Seek and dispense advice regarding computer and software problems and issues. Discuss concerns regarding personal computers. Everyone can ask questions, seek help, and provide advice and answers. http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:11 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:11 Hi, I have a hp desktop built in 2003 which has 256 memory. I ordered 2- 512 memory sticks this week. Are there some steps that I should perform before adding the memory?
... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956640 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:26:50 So frustrating. I'm on dialup only. No possibility of acquiring broadband. I have and love using Firefox (version 4.0.1) but it is getting slower and slower (yes, I emptied cache & history and everything I could find) but nothing helps. Plus more and more websites are stating they are incompatible w... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956633 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:03:36 I'm on Mozilla. This happens over and over and far too frequently.

I tried reinstalling Adobe Flash Player.

It didn't help.

What to do?... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956630 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:44:14 as far as I know, unless something upgraded itself. I can't find any setting or Google answer that says do so and so to make it stay large. Any ideas?

Thanks!... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956620 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:39:27 My router has IPv6 enabled, my modem has IPv6 capability, but when I check at the Test your IPv6 website, it says I don't have IPv6 connectivity.

Can anyone guide me to a fix for this?

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956594 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:44:49 I've now done about 8 downgrades on various hardware.. 2 for us in the shop, and 6 for clients of the shop. So far it's been a snap. Just edit BIOS to boot with 'legacy BIOS' instead of 'UEFI', reformat the drive 1 partition NTFS with a GParted LiveCD, and reboot into the Windows 7 installation DVD.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956590 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:54:50 Hi,

I need advice on cleaning dust from a desktop case.

I have a CM 690 II Advanced case, about a year old. This computer has always run the fans a bit stronger/louder than I expected. I made some adjustments in BIOS and was good for several months. Recently, I noticed the fans running st... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956573 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:51 With the help of you all...I managed to get some use of video back...but...

I can only enter You Tube when I'm logged into Google Chrome. Going to my You Tube account doesn't work or any other video, like on my Comcast homepage doesn't show up. Both say I need to download Adobe which I have don... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956569 Sat, 18 May 2013 07:41:12 I'm getting ready to switch out my cable modem. I finally broke down and purchased one so I don't have to pay $7.00 a month to Comcast.

Are there any pitfalls I should look out for?

Thanks. :-)... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956562 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:42:42 on my pretty-fast Windows computer (quad-core, 4GB RAM, fast graphics processor, SSD).

So yesterday I switched back to Firefox.

[i]VROOOOOOOOOM[/i]

Just thought y'all might like the info, in cas you're having issues with Chrome.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956557 Thu, 16 May 2013 16:59:58 I was pissed! I uninstalled all google applications and migrated my gmail over to outlook.com. Then I figured out avast was the culprit and I uninstalled that and replaced it with MES. I've been using duckduckgo.com as my search engine ever since. Overreaction? Maybe, but it feels good to do somethi... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956545 Wed, 15 May 2013 20:38:26 One of the worst kept secrets rattling around Microsoft's campus is Windows Blue, the forthcoming update to Windows 8 that addresses users' bugbears about the OS. Now, Microsoft is officially rechristening the platform, and with a more staid name: Windows 8.1. Tami Reller, the CMO and CFO of Microso... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956536 Wed, 15 May 2013 07:00:45 I don't know exactly what happened...I'm not very computer savvy. But, through no action of mine Google redid itself and it screwed things up.

The only thing I did recently is update my Adobe.

First my Comcast TV listing grid isn't working. The page comes up but no listings.

I had sho... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956518 Tue, 14 May 2013 20:13:50 .
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.

I recently did a complete scan, no problems.

Haven't been to any sites known for problems (e.g. porn)

Kept getting a black dos screen

"hard drive 0 not found"

"no boot device available"

don't have a backup disk, couldn't find the original XP install or would have done tha... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956511 Tue, 14 May 2013 04:16:36 One that doesn't require a lot of extra work to set up--just plug and play. I recently got a new computer but it came with Windows 8. My old computer had Windows 7 Home version. I had a little Seagate external drive to use for back up but it does not work with Windows 8 and I left it with my husb... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956501 Mon, 13 May 2013 12:23:34 Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional or Photoshop 7.0 in Windows 8? I'm assuming they won't work, but I suppose anything's possible. Both work fine on my 12 year old Dell desktop, but this new 64bit Gateway/Acer laptop might not know what to make of them. Of course GIMP is the open source alternative to P... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956492 Sat, 11 May 2013 18:55:55 I had an old Mac Mini - circa mid 2007 - lying around that I could no longer update to the latest version of Mac OS X. So I thought, what the heck. I'll load Ubuntu on it. I haven't had a LINUX machine in a while so it'd be good to have one and get my skills back in shape. Also, I thought I'd just l... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956481 Fri, 10 May 2013 23:20:15 http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-amazon-smartphone-3d-screen-20130509,0,7016849.story

In an effort to expand beyond the world of online retailing, Amazon.com is reportedly working on a high-end smartphone that would feature a 3-D screen.

The device would allow users to see 3... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956474 Thu, 09 May 2013 18:29:26 I tried shrinking them, to no avail.

I'm at a loss right now, cuz i don't know what else to do. Please advice!

Thanks :p... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956464 Thu, 09 May 2013 13:03:25 :hi: folks!

I was updating one of my old computers and it said that it needed to update RealPlayer.

So, I downloaded and installed "it" from http://www.real.com/realplayer.

