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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 10:41 pm
Herckleperckle: Try THIS LINK to download the latest drivers for your scanner. A USB scanner should be compatible with either MAC or Windows machines. The link takes you to the drivers for Windows/XP. If you need some other version, you should be able to find them by clicking around on that same site. Hope this helps.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, January 14, 2005 - 11:00 pm
Thanks, Dra! Trying it now.
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Ktbb
Member
08-10-2003
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 6:47 pm
Thanks everyone. I don't have time to do it right now, but this weekend I'll try it.
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 11:45 pm
This is probably in here somewhere.....BUT.. what is the real name of the "elevator" on the right side of the page, and where can I go to adjust it? Thanks!!
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 11:48 pm
Mygetaway: I have to guess you're referring to the scroll bar at the right of your browser. I don't understand what you are asking about adjusting it though - I don't think there is any adjustment setting available in any browser I'm aware of. What exactly are you looking for and maybe I can help.
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Friday, January 21, 2005 - 2:23 am
Hi Dra.. Yes, I meant the scroll bar (I thought it had another name.) Mine seems to "stick" a lot, when I'm pushing on the bottom arrow. It will just start flying down the page when I'm not wanting it too. For some reason I thought I had happened on a setting where you could "set" how far down the page, or how fast, it went at a time. Guess I was wrong. Thanks again! (and for being so quick!)
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, January 21, 2005 - 3:12 am
Actually, you can adjust the WIDTH of scroll bars, in the Desktop/Display properties area. In the same area where you can change the size of icons etc., you can change the width, and I think even the color of the scroll bars. That said, you can't fix how quickly it goes up or down. My guess is that you are clicking JUST ABOVE the down arrow square, and that is the FAST way to make the scroll bar come down. If you are having trouble with hitting the down-arrow "target", so to speak, try going into display properties. (RIght click on your desktop, then choose the APPEARANCE tab, then click the ADVANCED button.) You should see a drop down menu, and in it you will find "scrollbar". I haven't tried it recently, but if my memory serves me correctly, if you make the bar wider, it will also enlarge the arrow buttons above and below it. If you don't like how it turns out, you can always click to go back to the default properties. Good luck!!
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, January 21, 2005 - 9:31 am
Mygetaway: I use a trackball with the scroll wheel feature. Occasionally my computer suddenly thinks I'm flipping the wheel up and down and will scroll the page I'm viewing accordingly. The only way I've found to stop it in those instances is to press the wheel which sends a refresh page command to the browser. It's an odd situation. Perhaps something similar is happening to you, if you have a scroll wheel that is. Also, if you have the wheel, you can adjust the properties for that as to how fast it scrolls when you roll the wheel by opening your mouse properties in the control panel and changing the settings there. Hope this helps.
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:39 am
Thanks guys. I'll check those things out. (It's not a track ball Dra.) It's like it get's stuck, even though I'm no longer pushing it. It's hard to explain. Thanks anyways. 
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 2:00 pm
This isn't a huge problem, just a bit of an annoyance. I have a couple of customized icons I use on my desktop for "my computer" and the recycle bin. The last few days, it keeps switching back over to the default icons. I change it back going through "control panel," "display," then "customize desktop." I noticed it seems to switch back when I've just finished going through Windows Explorer. I noticed the customized icons aren't showing up in the Explorer lists now (when they used to show up there too). Don't know if that's what's making it switch back to default or what. Is there another avenue to change these icons?
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, January 24, 2005 - 11:21 pm
Whoami: I haven't found any discussion on how to replace the default desktop icons for your computer. If they are no longer where you installed them, you might try reinstalling them and see if they will hold again. It is possible you have your system security program set to monitor changes such as this (to the system) and automatically restore to defaults, however, I'm not sure exactly which program it might be so that you can disable it or reconfigure to allow you to change the icons as you want. If I do find any additional information, I will be sure to let you know.
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Secretsmile
Member
08-19-2002
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 9:41 am
I'm not sure if this has been answered some place else on the board, but I couldn't find it if it was. I'm having a problem with our router. To be truthful this is the second router, we upgraded when we had difficulty staying on line with the old one. This router is a Linksys, it has 4 ports. We have at least 3 computers on line at all times and the house has been hard wired, it's not a wireless system. It doesn't seem to matter if the other computers are active, and it doesn't seem to matter how many windows I have open. Any suggestions?
