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H.P. xp with sp3 up to date.
I was working with a newly updated Realplayer today. It wanted more pixels, seemed simple. before I knew it I was in over my head. right now the desktop goes black intermittently, every few minutes, or at completion of every tiny activity...comes back after a few seconds. All text seems way larger, as do desktop icons, and desktop icons are larger and changed positions. sometimes when it turns black it comes back with smaller icons...for a while. I diddled around in properties choosing active window, normal. Windows Classic style, font normal, Settings:resolution 800x600(Real Player wanted) Even tried denser. Please point me to a fix. drivers? settings? The screen going dark for 5 seconds is a PIA, then when desktop comes up background ABD icons can be large or small, some off the screen. Bottom line it's a mess! Do you guys even think a techie could fix it, without doing a clean start ? Sylvia M |
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On 12/17/2012 01:50 PM, Sylvia M wrote:
H.P. xp with sp3 up to date. I was working with a newly updated Realplayer today. It wanted more pixels, seemed simple. before I knew it I was in over my head. right now the desktop goes black intermittently, every few minutes, or at completion of every tiny activity...comes back after a few seconds. All text seems way larger, as do desktop icons, and desktop icons are larger and changed positions. sometimes when it turns black it comes back with smaller icons...for a while. I diddled around in properties choosing active window, normal. Windows Classic style, font normal, Settings:resolution 800x600(Real Player wanted) Even tried denser. Please point me to a fix. drivers? settings? The screen going dark for 5 seconds is a PIA, then when desktop comes up background ABD icons can be large or small, some off the screen. Bottom line it's a mess! Do you guys even think a techie could fix it, without doing a clean start ? Sylvia M Try a System Restore -- https://www.createspace.com/3707686 |
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"philo " wrote in message ... On 12/17/2012 01:50 PM, Sylvia M wrote: H.P. xp with sp3 up to date. I was working with a newly updated Realplayer today. It wanted more pixels, seemed simple. before I knew it I was in over my head. right now the desktop goes black intermittently, every few minutes, or at completion of every tiny activity...comes back after a few seconds. All text seems way larger, as do desktop icons, and desktop icons are larger and changed positions. sometimes when it turns black it comes back with smaller icons...for a while. I diddled around in properties choosing active window, normal. Windows Classic style, font normal, Settings:resolution 800x600(Real Player wanted) Even tried denser. Please point me to a fix. drivers? settings? The screen going dark for 5 seconds is a PIA, then when desktop comes up background ABD icons can be large or small, some off the screen. Bottom line it's a mess! Do you guys even think a techie could fix it, without doing a clean start ? Sylvia M Try a System Restore -- https://www.createspace.com/3707686 I've tried several, up to Dec 6th, will go back further after all bug filtering! Thanks. I'm trying sooo many work-arounds in the meantime, just to function a bit. sigh |
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Sylvia M wrote:
H.P. xp with sp3 up to date. I was working with a newly updated Realplayer today. It wanted more pixels, seemed simple. before I knew it I was in over my head. right now the desktop goes black intermittently, every few minutes, or at completion of every tiny activity...comes back after a few seconds. All text seems way larger, as do desktop icons, and desktop icons are larger and changed positions. sometimes when it turns black it comes back with smaller icons...for a while. I diddled around in properties choosing active window, normal. Windows Classic style, font normal, Settings:resolution 800x600(Real Player wanted) If you originally had a greater screen resolution - 1280 x 1024, eg - then changing it to 800 x 600 will make everything bigger. To change screen resolution, right click the desktop, click "Properties", click "Settings" tab. The desktop may be going black because you have set the screen saver to be "Blank". Get to it by right clicking the desktop, click "Properties", click the "Screen Saver" tab. Select the screen saver you want from the drop down box - it will show you a preview - and set how long you want the system to wait before switching to it. Final suggestion: dump RealPlayer. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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"dadiOH" wrote in message ... Sylvia M wrote: H.P. xp with sp3 up to date. I was working with a newly updated Realplayer today. It wanted more pixels, seemed simple. before I knew it I was in over my head. right now the desktop goes black intermittently, every few minutes, or at completion of every tiny activity...comes back after a few seconds. All text seems way larger, as do desktop icons, and desktop icons are larger and changed positions. sometimes when it turns black it comes back with smaller icons...for a while. I diddled around in properties choosing active window, normal. Windows Classic style, font normal, Settings:resolution 800x600(Real Player wanted) If you originally had a greater screen resolution - 1280 x 1024, eg - then changing it to 800 x 600 will make everything bigger. To change screen resolution, right click the desktop, click "Properties", click "Settings" tab. yes, that was part of it, I had to 'insist' on the higher ressolution a couple of times. The desktop may be going black because you have set the screen saver to be "Blank". Get to it by right clicking the desktop, click "Properties", click the "Screen Saver" tab. Select the screen saver you want from the drop down box - it will show you a preview - and set how long you want the system to wait before switching to it. I went there and went back to the one I had before, seems more stable (Stonehenge). Final suggestion: dump RealPlayer. What program would you suggest instead? I sometimes need to trim out sections and increase sound. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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Sylvia M wrote:
Final suggestion: dump RealPlayer. What program would you suggest instead? I sometimes need to trim out sections and increase sound. Waves? Any wave editor such as Goldwave or Audacity. http://www.goldwave.com/ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ MP3s? If you don't mind the wave editor decoding them to wave and re-encoding them to MP3 after you have made changes then same as above. The decode/re-encode is no big deal, BTW, though some will tell you they ruin the MP3s. They are wrong. If you don't want to use a wave editor on MP3s then MPTrim will trim start and/or end as well as increase sound. The free version has a file size limit tied to a playing time of seven minutes; it is generally sufficient for most MP3s. http://www.mptrim.com/ Another way to increase/decrease sound is with MP3Gain. http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/ MP3Cutter is good to trim sections as is mp3DirectCut http://mpesch3.de1.cc/ http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/ Another program you might find use for is MP3TrackMaker. It will let you save or merge sections of an MP3. It is particularly handy when used with Winamp because one can pause Winamp at the desired spot in the MP3 and have MP3Trackmaker grab that section. It is less easy to use than the other programs mentioned because it has no help file. My old version, at least http://www.heathcosoft.com/ and http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multime...ackMaker.shtml This site explains it though rather tersely... http://www.mrdetermination.com/sound...sion%201_0.htm All the programs mentioned with the exception of Goldwave are free. All work well, none are very difficult to use, all are worlds better than RealPlayer. Despite being easy to use, one should read any help or readme to understand what is being done and what options do what. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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"dadiOH" wrote in message ... Sylvia M wrote: Final suggestion: dump RealPlayer. What program would you suggest instead? I sometimes need to trim out sections and increase sound. Waves? Any wave editor such as Goldwave or Audacity. http://www.goldwave.com/ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ MP3s? If you don't mind the wave editor decoding them to wave and re-encoding them to MP3 after you have made changes then same as above. The decode/re-encode is no big deal, BTW, though some will tell you they ruin the MP3s. They are wrong. If you don't want to use a wave editor on MP3s then MPTrim will trim start and/or end as well as increase sound. The free version has a file size limit tied to a playing time of seven minutes; it is generally sufficient for most MP3s. http://www.mptrim.com/ Another way to increase/decrease sound is with MP3Gain. http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/ MP3Cutter is good to trim sections as is mp3DirectCut http://mpesch3.de1.cc/ http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/ Another program you might find use for is MP3TrackMaker. It will let you save or merge sections of an MP3. It is particularly handy when used with Winamp because one can pause Winamp at the desired spot in the MP3 and have MP3Trackmaker grab that section. It is less easy to use than the other programs mentioned because it has no help file. My old version, at least http://www.heathcosoft.com/ and http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multime...ackMaker.shtml This site explains it though rather tersely... http://www.mrdetermination.com/sound...sion%201_0.htm All the programs mentioned with the exception of Goldwave are free. All work well, none are very difficult to use, all are worlds better than RealPlayer. Despite being easy to use, one should read any help or readme to understand what is being done and what options do what. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net Wow! That's a wealth of information! Many thanks, I'll slowly go through it all. Am editing 30 2-3 minute poetry reading sessions for YouTube, 12 already up. Sylvia M. |
