Software & Media

Firefox versions 3.5.0 slowing down?

GiddyUpGo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:17:16 GMT

I have used the Firefox browser from version 2.0 up. I now have version 3.5.5.

Each update keeps getting slower and slower in loading and accessing sites.

What about your tweaks and tips to improve this browser?

GiddyUpGo

Software for Watchguard Firebox

BlueSeahorse — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:32:59 GMT

I have been unable to find the software for the Watchguard Firebox on the Newegg site. Watchguard recommends buying through channels so I think it must be on the site somewhere?

no ethernet driver

link182 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:14:56 GMT

about a day ago, my computer was working fine. i turn it on today and try to connect to the internet and it wont. i looked and somehow the driver deleted itself. did a virus scan. nothing. tried downloading a driver and installed it. nothing. use the cd that come with the mb. nothing. i have an asus m3n78-vm mb with a geforve 8200 chipset rev. 461.03. so if anyone can help me that'd be awesome. also this computer was a custom build. i built it. and its been working since it was built in march of last year.

DualBay JBOD is not recognized by Widows Explorer

nweissma — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:12:07 GMT

Inserted 2 hdd's into a JBOD. While "Safely Remove Device" feature recognizes it, Windows Explorer does not.

I trekked in the BIOS but i could not discern a relevant entry.

How do i get this recognized? I did not have this problem with an internal, nor with an internal in an enclosure.

{Vista32 Home Premium; Wintel 64.}

Microsoft launches Office 2010 Beta on MSDN, TechN

whitelotus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:32:52 GMT

Computerworld - Microsoft posted the Office 2010 Beta to its developer and IT subscription sites today, another clue that it will soon offer the preview to the general public.

Both the MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) and TechNet sites now host the Office 2010 Beta in 32- and 64-bit editions, which can be downloaded by the developers and IT professionals who have subscriptions to those services.Read more...

Great, can't believe I still have Office 2003 on my computer. What version do you use?

Browsers

JimA — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:31:06 GMT

Which one is best?

Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 ma

whitelotus — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:46:17 GMT

A recently conducted test by malware researchers reveals that eight out of ten malware samples used in the test, successfully bypassed Windows 7’s default UAC (user access control) settings, WOW, this is big, but the blogger says the findings are in fact not surprising. Why?

MS OFFICE FOR MAC

dm2 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:17:20 GMT

I run a PC and an IMAC off a wireless router. The Op Sys on the pc is XP and the IMac is OS X 10.5.8. These work without interfering the other operation.

I am considering replacing the PC with a new system with 7 and installing Office for Mac on the IMAC. Am i going to have compatibility problems?

PC Maintenance Questions

Jedo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:55:05 GMT

What programs, aside from virus scan, would be good for PC Maintenance? (freeware mostly)

I plan on getting them once my new pc comes along and I will definitely need it since I'll be doing some heavy video editing and whatnot.

Thanks in advance for the suggestions! :]

To Restore MBR

intelguy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:16:45 GMT

After uninstalling Ubuntu in Windows, the Grub is still there. Anyone has used some good third party software to restore MBR? I don't have Windows XP disc.

Hiren's Boot CD

http://www.ambience.sk/fdisk-master-boot-record-windows-linux-lilo-fixmbr.php

Bootzilla

Or any other software?

Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Ambiguous Wording on NE Product Description

stefan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:12:50 GMT

I'm looking at buying the new Norton Internet Security Suite. Newegg has it at a good price, but the wording of the listing makes it difficult to tell if it includes 1 or 3 user licenses. Can someone help me out?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832108432

Thanks,

Stefan

Blue Screen of Death? No problem!

digitalslave — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:24:22 GMT

I don’t know much about BSOD error codes or why people get a BSOD besides it could have been a bad driver or hardware failure…But in the November edition of PCWorld magazine, I read about this tech app called “BlueScreenView”. It interprets the BSOD crash data and displays exactly the files or programs that caused the crash like the drivers, or DLL’s.

I find this very helpful for me because sometimes when working on peoples computers, they tell me they experienced a BSOD but I can’t see the information that it showed them during the crash because they rebooted the computer after the crash. So with this tool, it picked up every BSOD crash data record in their system and displayed it to me so I can see what caused it so I can fix it.

ALSO THIS APP IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD!

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,80367-order,4/description.html

Here are some snapshots of the app at work.

Enjoy!

Forceware software for Nvidia cards?

Rattletrap — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:30:37 GMT

Does anyone know of any downloadable forceware for Nvidia cards? I'm looking for something like ATI's Catalyst Control that I can use to force AA on some applications. I currently have the basic Nvidia Control Panel but forcing AntiAliasing through that dosn't work in some applications. I'd prefer something from Nvidia if possible. The closest thing I can find is nTune but isn't that strictly for system over / under clocking?

Question About Waking Computer Via Remote Desktop

products — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:06:45 GMT

I am tryign to set up remote desktop on my PDA phone (Windows Mobile 6.5) and work computer (XP) to control my home machine (Win7 Pro).

There are two issues, and I wonder how I can solve them.

My home desktop goes to sleep and when I try to access it I cannot wake it up and connect to it. How can I set the Power Options of my home desktop so that it wakes up, or I need to do this on BIOS?

