Can anyone tell me how to delete music from Media-play.I have a Dell computer and Windows XP

Pete, I am probably just plain dumb about anything related to the computer despite the fact that I am not a newbie. I find that Ccleaner is the easiest to use, and there is nothing intricate about setup. I use it every night before signing off. Quick and easy if you don't mess with the registry; from what i have read, even some of the more experienced people don't bother with Ccleaner's registry. Virgene In a message dated 5/18/2009 1:08:12 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, PeteScherm@aol.com writes: Cora suggested Revo Installer, but it won't work with Win98. She and Jayne also mentioned CCleaner, which will work, but I haven't jumped into the water on that one, yet. I often get into trouble with broad-brush programs, as I'm usually looking for a specific solution while the program wants to play-around with everything..............and I often have difficulties wading-through all of the options. Any ideas? I'll probably try the CCleaner download - when I get the courage - and I hope that might clear-out the remaining AVG bits. Assuming that is my problem, of course, and not something else [gr]. Pete .................................................... **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002)

It has been gently pointed-out to me that my last letter referred to a Win98SE operating system, whereas my earlier inquiry was regarding WinME. WinME is the correct OS. My "main" computer uses Win98SE (and I'm seriously thinking about "upgrading" the WinME on the problem computer to Win98SE). Sorry for the confusion. I understand that there are few differences between these two operating systems, however. Pete - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML>

Dear all, Sorry to keep beating this dead horse, but I appear to be still having troubles with Avast. I have removed the three AVG programs, apparently remaining on my hard drive, from the startup menu (via msconfig) so I get no icons or indications that AVG is still active. But during the first Avast update, I received a red popup: "An error has occurred while attempting to update. Click here for more information." So I did, and received this: "Information about current update: Last encountered error: Not enough storage is available to process this command. Total time: 17:49". I'm not sure what sort of "storage" they mean, but my 9 GB hard drive has 5 GB of free space. If they mean RAM, I have at least 128 MB (I may have added more later, but forget how to find out the number [gr]). And now, after a week of failed daily updates, Avast got "fed up" and told me my database was out of date, and started a download of about 3.6 MB. It got to about 3.0, and then I got another "not enough storage" error message. I wonder if these storage errors are an indication that AVG is still intruding into Avast's operation? I tried Barry's Microsoft Cleanup site, but I didn't see where it would apply to Win98SE and, besides, it froze my computer when I tried to get away from it..... and I had to shut down and reboot. I have RegCure on my hard drive and used that. But it's only the free version, and doesn't seem to include uninstall problems in this version. Cora suggested Revo Installer, but it won't work with Win98. She and Jayne also mentioned CCleaner, which will work, but I haven't jumped into the water on that one, yet. I often get into trouble with broad-brush programs, as I'm usually looking for a specific solution while the program wants to play-around with everything..............and I often have difficulties wading-through all of the options. Any ideas? I'll probably try the CCleaner download - when I get the courage - and I hope that might clear-out the remaining AVG bits. Assuming that is my problem, of course, and not something else [gr]. Pete .................................................... Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML>

Sandy, If you are fortunate enough to have a cassette player in your car, you're in luck insofar as MP3. There are cheap small MP3 players that hold hours and hours of audio. You can buy a small but frustrating FM transmitter that picks up static and transmit through your car radio, or if you have that cassette player in your car you can plug a cassette adapter into your MP3 player and be static free. What a cassette adapter looks like: http://www.buy.com/retail/usersearchresults.asp?querytype=home&qu=cassette+a dapter&qxt=home&display=col Some recent cars have a little plug on the radio so that MP3 players can be connected directly. If you have one of those, you're really in luck. Better yet, a few cars' CD players will play MP3s, and one can bypass the little external MP3 players entirely. A few Mercury cars have that feature. My Merc doesn't. If you go the FM transmitter route, place the FM transmitter in the back window of your car, because that's where most car radio antennas are nowadays, and you pick up less static with the transmitter so close to the antenna. The way you load MP3 lectures, music, and other audio onto your MP3 player is through the USB connection. Your computer recognizes the MP3 player as sort of an external drive, or thumb drive. Make sure the player is of the type that appears to a computer to be an external drive. There are some MP3 players that don't appear that way, and have some weird music software to run it. I've never figured them out, and had to find a method to convert the player to appear as a "normal" MP3 player. Here's an example of the one I use -- (refurbished for lower price): http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-sansa-e250-2gb-mp3-player-fm-tuner-fm-on-the -fly-recording/q/loc/111/205562657.html and some spare recharging connectors that use house plugs or car receptacles are nice to go with it. Otherwise the player recharges through the computer's USB connection. http://www.buy.com/prod/belkin-charging-kit-for-sansa-digital-player-data-ca ble-with-car-ac/q/loc/111/204413115.html Woody ========================== BKWORM26@aol.com writes: I would like to listen to some lectures I have on dvd to a cd so I can listen to them in my car. Most of the sites I've looked at, including two cows and some others mention burning from dvd to mp3 and other equally bewildering formats. I really don't know how to do that or how that would help me convert to a plain old recordable cd. Is there some freeware or shareware or directions that might help me without totally demoralizing me and leaving me with the feeling of being a total dope. I have windows xp with a cd drive and a dvd drive. Thanks for any information/guidance you can provide. Sandy Holmes bkworm26@aol.com Marion MA ************** **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002)

