Tech Support

Things been pretty good. ..Anytime go into the music thread, have big time issues. Want to watch a video. Computer rattles away, can't do anything (freezes)...When am able to check task manager : "plug in container.exe" is chewing up the numbers like Firefox. But there is no video or sound ...something something "shockwave" do you want to continue? (not sure, should have written it down, it will happen again and will be ready)

 

I know what you did! This usually happens with shockwave at porn sites with a lot of heavy duty action. The processor gets overheated from excitement.

Seriously now. Some components of firefox used to cause problems a couple of years ago with high cpu usage, especially shockwave. You don't need it anymore so get rid of all plug-ins in firefox. It is self-sufficient now. You even don't need Adobe reader because firefox itself can read pdf files.

 

If it's asking you to "continue", it is probably an "unresponsive script" error.
Go ahead and disable any Shockwave plug-ins that are active.

 

Thank you gentlemen.

 

Earlier, the proprietary but freely available Adobe Flash Player was widely addopted to render video content in an internet browser. Nowadays, all widely used browsers such as Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera implement HTML5 to render video. All best sites with video content including youtube have switched to HTML5. Therefore, flash became obsolete. Of course, you may keep it if you want to be constantly harassed with pointless “updates”.

You can view pdf files directly with your browser. There is no need to use free Adobe products. It is sad to see once proud Adobe smuggling bloatware into their client computers.

 

Eventually was able to get videos to play after deleting all Adobe stuff.
Using firefox. Jumped through a few hoops, was able eventually to get video to play. But now videos are very choppy. For example, a youtube video would play, but will often stop and load...Always ensure video is played at most in 360p.
Glad that no other WW2f users have tech problems.
Cheers to those who answer sos's.
Thanks.

 

You can always go bring up the Command Prompt and use the "ping" command or the "tracert"(Trace route) command to see how well your internet is doing.

Ping command: http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/troubleshooter/ping.html
Tracert: http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/troubleshooter/traceroute.html

 

What's a domain name. Stupid question.
And how do I find mine.

 

Domain name or IP address?

 

The ping link, it says to "enter the word 'ping', then space, then domain name."..don't know my domian name.

 

Ok...You don't use your domain name.

use something like
ping ww2f.com
or
ping cnn.com

 

What is a "widget"?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_widget

 

Damn. Going to have to stop asking questions.
My brain hurts.

 

Never give-up. Solving problems can be fun.

Now, I'll show you an easy way to diagnose your internet connection. Before clicking the link below read this:

Go to: www.testmy.net
Click a button: "Test my speed automatically"
Then click: "Start automatic test"
And finally, click "My results"
You will get your upload and download speeds
Upload speed - higher is better.
Download speed - even much higher better

If your speeds are above 20 for download and 2 for upload, your connection isn't the problem. Then your problem is elsewhere.

 

Hopefully this is the right place to ask this, but I have been trying to add a picture onto my signature, but I am having trouble and cannot complete the task. I have tried a couple of different things, but to no avail. My first question is there a way to add a picture from maybe your hard drive to the signature? If not is there something else that I can do? Thank you!

 

Never mind i have figured it out

 

Dangit!