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Snuffles
Member
07-17-2005
| Friday, April 18, 2008 - 3:23 am
Bonbonlover... were your two computers MACs? If they are not MACs, there is freeware called dban (stands for derek's boot I think) which will erase the hard drive securely... I have a friend who used to work at a casino and that's what they use to clean the hard drives before giving the computers away. same friend now works in computer forensics, so I expect he would know if that's a good one or not.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Friday, April 18, 2008 - 6:58 am
I had one thin blue vertical line and longer and longer boot up time. I was the monitor going bad. All's well. Still faaaaast boot up.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 18, 2008 - 9:31 am
By the time Darren and Caleb got back last night, had dinner, and helped Kota with her math, it was time for him to go to bed so he didn't have a chance to look at it. He said he's working late today then has her softball practice, hopefully he won't have to work tomorrow and won't have to go to bed early and can check it out then, otherwise it'll be tomorrow.
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Friday, April 18, 2008 - 5:41 pm
ok more on my computer thursday it went nuts and would not restart sometimes the mouse and key board would freeze up a lot and if a pop up window would come up it would not go away without a restart and the more we had to restart the slower the restart got so off it went to the computer doc. he called today and said he had it running for 6 hours and it was running fine for him he had no problem at all, he checked it for bugs, worms, spyware, and all that stuff--it got a clean bill of health we have a 10 year old keyboard i thought that might be it so I got a new one are tower is just 2 years old we just got a new monitor, mouse, printer/copier, keyboard now when I got it home and hooked back up it was doing the same things so I tried unhooking the the printer 1st and restarting same problem so i hooked it back up then the mouse, then the mp3 cord, then keyboard and I had the same problems any idea what's going on it worked fine at the computer store and not here please help if u can
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, April 18, 2008 - 5:56 pm
What kind of mouse and keyboard did you buy? Are they connected correctly?
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Friday, April 18, 2008 - 6:08 pm
we got the tower made at the same store the keyboard and mouse evrything else came from even the same sales person and I even asked that and they said it should all work together fine?
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Friday, April 18, 2008 - 8:55 pm
I don't know Nightcrawler--it may be time to replace the system itself--you have everything else new now too, so may as well get another tower. they are getting cheaper, faster, and smaller all the time. Sorry not a solution! Maybe it's the precessor, worn down or something. It may not be getting powered up enough to start up. Check the wall electricity socket--it may be faulty and not giving you the surge you need to start up. Maybe there's a blown wire behind the wall there from using the computer. Good luck!
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Nightcrawler
Member
02-12-2002
| Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 5:43 am
well some good news I just started are computer up today it started up fine a little slower them it has in the past but so far so good
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 10:34 am
Is anyone else having trouble playing youtube videos? I reinstalled flash player to no avail. Any advice? Thanks
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 11:05 am
I'm not having any problems with yt videos. Sorry I can't help.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 9:28 am
Help! My wireless optical mouse keeps not connecting. I have to keep pushing the connect button since last night. I checked the cables and everythings connected. And my wireless keyboard is working fine. My first thought was the battery but there's nowhere to open the mouse to check on a battery. It's a Logitech mouse.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 9:49 am
Gah nevermind I found where the battery goes lol.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 3:20 pm
I've had wireless keyboard and mouse for 4 - 5 years. I've only put new batteries in the keyboard once. I have to keep feeding the mouse. Love 'em though. Some less "spaghetti"!
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 4:07 pm
The youtube problem comes and goes. Mostly comes though.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 5:56 pm
Mocha, there has to be a place to insert batteries in the mouse itself. Check the top of it, see if anything flips up under the roller.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Monday, April 28, 2008 - 8:21 am
KL, youtube plays for me but just lately it has very low volume. Everything else online plays at the regular volume, so I don't know what the problem is.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, April 28, 2008 - 10:22 am
KL, can you do a system restore back to a time when Youtube worked okay for you?
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:05 am
I guess I could do that. But the last time I did that(for unrelated thing) it screwed things up. I'll give it a shot. 
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:18 am
General virus safety. Just a general note about Photobucket that they are apparently having some problems with viruses or trojan horse programs relating to banner ads. It is a random thing so it doesn't happen to everyone who accesses it. They are investigating and they seem to think they have fixed the problem. As a general note, if you access a site and get some official looking pop up message saying you need to click to scan for viruses or install a program similar to this one – don't click! Use your task manager to close it.
Remember do not click anywhere on a message like the above.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 2:24 pm
Wow.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 2:28 pm
Costa I figured it out thx. And of course the next day the keyboard batteries died. The mouse needed AAs and the keyboard AAAs.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:47 pm
The system restore was ineffective.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 10:05 am
solution found. I found a site that downloads youtube clips. Found a site that converts one type of file to another. I can watch youtube clips again 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 12:32 pm
Yay!!!
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 6:20 am
Youtube is working.......for now.
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