Another computer question
 

Every where i look my old yahoo email address shows up.How can i completely uninstall it?

Have you removed all yahoo software yet?

Yes

Where is 'everywhere?'

Sixto
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It seems to show up in every window that applies to Network.It is in the start menu c:\users\ then my old email address.Network media devices.

When you click on these short cuts do they do anything?

If not then may be a right click and delete will get rid of them...

A RT clk. does not give me the option to delete.

Windows - PITA

How about this

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/296-start-menu-all-programs-add-delete-shortcuts.html

I assume you're now on Windows 7

Some programs are highly invasive.

You may need to use a system restore or (shudder) a re-install.

Sorry.

NO I am sorry a picked vista.

They share a lot.

Often advice on one may be used with the other.

What type (HP, Dell, etc) do you have?

I found my old email address in [Computer] i did a Rt. Clk. and up came the option to delete.So i started to delete the old Address. Holy Sh#$ up came over 3000 folders connected to this file. I clicked on cancel ,but it already removed about 15 files.I had to do a system restore to get back to where i was. When one does not know what he is doing one should leave well enough alone. One day when i can get my grandson who is in collage to sit down and remove VISTA and install Windows 7. It seems at least once a week something goes wrong.
Lost RUN in start menu,Lost hibernate In start menu.Computer goes to sleep and after about 5 or 6 Hrs it shuts down No option the never shut down.Icons after shutdown move all over the desktop. I switched from FF to Chrome but that only made the PC faster it did not fix any of my problems. In my opinion Vista 64bit Sucks.

Windows 7 is the most stable MS, consumer OS that I have used.

If you're going to use a MS product on PC's try to use that.

HP Pavilian

Can't help there. Sorry.

Let your grandson install W7.

I'm not sure why most folks go for the 64-bit OS unless they need the additional RAM.

I have a legal student edition W7 upgrade you can have at cost but your grandson can probably take care of your needs.

How involved is it to remove Vista 64 and install Windows 32? Also I asume I will loose all of me info.

Whether XP or Win 7 the install is quite easy and there are lots who can help.

You'd want to back up everything. One way that folks use (I'm old fashion and copy things to hard-drives) is they use an online back-up service. This will copy everything to a collection of machines. You access your data when you want it.

If your machine was sold with Vista it should handle W7 fine and you should have all of the drivers.

Again I ask why you want to use 64-bit OS? How much RAM is in your machine?

You could install Win 7, all of your drivers, download all of the updates, etc in 3 to 4 hours. But find some youngster to do it and watch and learn. It's no fun to get frustrated halfway through.

This is also good advice.

If you have security concerns you'd want to do the complete (slow) format. And unless your drive has been giving you trouble I would be comfortable doing a 'quick' format. Others here may have a different perspective.

Oh yeah. There are sorts of secure erasure methods. Just not sure most of us need that level. I seldom do so but I don't allow my disks out of my site.

Later.

On my Dell machines the OS only sees 2.75 GB RAM in 32-bit mode, regardless (I believe) of OS.

Are you saying when I do a 32-bit u*ix install I will see more than that?

Are you sure?

OK equivalent page for Vista 64 is here

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/79571-start-menu-shortcuts.html

Easy to try that out

Go burn a copy of Linux on a live CD (won't install unless you ask it too!) and see what it says.

I own high-end Dell servers ($10K new) they support PAE. I still never see more than 2.75 GB in any MS 32-bit OS, regardless of video.

But I run 64-bit and use 8 to 16 GB RAM. I had not noticed what was available when I installed Mandriva 32-bit. I'll try it, or maybe I'll just try a live 32-bit ubuntu and see what is available.

I'll let you know what I find.

What i don't understand about transferring files to an external USB disk drive is,will all of the bad crap come with it? BTW: You all know me very well. I will NOT attempt to do this. I might just buy a new 32Bit os tower and start over.Even if my son or grandson does this,with my luck it will some how go bad.

That sounds like a good plan. Thanks all of you guys for all of your help.

to army, matt & everyone else

Dell Precison Workstation 670

dual Xeon, 4 physical cores, 8 virtual cores

16 GB RAM, ECC, registered

6 year-old very high-end machine

Run Ubuntu Live - system reports 2.7 GB

That's all any 32-bit OS recognizes

I have tried many, many, many

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I await your response

:)

Don't buy a new machine - unless $$$ is no problem

This is child's play

Just cause you can't do it (which is no big deal) doesn't mean it should be seen as a big deal

Where do you live

Talk to somebody and have their jr high kid come over and help

ask for help at your church, community group, on craigslist, etc

I just bought 3 high speed 2 GB for $80 each. Made a nice RAID 5 using an areca card.

At least I didn't tell stories about my days at IBM when the tech walked in with a big smile on his face, dressed in his full-body jump suit with bunny slippers on, holding the cylindrical plastic carousel containing 3 aluminum 16" blanks and say, "We've got 1 MB of data here!"

Yep, I hit the wrong key.

So if linux was properly setup how much of the RAM would the 32-bit OS see? All of it?

Well I'll be. I did not know that.

I've been drinking the kool-aid.

So all of these magazine articles stating, "...the address limitation of a 32-bit header restricts ...." is hooey.

Thanks for sharing.

I suspect I can get my hands on a copy for playing with.

I ran across a copy I can look at.

I don't have any reason use one for commercial needs.

It's just my mind trying to keep on top of stuff.

Adieu.

Windows XP x86, with PAE enabled is still only going to be able to see 4GB of ram anyways. Im not sure about Vista but I believe PAE is enabled by default on Vista yet people still have problems with the OS being able to utilize the extra RAM, as well as having some conflicts with their hardware (video card/sound card, probably driver related) so it is not without its problems.



For most users you don't need over 4GB anyways...I bet most would be bottlenecked by their CPUs before they would by RAM. Heck I do a lot of gaming and 4 is plenty for the resolutions I work with.

I run win 7 (64-bit), either 4 or 8 virtual desktops, a vnc session, either one or two virtualized (vmware) OS (ie XP and ubuntu), half-a-dozen browsers, and a word document simultaneously,

The total RAM usage is under 6 GB, usually closer to 4 GB.

I've never come close to being RAM 'bottle-necked', though I'm sure some applications will.

I appreciate learning.

Loaded MS Server 2003 (32-bit).

It saw 8 GB RAM.

Live and learn.

Just for giggles? Your win7 x64 should see 8gb too.

Well sure. That's the easy one. :):):)

I just installed win 2003 server (32-bit)

The darn thing sees 8 GB.