I'm A Computer Dum Dum

[Melissa]

When it comes to computers, I am not the brightest crayon in the box, but I muddle through it. Well today while surfing through xjtalk, the breaker blew in the house causing my computer to lose power. No big deal, I went and threw the breaker back on and restarted my computer ( this has happened twice before ) Now this time however when my computer fired back on, everything is bigger :confused:. I have never seen this before, I mean everything is bigger, my shortcut icons are bigger, the web pages are bigger, the words I am typing are bigger and so on, what would cause this and how can I get everything smaller like it used to be. Now I don't mind bigger, but I have to scroll left to right to read everything and I don't like that :pee:

Can someone help the computer dum dum, please :)

[ssj123]

it may have reset your screen resolution. what you should do it right click the mouse and click on properties. this will bring up your display properties. when you are in your display properties go to the tab that says setting and look for where it says screen resolution. the lower that setting is the bigger everything will look. it doesnt really matter what resolution you have it set on its basically personal preference. i keep mine set on 1600x1200 pixels and that seems to work great for me. let me know if that helps you at all!

[warrpath4x4]

Ya we call it "fisher price" settings lol

[Melissa]

it may have reset your screen resolution. what you should do it right click the mouse and click on properties. this will bring up your display properties. when you are in your display properties go to the tab that says setting and look for where it says screen resolution. the lower that setting is the bigger everything will look. it doesnt really matter what resolution you have it set on its basically personal preference. i keep mine set on 1600x1200 pixels and that seems to work great for me. let me know if that helps you at all!

That did help

Right now it is set on 800 x 600 pixels, but when I tried to set it to more, all it did was jump to the highest at 1024 x 768 pixels, and that was way to small. It won't let me set it to somewhere in between.




Ya we call it "fisher price" settings lol

:rotfl2: Never heard that before, but I can see why :D

[ssj123]

hmm it doesnt say safe mode anywhere on your screen does it??

[Melissa]

That it doesn't. I did have to run it in safe mode a month ago and reset the computer back to a restore point and run my anti malware sofware because I could not get my compter to do anything. But after I did that and restarted my computer, it has worked great untill I blew the breaker. It still runs great, but everything is just now bigger.

[ssj123]

yea i cant figure out why it wouldnt let you set it anywhere inbetween. if its too big now and the other setting makes everything too small then obviously the old setting was inbetween.... ughh technology these days!!!

[Melissa]

I really do hate technology some days!!

Oh well maybe when I start it up tomorrow, it will magically be back to normal

[Melissa]

Or this can be my excuse to myself, that I need a new computer with a flat screen moniter, yeah.............that sounds good

[ssj123]

haha yea there u go! now the question is mac or pc?? i always liked mac but they are a little rich for my blood so ive learned to live with the headaches that come with owning a pc...

[Melissa]

Those Mac commercials crack me up. I really would like a Mac, but they are also a little too rich for my blood. I've had my Dell pc now for about 7 years, I hate to part with it, but a new computer with a flat screen would be soooo nice, but more than likely I'll just continue on with what I got now and continue to complain about it for at least another year.

[Mudderoy]

A 7 year old PC the top resolution is probably 1024x768. My 20.1" LCD wide screen is 1680 x 1050. 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 will probably be your only choices.

You can set it at 1024x768 (I recommend) and then size your font and icon sizes to your liking. You can change the size of your browser while in IE. If you have a wheel on your mouse you can do CTRL and then spin the wheel up or down to zoom, so to speak.

[Melissa]

What is IE?

[Mudderoy]

What is IE?

Did you hold your mouse over the "IE"? :headshake:

[Melissa]

Holy tar!!....................now that is neat!, did not know you could do that.

While on this page, I held the Ctrl button on the keyboard, then moved the roller on the mouse and everthing got way smaller, then rolled the roller the other direction and everything got much bigger. Is that what you were trying to tell me to do?

Wow, I learn new things everyday.....................so who is going to teach me how to paint my Jeep...................any takers?????? :D

[Mudderoy]

Holy tar!!....................now that is neat!, did not know you could do that.

While on this page, I held the Ctrl button on the keyboard, then moved the roller on the mouse and everthing got way smaller, then rolled the roller the other direction and everything got much bigger. Is that what you were trying to tell me to do?

Wow, I learn new things everyday.....................so who is going to teach me how to paint my Jeep...................any takers?????? :D

I use my mouse wheel, but I am sure there are other ways.

I think Apple makes a nice product but really a MAC is just the same hardware you can buy in a PC running a flavor of UNIX (LINUX?) with the MAC window dressing. So the premium you are paying for is the MAC window dressing and the name. Don't buy into that crap that everyone says that MAC's don't get viruses. People writing the viruses write them for the MOST computers on the planet, and that is Windows.

If you really want to be different, buy a computer with Linux on it. It will do the same thing as the Windows PCs put it will be $100, or so less.

