Ann wrote: On my Mac how do I get back my desktop. I can login but only my desktop photo is there. All the other logins the laptop can access all of their applications and documents.
Answer: Unfortunately your login has corrupted Ann. The easiest thing to do is create a new login and copy the data files from your old login into the new one and then delete the old one. When the desktop gets corrupted this way it can mean that your hard drive is having problems and you might need to replace it in the near future and please make sure you back-up your data regularly on an external drive, memory stick or DVD. You could lose all of your data if the drive has a permanent failure.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Updates - Does She or Doesn't She
On Feb 19 Linda Wrote:
Question: I hadn't used AOL instant messenger in a year, and am now told should update. The update seems to offer much more than I need; do I have to sign up for everything? Is there a down side for agreeing to get all?
Answer: Tough question Linda, I generally do not update any software unless there is a security issue or they are discontinuing support for the older version. The reason is most updates aren't for the end-user but are usually for the software and hardware vendors. If you play the update game like they want you to...you would need to upgrade your computer every two years to be able to run all of their updates. Microsoft is the king of this...they create updates like they were candy that may or may NOT make your computer run better, be safer, jump higher. I guess what I'm trying to say with all of this rambling is I personally don't update anything unless I have a reason. And that doesn't include the software distributors master plan.
Hope this answers your question,
Ed Smit
Questions@JustAskEd.net
for more answers to your computer questions login to JustAskEd.blogspot.com
Question: I hadn't used AOL instant messenger in a year, and am now told should update. The update seems to offer much more than I need; do I have to sign up for everything? Is there a down side for agreeing to get all?
Answer: Tough question Linda, I generally do not update any software unless there is a security issue or they are discontinuing support for the older version. The reason is most updates aren't for the end-user but are usually for the software and hardware vendors. If you play the update game like they want you to...you would need to upgrade your computer every two years to be able to run all of their updates. Microsoft is the king of this...they create updates like they were candy that may or may NOT make your computer run better, be safer, jump higher. I guess what I'm trying to say with all of this rambling is I personally don't update anything unless I have a reason. And that doesn't include the software distributors master plan.
Hope this answers your question,
Ed Smit
Questions@JustAskEd.net
for more answers to your computer questions login to JustAskEd.blogspot.com
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Greetings Workshop
On 4/23/08, Michael wrote:
Answer: Unfortunately older versions of some software won't work with Vista. It's Microsoft's way of ensuring income for years to come. I've had similar problems with Quickbooks, Microsoft Office, and many others. If the setup program doesn't run when you insert the CD than it probably won't work on Vista. Upgrade to Windows 7 and you'll have an easier time.
Question: Greetings Workshop has worked fine on Windows XP on my Dell Computer. Our new computer is another Dell and it was purchased with Windows Vista. Is there any way we can still use the disk for Greetings Workshop with our new Windows Vista computer program?
Answer: Unfortunately older versions of some software won't work with Vista. It's Microsoft's way of ensuring income for years to come. I've had similar problems with Quickbooks, Microsoft Office, and many others. If the setup program doesn't run when you insert the CD than it probably won't work on Vista. Upgrade to Windows 7 and you'll have an easier time.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
which is a better system interm technology
On 2/23/08, Marie wrote:
Question:Gateway 552 GE
Pentium 4 CPU 3.20 GHz, 3.20 Ghz, 504 MB of RAM
or
Gateway 24" LCD Dual Core, 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD Intel Pentium Processor E2140 (dual core) both are desktops
Answer: Neither, I think Gateway systems are the worst made PCs on the market. They always seem to have problems and glitches in their systems.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Cell Phones and Obnoxious People
The other day I was riding the bus and a man was talking on his cellphone at the top of his voice. A dear sweet little old lady (someone's loving grandmother) asked him to please not be so loud. The conversation went something like this:
Sweet Lady: "Please, sir, could you be quieter. I don't want to hear your conversation."
Loud Mouth: "Huh?"
Sweet Lady: "I'm asking you to not be so loud on the bus."
Loud Mouth: "I can be as loud as I want. Who are you to tell me how loud I can be."
Sweet Lady: "I am asking you nicely to stop shouting into your phone on the bus."
