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Hello all, For some reason my brothers sony laptop does not recognize the full 512MB of installed memory he had purchased the laptop with. It now only recognizes 256MB. He purchased the laptop around 2002, but he noticed that in the properties of the "my computer" it now only shows 256MB. maybe since a month ago its been like that. he says that when he goes into the bios it also shows 256MB instead of the 512. I tell him that it doesnt really matter what it shows as long as it performs like 512. But since you cant really tell the difference he keeps saying that it has slowed down. Im guessin

Hey all, lately I have been searching for the "perfect" DVD backup solution. I have been using DVD shrink for some time now. I like how simple it is to use but I don't like it how it backs up the movie previews and extras causing reduction in quality of course. Is there a way that I can chose to backup the movie with the menus and chapter selections as well? Or what other DVD backup application do you guys use and recommend, that do what i am asking here. since there are so many and i simply do not have enough time to personally try them all.

Oh thanx guys!!! It feels different being 17 and all. Feels like more responsibility and stuff. But I'm finally glad to be 17 and a year closer to graduating. But today I decide to stay home from school and have me some fun!!!(hey I go everyday, I think I deserve this day off atleast) Thanx again and god bless.

None of those seemed to work. I ran tuneup utilites and it had an option to restore the recycle bin to the desktop, worked perfectly. sorry guys i should have checked that first thanx for the help though.

ok for some reason i cant restore the recycle bin to the desktop. i have tried it with TweakUI and the option to show the recyle bin on the desktop is not there. but the other ones, my computer, my documents, IE are there. i have also tried it with the display options but it doesnt show it either. i am still able to delete files, but just not see the actual recycle bin. how can i fix this?

Sir Siddy, i have been having the same problem with Azurues ever since I updated it a while back. I have a Linksys router and i have also tried that wiki guide and what not. and its still not working. so i switched over to ABC and my torrents always stay on green now.

For some reason i ALWAYS get these program "not responding" messages now. I have reinstalled windows blinds and it still occurs. i havent installed any other software as of late, and no hardware changes either so i dont know whats going on. i guess im going to leave it as it is.

I remember somebody in this forum, or in the other one, that they showed some kinda hack where programs will automatically end when it prompted u with a "windows not responding" message following by an "end now" message? i get this alot when shutting down. its always window blinds and iexplore.exe. so does anyone know of what im talking about here? or how i can end these processes immediately when trying to shut down?

For some reason all the other forums just didnt feel right. This one feels just right. Excellent job BT!!!!

Im using XP home edition.

Hey all, I was wondering if there is such a program that would prevent someone from deleting any file on a computer. or maybe there is a windows setting to do this? the problem i have is that some of the people in my house have tendencies to press the delete key randomly so its just a matter of time when an important file is deleted.

Same thing with Opera here too. Just type in the keyword like Matt said into the address bar.

Thank you so much medab1 its absolutely perfect. Thanx again!

ive been trying to learn html and i just cant quite get the hang of it by the time i want this done. even though its probably like the simplest thing lol. i just want to change the color of some text and it has to be in .html form so i could past it on a web page or something of the sort. I would like the background black. Regular times new roman font size 12. no need to include the ">>>>>" just showing the changes i would like. ----------------------------------- Soldier's Creed >>>>>>blue text, underlined Author: unknown >>>>>>white text

I dont quite understand what your asking me to do. but my windows is legit. Thank you for running the Windows Validation Assistant. It appears that your Windows Product Key is valid. This is a strong indicator that your operating system is genuine, however the Windows Validation Assistant cannot make a final determination. To verify that you received a genuine Certificate of Authenticity and software CD, compare your anti-piracy features in the next section.

This maybe a dumb question, but I recently installed the latest AVAST Pro into one of my computers. i was wondering for this particular computer do i really need the network shield? i have a router hooked up to it, but it doesnt actually access the internet through one of the ethernet cords.

Thanx guys, not to sound harsh, but i wasnt asking on opinions on whether to upgrade to SP2 or to get a firewall. I was asking for help on windows update. and how am i suppose to get SP2 working if i cant update through windows? besides slipstreaming...i mean. just if anyone has any related help to my topic it will really help me out. i will once again reconsider on upgrading to SP2, its just that it slows this computer down a bit.

I rather not, i like how this computer runs and i dont personally believe in firewalls....although i know you have the option to disable it. I just rather stick with SP1 and fix this problem instead.

I dont know why this has been occuring lately but it has. When ever i go to microsofts update page, the computer hangs. and when i check the processes, there are more than one wuauclt.exe running. i have tried restarting the services of both the automatic updates and the bit transfer service but nothing. other times when it actually searches for the available updates, it takes a long long time and the computer slows down to a crawl. also i noticed that i have lost about 400MB when i was attempting to update. The only updates i was trying to install were an outlook express update and the MS Wor

I just got an old computer that was made in 1990, since it does me no good i think it would be a great idea to make this computer run on linux. So what would be the easiet distro that you guys recommend to get me started in linux? I currently have xp home edition installed on it, but since i dont have any spare CD keys it will expire in about 20 days. so i would prefer the linux distro to be free. and i dont know whether this is a factor or not, but the computer specs. are: celeron 500MHZ, 64MB of memory, 10GB harddrive, and a rage XL video card.

LOL i dont know what that link does or how to work it.......lol but thanx anyway ill see what i can do with that. the way i transfered my old emails was by going into each of the emails and forwarding them. and it saves it as an attachment just incase u want to save it onto ur computer or something. but im unable to do this with gmail, it will only forward one message at a time, not the whole conversation. the other way would just take WAY WAY too long.

anyone?

anyone? i figured out how to forward the messages. but i still need to know how to make a sent message move itself automatically to another yahoo address if possible. also is there any other way to forward gmail messages besides going into evey single message and forwarding it that way? i would just like to forward the entire conversation.

I was wondering if i could transfer yahoo messages from one account to another yahoo account? if so how would i go about doing this. and also is there a way i could have people when they write to me, actually transfer that messaget to another yahoo account. Im trying to get rid of all my yahoo accounts and combine them all into one. but i still want to have all my past messages in my new one. remember this is all using yahoo.

yea it shows up, but to the one i created which is of course empty. and when i delete it, it tells me it cannot locate it.