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Olen Armstrong
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
331
Registered: 06-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 04:50 pm: |   |
Hold off there, ma'am.
MORE memory is always a good idea with Win-blows...but probably won't help a blue screen problem. The O.S. knows how much memory you have (at least how much the PC has TOLD it that you have.) It will automatically try to allocate what's needed to who needs it. More memory doesn't affect the allocation. If you need more memory, it will use extra space on your hard drive as overflow. Lack of memory won't blow you out of the water. It'll just slow you down to a crawl. (A MUCH slower way to operate, ergo, more memory is always good for Win-blows.)
It's not a matter of running out of memory but rather memory not split up properly, or someone not following the rules as dictated by Win-blows.
If your hubbie throws his golf bag into the hall closet, thus breaking your grannie's antique china, a BIGGER closet wouldn't fix it. Your problem is still with one of the users of the space not following protocol. Finding and unloading the offending user fixes it. A tough thing to do. (Not unlike the difficulty of dumping your hubbie and getting a copy of "Husband Version 2.0")
If your system Blue Screens, that's likely another problem.
And it shouldn't take 2 hours to reboot??!!?? You gots one sick machine there.
Later,
Olen A |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2448
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 06:09 pm: | |
And for a little bit more cash, one can get a new computer...
although the 2 hour reboot really makes me think something is going on with either a virus or something...
Has anyone attempted to reformat the hard drive on this machine, LA?
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LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1929
Registered: 12-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 06:45 pm: | |
This system has been having boot issues since we got it. From what the production manager/techie version -1.2 (he has pretty much NO training, and I usually fix most of the computer issues at the office, if that tells you anything), he has told me that the other 2 Dells have already had their memory extended because of issues.
I only get the blue screen during the boot process. The rest of the time, it's fine. The "crashing" pertains to the occasional spontaneous shut down or power outage.
As for formatting, no. We'd have to call the programmers to come in from New York to reinstall the customer database, and that would require money that the corporate office (or the local boss, either way, it's a not go) won't approve.
Ah, well.
When I walk in and hand them my resignation, it will be someone else's problem. That's still at least 6 months off, but it makes me smile just to think about it. LOL
LA
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Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1057
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 22, 2005 - 10:43 am: | |
I returned the Linux and bought a Hewlett Packard with Windows XP. I now have a wireless DSL network (LAN) for my two computers. So far, so good.
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LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1932
Registered: 12-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 10:37 am: | |
Wow. I guess maybe threatening to drop-kick my computer through the wall of the building had some sort of impact. LOL.
The techie guy put a call in to the techie-repair-guys today. Once they get some RAM in stock for my system, it will be going in to have the OS reinstalled over the existing, and RAM added.
Must have had something to do with losing half a day every day for the last 2 weeks recovering from crashes (caused by another computer on the network which happens to be my server), and all of the data entry I'd done having to be redone 'cause it got lost in cyberspace somewhere.
(I did, though. I was so frustrated yesterday that I threatened to drop-kick it through the concrete walls 'cause maybe then it would take less than 2 hours to reboot and perhaps stop losing all my work. It's pretty hard to get the local bean-counting boss to understand that I lose half my time allocated for something else having to do the same thing twice before the system will accept it.)
LA
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Olen Armstrong
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
333
Registered: 06-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 07:11 am: | |
Suggestion:
YOU make a back-up somehow of YOUR data...and DON'T tell them that you did.
They should try to back it all up before nuking your OS. But they could get sloopy or in a hurry if they feel that you have a valid backup. You should always have one anyway. Not that I would have EVER gotten sloppy or in a hurry, of course. But I...umm...heard about it once from some other tech. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
(I DID screw up once and shut down the University of Kentucky's mainframe, but let's not go there. It's a painful memory.)
Machines fail...ALWAYS. Backups are golden.
That fact has kept my kids fed and clothed for, lo, these many years.
Even if you just print your stuff, at least do that. (But all hail to CD burners!!)
Easier to backup your stuff than to cuss about it when it's lost.
Good luck.
Later,
Olen A |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2462
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 03:44 pm: | |
Mmmmmmmm...
I took the opportunity today, while rummaging through a computer store's moving sale, to make a few cheap purchases...so it seems I'm going to take the plunge and finally get around to building a computer completely from scratch...
Should be exciting...
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F.E. Mazur
Hunger Member
Post Number:
96
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 04:45 am: | |
And hot off the press here is the first paragraph of Todd's latest work, keyboarded into his new computer....
Hii(&KNA WL'GU#SU EEFALGSold bk Honlk,
jbn "sie dep "j] hw]k]p
Sounds like a winner to me. I'm gonna order meself up one of those Todd-built computers. |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2464
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 05:44 am: | |
Funny you should mention keyboards...
At the same sale, I bought two keyboards (one for the newbie, and one for an existing computer I had to scavenger off of to replace the keyboard that went bad on the main computer). I guess I need to actually test them out sometime soon...
Alas, it might be a bit before I finish the build, as there are still so many items to shop around for...
You don't want me to translate what that was I wrote, do you Frank?
