igotout

Thanks Rocky but I am not interested in guys resizing my jpg. Is this the place where you 9th Corps leaders learned all this wisdom maaanny years ago?

[This message was edited by igotout on November 04, 2002 at 22:51.]

I rebuke ya'll

Pmosh - this is for a work server for a small business with critical data. (Plus the songs alone are 3 gigs at that site.) CD's as backups for me are too small even at my home. But I agree it is suitable for most people and hold a lot more than a Zip. After all, most people do not even back up at all. I also like the idea of external drives they are so cheap now.

But I also like the idea of off site backups in the worst case scenario of a fire or other disaster. For example, years of scanned family and other photos are at my home as well as DVD videos of family stuff going back 15 years. It is irreplacable. Also dozens of important personal email messages and documents. I have it all backed up and in a vault.

Can I join yaaaaa'llll nyyynth Corps when ya'll go a travelin? Ya'll are gonna need me to keep you on the riiiight path.

Zix - I may have found something that suites what I am looking for. Raid 1 for redundandcy combined with hot swappable drive bays. The idea is to have 3 drives. Two for the Raid 1 array constantly mirroring one another. Each night (or just every few days in my case) it appears that I can replace one of the drives and take it off site.

"If disaster strikes, and you no longer have access to your computer, the "mirror" drive can be used in any PC to access your complete operating system, data, and applications?even without the RAIDcase. You are instantly up and running, with all of your data up to date and intact."

This appears to eliminate the hassle of tape backups and annoying backup software.

What do you think? Click here to view this product:

DupliDisk Raid Case

John R.

Krysillis - you indicated you have a 3 com modem. Do you even need a modem? You said you have a cable connection. Therefore if you do not anticipate needing your 56k dial up modem then why not remove it? Is it connected to a phone line? You certainly do not need it for internet connection if you are using a cable modem.

That will be one less thing to gum up the works. I am removing my floppy drive next week as I NEVER need it anymore. (They are fast becoming obsolete.) A modem is very simple to remove. All you need is a phillips head screwdriver. Just open up your case and remove it out of the slot it is in.

John R.

Do you use Outlook Express for your email? Here is a site you should bookmark. It is a non-Microsoft site that tells you everything there is to know about every detail of Outlook Express:

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/

For example do you know how to back up all your email messages and your address book? Do yo know how to transfer ALL your OE settings to a new computer to make it exactly the same as it was on your old computer complete with all your old email messages? Do you know how to perform Maintenance on your OE folders to prevent a slowdown or loss of archived messages?

This site has it all including a handy search feature. It is known that even Microsoft technicians refer to this site to find out information. Excellent if you really want to clean up you Outlook Express and make it work most efficiently.

It's the weekend. I'm drunk. Where am I and how did I get on this thread? Will someone pass me another beer?

Does the phone happen to ring when this happens? In some BIOS settings you can have features that cause the computer to "Wake up" or start up when the phone rings if the line is connected to your computer. (This must be for the purpose of receiving a fax if you have fax software, answering software or somethng like it.)

Just a shot in the dark. I have seen this happen before. To fix it go into your BIOS settings and disable this so-called "feature". It could be also happening with the "Wake on LAN" setting. Others may know more.

Let me know if this is a possibility that this is happening.

John R.

PS - Also check your Event Viewer to see if you have anything unusual listed there at the time when this happens.

You are on an internet site, say.... making a post on GreaseSpot. You open an email which contains a link to some other site you want to see and suddenly your post is no longer visible because your browser went to anohter site.

Wouldn't it be nice if the link instead opened a new browser window so you weren't taken away from the page you were on?

You can easily do this. Open Control Panel and go to Internet options, then click on the Advanced tab.

Scroll down to the section called Browsing and look for an entry that says " Re-use windows for launching shortcuts".

Uncheck that option, click apply then OK.

Now your browser will do this. I personally feel as if this ought to be unchecked by default but it is not.

That almost made my 50 year old heart stop, Excathedra. Why you do that to me!!!!!

Between that and laughing my a** off reading ya'lls posts I feel out of shape. "Cough, cough."

Does anyone want to run around the block with me for some points?

Oh, and I found an old Emporia picture of Mr. Tuttle who "is his own Grandpa" as he stated on another thread:

What operating system are you using? Are you on a network, other computers connected to yours? Are yuo sharing an internet connection? Can you state exactly what the error in event viewer reads?

Others may know more but I do not think you need dhcp. I forgot what it stands for right now but with more info I can try to find out what the error message means.

A cool free utility from Microsoft is called Tweak UI.

It provides access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows default user interface. There are many settings and options that you can only set from Tweak UI.

