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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 11:51 am
I defrag every day.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 12:07 pm
Dipo, do the things I suggested (creating a restore point, doing the files & settings transfer thing), and then backing up your files. I dunno why you are having a Geek Squad visit, so it's hard to say what to look out for. Just be sure to tell him NOT to remove the system restore functionality (otherwise, the restore point you set will vanish). And be quite firm in that you do NOT want to have to reinstall the OS and all apps. KL, I dunno how old your system is, but there is a possibility that you may not be able to add memory. You may be able to replace it (for example, if you have two 256 MB chips in there, you might be able to swap 'em out for 512s. It depends on your computer, too (laptops it's harder). Annie, I'd definitely buy a laptop. But... I travel a lot, I move around my house a lot (gotta love wireless!), and I prefer to have my computer take up less space in my office. You can get decent laptops for not much money these days, depending on your requirements (although, admittedly, you can get desktops for about $500, too). Oh yeah, you should NOT need to defrag every day. In fact, I'd highly recommend against it. Even once a week may be excessive. Daily tasks should be virus scans; weekly tasks should be to clean out temp files/folders; monthly tasks should be defrags ONLY IF you really write to your system a lot.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, April 02, 2007 - 8:11 pm
Anybody out there? Geeksquad just left!! They did a very thorough check of my system and couldn't find any reason for XP to take 10+ minutes to load! So we chalked it up to bad OS and reinstalled. So now I am trying to put my favorites and some files back on and I am having trouble with the import wizard. When it asks to import from a file or address, how do I get it to go look on the CD we burned? Some of this simple stuff I just don't know how to do!!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:29 pm
Dipo, that will be "from file". Then a window will pop up and you'll choose the CD drive, then the folder that you stored it in, on that CD.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:33 pm
My own question: My monitor display has died. The power button "recognizes" when the computer is in sleep or active mode by going green or orange, so I know it's still getting signal from the computer, and power. But I'm not getting the screen to light up anymore, not even with that little "power save mode" square that comes up when you just turn it on. So I'm thinking it's toast. I want to get another LCD, but most are "widescreen" now. Does that matter? Would I need a different or special video card? I have an ATI Radeon 9800 something or other, factory installed. It has TV capabilities, so I'm just worried that maybe the TV part won't work on a wide screen?
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 5:52 am
Eeyore, you should be fine ...
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 9:10 am
Eyeore, the From file box as C:/dksjfksfjlsfjl and I can't get it to switch to E. Do I just need to open the files on the CD and save them somewhere on the C drive and then import them? This is so annoying it should be simple, point the import at E and hit enter, but it is not working out that way!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 9:19 am
Hmmm.....When you do the from file box...there should be a drop down menu bar up at the top of the box, that should say C:fdsllfskjhl. Can you click on the arrow of that box to switch to your CD drive? Or, on the left hand side of some boxes, there is a list of 4 icons, and one of them is My Computer. Could you click on my computer? LT - Thanks!! 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 10:02 am
Dipo, what Eeyores said. Where it now says from file and inside the box it says C:whatever - next to that there should be a little triangle or arrow pointing downward. Click on that little arrow, and it will present you with all the other options of places to look. One of them should be E:, and when you select that, it should then show you what is on E: and you then click on your file you want to import. I am thinking that should work for you. Good luck. It is hard to do this stuff when you are first learning, and everybody else but you seems to know it. But it is not magic. Everybody else had to start somewhere and learn it just like you are doing. Hang in there. One day it will all become much more clear.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 11:36 am
I will check, I don't think I saw a drop down box but I was pretty tired!!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 6:50 pm
Haven't gotten back to the import of the stuff yet, but have another issue. How do I stop all these pop-ups, I don't remember ever having this problem before!! they are coming out of the woodwork. TIA, I am off to snuggle in bed with the kitties and watch dancing with the stars.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 8:09 pm
Pop-ups are not good. That generally means spyware. Do you have Adaware re-installed yet? If not, you can go to the top of this page and use the Click Here and go download it. After you download it and get it installed, hit the update button and get it updated (while connected to the internet), then run it. That should find and kill the popups.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 8:43 am
Thanks Juju! I forgot I had that before but I still didn't have that many popup's before I put it on the system. Also, how funny is it that I am back to IE 6 and miss 7, or whatever number we are up to now. I made a list of the other stuff I need to put back on and that is one of them. Had to put the Office stuff back so I could put my files back first, LOL
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Cathie
Member
08-16-2000
| Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 3:15 pm
Just noticed a problem today--when I try to use the Add/Remove Programs icon from the Control Panel in Windows XP Media Edition nothing happens--the list to change or remove never populates (just a blank window.) The other functions of the icon work (add new program, add/remove Windows component, and set program access and defaults.) I have looked at the Microsoft site and found nothing helpful there for this problem. I want to uninstall several unused programs, just a general spring cleaning of my PC, and would prefer to do it the "right" way, just can't get there...
