Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[Genocidicbunny]

http://www.google.com/imghp perhaps?

 

[Esckey]

Seems lately that when useing firefox and I visit a site with a lot of animated stuff going on(Ads specifically) my browser slows to a crawl, and occasionally I'll get a pop up telling me about a script still running and if I want to cancel it. It only seems to be with Firfox, Internet Explorer is fine so I don't think its out of date flash player

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Make sure firefox is as updated as possible. Also install NoScript or Adblock.

 

[Turner]

http://www.google.com/imghp perhaps?

And if that doesn't work, I"m pretty sure Yahoo and MSN have their own image search engines too.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I got a problem

I went to my friend and I formatted his disk and installed windows XP sp2, and everything worked fine and i installed all the drivers except Video adapter (graphics) driver cuz he lost his CD and to make matters worse he doesnt know what Video adapter he had in his computer, the computer cant read it now and his physical memory is "unavailable" so he cant do anything (like play games) on his PC, now can you help me, how can I check my Video adapters info so I can download the drivers and install them

 

[ParadigmShifter]

PC Wizard 2008 works for me.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I'll try that

 

[GoodGame]

Anyone here code in Python?


What's your favorite IDE for it?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I used notepad

You can set up the Visual C++ IDE to build Python projects pretty easy though.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I was running out of disk space on C:, so I got a partition manager program from internets and was going to try and move some free space from D: to C:

But I discovered there was 20 gigs of unused space hiding that wasn't part of any logical drive, what the heckers?

 

[GoodGame]

I was running out of disk space on C:, so I got a partition manager program from internets and was going to try and move some free space from D: to C:

But I discovered there was 20 gigs of unused space hiding that wasn't part of any logical drive, what the heckers?

Is it reserved by the OS or the original formatting of the drive?

This might explain it(?): http://www.acronis.com/resource/tips-tricks/2004/missing-megabytes.html

The Case Of the Missing Megabytes

My computer is listed as having a 250 Gb hard disk, but when I check the available space, I only get about 225 Gb. What's wrong?

Nothing is wrong, exactly; you've just stumbled onto one of the facts of life about today's computers, the difference between hard disk size and usable space.

As a general rule, you can expect to lose about one-quarter of the space on a disk drive to things such as formatting and hidden partitions. You'll probably lose a smaller percentage on a smaller disk and more on a larger one. You'll lose toward the high side if the disk is the main disk on a system that came with the operating system installed and toward the low end if it's a second or third disk you've installed after you bought the computer. In other words, if you got 225 Gb out of a 250 Gb disk, you beat the guesstimate.

That lost capacity goes several places. One of them is the difference between formatted and unformatted size. Hard disk manufacturers quote the unformatted size of their products, but you have to format the disk to use it. This process of dividing up a disk into blocks and setting up the tables and such to record and manage each block takes space.

Then there are the hidden partitions. On computers that are shipped with the operating system installed, manufacturers have already installed one or two partitions containing a complete system image, boot information, and even parts of the Windows operating system. They do this in part because it makes computer troubleshooting easier and in part because it keeps you from using your recovery CD to copy Windows onto other computers in violation of your licensing agreement.

Should your primary (system) partition be destroyed due to a virus or malware, your computer vendor might opt to use the image on the hidden partition to restore the system to the way it was when you first got it. You should have a backup plan in place where you regularly create an exact image of your hard disk. That way, should your disk fail, you can restore the latest image.

In cases when no backup image exists, some vendors provide a final, fall-back strategy. When you restore a base image from these hidden partitions, all the data, applications, and configuration you added are lost. It is no exaggeration to say that using an image from a hidden partition should be a last resort for repairing a drive.

However, as mentioned, this is also a way of enforcing Microsoft's licenses. This might be convenient for Microsoft, but it is not beneficial for the user. Customers should always ask their systems vendors to provide them with a copy of the operating system on a CD, along with a valid registration key. That way, if you have to restore the operating system, you can do so.

Finally, in some cases, the capacity wasn't there to begin with. If you want to get technical about it, a KB should be 1024 bytes, not 1,000, because you're dealing with binary (base 2) notation. But when most people, including marketers, say "Kb," they mean 1,000 bytes. Similarly, a megabyte (MB) should be 1,024 KB, not 1,000, and so on. That terminological leakage adds up by the time you get into multiple gigabytes. However your computer reckons such things as disk capacity in binary and to a computer, a KB is 1,024 bytes. This is the standard practice in the industry and even though there has been a lawsuit filed challenging the "truth in advertising" over the 1,024 vs. 1,000 byte debate, it's not likely to change.

There is not a lot you, a user, can do about any of this capacity. The formatting loss in inevitable, the terminological difference is embedded in our system and messing with hidden partitions just to get more disk space is not a good idea. However, understanding why your disk storage capacity isn't 100% as the advertisement says, should be a comfort.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Well I increased the partition size and it reports I have 10 more gigs, so, hopefully it doesn't cause any problems

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Can someone please resize and compress this image so it is suitable for an icon for a social group please?

 

[cardgame]

Google Chrome seems to run CFC rather slowly, any ideas why? It ran it pretty fast yesterday.

Sidenote: it is the second tab today. Does Chrome prioritize speed from left-to-right on the tabs?

 

[GoodGame]

Can someone please resize and compress this image so it is suitable for an icon for a social group please?

I can, but it will take a day. You just need to do it in GIMP and state the bits.


What are appropriate bit x bit dimensions for the picture?

 

[PeteAtoms]

Google Chrome seems to run CFC rather slowly, any ideas why? It ran it pretty fast yesterday.

Sidenote: it is the second tab today. Does Chrome prioritize speed from left-to-right on the tabs?

I have noticed that Chrome doesn't seem to completely load a tab until you have it opened. So if you middleclick (open new tabs without actually looking at them) the tab will appear at the top of the browser but won't actually start loading til you look at it.

For example, while browsing the forums, I can select "Mark forum read" in one section/tab, navigate away, and the forum remains "unread" until I let the tab load all the way by going back to it.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I can, but it will take a day. You just need to do it in GIMP and state the bits.


What are appropriate bit x bit dimensions for the picture?

200x200 px and 100K max.

 

[PeteAtoms]

171x200
16.9 KB

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Cool thanks Pete!

 

[cardgame]

I have noticed that Chrome doesn't seem to completely load a tab until you have it opened. So if you middleclick (open new tabs without actually looking at them) the tab will appear at the top of the browser but won't actually start loading til you look at it.

For example, while browsing the forums, I can select "Mark forum read" in one section/tab, navigate away, and the forum remains "unread" until I let the tab load all the way by going back to it.

thanks very much this probably helps explain why it's so fast