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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 7:30 am
Lmao.... ....yeah...it's nice having a li'l "turn", when the big guy's not around, Juju 
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 9:17 am
I have a really dumb question. The other day, IE stopped making that little "click" noise it makes when it goes from one web page to another. I happen to like that little "click" because it makes me feel like I've accomplished something, even though it was just going up to my bookmarks or scrolling over an arrow and clicking my mouse. How can I get the sound effect to return?
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 9:24 am
In the Control Panel, Tish...there's a section called Sounds & Audio Devices...maybe see if you need to check something there...or alternately there's also a Sound option in the Accessibility Options (Um, I'm looking in XP though, yours may be different).
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 4:53 pm
I'm trying to play around with an icon, to make it be smaller and non-animated. I'm using IrfanView (free edition of course). I've gotten from this To this But I don't know how I ended up with a black background. Of course its preferable to go with a clear background. What did I do wrong? And is IrfanView capable of making a clear background?
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 5:18 pm
Whoami: If you go to www.gifworks.com, you can use their tools to make the background 'transparent' again. First click on 'File - Open Image' then in the right side, browse to the file on your computer. Click 'Upload' to continue. Next click 'Edit - Transparify' and a window will open. Point and click on the background you want to be transparent, and the window closes and your image is then transparified. You can then right-click - 'Save Image' to save the new image to your computer. Hope this helps. ETA: Don't forget, you must save the image as a .gif file or the transparency will NOT work!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 5:37 pm
LOL. I don't think this is what I wanted to end up with. Looks like it just took out all the black in the gif, not just the background.
Well, at least you've pointed me in the right direction. I'll have to play around with it a little more later. Mom's calling me..... Thanks.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 7:32 pm
Maybe this will help: FYI: I took a frame from your animated gif, painted the background green, then used Gifworks to transparify & reduce the size to 50%
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 7:36 pm
Thanks for the transparency lesson, Dra. I have saved it. You never know when I might have to get a bit creative.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 8:41 pm
Yay Dra! That looks much better than what I came up with!
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 9:21 pm
Who.. Sometimes I've found that it's better to transparify the gif before resizing it. You can also resize it at gif works too. Other times, no matter what you do, it sometimes gives you what you got above. I use gif works a lot.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:59 pm
What the heck is Asp.net, and why does it suddenly have a "user account" on my computer? I did some "recommended updates" on Windows Updates. Don't remember now if that was on it. But....I dunno. I'm very skeptical.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 1:43 am
(Posted for others since we resolved this in IM) You probably have updated and installed an optional item called '.NET Framework' which is part of an advanced programming architecture from Microsoft. I installed it once and removed it because it was very large and I didn't have use for it. If you're doing any programming in the .NET suite or using sites or applications which require this, then installing would be useful to you. I was not aware that it creates a hidden user on your computer, however, I can understand the purpose as part of the language requires special 'services' to be running in order to function. Again, this would use more of your system resources which you don't want to have happening if you don't need them. I suggested to uninstall any .NET updates or addins found in the Change/Remove Programs utility. Once removed, the new user will also be deleted automatically. Hope this helps. (Actually, through removing this program, Whoami indicated the user was removed.)
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 12:08 pm
I update Adaware and Spybot regularly, but the same spyware keeps coming up each time I run the program. Why?
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 1:37 pm
Texannie: Either you keep visiting the same sites that are giving you those problems or you're computer has a 'recover' utility running that keeps backups of your startup and system files in case you have to recover from something. These recover areas are usually not accessible to SpyBot or AdAware so they aren't able to affect the files in those areas. The only way to completely clean those areas too is by disabling the recover feature before scanning and be sure to enable it when you're done and 'cleaned up'. Hope this helps.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 1:45 pm
I use ME and I know they have a restore feature I have to disable to run a virus scan, would this be the same? Yep, I pretty much go to the same sites. I think I narrowed it down too.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 2:45 pm
Texannie: Yes, disabling the restore feature for running AdAware & SpyBot is the same thing - for the exact same reasons I'm sure. Glad you are getting close to narrowing down the culprit sites. If you are able to discover it, you should consider either not visiting there or notifying the webmaster of the problem and request they remove the offending information from their site. If it happens to be coming in from another site through a link on the site you're visiting, you might be able to block it with your firewall too. It's worth exploring at least. Hope this helps.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 2:52 pm
Draheid, my computer god... Where would I go to download mirc? I see the instructions under mirc help, but I'm not seeing a download link... Thanks much!
