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Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 12:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Dra!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gonna move my stuff over to the other computer thread so we don't get Jed's Computer Tips and free files too far off topic here.





Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 10:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This Ad-Aware program keeps freezing up on me. Has anyone else experienced this or am I doing something wrong? It gets to a certain point and then it says "Busy" where it had previously listed the files it was scanning. I actually let it run overnight because that message came up but it never managed to finish its scan. Is it possible I'm actually infected with spyware and it's not letting ad-aware do its job?

Ladylove
Member

08-12-2004

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tishala,

I use Ad-Aware also but never experienced any freeze ups. I use Spy Sweeper by Webroot, they have a great trial version:
http://www.webroot.com/downloads/
Download is in the Try it section:
Spy Sweeper V3.2 Size: 3.21 MB


Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 1:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gracias LadyLove. That one worked!

Ladylove
Member

08-12-2004

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Your welcome Tishala I love to help people get the pesky demons out of their computers!!

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hmm I see the free file has been covered. :o)

So onto another quick tip. :o)

I know most of us use winzip and know what it's all about. But, there are some that don't know much about file compression.

So here's a quick run down.

Lets take some old files that you use, but, not very often.

Like all those stored images you want to post on tvch. :o) Or old songs... or those archives of all the funny posts by jed ofcourse. ;o) heheh ok maybe that's just me?

Anyway all you need to do is put all those files in a folder right click on that folder.

Then in the new window that pops up select the option that says send to.

Then select Compressed (zipped) Folder.

That's it your done. You've saved some valuable hard drive space and you didn't have to mess with moving all those images to a seperate disk. :o)

Jed. :o)

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A Tip for the parents or room mates or er well anyone. :o)

Don't want your kids or colledge room mate on the computer all day? Well here's an EASY way to stop that from happening. Here's how ya do it in a simple computer interface kinda way. :o)

Click Start, and then click Run.
In the box that pops up type cmd and then click OK or hit enter.

Type net user username /times:logon_times (where username is the name of the user account, and where logon_times are the days and times that you want to allow access to the domain), and then press ENTER.

a techie kinda example...

Days can be spelled out (for example, Monday) or abbreviated (for example, M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su).

Hours can be in 12-hour notation (1PM or 1P.M.) or 24-hour notation (13:00).

A value of blank means that the user can never log on.

A value of all means that a user can always log on.

Use a hyphen (-)to mark a range of days or times. For example, to create a range from Monday through Friday, type either m-f, or monday-friday. To create a range of time from 8:00PM to 5:00PM, type either 8:00am-5:00pm, 8am-5pm, or 8:00-17:00.

Separate the day and time items with commas (for example, monday,8am-5pm).

Separate units of "day and time" with semicolons not spaces (for example, monday,8am-5pm;tuesday,8am-4pm;wednesday,8am-3pm).

a quick easier example

OH and a side note.
For your kids/whatever you need to create a user account, I'll go over that later if anyone asks.

Say the account that you want to limit time on is.
er...uh...Jed and the other account is Dej :o)

You want to allow jed monday to friday time from 8 am to 3pm. And Dej Gets all access.

after you click start then click run and type in cmd. In the lil black box that popsup type


Type net user jed/times:m-f,8-3(where username is the name of the user account, and where logon_times are the days and times that you want to allow access.), and then press ENTER.

Same thing with Dej except you type in Net user Dej/times:all,all and hit enter.

And incase your wondering uhhh I never undo this it's faster/easier to create a new user account and delete the old one. :o)

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jed, I like your tip about Compressed Folder. Let's say I use stuff in that folder a lot (like maybe stupid dawg pictures). If I send it to a Compressed Folder, will it be a pain to retrieve it?

Probably can't add anything to a compressed folder, right?

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 4:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
you can add anything you want to it juju and it's not a pain at all. In windows xp it's already part of the system. And it only takes a couple of extra seconds to open the folder. No messing with archive options and all that other stuff. Just open it right up.

