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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #380 on: January 01, 2014, 05:59:15 PM »
Do you have a filter installed?
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #381 on: January 01, 2014, 07:11:09 PM »
When running a few programs like outlook, excel, word, adobe + a couple of tabs in chrome it uses up almost all of my physical memory and things occasionally crash. Is this normal for what I have and would it help to add RAM in my situation?

These are my specs: Acer aspire 7750G
Intel core i5-2430M CPU 2.40GHz RAM 4.00
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #382 on: January 02, 2014, 12:21:23 AM »
When running a few programs like outlook, excel, word, adobe + a couple of tabs in chrome it uses up almost all of my physical memory and things occasionally crash. Is this normal for what I have and would it help to add RAM in my situation?

These are my specs: Acer aspire 7750G
Intel core i5-2430M CPU 2.40GHz RAM 4.00
Adobe Reader? Or one of their graphics design or publishing programs? I believe those use a lot of memory.
Check task manager to see what is using all the RAM. Keep in mind that chrome has multiple processes.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #383 on: January 02, 2014, 03:20:12 AM »
When running a few programs like outlook, excel, word, adobe + a couple of tabs in chrome it uses up almost all of my physical memory and things occasionally crash. Is this normal for what I have and would it help to add RAM in my situation?

These are my specs: Acer aspire 7750G
Intel core i5-2430M CPU 2.40GHz RAM 4.00
You may have memory bleed.  Does it occur right away, or only after the computer has been up for a bit, and you have opened and closed some programs?
You checked task manager to make sure it was a memory issue, and not a cpu issue?

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #384 on: January 02, 2014, 04:27:45 AM »
I do have a filter, but none of my other Chrome web pages have link issues nor have I ever had a problem with any link issues with dansdeals before.  Oy!  I feel shackled not being able to get to any of the comments that people write! (or tabs or deals that Dan posts)  How do I fix this???!?

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #385 on: January 02, 2014, 04:36:13 AM »
Ok. Too much for me now.  Dansdeals home page won't even come up at this point.  Blank.  (How can life continue??   :o )
In an attempt to start fresh, I pushed 'delete all' in upper left corner of the 'Edit this Cookie' pop-up screen.  Is that what made the dd home screen blank now?
Can someone pleeease help?  Ty.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #386 on: January 02, 2014, 07:34:26 AM »
You may have memory bleed.  Does it occur right away, or only after the computer has been up for a bit, and you have opened and closed some programs?
You checked task manager to make sure it was a memory issue, and not a cpu issue?
Its efinitely a memory problem.  Chrome uses massive amounts of ram. Computer is always on. When my WiFi crashed it was cuz there was no memory left.

Your think I should have enough? How do I prevent bleed?

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #387 on: January 02, 2014, 11:33:41 AM »
Its efinitely a memory problem.  Chrome uses massive amounts of ram. Computer is always on. When my WiFi crashed it was cuz there was no memory left.

Your think I should have enough? How do I prevent bleed?
I would say reset everything to default (no extensions, etc), and then re-add extensions one by one, until you find the culprit.
Or, on Chrome, go to: chrome://memory-redirect  and post resulsts.
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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #388 on: January 02, 2014, 08:37:37 PM »
Its efinitely a memory problem.  Chrome uses massive amounts of ram. Computer is always on. When my WiFi crashed it was cuz there was no memory left.

Your think I should have enough? How do I prevent bleed?
Having enough memory is not the issue.  There is a software issue, like DanH suggests. 

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #389 on: January 02, 2014, 08:51:34 PM »
I would say reset everything to default (no extensions, etc), and then re-add extensions one by one, until you find the culprit.
Or, on Chrome, go to: chrome://memory-redirect  and post resulsts.
Are you running latest version?
So I did reset the browser and added back my extensions. I think its a little better but not much:

Google Chrome 31.0.1650.63
589,064k   13,539k   602,603k   751,848 k   436,308 k
Note: If other browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Safari) are running, I'll show their memory details here.



