Software Questions and Answers

[dude456789]

Does anyone know how to make animated pictures such as jpeg or gif? If you do please tell me how.

[Zaranthos]

http://www.desktoppublishing.com/anitools.html
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/web_graphics/article.php/3479881
http://www.gifworks.com/
http://www.webreference.com/dev/gifanim/

[clpalmer]

You have to draw each frame of the animation and then use one of the tools mentioned to glue the frames together into an animation.

[ToneDeafBawb]

A guy I built a computer for foolishly installed microsoft liveone care and his entire system slowed down to a crawl and live onecare won't initalize on bootup like it does on his laptop... he has to go in and manually start it.

From what I've read it's a worthless piece of software that causes more problems than it solves... does anyone have any experience with the problems he seems to be having? I've recomended uninstalling it... but he's already paid for it and really wants to keep it if at all possible.

[ToneDeafBawb]

You have to draw each frame of the animation and then use one of the tools mentioned to glue the frames together into an animation.

Actually most software tweens between frames now... so you can draw a frame and then drawn another frame that has a bit of relative distance from the first and let the software create the inbe"tween" part.

[fatal]

E-mail me at Futureinsomniac@aol.com for A program for alarms on your computer. Someone else wrote most of this I modified it to work a little better a few requests have come in for specific alarm commands I can do this with a script much easier than this type of alarm so if you have a special request or a problem with the program please email me at Futureinsomniac@aol.com

[Pantat]

I am trying to clean up my system and under remove software I see this very long and seemingly redundant list of Java programs  are all of these really neccessary or are some actually redundant.

J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6      119MB
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 7      120 MB
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 9      119 MB
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 10      152 MB
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 11       120 MB

Java (TM) 6 Update 2               137 MB   
Java (TM) 6 Update 3               111 MB
Java (TM) 6 Update 5               114 MB
Java (TM) 6 Update 7               114 MB

Java (TM) 6 SE Runtime Environment 6 Update 1    134 MB

[Zaranthos]

You can remove them all. They're all old versions and when they automatically update they don't remove the old ones.

After you uninstall them all look for the Java folder in C:\Program Files and delete it. Then look for the profile folder(s) for Java and delete them. Located here. C:\Documents and Settings\~Windows User Account Name(s)~\Application Data\Sun (Delete the Sun folder(s)).

Then download the latest Java JRE from http://java.sun.com (currently Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 7) and install it.

Removing the extra Java folders after uninstalling all the Java versions is also a good way to fix problems with Java. So if KoLmafia doesn't work right for someone this is one of the ways to fix it.

[Pantat]

thanks Z

[White Chocolate]

I'm not sure if my problem is Firefox or my system somehow, but when I open Firefox at work, it opens in a couple seconds. when I try to open it at home, it takes about 30-40 seconds to open. I have more Ram, a faster CPU, and just generally a "better" computer. I've run spyware checks, keep up to date on virus scans, etc, but everything takes forever and a half to load (Firefox is by FAR the worst). Anyone have any ideas?

[Zaranthos]

Tools / Add-ons

How many do you have?

[ToneDeafBawb]

Ok I have a question... I'm on a new computer with a fresh install of everything... I installed one game and two illegally downloaded hacked software suites... and now when I boot windows hangs at the splash screen for about 10 seconds and then when it finally finishes booting certain apps will no longer start... they show up in the task monitor as running but that's about it... do you think it's the game I installed? 

[Zaranthos]

I doubt it's the game. What were the other things you installed? Hope you had good anti-virus software running when you were messing with that pirate booty...

[ToneDeafBawb]

I have NOD32... I think it may be Adobe Creative Suite... I would automatically assume it's the problem... but I have other apps that aren't starting as well.

[Zaranthos]

Try this. http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html

You can find out what's running on startup. At least most things will show up. Makes it easier to find problems.

You probably got a virus/trojan/rootkit/spyware/adware or something nasty as a free bonus to your free software. As good as NOD32 is it can't stop everything. It's also possible you just have a software compatibility problem. Adobe loves to add startup junk and so does Microsoft Office. Then there's iTunes, Quicktime, Real Player, Acrobat Reader, Nero, Winzip, and a million other programs that all want to start up junk automatically.