When my laptop goes into hibernate, it will not recover no matter which buttons I push and for how long. I have to unplug the laptop from power, remove the battery, reconnect all, and reboot. For some reason, my laptop will not let me change the power options to "do not hibernate". Other laptops have a hibernation recovery program, and will allow a change to "do not hibernate". For your laptop, if you want to avoid it going into hibernation, Go into Control Panel > Power Options Reset it so it does not go into hibernate. Woody ================== Hello Vonda, Friday, October 2, 2009, 5:05:06 PM, you wrote: Vac> The computer is on and working fine. I leave for a couple of Vac> hours and when I return the computer is still on but the monitor Vac> screen is blank. Neither moving the mouse and or anything else I Vac> do will make the monitor active again. Hitting the power button Vac> and rebooting is the only thing that works. barry@yobunny.co.uk writes: If it's going into sleep mode or hibernate then a single press of the power button ( i.e. not holding in until it forces a shut down ) should wake it up. You may also have a screen saver that's faulty so try changing to a different one to check that.

Barry seems to think it shouldn't be happening with family created CDs and DVDs. Have you compared equipment between those that can and those that cannot see the disks. Are we talking Macs versus PCs, anything like that going on here? Elaine Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. --Aristotle Hello Nancy On Friday, October 2, 2009, you wrote > Thanks Elaine, I guess people just may have to > wait til technology improves > to read my Stuff :) > nancy

Thanks Elaine, I guess people just may have to wait til technology improves to read my Stuff :) nancy

Hello Nancy, Thursday, October 1, 2009, 3:02:08 PM, you wrote: NT> My husband remembered reading somewhere that CDs are now coded by NT> regions It's only DVD movies that are coded this way. DVD data discs, Audio CD's, data CD's are not and will be readable no matter where you are in the world. There are some DVD players that can be switched to a 'region free' mode and these will play DVD's from anywhere. Good to see that you go that picture CD readable but it won't have been due to a wrong region. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty'

Here's what happens: The computer is on and working fine. I leave for a couple of hours and when I return the computer is still on but the monitor screen is blank. Neither moving the mouse and or anything else I do will make the monitor active again. Hitting the power button and rebooting is the only thing that works. After rebooting everything is fine again. This has happened 3 times recently. I have not changed any settings. Anyone have any idea what the problem is? Thanks for any help. Vonda

I have given my old computer with XP to my sister and wonder if I could clean the hard drive of all my programmes without having to remove them all individually.   I also have the XP installation disc and was wondering whether if I put that in and run it, it might do the job for me.   She is not computer literate and has decided she might go on-line if the computer was more up-to-date - ie without all my programmes etc.   Your help would be greatly appreciated.   Bette (UK)                    

With the newer computers one can change the region. I watch movies limited to PAL (non-USA) on my PC and with cable I can use the PC and watch the movie on my TV. But I cannot put the movie disk into my DVD player because my DVD player won't play it. By the time your records are being shared, I suspect most everyone will have learned what can be done to get around the regional limitations. We use NTSC in this country. Ridiculous isn't it? Elaine Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. --Arnold Glasow Hello Nancy On Thursday, October 1, 2009, you wrote > A few months ago I was on a cruise to NZ (I > live in the US). Shipmates sent > us a CD with pictures on it, which we could not > open. My husband remembered > reading somewhere that CDs are now coded by > regions, so that they cannot be > copied and shipped around the world. Our > friends have a technologically > savvy son who was able to get around it after 3 tries. > My concern is -- what about my genealogy? Is > it only pictures that are > unable to be shared, or are the CDs I'm making > for all time and eternity > only going to be seen by those who live in my state, or my country? > Nancy

A few months ago I was on a cruise to NZ (I live in the US). Shipmates sent us a CD with pictures on it, which we could not open. My husband remembered reading somewhere that CDs are now coded by regions, so that they cannot be copied and shipped around the world. Our friends have a technologically savvy son who was able to get around it after 3 tries. My concern is -- what about my genealogy? Is it only pictures that are unable to be shared, or are the CDs I'm making for all time and eternity only going to be seen by those who live in my state, or my country? Nancy

Congradulations Interesting site Ema A friend of mine and I recently released a podcast about Genealogy. http://www.podcastgenealogy.com Feel free to check it out, let us know how we are doing, and pass on the link if you are so inclined. Bob Fornal

A friend of mine and I recently released a podcast about Genealogy. http://www.podcastgenealogy.com Feel free to check it out, let us know how we are doing, and pass on the link if you are so inclined. Bob Fornal bob@fornal.org http://www.podcastgenealogy.com