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 7:30 am
Hoping someone can help me,every time I go to shut my computer down it won't shut off,I have to unplug it,in order for it to turn off.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 8:21 am
Mictay, what happens? What version of OS are you using? How old is your computer? What do you use it for, and what apps do you run? When you look at the Task Manager, what's in there (look at the processes tab and see what's taking up so much processing power)?
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 2:35 pm
I think I solved the problem,Thanks Costacat!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 3:37 pm
Sledgehammer or dynamite?? ****d&r****
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 6:29 am
well my computer is broken,i'll try and explain what happen.I have an emachine and there is a fan inside that stopped working and got the mother board to hot so I guess it burnt out.thank god my mom let me use her computer,until I can either get mine fixed or buy a new one.which will be a while.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 9:43 am
Aww Mictay, sweetie, that just sucks. Lucky the overheating didn't catch fire tho. Hope you can still post often with your mum's 'puter...
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Graceunderfyre
Member
01-22-2004
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 2:45 pm
oh techie gurus please give me your advice. . . I got my new computer (woohoo) and used my student loans to get legal copies of the software I lost when I moved out to IL 3 years ago. So the software came in today and I put in the crappy MS Office 2007 that I really don't want on my computer but have to have because the rest of the world uses it. Then I went to put in the sacred Adobe Creative Suite and it wouldn't do it because it said I didn't have enough ram I called Tiger Direct to find out what to do, since when it arrived on my doorstep, the box was pretty damaged and I wondered if it was UPS' fault. They had me go to the device manager and said it was probably my video card and to upgrade memory which I was going to do, but not now because I have 3 major projects due in 3 classes over the next few weeks. So here's the deal - I bought a 512MB Ram computer, CCleaner (my registry cleaner) says I have 382MB Ram. Adobe wants me to have at least 384MB (yes that's right I'm only 2 short). Can I turn off the video card or something to get that 2MB? I have to have a rough draft of the website I'm working on available to use tomorrow afternoon with my class - the teacher I aide for, is not there tomorrow and she put in her lesson plans that I am running the class in the afternoon to do a practice run of my lesson while the class is in computer lab. I think I can manage to use a trial version of GoLive for that, but I need to have it all pretty and nice for my professor next week. I also have a powerpoint presentation that needs to be emailed in advance to my prof for class on Saturday (so I was aiming for Thursday night to the prof) so I kinda need to keep my computer til all these things are done with. . . so any ideas on how to get more RAM without taking it in would be great. I know there is software I can run that will tell me what I currently have so I can go over to the Tiger Direct outlet and buy more - I feel comfortable installing it - I did it on the laptop, this can't be that hard, right?
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 3:04 pm
Grace, you can't turn of your video card, because it is what give your monitor the signal. You can try stopping non-essential services in the Task Manager (window that comes up when you press Ctrl-Alt-Del). Lots of times many programs run stupid stuff in the background, like Quick Time, iTunes, printer stuff, software update monitors, etc. Try looking through the running services, and see what isn't necessary.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 4:17 pm
Also look in your Startup folder and see if there's anything you don't need to start up when you turn on your computer. Look in your system tray and see if there's anything you can shut off in there, too. Little things, like Weather bug, mouse control, and so on, can add up to memory usage (you can see how much memory is being used in the Task Manager > Processes tab). You can adjust your Virtual Memory so that it's more effective.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 4:20 pm
Grace, is this a custom computer or do you have a model number? We can help much more if we know the model number and operating system. If the video is on the motherboard, then it will likely be using some of your 512MB of RAM. 128MB would make sense since it's close to 512 - 382. If that's the case, you might be able to reconfigure the video card to use only 64M or even 32MB of RAM. If your not gaming, 32MB of video RAM is fine for office.
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Graceunderfyre
Member
01-22-2004
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 5:54 pm
well stupid me, I opened up both computers to play around and then my lovely son broke the memory card in half so I ended up taking the broken card to the Tiger Direct outlet and bought new RAM But I can safely say that after playing around with it for 2 hours and getting NOTHING done on my schoolwork, my computer is running twice as fast now. And I learned that I can turn off my video card but I just won't get hi resolution (which I wouldn't have cared for just getting my work done) AND even tho both computers had one 512 ddr ram they were not the same speed which is why I thought I killed both computers... thanks so much for your help guys!
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