Thanks Lance Regards Charles From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> Reply-To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] How do I delete unwated sites on the www.?. Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:30:20 +1000 Charles, by "Clear(ing) History", all that is cleaned out are the URL's from sites visited during the current session of browsing. It does not in anyway affect the FAVORITES folder. That is an entirely separate area and is edited by the steps I wrote, in the message to Marie. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Charles Harper [mailto:chas_harper59@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 2:48 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] How do I delete unwated sites on the www.?. Hello Marie If you want to remove all unwanted addresses then Tools, Internet Options, History then Clear History. Unfortunately this will also clear all addresses and not just the ones you want to remove. Regards Charles From: "Marie Young" <heartseas@bigpond.com> Reply-To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] How do I delete unwated sites on the www.?. Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 13:10:49 +1000 Dear List, I go on to the Internet through My Documents, Favourites, then Best of the Web. When I do the www. thing a list comes up with sites on it. Some are wrong and others are no longer needed by me but I can't delete them. Can someone please tell me how to delete them? Marie ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To search the archives for this list go here: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and type in SENIOR-NEWBIE ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help in genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 2005-05-06 ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To find and join surname and location genealogy lists at RootsWeb go here: http://lists.rootsweb.com ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Hi List, asking for help again. Many thanks for all the help I have received from this list. I have Windows XP SP2 and was using Internet Exp. & Outlook Exp.6 with my prior ISP. Changed to a new ISP (Netzero.com) down loaded from the net (old ISP folded). Their mail is awkward and time consuming to me and I would perfer Internet Exp. to their "Web" to surf the internet. Is there anything that I can do to get back Outlook Express & Internet Explorer? I have clicked/searched and e-mail new server with no luck. Jo/OH

Marie, my apologies to you and Charles for misreading your posting. Here is how you edit the URL's stored in "History" without deleting the ones you wish to keep. It involves editing your Registry, so do back that up before you attempt this. To backup the Registry, just clisk START|RUN and type regedit in the RUN box. Then click FILE|EXPORT and note where you save the export. Just name it "2005-05-09 RegBackup" for convenience. Now, with Registry Editor still open follow these steps: Click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER Then click the Software tab Click the Microsoft tab Click the Internet Explorer Click the Typed URLs tab Now on the right hand side of this screen(TYPED URLs) you will see little icons with "ab" on them, with "url1"; "url2"; etc. after them. The number will depend on how many typed URL's you have used in your searches and have been recorded here. You can see the description of each (which site you visited) a little way over to the right on that screen (use the slide bar at the bottom if necessary) For the ones you DON'T NEED, just right-click each of the little "ab" icons in turn and select DELETE from the context menu. Do this until all the ones you don't want are deleted. Then close the Registry Editor. You should now find that only the URL's you want are in the drop down list as you type in the address bar. Lance On 5/9/05, Marie Young <heartseas@bigpond.com> wrote: > Dear List, > I go on to the Internet through My Documents, Favourites, then Best of the > Web. > When I do the www. thing a list comes up with sites on it. Some are wrong > and others are no longer needed by me but I can't delete them. Can someone > please tell me how to delete them? > Marie

I use NetZero and it does download to my mail program. Click on your NetZero web when you are signed in, go to help. When there copy and paste in this url: http://www.netzero.net/support/email/email-setup-msoex6.html It should take you to the instructions for setting up Outlook Express 6 to receive and send mail. Elaine Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. --Abraham Lincoln Hello joj On Monday, May 9, 2005, you wrote > Hi List, asking for help again. Many thanks > for all the help I have received from this list. > I have Windows XP SP2 and was using Internet > Exp. & Outlook Exp.6 with my prior ISP. > Changed to a new ISP (Netzero.com) down loaded > from the net (old ISP folded). Their mail is > awkward and time consuming to me and I would > perfer Internet Exp. to their "Web" to surf the > internet. Is there anything that I can do to get > back Outlook Express & Internet Explorer? I > have clicked/searched and e-mail new server with > no luck. Jo/OH

Charles, by "Clear(ing) History", all that is cleaned out are the URL's from sites visited during the current session of browsing. It does not in anyway affect the FAVORITES folder. That is an entirely separate area and is edited by the steps I wrote, in the message to Marie. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Charles Harper [mailto:chas_harper59@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 2:48 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] How do I delete unwated sites on the www.?. Hello Marie If you want to remove all unwanted addresses then Tools, Internet Options, History then Clear History. Unfortunately this will also clear all addresses and not just the ones you want to remove. Regards Charles From: "Marie Young" <heartseas@bigpond.com> Reply-To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] How do I delete unwated sites on the www.?. Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 13:10:49 +1000 Dear List, I go on to the Internet through My Documents, Favourites, then Best of the Web. When I do the www. thing a list comes up with sites on it. Some are wrong and others are no longer needed by me but I can't delete them. Can someone please tell me how to delete them? Marie ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To search the archives for this list go here: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and type in SENIOR-NEWBIE ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help in genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 2005-05-06

Marie, to edit or delete entries in your FAVORITES folder, just open Internet Explorer, then click FAVORITES|ORGANIZE FAVORITES. On this window you can edit; delete; or create new folders for your Favorites. Another approach is to locate your FAVORITES folder which in XP should be in your: C:\Documents and Settings\<your name>\Favorites. Here you can see all the entries - either URL's or folders. Just delete the ones here that are no longer needed. Or you can alternatively create folders to organize your Favorites. A far better approach though would be to use Firefox as your browser. Firefox has a far superior Bookmarks Manager - very similar to the familiar Windows Explorer screen: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Firefox can import all of your current IE Favorites. The ultimate system though is to use Powermarks. This program makes managing Favorites/Bookmarks a breeze. No more worrying about where you saved a favorite or creating folders. Power marks lets you find things in an instant: http://www.kaylon.com/power.html Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Marie Young [mailto:heartseas@bigpond.com] Sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 1:11 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] How do I delete unwated sites on the www.?. Dear List, I go on to the Internet through My Documents, Favourites, then Best of the Web. When I do the www. thing a list comes up with sites on it. Some are wrong and others are no longer needed by me but I can't delete them. Can someone please tell me how to delete them? Marie ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To search the archives for this list go here: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and type in SENIOR-NEWBIE ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 2005-05-06

Dear Charles, I have looked and found Clear history but I don't wish to delete all the www addresses. Marie

Hi, Barry, I found out for myself that it does not pick up where it left off.... <sigh>....so that will have to wait til I don't need to be on the computer.... I ran the "defrag"...and the "Check Disc" (it would be really NICE if they did not change names on you!!) As to the "Pie".... the blue has 9.77GB out of a total of 144GB... I checked out this Disc Cleanup, and this is what it said.... at the top of the "box".....would gain 608,163KB of Disc Space... the rest of the list said: (files that could be deleted) Temp internet files.......................................................34,928KB Offline web pages..............................................................21KB Recycle bin.........................................................................0KB Set up .log files.............................................................3,315KB Temp files.......................................................................... 0KB Web Client/Publishers temp files.........................................32KB Compressed files....................................................... 569,869KB Catalog for theContent Indexer.............................................0KB Total Amt. Disc Space gained...........................................34,928KB Are there any I should keep there? Thanks, heaps!!!! NancyT NT> As far as running the AdAware, it confused me when I got there... NT> too much I didn't know...or couldn't remember!! NT> I guess it's not FAST!!! and it did not begin again where it had NT> left off, either!! I guess I'm just gonna have to pick a time NT> (long time!!! LOL) when I don't have to be on the computer! Most of these scanning programs don't pick up from where they left off when you close them down or stop a scan - they start again. So it's a time consuming thing to do and generally better to do when you're not using the PC yourself. NT> What I got off the Properties was Pink and blue.... I didn't see NT> any red, yellow or white....was that what the "defrag" was NT> supposed to show me? The Pink / Blue display is just a pie chart with Pink the used part of the drive and Blue the free space ... how much of this pie chart was blue ?? When you run the Defrag program it will show you a better idea of the condition of the drive - Red is fragmented files, Blue is un-fragmented ones, Yellow is the Swap File ( or paging file ), Green is System Files ( and not always easy to spot ), whilst White is free space. NT> Someone, Carolyn I think, said to run "Scan Disc".... I couldn't NT> find anything with that name... it mentioned " Disc Cleanup" and NT> "Disc Defragmenter".....but didn't see anything about Scan NT> disc...I remember doing that on my Win98se... seems it was a LOT NT> easier to find....Is Disc cleanup and Scan disc one and the same NT> thing? Scan Disc isn't in WinXP - it's been replaced by Check Disc. Disc Cleanup looks at the temporary files on your system and gives you the option of tidying up after programs that leave these behind - they are really supposed to be erased when no longer needed but most times they aren't, hence the need for Disc Cleanup every once in a while :-) NT> Whew.... this computer house-keeping is worse than "House" NT> housekeeping (perhaps I know more about the latter than the NT> former!!) Yes - it is a bit of a chore and it's easy to leave it until there's a real mess to clean up ...... and your PC is the same too <lol> -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help with genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Dear List, I go on to the Internet through My Documents, Favourites, then Best of the Web. When I do the www. thing a list comes up with sites on it. Some are wrong and others are no longer needed by me but I can't delete them. Can someone please tell me how to delete them? Marie

