on my XP home laptop. It skips even when most of the video is downloaded. I don't think it's a bandwidth issue.
It's like a bad CD. I'm trying to figure it out. Our XP pro desktop doesn't do it.
It does it in both IE and Firefox. Maybe it's the plug-in; I'm not sure.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
You might try deleting cache and then rebooting. It's helped me before.
I scrapped both IE and Firefox for Google Chrome. It's fast. Haven't looked back.
> on my XP home laptop. It skips even when most of the video is downloaded. I don't think it's a bandwidth issue.
>
> It's like a bad CD. I'm trying to figure it out. Our XP pro desktop doesn't do it.
>
> It does it in both IE and Firefox. Maybe it's the plug-in; I'm not sure.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> on my XP home laptop. It skips even when most of the video is downloaded. I don't think it's a bandwidth issue.
>
> It's like a bad CD. I'm trying to figure it out. Our XP pro desktop doesn't do it.
>
> It does it in both IE and Firefox. Maybe it's the plug-in; I'm not sure.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
It may be a Windows thing (older hardware unsupported) Try a Linux "live CD"... Linux Mint 12 (DVD) has all the codecs to work on my ancient HP laptop. Linux Mint 12
Peter-
I might have to do that because I would just as soon get as many miles out of these old computers as I can.
Kelly has been using Ubuntu on her Dell laptop for some time. It came with Windows Vista 4 years ago.
-Dave
> Peter-
> I might have to do that because I would just as soon get as many miles out of these old computers as I can.
>
> Kelly has been using Ubuntu on her Dell laptop for some time. It came with Windows Vista 4 years ago.
>
> -Dave
Try a Live CD (or Live USB) first, and when you find something you like, do a dual boot install. You may want to boot to Windows for some things. A live CD or USB will run much slower than installed on your HDD, but you will see what works (wireless!) and what does not befor you take the plunge.
I do Not recommend Ubuntu point blank. version 10.04 does work on many older machines, but not on some newer ones. Later versions of Ubuntu does not work on many of the older machines... and it is HUGE and filled with bloat.
Mint 12 works out of the box on most machines. Pinguy does also, but it has some Bling I don't like so I instantly modify.
"startupmanager" will configure the GRUB bootloader to the default OS that you prefer... included on some distros, but if not it is easy to install it on most.
"gparted" is an excellent partition tool, and is included on most Linux distros.
If you need some guidance with Live CD/USB, partitioning, distro downloads, etc. feel free to ask... I mess up lots of old machines (and can fix my errors too)
PS: a couple weeks ago I pulled out an old HP DV9000 (Vista) that HP had declared a "doorstop" (bad motherboard they said). I got it to start on a USB, and installed Linux. CD drive is flaky but it is now a working machine rather than toxic land fill.
