Well not to beat a dead horse but I am a little slap happy from being up so late so oh well. Macs are not that expensive, get a Mac Mini for $400 bucks, and as far as what macs are used for you got to get passed the ipod and Imac. The current G5 runs on two 2.5GHz dual core processors running on a architecture designed to run bus loads of data and store it on 16 Gigabytes of DDRAM. Why have two processors so while your encoding video you can multitask and download and process 20MB RAW image files while typing a reply on a forum. Macs aint just for kids. I'd hate to disagree with you on Microsofts Legacy software, their whole problem is their software. Ever wonder why all your applications you run on Windows look different, why Explorer looks different then your dial up connection app, or why Windows Media Player looks nothing like Windows Movie Maker; or why Outlook does not resemble Word, Similar apps, but way different code running each. Reason why is that Microsoft has hundreds of departments writing code for apps that don't work together. As a result you get a bloated operating system named Window XP that has to manage all of these apps that have conflicting code and stich it together so you have a working computer. It really is a big mess when you look at XP in the old DOS. !!!DOS!!! I can't believe anything still drags DOS around. Why do you think Windows based computers need to have liquid cooling systems in them today; they need to cool the CPU that has to run Windows. !!!Liquid Cooling!!! Last time I checked liquid and electronics are a bad mix. Here is an interesting quote: Microsoft chairman told "It's not going to work" By Andy McCue Published: Monday 26 September 2005 Microsoft was forced to scrap the first incarnation of Longhorn  now called Windows Vista  after a senior executive warned chairman Bill Gates that it was too complex to work properly. Jim Allchin, group VP in charge of Windows, told the Wall Street Journal he dropped the bombshell last summer, simply telling Gates "It's not going to work". Longhorn was so complex that Microsoft's developers would never be able to make it run properly, Allchin told Gates. The root of the problem was Microsoft's historical approach to developing software  the so-called 'spaghetti code culture'  where the company's thousands of programmers would each develop their own piece of code and it would then all be stitched together at the end. According to the WSJ interview, Allchin faced opposition to his call for a completely new approach to how Microsoft develops Windows  firstly from Gates himself and then the company's engineers. The new approach was to develop a clean solid core code base for Windows which new features could more easily be added to over time and Allchin introduced new tools that would automatically reject buggy code." end quote Well maybe next summer you might get something to replace Windows XP and yes it is sloppy code and yes hackers find flaws in that code to take advantage of weaknesses in Windows based computer systems. As for Vista, or Longhorn, or whatever it's called it's a long way off, they had to start from scratch, thats how bad the operating system your using now is. Microsoft should have started from scratch a long time ago. To everyone I know this is a gardening site, not a tech site, so I apologize for the rant and I will not speak of this matter again. I think I'll follow up on some bamboo threads.

@fruitjarfla. purposes Great for Internet connection issues! One thing nice about .bat files is windows will run them. In the .bat file between the stars, it's just a set of commands that windows will recognize. You must use Notepad to copy it into to run the file. The first thing it does is checks the Host file, the attributes -h -s -r. Then it checks the local host 127.0.0.1, all computers use that as a local host, that's your home. Then the rest of the commands in the .bat file are straight forward as seen. ********************** ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew ipconfig /flushdns netsh winsock reset all netsh int ip reset all shutdown -r -t 1 **************************** First it releases the IP address. Next it renews it, in other other words it forces windows or the modem / router to obtain a new IP#. From you Internet provider. Then it flushes the DNS, Domain name server. In a lot of situations you can connect to the internet, but you can't download a web page, that is sometimes caused by a DNS problem or issue. Then it resets the winsock files those are all internet connection related. Last the very end of the bat file shutdown -r -t 1This command reboots windows or restarts it. It's the best I can explain it. Go ahead an fool with it you can't hurt anything. Do you understand how to save it to notepad? Joe

Yeah, I guess so. My husband was in charge of all that stuff. Okay, good news bad news. Did the malware download and scanned, found 2 bad things and killed them. Bad news is IE will still not open normally. Here's the malware report: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.34 Database version: 1809 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 2/27/2009 11:51:57 AM mbam-log-2009-02-27 (11-51-57).txt Scan type: Full Scan (C:\:) Objects scanned: 163511 Time elapsed: 1 hour(s), 11 minute(s), 47 second(s) Memory Processes Infected: 0 Memory Modules Infected: 0 Registry Keys Infected: 1 Registry Values Infected: 0 Registry Data Items Infected: 0 Folders Infected: 0 Files Infected: 1 Memory Processes Infected: (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Infected: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\(b64f4a7c-97c9-11da-8bde-f66bad1e3f3a) (Rogue.WinAntivirus) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. Registry Values Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Infected: (No malicious items detected) Folders Infected: (No malicious items detected) Files Infected: C:\WINDOWS\hosts (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. So, what do you suggest I do next? Download Firefox, copy my favorite sites and delete IE?

From the fingers of Tamara There's a joke in there somewhere about KY jelly and olive oil, but I'll let Jessy handle that one 'Handle' that one, indeed. I always considered KY a food condiment, thats why I have a tube in our bedside tool-box. We really should have a taste-off with Astro-Glide, dontcha think? I should have been Sarah Silverman. Next lifetime! Oh yeah we're talking about ads...none here. Don't care either way if I'm logged in and they are unobtrusive. Its when I'm NOT logged in that they are all over the place. Almost as bad as Sunset and Foodnetwork's sites.