BIG BAD WOLF:  If a person had the latest version of Windows Media Player could they still need a codec to play a particular file?  I know that in the past I've had this problem and had to download form the site to update the Player.  

Gr☺uch☺: It depends on the AVI and how it was coded. Different programs use different "codecs" to encode the move in .avi format (or other formats). Some will play on Windows by default, while others will not.

Wiki page on Codec's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec

Basicly - some codecs will make files smaller, while others may keep the audio beter, while others will keep the video better. This is at least how I understand it - at least without getting very technical and such.

BIG BAD WOLF:  I just tried a download using uTorrent 1.6 and the file played fine.  It too is an avi.  It might help to know what kind of computer etc Bernice has.  I'm using Windows Media player 11.  ;)

BerniceC: Hopefully someone will jump on here to help better then me - I'm thinking for some movies, you need special codec's loaded to properly view movies. I had to load a lot a long time ago, and since then I have no problem playing just about any more - but I'm pretty sure it's because I loaded all the codec's that I needed.

Now I'm not 100% sure about this - but you may want to get this: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

It's a pack with all of the most popular codec's on it - and says it will allow 99% of movies to play correctly. Again, not 100% sure about this so please don't get mad at me if this blows up your computer or something.

I have download a couple movies using utorrent and Mininova, they are .avi files. When I go to play them in any form they are only music files. Does anybody know what is going wrong.

I have downloaded a couple in Limewire, they are mpg or mpeg files and they are just fine and can burn them using Nero. Limewire is just so slow is all ...
any advice would be appreciated...thanks

MadMonkey: Search your disk for files larger than ... errr ... 2Gb! If you don't find any, try a smaller file size :)

Identify what program is writing to those files and disable that program.

... I suspect some kind of logging.

BerniceC: but then I guess you would have done that already LOLOL

MadMonkey: have you tried Ctrl,Alt and Delete to see what is running.....sounds like something in the background causing big probs for you....try closing everything down....

BerniceC: Yes, i have done all the usual stuff, but day by day the space gets smaller & smaller. Much more and nothing will run.

jessica: not that im computer literate as such but I think they are a record of everywhere you have been on the internet...your computer saves "cookies" of where you have been......not the sort you can eat LOL

what are cookies exactly?

MadMonkey: cookies????
have those been done?

And now for something completely different LOL

Seriously, why is the space on my C: drive shrinking by the day, even though i am even deleting programs off it now to try and get some more?
Got rid of emails, temp files, you name it.......
Defrag wont even run now as i have less than 15% free.

Rose: sure. the quality of a graphic may vary. within word, there is no chance to change and/or increase the quality, because word is not the program one should use to embed graphics. unfortunately, naby people just know word and nothing else. if possible, the graphic should be sent as a graphic and not embedded into word. the average graphic with a good quality on a screen is a 72dpi-jpeg file. to be printed it should be minimum 150dpi. there are many easy-to-handle freeware-progs that help people to view and resize graphics. i recommend e.g. "irfan view"

clueless36: I know last night the site went back to giving me white pages after submitting a move, but no error messages about like before. Its as if the lines (maybe the site) were too busy. I have broadband and dont normally have any problems, or when i do at least others do.
Last night after submitting a move. the game would go and done would come up in the status bar, then it would just sit there. Then after 10secs, 30secs or more it may carry on. In the end it stopped coming back, but if thats a site or line problem i do not know.

This site is very slow for me and wondered if anyone out there has any ideas what the problem could be...I have a desk top dell deminsion 4550..i have a lot of space on the c drive, not sure if that means anything...other sites where i play are not this slow they are "normal" speed..I would like to buy a membership here but it takes me too long to play 20 games..thank you for any help you can provide...i am on dial up..i see 52kbps when i log onto the internet...not sure if this helps or not....

diogenysos: I did that but it saved as a word program ;) Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

diogenysos:I find when u do that it doesnt always go in the graphics program as a clean image. It can be grainy or be distorted for some reason. 

Gr☺uch☺: how about leftklicking it. then copying it and opening and saving it with a graphic-program?

Rose: Smartie. ;) That's what I did (saved to a html file). I didn't know it could be done so I just guessed. Pretty cool. Your second idea I think I tried. I right clicked the image but didn't get a save option. ;)

Gr☺uch☺: Save the doc as an html page on to your desk top, it will then (or should) create a folder with the photo/picture in there..
Or you can some times click the image click save then go to your graphics program that is open. click new and paste.. most times that works but it can give you a grainy photo for some reason.. but saving as an htm or html page you normallly get the image the way it was intended to look/

or if others know the answer too.  And for those that run into this situation, you can learn from this  ;) 

I was sent a picture embedded into Word.  You can't right click and save it. I tried that and it didn't work.  How does one extract the picture from Word. I tried something and it did work.  Anyone know? ;)

NOT a floosie:  At least you know which questions to ask  :)  I'm still learning but am mostly self taught (trial and error).  You can find any answer to any question if you word it right.  Google is great that way.  I learned to air brush photos on the internet and my first one turned out great!  lol.  People asked where I learned how to do that.  Problem is, I can't do it again without the directions.  And from a professional's perspective, my work was not that good.  But you'd have to know what to look for in order to understand the places I mess up.  Mostly it looked pretty good ;)

Gr☺uch☺: 40-60 wpm is good. I think computers slow down speed because you are concentrating on watching the screen so much.

