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Hazel, did you ever figure out why you couldn't see the image?

Oh I see, It's the jpg and gif you're not big on. OK, I thought you were referring to 'IrfanView' that you disliked, at least that's how it appeared. OK Well, in any case, Why is jpg and gif the most popular of the formats? I've never made a PNG, but if the quality is better, I'm curious as to why it's not used more often. Is it because of the file size being larger than gif and jpg? That would certainly be understandable considering websites that use a lot of images would want to avoid using PGN for loading purposes for it's visitors. Also, how a picture looks to others will vary depending on the quality of their monitor and visual settings anyway. But besides all of that, for website developers the loading time is a important consideration. Perhaps jpg and gif are the winners in that situation.

I take it you're not a 'Fan' of IrfanView. Well, it may not be "compliant" but it's good enough for me. I mean seriously, how good does it have to be? or maybe I should say, how good is good? Thanks for saying my pic looks like "crap". Have a nice day, Tyler

Now THAT'S a possibility. The simple fact that the images are 'embedded' could be the degrade factor that makes it unreadable to Webtv. Only problem with that theory is, WebTV can see the Image on my post n.7 of the Pic of WebTV, it just can read the Avatar

hmmmm that's strange. It's a picture of webtv. Are you sure you're not using WebTV ? Actually, WebTV can even see that picture, because I viewed it myself with my friends webtv. That's really strange you can't see it. Oh well.

Yes, I read somewhere that Webtv has broadband available now for it's subscribers. That should definitely speed things up a bit. The dialup is just too slow, and quite frankly, is outdated.

Yes, that makes sense. However, the image was originally a jpg, and I only resized it using Microsoft Paint. Seems that it shouldn't have that much of a degrade effect to make it unreadable for webtv, but, it's certainly a possibility. Anyway, I'm using another program now 'IrfanView' which has a quality setting. CeeCee told be about this freeware image editing program that's really nice. IrfanView

You might want to take a look at this Windows Installer CleanUp utility. I used it at Microsoft's suggestion to fix an 'installing update' issue once. One of Microsoft's Net Frameworks security updates wouldn't install on my PC correctly, and I used this utility to remove the existing installation so I could try again and install it via their download links. It could be that you have 13 installer issues to be removed. Use at your own discretion though, as I'm not sure about the results. You should probably ask Microsoft or someone else here about it before you use it. Windows Installer Cleanup Utility - Information Download Microsoft Windows Installer CleanUp utility

I noticed that this forum has RSS news feeds available. I'm curious as to how many of you subscribe. I found this RSS feeder (NewsBliss) and was curious of your opinion of it, as well. Do News-feeders increase your vulnerability to viruses? Seems like it might. I had NewsBliss a few months ago and found it to be very functional and actually, quite nice piece of software. Obviously a lot of thought was put into it's appearance on your desktop, as it is a beautiful design. Picture of NewsBliss

Hello burtman, Webtv is just a Internet browser, and not a computer. It's much like a cable box of the internet. The users of webtv have no way of making any operating adjustments of any kind. It's actually very limited in what it can do. Some websites are litterally impossible to access with webtv because of the script codes the site is using, or other more advanced scripts that Webtv can't read. Also, if a webpage is too large i.e. (to many pictures..ect,) webtv won't access that page. It will often times time-out trying to load it. It's mostly used by beginners or 'newbies' to the world we call the Internet. I had one years ago for a short period of time, and I must tell you, I couldn't WAIT to get a computer. It's also my understanding that webtv doesn't have java either. So, maybe that could be why the jpg is not showing up for them. Who knows??.lol Here's a pic of WebTV

Oh OK, I see what you mean now. Well, I set it to 1 now so that will work better for me. I had it all backwards thinking the higher the number the more 'permanent' shortcuts you could add. About disabling the balloon notifications, I'm not sure about which balloons it actually disables. I'll keep mine disabled for now, and if I decide later that I want them enabled again I'll change it back with the new powertoy I downloaded. It's easy enough. You can fit 17 small icon short-cuts on the start menu.

All I can say is WOW!! Great program CeeCee! I searched all over today looking for a program like that. None of them satisified me until I downloaded infanview. Thanks a million!

I'm looking of a simple Photo Editor that Crops, and if possible, also accepts screenshots. If not a simple crop editor will do just fine. I want to crop jpeg jpg, gifs. screenshots..ect I'm using windows XP and I don't have .Net Frameworks. Thanks for any suggestions, Tyler

What I did to help keep my PC cooler is, I set a little portable fan behind my computer aimed right at the air intake port of the PC. It stays nice and cool all the time.

I wouldn't say "useless" at all CeeCee. You showed me a little about the 'registry' and 'HKEYS' which was a learning experience to me in and of itself! I appreciate that Please continue with your help and advice. Lord knows I need it!

The problem for me doing it that way is because I keep most of my programs that I use everyday in that start menu list. It's easy access for me just to click start and click the program I want to run. If I narrowed it down to just 3, I would have to find another shortcut. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'd like to thank everybody who responded with advice about how to correct this problem. I really appreciate it. In the interest of doing this the safest way, and without having to get into the registry that I'm not famiular with, I decided to take DennisD's suggestion and download the Powertoy Tweak UI and disable the balloon-tips that way. It was very easy to do, and now I have a new power tool! :-) I'm sure it will come in handy on other applications as well. I do hope however, to learn more about the registry in days to come Again, thanks to everyone with their great and informative suggestions. Tyler

I made it all the way to "Advanced" but couldn't find: Name: EnableBalloonTips This is my first time with HKEYS, so I'm not really sure what I'm doing. hehe

Almost everytime I click on 'Start' I get a notification that pops up from the 'All programs' link, that says something like "All Programs can't not be shown." Then you have to click the bubble/Popup to make it disappear. Is there anyway to stop this continuous and annoying notification? I'm using windows XP. Thanks

Thanks rridgely, that worked nicely too. I think it gives it a cleaner look. I'm using the small icons as well, which take up less room.

Thank you very much, I tried what you said and it worked just fine. I don't know how it ever got changed before, but, transparent is what I wanted. Thanks again.

For some reason my desktop icons now have a shaded blue background behind where the name appears. Does anybody know how I can fix this? Here's a screenshot of my desktop, the icons are on the left-hand side of the screen.

Here's a free program that's pretty similar to what defender does. It notifies you of any system changes, and is also a real-time spyware blocker..ect Spyware Terminator

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of defender either. As a matter of fact I just uninstalled it this morning.

Yes, that's the Webtv I was referring to. I guess we should call it MSNTV since MSN owns it now. Thanks for the reply