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Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 8:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Juju! :-) I'll keep an eye out for Dra over the next few days and mosey on over to his folder if I haven't seen him. It's nothing too major... it's just frustrating that the one file type I want to burn -- the "home movies" -- aren't supported.

Draheid
Board Administrator

09-09-2001

Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 9:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Karen: I went to a favorite site of mine for many Video questions (www.videohelp.com) for the answer to your question. Try the How-To guide HERE for the instructions on how to use the Rad Video Tool program for this task.

Note: The page above seems to have a bad link for downloading the program. You can try THIS LINK to download it instead.

Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Monday, October 16, 2006 - 7:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Dra -- I did find the Rad Video Tool program, and all seemed to be in good order... until I tried to play back the .avi it spat out. It turned my 14 MB .mov file into a 600 MB .avi, and the playback was so choppy, it took over a minute to play back the 11 second clip. A quick search of the Rad Tools FAQ said that if playback wasn't quite optimal, it was because of a bug in Windows Media Player (something about its timecode?) and said to alter my c:\boot.ini file to add "/usepmtimer" to the end of the [operating systems] line. I did this, and the play back is still as crappy. Even when I dumped this new .avi file into Nero, it still played back extra choppy.

It could be my machine, I'll take a look at a few of the other settings, and take a look at that "How To" you posted.... thanks again!

Dipo
Member

04-23-2002

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 4:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Let's see if anyone has any ideas on this one. On my computer at work I usually listen to a radio station, KOIT, and if that is acting whacky I have KISS, KBLX the quiet storm, Q97.5 EZ Rock to choose from. So yesterday, I login and start up KOIT, get the commerical, but no music. Try all the other channels same thing - commerical to begin with and no music starts up.
So I emailed the Bulletin board to see if anyone knew what was going on, heard from bunches of people with the same problem. Finally, someone emailed me to try Live365.com and I can hear music from it fine.

Any ideas on how to fix this problem?? It's not something I really want to bring up with the help desk since they might ask if I am really working, LOL!!

Draheid
Board Administrator

09-09-2001

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Dipo: The problem could be caused by so many things that it's difficult to say exactly what it is and how to fix it. A lot of media players (Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, etc) use different ports and protocols depending on the source and format of the data being delivered. It's possible, since so many have stopped working, that your network administrators have blocked a port common to those while the one that works may be using a different port. If you would like me to take a closer look into this, please PM the links to a couple that no longer work as well as one that does and I'll be happy to see if I can figure anything out that could help.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 6:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
For the last two months or so, I have intermittent problems sending emails on my cable service provider. IT can take anywhere from immediate to 30 seconds to send a message ( and I am talking short two or three liners with no attachments). The length of time is all random. One may go immediately and the next may take 10 or 15 seconds etc.

When I call the cable provider they naturally blame my antivirus.

I use ( and love) AVG as my anti virus .Is there someway I can turn off the OUTGOING email only portion so I can test this out ??

PS Totally unrelated to the above problem, when I checked the AVG control centre to see for myself if I could turn off only the outgoing email scanner (to no avail) I noticed that the Virus Vault has two trojan horses in it from earlier this year. How do I get rid of them??

Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated!!! :-):-):-)

Draheid
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09-09-2001

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 10:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Jan: The only way to disable AVG from scanning e-mail is to uninstall the entire plugin for the e-mail scanner. It's an all or nothing thing unfortunately.

As for emptying the vault, when you open the control panel for AVG, click on the vault, then you should have an 'Empty Vault' button on the screen. Click that button to empty the content of any old viruses found.

Jan
Moderator

08-01-2000

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 11:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Thanks Dra - I had tried that "empty vault" button earlier and it said "are you sure you want to empty the vault" so i rethought it, fearing maybe I was doing something wrong! :-)

BW, does the slow email sound like AVG to you?

Draheid
Board Administrator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Jan: I really doubt if AVG would affect the e-mail randomly. It sounds more like your ISP's mail server may experience problems during heavy use and be fine when not being used much. They'll never admit to that, of course, but it's the most likely reason for what you describe. At least in my opinion, it is.

Jan
Moderator

08-01-2000

Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 6:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Yeah, I tend to agree with you Dra- in fact I told him so in a nice way and insisted that he take a measurable repair report on it. But I doubt they will do anything.

Thanks for all your help again :-):-)

Dipo
Member

04-23-2002

Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Dra, thanks for the offer, don't want to make you go through all that work. We just had an annual recertification process here that screwed up a bunch of stuff. I think they made some changes to firewall which probably caused the issue.

Soon and executive will try to listen to something and they will fix it for him/her and we will have all our radios back, LOL!

Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Friday, October 27, 2006 - 9:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mygetaway a private message Print Post    
Hi Helpers! I looked through a couple back pages and couldn't find my problem so, pretty please... I need some help.

How do I get into safe mode, if holding down the control key (or F8) doesn"t work?
I'm running 98SE.

Do many people still use the 98 programs? We are "afraid" to go to XP, plus we really haven't had the money to do both computers. But more and more programs are requiring the later versions.

Draheid
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09-09-2001

Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 6:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Mygetaway: If holding the key doesn't work, try tapping it slowly while rebooting (either F8 or the left control key) and you should see a menu prompting to select the startup mode.

If that doesn't work, but you can get into Windows 98, you might try the MSCONFIG utility. CLICK HERE for instructions on how to use.