Hello BKWORM26, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 4:13:39 PM, you wrote: Bac> I would like to listen to some lectures I have on dvd to a cd so Bac> I can listen to them in my car. The biggest problem is that a DVD has a different way of encoding audio so what you'll need is a tool to rip the audio from the DVD. There are many such tools around but the biggest pitfall is that there are also plenty of rogue ones that do more than they should, i.e. install spyware or viruses ( especially the free ones ) so you have to be very careful which one you get !! The free program here http://www.dvd-mp3.org/ will do the job but only converts to MP3 - not to worry as the process of creating an audio CD next will take care of that automatically :-) Next you need to create an audio CD and you'll probably have a program on your PC already to do this, but if not then Deep Burner Free is a good one to get http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download You will have to learn how to use the above programs of course but neither are overly complicated. The main thing to remember is to save the extracted audio to a location you can find easily when you come to creating the audio CD. Just a couple more things, expect to make a few mistakes and create some bad CD's at first, it's normal and luckily audio CD's are pretty cheap now. Also don't use re-writable CD's ( CD-RW ) as many audio players won't handle them, use CD-R instead. There are paid programs that can do all this in one step, but they aren't cheap and are also complex to learn. Unless you are going to be doing it a lot then the outlay and learning curve is probably too high - might as well get a portable DVD player and plug it into the car stereo, just don't watch it whilst driving !! -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 4.0 Home Edition Premium

I would like to listen to some lectures I have on dvd to a cd so I can listen to them in my car. Most of the sites I've looked at, including two cows and some others mention burning from dvd to mp3 and other equally bewildering formats. I really don't know how to do that or how that would help me convert to a plain old recordable cd. Is there some freeware or shareware or directions that might help me without totally demoralizing me and leaving me with the feeling of being a total dope. I have windows xp with a cd drive and a dvd drive. Thanks for any information/guidance you can provide. Sandy Holmes _bkworm26@aol.com_ (mailto:bkworm26@aol.com) Marion MA **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002)

Greetings everyone,   I am writing to you from our local library because my PC is having a problem.   I have an HP/Compaq SR1850NX desktop with Windows XP Media SP2. Although SP3 is available, it wouldn't load due to a conflict with the AMD64. And, although there was a downloadable fix for that, I didn't get the fix downloaded.   I use Yahoo for e-mail.  For quite a while, Yahoo has been recommending an update to my browser to Internet Explorer 8.  On April 28th, I received a notification from Windows Update to download Internet Explorer 8 which I did from Microsoft's downloads website ... but ... after I installed the download, I had a problem.   When I attempted to connect to the Internet, the IE window flashed quickly on the screen and then flashed off the screen.  Even though I am actively connected to the Internet, the IE window will not stay active on the screen --- therefore --- I cannot use the brower to get to Yahoo (etc.).   I hope that one of you understands what I am trying to describe and has an idea as to the root of the problem and/or can suggest a fix for it.   I use Norman Antivirus, Norman Ad-Aware, Norman Ad-Watch and have run all scans and there isn't anything found.   I use TimeWarner RoadRunner broadband cable and a router.  The router serves as a firewall because I don't use wireless.  I also have the free ZoneAlarm for controlling application software access permission to the Internet.   Thanks in advance for your consideration of my problem and any help you can offer.  In the meantime, have a great day.   Carol

Hello Tom, Monday, May 11, 2009, 3:41:02 PM, you wrote: TFC> I'm having a new experience with the font on my monitor. The TFC> letters are three different colors, red, green and/or black, and TFC> only certain letters appear this way. It appears on some portions TFC> of web pages and seems to slowly appear as a new page is loaded. Sounds like either a video driver issue or a monitor fault, the only real way to tell is to use the monitor on a known good PC ( take it round to a friend's house and try it on their system ). If it works OK on theirs then try getting the latest video card drivers for your PC, if it has the same problem on a different PC then the monitor itself has developed a fault. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 4.0 Home Edition Premium

