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11-02-2009, 08:52 PM
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Pics problem!
Recently i changed my old pc with new one. It has XP SP3 installed now. I installed Opera and Google Chrome along with existing IE.
I have huge problem; opening these pages same as any other, sometimes i can see attached pics and photos and sometimes i can not??? Same problem with all 3 browsers. IMG code is ON. Sometimes i simply open these pages and can NOT see posted photos and usually i see only "pic.jpg" ...etc...etc.. I tried almost everything. I rechecked preferences and tools sections in all 3 browsers?? No result. Everything seems to be correctly adjusted, yet i still have problem. I never had similar problem with my old pc and XP SP1. I guess this is related to OS not to browsers? Maybe SP3 is making problems? Also have installed Avira antivirus. Related? Kind of "floating" and random problem? I just opened these forums and now i can see posted photos? Minute before i could not? Next time i will also face same problem? Damn! Anybody have a clue? I hate this situation, and am ready to format hard disk and install SP1. I used SP1 for many years without any problems. SP3 looks like huge BS to me! Any ideas?
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11-02-2009, 08:55 PM
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Wait! Just checked; i have problem with Geotech forums for now? On my forum i can see photos without problems???
What the heck is that?
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11-02-2009, 11:43 PM
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It seems SP3 is HUGE BS!
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11-02-2009, 11:46 PM
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I used SP1 (with separately added various updates) for several years with NO problem at all.
Also i am long term Intel user. I never had any AMD so far among 50 and more pc's. Maybe SP3 has some issues with Intel? Most probably i will reset to SP1 and add some of updates manually..
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11-03-2009, 12:31 AM
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Are you joking? How can i live without Opera (it's speed dial)?
 I don't care about Chrome...at all!
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11-03-2009, 07:26 PM
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In need for speed try Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings, release 9.04 or newest one (Mozilla Firefox inclusive) plus Virtual Box for some Win programs. You never mis win again.
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11-03-2009, 09:08 PM
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I tried Ubuntu recently and simply i can not switch from XP to Linux...never!
There are more than much software i am used on, on XP platform, not available on Linux. What's use from Linux if i can not install my software there? Besides... i tried to do many ordinary things in Linux and couldn't managed at all. Simply; neither one thing is not on "it's place" in Linux. Everything is upside down and totally pervert. Linux is waste for me. Never again! I am to old to make such huge step and leave Win. No way! I just lost nerves and much time trying Linux...complete waste! No more!
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11-03-2009, 11:47 PM
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Also - unlike Windoze - it doesn't need anti-virus software to slow the system down, and it remains as fast as the day you first loaded it ... not like Windoze, which gets slower and sloower and slooower as time goes on.
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11-04-2009, 12:02 AM
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Ahahahahah! I just knew i will provoke you with my last post! I simply knew that!
 What a catch! Real "fishing" !   Dear friend, of course i don't really mean everything what i said in public. Of course i don't think Linux is waste.Not at all! I just wanted to see reactions!! Yes i know about virtual machines and similar... No really...Linux is ok. I would only need some time to get used on it. Besides...to many years spent with win... tough habit! Regards!
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11-04-2009, 10:24 AM
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if can survive with an old PC for so many time... you can even run old good lynx there and enjoy only text (no pctures) aty all! Remembers me... 1995 or something... BTW opera is very nice... unfortunately some new MS c.r.a.p. around have issues with it, as well as firefox too ...and even IE! MS sometimes made big BS!  See lynx appearance of www.google.com here http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/...ynx_viewer.php , put the url in textfield and enjoy! Kind regards, Max
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11-04-2009, 01:54 PM
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 Unfortunately I just installed some software from a DVD that has badly infected my machine.  In fact it's so bad that AVG cannot remove them fast enough, as they seems to be breeding quicker than they're removed. So ..... I've been forced to reset the system back to factory settings and reload any Windows-only applications. The only good thing is that I haven't lost any data, and it gives me a chance to clean up the Windoze environment. At least my Ubuntu machine is still working quite happily in its secure Linux world. You've got to love it!
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11-06-2009, 12:50 PM
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make an image of your windows partition (or entire disk if you want and have separate disk where to put the image). When you got infected by virus and other silly things simply reboot machine and put a bootable dvd or something you made with the imaging program (remember Norton Ghost ?), then locate the image file(s) and make the program rebuild all partition or disk. It's like when you restore machine at factory settings (e.g. just windows and some utility but not all your programs and data), but you can create an image whenever you want... after you create a "clean" environment and installed anything you like. I used for many years Acronis imaging programs with excelent results always... can do network images/backups and load directly from another machine... or from even a corporate internet server... over a vpn tunneling... whatever! Also you can store images in a separate e.g. usb drive... e.g. 500 gigabytes space... you connect it, run acronis and on the fly restore the image you want... Today you need several tens gigabytes for a simple image of a windows machine... but it's not big issue, cause you have 1terabyte hard disks for cheap, usually people have more than one machine and effectively using network images you can put an image on another computer of your network etc... all very easy. So, my advice is: get Acronis 2010 right now... and stop this annoying waste of time with windows restore and reinstall each time! http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/ look for true image software , 2010 version is the last one Kind regards, Max
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11-06-2009, 01:57 PM
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At least everything is now up and running again.  Also, I connected my HP printer to the Linux machine and it worked immediately without needing to load any drivers. You can print over the network from Windoze to Linux with minimal setting up (share the printer). On the Windoze box I have to load >50MB of software to get it working as just as a local printer !!
