Vista is a shitload of fuck, but I still use it out of laziness.

Uh, let’s see, besides having Vista, my battery is retarded so I have to run it off DC without the battery in, the case has a crack in it from me stupidly leaving it in an overhead compartment during a bumpy flight, and the otherwise badass flames on it retain fingerprints too easily.

No real technical problems though, besides those that can be laid directly at the feet of Vista.

@sansafro
I haven’t had any Vista problems. Maybe I’m just lucky.

My computer was slow earlier, but I restarted it, and it’s fine now.

Hm. I’ve told myself that I will uninstall my “bloatware” later.

Heh, I do the same.

Except it finally came to a head on our older (about five years old) computer, which has gradually gotten slower and slower over the years, to the point where I can get up and go get a cup of hot chocolate in the time it takes for Firefox to reach that precious 60,000 K it needs to actually start (according to Task Manager, anyway, which is my primary form of entertainment while I wait for FF to load). So over the past few months I’ve cleaned it up a bit, and it’s running much more smoothly now… if not exactly fast, it is decent these days. Firefox still takes forever, though. (I could uninstall all my add-ons to make it faster… but how could I live without WoT, Greasmonkey, AdBlock Plus, StumbleUpon or Read It Later?!)

Agreed. My bookmarks get so messy because I never organize them, but Read It Later keeps everything I want to read handily in one place! :D

AVGN

What’s that?

AVGN much?

Very much.

Yes, and I’m surprised that nobody thought to Google it.

I’m just going to put this here.

I. Am. POd.

My computer does not work.
My beautiful, blazing fast(not really), computer WON’T BOOT.

&@$#(^

I accidentally hit a key that made the bottom taskbar thingy disappear when the internet it up. Does anyone know how to reverse this process?

Haha! It worked! Thank you, Virgil. I’m actually very computer literate, but it’s hard to fix stuff when I have no idea what I did to screw it up in the first place. I’m more of a software person anyway.

Or when you casually smack your hand against the keyboard and suddenly everything ir.o ojp.,fv

Took me ages to realize I was accidentally turning the keyboard to Dvorak, and a long time after that to work out it’s CTRL+SHIFT that switches it back and forth.

Yeah, how mine got messed up was that I accidentally smacked my headphones into the keyboard, which could’ve hit any number of buttons. This thread can come in quite handy really.

Hi, I’m on Unbuntu and I hate it because I have no idea what I’m doing. So I have no drivers, no room for updates, and no programs. Fun.

More specificly, I’m wondering how to get more hard drive space for Linux. I have 245 Gb of space free, but Linux won’t use any of it.

In general I hate things that are hard that I can’t figure out, and love things that are hard but I can figure out.

EDIT: how do you get wine?

I have Windows installed as well. I did not manually partition the drive on install, Windows has files splayed all over the drive. There are 232.4Mb of updates and there is not enough room to install them on Linux.

It reports the space, but it won’t us it.

Okay, so I’ve been testing out Gmail, and when I forward things to myself, the embedded images are not showing up.

There should be a “show pictures” link above the email.

I have a wonderful computer that actually runs quickly now, unlike my old one.

Question: how fast is a Netbook?

Netbooks are made for web browsing, checking your e-mail, and word processing. They average around 1.2 Ghz with 1-2 Gb of RAM, so you could play games that don’t have dedicated graphics card requirements.

Google Chrome has been being mean to me. It’s been very slow to upload pages, sometimes has trouble closing and freezes. Is it time to change to Firefox?

@Snow White Queen

Google Chrome has been being mean to me. It’s been very slow to upload pages, sometimes has trouble closing and freezes. Is it time to change to Firefox?

It’s time to change to Orca. Don’t know why you used Chrome at all; even Safari has more features and a better interface than that waste of code. Also, Chrome sends all of your browsing data to Google.

Chrome’s working fine with me. Could it be a general computer problem, and not related to the browser? Do you need to update?

Could it be a general computer problem, and not related to the browser? Do you need to update?

