Defragging & running spyware weekly helps the speed a bit, but more memory and a faster processor
Posted By: are what you need. nm on 2005-12-02
In Reply to: I want to buy a good computer for transcription, mine seems to be bogged down, what I need - Kat
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running a fan helps too
It drowns out the rest of the noises while everyone else is up and about.
Your cable speed is faster than my DSL. You're fine.
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If memory serves (and most of the time it doesn't!), isn't it # to speed up and * to slow down
You just repeatedly hit the # or * keys to the desired speed, right?
I agree...speed definitely helps...
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I figured it out----yes you can adjust the speed and here's how to do it. Hope this helps someone
There are a couple of ways to adjust playback speed.
1. Right-click on the Windows Media Player 10 title bar, choosing "Play" - "Play Speed" and selecting "Fast", "Normal", or "Slow".
Or, for more intricate adjustments:
1. Click the "Now Playing" tab.
2. Right-click on the Windows Media Player 10 title bar, choosing "View" - "Enhancements" - "Play Speed Settings".
3. A panel should appear at the bottom of the "Now Playing" tab.
- Click "Slow", "Normal", or "Fast" for basic play speed settings.
- Move the slider to the left to slow the playback; moving the slider to the right speeds up playback. For reference:
"Slow" speed is 0.5
"Normal" speed is 1.0
"Fast" speed is 1.4
If you're having trouble moving the slider, uncheck "Snap slider to common speeds" to allow speed changes across the slider bar. Note that some files may not correctly play at speeds less than 0.5.
Tech question. I have discovered spyware on my PC. It is blocking me from using anti-spyware softw
and fix the problem. I need help! Any ideas on how to locate the offending program and get rid of it. I downloaded Ad-Aware in an tried to run it and it's blocking that too and my McAfee is being blocked as well. I cannot run a scan at all.
Have you done spyware scans, defrag, virus scan and reboot? All of these help me. Run spyware
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I have a newer computer, 1000 RAM memory? Will it allow more if I get more memory?
i have a newer computer 1000 RAM. Will it allow more if I get more memory? You can email me if you want. TX
Spyware hijack? Have you run spyware/virus
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defragging
Our company told us not to defrag anymore. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?
In general business're running slower than usual but running. NM
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The faster they grow, the faster then fall.....sm
Faster growing trees (soft wood) like pines, Leyland pines, Australian pines and,I would surmise, fast growing poplars -- I have trouble with regular poplars where I live -- are more susceptible to come down during a storm.
You may want to try a bush-like plant such as red tip,which does grow quite tall but stands up better than the above trees.
They think the faster they talk - the faster you type - LOL EOM
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Run disc clean-up also along with defragging..Found in same place.
Maybe you need more RAM. I don't know how old your computer is, but the more RAM you have, the faster it runs. You might even try compressing some save points too.
Good luck.
Processor
Athlon. 200 GB hard drive, 1024 RAM. E-machines are in my opinion an excellent workhorse, will go on and on.
First word processor. sm
The first WP I worked on had a huge disk driver, I mean the thing sat on the floor, and there is a reason they are called floppy disks. The disks were at least 12 x 12. We were terrified of that thing. We had to "boot up" every morning, while it whirled and grunted and blinked, standing around nervously looking at the thing as though it were an alien ready to attack. Too funny.
It really depends a lot on the processor and such
A lot of what makes the computer good or better is the type of processor, speed, memory, etc. You have to take these into consideration as well. My dad works on computers in Vegas and says they have the least trouble with Dells. Like I said though it depends on the specs of the computer and what all you need it for. I would recommend doing research and checking out information on these things I mentioned. I am about to buy a laptop and I am considering these things as well as the size and weight for that.