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11-06-2009, 07:42 PM
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Windows OS are not made for such stuff... for e.g. compatibility with other systems or for share devices... anything you wanna do with windows costs you something, disk space, memory or cpu cycles much more than with OS like linux Windows is never optimized, but it's much more focused on interface than actual horse power... at long it's high inefficient. You can run an old linux today... no problems... put software, load new compilers etc in matter of few minutes and they work too... even if the linux box was made 3 or 5 years ago... not big problem. But try to run e.g. some Office97 thing on Vista ! This is because MS don't wanna good systems and let them stay out for more years or recycle software... but wanna create slaves... who buy software and OS each 2-3 years... buy last office, buy their software and forget about user needs! It's business. Linux isn't business and so it works the other way. Kind regards, Max
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11-06-2009, 09:45 PM
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Sometimes people complain that OpenOffice is not fully compatible with Microsoft Office, but it's usually just a case of adjusting the default formatting. Of course there are some problems with macros in the spreadsheet applications because the MS stuff is based on Visual Basic. But then the MS office suites are not compatible with each other either. Have you ever tried exchanging data between MS Office and MS Works? And of course there's the new docx word processing format from MS. It is claimed that only MS applications can read this format! How wrong! OpenOffice can read docx with no problems at all.
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11-07-2009, 02:11 AM
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Hi all,
I recently had severe problems with Windows XP loading web pages really slow (1+ minute to load a simple page). After putting off fixing the problem, I finally gave a serious go at fixing all that was wrong. But it took some time to figure out what was wrong. Prepare for a saga of eternal torment that led to final liberation from the Windows BS. At first I figured the hard disk was infected, so I ran lots of virus detection programs that said no viruses present. So I started looking for other answers. I figured I must have lots of programs running in the background hogging up memory and processor time. After checking the task manager, I noticed a few processes were using most of the processor power, and my swap file was nearly a gigabyte. One big culprit that was hogging processor power was AVG antivirus. So I checked Gismos freeware reviews (http://www.techsupportalert.com/) to see what is the current recommendation. I ended up switching to their top recommended free Avira antivirus, and I also updated my firewall and adware remover to their current top recommendations. Then the task manager showed that the Windows Messenger Service was using bandwidth and memory, starting at boot time. So I reset it to never run unless I click to start it. My Windows was improving closer to normal speeds. But it still did not run fast like a new install. So I started researching how to make it faster. I found a solution that came in 3 parts. 1. I uninstalled a lot of programs that I never used. 2. I cleaned up the registry manually to remove all traces of left-over registry entries from removed programs. 3. I disabled un-needed Windows services. The result was my Windows is nearly as fast as Linux for web surfing. But maybe half speed for running Windows applications like office, etc. My solution is not for everyone, because you can destroy your Windows installation if you make mistakes in removing registry keys. And results will vary depending on the hardware and version of Windows you are using. Here are some details: This machine is an Asus P4P800 mainboard with P4 2.8 GHz and 2 GB ram Asus V9999GT video card and Creative Audigy II Platinum sound card. No printer connected, running an ASDL line from the on-board ethernet. I spent 4 years of installing every cool free application I ran across on this machine. None of these had viruses, but they were clogging up the registry because I never use 90% of them. So I uninstalled them, and kept only my few favourite applications. Then I spent an entire day cleaning out the remnants of these programs, starting with orphaned directories in the program files that still had data and software for some of these uninstalled programs. Then I checked online to see what registry entries these programs created, and I deleted these keys. Then I also checked Documents and Settings directory and found more folders with remnants of software that was uninstalled. So I deleted them. You need to be careful what you do in the registry. You can wipe out a Windows installation if you remove parts of the Windows operating system. You can also disable some applications if you delete keys that they depend on. I was able to locate all the registry keys and dependencies online for my uninstalled software so I knew what is safe to delete. I used google to research this, and I used the old version 2.00 of Registrar Lite free edition to do my registry editing. Next, I looked to remove the startup programs and un-needed Windows services that could slow down my machine. If you disable unneeded Windows services, you will reclaim some extra RAM and processing power. I had already disabled Windows Messenger Service. So I found a website that tells what other services I can remove or not. He tells you what each service is for, and what will happen if you disable it. See here for Windows XP: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm He also has guides for Vista and Windows 7. See menus on main page: http://www.blackviper.com/ After reviewing all his recommendations, I ended up disabling only the printer, Windows Media Player, and maybe one or two other services. But it was well worth the read to know what you can safely disable. So now, my Windows machine runs about as fast as a new install of Windows. Note: SP3 is not BS. It is absolutely essential to avoid getting viruses that came up over the years. You cannot expect the methods I listed above to work if SP3 is not installed. Some of the freeware I can't live without in Windows are listed below: Irfanview Multimedia viewer/converter/editor http://majorgeeks.com/IrfanView_d4253.html