As you're here Rose, what should you do when you finish a session on the computer? Should you turn off the computer or put it on standby eg overnight? Yeah, I'm thick!

Depends Bumble on the operating system. XP has a type of self repairing thing. If you leave it on all the time it is better for the system. With other operating systems other then XP I would suggest shutting them down overnight. With 98 or ME the reboot gives the machine a chance to look at the files on reboot and make sure everything is working ok.

Thanks, Rosieruggles! I've got XP at the moment and have been leaving it on standby. Whew!

And don't forget to install a new Firefox :-D

Cheers Rose. I normally shut it down overnight, but lately I've been leaving it on. I'll start shutting it down again and see what happens. I'm glad its nothing major though! Like being abducted by aliens!
I'll have a look at firefox, I've never used it before...

How much does it cost to use firefox? And can you use it with AOL?

cost: zero cents.

Okay, I'm back - using Firefox! Everything is shiny, new and blue!

So... what's the advantage Firefox has over IE?

For me it's not getting an error message 3-5 times a day and having to reboot. Firefox rules!

That's a good enough reason! I'm having fun exploring the options.

apart from being faster, smaller and less bugged, you mean?

you have, for example, tabbed browsing: instead of opening a window for each separate site, with firefox you can open links in a new tab (click right, open in a new tab). this means that all your browser windows are accessible as a single windows window, switching is much faster between views.

in firefox you have an inbuild popup ad preventer, no need to install anything.

in the browser there is a prepared google search place, no need to go to the google page.

in firefox you have an interresting new feature. some sites (more and more) are using something called RSS. try, for example, http://news.bbc.co.uk/ . in the lower right corner of the screen you'll see 'RSS'. click on it, and subscribe. this gives you a variable folder in your bookmarks, that updates itself whenever there's something new on the server.

FENCER, WINK WINK, when will BK be on RSS? WINK WINK

and a lot more, I'm still discovering too.

more: the tabbed views can be stored as a single subentry in your bookmarks: when you have opened all the tabs you want, click "bookmark this page" and activate "bookmark all tabs in a folder". to load, go to the folder and click "open in tabs".

you can also make your start page a group of tabs.

I personally think Firefox i slower. I takes a little longer to load pages. BTW My.Yahoo supports RSS.

for a free firewall??

Anyone have any other firewalls they recommend.. I run an XP and recently had to reformat my system.. hesitate on the zonealarm cause I wanted to learn it there was something better..

rabbitoid: RSS, eh? Well, why not. For public boards.

recommend kerio (www.kerio.com)

Thanks! :)

Fencer: I was thinking more about your games to move, this is just ideal for dynamic bookmarks. the problem is that with your current system you have to be logged in to access it.
consider: with one click on 'open in tabs' you'd have immediate access to all your current games.

rabbitoid: But after clicking on such RSS bookmark you'll have to log in anyway.

yes, under your bk2.0. under the old system, with more lax security, it would have worked.

Personally, I prefer Mozilla to Mozilla Firefox. But either is worth it when it comes to pop-ups (the lack thereof). :)

Hey, I've got a girlie reason for prefering Firefox!
I can make all my used links turn red instead of that yucky blue!
Maybe I should have said 'aesthetic reason'.

what stoped you from changing colors in IE?

Is firefox (and other browsers) as susceptible to hijacking as IE is? My son has been sneaking on the internet (no, he is not visiting porn sites). He likes to go to free on-line game sites. He also likes to search for things (favorite trucks, toys, games, etc) on the internet. Everytime he came to a web site that poped up the "Do you want to trust content from..." dialog, he clicked YES. Ouch...I ended up with almost 500 spyware/malware/adware objects on my computer. IE was hijacked so bad, I couldn't even get to google. After three days of work (using ad-aware) I think I have all but one gone. Ad-aware doesn't find any but I still can't get to google (it is like it doesn't even exist). If you ever come across "SearchForIt"...don't be fooled. It is one ugly hijack to get rid of.

Yes because these ActiveX components are compatible with IE only.

Well, I've remove the links to IE (he doesn't know how to find it now) and installed firefox...not to mention the issue of him sneaking on the internet. Kids certainly keep you on your toes!

can someone help please. i resently updated my virus checker(AVG-free edition v.6). it found a few viruses and killed them except that now i keep getting this same pop up box which says as follows,

AVG Resident Shield
Virus
Trojan horse Backdoor.Agent.BA
is found in file
C:\WINDOWS\system32\resepad.dll
To remove this virus, please run AVG for Windows.

I've tried running Avg again and it finds this virus, but it says it can't heal the file and it can't delete it, so everytime i open a window or start and app, this box pops up.
Can somebody please tell me what to do.

RAHVIN, I've had this problem before. Empty your recycle box, do a disk cleanup, restart your PC then run your AVG again. It should be clear then.

thanks harley, i'll try that later.

Was just reading today about Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System release in the next month, and the big news - it will be FREE!

I will have to admit I have never used Solaris operating system, but now I will have no excuse to at least put it on a test PC and play around with it.

News Story: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041115/ap_on_hi_te/sun_solaris10

So do you think you get a lot of junk mail?

Bill Gates - 4 million e-mails a day! (most spam)

News story: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041118/ap_on_fe_st/bill_gates_spam_2

Now my 150 e-mails I get a day does not seem as bad! :-) (145+ are usually junk)

I want a whole department to filter my email for me...

Do you have a color laser printer? Carefull what you print:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=4&u=/pcworld/20041122/tc_pcworld/118664

Hi, I need help please: I have problems running DVD movies on my laptop - they aren't running smoothly and the image seems stop for an instant from time to time.
The strange thing is I have DMA working and my hardware should be OK. Has anyone ever encountered this ?

RAM problems maybe?

To me it just sounds like something else is possible running and taking up processor power - causing the movie not to play smothly.

I would disable virus scan during playback - make sure other programs are not running. (Possible do a fresh reboot of the laptop before playing the movie.)

like bbw says .. have a look at the processes running (you can do so by pressing ctrl-alt-del)

your ram could be a problem or the memory of your graphics card

is it a bought/copied/downloaded dvd or a dvd movie on your harddisk ?

Thank you all. I will try to close some applications and see what happens :-)
Hrlqs: It is a bought DVD ... Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" ... :-)

lol .. i heard of most of those names .. but never could imagine them together in 1 title :)

Spread Firefox..... I was getting ready to put things like that on my websites! :-)

Heh :-) It will save a lot of my time if BK users stop using IE.

1. Go to Firefox link
2. Find the "Free Download" link in upper right
3. Choose SAVE and save it on your hard drive (on the desktop is the best place - and easy to find if you don't know much about searching your computer for the downloaded file. (If you "Open", then you actually run it from their website which is not recommended)
4. After download is complete, run file that you just downloaded (Double click on file - should be sitting on your desktop)
5. If should walk you through setting up the browser.
6. Start using Firefox, load pages quicker & more secure without all the pop ups

I use Firefox now and much prefer it to IE. It does import your bookmarks.
I thought there might be a few problems with a Yahoo toolbar (they say as such) but mine works perfectly.

I thought there is no Yahoo toolbar for firefox, there is only a third party tool that tries to mimic one.

Yahoo toolbar for FireFox = http://companion.mozdev.org/

have not used it myself

yeah, that's the other tool that i mentioned. It's not bad, almost like the original yahoo toolbar.