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 10:06 am
Secretsmile: I don't see what your specific problem is in your post. Are you having trouble with only one computer staying online, the router itself, the 'modem' connection?? Are you using the router as a DHCP server for the computers in the house or are they all set with fixed IP addresses?? Any other details you can share that might be helpful???
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 12:45 pm
One weird problem that I’m encountering is that after I work with the PC for awhile, when I want to toggle to another window, it won’t come up in front of the window that I’m looking at. I can click on it on the task bar and I can see the outline of it popping up but the other window just stays in front until I minimise it. Seems to start happening every now and then randomly and the only way to ultimately fix it is to re-boot. I’m running Windows XP Pro SP2 with all the latest updates.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 1:17 pm
Jimmer: Right-click on all your windows in the task bar and see if any of them have the Always On Top item seleced. It would look like this:
Uncheck that option if you find it.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 2:17 pm
When I right-click I don't see those middle options for any of my apps? Maybe I'm misunderstanding. I didn't even know they existed. Would be great though. Thanks.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 3:36 pm
Some of my applications support this option and other do not. Maybe you have a certain application that has this option and you only run into the problem when that app is up? That would explain the random part. There are some tools that add this feature to all windows, but you would know if you ran something like that.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 5:22 pm
Jimmer: It could be that the application that you are attempting to minimize is too busy to relinquish the screen when you call for another program that has been minimized. I sometimes have a news reader open and downloading/decoding messages and try to switch back to my browser - it takes a while for the browser to respond and even moves the taskbar icon to the right-end of the bar in the process. Things you might check to verify this: Open your task manager and see what processes are running and how much CPU they are using at the time this happens. There isn't any easy solution that would definitely fix the problem. Maybe upgrading to more RAM might help since it could also be associated with virtual (swap) memory too. Hope this helps.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 6:19 pm
Thanks Dra. Its not really a matter of replacing what the default icons are. I'm not sure if that's possible. Its just that when I change the icon to my customized ones, it seems to not hold. When the desktop "refreshes" (like when I close a window or something) it pops the icons back to the default ones. This annoyance only started happening in the last week. In the 1 1/2 years I've had this computer, and with the ones I had previously, I never had the desktop pop back to the default icons once I installed my customized ones. Its just one of those weird Brown things I guess. 
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 8:25 pm
Thanks for the ideas guys. I'll check it out and see.
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Heyltslori
Member
09-15-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 9:57 am
A little bit ago I noticed that there was a little icon that looked like two tiny computers linked together down by the clock on my computer screen. I only noticed them there for a few seconds, then it disappeared. Is this something that should concern me? 
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 10:16 am
Heyltslori: Most likely you saw something like this: Normally you should see this all the time when you are connected to the internet (or never see it, depending on how your connections are configured). This concerns me because it sounds like it appeared then went away again meaning some connection you have configured on your computer did connect to something for a brief time then disconnected. Since I know you are using an 'always on' connection and the icon is not normally there, I have to caution you that something may be using a different connection to establish a link to somewhere, probably a modem connection for some reason. If you have any questions, you are welcome to IM me anytime. Hope this helps.
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March
Member
10-02-2003
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 11:54 am
Quick question - Just bought a new computer. It came with Norton Internet Security already installed. I was looking through it to see what all it was protecting me from. It does have spyware listed so my question is - should I still download Spybot and Adaware or will Norton protect me enough?
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Heyltslori
Member
09-15-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 12:26 pm
Thanks Draheid for your help!! I did a virus scan and it found a couple of things which I was able to delete. Note to self: If you delete the 12,000+ items from your temp internet file before running the virus scan, it will go a lot quicker!
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Heyltslori
Member
09-15-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 12:40 pm
March, I did a virus scan today and then did a Spybot and Adaware scan afterwards, and Spybot did find a couple of things. So I guess I'd recommend that you use all three. Not that I know anything about computers! 
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