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xerraireMember
Well technically I didn’t want it to monitor it, I just wanted it to use less.
For anyone else with this issue, making the video window smallest seemed to help.
xerraireMemberSeriously, it only increases when Windows live is up and running.
The settings for such updates as you are speaking of is set to run on the offpeak time.My question was could msn be configured.
One thing that has been a change (within MSN) is to make the Chat window (the video) to the smallest.xerraireMemberJeff, previously tried all those suggestions you made except for the off-peak hours. (You have to check in hourly increments though).
Believe me, the chat/video is what uses it up.
Doris, I wasn’t looking for a way to monitor it, as yes, iinet does provide the toolbox of which I am well aware of. I was looking for a way to configure MSN, if there was a way.
I thought if anyone knew, it would be here at BBB.
🙂It looks like either talking during sleeping hours as per Jeff’s suggestion, or getting a new plan.
By the way, the plan now is 10,000 MB download.
To me, that sounds like an unrealistic number for the average user.I think my own ISP here in the states, has also decided on a quota but unless you are an out and out “abuser” of the net, you could never reach it.
The mystery in this case is though, that prior to over a week ago, the quota wasn’t exceeded. Care was taken but never exceeded with just video chat. Now, all that is done truly is video chat and the quota is going to be passed. NO surfing the net, hardly check one’s email. MSN is burns a lot and Skype actually burns through even more.
Never before has the chat ‘wasted’ through so many MB’s as just this past week or so.
Going backwards a few MSN’s ago helped a little but I am not so sure about the security of this decision.
Anyway, still waiting to hear from iinet in case they know of a reason that the same hours chatting can double and quadruple the MB’s even though they are the same hours a few weeks later. It’s very puzzling.
xerraireMemberI did mention that in the first post, but I think it wasn’t made obvious enough, It’s Iinet.
Internet Services – Broadband – Phone Services – iiNet Australia
Thanks for any input!
September 16, 2008 at 11:48 am in reply to: Loss of audio one-way after previously being fine #171250xerraireMemberThis happens off and on when I am on MSN…usually a reboot of msn corrects this. Have you tried another chat program like MSN or Skype? I know that I can’t use yahoo, and it always blames my firewall. Might be interesting to see if the same problem happens in something else.
xerraireMemberThat seemed a little tricky a post from a staff member. I wasn’t terribly offended, as it brought to mind jokes made from any stand up comedian that usually poke fun at both men and women, it seemed much like that kind of genre. However, again, it did seem odd from a staff member.
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As for my issue, that Jeff pointed out. I would hate to think that nice people are going to forums with distinct issues, seeking out communities for help and receiving the same kind of treatment I got. My opinion of Last.fm has really hit rock bottom.
I in fact joined it for the feature of having my listened to tracks listed, the idea of a music community, and the option of linking to the tracks to my blog. I think it was early that I joined, as I remember them asking for donations and I did donate.
When I joined there was the typical “add your information”, which I did, including a signature, which I grabbed from my email sig, just to make the thing quick. Never did I see a rule, nor did I ever see a link to a forum. I wasn’t even sure there was a forum at that time.
Now, many months and perhaps years later? I get to the forum via a link in my winamp plug in help file, ask my question, and truly received the coldest email I have ever encountered from any website. However, a rule is a rule, and I went first to change my signature. I was very downhearted though, to find myself banned and my post gone.
So very uncaring.
March 5, 2007 at 9:44 pm in reply to: The Unwritten, but Now Written Rules of MSN Instant Messaging #158920xerraireMemberI enjoyed that!
I dont’ know if I am the only one that experiences this, but, overuse of little animated images in the chat slows my msn down considerably, almost to a stop while they load.
So I might add that!
🙂xerraireMemberOne of the heartbreaks of Skinning for applications, is that the applications are always in a state of change. Yahoo has been one of the IM’s that liked to change often.
With the new version, there are .bmp files, but they are mostly for the buttons and other type images, and then an .xml file. As far as I know, there are no places for that one image that used to make a yahoo skin in the older versions.
To find how where the new skins information goes, you search here:
C:> Program files> Yahoo> Shared> Graphics.xerraireMemberMost
Certainly not yours Mr Jeff.
xerraireMemberJeff,
I couldn’t use that program, I didn’t understand what to do with it, and the tech wouldn’t try it, stating his company already purchased one that was as good or better. I did, David, ask him NOT to format the disk.Right now unfortunately it is in their hands over the holiday weekend, and I fear, next stop will be to an expensive specialist.
Thanks all, I will keep you posted.
xerraireMemberHi
An update to my issue.
After sending it away to a tech, and trying the various items and many programs made especially for retrieving data, and even cracking open the case and putting it directly to another computer, they still can’t seem to get anything to ‘read’ my external hard drive.
The recommendation made to me was to reformat and to try and retrieve the data for me that way.
I have to tell you that is fairly scary.
I know that even the programs I ran myself when listing what kind of retrieval did I wish to perform, FORMATTED was listed, but it is still worrisome, and to me risky.
Any input?
Barb
xerraireMemberDavid & Jeff
Thanks for your input and help.
I tried to run checkdisk from Administrative Management and Computer Management >> Disk Management
Since there it didn’t say FAT or NTFS it wouldn’t read the drive. I did get as far as right clicking and choosing Properties and Tools, but it wouldn’t perform the error checking. David, do you think your method ( run – > cmd, and run “CHKDSK ) would be different?
I am learning as I go, but a lot seems over my head to recover this myself.
xerraireMemberheinz where are you at? I think a typical phone bill in Maryland is $50+ and then add long distance to that.
xerraireMemberSarah
For sweets, something very typical would also be brownies, chocoloate chip cookies, chocolate cake, coffee cake, bundt cakes…or at least they were rather common in our household gatherings.
July 17, 2006 at 6:19 pm in reply to: When I play mp3’s, they do not appear in my "What am I Listening To"? #148124xerraireMemberActually I have both Windows Live Messenger and currently running winamp with no listening to message showing.
Before I had the WLM, I had that particular plug-in without that working as well.
So, really, m1kero, it looks like to help you further, you need to say what player you are using. That might simplify everything. 🙂
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