The loud mouth wasn't getting anywhere with her and it was messing with his conversation so he hung up and glared at the lady for the rest of the trip saying things like...
"Thinks she can tell me the #@(#* how I can talk. Who is she? Mutter, mutter, mutter...etc."
It made me more conscious that day of my own cellphone usage and location of usage. I have sworn off cellphone conversations in public places that are confined in space (busses, restaurants, etc). When I'm walking down the street or in a park I might still talk on the phone but I'm going to be more aware of how much of an annoyance I am presenting to the people around me. After all, just because I can talk on the phone anywhere doesn't mean I should.
Sweet Lady: "Please, sir, could you be quieter. I don't want to hear your conversation."
Loud Mouth: "Huh?"
Sweet Lady: "I'm asking you to not be so loud on the bus."
Loud Mouth: "I can be as loud as I want. Who are you to tell me how loud I can be."
Sweet Lady: "I am asking you nicely to stop shouting into your phone on the bus."
The loud mouth wasn't getting anywhere with her and it was messing with his conversation so he hung up and glared at the lady for the rest of the trip saying things like...
"Thinks she can tell me the #@(#* how I can talk. Who is she? Mutter, mutter, mutter...etc."
It made me more conscious that day of my own cellphone usage and location of usage. I have sworn off cellphone conversations in public places that are confined in space (busses, restaurants, etc). When I'm walking down the street or in a park I might still talk on the phone but I'm going to be more aware of how much of an annoyance I am presenting to the people around me. After all, just because I can talk on the phone anywhere doesn't mean I should.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Google Page Questions
I use Google a lot but they have been coming up with some annoying features that make their pages work slower. Also, everyone always tries to switch you to their webpage as your home page so here were two questions relating to Google this week. I will add more to this string as Google questions arrive.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Deanne wrote:
Somehow facebook got set as my default page instead of google. How do I put google back?
Answer: Re: help!
Answer:
type google.com on the address line of your browser.
Hit Enter
Click on the Tools menu at the top of the browser
Choose Internet Options or Options depending on the browser
Click on the button that says Use Current Page for setting your default home page
Click Ok
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Deanne wrote:
Thank you. I will do so, and keep these directions for the future. How do I permanently take off google instant search? It is VERY annoying: as I’m trying to type, it keeps flinging things up to me that distract me from what I’m trying to type—then I go to the wrong place.
Answer:
click on "show search options" next to the search box and you can turn it off there.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Deanne wrote:
Somehow facebook got set as my default page instead of google. How do I put google back?
Answer: Re: help!
Answer:
type google.com on the address line of your browser.
Hit Enter
Click on the Tools menu at the top of the browser
Choose Internet Options or Options depending on the browser
Click on the button that says Use Current Page for setting your default home page
Click Ok
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Deanne wrote:
Thank you. I will do so, and keep these directions for the future. How do I permanently take off google instant search? It is VERY annoying: as I’m trying to type, it keeps flinging things up to me that distract me from what I’m trying to type—then I go to the wrong place.
Answer:
click on "show search options" next to the search box and you can turn it off there.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Windows 7 Slow on Network
Windows 7 got some improved features over Vista including speed of networking. Sometimes you may notice the network starts to slow down compared to XP. This is due to more "advanced" features and requirements. These 6 easy steps can help you to solve Windows 7 network slowness problems by disabling some features.
Windows 7 computers can be slow in accessing shares on old MS Windows servers and non-MS Operating systems including Sun and Linux. Accessing data and transferring data over networks are still problematic in some cases. Resolving DNS requests internally (LAN or WAN) and externally (Internet) could also cause Windows 7 to slow down. The following methods I’m listing out have worked for me to speed up Windows 7 networking with NT,2003 and Sun servers.
How to Fix Windows 7 network slowness problems?
1) Disable Autotuning
Disabling autotuning will help much on DNS lookup and network discovery. It improves the data transfer speed also over the network. Disabling autotuning in windows 7 is very similar to the same problem in Windows Vista.