Irfanview plugins (allows viewing movies etc) http://majorgeeks.com/IrfanView_PlugIns_d4908.html Registrar Lite Registry editor - much better than Windows Regedit http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/U...trar_Lite.html SRWare Iron browser (this is the same as Google Chrome, except with the spy features removed: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php VLC media player for flash movies http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ There are lots of other top rated freeware you can use that are rated at Gizmos freeware reviews. See here to get your favourites: http://www.techsupportalert.com/ It seems the scheme they use to avoid viruses is working very well. They use an alternate DNS server like OpenDNS rather than their ISP DNS. This automatically blocks out most of the known malware websites. The also use "Sandbox" type browser quarantine areas to insulate the PC from what the browser sees. Then when the browser is done, all the "Sandboxed" downloaded data is deleted. See here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...on-utility.htm They have an excellent guide that shows how to make your computer safe in less than an hour. See here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...under-hour.htm If you are running Linux, ignore all above. You will not have these problems. One of the main reasons I run Windows is to use Irfanview for image manipulation. Linux has nothing this easy to take screenshots or to convert a BMP image into a JPG, colour corrections, etc. It seems like I waste a lot of time in Linux clicking menus or looking for the correct menu in Gimp, when the task would have been done in a few seconds using Irfanview. If they ever port Irfanview for Debian Linux, then Windows will be history on this machine. I still need my other Windows box to deal with business partners who have MS office and other interlocked MS products connected. Shame on you, Bill Gates!  Best wishes, J_P
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11-07-2009, 12:28 PM
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Time for you to ditch Windows!! Have a look here at these instructions -> http://www.boekhoff.info/?pid=linux&...-view-on-linux I've just tried this and it works fine - see attached image showing part of my desktop. I have also attached the DLL to save you copying it from Windoze or downloading from the internet.
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11-08-2009, 01:45 PM
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So the Windows installation will remain as a dual boot option until Linux becomes more mature in its applications to allow better functions without using so many menus to perform common tasks that can be done simply in Windows. Best wishes, J_P
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11-08-2009, 02:19 PM
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11-08-2009, 06:05 PM
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Or 12 ??? There was some debian installed somewhere... I remember and was maybe 1997 when I used gimp first time! But irfanview has a number of nice plugins that make it really a beast for some purposes... much better than other even fully commercial software! As always, who made irfanview MADE really a big step ahead in such freewares... 
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11-08-2009, 08:14 PM
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Of course, you need Gimp or Photoshop if you want to do some detailed custom image editing such as combining several photos with gradients etc. But suppose you just want to make a quick crop to all the photos in a directory full of simple photos, then convert them to gif images. No need to open Gimp and start clicking menus. No need to load a huge program into memory and hog up a lot of PC power. Irfanview will get the job done faster as well as use less resources. I have had editing sessions where I had over 10 Irfanview windows open manipulating images in different directories, with very small draw on the system resources. Only the installed RAM will limit how many images you can have active in Irfanview. When you are using all your RAM to hold many high res photos, the swap-file will start growing so opening more photos will take some time to write to the swap file. But very little overhead in the Irfanview software hogging processing power. Anyway, to illustrate how well it works for fast simple operations, see below for a series of top secret schematics I intercepted from a mail server en route from South America to somewhere west of Spain. Note: These are full-size as sent in the top secret email:
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11-08-2009, 09:59 PM
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I suppose it depends how much you want to dump Windoze.
You can also try ImageMagick if you want batch conversion -> http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
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11-09-2009, 01:53 AM
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There are a lot of freeware applications that will sort files or rename them or convert them to a different format. Also a lot of freeware applications that will allow simple image manipulation and play sound or video files. But does any of them do it all in a single program that is only 430 KB? The closest clone is XNView. But even XNView requires more mouse and menu work that is just plain simpler in Irfanveiw. The menus for Irfanview are intuitive. I learned them in less than an hour just by trying them out. For Gimp, I had to read tutorials for several months before I understood the basics well. And I still need to look online occasionally to find ways to do tricky editing effects. Irfanview is easy and intuitive to accomplish most simple tasks very quickly by pressing a minimum of buttons. In order to get this much utility from other software, I would need to open several programs in overlapping windows, and I would be clicking a lot more menu buttons, and I would see a lot more system resources being used. So I will stay with Windows to run Irfanview and other Windows applications for now. When Irfanview is ported to Linux, maybe I will remove the Windows hard drive from this PC. But back to the original topic, I did find a way to make Windows run well. See my previous post for some tips: http://www.geotech1.com/forums/showp...&postcount=183 Best wishes, J_P
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