Dell 780 Problem:

In message , Mark
Twain writes:
I tried using the CD on the 780 again but it still
keeps going to the sign-in page.

I unticked/applied the ' Hide extensions for known file types'

I checked the boot sequence:

Onboard or USB Floppy drive
USB Device
HUA721075KLA330 (HD?)
Onboard or USB CD-ROM Drive

Change it so that the CD is above the HD.

I don't know why I went back to that first document,.. got lost *L*

(I didn't understand that line, but probably because I've not read all
of the thread.)
[]
Memtest isn't working because the CD isn't working. So how do I get
the CD to work? I'm not following you ,.. what existing test work?
We already checked all the slots. Did I miss something?

Well, you've _checked_ them all briefly, thus establishing they all
work; you haven't given the memory sticks a good workout, which is what
Memtest will do.

Thanks,
Robert

HTH, John
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In message , Mark
Twain writes:
Besides photos I also have allot of videos,. and
links etc wouldn't more/less RAMM affect that?

Robert

Photos and videos will take up space on your _disc_; they won't affect
how much _RAM_ you need, unless you're likely to open lots of them at
once. (Even a slideshow will usually only load one or two at a time from
disc into RAM.)

Not sure what you mean by "links"; if bookmarks (Firefox) or Favourites
(Internet Explorer), then no, having lots of those won't need lots of
RAM - you could get thousands of them in even 1M. If you mean tabs in a
browser - i. e. you are likely to have lots of webpages open at once -
then yes, that can start to eat a lot of RAM.

Open the Task Manager utility, and have a look at the amount of RAM use
(the lower graph in the Performance tab, labelled PF usage), as you play
with various things - photos, videos, web pages - to see what uses lots
of RAM and what doesn't.
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magazine, AUTUMN 2006, p. 13.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| Has there been any indication of them changing this default - maybe in
| Windows 10.xxx? (I know they've said 10 is the "last" Windows; in
| practice, therefore, future versions will be 10.9.9.9....)
|

Unless Apple gets over their "X" fetish. Then Microsoft
will probably ape them and come out with something
like Windows Beyond. (Remember, you heard it here first.

| isn't
| really valid since they introduced the change in (I think) 7 whereby
| "rename" defaults to no longer highlighting the extension.

That drives me crazy. For me that's a classic example of
why I avoid moving to Win7 for most things. They just keep
adding more training wheels. It takes more and more work to
remove those training wheels. And in some cases it's just
not doable. The result is interrupted productivity, like
trying to make coffee while wearing a helmet and fireproof
gloves.

In message , Mayayana
writes:
[]
| isn't
| really valid since they introduced the change in (I think) 7 whereby
| "rename" defaults to no longer highlighting the extension.

That drives me crazy. For me that's a classic example of
why I avoid moving to Win7 for most things. They just keep
adding more training wheels. It takes more and more work to
remove those training wheels. And in some cases it's just
not doable. The result is interrupted productivity, like
trying to make coffee while wearing a helmet and fireproof
gloves.


I know what you mean, and agree in most cases (I turn a lot of them off
where I can); however, I thought the
rename-not-highlighting-the-extension-by-default was actually a _good_
one. When changing the name of a file, I rarely want to change the
extension, and had previously found (and still find of course, as my
main machine is XP) it tedious having to either retype the extension or
move the cursor first.
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Mark
Twain writes:
I tried using the CD on the 780 again but it still
keeps going to the sign-in page.

I unticked/applied the ' Hide extensions for known file types'

I checked the boot sequence:

Onboard or USB Floppy drive
USB Device
HUA721075KLA330 (HD?)
Onboard or USB CD-ROM Drive

Change it so that the CD is above the HD.

Yep, that CD is too low, and needs to move up.

The trick will be, figuring out what key to press,
to move it up. Some BIOS have a side-bar with a list
of keys to press to make changes like that.

Paul

Mark Twain wrote:
Besides photos I also have allot of videos,. and
links etc wouldn't more/less RAMM affect that?

Robert

A video *editor* can use a bit of RAM. It really
depends on how many layers you're using in the
editor, the special effects and so on. These
editors may not apply the commands issued by the
user immediately, they save all of them for a
"rendering stage", and then the RAM used starts
to balloon during rendering.

A video *player*, like VLC or Windows Media Player,
shouldn't need a lot of RAM to play a movie. So you
don't need to buy extra RAM for that reason.

Firefox uses memory if you have a lot of tabs open.
One poster claimed to have 4000 tabs open on the
browser, but I think it was a joke, as the computer
would tip over if you did that (top heavy) :-)

You can watch Firefox in Task Manager, if you have
any concern about exactly how much it uses. Firefox
itself keeps records of its own memory usage,
using "about:memory" as the text to enter in the
URL bar to access it. But don't expect the content
in there to be all that meaningful. The Task Manager
gives a better overall view.

*******

3D games use a bit of memory. In the old days, maybe
600MB to 2GB of RAM or so. They use much more now
(like Microsoft Flight Simulator).

The Microsoft ICE (free panoramic image builder), has
used as much as 80GB of RAM. If you don't have the
RAM to give it, it uses the disk drive instead. It
runs at about 1/10th the speed, if you use a disk drive
for the storage it needs. There's just no way to keep
that program happy :-) Photoshop has some capability like
that too (to stitch landscape photos together to make
a really wide picture), and I'm sure it would use a lot
of RAM for that as well.

You would probably know you had a RAM problem, if

1) A program actually complains it is out of RAM.
That's a strong indication. A crash or error.

2) The machine becomes slow in the middle of a program run.

3) You see the disk light go on and stay on, after you
gave a command in a program. That's the pagefile
being used to page out some other program.

Although there are cases where the OS behaves badly because
of memory fragmentation, which is a software design problem
and hardware guys can't fix that for you. A reboot cleans
up situations like that, but obviously, a reboot is
a horrible workaround.

Paul

On 11/26/2017 3:45 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
[]
Microsoft really shouldn't hide the extensions
by default.

Paul

And we've been saying this since at least '9x.

Has there been any indication of them changing this default - maybe in
Windows 10.xxx? (I know they've said 10 is the "last" Windows; in
practice, therefore, future versions will be 10.9.9.9....)

The original _reason_ for hiding extensions (even having the _option_ to
do so) - presumably to avoid confusing the poor dumb users - was mostly
superseded when malware started to use double extensions, and isn't
really valid since they introduced the change in (I think) 7 whereby
"rename" defaults to no longer highlighting the extension.

Has anyone been able to change that default in Windows 7 so that Rename
includes the extension when hightlighting the file name? More often
than not, that is what I want because I often want to copy the complete
file name for use in text, in a search, or other such purpose without
actually changing the name.

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On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 08:02:23 -0800, David E. Ross wrote:

Has anyone been able to change that default in Windows 7 so that Rename
includes the extension when hightlighting the file name? More often
than not, that is what I want because I often want to copy the complete
file name for use in text, in a search, or other such purpose without
actually changing the name.


To copy the complete file name, include the "press Ctrl+A" below.

Right-click Rename press Ctrl+A press Ctrl+C



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Cheers
Ralph Fox

On 11/26/2017 05:45 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

[snip]

The original _reason_ for hiding extensions (even having the _option_ to
do so) - presumably to avoid confusing the poor dumb users - was mostly
superseded when malware started to use double extensions,

It's multiple dots. A file has one and only one extension.
"file.txt.exe" is NOT a text file. Windows knows that even if it lies to
you in a directory window or open dialog.

and isn't
really valid since they introduced the change in (I think) 7 whereby
"rename" defaults to no longer highlighting the extension.


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"Ralph Fox" wrote

| To copy the complete file name, include the "press Ctrl+A" below.
|
| Right-click Rename press Ctrl+A press Ctrl+C
|

I'm not certain, but it seems to me it was easier
than that. I think a double right-click selects it all.
Either way, it's an extra step that some of us find
inefficient.

In message , Mark Lloyd
writes:
On 11/26/2017 05:45 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

[snip]

The original _reason_ for hiding extensions (even having the _option_
to do so) - presumably to avoid confusing the poor dumb users - was
mostly superseded when malware started to use double extensions,

It's multiple dots. A file has one and only one extension.
"file.txt.exe" is NOT a text file. Windows knows that even if it lies
to you in a directory window or open dialog.

You know that, and I know that, but you know what I meant (-:

and isn't really valid since they introduced the change in (I think)
7 whereby "rename" defaults to no longer highlighting the extension.


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On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:56:49 -0600, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 11/26/2017 05:45 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

[snip]

The original _reason_ for hiding extensions (even having the _option_ to
do so) - presumably to avoid confusing the poor dumb users - was mostly
superseded when malware started to use double extensions,

It's multiple dots. A file has one and only one extension.
"file.txt.exe" is NOT a text file. Windows knows that even if it lies to
you in a directory window or open dialog.

This is just another great example of Microsoft making it easier for
hackers to destroy your "experience" in the name of improving it. If
you have extensions turned off that file indeed shows up as file.txt
Why they ever allowed periods in file names eludes me. It is supposed
to separate the name from the extension.

As I've said I've seen a notable slowing on FF
but that was on my 8500 with 12GB of RAM and is
not the computer but FF being a hog and changing
their format whee I have (4) exe's running.

Of course the 780 is only running with 2GB at
present so its slower. I still have the CD problem
and need a fix so we can proceed with the Memtest.

From what you say, I should get these to replace
the old ones.

http://www.crucial.com/ProductDispla...toreId=1015 1

Robert

On 11/26/2017 9:39 AM, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 08:02:23 -0800, David E. Ross wrote:

Has anyone been able to change that default in Windows 7 so that Rename
includes the extension when hightlighting the file name? More often
than not, that is what I want because I often want to copy the complete
file name for use in text, in a search, or other such purpose without
actually changing the name.


To copy the complete file name, include the "press Ctrl+A" below.

Right-click Rename press Ctrl+A press Ctrl+C

No. While in Rename, Ctrl-A has no effect.

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http://www.rossde.com/

Am I the only one who noticed the following?
* President Trump issued executive orders
that increase health-care costs.
* The Republicans in Congress propose to
eliminate itemized deductions for
health-care costs.

"David E. Ross" wrote in newsvfhau$hn3$1
@news.albasani.net:

On 11/26/2017 9:39 AM, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 08:02:23 -0800, David E. Ross wrote:

Has anyone been able to change that default in Windows 7 so that
Rename
includes the extension when hightlighting the file name? More often
than not, that is what I want because I often want to copy the
complete
file name for use in text, in a search, or other such purpose without
actually changing the name.


To copy the complete file name, include the "press Ctrl+A" below.

Right-click Rename press Ctrl+A press Ctrl+C

No. While in Rename, Ctrl-A has no effect.


That's odd. On my Windows 7 machine, it's works as advertised. While in
Rename, Ctrl-A selects the entire file name, including the extension.

I actually like the default action to not include the extension, When I
move pictures from my phone to my computer, I give them a descriptive
name, and of course I do not want to change the extension. But, we all
have our own methods.