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I think you're correct there. I had that problem with Acronis True Image 9. Thank you all for the advice. I think I'll just leave well enough alone.

I just bought a new laptop computer & have a couple of questions about my HD. I've never owned a computer with a recovery partition before. First off, here is what I have. Gateway P-6860FX Laptop running Vista Home Premium Local Drive Volumes c: (NTFS on drive 0) 304.24 GB 228.44 GB free d: (NTFS on drive 0) 15.83 GB 8.56 GB free Now, for the questions. I used MaxBlast 5 (Essentually the same thing as Acronis True Image 10) to do a complete backup of my C: Drive onto an external HD before I uploaded any software. So, the backup is straight from the factory. Can I just go ahead & delete

I use Winamp, & yes, it is hard to tell the difference between that and any other player. I just downloaded this music enhancer the other day. You can get a plug-in for Winamp, WMP, Musicmatch, & others. It seems to work pretty well. There's a free version & a Pay version. I just got the free one because....well I'm cheap. It's worth checking out. DFX 7

Is it just me or does anybody else think it's rather ironic that her post came up twice?

If your just getting a 1:1 transfer, I'd say something is amiss. It should be a lot faster than that.

Macromedia Flash Player 8.0 will not function if the Adblock extension is installed and OBJ-TABS is enabled. Workaround: Disable OBJ-TABS until an updated version of Adblock is released. Tools>AdBlock>Preferences>Options Make sure OBJ-TABS is unchecked. By the way that thing is a little freaky!!!

Yep, if you were to number them 1 to 7, this is how it goes. Click on 5,3,2,4,6,7,5,3,1,2,4,6,5,3,4

I use dbPoweramp. Great little tool!

I like to check out a lot of help forums. Just to learn from other peoples mistakes & this is by far the best site that I've been to. So welcome & enjoy

It's been a long dry spell!! Set me up a couple of Miller High Lifes, The champagne of beers ya know.

Hey, Thanks everyone for the info. It's greatly appreciated!!

A friend of mine has a Dell computer. It only came with 256 MB of Ram. So I DL'd Everest Home Edition to get her specs. Motherboard CPU Type Intel Celeron D 320, 2400 MHz (18 x 133) Motherboard Name Dell Dimension 3000 Motherboard Chipset Intel Morgan Hill i865GV System Memory 253 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) BIOS Type Phoenix (11/08/04) Communication Port Communications Port (COM1) Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1) This is the pertinent part of the specs. So when I'm looking for more RAM do I just look for PC3200 DDR SDRAM & that will aotomatically be compatible? Other than opening he

My first thought was, with the electronic door. What happens if the electricity goes out. You'd be stuck in there with no video, no music, & most importantly, no ventilation!! But, otherwise it would be pretty cool.

Could somebody check this for me. I removed the infamous Vundu trojan using the Symantec cleaner. Then I ran spybot S&D, came up clean. Then I ran A-Squared which found 6 things that I deleted a couple of which were trojans(apparently). Now I just need to see if there is any thing in this log file I should be concerned about. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:46:37 PM, on 10/15/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\ser

I actually have no need for this program myself. I have a friend who doesn't know much about computers that could really use something like this. So I thought I would check it out for her. Oh, by the way, I don't a heck of a lot about computers either!! I downloaded from the link you gave. Everything seemed nice until I clicked on the "Start" button. The second I hit that button my cursor dissappeared. I am using Stardock's Cursor XP. Does anybody know where the connection to these 2 programs might be? The only way for me to get my cursor back was to boot into safe mode & uninstall "File S

This is pretty cool but you forgot one. 3. This guy has an axe to grind with an Ex-Wife/Girlfriend. Nice find

Could someone please check my log & tell me how I'm doing? Haven't had any major problems. Just checking. Thanx Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:42:20 PM, on 9/23/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINNT\System32\smss.exe C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe C:\WINNT\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgamsvr.exe C:\WINNT\System32\nvsvc32.exe C:\Program Files\Dantz

On my Epson I can scan to OCR(Don't ask me what that stands for). That will allow me to open the document in either Note Pad Or Word. When it does it though, it has to convert it to a text document. So yours is most likely being saved as a .jpg or something similar. Maybe you have something similar to Epson's Twain? Oops, I see you already figured that out!!

Yes sir Chappy, I found this to be quite easy. Thanks, I'm not real good with inner workings of a computer but I love some tweaks I find. This one is top notch in my book. Very easy to understand tutorial. Good Job!!!

Cool, glad I could help.

Right click on your desktop. Select properties>Appearance>Advanced. Click the dropdown menu. It should be the "Active Title Bar" & "Inactive Title Bar". They should be equal I suppose, unless you want it to change sizes when you have 2 windows open & 1 window will be inactive. Just set the size to whatever you like. I have mine set at 24.

If you are having a hard time getting into "Safe Mode" here's an easier way to do it. From the Start menu's Run dialog, enter the command MSConfig. Click on the BOOT.INI tab and check the /SAFEBOOT box. Now when you boot, Windows will go into Safe mode. Naturally, when you no longer need Safe mode, you'll repeat the process and uncheck that box. One caveat: Don't experiment with the other settings on this tab. You could wind up unable to get back into MSConfig to undo your changes. I found this somewhere, I think maybe on this site. It saves a lot of hassles! Good Luck

Click on Tools>Folder Options>View. Then scroll down to "Hide extensions for known file types". If it's not checked you'll see those extensions. Hope this helps

I'm kind of confused here. Why do you say to clean install spybot? Why can't you just go back in & recheck those things & leave it at that? I try to follow what the experts here say. I get a little confused though sometimes.

Never ever ever respond to those. All that does is asks for more