You would be wise to not so proudly advertise your illegal activities.
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Originally Posted by Vanion
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True, I downloaded a Kaaza program to his computer from some site and got about 20 files from it.
Since then, his computer is painfully slow.
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A Kaaza program? Kaaza? Kaaza Lite? Some other Fastrack client? Unhacked Fastrack clients tend to come with a wack of malware. Time to bust out spybot.
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So we eliminated all sorts of files—including Kaaza, and while there is a little improvement, it’s still slow.
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What do you mean by "eliminate"?
We tried disc cleaning and defragmenting, but it’s still slow.
Nor is this for internet stuff, but for all functions on his computer: “My Computer,” “My Documents.”
I mean the way I figure it, 32 Gigabytes is a heck of a lot of memory. I compare it to a big swimming pool. I suppose a 64 or 128 or something-like-that Gigabyte would be like an Olympic sized pool; but still, 32 Gigabytes impresses me as a good-sized memory.
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You're right. 32 gigabytes is a heck of a lot of memory. It's not quite so much discspace, though. Memory is RAM, which is still counted in megabytes.
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That would explain why it takes so long to download.
It would explain why, if I were to fill that bucket with a straw, I’ll be waiting a long time.
It doesn’t, however, explain why I can’t get that same bucket, walk down the steps and down the incline of my 5% filled pool and scoop out a lot of water from there—taking at most a minute or two.
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... Could you have picked a more confounding analogy? Download speeds are not realistically limitd by memory or discspace. It's all bandwidth.
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There is a lady we all knowed.
She said it’s all the cookies.
Yet the cookies seem to take up memory in the kilobytes--mostly single digit kilobytes.
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Not cookies.
This “Intel chip” thingee—processor?—he has is recent and I understand in the 3 digits of megabytes.
*blink*
So what the heck is going on?
Something is eating up all the RAM. Run adaware, spybot S&D, and a virus scan.
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(b) He also gets this “Smiley Emoticon” ad that’s annoying, as well as some tune that comes on randomly—a few seconds of some techno music.
How do we get rid of them?
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Adaware, spybot, virus scan.
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(3) Yet another lady we know is connected by phone line—which can simultaneously still be used as a phone.
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She either has a line dedicated for her computer, or you're confusing phone cables and ethernet cables.
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She has this “media player”—"Microsoft Media Player" I think—the one with the bull’s eye markers—or, if you know what I’m talking about that thing you’ve might have seen on some ELO records (Out of the Blue, Discovery).
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Windows Media Player. You probably have it too. Google "Microsoft vs EC"
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I downloaded a few non-RIAA tunes and put them in the “Media Library”—thinking they were there at our disposal.
But when I turned on the computer again, I try to play them and they seem to take as long to “buffer” as to download.
I thought I’d download a 3-minute video (MP3) from a website—but the computer said it would take about 8 hours.
Perhaps in time we will try it anyway, and see how long it takes to play from the library (as compared to downloading), but for now, based on my earlier examples, it doesn’t bode well.
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I have no idea what you're talking about here. Connection speed and WMP have little, if anything, to do with each other.
WMP only really buffers files if it's streaming them, ie from a website. In that case, every time you play it, you're redownloading it, which is why it takes just as long.
mp3s are not videos.
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(4) I was given a used computer. I tried to spark it up. It said “inset disc and press key.” I re insert discs (floppy and CD-Rom) and press key. It says “CP Backup” or something that I need a new disc—I wonder if that would help.
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Only bootable floppies will work. If your bootable discs are damaged, you will need new ones.
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(5) I have an old computer that uses DD discs containing Word Perfect 4.5 files. How can I convert them into Write or Word files?
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Open them in Word. Save them as a new format.
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(6) How can I get fancy characters, fancy forms of writing (such as “Script”), and foreign alphabets into my Word programs—and perhaps for a computer in general.
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Google for "free fonts"
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(7) I understand that with MP3’s, you can compress music to 1/10th the memory without appreciable loss of quality.
But then, I see the videos.
Dear me, my old videotapes are better.
Are there any players that play a better quality music and/or video even if it takes more memory?
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Video quality has nothing to do with the viewer, and everything to do with the ripper. A highly compressed video file will look bad in any program.
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(8.) If it comes to it, how do I get paid help and how much should I pay?
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Drag your computer to the nearest non-crooked dealer. Cost will depend on how long it takes to fix the problems.