wetware: I wonder if there is something similar in Firefox? I looked under Tools -- Options, but didn't see anything. I may not be looking for the right thing though.. lol..

coan.net: I thought about that, but i have changed nothing lately. What makes it funnier (or worse to try and sort) is today it is as fast as ever, yet i have altered nothing.
Process of elimination says that it may be something one of the Add-ons is getting hooked up on OR something else is taking up the RAM that Firefox needs, but when i look at all the running processes there is nothing and Firefox has all it should need.
So whats the problem lol

Can anyone help me in the direction of a "free" decent converter?
I have a .VRO and want to change it to .WMV       

I have found some free converters  but they put their logo in the middle of the video    so thats useless  LOL


Thanx for the help in advance  

Question: How many have people have downloaded Firefox now ?

Answer: Roughly 400,000,000

or2ak.com:

No one?   well sheeeesh 

or2ak.com: to be honest, I don't even know what VRO files are

Gordon Shumway: It's just another format for video file.

I can't help with converting since when I want to watch it on the PC, I just play from the .vro file - or when I want it burned, I just burn the .vro file - I never convert it so I'm no help with that.

coan.net:

Yes, so far thats the only way I can watch it. (Is on my PC)   But I'm trying to upload it to youtube and it doesnt accept .VRO extentions. 

Gordon Shumway:

Here is what it is  .VRO



I plug my camcorder in my DVD recorder and burn snippets to DVD. I then take that DVD and put it on my laptop and it plays fine as a .VRO extention but none of my friends can see the video nor can I upload it to youtube.

Andersp:


Yep,   I  got that and tried it.. It puts a banner in the middle of the video output.

Thanx tho 

or2ak.com:   all free downloads gives you a watermark...:)   if you pay 39.95 its gone LOL

Andersp:

Yes, but I only need it for right now  hehe
I dont see me paying $40 for a one time use....

or2ak.com: NeroVision can read vro files and export them in another format. It's not free but it comes bundled with in many dvdr packages. Maybe you have that already?

or2ak.com: I also saw a free version at www.piratebay.org but im afraid they add some little worms and horses too :)

anybody in here heard of this?

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/05/mpack_packed_full_of_badness.html

it must be pretty powerful for hacking

I have used Spybot S & D for a while now, and it has always worked well

I have recently read an article in WebUser magazine on SpyWare programs where they have tried out the latest about (free and paid for).

Its funny that the 2 that came 1st and 2nd are both free ones, with SpyBot coming 2nd.

The one that came top was Spyware Terminator, which i downloaded and tried yesterday. Its easy to use, fast and has some great features.

It was close between this and SpyBot, but they think that SpyBot's user interface is better suited to Windows 98 than XP or Vista

Anyway, give Spyware Terminator a go, it appears to do everything needed

MadMonkey: Hum... well I will have to give Spyware Terminator a try.

I use both SpyBot & Lavasoft Ad-Aware Personal as "free" spyware scanners. I use both since I have found sometimes 1 will find something the other does not... but always looking for new ones.

coan.net: I thought I heard that if you use 2, they can detect each other or something.

Eriisa: SpyBot actually has a warning when you first start it giving some sort of warning about the Ad-aware program - but I never had any problem.

Also - I DO NOT use any type of feature of any of those program to let them run in the background while I'm doing other things - I simply use them as stand alone scanners. I have not tried the Spyware Terminator yet - but did notice when I went to download, you have to be carefull to get just the Spyware Terminator - and not the one that includes some sort of "web security" which I think runs in the background all the time.

I just use these occasionally to scan my PC.

So if you are running 1 in the background and try to use another one at the same time - then yes, there might be conflicts between the programs.

coan.net: When i downloaded it i also downloaded the Web Security which runs in the background as the article i read does recommend it (but i guess that for people who have no such software installed)

I also have the software that runs with my Broadband package, thats running all the time as well, but i do not trust it. They want me to upgrade to a paying version.

Thats partly the reason i was interested in the review in the first place

i have a 1 year old compaq presarrio laptop, starting today i have been getting an alert that pops up on the bottom to the right of start where the icons are, and at least every 10 min. it has a yellow triangle with ! in it and on top it says, windows-system error, there is an ip address conflict with another system on this network, i restarted it, it's still there, i tried clicking it to see if there was any info about it but it vanishes the second i click it. it's working as fast and as perfect as it always does. i also have a mac laptop that's also working fine and there is no alert on that. i know very little about puters but because the mac has no alert and they're both working i would say it has nothing to do with the modem, router or dsl. of course i could be very wrong. can anyone help with this.
thx. ellie

ellieoop: Never seen the problem before, but i had a look about for it (Google is great for finding errors answers lol)
Have a look at this page ip address conflict
in essence just follow this start > run > type cmd from the command prompt type ipconfig /release then hit enter.... when that finishes hit the up arrow and make the "release" into "renew" then hit enter, exit from cmd

MadMonkey: LOL!!! I understood what you wrote, but I bet Oppsidaisy's eyes just glazed over.

MadMonkey: HUH!!

wetware: Havent tried that, but i doubt that that's the problem since that computer didnt work when i had it connected direct to the router either, but of course ill try your suggestion :)  thanks

Anyone having any issues with google earth? I havent been on in awhile, and tonight its not working like I remembered?

How do I copy more than one item at a time to paste into a message?