I found the guys at Circuit City were really helpful when I went in asking dumb questions. They must get them all the time from us older folks.

NOT a floosie:  lol, I type 9 or 7 words a minute.  ;)  lol    Actually I think I type about 50 but under pressure it drops.  I may go as fast as 60 but it's never sustained very long.  I should test it. If I'm typing something that is already written, I think I can do about 45 - 50 with few errors.  But 97?  That's like super speed!  I can't even think that fast.

My daughter just gave me an old computer from work.  It's about 5 years old.  I don't think I can use it but I'm gonna have something to hack around with and see what kind of trouble I can cause.  I'm going to see if I can get it set up for a gaming computer but I think I need XP at least and it may only be able to handle 98SE ;) 

Gr☺uch☺: And a wonderful suggestion it was!

I can hardly wait. Hopefully, I can start doing some work at home now. I type 97 words a minute and have picked up Quickbooks at work when our accountant decided to quit a year ago.

NOT a floosie:  I tried.  :)  Glad to hear you got it figured out.  

You guys are the best!

It was a bad RAM that was causing the beeping. There was a sale on a Circuit City, and they were out of the one I needed. It will be in tomorrow, and I'll be back in business!

Thanks sooooooo much!

NOT a floosie:  ;)  Usually when I fix it, I break it more first.  ;)  I always manage to figure it out but it's like taking a short cut the long way around. 

Rose:    Story of my life.  I'm late again  :)  My daugher says I need a memory upgrade lol

@ Groucho. Yeah, I'm that kind of fix it person too!

Thanks for everyone's help. It's probably an easy fix, I'm just not that familiar with the insides of these things. I'll work on it after we get my Mom home and when I have more time. *or take Groucho's 9 story solution!

we determined the beeps already Groucho.. get with the program! hehehe..
Its likely memory or vid card.. either way that beeps are internal not a stuck key

Hey groucho.. Merry Holidays!

OK, first I'm no tech.  I am a "hit that button and see what happens" kind of tech. ;)  But if the beeping continues, I'd check the keyboard.  If a key is stuck, that will cause a beeping too.  If you are still having a problem, try a different key board.  ;) 

If it's a software problem, one can always reinstall everything.  If hardware, and not the keyboard, then I dunno. 

If all else fails, there's always the 9-stories solution.

Take the computer up to the 9th floor, open the window, and throw it out.

;)

I'm putting it back together and will give it one more try. My Mom has been very ill and I need to leave for the hospital soon.

LOL If I can't find it, I'll pack it up and take it to work with me next week. One of the guys is pretty good with these things.

Ok, I've figured out how to remove the three sticks.

Ok...I got Rose's picture. I have the three black boards that are on the right. The white things that are on the left in the picture, are going from left to right at the bottom of my board rather than up and down. There is one thing at the bottom right of mine that is white not black (no big deal). There is a flat wire thing connecting the black plastic thing with holes in it which is plugged in there. I've taken it off and reconnected it.

NOT a floosie: Ram doesnt have wires sticking out from it.. the item or items you are looking for as there may be two, just stick in to the machine in to prongs...
and in all honesty with all the info we are giving you to see if it is the ram it may not be.. Any chance you know anyone at all who is a tad technically inclined on PCs that can take a look?

I can't get the pictures. On the bottom right corner there is a black stick thing with a flat gray series of wires connected. Is that it?

Maybe the picture of an actual RAM can help more :-)

click this

The bottom right corner on this one is where the ram stick or sticks are .. they are located on the mother board

NOT a floosie:Hang on.. Ill find you a photo

I don't see a black stick that looks like it has a magnet. Would it be on the board or someplace else?

Marfitalu:The only French sentence that I understand is Je ne parle pas Francais. 

NOT a floosie:Look, just when the PC starts up, when it says press DEL, do it and it should say something like "entering setup mode."  There, on my PC I have a choice saying "PC health status" and when I enter on it, it says CPU warning temperature.  Enter on it and it gives you some choices to choose from.  Choose something like 70 or 80 degrees, or even disable the CPU warning system.

Ok, I'll try that. It will take me a few minutes to unhook everything and do it.

It said on the first page BIO ext Version 2.0 if that helps any.

Marfitalu:If the RAM isn't placed properly the system doesn't boot.  I don't think it is that.

Fooz the memory is a long thin stick that looks like it has a magent on it, that pulls out.. careful how you take it out if you are going to do that.. dont jam it back in too hard or you can damage it

The beeps are high, low, high, low, etc.

It's constant. 2 beeps

There isn't anything that says that. The only thing that has CPU in it says: CPU serial number.