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Kath
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 Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:15 pm Post subject: WINDOWS 7 |
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I just got my new SuperTopOTheLineDell computer. I have 8 gig of Ram! Can work Dreamweaver and Photoshop at the same time!
Of course it runs Window 7.
I have found:
IE8 runs horrible....slow loading, pictures have to be manually installed, even tho somewhere I checked always display pictures. INTERNET EXPLORER CANNOT DISPLAY THE WEBPAGE comes up more often than notl I have spent hours this last week, looking and acting on "fixes,".. Finally reinstalled Firefox which seems at this juncture(knock on wood) to be running well. I had given up on it with my old computer.
I also don't particularly care for this version of Windows Explorer! PSD's don't show. I know there are fixes for that, but some articles say don't do it...just use Bridge.
Anyhow....I would appreciate comments or suggestions.
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caroled
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Firefox... much safer than EI... or google chrome.... there are so many browsers out there....better and safer...Firefox is my default!!!!
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
Carol |
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Dianne
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:27 am Post subject: |
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You need to optimize it. The net is full of how to do that. Poor IE always gets lambasted  I think its the best ever. Loathe Firefox - its overrated and it irritates me to death that there always a bunch of plugin updates everytime I open Firefox - only do that to check how my websites render. Safari must be the dumbest browser out there ( I am ducking here as I always expect rocks hurled at me from the MAC fanboy corner) and Chrome is just another flavor of Firefox.
You can install the PSICON.DLL on your 64 bit machine ( I can see from the amount of memory you have) - I have it on my laptop with no problem.
As for Windows 7 - been using for some time and gotten use to it. I find it a tad overrated to be honest - Windows trying to be MAC. All those graphics just kill resources - I turn them all off because speed and performance is more important to me than fancy gradienst and overlays. |
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Kath
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Dianne:
Thankyou sooooo much. After 2 weeks----2 days with Dell in charge of my computer to no avail, and 2 days with my computer man reinstalling everything to no avail........It worked perfect at his house.... we called my cable people and discovered I had a router connected to the cable and then connected to the modem. Got rid of that and everything is perfect 
Which site do you reccommend using to download the PSICON.DLL from?There are warnings on some sites not to do it. I had done it for my XP with no problems. It is really annoying not to see what those psd's are!
Thanks in advance.
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Dianne
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Use this one:
PSICON
I trust this site as I have bought a gazillion books from them IOW they have my credit card details and no ID theft yet. |
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Kath
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Dianne.....it wouldn't work in Windows 7. Probably would work for Vista. So I went to Adobe photoshop forums and came up with this link:http://mysticcoder.net/MysticThumbs/.
Works great!!!!!!
Thanks again |
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niknik1971
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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Kath, what a find. I installed the prog and I now can see what the picture is and not a generic icon.
I have gone so long without that feature, but it is good to have that feature back.
NIK
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Dianne
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| Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:21 am Post subject: |
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Odd that Kath - it works on both my Windows 7 32-bit desktop and my 64-bit laptop - you may have stuck it in the wrong place or else the versions of Windows 7 have some differences ( I use the business and ultimate versions), but good thing for finding the other utility. I don't really care about the icon, I care more about the preview which you get in Windows Explorer. Wish I wasn't as cheap because I don't want to buy the one and only utility (other than Bridge) that gives a graphical view of shapes, patterns etc
Windows 7 has this whole caching thing that goes on - drives me crazy as it indexes the whole drive ( I have 1TB) taking forever and impacting performance. I turn that off ( in the registry) and Windows explorer crashes.
The whole permissions popup thing also annoys me - ( UA) - I turn that off and Windows explorer crashes WTF?!? |
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