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No problem.

DAWOOD, welcome to the forum. we have members from the UK here. I'm sure one of them will come along and give you help. Just a suggestion turn the Capps off it is considered yell over the internet. It might look cool to you but others resent it.

stun23, welcome to the forum and we do hope you do have a good time here.

This is a sticky from AVG forum.

I get the same thing with my modem and I have Insightbb, its normal so don't worry about it unless your speed is down. With sharing 3 computers and a xbox 360 to a router I imagine you got some kind of slow down!

If the address to the business is say 122 tell them you need service at 122 1/2, that should work!

A little faster this morning. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 10215 Kbps about 10.2 Mbps (tested with 12280 kB) Download Speed is:: 1247 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/08 - 7:28am Bottom Line:: 178X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.82 sec Tested from a 12280 kB file and took 9.848 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 69.18 % faster than the average for host (insightbb.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-HFLOUNMI2 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 [!]

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 10037 Kbps about 10 Mbps (tested with 12280 kB) Download Speed is:: 1225 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/07 - 9:36pm Bottom Line:: 175X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.84 sec Tested from a 12280 kB file and took 10.023 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 66.26 % faster than the average for host (insightbb.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-E6037J9L8 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 [!]

:::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 937 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Upload Speed is:: 114 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/07 - 5:47pm Bottom Line:: 16X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 8.98 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 26.144 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 37.59 % faster than the average for host (insightbb.com) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-E1NL3SFI8 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 [!]

gabefauver, welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy your time here.

Hey Tim! How you getting that? How you been doing?

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spoonhead, W3lcome to the forum hope you enjoy your stay here. I'm sure there are plenty of SmartBro members here to give you a hand. Just post your question and you will get help.

I have changed to Vista. I don't use the desk top with XP anymore! Vista seems smoother and faster than XP. For what I do 2gigs of memory is plenty. I have a copy of the Windows 7 beta and I'm going to mount it on VirtualPC to see how it is.

You need to buy a can of Compressed Air and blow it out once and a while!

You better know someone to get a key to open it and activate it!

The Sack Lunches I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight. 'I'm glad I have a good book to read. Perhaps I'll get a short nap,' I thought. Just before take-off, a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all the vacant seats, totally surrounding me. I decided to start a conversation. 'Where are you headed?' I asked the soldier seated nearest to me. 'Chicago - to Great Lakes Base. We'll be there for two weeks for special training, and then we're being deployed to Iraq ' After flying for about an hour, an announcement was made that sack lunches were available for five dollars. It would be several hours before we reached Chicago, and I quickly decided a lunch would help pass the time. As I reached for my wallet, I overheard soldier ask his buddy if he planned to buy lunch. 'No, that seems like a lot of money for just a sack lunch. Probably wouldn't be worth five bucks. I'll wait till we get to Chicago.' His friend agreed. I looked around at the other soldiers. None were buying lunch. I walked to the back of the plane and handed the flight attendant a fifty dollar bill. 'Take a lunch to all those soldiers.' She grabbed my arms and squeezed tightly. Her eyes wet with tears, she thanked me. 'My son was a soldier in Iraq; it's almost like you are doing it for him.' Picking up ten sacks, she headed up the aisle to where the soldiers were seated. She stopped at my seat and asked, 'Which do you like best - beef or chicken?' 'Chicken,' I replied, wondering why she asked. She turned and went to the front of plane, returning a minute later with a dinner plate from first class. 'This is your thanks.' After we finished eating, I went again to the back of the plane, heading for the rest room. A man stopped me. 'I saw what you did. I want to be part of it. Here, take this.' He handed me twenty-five dollars. Soon after I returned to my seat, I saw the Flight Captain coming down the aisle, looking at the aisle numbers as he walked. I hoped he was not looking for me, but noticed he was looking at the numbers only on my side of the plane. When he got to my row he stopped, smiled, held out his hand, and said, 'I want to shake your hand.' Quickly unfastening my seatbelt I stood and took the Captain's hand. With a booming voice he said, 'I was a soldier and I was a military pilot. Once, someone bought me a lunch. It was an act of kindness I never forgot.' I was embarrassed when applause was heard from all of the other passengers. Later I walked to the front of the plane so I could stretch my legs. A man who was seated about six rows in front of me reached out his hand, wanting to shake mine. He left another twenty-five dollars in my palm. When we landed in Chicago I gathered my belongings and started to deplane. Waiting just inside the airplane door was a man who stopped me, put something in my shirt pocket, turned, and walked away without saying a word. Another twenty-five dollars! Upon entering the terminal, I saw the soldiers gathering for their trip to the base. I walked over to them and handed them seventy-five dollars. 'It will take you some time to reach the base. It will be about time for a sandwich. God Bless You.' Ten young men left that flight feeling the love and respect of their fellow travelers. As I walked briskly to my car, I whispered a prayer for their safe return. These soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals. It seemed so little... A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' That is honor and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. But for those who do, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

You Eisenstein!

Thank you! Changed the string value and did the Media Center set up! I just upgraded to Vista Ultimate and the only real difference I see is it takes longer to boot up. It has some benefits but not enough to change from Vista Premium. Just thought I'd throw that in for the hell of it.

Sequoia, I just used dvd shrink in case it was to big. I really didn't need dvd shrink except to hear if it had audio before burning! The AVI file was 1.8 gig and ended around 3.4 gig after conversion!

Amen!

I just used DVD Flick to convert AVI to DVD and it worked good. Took about an hour to do then dvd shrink.

Have you run a virus and anti-spyware scan yet?

I tried to find something in Highlight Mag. so you could understand better!