mel jacobson on wed 12 jan 05
this has come up before, but i want
to remind many of you that there is some
great freeware out there.
i have switched to thunderbird/mozzila for
my private email account. i am getting used to it,
and may switch all the eudora over.
i am working on changing to firefox.
here is the website. my isp is asking people
to switch...interesting.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
also they are touting a free anti/virus tool:
http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html
i think these are worth checking out, and we could
hear reviews from some of our experts in computers.
From:
Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
web site: my.pclink.com/~melpots
or try: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
new/ http://www.rid-a-tick.com
Scott Paulding on wed 12 jan 05
I think it's great that a browser other than Internet Explorer is gaining
precedense again. Firefox is a great, easy-to-use and STABLE browser.
It's slowly gaining market share, and creeping up on IE. I run Mozilla
1.6, and I love it. I only use IE if I absolutely have to, but too many
times, IE has crashed and since it's so integrated into windows, it brings
my whole system down.
-scott
--- mel jacobson wrote:
> this has come up before, but i want
> to remind many of you that there is some
> great freeware out there.
>
> i have switched to thunderbird/mozzila for
> my private email account. i am getting used to it,
> and may switch all the eudora over.
>
> i am working on changing to firefox.
>
> here is the website. my isp is asking people
> to switch...interesting.
>
>
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
>
>
> also they are touting a free anti/virus tool:
>
>
http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html
>
>
> i think these are worth checking out, and we could
> hear reviews from some of our experts in computers.
>
> From:
> Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
> web site: my.pclink.com/~melpots
> or try: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
> new/ http://www.rid-a-tick.com
>
>
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pottery_lady on wed 12 jan 05
We switched to AVG a free anti virus and have been really pleased. As the
e-mail are downloading you phsically see them being scanned for virus.
Plenty of other neat features as well.
Mary Meyers
Wortham, Texas
pottery_lady@sbcglobal.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "mel jacobson"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:07 AM
Subject: free tools for your computer
> this has come up before, but i want
> to remind many of you that there is some
> great freeware out there.
>
> i have switched to thunderbird/mozzila for
> my private email account. i am getting used to it,
> and may switch all the eudora over.
>
> i am working on changing to firefox.
>
> here is the website. my isp is asking people
> to switch...interesting.
>
>
http://www.mozilla.org/products/fi
refox/
>
>
> also they are touting a free anti/virus tool:
>
>
http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.
html
>
>
> i think these are worth checking out, and we could
> hear reviews from some of our experts in computers.
>
> From:
> Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
> web site: my.pclink.com/~melpots
> or try: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
> new/ http://www.rid-a-tick.com
>
>
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__
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melpots@pclink.com.
>
>
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Wes Rolley on wed 12 jan 05
At 06:37 AM 1/12/2005, you wrote:
>It's slowly gaining market share, and creeping up on IE. I run Mozilla
>1.6, and I love it. I only use IE if I absolutely have to, but too many
>times, IE has crashed and since it's so integrated into windows, it brings
>my whole system down.
Yeah, and what really get to me are those sites that will ONLY work with MS
IE.
Sony's Connect Store for music download will not allow you on to the site
if you are not using MS Internet Explorer 5.5 or later.
Intuit will not deal with any site problem if you are not using MS
IE...they say it is because this is the only browser that they have
tested. My last experience is that when I ordered an update to quicken
2005 using Netscape 7, they did not register the sale, but an authorization
showed up on my bank account with the funds on hold. Intuit's response was
to tell me to do it over using MS Internet Explorer and that I should tell
the bank to drop the authorization...they could not do it.
The reasoning: Everyone has Internet Explorer. There are differences in
browsers. I save money if I only test for one browser. Therefore: I only
support Internet Explorer.
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then
you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente
Wes Rolley
http://www.refpub.com/
William Melstrom on wed 12 jan 05
Downloaded and installed Mozilla as per your reccomendation. Really easy
set-up, and works great so far. Thanks for the tip.
William Melstrom, Austin
Gail Phillips on wed 12 jan 05
Hi, Mel, et.al.-
Yes, Firefox is the up and coming thing, but not without security holes of its own. I get a newsletter from TechRepublic, and they have been mentioning that lately. I am not familiar with that particular email client, yet. I just put Avast on a customer's computer the other day - it is ok, but seems to have some slow response time when clicking on different things in the program (maybe it was just the dinosaur I was working on!). I used to recommend Grisoft's AVG antivirus, but since they went to version 7, email scanning on dial up is horrifically slow, not an issue if you are on broadband. I don't know what they did to it, but hopefully, they will fix it. Enough people have encountered this, so I am sure they are aware of it at Grisoft.
Now, other lovelies to be had for free include Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, and Spybot Search and Destroy v.1.3. If you have Spybot v.1.2, and have noticed that you can't get updates, it is because they are not writing updates for it anymore. You have to download and install the new version. Make sure you uninstall the old versions of both of these programs first, before you install the new. You can get them both at www.download.com.
Kick those problems to the curb! And don't forget to do your Windows Updates, and Office Updates, too, if you have Microsoft Office!
- Gail Phillips
Mel wrote:
> this has come up before, but i want
> to remind many of you that there is some
> great freeware out there.
>
Arnold Howard on wed 12 jan 05
Mel, thanks for telling us about Google's desktop search tool awhile ago. I
use that every working day. It has been pure magic for me.
Sincerely,
Arnold Howard
Paragon Industries, L.P., Mesquite, Texas USA
arnoldhoward@att.net / www.paragonweb.com
From: "mel jacobson"
> this has come up before, but i want
> to remind many of you that there is some
> great freeware out there.
bonnie staffel on fri 14 jan 05
I installed Mozilla on my computer. After a few months, I uninstalled it.
Most free programs are fraught (like that old fashioned word!!) with pop
ups, IMO. I had Weatherbug, a free one as well, and got rid of that last
week. Now I only get four or five pop ups a session on my computer and
trying to find the source. Mozilla gave me other headaches but that was
some time ago and have forgotten. There may be other factors involved, but
with my limited knowledge of computers, looking up items of interest,
decided to do this. Every computer user is probably doing something
different, but for my use I found Mozilla a pain and an unnecessary addition
to my computer. That is my opinion. So add my vote on this subject of
"free" tools.
Regards,
Bonnie Staffel
http://webpages.charter.net/bstaffel/
http://vasefinder.com/bstaffelgallery1.html
Charter Member Potters Council
Carl D Cravens on sat 15 jan 05
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Gail Phillips wrote:
> If you load the Google Toolbar, there is a very good popup stopper in
> it. Go to Google, and look for their downloads. Click on About Google,
> then Google Services and Tools. It can be found there. Norton Personal
> Firewall stops that junk, too.
Do note that, last I knew, installing the Google Toolbar notifies Google
of all the pages you visit, so they can use the popularity of pages the
Toolbar has seen in their ranking formula. I believe you can turn this
feature off, but you should know it's there if you object to Google spying
on you.
--
Carl D Cravens (raven@phoenyx.net)
Talk is cheap because supply inevitably exceeds demand.
Carl D Cravens on sat 15 jan 05
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, bonnie staffel wrote:
> I installed Mozilla on my computer. After a few months, I uninstalled it.
> Most free programs are fraught (like that old fashioned word!!) with pop
> ups, IMO.
But Mozilla isn't.
> I had Weatherbug, a free one as well, and got rid of that last week.
> Now I only get four or five pop ups a session on my computer and trying
> to find the source.
The source is usually the web pages you're visiting, not free software.
(Weatherbug being an exception.)
Try Mozilla Firefox, which is the direction the Mozilla project is going.
Firefox is easier to use than the previous Mozilla browser (the menus and
options have been made simpler and easier to navigate) and Firefox has a
pop-up blocker that will deal with a lot of the pop-ups you encounter
while browsing.
Firefox is quite a different experience from the Mozilla of a year or two
ago. It's very easy to install (no manual installations) and use.
http://www.mozilla.org/
It's right on the front page.
--
Carl D Cravens (raven@phoenyx.net)
Hey, you work at McDonalds, you can afford it!
Gail Phillips on sat 15 jan 05
Bonnie -
The Weather Channel offers a service like WeatherBug, but without all the popups and B.S.
If you load the Google Toolbar, there is a very good popup stopper in it. Go to Google, and look for their downloads. Click on About Google, then Google Services and Tools. It can be found there. Norton Personal Firewall stops that junk, too.
- Gail Phillips
-------------- Original message from bonnie staffel : --------------
I had Weatherbug, a free one as well, and got rid of that last
> week. Now I only get four or five pop ups a session on my computer and
> trying to find the source.
bonnie staffel on sun 16 jan 05
Thank you, Gail for the information. Lynne Kelley sent me information about
Spybot and a Registry program. Installed them and have had only one pop up
tonight since that installation. If I purchased Weatherbug, it probably
would not have pop ups, but the free one does. I purchased AVG even though
they have a free program. Felt that I would wipe out as many possibilities
as it was getting very tiresome for them to cause me problems. I now get my
weather from MSN home page as it is set for our area. I will be sure to let
you all know if I have any other problems. Wonderful to have you out there
so savvy with the answers.
Regards,
Bonnie Staffel
http://webpages.charter.net/bstaffel/
http://vasefinder.com/bstaffelgallery1.html
Charter Member Potters Council
Gail Phillips on mon 17 jan 05
Bonnie -
I thought of something else - are you running Windows XP? If you are, there is a Service in it you need to disable, and stop. Click on Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, then Administrative Tools. Double-click Services. Look for Messenger in the list. Double click it. A window will come up, halfway down is a drop-down selection - choose Disabled if it isn't already. Below that, there are some buttons, and one reads "Stop". Click that. Click OK, then close all of the Services, Administrative Tools and Control Panel windows. It is sometimes the problem, depending on when you got XP - newer versions of it have that already disabled and stopped, but older ones may not.
If you have any other issues, just let me know. Oh, by the way, if you get a popup that covers your whole screen, and you can't get to the X to close it, just hit Ctrl-F4. That will close it.
- Gail
-------------- Original message from bonnie staffel : --------------
> Thank you, Gail for the information. Lynne Kelley sent me information about
> Spybot and a Registry program. Installed them and have had only one pop up
> tonight since that installation. If I purchased Weatherbug, it probably
> would not have pop ups, but the free one does. I purchased AVG even though
> they have a free program. Felt that I would wipe out as many possibilities
> as it was getting very tiresome for them to cause me problems. I now get my
> weather from MSN home page as it is set for our area. I will be sure to let
> you all know if I have any other problems. Wonderful to have you out there
> so savvy with the answers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bonnie Staffel
> http://webpages.charter.net/bstaffel/
> http://vasefinder.com/bstaffelgallery1.html
> Charter Member Potters Council
>
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>
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Sue Beach on mon 17 jan 05
Quoting Gail Phillips :
Gail,
Thanks for posting this to the list. I just discovered this fix last night
after deciding I had HAD it with the pop ups. I started searching on line for
clues based on the "companies" that were popping up. The solution you suggest
below was one I finally found & implemented. No popups so far today.
Sue Beach
> Bonnie -
>
> I thought of something else - are you running Windows XP? If you are, there
> is a Service in it you need to disable, and stop. Click on Start, Control
> Panel, Performance and Maintenance, then Administrative Tools. Double-click
> Services. Look for Messenger in the list. Double click it. A window will come
> up, halfway down is a drop-down selection - choose Disabled if it isn't
> already. Below that, there are some buttons, and one reads "Stop". Click
> that. Click OK, then close all of the Services, Administrative Tools and
> Control Panel windows. It is sometimes the problem, depending on when you got
> XP - newer versions of it have that already disabled and stopped, but older
> ones may not.
>
> If you have any other issues, just let me know. Oh, by the way, if you get a
> popup that covers your whole screen, and you can't get to the X to close it,
> just hit Ctrl-F4. That will close it.
>
> - Gail
>
Gail Phillips on mon 17 jan 05
Sorry I wasn't more timely!
- G.
-------------- Original message from Sue Beach : --------------
> Quoting Gail Phillips :
> Gail,
>
> Thanks for posting this to the list. I just discovered this fix last night
> after deciding I had HAD it with the pop ups. I started searching on line for
> clues based on the "companies" that were popping up. The solution you suggest
> below was one I finally found & implemented. No popups so far today.
>
> Sue Beach
>
>
> > Bonnie -
> >
> > I thought of something else - are you running Windows XP? If you are, there
> > is a Service in it you need to disable, and stop. Click on Start, Control
> > Panel, Performance and Maintenance, then Administrative Tools. Double-click
> > Services. Look for Messenger in the list. Double click it. A window will come
> > up, halfway down is a drop-down selection - choose Disabled if it isn't
> > already. Below that, there are some buttons, and one reads "Stop". Click
> > that. Click OK, then close all of the Services, Administrative Tools and
> > Control Panel windows. It is sometimes the problem, depending on when you got
> > XP - newer versions of it have that already disabled and stopped, but older
> > ones may not.
> >
> > If you have any other issues, just let me know. Oh, by the way, if you get a
> > popup that covers your whole screen, and you can't get to the X to close it,
> > just hit Ctrl-F4. That will close it.
> >
> > - Gail
> >
bonnie staffel on tue 18 jan 05
Dear Gail,
No, I have Windows 98 which is supposedly giving me my grief. Have been
informed by the store that sells printers that 98 is now getting hard to
connect with. New technology wipes out the old, I guess. So am still
waiting for someone in my family to go to Petoskey to pick up a new printer
as the one I just bought isn't working.
Thanks for the information, though. I am thinking about buying a new
computer.
Regards,
Bonnie Staffel
http://webpages.charter.net/bstaffel/
http://vasefinder.com/bstaffelgallery1.html
Charter Member Potters Council
Gary Harvey on tue 18 jan 05
would you like a free word processor, presentation , drawing, spreadsheet,
Html editor and originally was written by a major computer company? goto
www.openoffice.org
I use it a lot and it is marvelous.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arnold Howard"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:13 PM
Subject: free tools for your computer
> Mel, thanks for telling us about Google's desktop search tool awhile ago.
> I
> use that every working day. It has been pure magic for me.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Arnold Howard
> Paragon Industries, L.P., Mesquite, Texas USA
> arnoldhoward@att.net / www.paragonweb.com
>
> From: "mel jacobson"
>> this has come up before, but i want
>> to remind many of you that there is some
>> great freeware out there.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
> You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
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>
> Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
> melpots@pclink.com.
>
Gary Elfring on wed 19 jan 05
bs> Thank you, Gail for the information. Lynne Kelley sent me information about
bs> Spybot and a Registry program. Installed them and have had only one pop up
bs> tonight since that installation.
MicroSoft has a free beta version of their new anti-spyware program
available on their web site. In my tests it works much better than any
of the other free or commercial programs I have tested.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en
--
Best regards,
Gary
Gail Phillips on wed 19 jan 05
but it isn't compatible with Windows 95, 98, or ME.
- Gail
-------------- Original message from Gary Elfring : --------------
> bs> Thank you, Gail for the information. Lynne Kelley sent me information about
> bs> Spybot and a Registry program. Installed them and have had only one pop up
> bs> tonight since that installation.
>
> MicroSoft has a free beta version of their new anti-spyware program
> available on their web site. In my tests it works much better than any
> of the other free or commercial programs I have tested.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd
> -dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Gary
>
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John Rodgers on fri 21 jan 05
Something not mentioned in all these posts regarding Mozilla's Firefox
and Thunderbird - both of which I use - there is a separate stand-alone
backup utility for these two that makes backing up both programs an
absolute snap. It will also back up Netscape 7.x files as well.
It's called MozBackup 1.3.2.
Should be on the Mozilla web site somewhere or do a google search and
you should find it. If you are running Thunderbird and Firfox, don't be
without this utility. I has saved my bacon a couple of times. I now back
up about every ten days now. The back up files are easy to restore as
well. One of my bigest beefs with computers, and the software,
especially browsers and e-mail - is how many times they have crashed,
taking all my mail and address book with it. MozBackup eliminates that.
Additionally. reards IE. Many of the popups that occur are directly
related to IE and what is know as an "Object Helpers". Spy-Bot comes
with a list of known object helper items and if you get Spy-Bot and run
the proram it will set the program to kill or eliminate about - at last
count - 2500 object helpers, and thereby eliminate many popup problems.
I haven't had any popups in ages now.
Can't say enough about SpyBot. It's focus is mostly on unwanted
advertising, not viruses, though one could call unwanted adware a virus
or sorts.
John Rodgers
Chelsea, AL
mel jacobson wrote:
> this has come up before, but i want
> to remind many of you that there is some
> great freeware out there.
>
> i have switched to thunderbird/mozzila for
> my private email account. i am getting used to it,
> and may switch all the eudora over.
>
> i am working on changing to firefox.
>
> here is the website. my isp is asking people
> to switch...interesting.
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
>
>
>
> also they are touting a free anti/virus tool:
>
> http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html
>
>
>
> i think these are worth checking out, and we could
> hear reviews from some of our experts in computers.
>
> From:
> Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S.A.
> web site: my.pclink.com/~melpots
> or try: http://www.pclink.com/melpots
> new/ http://www.rid-a-tick.com
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________
>
> Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
> You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
> settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>
> Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
> melpots@pclink.com.
>
>
Gail Phillips on mon 24 jan 05
Bonnie -
Someone is trying to sell you a line of crapola. Windows 98 is not hard to
connect with, or if it is, it is the first I have heard about it. It is a
pain in the rear sometimes to get stuff to work with it, but that has ALWAYS
been the case. I could probably help you with that printer hookup - are you
getting an error message, or what? What kind of printer is it? What type of
connection does it use?
- Gail
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of bonnie staffel
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:57 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: free tools for your computer
Dear Gail,
No, I have Windows 98 which is supposedly giving me my grief. Have been
informed by the store that sells printers that 98 is now getting hard to
connect with. New technology wipes out the old, I guess. So am still
waiting for someone in my family to go to Petoskey to pick up a new printer
as the one I just bought isn't working.
Thanks for the information, though. I am thinking about buying a new
computer.
Regards,
Bonnie Staffel
http://webpages.charter.net/bstaffel/
http://vasefinder.com/bstaffelgallery1.html
Charter Member Potters Council
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Earl Brunner on mon 24 jan 05
Many new printers come with USB connections and not all Windows 98 machines
work well with or have USB ports. If they do, you often need a driver to
get the machine to recognize the thing being connected to it. They don't
usually plug and play.
Earl Brunner
Las Vegas, NV
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Gail Phillips
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 2:22 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: free tools for your computer
Bonnie -
Someone is trying to sell you a line of crapola. Windows 98 is not hard to
connect with, or if it is, it is the first I have heard about it. It is a
pain in the rear sometimes to get stuff to work with it, but that has ALWAYS
been the case. I could probably help you with that printer hookup - are you
getting an error message, or what? What kind of printer is it? What type of
connection does it use?
- Gail
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of bonnie staffel
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:57 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: free tools for your computer
Dear Gail,
No, I have Windows 98 which is supposedly giving me my grief. Have been
informed by the store that sells printers that 98 is now getting hard to
connect with. New technology wipes out the old, I guess. So am still
waiting for someone in my family to go to Petoskey to pick up a new printer
as the one I just bought isn't working.
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