Barbara, somehow you have managed to set the VIEW to GROUP MESSAGES BY CONVERSATION. If you click on VIEW|CURRENT VIEW and then untick GROUP MESSAGES BY CONVERSATION, you should have the messages displayed the way you want them. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: BarbaraC [mailto:bcam123@pacbell.net] Sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 10:55 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] I want to undo grouping messages Dear Newbie mentors, A week or two ago I clicked on something while reading my e-mail that caused that particular recipient to have a small + appear to the left of his name. "Strange," I thought, but didn't take time to analyze what I might have done. Since then I have had at least one friend tell me she has e-mailed me, but I haven't been aware of receiving it. Today, I checked my K-9 folder, after seeing only 4 new messages, when Outlook Express said I had 8. There were two of the un received messages in K-9, but I couldn't view attachments. Later on, I realized that my friend probably does a * reply-to* when sending me a new message. Well, without going on much longer, I'll just say that by searching a bit, I did find a few new messages in the recent files that were grouped next to that "+" in the list of new messages. My question is how can I go back to my former status, where I don't group messages of the same subject together? I use Windows 2000. Thank you, Barbara

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Hello Marie If you want to remove all unwanted addresses then Tools, Internet Options, History then Clear History. Unfortunately this will also clear all addresses and not just the ones you want to remove. Regards Charles From: "Marie Young" <heartseas@bigpond.com> Reply-To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] How do I delete unwated sites on the www.?. Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 13:10:49 +1000 Dear List, I go on to the Internet through My Documents, Favourites, then Best of the Web. When I do the www. thing a list comes up with sites on it. Some are wrong and others are no longer needed by me but I can't delete them. Can someone please tell me how to delete them? Marie ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To search the archives for this list go here: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and type in SENIOR-NEWBIE ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx

Hello Nancy, Sunday, May 8, 2005, 9:19:08 PM, you wrote: NT> Barry. NT> As far as running the AdAware, it confused me when I got there... NT> too much I didn't know...or couldn't remember!! NT> I guess it's not FAST!!! and it did not begin again where it had NT> left off, either!! I guess I'm just gonna have to pick a time NT> (long time!!! LOL) when I don't have to be on the computer! Most of these scanning programs don't pick up from where they left off when you close them down or stop a scan - they start again. So it's a time consuming thing to do and generally better to do when you're not using the PC yourself. NT> What I got off the Properties was Pink and blue.... I didn't see NT> any red, yellow or white....was that what the "defrag" was NT> supposed to show me? The Pink / Blue display is just a pie chart with Pink the used part of the drive and Blue the free space ... how much of this pie chart was blue ?? When you run the Defrag program it will show you a better idea of the condition of the drive - Red is fragmented files, Blue is un-fragmented ones, Yellow is the Swap File ( or paging file ), Green is System Files ( and not always easy to spot ), whilst White is free space. NT> Someone, Carolyn I think, said to run "Scan Disc".... I couldn't NT> find anything with that name... it mentioned " Disc Cleanup" and NT> "Disc Defragmenter".....but didn't see anything about Scan NT> disc...I remember doing that on my Win98se... seems it was a LOT NT> easier to find....Is Disc cleanup and Scan disc one and the same NT> thing? Scan Disc isn't in WinXP - it's been replaced by Check Disc. Disc Cleanup looks at the temporary files on your system and gives you the option of tidying up after programs that leave these behind - they are really supposed to be erased when no longer needed but most times they aren't, hence the need for Disc Cleanup every once in a while :-) NT> Whew.... this computer house-keeping is worse than "House" NT> housekeeping (perhaps I know more about the latter than the NT> former!!) Yes - it is a bit of a chore and it's easy to leave it until there's a real mess to clean up ...... and your PC is the same too <lol> -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe

Thank you, Lance, There were dozens of messages hiding back behind other messages. I never would have found them otherwise. And I have no idea how I could have accidentally clicked on that pulldown. I appreciate your help. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 7:35 PM Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] I want to undo grouping messages Barbara, somehow you have managed to set the VIEW to GROUP MESSAGES BY CONVERSATION. If you click on VIEW|CURRENT VIEW and then untick GROUP MESSAGES BY CONVERSATION, you should have the messages displayed the way you want them. Lance

Dear Newbie mentors, A week or two ago I clicked on something while reading my e-mail that caused that particular recipient to have a small + appear to the left of his name. "Strange," I thought, but didn't take time to analyze what I might have done. Since then I have had at least one friend tell me she has e-mailed me, but I haven't been aware of receiving it. Today, I checked my K-9 folder, after seeing only 4 new messages, when Outlook Express said I had 8. There were two of the un received messages in K-9, but I couldn't view attachments. Later on, I realized that my friend probably does a * reply-to* when sending me a new message. Well, without going on much longer, I'll just say that by searching a bit, I did find a few new messages in the recent files that were grouped next to that "+" in the list of new messages. My question is how can I go back to my former status, where I don't group messages of the same subject together? I use Windows 2000. Thank you, Barbara

Barry. As far as running the AdAware, it confused me when I got there... too much I didn't know...or couldn't remember!! I guess it's not FAST!!! and it did not begin again where it had left off, either!! I guess I'm just gonna have to pick a time (long time!!! LOL) when I don't have to be on the computer! I did get those figures off the My computer icon, properties....When I got to "defrag" the box said all this about the "14% and the 15%" I had never run into that before... so I didn't know what to do with it! What I got off the Properties was Pink and blue.... I didn't see any red, yellow or white....was that what the "defrag" was supposed to show me? Someone, Carolyn I think, said to run "Scan Disc".... I couldn't find anything with that name... it mentioned " Disc Cleanup" and "Disc Defragmenter".....but didn't see anything about Scan disc...I remember doing that on my Win98se... seems it was a LOT easier to find....Is Disc cleanup and Scan disc one and the same thing? Whew.... this computer house-keeping is worse than "House" housekeeping (perhaps I know more about the latter than the former!!) Thanks! NancyT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry" <barry@yobunny.co.uk> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 7:43 PM Subject: Re[4]: [SR-NEWBIE] Re: slowdown....internet pages... Hello Nancy, Saturday, May 7, 2005, 4:07:46 PM, you wrote: NT> Barry, NT> I was having some problems earlier and my ISP installed this NT> "AdAware" for me... He did tell me to run it once in a while, but NT> until you mentioned it, I forgot about it... The free version does rely on the user to remember - now that you have, it would be a good idea to update it and then run a scan. NT> I was running Norton's scan, but had to Pause it, as I had to NT> leave the house...(I haven't gotten back to it, to see if it would NT> go right on from where it left off...) But, after scanning some NT> 180,000+ files, it hadn't found anything amiss...But it about took NT> FOREVER!! and, as I said, I had to leave... Norton is pretty slow at the best of times and you could have left it running whilst you were out then when you got back it would either show a clean system or have stopped at the detection of a virus. I think you can set it to auto-clean and carry on but not being a Norton user I'm nor sure of that. You do need to run a complete scan though, same as AdAware. NT> I also tried this "defrag"... it said something about that it NT> couldn't really do a "good" job, because it needed "15%" of NT> "something"... and I only had "14%" of that "something"...... NT> SPACE??? I don't exactly remember what it was, that I was NT> "missing".... it also said I had to delete some files to get the NT> needed "something"... but I would have NO IDEA of what to delete! Now this is unusual as you have plenty of free space on your Hard Drive from the figures below ( presumably you got these from the My Computer icon and getting the properties of the drive ? ). When you ran it you should have got a display showing the used space with blue, red, yellow and white areas. The white parts show the free space you have - how much white area does it show and how much of the display is red ?? NT> I did check out my un-used space on my computer....Computer has a NT> 144GB capacity, I'm using 9.69GB, and the Un-used is 134GB.... I NT> guess I would have thought I was using more than that, I have a NT> bunch of clip-art installed.... Clip-art isn't that much of a space hog and you'd need hundreds of thousands of files to even begin to make a dent in that 144Gb of space <lol> NT> Sorry.... but I am not really good at this part of computing.... NT> (I'm not very mechanically minded, either!..LOL) That's OK - you don't have to be a technical guru to work a PC, just like you don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car :-) Lets take things one step at a time and see if we can get to the bottom of this. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== Keep informed of the latest news and new databases, webpages and mailing lists at RootsWeb. Subscribe to the weekly RootsWeb Review. To subscribe, start here: http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Richard, just replace your CD drive not your computer if it is working ok. Four screws and a couple of cable plugs are all that you will be dealing with. See these sites for help: http://tinyurl.com/ytbny http://tinyurl.com/7qpsq http://resnet.ucsd.edu/body_cd.html Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Richard Birkbeck [mailto:finty@btopenworld.com] Sent: Sunday, 8 May 2005 2:28 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] My CD Drive More thanks to you Larry and Joan. My CD player was also acting oddly, too. After trying everything I could think of to bring it back to life I decided to just live without it until I could afford a new computer. Your advice worked like magic. Thanks again. Rich

