montagia

@montagia (58)

India • Age 39

Joined myLot 16 years ago

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Vista vs Windows XP?

sutent @sutent (1060) • China 8 Aug 09

Hi, I used to use XP OS on desktop computer. Now i have to use Vista OS, as my laptop computer was configured a Vista OS. But during my daily work, i have to use XP, as my company computer all installed with XP. My first...

vista

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montagia I never tried Vista on my computer as it does not support vista. But I have used vista, its really cool if you have good configuration computer. Though not much improvement performance wise, just a visual improvement I see. i am still sticking to windows XP

9 Aug 09

Why is Firefox trying to act as a server?

dragon54u @dragon54u (31634) • United States 19 Mar 09

I occasionally get a pop up from my ZoneAlarm firewall asking me if I will allow Firefox (my browser) to act as a server. Is this something dangerous? Why would it want to act as a server? Should I say yes? I'm not sure what to...

firefox

server

zonealarm

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montagia I guess it is ok if you give yes. i did some google search and found that it is ok to give yes. Till now I have not got such problem.

19 Mar 09

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What is the best anti-virus software?

amored13 @amored13 (27) • Philippines 9 Mar 09

i have a laptop computer. and since i bought it, it have been reformat 5 times... because of those viruses!!! first, i have AVG, then, AVast, Kaspersky and the current is AVira. but there are certain viruses that the avira can't...

virus

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montagia I have been using NOD 32 from 4 years. It is the best antivirus according to me. Unlike Norton it does not consume system memory. It is very efficient in detecting viruses. After installing NOD 32 I never had problem with virus.

19 Mar 09

any one like CRT monitor instead of LCD monitor

santhosheie @santhosheie (212) • India 10 Mar 09

i like LCD monitor only because its very slim and elegent to use it more space is reduced from it ....... it has any option to change brightness and so on

lcd

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montagia I like LCD monitors than CRT. But I still have CRT monitors. I can manage with it.

19 Mar 09

Do you like MAC or PC?

haradeep @haradeep (10) • India 17 Mar 09

Do you like MAC or PC?

mac

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montagia I like PC. I have tried my friends MAC but I find PC more convenient.

19 Mar 09

has anyone had problems with gmail lately??

bookreadermom08 @bookreadermom08 (5614) • United States 18 Mar 09

I ran a program on my computer last week and ever since then I have a problem getting into gmail... I am wondering if it was just me or is it the actual site since the other programs I go into daily are not affected? I can get...

computers

internet

problems with sites

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montagia I never had such problem with gmail. May be some virus of malware is creating problem for you. Try doing full system scan with updated antivrus. Also do a spyware scan. Before that you can try loging in with firefox or opera or google chrome.

19 Mar 09

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Wich searching engine do you use most of the time?

Braveheartok103 @Braveheartok103 (380) • China 18 Mar 09

I prefer to use GOOGLE than to BAIDU in our country. I always try to persuade our friends to use google, which can search more, but they still not to. What a pity! So how about you?

internet

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montagia I prefer goolge. Google has been my friend and most of the time it gives me the exact result. I have tried yahoo search, though it is not bad, it is not as good as google.

19 Mar 09

Who creats Virus? A naughty IT expert or an antivirus software company?

Informer @Informer (802) • India 19 Mar 09

We all know about the computer viruses and also use anti-virus softwares for the health of our computer and our files. But have u ever thought who created virus? and why? One of my IT expert friend, once told me that there are...

anti virus

internet

virus

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montagia Most of the time it is the antivirus company which creates virus, so that they can produce the solution and publish that their antivirus is superior. But sometimes it is also the some jobless people who have nothing to do creates virus.

19 Mar 09

Which one would you prefer

shray_0686 @shray_0686 (56) • India 19 Mar 09

There are many browers for sufing .i.e ie,mozilla, google crome.opera,etc which one would youe prefer .I prefer google crome i is very fast

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montagia I prefer mozilla firefox. I have tried IE, opera, googlechrome, firefox and someother browsers and found that opera and firefox are good. But firefox is still better than opera. you can increase the efficiency of firefox by using addons. It is very fast...

19 Mar 09

How Often Do You Click On Ads?

