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Computer help

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 4:04 pm
by HandymanHerb
I can't open u-tube video's said I need to update the player I did that a few dozen times and still no workee.

I'm still using vista and checked to see I had everything allowed, it done an update yesterday and has been working since, oh and I did follow help advice and installed it all and re downloaded it and still no go

Re: Computer help

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:29 pm
by FloterBoter
what anti-virus are you using?

vista sucks and does not play well with av programs.

i'm switching all of our machines over to avg free.
my favorite machine is still running win2000, most stable box i've ever used.
some are xp, then there's the damn vista boxes, ugh.

Re: Computer help

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:05 pm
by OldePharte
Why not switch to Firefox as your browser? I use it for most of my forums and internet surfing.

Re: Computer help

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:11 pm
by lakerunner
I agree with FireFox as I just changed over and it is super

Otherwise if Vista works similar to XP hit START/ ALL PROGRAMS/ ACCESSORIES/ SYSTEM RESTORE. Select restore to earlier date before the problem started and follow prompts.

Re: Computer help

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:47 pm
by HandymanHerb
I need to dump all this vista shit and go back to XP

Every thing is working fine and then it's not, and I have never been able to get vista to restore to earlier date for some dam reason

Re: Computer help

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:19 pm
by lakerunner
Just do Fire Fox Herb you won't be sorry

Re: Computer help

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:22 pm
by HandymanHerb
Firefox didn't play well with pogo, but anyway it said it didn't restore but I got my videos back anyway

Re: Computer help

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:20 am
by mike
Vista seems to be geared to high power systems with large RAM, I vista on one pc that has never had a problem.. I think the large PC mfr's pressure microsoft to build a resource hog of an OS so people have a reason to buy a new PC...

Re: Computer help

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:43 am
by WaltF
Yup.. Vista is a RAM hog....
I wouldnt run it with less then 2 gigs...

Re: Computer help

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:45 pm
by FloterBoter
i think microsoft is cutting their own throat with vista. it is such a pig
and a mess. we wanted to plug an ipod into the front mic input or the
rear line in. as installed, vista doesn't support that. you have to add
a registry key to enable it. this is so damn basic, WTF? vista won't
recognize lots of existing printers, label printers and other peripherals.
i know more than a dozen associates who have bought apples because
of vista. i also know a handful of folks who have switched to linux.
all of them seem happier than those of us stuck battling vista. the
networking of vista machines to microsoft's own legacy machines (xp,
2k) is pathetic. i'm not sure someone could try to put out a shitty
product and do any better than microsoft did with this white elephant.
gates is so fixated on the shape of computing in 2030 that he's ignoring
the present.

Re: Computer help

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:25 pm
by HandymanHerb
I need to bite the bullet and switch to XP Pro and just go through setting every thing up again

Re: Computer help

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:09 pm
by lakerunner
That strange Herb as POGO works better on FireFox for me

Re: Computer help

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:35 pm
by beermunk
Vista will eventually go down in history as Windows ME 2.

Try Ubuntu some time. Make the switch to open source.

Re: Computer help

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:40 pm
by HandymanHerb
lakerunner wrote:That strange Herb as POGO works better on FireFox for me
I have to try it again , I was playing a lot of golf last time I tried it and I was getting 2 balls showing, didn't know which one to hit.

Re: Computer help

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:05 pm
by FloterBoter
god i hate it when i have two balls showing

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