You can add pics (favorite posts by jed) ;o) Music, even software. :o)

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Friday, October 15, 2004 - 6:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok tips are fun, but, free files are ...well fun. :o)

So I'll be posting a few free files later today maybe? but, by sunday I promise to have some up here. :o)

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Monday, October 18, 2004 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok Sunday was my freak night so... no heheh it was my crash day. I passed out and didn't wake up hardly at all.

But, a day late here are some free files. :o) And yep, I'm going with free games. :o) Cause I'm a day late I'll post a website that has a few free demo's of games.

here it is>>> click me



Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Monday, October 18, 2004 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok maybe one or two more Free halloween screen savers

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Monday, October 18, 2004 - 8:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Something different. :o)

See I was asking a few people at work if they would buy a book if I wrote it. The book title is all I would tell them. Well two of the ladies at work said they would rather buy pizza so....

Free pizza I know I know that's not a free file, but, hey even I run out of ideas. :o)

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Monday, October 18, 2004 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
See I even fed ya. :o) Now another file really fast.

Ok last freebie for a lil bit. This is a free message board. That's right a message board that you can run. cool eh? message board

Freckledgrl
Member

08-27-2003

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jed, I'm really late to finding this thread and not the most pc savvy, but thank you! I'm setting up the AVG antivirus right now that you posted and I've been playing with GoSing too...lol.

There's a lot of archives to get through and I'm sure I'll find other useful goodies too. Thanks for taking the time to post all your finds :-)

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Friday, October 22, 2004 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey Freckledgrl, Good to know that you found them fun/usefull. I try to post tips on here atleast once a week. The free files I post less then that, but, I might pick back up on them. I have discks full of webpages with free files.


Thanks for checking out my thread and giving me some feed back.

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Friday, November 19, 2004 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok New tip. :o) I know I know I've been lagging behind ALOT. But, for those of you that read the thread... here's a tip for ya.

Wanna log something into notepad like a journal for one of your children? Or maybe for yourself? Well ok anything that you might want to put into notepad and keep a running time of when you make changes to it. Here's what you do to give it a time stamp. :o)


Pressing F5 in Notepad inserts the current date and time stamp at the location of the cursor. Basically start up a notepad and click somewhere on the page then click the F5 key. :o)

typing .LOG as the first line in a Notepad document, the current date/time stamp is added automatically every time you reopen that file.
These tips work with all Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003 versions of NOTEPAD

The break down of that is open a notepad that you intend to edit over time and want to know when you edited it each time. Click on the notepad and type ".Log" as the very first line. Then type F5 and start typing in whatever you want. It will keep a running time stamp log everytime you open it. :o)


Ok two tips. :o)

Ok I'll admitt this one might not be real useful, but, it works so here it is. :o)


When you highlight a Desktop icon or a file in Windows Explorer, hold SHIFT and press F10 to get the Open With... menu."

Ok that tip is kinda useless to me cause shift F10 = right click. :o) But, if your mouse ever breaks down and you need a right click option. You now have it. :o)

Now that you've been armed with two new tips go out and give them a try.

Jed

Crossfire
Member

08-07-2001

Friday, November 19, 2004 - 2:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well isn't that the bee's knee's. I did not know that stuff about notepad. Tnx.

Crossfire
Member

08-07-2001

Friday, December 10, 2004 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here is something I think is really neat.

Google suggest. As you type, it offers up suggestions.


Link to Google Suggest


Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Friday, December 10, 2004 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is really neat Crossfire. Thanks!

Crossfire
Member

08-07-2001

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seems MS has jumped into the spyware arena.

Link

I've downloaded it, but not tried it yet. Any guinea pigs who just have to try everything around?

Crossfire
Member

08-07-2001

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 4:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok, I broke down and tossed it onto my XP box, seems fine, picked up a couple of things I did not know about. The realtime stuff looks interesting as well.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My mother is one of those guinea pigs that downloads anything and everything, usually in beta version, and then collapses her computer. I keep telling her she's an idiot, but....



Shadoe
Member

11-04-2004

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey I resemble that remark Kal. And yes I have learnt my lesson .... maybe ...
I think I will just download anything and everything more infrequently now.