NuCkInFuTs @NuCkInFuTs (44) • United States 17 Mar 09

Ads have become a part of life for any internet surfer. They are everywhere, on the side of your screen, flying from your toolbar, sometimes they even pop-up right in front of you. I understand that this is necessary for the...

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montagia I usually don't click on ads unless I find it very interesting. Sometimes I do deliberately click on ads on some forums to keep the forum running!!

18 Mar 09

Online shopping

roselynm1023 @roselynm1023 (950) • Philippines 16 Mar 09

hi! i have money at paypal and i want to try buying something from paypal. did you ever tried buying anything online using paypal? please share your story or you can give me tips. thanks

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montagia I have not tried buying from ebay using paypal as I haven't seen any Indian seller who accepts paypal. It is paisapal for India but i don't know how to get paisapal account. I have used paypal for buying rapidshare account, it is safe.

17 Mar 09

do you have the feeling?

yoyo2323 @yoyo2323 (465) • China 17 Mar 09

sometimes i have this feeling that i have nothing to do on the internet,but i just can not turn off the pc .so i stay in front of it .and do nothing but just look at the screen! do you ever have the feeling?

feelings

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montagia Sometimes I too get a feeling that nothing to do on comp. I watch movies and do something with photoshop when I have nothing to on comp ;)

17 Mar 09

Really Annoying Problem...

rios58 @rios58 (20) • United States 10 May 08

I'm having this problem with my computer. I like to play this online game called Runescape. But for a couple months now, I have stopped playing it because, it does the following. Sometimes my computer restarts during game-play,...

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montagia There could be many possibility. Does you window close after exactly 10 min. If so there could be a malware running which closes the window after specified time. Try installing a good antivirus after uninstalling the previous one. Update it and do a scan. Just...

10 May 08

computer virus at my working place

plumwish07 @plumwish07 (4057) • Indonesia 9 May 08

what a really mess up, i just not able to work with my computer for 2 days and can't connect to internet from 2 days also from my office. My admin networking, my computer spread virus to LAN computers. what i know i got the...

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montagia It is really bad to get those kind of virus. Install a good antivirus, firewall and antispyware. Use limited user account. Do not give administrative privilege to the user account, as they can easily integrated with the system as they will have access to the...

9 May 08

is it necessary to buy a televison while you have a computer

xiaowen187 @xiaowen187 (426) • China 9 May 08

i don't think it is necessary to buy a television while i have already owned a computer. because everything i want to know, any film, any opera, any series , or even any ad ,all these things sent by television can be find on...

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montagia I think tv is very much necessary. You cannot watch everything on computer. You cannot watch any live broadcast on computer. You will not get every serial or program freely on the internet. You need lot of bandwidth to watch it. And some are illegal. So you...

9 May 08

How much do you know about computers?

rirbry @rirbry (353) • Malaysia 7 May 08

Do you really know about your computer

computer

know

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montagia I know little more about my computer. I have intel 845 motherboard, pentium 4 processor, 256mb ram. My pc is 3 years old and I have not upgraded my pc till now. I have that old configuration now. I have windows xp operating system in it. I have experimented a...

7 May 08

yhaoo or google ?

newway64 @newway64 (342) • Canada 5 May 08

which site you use ? google or yhaoo ? who is the best ?

google

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montagia No doubt google is the best. It provides a great search engine. It also provides many services like email,google map, orkut, youtube etc. I like the google search very much. I have tried yahoo search also, but I found google is the best search engine. I like...

6 May 08

What is your favorite website?

allan5d @allan5d (120) • Philippines 6 May 08

What is your favorite website?

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montagia My favourite site is google. I visit everytime I connect to the internet

6 May 08

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Only 11 cents?! *Weep*

MetalGearz @MetalGearz (45) • United States 5 May 08

Hey everyone, I just joined yesterday and i gotta say this site is fun..i get to respond to questions that curve to my interest instead of bland questions.But, I have one problem. I've started about 2-3 discussions, posted about...

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montagia I also agree that earning depends on the quality of the post. I am also the new user. Today is my third day. On the first day I made 11 cents for 6 posts and on the second day I made 7 cents for 4 posts. So the earning is not fixed here, it depends on the...

5 May 08