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I'll try to type it slowly..... ...set .... your ....jukebox app.... as ....the... shell....instead....of...Explorer.exe Read on sites related to alternative shells to learn how to change the shell (and also find programs that do that for you). jaclaz So instead of being ambiguous your previous post should surely have said: "You can change the SHELL, from Explorer to your jukebox app". Am i the only IT technician who is actually aware that others don't possess our level of knowledge?

I like it here, users are friendly, place is great for advice etc etc. But one thing that I just do.not.understand is the signature size limit for images. The height seems ok, but the width? Why is the width restricted to such a short length. Why not restrict the width to the size of the forum page on, say, a 1024x768 monitor, or if you were to be really frugal, the size it would be on an 800x600 monitor. The site is clearly designed to work optimally on a 1024x768 or above monitor res so I can't see any logic at all in restricting signature images. If someone could clarify, please do!

still to try another browser, let me get back to you in a few minutes on that... He also uses Avira antivirus, shall I try disabling that for a bit?

Really odd problem. I've been given a laptop to fix, with this strange networking issue. It runs Windows Vista, Service Pack 1. Occasionally, when browsing with IE (7 or 8, it didn't seem to make a difference) the connection just stops and the page cannot be displayed error comes up. I ran a continuous ping on google, and while I lost my IE, the pings to google kept going, telling me it was an IE issue only. The odd thing is, it didn't seem to happen much on our office's ethernet, but happens a lot on my home wireless, and I know it's not my connection a) because it's reliable and B) obviously because the client reported it to us. What I have tried: Upgrading IE 7 to 8. Making sure Windows is up to date. Taking out some weird DNS addresses in wireless connection (made no difference) Reset IE to defaults. Reset Windows Firewall to defaults. Check that there are no automatic configuration LAN settings in IE options. Flushed DNS cache. Scan with malwarebytes and found nothing (as I suspected I would) I want to believe that it's a driver issue because that's an easy-ish thing to fix, but if it were, I highly doubt my continuous ping to Google would be consistent while IE browsing isn't. I have a feeling there's an update coming out which has botched IE, because also one of our other clients, a school, has been having this problem with a large group of machines on IE 6, 7 and 8, for some time now. the client needs this laptop back by tomorrow and I don't like disappointing people. Any suggestions?

You can use iTunes to partition iPods to have a data partition which you will then see in My Computer. Do that and then format it as NTFS.

I was kinda hoping they'd have had image stabilisation by now... sigh Apple

How much Crap can a Crap Cleaner Crap, if a Crap Cleaner can Crap Crap?

Go into camera mode and then wave the iPhone back and forth rapidly... tell me, does the image appear to 'wobble' or does it stay stable? If it does, then yes it has image stabilisation and it's about effin time!

I think it's a cross between my Mac Mini being a dud and me trying to squeeze 600 horsepower out of a Metro, yanno? I got the late 2007 one that had 1.86GHz Core2Duo processor with 1GB of RAM. It was ok running OS X leopard - until I actually started doing anything. Once I loaded my Windows Virtual Machine, Safari, iTunes and an instant messenger, it became just as slow as my old 1500MHz C7 with half the amount of RAM doing similar tasks. I was disappointed that OS X Leopard took up so much of the Mac's horsepower on its own and partly due to Mac fanboyism that I had witnessed, had expected even the little Mini to be substantially more powerful than it was. The odd thing was though, it *did* slow down in general since I got it. When I first had it, I could click on Safari, then on iTunes and then, say, iChat, and within a second or two they'd all be running. Yet, even after formatting it, only a few months later, there was significant delay in launching Safari and iTunes alone. It just 'felt' much more sluggish. I often find this happens on a minute scale with Windows during what I call the 'wear in' period, a month or two after the install. But unless one carries on installing heaps of crap, Windows shouldn't continue to slow down. (I've never really witnessed this 'Windows rot' that people babble on about?) I felt that the Mac did, and I was utterly perplexed by it, especially after reformatting. With hindsight I realise I expected too much of it, but the way it seemed to slow down generally is just bizarre. BTW: I am planning to get the iPhone 3GS sometime soon. Be honest. Is it worth it? Have most of the bugs been squashed? Despite the camera being a measly 3 MP, is it good? Does it finally have image stabilisation or is it still as wobbly as a jelly in a blender? I particularly like the fact that you can use Airplane mode to switch off the telephone part of it without shutting down the device - perfect as I am an antisocial so and so

2.2.1 My iPod has been acting a little strangely recently, it seems to have slowed down a heck of a lot since first getting it, some actions seem a little jerky and while browsing the web the music occasionally skips for a split second. I also decided to switch it off totally a month or two ago and ever since then one or two of my apps just refused to open. I should probably reset it but the small annoying things are far outweighed by the hassle of having to set it up all again if I do have to reset. I must admit though, this seems to happen to me with any Apple product I get; my Mac Mini that I had in 2007/8 eventually slowed down so much even after a reformat that I noticed it in everything I did and ended up getting rid of it. Apple's mobile device market does seem a lot better to me than their outrageously overpriced computer market and I am hoping to get an iPhone soon but am I the only one who has this trend of devices which seem to be ever slowing down?

