaning engine" and set it to:
- "Automatically try to unregister objects prior to deletion"
- "Let Windows remove files in use after reboot."
- Click on "Proceed" to save these Preferences.
- Click on the "Scan Now" button.
- Check and remove everything it finds.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 9:30 pm
Bless you, Draheid. I think that Mak will bless you, too! Hope all is well with you, by the way. I'm printing this info for future reference and placing it in my "Draheid Says" file.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 9:46 pm
Amazing Draheid. Thanks again for all this wonderful information.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, December 17, 2004 - 2:38 am
What have I done to my desktop? For some reason, the black margins around the desktop area are wider than they were. I want the viewable screen area to reach to the edges of the monitor, as it did. How do I get them to retreat back to a normal width? I have a 2-year old Dell loaded with Windows XP. I did click on the button on my monitor to look at the settings, and played with the resolution. But I think I restored it to what it was. Would that have affected the thickness of the black margins around the desktop area?
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Friday, December 17, 2004 - 5:13 am
Bless you, Dra and Vee!
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, December 17, 2004 - 6:46 am
Hi Herckleperckle, There are probably controls on the monitor itself that will allow you to make minor adjustments to the size of the display and the position.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, December 17, 2004 - 8:55 am
Thanks, Jimmer, but I don't understand which ones and what to do. Anyone? (I can call Dell, of course.)
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, December 17, 2004 - 10:12 am
All of the monitors are set-up a little differently. It probably has two or more buttons. When you push the first button, it will probably pop up a little screen with symbols on it that show different little symbols of the adjustments that you can do if selected. One might be a picture of the monitor with a horizontal line with arrows at both ends. That would expand the image horizontally. Another could show a picture of the entire screen shifting. So what you do is you sort of go back and forth pushing the buttons moving the image to center it and then expanding it to fill the monitor. Just look at the little pictures. It sounds more complicated than it is.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, December 17, 2004 - 2:08 pm
Jimmer, I feel like Gomer Pyle. It took me all this time to figure it out, and when I did, I know I said something that sounded just like him. Heh. After pushing the monitor button and seeing the options--sometimes blue and sometimes red, I finally realized that pushing the button once revealed all the options in blue--FROZEN. Pushing it a second time changed the options to red, where you COULD alter them! DUH!!! I fixed it and those black margins are skinny again! YAY!! Thanks for hanging in there with me, Jimmer. (I had previously noted that the cursor wouldn't even touch that menu. But when I right clicked on the desktop, a settings menu popped up! So I had attempted to fix the settings from there--but the horiz and vertical settings were not listed and I hadn't figured out that monitor setting thingee yet.) Okay, now for problem 2. Sigh. Sometimes, when I copy art from a site, the art doesn't actually show up--not concerned with why, particularly. The measurements on the 'bad' icons show the art is 1x1 (and that means blank). When I discover these icons in my folders, I delete them. However, on occasion, I am unable to move them or delete them---I think I've seen a message that it is because the original file cannot be located. (I visit so many sites for gifs or jpegs that I have NO idea what the source is.) Anyway, yesterday, I attempted to toss out one of those icons--throwing it on the desktop with a bunch of others I would be deleting together later. And this one kind of 'caught the right edge' of the desktop and won't leggo! It is white in color, has placed itself on the right of my desktop and runs full vertical length of the screen and measures nearly an inch in width. It is not closable, deletable or movable in any way except one: it pulls across the screen like a curtain. Keep in mind, I do have a photo on my desktop that is my screensaver. Is this white thing merely the desktop that would be present if my photo were not there? (Follow?) Or is it 'something' I can delete?!!! And if I can delete it, HOW? Thanks. I know these are minor issues but they are really, really bugging me.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, December 17, 2004 - 7:38 pm
Wow. Well I'm glad you got your screen fixed up. It's amazing how many people just live with their screen smaller than full size because they don't know it can be adjusted. It's the kind of thing where once you do it once, the second time is no problem. I'm a little mystified by the white thing that is running the full length of your screen on the right side. Have you tried clicking on it with the right mouse button to see if some sort of options pop up? What operating system are you using?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, December 17, 2004 - 8:19 pm
Rats, HP. You caught on to the monitor thingie too soon. I was about to come in and tell you to start stabbing buttons, and pretty soon you would figure it out. BUT, you already did that! AND it worked! Yay HP! Juju2littleDra
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, December 17, 2004 - 10:27 pm
Thanks, Jimmer and Juju2littleDra! Sorry, I was out---shopping, of course. Successfully, too! Hey, I figured it out . . . just this second, too. Had to go back to that same monitor button and choose H-Center. I guess when I was playing with that screen I really did myself no favor. 'Cept I did learn something, huh? Anyway, that white strip was evidently the true naked, desktop! Covered up nicely again now! Ta dah!