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 7:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Windows 98 was a pretty darn good O/S as Microsoft systems go and there are still people using it. However, you are right that there are new programs that will not work with it or have not been tested to work with it.

The problem with your upgrading to XP with your current system, is while it might be stable and not crash, it would probably be very very very slow. I was running Windows ME (on my older computer) and I got so frustrated with it crashing that I upgraded to XP. Now it never crashes but it's sloooooow.

Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Monday, October 30, 2006 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mygetaway a private message Print Post    
Thanks Dra and Jimmer...
Well, that didn't work for safe mode, so I'll try to do config later. I've been trying to do a scan disk, but it keeps cycling. I've turned off every thing I can think of (screen saver, task scheduler, Norton auto update, etc.) When I do a ctrl/alt/delete to see what else is running, nothing showed. What else could I be missing?

Also, I'm afraid my hard drive may be going out. The computer has done a couple weird things. It didn't save some information in my Real Player. I exported a playlist and saved it. The next time I restarted the computer, it was like I never saved that info. Then yesterday when I got up I closed the 2 open programs that were on the screen (Norton's and Real) but then my desktop was frozen and all my icons were out of place. I've never had anything like that happen before.

The other day when I was uploading some music I lost, my SD got a CD stuck in the drawer. She pushed the comp power button instead of the eject button. Everything froze and I got this message about the Registry that I've never seen before. Then, I had to restart it. A message came up saying that it had to repair something (in the registry?) and was going back a few days (or something like that.) Since that incident is when these things started happening. (Except the safe mode problem..)
I hope this makes sense. My hard drive is about 3 years old I think. It's only using 6GB of the 18, and I don't have any games or stuff like that on it.

Ktbb
Member

08-10-2003

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 4:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ktbb a private message Print Post    
Help Our spybot keeps freezing up everytime I try to use it. First it takes FOREVER to run then when you try to fix the problems it freezes up and refuses to do anything. I finally have to shut it down through control/alt/delete. I have even tried to download a new one, and am still having the same problems. UUUGGGHHH!! Any help would be appreciated.

Draheid
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09-09-2001

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 9:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
Ktbb: I would recommend you restart your computer into safe mode and run SpyBot and AdAware in that mode to get them to run through. That should prevent anything from conflicting with the programs when you run them.

Ktbb
Member

08-10-2003

Friday, November 03, 2006 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ktbb a private message Print Post    
ok I'll try it Thanks Dra

Heyltslori
Moderator

09-15-2001

Monday, November 13, 2006 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Heyltslori a private message Print Post    
I made a stupid error and my email address got on some sort of massive spam list. So now I get tons of spam mail every day. They mostly go to my spam folder...but it's still annoying. Is there anything I can do to stop them from coming?

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Monday, November 13, 2006 - 11:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Not a lot Lori.

The worst thing that you can do is acknowledge that you are receiving them by asking them to remove you from the list. If they are unscrupulous that only serves to assure them that they have a real live person reading their spam, which may make it even worse.

There are ways to bounce the message back to the originating source to try to fool them into thinking the address no longer works, but I'm not sure of the details on how to do this or how effective this is.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Monday, November 13, 2006 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Would setting the email option to just allowing mail from people in her addy book work, Jimmer?

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Monday, November 13, 2006 - 11:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That would work if she has that option and it is the most aggressive anti-spam technique available. The downside of course is that we occasionally want to receive emails from people who are not already in our address books. For example, when someone applies for a membership at TVCH, we sometimes get asked why they haven't received a confirmation or a reply from us. The answer usually is that their spam blocking has rejected our reply because they haven't added us to their address book.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Monday, November 13, 2006 - 12:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Lori, I'm not sure how this helps, but I know if my business sends Email to folks with certain Email companies (Earthlink and PeoplePC come to mind), the sender has to go through an additional verification step in order for the Email to go through.

When you send an Email to them, you get an Email back that requires you to go to a website, enter your name and a brief message, and type in some random letters you see on the screen. This sends a notice to the recipient, requesting that they add you to their allowed list of senders.

I always thought it kind of handy, but I'm not sure if its available to all Email addresses, or if it's just something nifty provided by those companies.

Heyltslori
Moderator

09-15-2001

Monday, November 13, 2006 - 12:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Heyltslori a private message Print Post    
Thanks guys. I didn't think that there was a whole lot I could do, but I thought I'd ask in case any of you had some nifty little fix for me. lol Like I said, most of them do just go into my spam folder...but when I got back from my weekend away I had 458 spam emails! When there's that many you can't even easily go through them in case something ended up there by mistake.

I do see on a lot of them that "if you want to unsubscribe...." etc, kinda thing that you mentioned Jimmer, but I am nervous that it might make it worse. And Lum, I was thinking about the blocking thing too, but I do sometimes get a legit email from someone that I wouldn't want to have blocked. Karin, I'll look into the thing you mentioned. Maybe there's a way for it to do that with just the junk mail.

Thanks for the help. For now, I'll just keep deleting and hopefully wear them down. lol
:-)

Chiliwilli
Member

09-04-2006

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 12:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
I have an email account set up with iwon.com that I use when I sign up for anything online. I never use that email address to receive anything I really want to receive. Every once in a great while I will go in there and empty it all out but normally I just let it fill up and sit there. That way if some unscrupulous business sells my email address they are not getting one I pay any attention to.