Haha, Dude11* has been banned again?

An exe! I knew I would be anyway And I am Os/2 Warp! (Never used it)

Ever since we've got the new homepage (which I think is godawful tbh) my iPod touch fails to log in. I was lying in bed last night all cozied up and I thought I'd check some posts on here but after three attempts (I wasn't mistyping my pass) i gave up. What gives? Is this an Apple Safari issue in general or just an iPod/Phone issue?

Try downloading TweakUI and using it to stop 'rude' apps from taking the foreground, instead flashing the taskbar button. I quite like that tweak but it's not as if its life and death, either.

Read the thread dude. He asks who understands him and I answered, so he posts in his mother tongue. I actually misread and thought he was asking if his English was ok... but I used a translator and can easily use one to communicate back.

Oh yes. One thing I will never forget is Real Mode...

Installing Messenger Plus without the adware is harmless, right? I know loads of people who install that on their computers and have always wondered if without the adware it's harmless. I even used to use it myself a while back before I deviated from MSN messenger completely.

Slightly offtopic: I actually recently upgraded from Opera to Seamonkey. Although Seamonkey is dog slow at rendering pages compared to Opera, it doesn't suffer the numerous bugs (flash ads on pages invisibly moving when the page is scrolled so when you click somewhere inside that page (i.e., a text box) you actually click on the 'invisible' flash ad and get redirected somewhere; the 'save as' dialogue box not coming up after right clicking to save an item and the random lockups to 100% cpu uage) and reminds me of the old netscape 6 which is cool. What also makes me laugh about Opera, the browser with a supposed light footprint, was the memory usage totalling almost a GIGABYTE after around 3 weeks of being left open on my computer. Further to that it took 5 minutes of hard drive churning to shut the program down. I run plenty of other programs for that length of time that don't leak so much memory, so why should Opera? IE 7 and 8 are just as bad... but IE 6 is really too old to be of much use nowadays... sites are quickly becoming incompatible with it and tbh from the get go it's always been a bit weird although I do like how it resembles the earlier IE versions of the 90s. If anyone is sick to their back teeth of the memory usages of many modern browsers I urge you all to try Seamonkey... furthermore, with the Quicklaunch feature turned on it can be launched quicker than any other browser I tried, and that's out of Opera, IE, Safari, Chrome, Firefox - it beats them all. Seamonkey is basically Netscape of the 21st century, btw.

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Ironically Comic Sans is supposed to be one of the easiest to read fonts for people with learning difficulties and just in general. I wouldn't call it godawful but it isn't exactly pleasant either. Here's an article from Microsoft relating to your STOP error. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330182

Word to this. I upgraded from XP to Vista at work and afterwards I thought 'hang on a minute, this all looks a little too clean to be true'... and then I found everything under the Windows.old folder. Unfortunately upgrades nowadays are not as clean as in the 9x/ME/XP days when everything literally stayed in its place.

Tears for Fears - Don't Drink the Water

How to do that? Does it involve creating desktop ini files? I've found an example in a ms website where in one of the screenies it's showed the webview, but they don't say how to enable it. Yes, a desktop.ini file is required in every folder that should be shown using Webview. That's also one of the main disadvantages about Webview in XP, because it also means that you cannot apply webview to places like My Computer, Control Panel, Network Neighborhood etc. since it is not possible to copy desktop.inis into these folders. The second disadvantage is that the old webview (from Win98, Win2000) doesn't work properly due to some legal issue about Active-X Controls (Webview has something to do with Active-X) That means that webview doesn't work properly if you installed updates newer than SP2 (so all updates that came after SP2 was released). Yes, Microsoft breaking their own webview was probably one of *the* best things they did. There are very few occasions I can think of where I'd want a webpage displayed inside my folder Windows.

Yeah, this. Especially when you can see the toolbars and sidebar actually taking up more space than an XP style would. The only time I have found the 98 web-style sidebar to be more useful than what we have currently is that simply selecting a drive in My Computer will show a monochrome piechart of its disk space. Would be nice to see someone make a shell style of how the Windows 95 interface looked given it was faster, more efficient, had less crap in the way and didn't crash every two seconds...

I don't really prefer any. Unless you're using a 486 there are no performance penalties for using themes, if you turn them off and disable the themes service you might save a few K but that's it. At the moment I am using classic, less bubbly and toolbars take up slightly less space but for the first month of the install I had the XP theme just because I hadn't bothered to turn it off. XP looks fine in classic but Windows Vista looks so horrible in classic IMO that I never use it. Besides, Aero is actually worth having themes turned on for.