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Sylvia M wrote:
"dadiOH" wrote in message ... Sylvia M wrote: Final suggestion: dump RealPlayer. What program would you suggest instead? I sometimes need to trim out sections and increase sound. Waves? Any wave editor such as Goldwave or Audacity. http://www.goldwave.com/ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ MP3s? If you don't mind the wave editor decoding them to wave and re-encoding them to MP3 after you have made changes then same as above. The decode/re-encode is no big deal, BTW, though some will tell you they ruin the MP3s. They are wrong. If you don't want to use a wave editor on MP3s then MPTrim will trim start and/or end as well as increase sound. The free version has a file size limit tied to a playing time of seven minutes; it is generally sufficient for most MP3s. http://www.mptrim.com/ Another way to increase/decrease sound is with MP3Gain. http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/ MP3Cutter is good to trim sections as is mp3DirectCut http://mpesch3.de1.cc/ http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/ Another program you might find use for is MP3TrackMaker. It will let you save or merge sections of an MP3. It is particularly handy when used with Winamp because one can pause Winamp at the desired spot in the MP3 and have MP3Trackmaker grab that section. It is less easy to use than the other programs mentioned because it has no help file. My old version, at least http://www.heathcosoft.com/ and http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multime...ackMaker.shtml This site explains it though rather tersely... http://www.mrdetermination.com/sound...sion%201_0.htm All the programs mentioned with the exception of Goldwave are free. All work well, none are very difficult to use, all are worlds better than RealPlayer. Despite being easy to use, one should read any help or readme to understand what is being done and what options do what. -- dadiOH Wow! That's a wealth of information! Many thanks, I'll slowly go through it all. Am editing 30 2-3 minute poetry reading sessions for YouTube, 12 already up. Sylvia M. I forgot to include the piece de resitance...my dandies. It is a help file dealing with MP3s and may - or may not - have information useful to you. You can get it here... http://mysite.verizon.net/xico/dadiOH-light.htm -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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"dadiOH" wrote in message
... Sylvia M wrote: "dadiOH" wrote in message ... Sylvia M wrote: Final suggestion: dump RealPlayer. What program would you suggest instead? I sometimes need to trim out sections and increase sound. Waves? Any wave editor such as Goldwave or Audacity. http://www.goldwave.com/ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ MP3s? If you don't mind the wave editor decoding them to wave and re-encoding them to MP3 after you have made changes then same as above. The decode/re-encode is no big deal, BTW, though some will tell you they ruin the MP3s. They are wrong. If you don't want to use a wave editor on MP3s then MPTrim will trim start and/or end as well as increase sound. The free version has a file size limit tied to a playing time of seven minutes; it is generally sufficient for most MP3s. http://www.mptrim.com/ Another way to increase/decrease sound is with MP3Gain. http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/ MP3Cutter is good to trim sections as is mp3DirectCut http://mpesch3.de1.cc/ http://home.hccnet.nl/p.luijer/ Another program you might find use for is MP3TrackMaker. It will let you save or merge sections of an MP3. It is particularly handy when used with Winamp because one can pause Winamp at the desired spot in the MP3 and have MP3Trackmaker grab that section. It is less easy to use than the other programs mentioned because it has no help file. My old version, at least http://www.heathcosoft.com/ and http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multime...ackMaker.shtml This site explains it though rather tersely... http://www.mrdetermination.com/sound...sion%201_0.htm All the programs mentioned with the exception of Goldwave are free. All work well, none are very difficult to use, all are worlds better than RealPlayer. Despite being easy to use, one should read any help or readme to understand what is being done and what options do what. -- dadiOH Wow! That's a wealth of information! Many thanks, I'll slowly go through it all. Am editing 30 2-3 minute poetry reading sessions for YouTube, 12 already up. Sylvia M. I forgot to include the piece de resitance...my dandies. It is a help file dealing with MP3s and may - or may not - have information useful to you. You can get it here... http://mysite.verizon.net/xico/dadiOH-light.htm -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net I saved the site, thnx Sylvia M |
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