Here are the steps,
Start command prompt as administrator, and follow the commands as shown in the example below. To start a command prompt in Windows 7 click on the Start Button in the lower left hand
corner of your system. In the search box at the bottom of the menu type cmd and hit Enter on your keyboard
Windows 7 Network slowness solution 1
netsh interface tcp show global
Remove RDC (Remote Differential Compression)
Remove IPv6 in Windows Vista
Clear DNS Cache in Vista
5) Disable Wireless Network and any additional network adapters (including Virtual adapters).
If you will not be using a wireless network or it’s your secondary network, I recommend you disable wireless networks in windows 7 under network connection. If it’s enabled, your windows 7 computer will be trying to connect to available wireless networks around you, and trying to login through these networks. Loading your profiles and start up programs will be slow while booting because of this.
6) Modifying Link Speed & Duplex Value in Network adapter Properties.
This step also helps sometimes when you face problems with windows 7 network slowness. I can’t say which option will work better, because it depends on your physical network setup (network adapter, cable type, LAN speed and network switch). By default it is set for Auto Negotiation. But you can play around with Value options and find out which works best for your computer and network.
Hopefully the above steps will help to solve windows 7 network slowness. Feel free to suggest any additional steps you did to solve windows 7 network slowness, or problems you face to fix it.
Windows 7 computers can be slow in accessing shares on old MS Windows servers and non-MS Operating systems including Sun and Linux. Accessing data and transferring data over networks are still problematic in some cases. Resolving DNS requests internally (LAN or WAN) and externally (Internet) could also cause Windows 7 to slow down. The following methods I’m listing out have worked for me to speed up Windows 7 networking with NT,2003 and Sun servers.
How to Fix Windows 7 network slowness problems?
1) Disable Autotuning
Disabling autotuning will help much on DNS lookup and network discovery. It improves the data transfer speed also over the network. Disabling autotuning in windows 7 is very similar to the same problem in Windows Vista.
Here are the steps,
Start command prompt as administrator, and follow the commands as shown in the example below. To start a command prompt in Windows 7 click on the Start Button in the lower left hand
corner of your system. In the search box at the bottom of the menu type cmd and hit Enter on your keyboard
Windows 7 Network slowness solution 1commands from example
netsh interface tcp show global
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
netsh interface tcp show global
2) Remove RDC ( Remote Differential Compression)
This feature was introduced with Windows Vista to transfer data over networks in compressed format. The same RDC feature has been continued in Windows 7 also. Since most of the old operating systems that came before vista do not support this RDC feature, it slows down network data transfers in windows 7. You can remove this RDC (Remote Differential Compression) in windows 7 by visiting control panel and programs and features. Click on ‘Turn Windows features on or off’, as shown below.
This feature was introduced with Windows Vista to transfer data over networks in compressed format. The same RDC feature has been continued in Windows 7 also. Since most of the old operating systems that came before vista do not support this RDC feature, it slows down network data transfers in windows 7. You can remove this RDC (Remote Differential Compression) in windows 7 by visiting control panel and programs and features. Click on ‘Turn Windows features on or off’, as shown below.
Remove RDC (Remote Differential Compression)Windows 7 Network slowness solution 2
3) Remove IPv6 from network properties.
If your internal or external networks do not require IPv6 protocol, better remove it under network connection properties. Keeping IPv6 in your computer sometimes slows down your network by trying to register IPv6 addresses, or trying to get an IPv6 address, or trying to resolve IPv6. Better remove it if it’s not required.
If your internal or external networks do not require IPv6 protocol, better remove it under network connection properties. Keeping IPv6 in your computer sometimes slows down your network by trying to register IPv6 addresses, or trying to get an IPv6 address, or trying to resolve IPv6. Better remove it if it’s not required.
Remove IPv6 in Windows Vista Windows 7 Network slowness solution 3
4) Clear DNS Cache
You can remove any DNS cache from your computer, so next time DNS requests will be solved by an updated DNS server. This will avoid your computer to try broken or changed DNS records from cache.
You can remove any DNS cache from your computer, so next time DNS requests will be solved by an updated DNS server. This will avoid your computer to try broken or changed DNS records from cache.
To clear DNS cache, open command prompt as administrator and type ipconfig /flushdns
Clear DNS Cache in Vista Windows 7 Network slowness solution 4
5) Disable Wireless Network and any additional network adapters (including Virtual adapters).
