Archive through January 16, 2003
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Archive through January 16, 2003
Bryan | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 06:50 am     <hands Juju a pair of shades for the next power outage> |
Draheid | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 09:01 am     Juju: It looks like you could adjust your screen by holding down the Fn button and press the left arrow or right arrow key to adjust the contrast. You can access the documentation for your particular computer by Clicking Here to go to the Gateway support area for your computer. Hope this helps. |
Northstar | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 09:26 am     It worked Crossfire! Thank you, thank you. I got the icons off his face. Poor baby had a recycle bin near his nose. Kinda ironic/funny how that lined up, I thought. Now, is there any way to just remove some from showing on the desktop, i.e. Real Player, WinZip, etc.? I know they have a home elsewhere in my computer, I'd just rather they didn't camp out on my desktop. Oh, and thanks for detailing the directions |
Halfunit | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 09:38 am     Northstar - Just drag the icons you don't want into the Recycle Bin. Icons on your desktop are not the programs themselves. They are just shortcuts to the programs that, as you said, you know are elsewhere on your computer. |
Crossfire | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 09:40 am     You're welcome Northstar. Removing unwanted desktop icons is pretty easy. I have two ways I deal with the clutter. One is to just plain delete them like you want to. To do that, click on the unwanted icons with the right mouse button, and select delete from the popup menu. The second way I deal with them, is to make a new folder on the desktop called 'shortcuts', and 'right click-drag-move here' them to that folder. That way they are out of sight, but still around just in case I end up needing them later. Creating a new folder on the desktop is just a matter of clicking on a blank are of desktop with the right mouse button, and selecting 'new folder' from the menu, then typing in a name for it. |
Crossfire | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 09:41 am     Yeah, what she said too. |
Northstar | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 09:45 am     ((HUGS)) to the both of you. My dh e-mailed me this new pic last night and I was overly excited to put it on my screen. I've been missing him beyond belief lately. Thank you for helping make it better for me. ((baby squeeze)) |
Halfunit | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 09:50 am     Glad we could help get that nasty trash can outta his nose Northstar! And as a rule, listen to Crossfire before me!!! |
Crossfire | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 10:10 am     Ehhh. Yes and no. Listen to us all. I promise I will jump up and down and really raise a stink if I think I need to be heard over all others. I've been working in Information Technology for a good 10 years, and have been using computers since about 1978, but in some cases, I overlook the easiest option just out of habit. Right clicking and using popup menus is as natural as breathing to me, but for others, simply dragging to the trash bin makes more sense. Seeing Halfunit provide the right answer in one line vs my short novel is a perfect demonstration. If we all put our heads together, we will come up with the right answers. Just glad to be able to toss in a tip before Draheid got all over it. Hehehe. |
Halfunit | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 10:53 am     Crossfire, I have a confession. Your method of deleting desktop icons is the way I do it. However, in the course of my careers in an office environment, I have usually been the "go-to-girl" that everyone comes to for their computer questions. I have learned that if there is a one line answer - USE IT, lol. I also use a lot of keyboard shortcuts but I know this isn't for everyone! |
Crossfire | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 11:06 am     Every office should be so lucky as to have a go-to person like you. Invaluable. I usually try to find out who you are in the office, and become best friends with you. For end users, dealing with IT departments can be such a pain in the arse at times that people will do almost anything to avoid talking to us. |
Halfunit | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 11:11 am     ROTFL Crossfire.... We have given our ITD a new definition for the acronym. It Takes Days. I feel for the IT people though. It's hard to decipher thingy, blinky thing, and gobbledy gook, eh? PS - Once I find someone in ITD who is good, I get their direct phone number! |
Juju2bigdog | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 12:52 pm     Draheid, thanks! That was it! Wish you had been in chat last night when I was blinded. I have bookmarked the Gateway support page. Even though I know you probably went there and looked it up, I just now tried to find it myself quickly and couldn't, so I doubt I could have found it before either my battery died or I went completely blind. |
Mosessupposes | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 01:07 pm     Crossfire, I read your question about making SVCDs from DivX files. I don't know if anyone answered it or not. Maybe you already have had your question answered. But, just in case: I use Nero Burning ROM with the SVCD Plug-in. If you already have the DivX files compressed to your satisfaction, than it it is a piece of cake to use Nero. Basically, a couple of clicks and let it burn. There is a "subcult" of video cd fanatics, and they have posted tutorials and software downloads all over the Internet. |