Processes
Memory    Virtual memory
PID    Name    Private    Shared    Total    Private    Mapped
10520   
Browser
176016k   15888 k   191904k   204760k   137868k
5804   
GPU

64812k   5656k   70468k   95180k   28368k
15292   
Extension
AdBlock
64956k   5760k   70716k   88588k   23604k
6580   
Extension
Evernote Web Clipper
11168k   6084k   17252k   22828k   23604k
920   
Extension
Motorola Connect
23780k   6780k   30560k   48388k   26096k
8604   
Plug-in
VLC Web Plugin
15152k   6544k   21696k   3792k   22356k
12100   
Extension
JewishMusic Stream
21360k   18740k   40100k   30492k   26172k
9736   
Tab (Chrome)
About Memory
10636k   15304k   25940k   18884k   23604k
4716   
Tab
Post reply
59664k   22988k   82652k   66104k   26096k
12428   
Tab
New Tab
21736k   16072k   37808k   29488k   23608k
8876   
Extension
Screen Capture (by Google)
8184k   12152k   20336k   16824k   23604k
5000   
Tab
Gmail - Email from Google
56000k   21724k   77724k   63228k   25664k
13220   
Tab
Bank of America — Banking, Credit Cards, Mortgages and Investing
55600k   22324k   77924k   63292k   25664k
Σ   589064k      765080k   751848k    436308k

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #390 on: January 04, 2014, 07:40:02 PM »
I put the new HD in the enclosure and then booted to the PE, just in case there were any files locked by Windows.
The clone operation took a while, but once it finished it only took a few minutes to swap the HDs. Windows didn't even notice the difference, except that now I have a bigger HD. :)
I just want to add a PSA. It seems that even if you clone a drive, Windows does realize that it's a new drive, to the extent that System Restore will not be enabled automatically for the new drive. You have to enable it manually.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #391 on: January 05, 2014, 01:03:53 AM »
I just want to add a PSA. It seems that even if you clone a drive, Windows does realize that it's a new drive, to the extent that System Restore will not be enabled automatically for the new drive. You have to enable it manually.
Did you get your problem solved?

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #392 on: January 05, 2014, 10:14:31 AM »
I feel uncomfortable, but I am reaching out to you guys one more time.  Can someone PLEASE PLEASE help elucidate why this is happening and what I should do about it?

1.  Pressing on any comment link brings me to a blank page
2.  The 5 blue tabs on home page bring me to a blank page (connect, CC, Trip notes, etc)


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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #393 on: January 05, 2014, 10:21:28 AM »
Oops--above msg sent prematurely

This has been going on for about a week now.  Every once in a while (couple days) one of the blue tabs works, then once again brings to a blank page.
(Please see posts #379, #384, and #385 above)     
I so would appreciate a dedicated DDFer help me figure this out since this is ONLY happening at this website.  All other links in other websites work!! 
Is anyone else having this problem?    TY       

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #394 on: January 05, 2014, 04:11:51 PM »
Did you get your problem solved?
Well, it seems that you can only do a Repair Reinstall from within Windows normal mode, not Safe Mode. So I ended up just backing up any updated data and re-cloning.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #395 on: January 05, 2014, 07:38:00 PM »
Well, it seems that you can only do a Repair Reinstall from within Windows normal mode, not Safe Mode. So I ended up just backing up any updated data and re-cloning.
Sorry, I should have been more clear.  I meant doing a repair by booting to the install dvd.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #396 on: January 05, 2014, 08:06:40 PM »
Sorry, I should have been more clear.  I meant doing a repair by booting to the install dvd.
Well, thanks anyway for your time. Is it possible that the hard drive is bad? It's a brand new Toshiba.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #397 on: January 06, 2014, 03:08:41 PM »
Either Speaker issue or very possibly an issue with the headphone jack. Sometimes something breaks inside and it makes the computer think something is always plugged in. Try to take a good look in the headphone jack
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Not uncommon issue with jacks, basically the sensor gets stuck and it thinks there is a headphone plugged in. Think of it as a button which got stuck. You can try using a T pin and GENTLY wiggling it around, often that will help.  IME if it happened once, it will happen again.

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #398 on: January 15, 2014, 09:17:59 AM »
1. Is there a way to let a computer connect to a wireless router in order to to be able to access it locally over the network, but block it from Internet access? Preferably in a way which would allow easy switching, for example a firewall with different profiles, one of which would block anything outside of 192.168.*.*
2. Sometimes I would like to tether my computer to my phone just to update Quicken. Is there a similar way to create a profile to allow just one or two programs Internet access and block everything else like Windows Update, etc., and also allow easy switching?
TIA

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Re: Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread
« Reply #399 on: January 15, 2014, 11:47:20 AM »
1. Is there a way to let a computer connect to a wireless router in order to to be able to access it locally over the network, but block it from Internet access? Preferably in a way which would allow easy switching, for example a firewall with different profiles, one of which would block anything outside of 192.168.*.*
2. Sometimes I would like to tether my computer to my phone just to update Quicken. Is there a similar way to create a profile to allow just one or two programs Internet access and block everything else like Windows Update, etc., and also allow easy switching?
TIA
1. You can for sure do that on the hardware level with a router (e.g. sonicwall).  But why not just put a software filter that blocks everything.  Or for 'fake' protection, put in a bogus DNS for that computer.