Fellow Senior-Newbies, I'm having a new experience with the font on my monitor. The letters are three different colors, red, green and/or black, and only certain letters appear this way. It appears on some portions of web pages and seems to slowly appear as a new page is loaded. Is my monitor going or is it something else? Has anyone else had this problem? I haven't been able to find anything on Google like this yet. I have a HANNS.G....HDS - HC194D monitor. I am running Win XP-HP-SP 3 on a Dell Dimension E 310. This system will be 3 years old in Sept. I am far from having much computer savy. Anyone have any ideas before I seek a tech? Thanks, Faye C. Texas

Hello Pete, Sunday, May 10, 2009, 5:54:22 PM, you wrote: Pac> Thanks for the recommendation about Avast. After several hours, Pac> it finally downloaded and installed. If it didn't complain about an existing AV then your AVG was evidently already disabled so it won't conflict. Pac> I've tried to uninstall the parts of the old AVG 7.5, but I get Pac> error messages everywhere. I've removed what bits of it I can Pac> find, and disabled the "Control Center", so perhaps it won't Pac> cause any trouble. Neither the AVG Uninstall nor the Windows Pac> Add/Remove Programs will completely uninstall. Usually the way to fix a program that won't un-install is to re-install it and then remove immediately, however this would conflict with your Avast so you'd need to remove that too and put back when you sorted AVG out. A lot of hassle and as long as there's nothing still active from AVG you can ignore what's been left behind. There is the Windows Cleanup Utility which can sometimes remove left over bits of programs that fail to remove properly. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 According to the description on this page the program works all the way back to Win95 so should be OK for you to try - it'll soon tell you if it's now not compatible with anything prior to Win2000 !! -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 4.0 Home Edition Premium

Maureen and Barry, Thanks for the recommendation about Avast. After several hours, it finally downloaded and installed. I've tried to uninstall the parts of the old AVG 7.5, but I get error messages everywhere. I've removed what bits of it I can find, and disabled the "Control Center", so perhaps it won't cause any trouble. Neither the AVG Uninstall nor the Windows Add/Remove Programs will completely uninstall. We'll see. Thanks again. Pete .................................................... Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML>

I've used Avast for several years and have never had a problem. It just spins along in the tray on the bottom of my monitor. I also have CCleaner which I try to remember to use daily to knock out any temporary files, history and other 'schtuff' that's just taking up space on the pc. To get rid of other AVG files you could maybe do an online search for some tips on that if someone isn't able to help you here. It's not unusual to have files hang around on a drive long after you thought you uninstalled a program. I had that happen with Symantec when I had it a few years ago....annoyed the heck out of me until somebody said, 'go here...look for this...hit delete'. Jayne Madison, WI ----- Original Message ----- From: PeteScherm@aol.com To: senior-newbie@rootsweb.com ; mjmgenealogy@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] AVG 7.5 Free anti-virus program finished? Maureen and Barry, Thanks for the recommendation about Avast. After several hours, it finally downloaded and installed. I've tried to uninstall the parts of the old AVG 7.5, but I get error messages everywhere. I've removed what bits of it I can find, and disabled the "Control Center", so perhaps it won't cause any trouble. Neither the AVG Uninstall nor the Windows Add/Remove Programs will completely uninstall. We'll see. Thanks again. Pete .................................................... Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML> ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SENIOR-NEWBIE ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SENIOR-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Pete, Saturday, May 9, 2009, 4:21:07 PM, you wrote: Pac> But even that is academic, as the 8.5 (and earlier 8.0) versions Pac> are not compatible with WinME operating systems. So, I guess I'll Pac> have to go to other sources. I think that the only free one that's compatible with Win98/Me now is Avast - www.avast.com - and with that you have to get an access code every 14 months or so to keep using it. Minor niggle and of course all designed to get the free users to switch to the paid version :-) -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 4.0 Home Edition Premium