You can setup your mouse to your liking by setting click speed, hover sensitivity, etc. You can also customize many Explorer settings, taskbar settings, My Computer settings, and a wide variety of other settings. One of my favorites settings is to adjust how fast the menus in windows pop up. I like them to be very fast.

All these settings can also be accomplished by going into the registry but it is much easier to do by using Tweak UI. Bear in mind that Microsoft does not support this free product. But I have never had any problems using this utility.

All users except Windows XP go here to get this useful tool: Tweak UI

Windows XP users get your version here: Tweak UI for XP

Download it and install it. XP and 2000 users....you may need administrative rights to adjust or change some of the global settings which may affect all users.

Enjoy

John R

This is for XP and Windows 2000 Users. For previous users of Windows 98 who have now switched to XP or 2000 there is a valuable tool you need to use frequently to see what is happening in your system both good and bad. It is called Event Viewer.

There are a number of ways to get to it but a simple one is to go to control panel and click on Administrative tools. From there click on Event Viewer.

In the left pane click on System. In the right window you will see lots of information. Enlarge the windows and expand the columns so you can read things clearly.

Do you have any Red X's...Errors listed there under recent dates? How about any yellow triangles which are warnings? If you do then you need to investigate why. This sometimes can help you trace down some serious errors that may be happening behind the scenes without your knowledge.

Your goal is to have a clean Event Viewer with no warnings or errors. You may get occasional warnings or errors if something goes wrong here and there. But you want to avoid having repetitions of the same errors and warnings over and over.

Click on the Event and you will find information. Take note of the Event ID #. Search on Microsoft's Knowledge Base by entering in this Event ID# as the search parameter. You may find a clue about the error and what to do about it. If not, post it here and we may be able to help find some info about it.

This one is for windows XP and for those who are not uncomfortable going into the registry. You must be logged on as Administrator or have Administrative rights to do this. Backup your registry if you are uneasy about changing the registry. I believe XP keeps track of previous good registry settings somewhere as well in case you mess up.

Go to startRun type in regedit. Then Navigate to:

HKEY_Local_MachineSystemCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementPrefetchParameters

Click on the key in the right window called EnablePrefetcher

Change its value from 3 to 5 to make programs open faster.

Bob - of course we were both there and Sunesis too, having all been in the 7th Corps. I was in my usual spot in the back of the room where one could sleep easier. I saw many of the women just covering their eyes in disgust.

And remember the uncomfortable, dead silence in the room? I got the sense that most everyone could not wait until it was over.

Some thoughts that later crossed my mind and still do:

___________________________________________

Where did he get this video and under what circumstances?

Why would he carry it around on the motorcoach with him (where there was a video player in the back bedroom area)?

Had he shown it to others such as LCM and other top leadership including other women in top leadership positions?

Why was not Mrs. Wierwille present to witness this video? Had she seen it and did she know her husband was showing it to us?

Why were we not given an option to stay or leave the meeting if we did not care to watch this filth? We could have been warned in advance that it contents and encouraged not to watch if we did not care to be exposed to this material. If I recall these were very imoprtant Night Owls when VPW was visiting. You simply did not consider NOT being present for his every word.

Did he explore the possible legal ramifications possessing and showing this bestiality video to hundreds of single young men and women, 99% of whom had never been exposed such gross pornography?

John Richeson

7th Corps survivor

Tampa, FL

Now, as to cleaning up the startup group, these are recommended steps.

Right click (or double-click) on each of those icons in the system tray (the area of the taskbar by the clock) and open each of the associated programs one at a time. Check each of their options/preferences/configuration (whichever applies) for an option that reads something like "allow to run in system tray" or "allow to run/load at startup" and disable that option.

That will take care of many of them. For the windows controls, things like mouse controls, display controls, volume, etc., go to Control Panel and check under the various applets. Most of these have an option to run or not run in the system tray.

Next check the startup folder. StartProgramsStartUp

and remove shortcuts to programs that you don't need at startup.

You can also check the [windows] branch of win.ini by clicking start/run win.ini. See if there are any entries after load= and run=, if so edit them (as win.ini opens in notepad by default, you make your changes and click file/save) and leave those lines open (they should end with the equal sign). Those lines are generally open ended by design, but often times a program will place an entry in them. Then Reboot.

Now, for whatever's left (Don't do this first), we can use msconfig.exe. Start/Run/and type MSCONFIG.

Click on the Startup Tab and scroll through the list of entries. Everything with a check in the box is starting up every time you boot the system, whether you are actually using that program or not. These are usually the result of the program writers' arrogance as previously mentioned.

Uncheck the ones that you don't need running automatically. Win98 only needs scan registry, system tray, and the 2 entries for load power profiles. It is also generally accepted that you leave the virus scan entries (2 or 3 depending on your AV program) alone. Some Mice need to have an entry checked for proper performance. EVERYTHING else is optional.

