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Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
That's some surface of the sun type twattage right there, Lexie. I'm so proud of you!!

Well, I told Himself and he decided to let me live but only because I'd done it to my own laptop instead of his. He described in excruciating detail what would have happened to me if I'd downloaded that crap on his computer. The mildest thing he said was I'd already be in the lake before he asked how cold the water was.

It made him feel better to know you guys were planning my funeral with an Apple Tree to mark the spot.

Now if the repair can just go smoothly - I'm not off the hook yet, all kinds of projectiles might connect with my forehead if he gets knee deep in shit trying to fix what I broke. Sigh.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
GAL, go cook him something that uses an avacado.

He needs to appreciate that you "need" him and you are "hopeless" without him......


GAL used the word "twattage". LOL!

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
<<--- Absolutely beaming from ear to ear because she made GAL proud of her!!!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    

Poor ((Gal))... not having a good day.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Heh. He threatened to flush the toilet repeatedly while I was in the shower but didn't do it. Now he's outside the front door splitting wood with an axe and wedge. I'm trying not to project it as a passive-aggressive reaction. It's just a healthy venting exercise, right?

Grooch, I'm going to run to the store and get that avacado now. It's a really good idea.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    

quote:

He threatened to flush the toilet repeatedly while I was in the shower but didn't do it.




The fact he didn't flush, that's true love. And I mean it. :-)

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 4:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
Low system memory...ok, this little box has shown up a few times recently, as well as one about a slow script. I did a disk cleanup and it still comes up now and then. Is there something else I can do to free up some memory, or can I just add more? I have a Toshiba Satllite M55-S1001 laptop. Can I just buy a larger chunk of memory and replace the one it came with? I don't know nuthin' bout this stuff!!!!!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 6:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Right click on the My Computer icon, and select Properties. That will tell you how much RAM you have in your machine. Then you can go to crucial.com and run through the menus to find out how much RAM your system can take. And yes, you can add it yourself pretty easily.

However, I gather you are not a sophisticated user, and chances are you are not really out of memory and have something else going on.

Write down the exact error message and then put that in the Google box and see what comes up. You might get some suggestions from that. Well, you can even Google out of memory error message right now and get some insight to the type of problem you have.

Of course, immediately run your anti-virus if you haven't done that lately.

If you have a spyware detector like Adaware, run that too.

That should hold you until somebody who actually knows something comes along.

Suz
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10-13-2005

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 11:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Suz a private message Print Post    
I got a message for AVG saying Upgrade deadline Dec 1. My question is should I upgrade to 9.0? I saw above (Draheid Oct 18 5:27a.m.) to do a custom install and completely disable Linkscanner. Should I do that or take Avg off and install Avast (Jujubigdog Oct. 19 7:20p.m.) Or Avira (Texannie Oct. 20 3:52a.m.)
I'm not very computor savy, so custom install would have to be fairly easy.
Does anyone still like AVG?
Thank You in advance.

Nightcrawler
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02-12-2002

Monday, November 23, 2009 - 7:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nightcrawler a private message Print Post    
1. I got the same message as Suz, we tryed to down load the avg 9.o but it would get too 2% and stop we tryed about 3 times and gave up.
we live out on a farm and are stuck in dial up HELL is that why we couldn't load it? or is it some bs thing that we dont need?

2. the clock on are computer keeps getting 10-12 min. fast. we reset it get 10-12 min fast again?

I did try and up date the automatically synchronize with internet server. and it would say error when trying to do it. so i turned that off and the clock is still going fast?
this is not that big of a deal just wanted to know what is going on:-)

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Monday, November 23, 2009 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I totally gave up on Norton Anti-virus a few years ago and switched to AVG. Norton was painfully slow and clunky and AVG was wonderfully speedy and solid. I’d swear now though that they have switched programmers. The current version of AVG is painful and I’d heard so many good things about the current version of Norton that I thought I’d give it a try. I have to say that the improvement in Norton is amazing and I'm glad that I went back to it.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, November 23, 2009 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yes, NC, AVG has now become a huge download, and you probably wouldn't even be able to download it with dialup.

Suz, I would go with Avira. There was a glitch there for a while, and it was not updating, but I now have Avira back on all of our computers, and it is behaving fine. NC, same for you.

What you want to do is go to this link and download Free Avira. http://www.free-av.com/
Then shut down your AVG and go to Control Panel to the place where you Add or Remove Programs (it is called something else in Vista, but you will find it in the control panel somewhere). Find AVG in the list and uninstall it. Then restart your computer. Then find where you downloaded the Avira and install it.

The place where you tweak your settings to do your scans is under a button called Administration.

The only thing some folks find annoying about Avira is that every time it updates, it pops us a screen advertising an upgrade, I think. I don't really know what it says, as I never read it, and don't find it all that annoying, considering they are providing me a quite fine FREE service.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, November 23, 2009 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Juju when my trial period ends with MacAfee - which came with the new system, the techie suggested I dl AVAST, do you still recommend it?

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, November 23, 2009 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yes, MB. Both Avira and Avast are just fine.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, November 23, 2009 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Thanks Jooj! I still have a few more days with Macafee then I'll probably dl Avast. :-)

Nightcrawler
Member

02-12-2002

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 7:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nightcrawler a private message Print Post    
I still can't get AVG 9.0 to down load BUT are computer store in town is going to download it on to a disk for me to load on are computer that way for only $4.
still wish I could get the clock right now
sometimes it's right and sometimes it's 10min fast??

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Nightcrawler, if you google "computer clock running fast", you'll get a bunch of hits. This one offered an easy solution. I don't know if it will fix your problem but might be worth a try. Some people encounter the problem when they're playing on game sites.

intrepid.com.au

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 9:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
Thank you, Juju!

Nightcrawler
Member

02-12-2002

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nightcrawler a private message Print Post    
ty mak1
i do play lots of online games

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 8:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
yw NC. I like to look for answers to puzzles like that, and I love to play online puzzle games.

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I'm still so computer illiterate. Simple problem, I think. Yesterday someone worked on my computer. Now when I'm on the internet, the tools (?) immediately below the address window is gone. It WAS "File Edit Favorites, etc." How do I get it back?

Bob2112
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06-12-2002

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bob2112 a private message Print Post    
Right click on the space where the menu used to be and check "Menu Bar"

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Hi, Bob. That worked.

Had a problem the last few days. Virus maybe. Who do I call? Remember Jennifer? I called her. It was like talking to Jennifer from our early days. It was good. Aaaaah.

Thanks for all YOUR help.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Colossus uses a 7.2 Netscape mail server. When downloading some emails a week ago, an email that had been lost in cyberspace for 14 months showed up and attached itself to another email from a different person. At this time, Colossus' inbox was snarled. After compressing files and managing to delete that one weird email, it now gives Colossus an error message saying "Check with the administrator to see if you have write privileges."

It won't let Colossus write any more message or send messages. He has set up a new mailbox, but has a huge amount of data in his old mailbox that would be a ginormous hassle to try and transfer or otherwise save.

Anyone have any clues what the problem might be and/or how to cure it?

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Have him Google "problems with Netscape e-mail", or similar search terms, see if anybody else has had the same problem.