Posts by Nancy Thompson8

Oh man, holy cow!

Since I’ve got a Gmail account, I realized I also have access to store my stuff over at https://onedrive.live.com/.
I went ahead and logged in to move some of my files over there, and I noticed it says "3 GB used of 5 GB"
Now I’m a little stumped because I remember reading somewhere that Google Drive gives you a solid 25 GB for free.

Even though the branding can be a bit of a tongue-twister, Dropbox is actually one of those super popular and incredibly handy cloud services provided by Microsoft. Usually, Microsoft offers a generous 25 GB of free storage to everyone.
Does anyone happen to know why mine is showing something different?

I’m really just trying to figure out which one of these would actually crunch through a video render faster.
From what I can gather, it honestly doesn't make much of a difference which way I go

Eee, man, that’s the million-dollar question that keeps me up at night sometimes! I honestly can't quite wrap my head around which one actually pulls more weight when you're deep in the weeds with video editing—is it better to go all-in on a beefier graphics card, or should I be putting my money toward a more powerful processor?

So, my brother has two laptops he’s looking to part with, and he’s letting me pick whichever one I want!
Since I spend a fair amount of time messing around with video editing (using AVS Video Editor) and tweaking photos (mostly in Adobe Photoshop), I’m feeling a bit torn on which one would actually hold up better for those kinds of tasks, so I’d love to get some input from you guys.
Here’s the breakdown of what we're working with:

Dell Inspiron 15
A dual-core processor running at "1.70 GHz"
4 GB of memory
Nvidia GeForce 840M graphics
You can find all the other technical details over at http://www.acer.com/ac/hr/HR/content/model/NX.GACEX.010

Dell Inspiron 17
Processor: 2.3 GHz Mobile DualCore Intel Pentium T4500
Hard drive: 320 GB - General Electric
RAM: 4 GB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce G210M
The rest of the specs are listed here: https://www.amazon.de/Acer-Aspire-77.../dp/B002V10W1S

So, I ended up downloading three whole MP3 albums from YouTube—about 40 tracks in total—but the headache is that they’re all lumped together into one massive, single file.
If my memory serves me right, way back in the day, I used to use this specific little tool that would automatically slice everything up into individual songs just by detecting the silence between the tracks, but for the life of me, I can't recall the name of it.
Does anyone out there happen to know which program that was or have a good recommendation?

I find myself having to convert video files—usually MP4 or MKV stuff—into AVI more often than I’d like just so my TV can actually play them, and honestly, I'm a little stumped by something here.
My conversion software shows three specific formats that my TV is supposedly compatible with: AVI, DivX, and Xvid.
I was wondering if anyone could walk me through what the actual deal is with these different formats, because when I'm sitting on my couch watching, I really can't tell any difference in picture quality on the screen.
The only thing that stands out to me is that whenever I try converting to Xvid, it feels like it takes twice as long to finish the job compared to the others.

It's working now, thanks!

So, I just picked up a Dell Inspiron 17 that’s rocking a 64-bit processor, and I went ahead and got Windows 7 (64-bit) all set up on it. Everything seemed to be cruising along smoothly until I hit the driver stage, so I headed over to this site http://www.dell.com/support/drivers to grab the wireless driver, which installed without a single hiccup. Then, I figured I’d tackle the graphics drivers next, so I downloaded these three from the same spot
VGA Intel VGA Driver
VGA NVIDIA VGA Driver
VGA NVIDIA VGA Driver VGA Driver for PhysX

But here’s where the road gets a little bumpy—as soon as I try to kick off the installation, I get slapped with this error message: “This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software. Setup will exit.”
It's like the installer is looking at my machine and just shaking its head! Does anyone have any tips or tricks on how I can actually get these graphics drivers installed?

So, I was just scrolling through eBay the other day and stumbled upon these digital TV tuners that supposedly plug right into your phone so you can watch live broadcasts on the go.
Has anyone actually played around with this kind of gear? I'm dying to know if they actually work as advertised, because honestly, I’d really rather not go throwing my money away on some random gadget that ends up being a total dud.

It’s still showing me an old phone I don't even own anymore, like some digital ghost haunting my account.

My laptop seems to be stuck in this weird loop where it’s constantly plugged into the wall, and even though it keeps insisting the battery is sitting at a perfectly full 100%, I haven't actually had the chance to unplug it from the power source and see if it can actually run on its own juice yet.

Oh man, look at what I just stumbled upon:
WARNING: the battery cannot be identified; this system will be unable to charge this battery
press any key to continue
press f2 times to enter setup
press f12 and any key to enter boot menu

My sister just handed me her old Dell Inspiron 1501, and lately, every single time I try to boot it up, I get stuck looking at this screen shown below, where I have to mash any random key just to get Windows 7 to actually load. Does anyone out there know how I can skip this totally unnecessary extra step?

press any key to continue
press f2 times to enter setup
press f12 and any key to enter boot menu

I’ve been running into this weird hiccup where I try to watch certain videos on a few different sites, and even though I’m pretty sure I’ve got the latest versions of everything installed, it keeps nagging me about needing Java.
Whenever I head over to the addons/plugins section, I end up seeing this
I’m honestly a bit stumped as to why it keeps flagging Java in red like that; clicking through the updates or digging into the "more information" links doesn't seem to actually fix anything or move the needle. Does anyone have any advice on how to get this sorted out so everything runs smoothly?

I went through all the steps, I even made sure that little checkbox for "allow this device to wake the computer" was actually checked, but honestly, it didn't do a thing for me.
Man, it's such a pain because now I can't even rely on sleep mode or hibernation to save my skin; instead, I'm stuck having to completely shut down the whole
PC every single time.

So, I’ve run into this super annoying little glitch where whenever my PC goes into sleep or hibernation mode, the mouse just completely dies on me when I wake it back up, and I end up having to do a full hard restart just to get everything moving again.
Everything was working perfectly fine until about a month ago, so it's definitely a relatively recent headache for me.
Does anyone happen to have an idea what might be causing this kind of behavior?
Windows 7

Does anyone happen to know what this "minidwep - gtk" thing is actually for?
I’ve been sitting here watching this video trying to figure it out, but I can't make heads or tails of any of it since there's absolutely no sound coming through

I am having such a hard time figuring out how to actually grab this video from http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...81753636083179

I’ve already tried messing around with http://keep-tube.com/ and http://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-avi but honestly, nothing is working for me at all.
Does anyone know if there's some kind of "holy grail" universal program out there that can just pull videos from pretty much any site—you know, like YouTube, Google Video, or whatever else might pop up?

So, I’ve been playing around with some tests lately, trying out three different ways to burn those subtitles in
-First off, I just toggled fullscreen
-Then, I tried just the overscan
-And finally, I went with both fullscreen and overscan
I had my subtitle position set right at 350 x 450
But here's the kicker: when I sat down to check everything on my TV (running at 4:3), there wasn't a single bit of difference between those three methods regarding how the subs looked. It was like they were all identical
I'm honestly scratching my head a bit—if they all look the same, what's even the point of having these options?