Note that this does not uninstall or remove any program from your system, it merely prevents them from loading at boot, each of them can still be run from it's start menu entry or .exe file in the program folder.

When you are done, click apply/ok/ and restart as instructed for the new settings to take effect.

The reason we do this step last: If a program has an option within itself to load or not load as part of the startup group, then disabling it in msconfig, rather than within its' own options/preferences/configuration, will cause the program to rewrite that entry. This causes the often seen "duplicate" entries in the startup tab of msconfig.exe.

WIndows 2000 and 98 users, to get MSCONFIG working on your systems click here: MSCONFIG

Not sure what some of the items in MSCONFIG mean? You are not alone. I am convinced this is by design by the pesky vendors who put those things there in the first place so you can not easily turn them off permanently.

No problem. I found a neat web site that has alphabetically listed hundreds of these entries with clear explanation as to what they mean and wheter they are needed. Click here and bookmark this useful site: Startup list

I hope this helps someone to free up the resources of your computer by getting rid of all the junk that can cause problems and conflicts.

Zix, that (Windows key + E) is THE best way to get to Explorer and a tip I just discovered last year. I prefer it mostly because it opens a collapsed version of Windows Explorer. It is very practical.

And it is a fact that Mr. Wierwille did show a bestiality video to our whole Corps group. I saw it at least twice. Howard was there too. It was two lesbians and a dog. I never quite understood why we were being shown this disgusting video. Maybe it was to show devil spirits in action or something.

Once while it was being played he made the comment that "if you want to please a woman just look at the way these two women please each other". Most of us in the room were single.

[This message was edited by igotout on October 17, 2002 at 23:04.]

Wayne, that's quite a story but by your own words it is a rumor. Outside of a suicide note or some other revealing circumstance(s) one may never know why this young lady committed suicide. I am sorry for Al and his family that it happened, no matter what the reasons may have been. Obviously she was very troubled to have done this.

One of the most common things I have seen which negatively affects the performance of a computer is when a person has all kinds of things running in the background, most of which is activated on startup. This is a common problem. You have to work hard to keep programs and portions of programs from hogging you resources.

Go ahead...check to see some of the things you have running in the background. Close all your programs and press CTRL / ALT /DEL in Windows 98. Do you even know what all those things are? Is the System Tray (the space of your Taskbar at the bottom right-hand corner next to the clock) filled with lots of icons. Do you know what each of those are, what they do and how they got there?

If you don't you are not alone. It's not your fault. Vendors desperate for a piece of your business shove their products in front of your face at every turn. Some of the more agressive ones I can think of off the top of my heard are:

AOL

Real Player

Creative Labs SoundBlaster

MSN Messenger

And we have all seen Comet Cursor appear mysteriously at one time or another even though we did not ask for it.

But these vendors are smart. The things you see with CTRL /ALT / DEL are only the most obvious applications running. There are more. Sometimes tons more. Windows 98 users go to Start / Run / and type in MSCONFIG. Look at the tab called Startup. Surprise.... all that stuff starts up and is running in the background every time you start your computer. Do not start unchecking those things yet unless you know what you are doing . You may regret it.

I'll post again tomorrow about how to find out exactly what each and every item is and whether it is needed or not.

For us XP and Win2k users, I can show you how to reach this MSCONFIG window that we all liked so much in Windows 98. It is there but is a matter of activating it. No time now.

By cleaning up your system, removing unnecessary things from starting up in the background, you may find that you have less problems and that your machine will run faster and more efficiently.

[This message was edited by igotout on January 07, 2003 at 23:33.]

I thought it would be helpful if we had a thread filled with some of your basic tips, tricks, and suggestions in general. This may be especially beneficial to some who are just getting familiar with computers or who need a little help.

I'll begin with something simple but useful. Have you ever had a website open and you decide you want to go to another website while still leaving the page you are on open and maybe minimized or moved to the side?

Just hold down the CTRL key and click N. A new Internet Explorer page opens up for you, completely independent of the one you are on. You can do this again for a third window to appear if you want.

As with many tips, there are probably other ways to do this task. But this simple keystroke works for me. Try it. Once you get used to it you may use it often.

Any others out there? Please contribute.

[This message was edited by igotout on October 15, 2002 at 22:56.]

Man, I'm jealous! That sounds cool. My monsters take up a lot of desk real estate. You can set up multiple monitors in two ways.

As three seperate monitors.with the task bar on the middle one, three seperate wallpapers, etc.

As one giant monitor. They call it monitor spaning. This setting treats all three monitors as one. THe task bar, for instance, spans all way across the bottom of all three monitors from end to end. I prefer this method. It seems more intuitive and plus the wallpaper looks fantastic spread across all three.

You're gonna like it.