Thanks all for the recommendations, but it looks as if the new version is beyond my computer's capability. The 61 MB download would take hours on my dialup and, as unreliable as the connection is, it's unlikely I could ever get it to work. But even that is academic, as the 8.5 (and earlier 8.0) versions are not compatible with WinME operating systems. So, I guess I'll have to go to other sources. Thanks, anyway. Pete .................................................... Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML>

you need to up date the AVG 8.5, I had the same problem until I downloaded the 8.5 In a message dated 5/8/2009 7:55:09 A.M. Central Daylight Time, morganks1@juno.com writes: I just recently down loaded AVG 8.5 and I use dialup at home myself. It works fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: <PeteScherm@aol.com> To: <senior-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 3:02 AM Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] AVG 7.5 Free anti-virus program finished? >I have had AVG 7.5 for a few years, and have had no problems with it. I > have been manually updating (more or less daily) my AVG program. As of > the > end of April, when I attempt to update, I get a box telling me that > everything > is OK, there are no new updates and everything is fine [gr]. Now, after > more than a week of getting this message when I try to update.....I > finally > got the black icon this morning, telling me that the AV Database is > out-of-date and should be updated. But it won't do that. > > Going through the various links from the AVG page, it appears that this > free version of AVG is no longer supported - as of the end of April. > > Would my configuration be the reason for the discontinuance of support? I > couldn't find an updated free AVG version, such as 8.0 or such, from the > links on the page. I am on dial-up, using WinME on this computer. > > Perhaps I should uninstall the AVG 7.5 and go to one of the choices for > free AV support recommended in the latest issue of Consumer Reports > magazine? > > > Pete > .................................................... > Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western > Massachusetts > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SENIOR-NEWBIE > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SENIOR-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.12.21/2102 - Release Date: 05/07/09 05:57:00 ____________________________________________________________ Start Email Marketing - fast, affordable, and measurable. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTEFeNu5aOYszYKtiuhApkaKqIU eGTUWCNCZGe96pVHFgWioJHoWje/ ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SENIOR-NEWBIE ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SENIOR-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000006)

I just recently down loaded AVG 8.5 and I use dialup at home myself. It works fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: <PeteScherm@aol.com> To: <senior-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 3:02 AM Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] AVG 7.5 Free anti-virus program finished? >I have had AVG 7.5 for a few years, and have had no problems with it. I > have been manually updating (more or less daily) my AVG program. As of > the > end of April, when I attempt to update, I get a box telling me that > everything > is OK, there are no new updates and everything is fine [gr]. Now, after > more than a week of getting this message when I try to update.....I > finally > got the black icon this morning, telling me that the AV Database is > out-of-date and should be updated. But it won't do that. > > Going through the various links from the AVG page, it appears that this > free version of AVG is no longer supported - as of the end of April. > > Would my configuration be the reason for the discontinuance of support? I > couldn't find an updated free AVG version, such as 8.0 or such, from the > links on the page. I am on dial-up, using WinME on this computer. > > Perhaps I should uninstall the AVG 7.5 and go to one of the choices for > free AV support recommended in the latest issue of Consumer Reports > magazine? > > > Pete > .................................................... > Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western > Massachusetts > </HTML> > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SENIOR-NEWBIE > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SENIOR-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.12.21/2102 - Release Date: 05/07/09 05:57:00 ____________________________________________________________ Start Email Marketing - fast, affordable, and measurable. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTEFeNu5aOYszYKtiuhApkaKqIUeGTUWCNCZGe96pVHFgWioJHoWje/

I have had AVG 7.5 for a few years, and have had no problems with it. I have been manually updating (more or less daily) my AVG program. As of the end of April, when I attempt to update, I get a box telling me that everything is OK, there are no new updates and everything is fine [gr]. Now, after more than a week of getting this message when I try to update.....I finally got the black icon this morning, telling me that the AV Database is out-of-date and should be updated. But it won't do that. Going through the various links from the AVG page, it appears that this free version of AVG is no longer supported - as of the end of April. Would my configuration be the reason for the discontinuance of support? I couldn't find an updated free AVG version, such as 8.0 or such, from the links on the page. I am on dial-up, using WinME on this computer. Perhaps I should uninstall the AVG 7.5 and go to one of the choices for free AV support recommended in the latest issue of Consumer Reports magazine? Pete .................................................... Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML>

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, <WoodyWoodworth@aol.com> wrote: > Rana, > It appears that Courtney has nailed the problem. It seems you have > downloaded Gmail's thumbnail of the letter image, rather than downloaded > the > actual file. I experimented and did a "save" on the thumbnail and wound > up > with a little 6KB file, rather than the actual 254KB file. Courtney > provides the correct download procedure. Woody, Courtney's suggestion did work! As I wrote to her, I am really pleased to be able to read this important family document. Thank you, too, for taking time to help. Rana > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SENIOR-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Courtney Tompkins <sitnah@cox.net> wrote: -------or you need to go to gmail again and open the message, then click to download it again. Don't "save" the little icon gmail shows you, use the Download button next to the thumbnail of the picture to download it Courtney, it worked! I am delighted to be able to read this vip document and I thank you for your time and help. Rana > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SENIOR-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >