Originally posted by sammorris:

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The best way I can think of is to use another browser like Chrome. It's hardly stable, but unlike Firefox, it's predictable. There are certain things I know don't work, but none that come out of the blue.

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Firefox has been loads better than Internet explorer for me. Though I.E. 8 works fairly well on Windows 7. I dont know how it performs on XP anymore. I tried the beta a while back, and it was REALLY BAD!!! In fact it effected Dvd shrinks capabilities LOL!

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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im liking the firefox 3.5 so far.

you can drag tabs into new windows, and windows into tabs.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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On the contrary, Chrome is if anything too simple. It hides all the little options from view, leaving a clean, simple interface. it was odd to start with, but within a day or two i got used to it. Now I prefer it over the others. No useless toolbars, no piles of menus, the address bar is integrated with google search - type it, press enter and it googles!
Agreed on LBT, I didn't watch very much of it, but Diversity were one of the (precious few) genuinely talented acts imo. I think I probably would have voted Flawless instead though :P

Also, did you actually say Microsoft should stop allowing certain developers to make software for their OSes? If they could, they would. DO NOT WANT! lol

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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i also thought his hdd might be going south on him i have it in my system now.

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Originally posted by sytyguy:

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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i also thought his hdd might be going south on him i have it in my system now.

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I wonder if the rundll file got corrupted, if so, replace it with one from your system providing you are on the same release.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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I tend not to see much with Realplayer in it these days because it's been terrible since the very start, but the one thing I always have grief with is flash. It never installs to the right browser, or sometimes to any browser, it's one of the few plugins that won't even install if any browser or multimedia app is still open.

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Originally posted by FredBun:

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Wow, interesting stuff.

Oh oh, Russy got hollered at, nah nah nah nah, kinda makes you feel like back in school huh Russ lol.

Other than that, I think I have a problem, I know I could start a new thread to ask cause this is not about building PC's, but I really would not trust anybody besides the guys here, if I can't find a solution here than if a restore doesn't work than this damn thing is going out the window.

It's not the PC I built that thing runs like a Swiss watch, it's the one I use my HP Pavilion Media Center m7330n, this has happened first a couple of months ago than stopped, 3 days ago it started again but worse this time, when I turn the PC on it does its thing windows comes up trying to load with the horizontal bar loading than it stops dead, than with a manual shut down and try to re-start the black screen comes up saying there was a problem do I want to regular start on the last good configuration or something to that order, I tried both and it went on this morning over and over, after 9 manual shut downs and the black screen thing it finally loaded, sometime I have done it after a couple or several never this much.

I need advise if you guys think it might be the HD ready to take a crap or maybe other issues, I know it can be a thousand things if it's not a HD problem but maybe this might sound familiar to someone, I have tried everything I know, cleaning up with ccleaner, defragging checking my anti spyware program and anti virus nothing, and I haven't downloaded anything lately.

I would hate like hell to do a complete restore and of course not knowing if that would help or not, I have backed up everything just in case that's important, my big problem in backing up is my music, I use WMP I have a lot of saved albums there playlists etc. because I don't understand WMP that well, for some reason when I rip my music half of it auto stores in my documents under my music automatically which I love, and half doesn't, last time I did a restore I spent days re-ripping a lot of my music cause I never notices that half was not saved in my music folder, I can't figure out how to send my albums over when it doesn't do automatically, yes I tried googling it and can't find an answer, if it wasn't for that I wouldn't mind the restore so much. Enough of my bitching.

Anyway, any ideas on my starting problem, please and thank you.

Oh, before I go, the wife just approched me, I know this will sound goofy, but she said about 4.30 this morning she was up, she noticed my monitor lid up, a blue screen she said it had some small writing on it than shut off, now I turned my PC off last night before I went to bed, I have never heard of such a thing, she has been drinking we had friends over last night, she wasn't smashed but had a nice buzz, I said she must have been seeing things, I got wacked upside my head, she said she saw it, I don't know about all that, if she smoked something and she did imagine it I want some of that.

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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I hate Real Player, but it's necessary if you want to download YouTube videos. I've yet to find anything else that works as well. That's why I signed up for YouTube, because my friend's wife told me that I would be able to download the videos from it! Not! All it does is send the URL if you send it to another email address. If there's actually a way to save the video, it's sure well hidden! LOL!! Some times I use SoundTap to just record the audio. The problem with it is there is no way to control the volume to minimize distortion if the audio is overloaded, so sometimes the sound is worse than the original.

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