If you will not be using a wireless network or it’s your secondary network, I recommend you disable wireless networks in windows 7 under network connection. If it’s enabled, your windows 7 computer will be trying to connect to available wireless networks around you, and trying to login through these networks. Loading your profiles and start up programs will be slow while booting because of this.
6) Modifying Link Speed & Duplex Value in Network adapter Properties.
This step also helps sometimes when you face problems with windows 7 network slowness. I can’t say which option will work better, because it depends on your physical network setup (network adapter, cable type, LAN speed and network switch). By default it is set for Auto Negotiation. But you can play around with Value options and find out which works best for your computer and network.Hopefully the above steps will help to solve windows 7 network slowness. Feel free to suggest any additional steps you did to solve windows 7 network slowness, or problems you face to fix it.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Keyboard won't work on my laptop
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Leese wrote:
Hey Ed, I am sick of having a sore wrist, bad neck from bad position of laptop…need to get an external keyboard, mousepad set up on laptop so as to stop hurting myself. I have just plugged in a mouse (USB connection and it works …just that easy!) and I have two old keyboards here to choose from but the connection aint USB. They are round with 6 pins and a larger protrusion….do they make adapters that turn it into a USB connection? I tried to find info on line, but had a hard time finding anything directly about my laptop and don’t know that I need a docking station….perhaps just a connector/adapter…thoughts? L
Dear Leese,
Well, they probably make an adapter that costs $150 bucks that will let you use the old keyboards or you could get a USB keyboard for $30 or less. Here's a Microsoft Curve Keyboard for under $20 that uses USB connection...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Microsoft+-+Comfort+Curve+Keyboard+2000/8934718.p?id=1217030529445&skuId=8934718
If you're running low on USB connections on your laptop...you could also get a USB hub. Here are a few ideas...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=-1926553408108093139&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=USB+Hub&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960
Hey Ed, I am sick of having a sore wrist, bad neck from bad position of laptop…need to get an external keyboard, mousepad set up on laptop so as to stop hurting myself. I have just plugged in a mouse (USB connection and it works …just that easy!) and I have two old keyboards here to choose from but the connection aint USB. They are round with 6 pins and a larger protrusion….do they make adapters that turn it into a USB connection? I tried to find info on line, but had a hard time finding anything directly about my laptop and don’t know that I need a docking station….perhaps just a connector/adapter…thoughts? L
Dear Leese,
Well, they probably make an adapter that costs $150 bucks that will let you use the old keyboards or you could get a USB keyboard for $30 or less. Here's a Microsoft Curve Keyboard for under $20 that uses USB connection...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Microsoft+-+Comfort+Curve+Keyboard+2000/8934718.p?id=1217030529445&skuId=8934718
If you're running low on USB connections on your laptop...you could also get a USB hub. Here are a few ideas...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=-1926553408108093139&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=USB+Hub&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960
Monday, January 3, 2011
Instructions To Connect To A Networked Mac
Here is a link to the instructions to Connect to your Old Mac from your New Mac (Right-Click or Ctrl-Click on the link and save the file to your computer before playing it)...
http://beyourownwebmaster.org/deared/downloads/ConnectToShareOnMac.avi
You can also follow these written instructions as well....
Click on the Finder Icon down at the bottom of the Screen on the far left (it looks like a two colored face)
Click on Go from the top menubar
Click on Connect to Server
Click on Browse
Click on the link in the browse window that says the name of your computer (e.g., Mac Powerbook G4) or something like that.
Click on the Macintosh HD choice for the connection.
Click Ok
You should now have a new drive in your drive choices that will let you look at your Old Macs Hard Drive.
http://beyourownwebmaster.org/deared/downloads/ConnectToShareOnMac.avi
You can also follow these written instructions as well....
Click on the Finder Icon down at the bottom of the Screen on the far left (it looks like a two colored face)
Click on Go from the top menubar
Click on Connect to Server
Click on Browse
Click on the link in the browse window that says the name of your computer (e.g., Mac Powerbook G4) or something like that.
Click on the Macintosh HD choice for the connection.
Click Ok
You should now have a new drive in your drive choices that will let you look at your Old Macs Hard Drive.
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