Computer Help

[Seamroga in exile]

Dual boot?? Eh???

What does this mean and how do you get Linux installed?

I have been advised to save all my mp3 etc and reformat the PC as many of the windows programs seem damaged eg won't install updates even though anti virus scans showing the all clear.

Is this A bit extreme? Or better safe than sorry given how dangerous the viruses were??

Go to http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download. Download on to your desktop. Copy on to a cd. Place cd into cd drive. Reboot your pc/laptop from the cd drive. You don't need to install it as you can try it from the cd. It is free. If you like you can install it from the cd.

I had installed on my old pc for a couple of years until it f**ked up and stopped working. It's not as pc friendly as it used to be. The system requirement have been upgraded. But if the pc is only 2 or 3 years old it'll work fine.

In the end I found an old copy of XP. Works fine. 

[Just_Browsing]

Linux is just the operating system that runs how the computer works.  Its is not Microsoft so Word, Powerpoint, Excel etc won't work, you just get packages that are similar and do the same job.

The benefit of Liinux for internet use is that you wouldn't need Anti Virus ware or is that just an urban myth?

Why dont people use this rather than Microsoft products then?  Is this Linux stuff free to download or what?

Yeah its free to download and all the software from the download centre which is easy to use is free.  Most people have been too used to Microsoft products all there lives from using PC's probably first during school and have either neither heard of Linux or think its too complicated to use/install.  Dual boot means you just either pick when you turn on your machine whether you want to load windows or ubuntu.  The steps on the site are easy to follow.  And if you run into any problems there is a great forum -ubuntuforums.org - basically ask anything about any problems you are having on here and you get an answer quickly and again no charge.  for me personally Ive been using ubuntu now for 4 years and have no problems with it at all - always useful to have windows 7 on the laptop in case need to boot into it but 90% of the time I just load ubuntu.

[tyroneman]

Ok had to completely reformat my PC

As soon as I started  installing the BT total protection mcAfee a "windows security alert' popped up.

It has now disappeared and malwarebytes, ad aware and McAfee say the PC is clean.

Is this a genuine Windows Security Alert? I have seen a very similar virus but surely it couldn't have got on my PC so quickly - and now has gone once mcafee installed???

Or where has this gone?

[mylestheslasher]

Ok had to completely reformat my PC

As soon as I started  installing the BT total protection mcAfee a "windows security alert' popped up.

It has now disappeared and malwarebytes, ad aware and McAfee say the PC is clean.

Is this a genuine Windows Security Alert? I have seen a very similar virus but surely it couldn't have got on my PC so quickly - and now has gone once mcafee installed???

Or where has this gone?

It was probably an alert telling you that you had no anti virus software installed. Once it was installed Windows would recognise that and the warning would clear.

[Minder]

Having problems with Safari, when I click on a download link from a torrent site I get "Safari unexpectedly quit". Any ideas?

[Orior]

I have a PDF file which has the print function disabled.

Is there any way to hack around it to print the document?

[Minder]

Flash sites are telling me to install flash but i have it installed, Mac OS Lion, browser is Safari.

[heganboy]

I have a PDF file which has the print function disabled.

Is there any way to hack around it to print the document?

printscreen is the easy option

[bigfrank]

Lately when i go to watch stuff on my laptop like red zone nfl on sunday evenings..bbc iplayer for the young apprentice and other various shows it buffers every few seconds and wont play continously..my laptop has very little memory in use other than footy manager..is there any free software i should have downloaded or upgraded...i am workin off a wireless internet connection but it usually aint too bad

[Minder]

Lately when i go to watch stuff on my laptop like red zone nfl on sunday evenings..bbc iplayer for the young apprentice and other various shows it buffers every few seconds and wont play continously..my laptop has very little memory in use other than footy manager..is there any free software i should have downloaded or upgraded...i am workin off a wireless internet connection but it usually aint too bad

What speed is your broadband ?

[Square Ball]

not a problem but a question

can you figure out how much you download in a given month? I have three laptops, xbox live and a PS3. Just curious as I was think of moving to sky and the free one they offer may not be enought

[Minder]

not a problem but a question

can you figure out how much you download in a given month? I have three laptops, xbox live and a PS3. Just curious as I was think of moving to sky and the free one they offer may not be enought

BT let you check how much you have downloaded online. I think the free Sky one only let's you download about 5GB per month.

[bigfrank]

Lately when i go to watch stuff on my laptop like red zone nfl on sunday evenings..bbc iplayer for the young apprentice and other various shows it buffers every few seconds and wont play continously..my laptop has very little memory in use other than footy manager..is there any free software i should have downloaded or upgraded...i am workin off a wireless internet connection but it usually aint too bad

What speed is your broadband ?

Not quite sure minder..where should i look to find out? the simpleadblock software i was advised to use helped but only blocks 200 ads before it wants you to buy the real thing..so when i was watchin nfl off p2psports or somethin..no ads came up and i could watch the game alot better

[Seamroga in exile]

Lately when i go to watch stuff on my laptop like red zone nfl on sunday evenings..bbc iplayer for the young apprentice and other various shows it buffers every few seconds and wont play continously..my laptop has very little memory in use other than footy manager..is there any free software i should have downloaded or upgraded...i am workin off a wireless internet connection but it usually aint too bad

What speed is your broadband ?

Not quite sure minder..where should i look to find out? the simpleadblock software i was advised to use helped but only blocks 200 ads before it wants you to buy the real thing..so when i was watchin nfl off p2psports or somethin..no ads came up and i could watch the game alot better

Have you cleaned your temporary files recently? 

[bigfrank]

I have cccleaner downloaded and run it from time to time..i just delete everything..nothing really on laptop to lose...i have to retype in my passwords etc but thats no big deal..