Lorraine, The unsolicited popups are the ones that frequently put malware ON your computer -- not take it off. Stick to the ones verified as trustworthy by the gurus. Here's a site that reviewed Speedscan. http://www.whatsabyte.com/P1/speedscan.htm "Speedscan" is terrible, per the review. Your security warning did you a big favor by stopping it from running. Woody =============================== l_dellavilla@yahoo.com writes: Has anyone heard of speedscan? It offers a free scan and claims that it is Microsoft certified.. I wanted to try itt but I got a security warning. So now I don't know what to do.Any advice or knowledge about Speedscan would be appreciated. Lorraine **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222846709x1201493018/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=115&bcd =JulystepsfooterNO115)

Has anyone heard of speedscan? It offers a free scan and claims that it is Microsoft certified.. I wanted to try itt but I got a security warning. So now I don't know what to do.Any advice or knowledge about Speedscan would be appreciated. Lorraine

Hello John, Thursday, September 3, 2009, 6:36:46 PM, you wrote: JaD> When I try to use fire fox mozilla a window opens and says that I JaD> need to update my flash player. I have downloaded the latest JaD> flash player but fire fox does not recognize that I have JaD> downloaded it. The download should automatically run afterwards and tell you part way through that you have to close Firefox before it can continue. Did that happen ? If not, try going to the Adobe Flash web site and downloading / installing from there - it will detect that you are viewing with Firefox and give you the correct download :-) http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty'

When I try to use fire fox mozilla a window opens and says that I need to update my flash player. I have downloaded the latest flash player but fire fox does not recognize that I have downloaded it. What I'm I doing wrong?

Hello Bob, Monday, August 31, 2009, 2:33:26 PM, you wrote: bjc> My question is suppose the reason for the Reinstall was that you bjc> had a Virus or Missing System files or something like that, bjc> doesn't this just put back the problem that you had???? If the reason was due to a virus infection then there will be infected files in the Windows.old folder but they won't be active as you need to access the files in a special way to extract them. So what you do is fully update your new installation and get all the security in place before extracting your data from the folder. You will not be using it to copy system files that are in there ! Pretty much as you'd do is the backup was on an external drive :-) -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty'

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933212 Basically, you use Windows Disk Cleanup 1.. All Programs 2.. Accessories 3.. System Tools 4.. Click Disk Cleanup ----- Original Message ----- From: <bobzmail@juno.com> My question now is each time I do a re-install it makes a Windows.old > folder. Since this is my 3rd. re-install I have 3 Windows.old folders. > They are Windows.old and Windows.old.000 and Windows.old.001. Each time > I scan anything on the computer it scans all the windows.old > folders. This takes a lot of time. My question is how many of this do I > have to keep and can I delete the ones I do not need??

Barry, Just ran across a Microsoft Article that says after you do a Vista Re-install you can manually put back the Windows.old folder to restore a windows previous installation. My question is suppose the reason for the Reinstall was that you had a Virus or Missing System files or something like that, doesn't this just put back the problem that you had???? Bob ____________________________________________________________ Save On Health Insurance Compare health insurance companies and save money today. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=Po6dNfzAl0uVTDICKAlyxwAAJ1BKgMil9KNoRyvmkFe6k4g6AAQAAAAFAAAAAN9PTT4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACJY5AAAAAA==

Hello Bob, Monday, August 24, 2009, 12:07:52 PM, you wrote: bjc> My question now is each time I do a re-install it makes a bjc> Windows.old folder. When a fresh install of Vista is done on a drive that's already had Vista on it this 'old' folder is created which contains *all* the files that were on the original installation. The idea is that you go through this folder and copy the stuff you need ( documents / pictures / music etc ) and when sure you've missed nothing it's OK to remove the 'old' folder. To remove: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933212 -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty'

Barry, I have re installed vista now and it corrected the Windows Installer Problem. My question now is each time I do a re-install it makes a Windows.old folder. Since this is my 3rd. re-install I have 3 Windows.old folders. They are Windows.old and Windows.old.000 and Windows.old.001. Each time I scan anything on the computer it scans all the windows.old folders. This takes a lot of time. My question is how many of this do I have to keep and can I delete the ones I do not need?? bobzmail@juno.com ____________________________________________________________ Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTFoYa9JfU8fqsuVv1G0k0iL1kTjWJbuAD0wGIw8PzwZVyKiAffl9u/

Hello Bob, Friday, August 21, 2009, 5:30:43 PM, you wrote: bjc> I went to the Microsoft page here and ran all the Methods and bjc> nothing did any good. I still got all the error messages. I am bjc> going to take it in to a shop and see what they say. Thank you bjc> for your help. If nothing worked then you may be looking at a total re-install to get this one fixed but the shop will be able to tell you if that's the only way. Just make sure they know to save and restore your data if they have to erase / re-install. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty'