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RE: Usinf CCleaner
I'm running Paretlogic PC Health Advisior Inc ver 3.1
Glad I didn't get the one with the trojan.
I still have CCleaner I found it just doesn't clean as well
as PC Health I thought it did very well until I tried another
cleaner and found I had been fooling myself.
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pete42
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11/20/11 07:20pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Usinf CCleaner
I too have been using CCleaner when I ran registry cleaner it didn't find anything but my computer was running snail slow.
I downloaded pc health ran it and it found over 800 items in my registry after reading and removing them computer runs very fast now I still use CCleaner but also Pc health.
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pete42
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11/19/11 09:17pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Blue Screen of Death Caused by Unusual Circumstance
In the past when I first turned on my laptop It would sometimes display a blue screen.
I ran a registry cleaner and found over 800 items that I could remove computer now loads and runs faster than it has in a long time and no blue screen on start up.
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pete42
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11/19/11 08:46pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: MiFi upgrade
Jim if you plan on keeping the MIFI you have now
why not upgrade get one that will work when 4G comes to your neck of the woods.
You will have the latest and greatest plus $120 a year cheaper.
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pete42
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11/19/11 08:33pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Just what is an "APP"?
Your brother may need a lesson in internet searching too, like on google or bing.
Terms like APP (App) can easily be found and explained using those search engines. In fact, just about anything can be found and explained online.
Sure, it's nice to have the comraderie of this board and the personalized response, but the internet is such a vast wealth of information - with a bit of practice. I think many people just don't realize what's in that computer of theirs.
Here's the wikipedia article: App software
nope never has and never will use google or bing or any other search engine I'm glad you know how to do all those things but to get my brother to do them nope never has and never will.
Heck I'm glad he uses e-mail now if I could just get him to run his security updates I would be one happy brother.
again thanks to all for your answers yes we do have comraderie on this board arn't we lucky?
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pete42
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09/21/11 09:18pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Ad Aware
When I ran new version of ad-aware it took 4 yep 4 hours to run I tried to run ccleaner to remove anything not needed ran a virus check then did a defrag started defrag went to bed got up after 8 hours still running.
uninstalled ad-aware downloaded malwarebytes from cnet site.
again using cnet.com I read which registry cleaner they liked
I bought "Paretologic PC Health Advisor" for $29 ran it and it found over 800 things in my registry that when removed made my computer run like new lot's of speed now.
BUT isn't there always a BUT when I bought Paretologic I also bought xoftspySE a anti virus for $10 and signed up for recurring yearly payments.
I had to stop the recurring yearly payments, I kept the xoftspySE.
I'm sure buying it and the recurring payments are listed somewhere in the fine print but I over looked my fault.
now computer runs fine.........
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pete42
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09/21/11 09:05pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: I.C.E.
good advice for us all.
I too have ICE programed into my phone
just last week My GF called her home and when she saw ICE and her mothers name
she about freaked out she didn't know I had programmed it that way I added mine to her ICE number also
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pete42
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09/21/11 08:47pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Battery Corrosion
I use the red and green felt washers. Absolutely zero corrosion and the washers cost about $1.00 a package for one of each.
X2 plus I place a penny on the battery as sacrificial metal
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pete42
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09/21/11 08:43pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Leaving the power cord coiled up
http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/electric_power_generation.html
"If you wrap a three-phase power cord into a coil and allow it to deliver power to equipment, will the coil develop magnetic fields and, as a consequence exhibit both an inductive reactance and a voltage drop? -- JH
If any current reaching the equipment through the three-phase power cord returns through that same power cord, then the net current in the cord is always exactly zero. Despite the complicated voltage and current relationships between the three power wires, one simple fact remains: the equipment can't store electric charge. As a result, any current that flows toward the equipment must be balanced by a current flowing away from the equipment, and if both flows are in the same power cord, they'll cancel perfectly. Since there is no net current flowing through the power cord, it develops no magnetic field and exhibits no inductive reactance or voltage drop."
http://www.blockemf.com/catalog/articles.php?tPath=8
"Any wire that carries an AC electrical current produces magnetic fields. However, two wires are required to carry power to an appliance, and if the two wires are bundled parallel and very close together, the magnetic field from one will exactly cancel the field from the other. Thus, an extension cord rarely produces much magnetic field"
http://www.usinspect.com/resources-for-you/house-facts/environmental-concerns-home/electromagnetic-fields
"In a properly wired system all current passing through a wire returns via a nearby wire. Magnetic Fields cancel"
Knob-and-Tube wiring uses supply and return wiring that are separated by 6 to 16 inches, depending on travel direction relative to installed structural lumber.This separation causes the greatest residential availability of Magnetic and Electric fields.
"In contrast, the inherent cancellation of magnetic fields when wires are brought close to each other occurs because the magnetic fields associated with the supply and return currents are identical and flowing in opposite directions. The two are balanced."
There is no induction from a coiled power cord!
How does a solenoid work if it doesn't have induction?
how does a transformer work if it doesn't have induction?
is that not a coiled power cord?
I have been camping since the 1960's I have never come upon
a condition that was caused by a coiled power cord.
if you think it can cause a problem then by all means stretch it out.
If you don't think it can cause a problem then by all means don't stretch it out.
or someone could do an experment and get back to us, where's myth-busters when you need them.
pete
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pete42
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09/21/11 08:35pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: turn signal / brake light
Forgot to post back.... We tore the harness out from the rear end as it had been severely hacked. someone had put in some sort of relay switch box and had wired it wrong at that. Once that was all removed we wired back to factory and everything worked fine again..... I can not imagine what those bozos were trying to do when they conjured up that idea
truck wiring or trailers wiring?
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pete42
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09/21/11 08:24pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Why don't I see more electric bug zappers while camping?
Noise Noise Noise Noise Noise Noise Noise Noise Noise did I mention the Noise.
we camp for peace and quite not some darn bug zapper.
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pete42
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09/20/11 04:01pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Leaving the power cord coiled up
I would think that most of us during our school days have taken a length of wire wrapped it around a nail attached the two loose ends to a battery and created an electromagnet. remove the nail and the wire would become very hot and possibly melt in two.
a coil of electrical wire ie: power cord does the same only the induction of the AC cutting through the coils causes heat to much heat can melt a cord.
think how an iron induction furnace works the coil is energized the metal being liquid moves through the coil picking up heat keeping the metal liquid turn the electric on and off and you can get the metal so hot you can melt new solid ingots placed into the furnace.
A powercord wrapped around a metal spool would make the lines of flux travel in the north south direction while a coil of powercord without the metal in the center would heat up and could if allowed to get to hot could start a fire.
Norm the proper size has nothing to do with it stretch it out and it would be ok coil it and it could cause a fire for the reasons I stated, induction.
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pete42
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09/20/11 03:43pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: What is it with this whole "tote" thing for holding tanks?
Obviously, you don't need or want one, so you probably shouldn't buy one.
yea like he said ................:h
why complain about something that doesn't concern you.
but I will admit it has started a long list of answers :D
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pete42
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09/09/11 10:35pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: RV Wholesalers
I live in Ohio not to far from RVW this post sounds like a lot others they have posted notice it is a new member.
If I'm wrong I apologize if not here we go again.
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pete42
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09/06/11 06:28pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Cold weather camping and condensation
not unique to your trailer our breath puts out lots of mositure which shows up in cold weather when running a heater as you found out.
to combat the problem we always opened a vent or a window sounds wrong but it helps doesn't stop the problem but helps.
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pete42
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09/06/11 06:14pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Nitrogen in the tires
I hold a commercial pilot's license and worked on airplanes during my younger years doing repairs.
we always used nitrogen in plane tires because compressed air has water in it which can and does freeze at the altitudes we flew.
when landing the frozen water can cause a tire to be unbalanced very bad when running down a runway at 150 knots.
my private plane which isn't flown much over 5 or 6 thousand feet and I land on grass runways unbalanced tires are not as bad as when landing on concret.
so if you want to keep the water out of your tires use nitrogen otherwise use compressed air.
pete
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pete42
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09/06/11 06:08pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Stove Burner To Warm Up Cabin - Good Idea?
so put a tea-kettle of water on stove see how that works.
or use a clay flower pot over the low flame it heats up and puts out heat after stove is off works well.
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pete42
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09/06/11 06:35am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Ham Radio Emergency communications
I belong to XWARN a local ham radio club that was started after our tornado in 1974 in Xenia Ohio.
So much of the police radio communication was down and fire, police, hospital people could not get in touch with each other.
we now have a communication trailer set up in a cargo trailer and we have radios in most fire and police stations in several surrounding towns
In the past we found the police and fire used different radios and could not even talk to each other that has been changed.
pete KB8EMD
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pete42
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09/01/11 04:43pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Spell Check
And if you use Internet Explorer you might try ieSpell. However I seem to recall reading something about it may not work with IE 9. (snip)
I use iespell it works with IE9 very well.
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pete42
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09/01/11 04:35pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: rid x in black water tank
strange, my septic tank has worked just fine for 35 years and I have never added Rid X to it.
bumpy
My uncles reply when I said his septic tank may needed pumped after 40 years was "they never need cleaned" the next year when I visited he had it pumped a week before I arrived.
he was 96 so I never said "I told you so" altho I felt like it.
Bumpy I too never added anything to mine but every 20 years I had the solids removed, I don't think mine was installed correctly the solids would enter the tank's first chamber with such force that it would hit the other side and after years and years of this it would bridge and plug the inlet I'm talking a 18, 20 inch gap.
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pete42
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09/01/11 04:29pm |
General RVing Issues
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