My computer’s really old, so that might be it, actually.

Dan, maybe SWQ wants to use Chrome? There’s no need to badger her just because you don’t approve of it; we all have different opinions on things. It’s a nice web browser, and it’s efficient and keeps up the same speed even when I have a couple of dozen tabs open — perfect for my coursework.

@Jeni

Dan, maybe SWQ wants to use Chrome? There’s no need to badger her just because you don’t approve of it; we all have different opinions on things.

True.

Well, I do like Chrome, but only for really shallow reasons. Honestly, I don’t do anything on my computer except use Microsoft Word, check email and Facebook, go on YouTube, and visit II. So which browser I use is actually not that important of a question, because I am completely ignorant about features and whatnot.

But thanks for the suggestions anyway, Dan.

Thanks, I’ll try that, Virgil. Now Chrome is being nice to me again, so maybe it was a weird freakout or something.

Problem: I messed up my brightness. I hope this will fix itself?

Yeah, I fixed it somehow. But thanks for the suggestions anyway.

Chrome needs its history cleared to keep up performance.

That’s interesting to know. I use it as a work browser, so I clear the history regularly and hence never noticed this.

Chrome needs its history cleared to keep up performance.

That’s interesting to know. I use it as a work browser, so I clear the history regularly and hence never noticed this.

My dad found that out when it was dragging along.

Does anyone else here use a mac?

D’you possibly know how to fix a keychain error?

Doubt you guys can help so this is more me wanting to complain to people.

I have this stupid “Antimalware Doctor” program I so didnt install and I cant think of anything I might have installed that secretly installed this program with it. Cos a virus cant just download by itself and install by itself can it? Well anywayz the stupid thing wont go away. I go to Start > All Programs and go to it and go uninstall and instead of uninstalling the stupid thing it just vanishes from the all programs menu. I go into startup and delete it from starting up when the computer starts up but it still is running when I turn it on. I guess programs can be automatically start up without them being in that list but I dunno how to stop it. So I go into set program access and defaults > change or remove programs and when i click remove it just opens up the program.

Now here’s the problem with the actual program. It will pop up and start what I assume is a fake scan. It will give a list of viruses, what type they are and what they apparently do. Some of them seem to actually describs some things that have been wrong with my computer lately. It will then ask me if I want to remove them but force me to subscribe first. So I say no I dont wanna subscribe and then it might leave me alone or it might constantly pop up a thing asking me to subscribe to delete each individual virus where it makes the screen go black and white until I manage to exit the window. Then sometimes it might screw up completely and make all these odd minimized window tab thingies just above the task bar. And I think I had to reset the computer to get rid of them all or I just did ctrl alt del and closed it.

In the task bar it shows as a little red shield with an X on it which I think I remember always seeing there long before this program seemed to be on the computer. And when I right click it theres no exit button. So yeah I have no freaking clue what is going on. I use Windows XP. Right now the program has seemed to given up but it will probably be back. Godammit I hate computers but couldnt live without them.

Cool thanks didnt think I’d get help that quickly or at all. I will try that tomorrow morning cos now it is bedtime. Thanks again.

So, I’ve been trying to put music on my phone (Samsung Captivate). When I plugged in the USB, it didn’t recognize it, so I’ve been bluetoothing everything. It’s been working fine, and all the music is playable, but when I got to the .wma files rather than .mp3, instead of album art, the thing started to show this random picture of my dad.

...Yeah, so does anyone know why this might be happening? I don’t mind having to do the tedious bluetooth sending, but I would like to see the actual album art from the non-mp3 albums.

EDIT:
I got it to stop showing the dad picture, so now it just doesn’t have any album art. I still don’t know how to fix this.

Instructions for removing it: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-av-security-suite

I must stress that this is malware, not a virus. You cannot rely on AVG or avast! to keep you clean of that. Malwarebyte’s is one of the best programs.

