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Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Hmmm ... I can't remember what I said the last time. Once you resize it once and then close it, it should remember the size for the next one.

Most browsers today use tabs. They keep all the pages in the same browser but add tabs across the top of the page. You could try turning tabs on in settings. You might like that better anyway. In IE it's under Tools ... Internet Options and in Firefox it's under Tools ... options.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 1:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Holly, that occasionally happens to me too, although it is when I first open a browser for the day and accidentally open it twice. I have not the slightest idea why it happens.

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 5:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Who, check out Dell. They're running ads for $400 laptops right now. It might be worth it to check it out to see if they offer special programs for the disabled. You never know unless you ask. Worst they can do is say no, right? (And I think if they do have programs like that, it's a charitable write-off for them so...)

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Hmm... I may be wrong. Dell does partner with the National Cristina Foundation to donate computer equipment to the disabled. However the foundation doesn't provide equipment to individuals. Still, wouldn't hurt to ask!

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 7:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
FWIW, Who, I don't know anyone around who is more competent and better priced than this little place in Loveland:

http://www.pcsandparts.com/services.html

They do offer a low cost diagnosis, basic is free; but it might cost $35 if the basic/free diagnosis doesn't isolate the problem.

A jack replacement/solder is $80, plus the cost of the jack.


A friend of mine called everyone around when her laptop was dying. Geek Squad wanted $150 just to look at it, altho they would apply that to the repair. These guys were the only ones that would really do it on the cheap.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 8:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Thanks Kar! I'll give them a look see. Truthfully I don't know if I can drive all the way to Loveland or not. I know its not really far, but time wise these days, just getting out of the house and down the street to the store seems like more than I can handle. LOL. But will certainly check it out.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Who, ask them if there is someone in your neighborhood that they can recommend?

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Can anyone recommend a free program for getting songs OFF my ipod? I broke my computer and got a new one. Thus, my bank account is wiped out. There was one program that CLAIMED to be free until I got to the downloading part. Tricky.

BTW I have NOT downloaded iTunes yet as I don't want it to wipe my ipod.

Thanks!!

Kookliebird
Member

08-04-2005

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 3:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kookliebird a private message Print Post    
As long as you don't have ITunes set up to 'sync', can't you just download the songs on the Ipod to your new computer?

Mak1
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08-11-2002

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Nyheat, I am using Sharepod to get the music off my iPod and onto my new computer. Sharepod is free. I already had iTunes downloaded and have set that to not sync automatically. I can import music from Sharepod into iTunes.

Mak1
Member

08-11-2002

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
I probably can just import the music from my iPod into iTunes without Sharepod, but I was really afraid I would do something wrong and wipe out my iPod.

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
No it doesn't work that way though there are programs that will do that (don't know which ones though).

I think though you can transfer them back or redownload them without paying if you bought them through iTunes.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
No, you can't transfer music from an iphone or ipod to your itunes on your computer. That's because they don't want you to take songs off your friends ipods and put them on yours.

You can set your ipod to be a harddrive, and then copy the files, but it then takes some manuveuring to get them back into itunes.

We've always used copytrans. It's free if you only do something like 100 songs at a time.

Nyheat
Member

08-09-2006

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Oh thank you for the Sharepod download info! I was afraid that itunes would wipe out my ipod. I did go into itunes (which I ended up installing) and checked the box for hard drive like Karuuna said and it's downloading songs as I type! Excellent! Thanks all :-)

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Thursday, July 01, 2010 - 7:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Nyheat, I think everyone is wrong. Go to the Apple site and poke around. I recently had to reinstall iTunes on my computer, and while I can't remember what I did, there were some very clear instructions on the Apple site. Just be sure that you set iTunes to not sync automatically to your iPod.

Kmm
Member

10-07-2005

Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 6:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kmm a private message Print Post    
I think I need serious help

I am trying to install Realplayer...it seems to install just fine, but when I try to open it I get an error that says This application failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
I have tried three times now and keep getting that same error.
I should mention too that I am not exactly computer literate!
Any help would be most appreciated!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Kmm, I don't know about your Real Player installation. You can try Googling for help by copying and pasting in your error message along with the words real player and see what you get back.

OR, supposedly we are going to be able to watch live feeds in a browser this year at this address: http://superpass.real.com/big-brother

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - 5:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Kmm, did you uninstall before reinstalling? Did you clean out the Windows Registry? (If you are computer illiterate, you may want to get some help since you can totally hose yourself if you screw up in the registry.)

Check out this link for info on how to perform a clean install of RP. If that doesn't work, while you're in the RP knowledgebase, see if anything else looks helpful.

Whenever I have install problems, I'll uninstall the program, remove all folders and anything left over, including anything in the Temp folders, and then remove any ref to the app in the registry.

Kmm
Member

10-07-2005

Thursday, July 08, 2010 - 8:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kmm a private message Print Post    
Thank you Juju and Costa

I googled it and found that I needed an update for WindowsXP...all seems well now!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, July 08, 2010 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yay, Kmm!!! I have found that there is almost no computer problem that exists that somebody hasn't already been through and asked for help on. I can almost always find where somebody else has had the same problem and use the fix they used just like you did. Of course, some of them are WAY too geeky for me, so I usually start with the simplest fixes first. But then, like anything else, the clue is usually knowing how to ask the question in the right way. I am glad you were able to fix it.

Kmm
Member

10-07-2005

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 9:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kmm a private message Print Post    
You are so right Juju! It did take me a while to weed through all of the technical mumbo jumbo, not that I had a clue what any of it meant! But through all of that the common thing in all of it seemed to be this SP3 thing...and sure enough, that fixed it...yay me!!! Thanks again for the help

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Same here, Kmm. I had extremely scary and baffling blue screens of death and continual error messages and started Googling, and ran across a whole bunch of very technical geek fixes, but found a common theme of things it "could" be, which was a bad stick of RAM. So instead of trying all the geek fixes, I opened up the computer and took out the sticks of RAM one at a time and restarted the computer after each removal, and sure enough, I had a bad stick of RAM!! Huh!

Um, you now have your computer set for automatic windows updates, right?

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, July 09, 2010 - 6:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Here is a very sweet little piece of free software that is a very small download, and when you install and run it, it will tell you everything you have on your computer, and you can print it out and keep it in case you need to refer to it. I have found it very useful in the past.

http://belarc.com/free_download.html

Kmm
Member

10-07-2005

Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 8:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kmm a private message Print Post    
Yes, Juju, I am now auto updating...3am every morning!!!

That download sounds like it could be very useful for me...thanks, you are the sweetest!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Well, looks like my laptop is officially dead. I found a shop here in town that offered comparable prices to the shop Kar mentioned, so I took it there. I talked to the guy today, and he says it is indeed the motherboard.

This depresses me more than I should be depressed. I mean, people on here are in danger of losing their homes for cripes sake, and I'm in a funk over a laptop.

I do know that it seriously decreases my computer time now. For the past couple of weeks, since the laptop died, I can barely walk into the kitchen (where the desktop is) and sit down before Mom is calling me for something. She said at one point when I'm in here she gets "lonely."

sigh.