Personally I run Windows. I have Linux on the servers, and I have software that lets me run a LINUX virtual computer on my Windows system. It's free if some of you would like to play with the software. Virtualbox from Sun. They have versions for Linux and MAC as well. That lets you run several operating system while running your host operating system.

BTW, you know dum is spelled dumb right? :smiley-laughing021:

[4.3LXJ]

I'm a Mac guy. They are worth the money. I run windows on mine also for my business. It runs my software without issues three times faster than I can on a PC with constant crunching and printing simultaneously with two 30" monitors out of the box. Great machine

It is also my high def TV for the time being.

[Mudderoy]

I'm a Mac guy. They are worth the money. I run windows on mine also for my business. It runs my software without issues three times faster than I can on a PC with constant crunching and printing simultaneously with two 30" monitors out of the box. Great machine

It is also my high def TV for the time being.

Nothing wrong with liking what you like.

Before I start jumping to conclusions let me ask you a couple of questions.

What processor is your MAC running? What RPM speed is your system disk? Is the system disk a pair, or more, of drives in a RAID configuration? Are they SCSI drives, SATA 2? If in a RAID configuration is it hardware of software RAID?

How much system memory? Is any of the memory set up as a RAM drive?

Your processor (if) INTEL (Motorola is overall slower) doesn't run faster than the same INTEL processor on the Windows box. The operating system doesn't run any faster than LINUX. So the only way your perception of it running 3 times faster must be based on how much I/O it can get to and from memory/storage and CPU. Windows and LINUX systems can be configured the same way with the same performance boost. Most people don't need "server" level performance though. This keeps the Windows boxes cheaper.

[4.3LXJ]

Dual ATA 1 Terabyte hard drives. I don't have the info on RPMS. One set up as back up every 30 minutes, room for two more. 2 Gigs RAM expandable to 32. Dual Intel ESB2 AHCI processors.

The performance boost comes from loading everything into RAM and not using the disk for anything except a storage device. It is not used once it is accessed for anything except saving the file when closing. The operating system and software being used are all in RAM when in use. The processor may be a little slower, but using it off RAM makes it much faster. So when using Windows, it is all in my RAM as well as the software I am using. The perception of operating faster comes in several areas. When actually calculating, the windows cpu will take about one minute to calculate. The mac does it in about 12 seconds. Opening and closing windows before and after are significantly faster. I depend on graphics and run pics I take of house plans on a large screen. I have to be able to read the fine print. I don't have to have separate video cards etc. It comes packaged to run two large monitors with enough resolution to to the job. But the biggest advantage is I no longer loose files I create, have to restart because it locked up when multitasking or have ghost files that don't really exist. It just does what I want without issues. All in all, my productivity is three times what it was. So it was worth every penny and then some from that point of view. And I just don't have the frustration level I had before.

[Mudderoy]

Dual ATA 1 Terabyte hard drives. I don't have the info on RPMS. One set up as back up every 30 minutes, room for two more. 2 Gigs RAM expandable to 32. Dual Intel ESB2 AHCI processors.

The performance boost comes from loading everything into RAM and not using the disk for anything except a storage device. It is not used once it is accessed for anything except saving the file when closing. The operating system and software being used are all in RAM when in use. The processor may be a little slower, but using it off RAM makes it much faster. So when using Windows, it is all in my RAM as well as the software I am using. The perception of operating faster comes in several areas. When actually calculating, the windows cpu will take about one minute to calculate. The mac does it in about 12 seconds. Opening and closing windows before and after are significantly faster. I depend on graphics and run pics I take of house plans on a large screen. I have to be able to read the fine print. I don't have to have separate video cards etc. It comes packaged to run two large monitors with enough resolution to to the job. But the biggest advantage is I no longer loose files I create, have to restart because it locked up when multitasking or have ghost files that don't really exist. It just does what I want without issues. All in all, my productivity is three times what it was. So it was worth every penny and then some from that point of view. And I just don't have the frustration level I had before.

Ahhh great info, thanks. It makes sense now, although 2GB seems a little low for having everything in RAM but that could be the LINUX/UNIX advantage. I haven't read about it recently but I know several years ago the MAC was head and shoulders above everyone else in graphics. I use my WinXP box pretty hard. I monitor the memory usage and if it gets up in the 80%+ used range I start terminating some of the many things I have just sitting there. This may be why my system runs for months at a time and I only reluctantly reboot then because MS has been bitching at me to reboot (updates) my system for a week.

I'll probably go to Win 7 just so I can get a 64 bit operating system and add another 4GB of memory. I like playing with virtual operating systems though. More memory makes it easier to run a virtual machine and leave it up all the time.