My recent malware adventure was caused by me not updating Adobe reader, as such, the nasty bugger found its way into my machine that way. Make sure that all your programs are up to date, and have the latest exploit patches.

I use Foxit Reader, but I’ve never compared PDF readers, so I don’t know how well it measures up to other PDF readers. It works well enough for me, though. It’s a whole lot faster than Adobe Reader, I’ll tell you that! How Adobe is incapable of making a decent reader for a file format they invented, I will never understand.

The really nice thing about building my own computer (other than getting a very nice, customized computer on the cheap) is that I got to install everything. So no Norton Antivirus trial I can’t get rid of, no Adobe Reader… I even was able to uninstall Internet Explorer because I have Windows 7!

OK its gone thanks for your help. The program had a few problems though. First it found 8 threats and when it tried to get rid of them and said it did then reset the computer the computer was frozen during shutdown. then when i turned it off and on the malware was still there. Then I did another full scan and it found nothing. Then I updated the program and did a quick scan and it found some more things said it deleted some things but couldnt delete others, reset then the virus was gone. Since the virus screwed with my proxy settings I had to change them back so firefox works now but I cant figure out how to make MSN work again. Meh no one even uses MSN anymore.

My computer has some trojan virus crap on it. My dad is working on it, so this is basically just a whine.

EDIT:
It either wasn’t a virus, or Norton fixed it.

^^Well, Malwarebytes did a scan too and found nothing.

That’s because the people making viruses are also making Linux.

I use IE. It has yet to in any way piss me off. Also, I got AntiMalwareDoctor lately too, luckily my college-provided anti-virus got it after a few scans. Annoying thing.

I have friends who love their Macs, but I grew up using the crap Macintoshes at school, so I have a bit of a grudge. I also hate the operating system and the lack of right-click. Other people can love Macs all they want, people have different taste. I love my iPod. But I refuse to use a Mac. Ever. I <3 my PC.

Jeni, Staffle was mocking Linux users, not Mac users.

Um, I know? They also mock Mac users as fanbois….

It’s gone midnight! yes! you should! :D

He has graciously decided in His Infinite Wisdom that we lowly people (myself and Mum) can have video, but not sound.

FNR. My brother is like that, I mean, it doesn’t matter for me because I can tinker with the hardware/software myself (to some degree). But it’s the way he makes decisions for my mum and sister that pisses me off. Stupid brothers.

Edit: Ahem. Anyway. Best keep this free for legitimate computer problems.

I think he’s unplugged the speakers AND uninstalled the sound drivers. Thing is, the desk is a hulging mass that can’t really be moved, so one something’s plugged in (or out) at the back, there’s really no changing it unless it’s absolutely essential.

Anybody else having problems loading Google?

I probably should go to a computer help forum but I’ll see what you guys think. Because this is odd….

When a manga viewing website wouldnt let me copy or save an image by right-clicking, I did a very stupid odd thing to try to get the picture. I highlighted it with some text and ctrl c’d, then put it into Microsoft Word because I figured hey I dont want to copy a collection of things into Photoshop because I dont know why. Then instead of saving the picture by itself somehow normally or copying into Photoshop I dont know, I tried to cut or copy it directly onto the desktop and a window told me it needs to be saved before I can do that do you want to save? So I said yes and saved it somewhere but it didnt give my the option to choose jpg or png or whatever I just had to choose All Files (it probably saved it as the file type that it was on the site).

OK here’s the problem! When I did this, all the labels of all my desktop icons became permanently highlighted. And some of the icons themselves like folders have a blue glow around them. I deleted the picture and have reset and turned off my computer to no avail. So yeah it is very odd. Didnt seem like there was any option in the desktop display properties to change it.

Not sure if this problem is related to that one since I didnt try to open these programs recently before this event, but all my Adobe CS4 programs dont wanna open. Say the computer needs to be reset first :( So yeah if you can, help please. Would be much appreciated.

EDIT: Great…. and now I cant add or remove programs. Trend said it got rid of all viruses I had… why?!?