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• (1 vote) I am always considering suicide and have even attempted it before.
  

  Please don’t take any drastic action. I am a lot older than you and i have been there and sometimes i feel the same - but every day brings its own challenges and with life we just have to get thru them. Its not going to be easy, i won’t lie to you - but ending it all is not the answer. I recently lost my friend to suicide and it hurts so much inside. Your family would be lost and so would your friends take it from someone who is living with the guilt of whether i should have done more or not - don’t throw away your life, it can turn around at a moments notice and turn into a dream come true.
  
  - written 2 months, 1 week ago – voted for by ameliaearthlin

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• Trying to regain some memory on an older XP Home Computer.
  

  The .net framework is used for some programs that use them. In the old days programs mainly relied on Visual Basic run times. Back in them days the run times were very small and didn’t take up any space. Since about 2000 though, newer programs are written upon .net framework and if you have certain programs that use them they will not function if you remove the framework. but its a case of trial and error - you can remove them - but if programs you use need them, they’ll simply say install them again :)
  - written 1 month ago

• how to write a logon script to add permitions and setup
  

  if your a system administrator you can certainly set up rights to allow system installs and even set the setup (most setup files) to install silently or even customise the setup. Writing a script to show a setup file isn’t too hard, look into VBscript for ideas.
  - written 1 month, 2 weeks ago

• I just downloaded movie .AVI format but its not running
  

  if you’re getting a message like that when you play the file, then you’ve downloaded an empty file - its basically just spam. Some people share films and stuff that takes up all your time and bandwitdh and the end result is they are laughing and you have nothing. i would delete the file - it doesn’t contain the film you want and certainly do NOT install any special codecs from there site - it will be malware.
  - written 1 month, 2 weeks ago

• Im converting .avi files to mp4 files is the size supposed to be smaller after.
  

  film files of any type all use different codecs and compressions tools to make them the size they are. MP4 generally seems to be larger in size than AVI because of the type of codecs used. I think the standard is the H.264 codec used, which is usally known for very high quality videos. If you wanna shrink a video, then consider setting the sound quality and video quality to almost terrible and set the size to around 320×240px (QVGA)and it should perhaps shrink it. alternatively, just use the save codec used in the AVI file and just turn the quality, sound and size settings to aroun the same size and it should work just fine - you don’t really need to worry to be honest about turning them settings down, as its so small anyways, you’re not loosing much in overal watchable quality.
  - written 1 month, 2 weeks ago

• Computer problems
  

  One more thing, i noted that you said it wanted to try and format the drive during boot - apologies if i read that wrong, but there could be a chance that the second partition is messed up - if the computer rely’s on that space for the SWAP file, and the partition has currupted, that would perhaps also throw up errors and cause crashes - i would somehow check the second partition is intact. If not then using another disk perhaps, format the partition and allow windows to recreate the swap file - that would hopefully allow the system to boot correctly. If the system partition is currupted, then that could mean a complete re-install of the laptop - not hte best option, but in the end might be the only one left if nothing else works.
  - written 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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