Crossfire | Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 01:15 pm     You are the first to reply as far as I know, Thanks. I ended up hunting down some of that subcult's documents and set on my way with what I'll call mixed success. The process ended up being quite involved and what I decided to do, is get a DVD-R if for no other reason than to sidestep the manual mpeg splitting process and using between 2 and 4 disc's per copy. I am curious about the Nero solution though, does it also handle the steps of converting the DivX to Mpeg and filesplitting? If so, that just might make it tolerable enough for me to take another crack at it. |
Grannyg | Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 09:23 am     Strange things are happening again!! I went to log on to TVCH as I normally do and got that wonderful page that says "Can't find server". So I went to Yahoo and eBay with no problems. Then tried to go back to TVCH and same thing happened. So I signed on to AOL and it worked just fine. So why can I access TVCH with AOL and not Internet Explorer? My ISP is Roadrunner. Probably just a glitch with Roadrunner but it worked fine yesterday. Maybe it doesn't like 2003 just yet!! |
Grannyg | Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 09:26 am     Never mind I guess all I had to do was complain and Roadrunner jumped right on it!! LOL |
Mygetaway | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 05:22 pm     Ok.. This is for my DH. He has some D&D cartoons on disc and wants to watch them on the AVI player. He gets sound but no video. He has an ATI player that he thinks is missing a file, but he's having a hard time finding any info on where to go to get it. Does anyone have any help for him? This is all the info I have, he thinks maybe this was an old version of the player too. Thanks in Advance.. |
Crossfire | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 05:29 pm     Sounds like a missing codec. AVI's seem to come a million different formats. That avi might be a divx encoded file. Try going to divx.com, and downloading the latest version...5.02 I think. If that does not work, google for the nimo codec pack. One of these, probably the first will solve the missing codec problem. |
Mygetaway | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 08:10 pm     Thanks Crossfire!! I copied your post and sent it to his computer, and now he's up and running. He's a happy camper.. |
Whoami | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 10:25 pm     OK, two problems.... First one is just a bit annoying. No matter how many times I re-size, my IE6 pops up with half a window when I click on the icon on my desktop. How do I get it to pop up full size? Second one is an intermittent and recurring problem. Many websites just freeze up my computer and won't load. One is TV Guide.com. The main page loads ok, but when I click on the "TV Listings" for my local schedule, it freezes up (not always, but often). Today, now the last two times I tried to click on the "Need A Hug" thread in the CC Folder, it does the same thing. When it freezes up, first the page just gets "stuck." I give it ample time to load, but nothing. Nothing works, not the Stop button, the toolbar, nothing. I try Ctl-Alt-Del to bring up the menu for what is operating in the background, and everything is frozen. I can't re-boot or anything, I finally have to hit the reset button (and then of course get reprimanded by the computer for not shutting Windows down properly!). I figure I probalby need more memory (I have 64MB now). But just haven't gotten around to taking it in to put more in. But why would it freeze up some times, and not all the time? |
Abbynormal | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 10:47 pm     I get this message at least 5 times a day: Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost. I have run every scan type thing I know to run and it always says everything is okay and working properly. Also, this message has a details button which I think tells you where the problem is but I don't know what all that stuff is. Any suggestions? |
Draheid | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 07:10 am     Whoami: Your situation definitely sounds like a need for more memory. Wargod recently upgraded from 64MB to 192MB by installing a single memory 'stick'. You will be amazed at the difference this makes. And I would venture to bet this will cure most of the freezes you're experiencing. Abbynormal: I wonder if you aren't having the same problem? You don't mention how much memory you have in your computer. Most PCs sold today have a minimum of 128MB, most have 256MB or more. In either instance, there are a number of associated things that can be happening. Neither of you mentioned this, but I would suspect you are experiencing your problems only after you've been using the computer and rarely, if ever, immediately after starting up. This would seem to indicate that you may be running programs that do not properly release memory resources after you have finished using the program. Microsoft word has always been notorious for this. Abbynormal: I would be interested in hearing more details of your system and perhaps a snippet of the contents of that 'details' information. Hope this helps. |
Halfunit | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 07:48 am     <Bets $10 it's a kernel error.> |
Zachsmom | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 08:06 am     lol..Half..99.9% of Microsoft's problems ARE kernel errors!!! |
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