Czuch Czuckers: I don't know if there is a simpler way, there might be. But what I do is copy the item, put it in Notepad, copy the next item, go back to Notepad and Edit the entry and add the new item.

Then I compose the message around those URL's

(I'm talking about putting links to multiple ponds/tournies in one PM, as an example)

rod03801: yeah, I was hoping there was some easier way that I wasnt aware of, thanks!

Czuch Czuckers: There are some utilities that are supposed to store everything you copy to clipboard for easy access. For example: http://www.cybermatrix.com/clipboard_magic.html

I've never used that or anything similar, i just know such sw exists :)

For some reason when i visit a website the print seems very small does anybody know how i can increase the size of the print. For example i was ordering from a clothes catalogue and the text was tiny, never used to be like that.

In the menu bar on top - go to VIEW - then find the increase font option to make it bigger.

You can also hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and use your mouse wheel to increase/decrease the font in a web browser.

coan.net: Thank you once again, that worked.

Now i think i am quite good with Computers, as i spend all day working and repairing them BUT todays problem is a good one i may have to look at tomorrow AGAIN, even though i have just spent 2 hours sorting it out (so i thought)

My sister has a PC with XP running on it at her home. She rang me to say when it boots, it gets to the select user screen, but when you select someone it just sits there, shows egg timer for a bit, then nothing, just stays where it is. It will not let you go past there

She brought the base unit to me today. I managed to get it to boot past there BUT very, very slowly. She had not run a disk clean ever and it had just about 2gb of rubbish on there which i got rid of.

Anyway, after that i downloaded CCleaner & Auslogics Disk Defragmenter so she could run these 2 great programs every so often.

I connected it to my cable, booted it up and logged in as normal, it was fine, just a bit slow if anything, but she does not have much RAM so thats ok.

It worked fine......Now she has taken it home, plugged it in, AND it stuck in exactly the same place. It will not let her get past that select user screen (With or without cable connected).

Problem............Why is it doing it over her house and not here ???

MadMonkey: The only thing that quickly comes to mind is some sort of device hooked to the PC is causing it to hang.

As a side note, I just troubleshot a laptop which about every 2 of 3 bootup would hang as it was initializing it. Found the problem to be a newer USB thumb drive that he kept attached to the laptop. He actually had 2 attached - the older one never caused a problem, but with the newer one attached, the bootup process would just hang. Now he just waits until windows boots up before plugging it in.... and remembering to remove it before next bootup.

coan.net: Snap, thats the only conclusion i could come up with, thats why i told her to unplug the Ethernet cable.
The only other thing she has is a printer, just waiting for her to call back.
Crazy things these PC's

If I set up another "User" on my computer, is there an easy way to get everything from my current "user" to the new "user" (Stuff on desktop, etc..)

rod03801: "Stuff on Desktop, etc."

Well, what's shown on your desktop is just the content of the folder %HOMEPATH%\Desktop. You can just copy it from, for example,

C:\Documents and Settings\rod1\Desktop

to

C:\Documents and Settings\rod2\Desktop

You can do that with your documents from "My Documents" as well. And for some applications this will work if you copy what's in %APPDATA%

C:\Documents and Settings\rod1\Application Data

MadMonkey: how about connecting a different monitor to your sisters pc?

diogenysos: Well i think we have found the problem
It seems if she boots without her printer connected, its fine (but still slow), but why the printer should be causing a problem i do not know
Anyway, i have to go to hers to sort a few things today, so i will have another look

MadMonkey: Does the printer also have slots to put memory cards? And is there a memory card in it while it boots?

Christoph Daum: Thank you... That sounds pretty easy..

And this puts the icons on the screen automatically too?

You'll have to pardon me, I'm a "newbie" to having my own computer at home. (I've used plenty, at work, friends' etc...) When you say "copy" it, what does that process involve? (I'm sure it's nothing like copy and pasting text! LOL)

You mention the desktop, my documents, and possibly some applications. Is there anything else I might not be thinking of that I would want to bring over from it?

coan.net: hmmmm i do not know to be honest, i am not there right now. Its an Epsom 3 in 1 Printer, Scanner & Fax thingy lol

rod03801:
And this puts the icons on the screen automatically too?

Yes, for every file in the "Desktop" folder you see one icon on the screen.

When you say "copy" it, what does that process involve? (I'm sure it's nothing like copy and pasting text! LOL)

Well, you won't copy and paste text, but it is just as easy! Open the Explorer and maneuver to your home folder aka "C:\Documents and Settings\rod1". There you can simply right click on the "Desktop" folder and chose "copy" from the context menu. Then maneuver to the home folder of the new user "C:\Documents and Settings\rod2", right click, and chose "paste" this time. Click "OK" on the upcoming popup window that asks you if you want to replace files of the same name - that's it!

You mention the desktop, my documents, and possibly some applications. Is there anything else I might not be thinking of that I would want to bring over from it?

If you just want to move data from one user to another on the same machine, that should be it! Most installed applications will be available for every user, so those should work automatically. Anyway, I would just try it out and see if you are missing something. If you don't after a few weeks, you're possibly done. If you miss something you had with the other account, then you can look what's different! Or just come back here ;-)

I just bought another flashdrive and this one has "vault" installed.  Anyone use this B4?
I'm curious as how this will work when I use it on other PCs.  Will the other "PCs" have my info on their hard drive  or does it stay on mine?

coan.net: Thank You

i dont normally use firefox
and dont have a clue how to clear my cache
dont all rush at once in your replys