where would i find this? im good with computers to a cetain extent :( sorry.

I'm not 100 percent on this, as I use XP and I only get to mess with Vista on the computers at school, but I think I remember most of it:

In your start menu:

1. Open Control Panel
2. Open Hardware and Sound
3. Open Sound
4. Open Recording
5. Open Microphone and open its Properties
6. There should be some tabs, like General, etc...
7. Find a setting in one of these tabs that indicate Mute/Enable/Disable/Level... and make your appropriate selections.

Again, as I'm not at a Vista computer at the moment, that's as far as I can get you in regards to navigation.

Your Microphone should be Enabled, Mute should not be checked, and your Microphone level should be all the way up. I think I remember something about a boost setting, but I wouldn't worry about that for testing purposes.

If I can't resolve this tonight, then tomorrow I'll be able to explore the issue on Vista at school and I can log in to let you know what I come up with.

LEGEND. its fixed :D

Is there a Mac equivalent to Windows' Add/Remove and De-fragmentation ?

As far as im aware there are programs you can download to de-frag a mac's hard drive. Someone who actually knows jack about mac's may be able to point you in the right direction or suggest a possible easier solution.

As for add/remove programs, don't you just drag programs into the trash can/recycle bin?

FAO: Janszoon

That is what I do usually, but as I'm an ex-Windows, I'm used to feel that this isn't enough. If it's enough shouldn't there be some un-install button somewhere?

Heh yeah i know it feels like there should be more to it. I suppose there could be but thats all ive ever known.

If you installed the program via an install package, there should be an uninstaller in the application's folder. If there isn't, there isn't much you can do beyond deleting the application itself and all associated files.

When I plug in my ipod it shows up on my computer but not my itunes. Help me musicbanter.com!

You using Mac OS or Windows?

Mac OS

Mac is more of Janszoon's area, but I found this on Apple support, so I figured I'd throw the link to you just as well.

iPod does not appear in iTunes or iPod updater in Mac OS X

If you don't get dice with this, Janszoon may be able to help you properly, as he is versed in that OS, and I'm a Windows guy.

Let us know how it goes.
GL.

Well I guess it was as easy as a simple restart. Thanks for your time Freebase.

I'm here... what did I miss?

Everything is well but I now know who to track down should I run into mac problems.

Sorry I couldn't be of better assistance. I really have absolutely no experience with Mac. But that's why I FAO Janszoon.

Jans...
You must teach me your Mac ways.
Even my major won't dare venture into Mac territory. It's like a conspiracy.
:/

Hey you hunted down links. That's more than I could ask for right there. So thanks again. You're beautiful, never change.

I shant.
:laughing:

My Dell Laptop is slow, the internet runs slowly and loads slowly, sometimes it randomly freezes on me.

It's two years new, but it was hardly used before a few months ago. It was still in the case when my uncle gave it to me.

The virus scan runs clear.

The computer is about 52% full, space wise.

I don't have a lot of programs running at the same time.

I notice that when my roommate is on her Mac, everything is extremely quick, and we're on the same internet network. I'm not sure if it's the different computers we have, or what. I know I'm not giving enough information, and if there's something else I can give you, I'm sure I could.

Anything?

I had some few tips for that, but now that I'm on mac I forgot all the names of things in Windows, it's a bit pathetic :( But I had the same problem, you should clean up all useless things.

And I remember mine would extremely run slow when I would have a lot of apps in the bar that I forgot how it's named [in the corner next to the clock].

I've tried that. I closed almost everything once and kept ONE program open. I don't know what's wrong.

It's an inspiron 1721, by the way.

I don't know if that changes anything.

not the windows, the tabs that are kept as shortcuts below. It's like the little symbol of msn right next to the clock.

I know. I right-clicked and exited(sp?) out of everything but my scanner and such.

Difragmentation can be helpful, or in the system manager window, the second tab, you can control what the system is working on [windows have a tendency to work on unused applications]

Try running defrag on your drives, and search around for a free registry cleaner online and run that. Also get a spyware removal tool like Adaware and run that. You can also disable a lot of background services that run by default, using up available RAM, that you don't actually need. Depending on your operating system, there are guides available on the internet that can walk you through which services you can safely disable.
Also, increasing your page-file, which uses storage on your hard-drive as temporary virtual memory, can also take the load off your RAM demand. There are plenty walk-throughs for that available on the web.
Doing all of the above, you should notice a performance increase if any - or a combination of the factors addressed above - are contributing to the performance problems you're experiencing.


How much RAM does your computer have?
And what speed processor?
If you're comparing your computer's speed against another, it may generally just be a matter of your computer not having as much RAM and processing power as the one you're comparing to. Try to use the basis of your performance decrease as a comparison to how fast your computer was when you first got it, compared to how fast it is now. If there's a general downslope of performance as time passes, then chances are you just need to do some cleaning up. But either way, your computer won't become faster than it's capable of being, as it's limited by the hardware components unique to your configuration.

Mm, how do I find my RAM and speed processor?

And thank you.

Right click My Computer - properties.

Should tell you how much RAM you have and what processor you have installed.

EDIT: As so

http://www.cape.k12.mo.us/technology...ComputerID.jpg

Also, if you get Adaware i would get something like Spybot too, and run both of them.

my msn freezes about every 10-15minutes, doesnt let me speak to anyone or anything, then after 2minutes it unfreezes. how that :laughing:? its so annoyin, i would be grateful if you could help! :D

When this happens, are you just typing normal messages and not doing anything else in particular?
Also, what is the nature of the freeze... are buttons clickable? Or is it just in the actual communication of messages?

Have you checked to see if your internet connection is still operable during these freezes?

I'm such a fail. Mine does NOT look like that. xD

when it happens im running itunes and firefox.
the freeze is like i can operate everything else except my msn, and the internet connection stays online.

It can look differently, but the information should still be there. If you right click the actual "my computer" icon (not the shortcut on your desktop, if that's what you were doing) which should be in your start menu, then selecting "properties" will show you the information in the general tab.

Oh, I'm an idiot, the information is right there. I was looking at the right thing. I just have Vista, so it wasn't in the same place.

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55 180 GHz
Memory (RAM): 1.00 GB

It's likely an MSN program fault then.
What version do you have? (You should be able to check this by going to "help" then "about" in the messenger interface.)

Your processor is fine, but you're running on the bare minimum RAM Vista needs in order to operate efficiently. I'd advise that you buy another 1GB stick (if your other stick is a single gig stick) so that your available RAM is at least 2 gigs.
Vista uses A LOT of RAM just to operate, so the free RAM available to any programs you're running is a lot more limited than an XP scenario.

What stick, exactly?

I'm sorry. >.<

If you don't want to physically open up your computer, go here:
CPUID and download the 64bit version (I'm assuming you're running Vista 64, from the info you gave about your processor), unzip the file and run the CPU-Z.exe

It will give you your RAM type, along with other data.
Ideally, you'll want to buy a matching stick, but the important thing is TYPE and SIZE.
If you have one 1gig stick, you need to buy one 1gig stick to match it. If your current RAM is, say DDR3, then the stick you buy needs to be DDR3 as well. If you can get the same name-brand, fine, but it's not necessary.

Once you buy the stick, you'll need to install it, so at that point you can simply google "step by step install RAM" and include what type of computer you have, whether it's a laptop or desktop.
The installation process isn't hard.. it's simply a matter of plugging it in and turning on your computer.

And that could be the reason it's running slowly?

Of course, I just remembered last year's computer course I took. Our teacher told us then that a Vista needs an approximate Gig alone to run itself.