Two 30 inch screens, wow. What resolution are you running on those screens? What are you doing spy photo analysis for the CIA? Wait, don't answer that! :smiley-laughing021:

I have two screens also! A 19" 4:3 and a 20.1" 16:10(?) :rotfl2:

[4.3LXJ]

There is one other feature I forgot to mention. It has what is called a backside cache. It is flash memory located so it almost looks like it's part of the processor It is 12 MB and is the part of the RAM actually involved in the calculations. It is also called L2 cache. That is where it also picks up speed.

2560X1600 on the displays

My Windows is a virtual machine with the capability of running others I don't understand.

[Melissa]

BTW Muddy, yes I know dum is spelled dumb, but I was thinging of the suckers I used to eat that were called dum dums, and I thought that fitting, cause I'm a sucker :rotfl2:


My computer is all back to normal this morning, no more scrolling left to right to read :cheerleader:, thanks guys!:)

[Mudderoy]

There is one other feature I forgot to mention. It has what is called a backside cache. It is flash memory located so it almost looks like it's part of the processor It is 12 MB and is the part of the RAM actually involved in the calculations. It is also called L2 cache. That is where it also picks up speed.

2560X1600 on the displays

My Windows is a virtual machine with the capability of running others I don't understand.

I have WinXP Pro as the host OS, the one it boots to. I have Sun's virtualbox which acts like a virtual x86 computer. I can configure it to run as a 32 or 64 bit processor, and I can configure it as a multi-processor if I wish. I have two cores so I can configure the virtual computer with up to two cores.

I start up the virtualbox software and it has it's own memory, processors, hardware (cd/dvd, sound, etc...) It boots it's BIOS. Then I can load up a operating system. All in the comfort from a window on my WinXPPro system.

So I've loaded WinXP, Fedora Core 10. Now I can have a window with LINUX (FC10) running on my WinXP Pro system while I have WinXP Pro running at the same time. Both act as independent computers. Both have access to the Internet, etc...

Right now I am in the process of building the FC10 system so I can verify that the website (xjtalk) runs as it should. After testing I'll know that I can install FC10 on the Linux server and migrate the software and databases to it. I'll also have a good idea how long it will take so I can tell you guys how long xjtalk will be down. :)

[BlueXJ]

My computer friends call it an ID 10 T error.

[ssj123]

Holy tar!!....................now that is neat!, did not know you could do that.

While on this page, I held the Ctrl button on the keyboard, then moved the roller on the mouse and everthing got way smaller, then rolled the roller the other direction and everything got much bigger. Is that what you were trying to tell me to do?

Wow, I learn new things everyday.....................so who is going to teach me how to paint my Jeep...................any takers?????? :D

id help you with the painting but you would have to drive cross country to get to my shop :driving:

[Mudderoy]

id help you with the painting but you would have to drive cross country to get to my shop :driving:

Careful, she'll do it.

[Melissa]

id help you with the painting but you would have to drive cross country to get to my shop :driving:

Thanks ssj123 :thumbsup:, If I could get away form the farm for any length of time, I'd be headed your way.

[DETOURS]

While on this page, I held the Ctrl button on the keyboard, then moved the roller on the mouse and everthing got way smaller, then rolled the roller the other direction and everything got much bigger........

Works great with porn!! :thumbsup:

[Melissa]

While on this page, I held the Ctrl button on the keyboard, then moved the roller on the mouse and everthing got way smaller, then rolled the roller the other direction and everything got much bigger........

Works great with porn!! :thumbsup:

:smiley-laughing021::smiley-laughing021:

I'll have to try that
:rotfl2::rotfl2:

[4.3LXJ]

Hey thanks. It works well on the Mac too.

[DETOURS]

:smiley-laughing021::smiley-laughing021:

I'll have to try that
:rotfl2::rotfl2:

Well only if you feel you need to make that cowboy....errr, larger.......:rotfl2:

[muddeprived]

There's a battery on the motherboard(usually) that stores memory if I remember correctly. Stuff that is saves are date, time, user settings, etc. When this battery dies, the computer solely relies on the electricity from your wall. When the battery dies and you unplug (power outage for instance) the computer then all that memory is lost and the computer resets to default.

I have this issue with my 7 year old gateway. if i unplug it the computer will reset to default and date time are back to 2002. I need a new motherboard battery.....

[Mudderoy]

There's a battery on the motherboard(usually) that stores memory if I remember correctly. Stuff that is saves are date, time, user settings, etc. When this battery dies, the computer solely relies on the electricity from your wall. When the battery dies and you unplug (power outage for instance) the computer then all that memory is lost and the computer resets to default.

I have this issue with my 7 year old gateway. if i unplug it the computer will reset to default and date time are back to 2002. I need a new motherboard battery.....

You can buy those batters for less than $4 at Wal-Mart. Watch area. Usually a CV-232 or something like that. Just read it from the top of the battery on your motherboard. It's a little smaller than a quarter. Comes out easy, so actually just take it with you!