Comments on: IE7, Quick Guide to What’s New With Internet Explorer 7 and Handy Shortcuts http://mustech.net/2006/10/21/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts *** A Symphony of Music Education, and Technology! Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:39:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: IE7,QuickGuide... http://mustech.net/2006/10/21/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts#comment-60 IE7,QuickGuide... Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:29:22 +0000 http://www.mustech.net/2006/10/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts/#comment-60 <p>[...] http://www.mustech.net/2006/10/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7- and-handy-shor... [...]</p> [...] http://www.mustech.net/2006/10/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7- and-handy-shor… [...]

]]> By: Susan Scharfman http://mustech.net/2006/10/21/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts#comment-59 Susan Scharfman Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:53:45 +0000 http://www.mustech.net/2006/10/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts/#comment-59 Dear Joseph: Your article is fascinating, especially for a non-tech savvy writer like me. I work with a MAC and use Firefox. Does that exclude me? Thanks, susan Dear Joseph: Your article is fascinating, especially for a non-tech savvy writer like me. I work with a MAC and use Firefox. Does that exclude me?

Thanks, susan

]]> By: pisanojm http://mustech.net/2006/10/21/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts#comment-58 pisanojm Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:31:01 +0000 http://www.mustech.net/2006/10/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts/#comment-58 Daniel, Hello and thanks for writing. A couple of quick points to consider with Windows' Vista: You need to have a fairly new computer to run it. Because it is new, it may have a few kinks... you might want to wait a little and see how it goes...or until the first major service pack is released. Personally, I am upgrading as soon as possible so I can work though the "bugs" as I see them. Unless you are very techincal with computers, I would wait awhile before upgrading. I used to be a fan of Norton's Anti-virus, I no longer am. Their software is large and resource intensive... and quirky. -Especially their complete "network security" solution. For my buck, I would check out the http://grisoft.com site and download there Freeware Anti virus edition... and get my buck back! It's free and it works great! If your hard drive is always running, I would bet that you have too many things "starting up" and you are into your virtual memory. Look at the lower right corner of your desktop and see how many icons you have in the system tray. If they are starting to make it to the middle point of your screen you have way to many. Usually you can right click on them and there will be an option to discontinue them. And you can always defrag... Open up your "computer" icon. Right Click on the C: drive and choose "properties". Then click on the tool tab and push the "deframent now" button. That being said you may also have spy-ware all over your computer, which tends to also be a resource hog. If you download spybot from here http://www.safer-networking.org/ and run it and "fix" the problems it finds... that may also solve your problems. Spybot also has a pretty good "startup" checker in the advanced options so you can see what software is starting as you boot and can choose what to allow and what not to allow. There are many other ways to do these things as well such as using the msconfig utility and, of course, you could always upgrade your memory. As far as the Vincent Lopez method series, you can try to contact Christopher Popa at http://www.bigbandlibrary.com. I know he has it in his collection and may be able to further advise you. I am working on my next large article "Windows XP Tips you wish you knew..." which will include ways to deal with some of the very things you mentioned above. Good luck and spread the word about the site, again, I appreciate you taking the time to write. Joe Daniel,

Hello and thanks for writing.

A couple of quick points to consider with Windows’ Vista:
You need to have a fairly new computer to run it.
Because it is new, it may have a few kinks… you might want to wait a little and see how it goes…or until the first major service pack is released.

Personally, I am upgrading as soon as possible so I can work though the “bugs” as I see them. Unless you are very techincal with computers, I would wait awhile before upgrading.

I used to be a fan of Norton’s Anti-virus, I no longer am. Their software is large and resource intensive… and quirky. -Especially their complete “network security” solution. For my buck, I would check out the http://grisoft.com site and download there Freeware Anti virus edition… and get my buck back! It’s free and it works great!

If your hard drive is always running, I would bet that you have too many things “starting up” and you are into your virtual memory. Look at the lower right corner of your desktop and see how many icons you have in the system tray. If they are starting to make it to the middle point of your screen you have way to many. Usually you can right click on them and there will be an option to discontinue them. And you can always defrag… Open up your “computer” icon. Right Click on the C: drive and choose “properties”. Then click on the tool tab and push the “deframent now” button.

That being said you may also have spy-ware all over your computer, which tends to also be a resource hog. If you download spybot from here http://www.safer-networking.org/ and run it and “fix” the problems it finds… that may also solve your problems.

Spybot also has a pretty good “startup” checker in the advanced options so you can see what software is starting as you boot and can choose what to allow and what not to allow.

There are many other ways to do these things as well such as using the msconfig utility and, of course, you could always upgrade your memory.

As far as the Vincent Lopez method series, you can try to contact Christopher Popa at http://www.bigbandlibrary.com. I know he has it in his collection and may be able to further advise you.

I am working on my next large article “Windows XP Tips you wish you knew…” which will include ways to deal with some of the very things you mentioned above.

Good luck and spread the word about the site, again, I appreciate you taking the time to write.

Joe

]]> By: Daniel Kirksey Hall http://mustech.net/2006/10/21/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts#comment-57 Daniel Kirksey Hall Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:01:08 +0000 http://www.mustech.net/2006/10/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts/#comment-57 I wrote a brief note above - clergy talk. Maybe you can get it to go on through to you. Daniel Kirksey Hall, D.Min. I wrote a brief note above - clergy talk. Maybe you can get it
to go on through to you. Daniel Kirksey Hall, D.Min.

]]> By: Daniel Kirksey Hall http://mustech.net/2006/10/21/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts#comment-56 Daniel Kirksey Hall Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:58:49 +0000 http://www.mustech.net/2006/10/ie7-quick-guide-to-whats-new-with-internet-explorer-7-and-handy-shortcuts/#comment-56 I have read your fine article early Tuesday morning. It is quite readable. I am 80 years old, a retired Baptist, army chaplain, and spend a lot of time reading articles and forwarding some of them to interested friends by way of Road Runner and my HP Laser 4 Jet Printer which has put out over 65,000 pages. It may be slow, but it has been a workhorse. Question: If you were in my shoes, would you think about changing from XP Home Edition? I also use Norton antivirus. I should add that my CPU runs all the time. There are two views about this in Fayetteville, NC. Yours? Since you are in the music field, maybe you can help me locate Vol 1 of Vincent Lopez piano instruction book. I have Vols 2,3,4. I have tried and tried, but no luck. If you find it, I will buy it. I do enjoy reading the articles every week. Yours was very clear. Do you think I would need anything in an upgrade or change? Yes, I was an English major at Wake Forest and I know how to write, but this morning I just kept going. I have several friends who also do this. Gratefully, Daniel Kirksey Hall, D.Min. I have read your fine article early Tuesday morning. It is quite
readable. I am 80 years old, a retired Baptist, army chaplain,
and spend a lot of time reading articles and forwarding some of
them to interested friends by way of Road Runner and my HP Laser
4 Jet Printer which has put out over 65,000 pages. It may be
slow, but it has been a workhorse. Question: If you were in my
shoes, would you think about changing from XP Home Edition? I also
use Norton antivirus. I should add that my CPU runs all the time.
There are two views about this in Fayetteville, NC. Yours?
Since you are in the music field, maybe you can help me locate
Vol 1 of Vincent Lopez piano instruction book. I have Vols 2,3,4.
I have tried and tried, but no luck. If you find it, I will buy it. I do enjoy reading the articles every week. Yours was very
clear. Do you think I would need anything in an upgrade or
change? Yes, I was an English major at Wake Forest and I know how to write, but this morning I just kept going. I have several friends who also do this. Gratefully, Daniel Kirksey Hall, D.Min.

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