When I try to set up a TV show recording remotely using my PDA, I first have to open Windows Media Center. But I get the message that the display has to be 32-bit to use Windows Media Center. I don't know what bit my PDA's display is. But is there any workaround for this issue?

Google:Dashboard

intelguy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:14:49 GMT

Just check out my account:Google is today launching a new feature called Dashboard. Designed to give you better control of the data that is being stored on various different Google services.

I like it.

Thunderbird email

relayer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:29:47 GMT

Cannot see any information in emails sent to me (invoice, tracking number, payment etc.) using thunderbird email. On 10-27-2009 all was fine. On 10-28-2009 I could not see any information. Since that time I have placed two more orders and still no information. I know I can log on and get, but I like to store this information in a folder. Does anyone else that uses thunderbird have this problem.

Thanks

Question about DIY animated wallpaper

Franknj229 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:54:56 GMT

I found some websites that offer free animated wallpaper. I don't know if it actually works or not because it doesn't work on Vista. But... if it DOES work, is it easy to create my own?

In other words, I would like to take video of a waterfall, a fireplace, clouds moving across the sky, etc, and turn that into my wallpaper (or even screensaver if need be).

Is that possible? Has anyone here done it? What does it take to do it?

Thank you for the help!

-Frank

PC Alarm Clock: Any Suggestions?

tsunamikitsune — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:51:02 GMT

The past couple weeks I've been having some serious issues waking up for my morning classes. An alarm clock and a cellphone alarm just don't seem to do enough. I even tried placing my cellphone on top of a high shelf away from my bed so I'd have to walk across the room to turn it off. It's pretty easy to do that and fall right back into bed.

I leave my computer on nearly all the time, so I was thinking I might be able to find a program that might work as a better alarm clock. I'm sure somebody's thought up something clever that takes a bit more effort to shut off than hitting a button. Maybe something where I have to type a few short sentences or something to shut off the alarm clock? Anything that gets me up and onto the computer will probably drive me to check my e-mail and the other usual sites long enough to wake me up for the day.

Anyone know of a program like this? I'm sure I'm not the only person in the world that can't get up in the morning but has an always on PC near his bed that might do the trick.

Disk Imaging Soft: Acronis True Image 2010?

products — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:02:31 GMT

I would like to get it but am scared as 2009 didn't seem to work with everybody. Also Symantec Ghost? Which is better? I'm leaning toward Acronis because I hear about it more often and cheaper...... Any suggestion?

Can I have two Windows 7 on one machine?

products — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:37:20 GMT

I have Windows 7 RC and Vista Home Premium on one machine right now.

Can I upgrade Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Pro without deleting the partition for Windows 7 RC?

I just don't wanna delete it until I have the time to install all applications on Windows 7 Pro.

Public hot spots: how do you stay safe?

Neesun — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:02:50 GMT

Safe surfing on the Internet at a public hot spot - safety course question:

At home I use my desktop computer for work and school. But now I want to start using my laptop for the same thing at a public hot spot. That means I'll be going on the Internet via wi-fi on a daily basis. I understand that when it comes to safe surfing a VPN is something a security concious person should set up on their laptop, the first choice experienced wi-fi surfers opt to use to combat packet sniffers. Is that true? If so, can you recommend the name of a good VPN? And will the VPN slow down my surf sessions at all as opposed to a hard wired connection?

I can not get the computer to Boot from disk.

leadpipe58 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:40:06 GMT

Hello

I have an older e Machine (T 2628 ) that I am trying to recover. It runs XP and it was in sad shape when I got a hold of it. After I did all I could I see I need to run the recovery disk. First problem eMachine no longer offers a disk for this machine.Next I am going to do a clean install with a copy of xp from my computer.I go into the bio's to get it to boot from the disk and I can not get A +sign in front of the CD drive or remove the + from the other components.

I had hope the original recovery disk would simply load but when I could not get one I went into the bio's I found that I could not boot from the CD drive any way.

Am I done? Or is there A trick with the eMachines to get it to boot from the drive? I may get another disk from another eMachine and just try it to see if it works. As you can tell by now I am grabbing at straws.Even if I just am told how to get the bio's setting to work.I will have learned some thing.

My experience with repair is a c+.I do it for fun (Some fun). This one has me.I know how it is suppose to work,Just not this one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even if you people who play with this stuff of a living tell me it is a door stop.

Thank you John

I can no longer see my external hard drive

squatch97402 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:26:10 GMT

I started to use Acronis True Image 11 to restore files from one external hard drive to another. Acronis froze and I did a hard reboot. I can no longer see the EHD that I want to restore to. Please help with suggestions.

Yahoo or Gmail for web based email & why

PapaHomer — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:40:40 GMT

Do you use Yahoo or Gmail...or other ...and why?

I actually use both, but am becoming drawn more to Gmail. One thing I like about Gmail is that I am able to use https interface.

I've also had some flaky things happen on Yahoo mail... fairly brief but way annoying.

What do you think?

OS X Data Recovery

SLiPSTR34M — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:59:55 GMT

Hi All -

It's been a while. How is everyone?

About a year ago, I came across some freeware OS X data recovery software - recover damaged files, deleted files, etc. I remember that it worked, and it was free.

My friend's mac just exploded... anyone have any idea what would work that doesn't cost a billion dollars?

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