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 2:59 pm
Yankee, you can click Here to download the latest version. One note, the version here is slightly newer then what I used to create the current instructions - so you may see some things that don't quite match but should still be able to get it setup. Let me know if you have any problems. Hope this helps.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 3:20 pm
Thank you so much for your help last night Dra! I got that sneaky hidden user off my system! Now, I have some new funky things happening..... When I booted up first time a while ago, I got an error window about "this application has failed to initialize properly...." (something to that effect. I got it 4 times, with different applications. Rebooted two more times, just to see, and got the first two application errors again, haven't seen the second two again yet. Here are the applications, in order of when they popped up: NotifyAlert.exe Rng.exe ExpEval21.exe Dfolder.exe I did a search of my system on all four. And they all seem to have several executable files, so I really don't know which one "failed to initialize." I do know that they seem to reside mostly in C:\Documents And Settings\ (etc) The first two I believe also were in C:\Windows\Preftech, and the second two were in C Drive, and had something to do with Dell Support. So, what are these? What have I done to my computer? And what do I do to clear this up so I don't get application errors every time I boot up my computer? I'm sure I did something wrong with my Windows Updates last night, cause that's the only thing I did differently with the computer. Many of the updates I'll admit I really didn't understand, but they were "recommended," so I put blind faith in it and went along with it. Now I know I shouldn't have done that, what with the wierd addition of a User Profile being made up "behind my back" with the .NET Framework. I learned my lesson. Next time I'll come here and say, "do I really need this? 
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 4:14 pm
Draheid, thank you so much for helping me, and for all the help you so unselfishly provide all of us.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 5:48 pm
Whoami: Well, it turns out we may not have resolved your initial problem. It seems Dell does have programmers who use the .NET framework: I found this message here:
NotifyAlert.exe - Application Error" or "rng.exe - Application Error" Error Messages - The Dell Support utility that ships with Dimension and Inspiron systems requires .Net Framework to be installed. That page has instructions to install from your XP CD or download from a link on that page. I still don't think it should have created a new user on your system. Perhaps it has always been there and you didn't see it before? Based on this information, I would recommend you download and install the .NET Framework directly from Dell this time, in order to restore the Dell Support utility again. I would also suggest you look for that user to appear again and, if it does, you might want to contact Dell and ask them about it. Hope this helps.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 6:08 pm
Thanks Dra! I'll have to take care of it a little later now. Mom's hungry. I know for a fact that user wasn't there before the Windows Update I did. Cause last year I played around and gave both Mom and myself a user profile. When she ended up never coming to the computer, and I grew a bit annoyed with having to wait around for the log-in page to come up and click on my name, I finally just deleted her account so I could bypass the log-in page (I like booting up and wandering off to make coffee, feed dogs, etc). So, at least at that point, I was the only user on the computer (along with the de-activated "guest" user). Remember, I found two .Net Framework programs in the Add/Remove programs thing. So one was likely the one Dell installed, and the other one was the one from Windows Update that created the hidden user.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 10:01 pm
Well, that looks like it fixed it! I just installed it from my Windows XP installation CD from Dell. I admit I was a bit afraid to plop that puppy in, since the last thing I wanted to do was do a complete re-install and lose everything I've built on this computer in the last year. But it was really easy. I just plopped it in, it gave me a menu, and I think I clicked on something like "other services." Under that heading, there was a nice big link to click "install Net Framework." Reboot showed no application errors. The link on the Dell support page just directed me to the Windows Update. Uh, no thanks! Thanks again for your help! 
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Emeraldfire
Member
03-05-2003
| Friday, July 02, 2004 - 11:56 am
I'll probably be fired for posting at work but I'm having a problem on my computer at home and I could use some help. I have a program that just showed up on my desktop called "infamous_downloader" and I can't get rid of it. The computer said the file may be protected. I don't know how it got on my computer but it drives me crazy that I can't get it off. Also, Norton Anti-virus detected the Trojan Horse virus the other day and took care of it. Could it have something to do with this other program? My daughter IMs her friends using AIM and I don't know if they passed this on to us but I would appreciate if anyone can tell me what "infamous_downloader" is and how to get it off of my computer. And what is the Trojan Horse virus? Help, please!!!!!
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, July 02, 2004 - 12:27 pm
Emeraldfire: A 'Trojan Horse' virus is so called because it appears harmless when in fact it may be gathering personal information from your computer and sending it to someone who may use the information illegally! "infamous_downloader" sounds like it may be this type of problem. A couple of sites suggest setting up AdAware in 'agressive' mode may take care of it. To do this, first download AdAware 6 by clicking here then, after installing and running the program, first click on 'Update' to get the latest definition files then use these steps:
- Under Ad-aware 6 - 'Settings (Click the Gear Icon) - Tweaks - Scanning Engine' check this: "Unload recognized processes during scanning."
- Under Ad-aware 6 - 'Settings (Click the Gear again) - Tweaks - Cleaning Engine' check this: "Let Windows remove files in use after reboot."
- Press "Scan Now"
- Check option "Use Custom scanning options"
- Check option "Activate In-Depth Scan"
- Press "Select drives\folders to scan"
- Select the active partition which is usually C:
- Press "Next" to let Ad-aware scan your drives...
- AdAware will find a number of "bad" files and registry keys. Click 'Next' again then Right-click in that pane and choose 'Select all'
- If it finds "bad" files and registry keys, click 'Next' again and it will ask you whether you'd like to remove all checked items. Click 'OK'.
- Finally, close Ad-Aware, and reboot.
If for some reason this doesn't work, another program to try is SpyBlaster. You can download this by clicking here and saving to your computer. You'll need WinZip to extract the files. Then install the program and run this to try to remove the problem. Hope this helps.
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