I ran a scan with SUPERAntiSpyware 5.6.1014 on said computer after the install and it found a serious trojan in it.

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956461 Thu, 09 May 2013 12:19:46 http://www.eweek.com/mobile/google-glass-gets-its-first-software-update-new-features/

Google's first software update for Glass is being distributed now and includes new features such as incoming Google+ notifications for users.

Google Glass users are starting to get their first software updat... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956452 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:35:15 [div class="excerpt"][b]Say Goodbye to Creative Suite: Adobe CS Is Now Creative Cloud[/b]

At Adobe’s annual MAX conference today, the company announced a major overhaul of the ten-year-old Creative Suite, which will now be known as Creative Cloud. From now on, you won’t buy CS6 or CS7—you’ll buy ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956451 Wed, 08 May 2013 17:56:35 What a PITA to remove. Customer brought in computer with it on it. Malwarebytes and MSE would temporarily remove it until you opened Firefox and did a search. Even regedit couldn't keep up with it.
Installed Spybot S&D and it got it out of IE but not Firefox. Finally completely uninstalled Firefox... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956446 Wed, 08 May 2013 14:01:05 I have a 3-4 year old Sony Vaio laptop. Paid about $800 for it.

For the last six months, the power keeps failing and I thought it was just the cord. But, found out that the jack inside is the problem and needs to be replaced. It has gotten to the point that you have to position it "just righ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956440 Wed, 08 May 2013 12:59:42 ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956430 Tue, 07 May 2013 17:54:12 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/after-bumpy-start-microsoft-rethinks-windows-8/

REDMOND, Wash. — Windows Blue, the code name for an update to the Microsoft’s flagship operating system, sums up the current melancholy in the PC business pretty well, though Microsoft didn’t intend it that w... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956420 Tue, 07 May 2013 11:10:20 I have an XP Pro system.

It has four hard drives. The last GB numbers on the chart are free space.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v463/Ted_SHRED/computer/harddrives_zpsf1638f49.jpg

My goal is to reformat the C drive and reinstall XP Pro (should I go with Win 7?) but I have no room to put... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956415 Tue, 07 May 2013 09:41:01 a short while ago the "My Posts" tab and the yellow banner announcing new replies disappeared from my screen. I could only access the "My Posts" page from the link at the bottom of a page.

Windows 7, Firefox, DU Classic view.

I cleaned cache/history/cookies and restarted, re-logged in to DU a... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956408 Mon, 06 May 2013 23:03:58 so I somehow was updating Flash and it did something to my toolbar. I now have ATT toolbar and I don't know how to go back to the old toolbar. Now when I click to open a new tab I get About:Blank instead of the page that used to come up with the page that had the last bunch of websites I visited. ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956400 Sun, 05 May 2013 14:06:18 Your opinions are most welcome. Thanks.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956395 Sat, 04 May 2013 21:32:38 http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/business/2013/05/scoble_shower-660x494.jpg

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/inherent-dorkiness-of-google-glass/

The Segway. The Bluetooth headset. The pocket protector.

What do these three technologies have in common? They all pretty much work as promi... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956387 Sat, 04 May 2013 10:43:06 I've had my current mouse for 2.5 years and use it several hours a day. The other day the mouse froze up twice in one day but a reboot cured it each time. The mouse is below:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104178

Got another year or so left in it ?

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956380 Fri, 03 May 2013 12:57:16 I haven't had Firefox on this computer...Is it better than Explorer? or Google Chrome???
don't know much. Any help would be appreciated. thank you
Stuart G ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956371 Thu, 02 May 2013 20:42:32 ..one downgrade from Win8 to Win7 on a brand new Dell Inspiron i15. One upgrade from Vista to Win7 on a Dell i3 tower, Ispiron 220 i think. And one upgrade from XP to Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 32-bit on a decrepit Pentium M Toshiba Satellite.

Here's how it went for each, *not* including OS... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956367 Wed, 01 May 2013 23:12:13 so, i know the standard methods of pw reset disc for win 7, and formatting, etc, in the event you forget your pw.
i got a buddy who bought a dell inspiron from the amazon warehouse.

they did not give him an OS disc
and the original owner's username is still showing up as admin login

i found ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956357 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:04:25 We just upgraded this week at work, and the Taskbar is driving us mad. Not only does it not add new items to the "end" (ie: it groups all open emails together), but it also does stupid things with "quick launch" items, moving them around the taskbar as new windows are opened.

The result: constant... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956348 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:37:25 My generous sister is going to give me a gift of money towards buying either a new lap top or a new computer.

I am leaning towards lap top. I generally don't do a lot on my computer other than using the internet, and using the word processing software to write my stories. I play some games especi... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956342 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:28:21 .. if you haven't read it yet, then.. well.. you should! it's funny (and true)..

http://www.zyra.org.uk/os-air.htm

[div class="excerpt"](snip)

Windows XP Air

You turn up at the airport,which is under contract to only allow XP Air planes. All the aircraft are identical, brightly coloured ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956331 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:32:00 :hi:

I need some help please!

I recently bought an old A31 2652 ThinkPad on eBay.com. It seemed sort of ok at first but after running various scans, etc. on it, I found a lot of horrible crap on it.

System restore no longer works on it. I found a serious threat trojan embedded in system r... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956307 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:02:54 Suppose you have a lot of emails with the same subject. If you copy them all at once, Windows will name the files File(1), File(2) etc.

But if you don’t copy/move them all at once, it won’t do that for you. It keeps saying that you already have a file with that name.
Any suggestions?


... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956300 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:24:47