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Thread ID: 75454 2006-12-29 20:33:00 My computer is dying on me Please help dunno (1572) Press F1
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510844 2007-01-03 08:28:00 Thanks Greven, I appreciate that someone has faith in me, I must say I have had some rather odd replies!!!
Ok I gunna d/l all at once
thanx so much for you help you have all been so awesome
you are the champions.
dunno (1572)
510845 2007-01-03 10:31:00 Ok I have d/l 66 updates including Office SP2, but I have just clicked on the little icon in the right hand corner saying that I have new updates and Windows Service Pack 2 is in there at between 75-266mb, also in there is Realteck AC 97 Audio, what is this???.
After all this am I going to have any room on my computer to do anything??? LOL
dunno (1572)
510846 2007-01-03 10:39:00 Ok I have d/l 66 updates including Office SP2, but I have just clicked on the little icon in the right hand corner saying that I have new updates and Windows Service Pack 2 is in there at between 75-266mb, also in there is Realteck AC 97 Audio, what is this???.
After all this am I going to have any room on my computer to do anything??? LOL

The AC97 audio is a driver for your onboard audio. I wouldn't recommend installing it as I've had a lot of trouble with sound drivers off windowsupdate. I didn't realise it automatically downloaded drivers.

You will probably have plenty of room still free. If you want to find out just how much, go into My Computer, right-click on C drive & select properties.
Greven (91)
510847 2007-01-03 22:11:00 NEVER install drivers from the Windows update site.

You'll have probs.

Get the drivers from the CD if u have it, or from the manufacturer's site.

I've never seen it automatically install drivers.

Most probably coz I've got auto updates on notify me but don't download them.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
510848 2007-01-03 23:35:00 The AC97 audio is a driver for your onboard audio. I wouldn't recommend installing it as I've had a lot of trouble with sound drivers off windowsupdate. I didn't realise it automatically downloaded drivers.

You will probably have plenty of room still free. If you want to find out just how much, go into My Computer, right-click on C drive & select properties.

Hi,

I have 11gb of free space, i assume this will be enough
dunno (1572)
510849 2007-01-03 23:42:00 Thats plenty. After the updates have been installed, u can use something like ccleaner (www.ccleaner.com) to get rid of all the temp files, and get some space back. Speedy Gonzales (78)
510850 2007-01-04 00:10:00 Thats plenty. After the updates have been installed, u can use something like ccleaner (www.ccleaner.com) to get rid of all the temp files, and get some space back.

I have a whole lot of things in add/remove programs and I have no idea what they are for, do I need them, they are as follows

NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Display Drivers
PS2
Python 2.2 combinedWin 32 extensions
Python 2.2.1
S3 Display
S3 Gamma 2
S3Info 2
S3 Overlay
Lernout & Hauspie Tru Voice Amercian English TTS Engine
KBD
dunno (1572)
510851 2007-01-04 00:27:00 I have a whole lot of things in add/remove programs and I have no idea what they are for, do I need them, they are as follows

NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Display Drivers
PS2
Python 2.2 combinedWin 32 extensions
Python 2.2.1
S3 Display
S3 Gamma 2
S3Info 2
S3 Overlay
Lernout & Hauspie Tru Voice Amercian English TTS Engine
KBD

Whats your video card? Do you know?? Is it on board? Or is it a Nvidia card?

It looks like Python is a programming language program? If u don't use it u can uninstall it.

You shouldn't need these

S3 Display
S3 Gamma 2
S3Info 2
S3 Overlay

If you have a Nvidia video card.

This

Lernout & Hauspie Tru Voice Amercian English TTS Engine

Is for speech and can be used for speech recognition, if u installed the speech stuff for Office / word, if its got the speech option (I think it has).

I would say KBD is for your keyboard, so that can stay.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
510852 2007-01-04 00:36:00 Whats your video card? Do you know?? Is it on board? Or is it a Nvidia card?

It looks like Python is a programming language program? If u don't use it u can uninstall it.

You shouldn't need these

S3 Display
S3 Gamma 2
S3Info 2
S3 Overlay

If you have a Nvidia video card.

This

Lernout & Hauspie Tru Voice Amercian English TTS Engine

Is for speech and can be used for speech recognition, if u installed the speech stuff for Office / word, if its got the speech option (I think it has).

I would say KBD is for your keyboard, so that can stay.

I do not have a video card, do not even know what one is!!!
so I will just get rid of the learning programme python at this stage.
Also since doing a system recovery, I keep getting a message when I go on line saying to try again or connect, or cannot display this page, if i click on try again the page comes up, or refresh the page comes up.
dunno (1572)
510853 2007-01-04 00:52:00 Go to control panel / system / hardware / device manager .

Look for the display adapters entry, click on the + . Whats it say here?

Does it say S3, or Nvidia something?

The video card is what the monitor plugs into . Without it, u wouldn't see anything on a screen .

The can not display page prob, Open IE if this is what u use tools / Internet options . Advanced tab . Set everything to default . See if it gets any better .
Speedy Gonzales (78)
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