Hello John, Saturday, May 7, 2005, 8:58:36 AM, you wrote: JW> I have recorded a voice message into a MP3 voice recorder then JW> transferred the MP3 file into my XPSP2 computer all OK so far. Now JW> I have burned that message onto a CD which plays back OK through JW> my computer but it will not play back via my CD player or my DVD JW> player although my DVD player plays MP3 music which I have JW> recorded and burnt into a CD via my computer,through the DVD JW> player .Can anyone please tell me why the voice recording won't JW> play in the DVD or CD players?? It could be that the voice recorder is using a compression level that the DVD player can't handle. Whereas a PC can be updated easily it's not as easy to update stand-alone players, they aren't made to be updated. You may be able to adjust the voice recorder to a lower level of compression, but that would mean you'd have less recording time on it - even then the stand-alone player might not cope and the only way to find out is to try it. Assuming the voice recorder is adjustable of course. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe

Hello Nancy, Saturday, May 7, 2005, 4:07:46 PM, you wrote: NT> Barry, NT> I was having some problems earlier and my ISP installed this NT> "AdAware" for me... He did tell me to run it once in a while, but NT> until you mentioned it, I forgot about it... The free version does rely on the user to remember - now that you have, it would be a good idea to update it and then run a scan. NT> I was running Norton's scan, but had to Pause it, as I had to NT> leave the house...(I haven't gotten back to it, to see if it would NT> go right on from where it left off...) But, after scanning some NT> 180,000+ files, it hadn't found anything amiss...But it about took NT> FOREVER!! and, as I said, I had to leave... Norton is pretty slow at the best of times and you could have left it running whilst you were out then when you got back it would either show a clean system or have stopped at the detection of a virus. I think you can set it to auto-clean and carry on but not being a Norton user I'm nor sure of that. You do need to run a complete scan though, same as AdAware. NT> I also tried this "defrag"... it said something about that it NT> couldn't really do a "good" job, because it needed "15%" of NT> "something"... and I only had "14%" of that "something"...... NT> SPACE??? I don't exactly remember what it was, that I was NT> "missing".... it also said I had to delete some files to get the NT> needed "something"... but I would have NO IDEA of what to delete! Now this is unusual as you have plenty of free space on your Hard Drive from the figures below ( presumably you got these from the My Computer icon and getting the properties of the drive ? ). When you ran it you should have got a display showing the used space with blue, red, yellow and white areas. The white parts show the free space you have - how much white area does it show and how much of the display is red ?? NT> I did check out my un-used space on my computer....Computer has a NT> 144GB capacity, I'm using 9.69GB, and the Un-used is 134GB.... I NT> guess I would have thought I was using more than that, I have a NT> bunch of clip-art installed.... Clip-art isn't that much of a space hog and you'd need hundreds of thousands of files to even begin to make a dent in that 144Gb of space <lol> NT> Sorry.... but I am not really good at this part of computing.... NT> (I'm not very mechanically minded, either!..LOL) That's OK - you don't have to be a technical guru to work a PC, just like you don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car :-) Lets take things one step at a time and see if we can get to the bottom of this. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 2.0 Deluxe

Thanks all for the help. I went to Control Panel and tried setting it slower and it helped enough that I can control it but it's still not where it was. I also know that the Spyware that I use is no longer working so I will go to Google and find another. Any suggestions? I am so leary to download anything. With previous computers I was always downloading this or that and eventually things started acting up. Ellen