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Harry Simenon
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
662
Registered: 10-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 12:24 pm: | |
My whole attic is filled with computer parts by now.
Think I will compose a Frankenstein for the kids to play with. |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1204
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 11:12 am: | |
How do I access Normal.Dot and can I re-format it when I get there?
I thought I knew how to find this, but seem to have ten thumbs suddenly.
Bill Nelson
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2552
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 12:57 pm: | |
Click Open, and then under the "files of type" field, change to document templates, and open Normal.dot.
(to find Normal.dot, simply use the "find files" function...should be under the start menu...on my machine, it comes up in c:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates)
Any changes you make to the formatting should apply to any new documents you create using the "Normal.dot" file. This shouldn't change the formatting of any existing documents...although that's why I prefer to create my own templates, just in case...
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Post Number:
2187
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 01:46 pm: | |
gee, I wish I had something good to offer on this thread, but what is Normal.dot?
Claudia
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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
2554
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 03:47 pm: | |
The template Word uses to create a new document (when you click the little "new" icon in the toolbar)...
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2190
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 11:04 pm: | |
ok, I thought that was what it was, but then wondered about what else it might be, and got fouled up trying to outthink the obvious.
Claudia
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1783
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 04:10 am: | |
Cyberdummy needs some help here:
I'm planning on trying some freelance writing. Earlier this week I had lunch with a guy who makes his living from a number of freelance contracts and he told me that most customers like the articles submitted in PDF format.
I guess I want to know which Adobe package do I need that can be sucessfully used by a totally clueless and inept second grader. I want (need) to be able to convert from .doc to .pdf with one click. Is it adobe utilities?
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priceless1
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
637
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 08:49 am: | |
Dennis, I'm far from a computer whiz. I'm more adept at breaking things than helping. However, I do know that some versions of Windows comes with Acrobat Reader. This won't convert a doc to pdf format. For that you need an actual program. Email me.
Lynn |
LA
Unity Member
Post Number:
2183
Registered: 12-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 01:57 pm: | |
Dennis,
I have Adobe Acrobat 5.0. It's as simple as setting your "printer" to be the Acrobat Distiller. Then you just choose to print the document, and choose the distiller, and it "prints" to a PDF file.
That costs about $100, I think, but I have enough Adobe programs that I can't remember which one costs what. I hear tell there are freebies online that will allow you to do the same thing without having to purchase a program, though.
LA
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C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1927
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 06:03 am: | |
Dennis,
Adobe Acrobat (the full package, not just the reader) has the conversion software built in.
They also have a macro set that you can load into MS Word, which gives you that 1-click option by putting a button, "convert to PDF document" on your word toolbar.
CEW
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Tom Elkins
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
384
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 02:31 pm: | |
Claudia -
You're a genius. I don't know what a template is.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
3189
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 04:09 pm: | |
pdf995.com
Free pdf converter that works from anything that will print in Windows.
I think I've mentioned it a number of times before...
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1815
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 07:27 am: | |
HELP!!!
I'm trying to edit a manuscript in "word" and I make all of my changes okay but when I try to save it, it says, "This is a read only file." Please, please, please, somebody help!!!
Dennis Collins
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Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
2325
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 07:43 am: | |
Are you trying to save it back to a cd? If so, you can't it can only be saved to a hard disk.
If the file is open (say two copies running) you can't save but one of them because the other is open
Try to save it "save as" giving it a new name.
You can copy it - start a "new" file then "paste" into the new and save
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LA
Unity Member
Post Number:
2188
Registered: 12-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 02:26 pm: | |
Right click on icon,
choose properties
uncheck the "Read Only" box
Apply
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1817
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 03:16 pm: | |
Thanks to both you guys.
Dennis Collins
Moderator
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2062
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 04:41 am: | |
My website hosting and domain name are up for renewal and my webmaster has suggested that we do some updating.
I've heard that one of the best ways to drive traffic to your website is through links to other sites. I don't know how to do this.
Dennis Collins
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
3435
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 05:48 pm: | |
I've heard that one of the best ways to drive traffic to your website is through links to other sites.
That seems backwards to me...I'd think to drive traffic to your site, other (presumably extremely popular) sites would need to link to yours...
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2064
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 06:38 pm: | |
You're probably right. I still don't know how to do it. Do I just start asking around?
Dennis Collins
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Tom Elkins
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
546
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 07:08 am: | |
Dennis - I think you're already doing it, in a small way, with your signature here. Other than that, I don't know either.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
3438
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: 
Votes: 186 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 03:39 pm: | |
I would think a person would go about making friends with people who operate popular sites and hope they think your site is worth linking to.
The other option is to generate 'buzz' about your site. People want to return if they see something they like (not to mention, they'll tell other people about it).
In that aspect, it's much like a published book. Public opinion is going to do most of the work, regardless of the amount of effort the author puts in.
Maybe Mr. Matt will share some words of wisdom on generating buzz. Seems he recently received a "blog of note" nod from the folks at Blogger. I have to assume for the amount of traffic he receives.
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