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  1. Bill Melanson

    in Open Chat

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    Thanks folks. Bill was always so prolific on the old Tech Boards. Once had a disagreement with Bill. He claimed that Marty was from Aussieland. He would not believe he was from Kiwiland. Thanks for the World Star Messgae Board site. It looks to be quite an interesting site

    Bryan

  3. About U?

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    Married 47 years - three grown up kids - 8 grandkids and one Great grandkid. Retired and live in British Columbia. Canada. As old as I am I still feel that I should learn something new everyday. Make furniture, clocks and all sorts of woodwork projects in my spare time during the cooler months. Have a large garden so grow most of the fruit and vegetables we need during the Summer months.

    Bryan

  4. Dvd Recording Television

    in Open Chat

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    I am interested in getting rid of my VHS recorder and buying a DVD recorder to take its place. I remember getting bitten when I bought a Beta Tape recorder instead of a VHS. That was in the days when a VCR cost over a $1,000. Now we have a couple of different formats in DVD recorders with the + and - and also Ram. I have googled this subject but am no better off. Wondered if anyone has any thoughts regarding which format will win out, or recommendations.

    Thanks

    Bryan

  10. Avg And Avast

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    Lets us just compound this a bit further. I have Avast as my main program and AVG (turned off but kept up to date) I use AVG to scan individual files as well as Avast. I also have the latest updated Zone Alarm which also has virus detection abilities and of course is running all the time. Yesterday I received an email containing a VBS extension and it was stopped by Zone Alarm. I scanned the file with both AVG and Avast and both scans came up clean. If it is not advisable to run two AV programs at the same time it looks like we should turn off the Zone Alarm program. Ideas

    Bryan

  12. Photo Problems

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    My brother who lives overseas has asked me if I can help him with a problem he has. I am stumped by this one and wondered if anyone has any ideas. I will paste his email but he does not give too much info. I am pretty sure he is running Windows 98 I have asked for more info but in the meatime here is his problem:-

    I have a small problem with my machine, when I open a photo to look at it, it then goes into my history of visited web sites as though I was looking at a web page and not one of my own photos, also when I delete a photo I don't want, it becomes according to my Norton utilities a missing shortcut, what do you think is wrong. Graham

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Bryan

  16. Avast Av

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    I used to have Norton but found it conflicted with my Zone Alarm. I then used the free AVG which was pretty good until updates started to foul up. (they have fixed that now) so went to Avast and have been very happy with it since. Avast updates itself whether you want it to or not and it also updates itself when it upgrades. I still have the free AVG on my system and update it periodically but I don't have it running at the same time as Avast. I recommend Avast highly. One thought though; turn off the siren that sounds when an incoming virus is picked up or it will scare you to death.

    Bryan

  17. Members

    in Open Chat

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    If all our current members were to encourage friends to join it would make a difference. I agree Marty we don't want to lose this Board but at the same time we need to keep irresponsibles away.

    Bryan

  21. Startups

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    Thanks Crow, your comments make a lot of sense. I have sent that Microsoft XP item to restore the speed of your computer to her and hopefully she can get the problem resolved. Thanks also to everyone else who responded too. I know she will continue to use KAAZaa lite harmful or not.

    Bryan

  22. Members

    in Open Chat

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    I check the Boards here at least twice per day. At least it seems to me that members here are more serious and way more polite than some other Boards. Thanks a lot B for providing the Board

    Bryan

  23. Slow Firefox

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    Thanks for all your replies. I just cleaned up my computer (got rid of cookies, history,

    Temorary files etc.) The lag averaging 17 seconds comes when I double click on my desktop to open Internet sites such as Bestechie, G4 Tech TV etc. Once into the site there is no lag and it is quicker to open sites than it is in IE. There was no lag using IE. when I clicked on my desktop. It is no big thing but 17 seconds seems a long time when you are not accustomed to waiting.

    I am using 98se, free Zone Alarm and Avast AV.

    Yes I guess I will have to learn how to configure FF.

    Thanks again for your input.

    Bryan

  24. Slow Firefox

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    I have tried Firefox a few times and after a while I go back to Explorer because of the slowness of firefox. I am on broadband and it takes Firefox at leat 12 seconds to open any sites that I open up. Internet explorer does not have this lag before opnning. Any one have any comments on this

    Thanks

    Bryan

  25. Scrolling Priblem

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    hey Marty, this happened to me a couple of years ago after I downloaded a pop-up blocking program. Everytime I used the scroll wheel the scrolling would go up and down uncontrollably. It didn't happen when I used the up and down arrows. I just got rid of the pop-up blocker and the problem ended.

    Bryan