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 1:35 am
Glad you got things working, HP. Sorry I was not around sooner to help out.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 6:58 am
No problem, Dra. Nice to exercise the gray matter once in a while! 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 7:47 am
See how well that stabbing buttons thing works, HP?

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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 8:05 am
Hee hee! You got it! 
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 1:30 pm
Can anyone in the know tell me if a brand new computer, but not the one ordered...grrrrr...., can be stored in cold temperatures? I have a giant box sitting in the middle of my tiny dining room and I just want it GONE. Thanks!
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 2:03 pm
Dra says: Generally computers can be stored at -40 to +150 degrees Farenheit.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 2:20 pm
Thanks, Jackie! It's getting the boot then!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 5:06 pm
Just IM'd with Draheid, and now he has gone shopping. Anybody else feel free to suggest in the meantime. As y'all may know, I am in a rented condo in south Texas for the winter. I bought a brand new laptop in September because my old one was getting, well, old. And I wanted wireless. I brought along the old Gateway Solo 1150 laptop for Bigdog to use to pull down his Juno e-mail, and thus keep his [ahem] porno [soft] e-mails off my hard drive, as well as keep HIM off my brand NEW laptop. Bigdog's laptop has Windows ME operating system. It is four years old. I bought it when we were coming to Texas for the winter in late 2000. Anyway, when I was getting ready to go and was updating things on the old laptop, it died after getting a Windows update from the internet (NOT SP 2). I reinstalled Windows ME then and all the software, and everything seemed hunky-dory. We have been using the laptop for a while daily since then, let's say about a month, mainly just to dial up via phone line and pull down Bigdog's Juno e-mail, which he then reads offline, replies to, and dials up again to send. We usually use it on the battery for an hour or three each day, and then put it back on the AC/DC charger to charge the battery back up. Symtoms - Today the computer abruptly failed to boot up. It will go to the dos-looking initial bootup screen where it says things are okay, and as nearly as I can tell, it does say things are okay. Then it shuts down. It is on for about one second. I tried pressing F2 to enter setup during that one second, and it briefly flashes Entering Setup then shuts off. I IM'd Draheid, and he said to try it with electric connected, with electric disconnected, and with battery removed and electric connected. All have same results, comes on, begins to boot, and shuts down in one or two seconds. Anybody got any ideas on what else I can try myself? And, if not, would you recommend taking it to a local shop or to the Gateway repair store 80 miles away?
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 8:25 pm
How far a drive is it from your place to Dra's Fix-it Shop? Wish I had a real answer for ya, Juju. If it were a car, I'd check the alternator.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 8:31 pm
It fixed itself! Huh!
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 8:48 pm
Is adaware free? I just downloaded software from noadware and scanned my pc. Now they want $29.95 to get rid of the infections it found. Are there any free removal tools. Also do You/I need antivirus & anti spyware & anti worm software?
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 9:04 pm
Ketchuplover, Go to www.lavasoftusa.com and download ad-aware se. This is the free program that will remove most ad ware from your computer. Dra also recommends www.safer-networking.org and download spybot search and destroy (also free}. Dra recommends running both of these once a week or so.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, December 20, 2004 - 7:07 am
I have been trying post at another website all weekend, but every time I try I get 'page is unavailable'. I did notice that there weren't any new posts so just thought that it was having some probs. (I can still read at the site), but this am there were some new posts and I am still getting that error message. Any clue?
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