Is a Celeron M (1.5 GHz) processor equal to a
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Put your bread in a food processor and
....since the original processor isn't in place. nm
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I also worked on a word processor
called a CPT (I think that was the brand). It had no hard drive, but two 3-1/2 floppies (state of the art because they weren't the 5-1/4 or the big Raytheon 12" floppies you are probably talking about - the size of a record album - oops, albums are things of the past too). Anyway, you would put your templates/abbreviations in the A drive and save to the B drive, but if you forgot and it glitched say "bye-bye" to your work! Lots of shortcut/expansion keys though that you could program. The monitor was odd-looking in that it was rectangular and bowed out at you and fit a whole page for your view. Actually, it kind of made sense to be able to see a whole page at a time, it was just ugly looking - lol. We had to go to San Francisco for 2 days of training on this thing. I don't really even remember the specifics of the training - too long ago I guess. It's fun to remember the old cave-man/papyrus days (as another poster mentioned).
increase speed 3, decrease speed 2...sm
increase backspace 9, decrease backspace 8. At least that's what mine does.
how about pecan pie, use food processor for the nuts.
or a cheesy-egg dish, ie, keesh (however that is spelled).
weekly pay
I bring home right at 1000 a week, but that's a FT job, a 20 hour per week PT job, and a 15 hour per week PT job. My FT job just basically pays for my insurance costs.
once weekly sm
Take it, I did this for years and the once weekly is now hard to find, they want it back on the Net in 45 minutes sometimes. Why not work for yourself instead of some big wheel who make a profit on your sweat equity? BYOB - Be Your Own Boss!
Does anyone has a user's manual for a Dictaphone voice processor? sm
I am new to using a C-phone, and I would appreciate any help. If anyone has a user's manual for a Dictaphone Voice Processor, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!
Any other companies pay weekly besides EFD?/nm
nm
True. That is about my weekly pay.
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Sorry, I was making around $250-$300 weekly
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Weekly earnings
Am relatively new to at home transcription so I am not doing as well as most poster.
Instant Text is relativley new to me, but helping prodcution.
I am not familiar with MP Lite. I know someone will be kind enough to share.
Thanks!
eMachine with Athlon XP2400 processor, about 2 years old now. No problems.
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And what do you consider "a ton of money" ? What do you make weekly? nm
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NEMT pays weekly. nm
Thanks XXX. I found a "Microsoft Works Word Processor". You say I save those as files?
I do have a CD drive so if I can buy WORD like you mention, I can load it.
Do you think it would be beneficial in the long run to invest in WORD (maybe buy it at BEST BUY or something) and load it on my computer? I am going to be doing lots of work, so better to use as good a program as I can as far as being able to SAVE stuff - There will be lots of opportunities for macros (or saving paragraphs, etc). Whatever the term is these days to mean: saving lots of words, LOL.
A newer computer with a dual core processor runs cool. No need for it.
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Walmart is a weekly MUST and of course we're waiting for
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Do you have a weekly ads pub that you could put it in under Business Opportunities, or in your local
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As stated below, I agree. Overall weekly average is approx. 600 lph sm
Now, granted there are days I can do over 1200 lines an hour, but overall within the week you have those dictations that take a little more time.
I have made more money on this platform than any other. Absolutely love it!
We have a small local paper that comes weekly in the mail...
and I spend most of my time counting the spelling errors when I read it. The best one was the headline one November that proclaimed - HAPPY THANKGSIVING. Did I mention this is a FREE paper. I would never pay for something like that.
Another one I saw a number of years ago, mirrow instead of mirror. And one time at my old job at a manufacturing plant, they were taking a bus trip to some shopping "outlits."
I am a teacher's kid and stuff like that really bugs me. Good thread by the way!
What is, on average, a normal weekly IC report production?
I need your opinions please….
I am an IC who works for four doctors who each dictate approximately 100 or more reports a week. They send them via over to their personal website and I download and transfer to Express Scribe (awesome program by the way). They tend to call me often and will ask for one or more patient’s report to be faxed over immediately for insurance purposes. Of course, they have no idea how complicating and time consuming this is on me, when I have to search for these specific voice files, one by one, and then transcribe the report, etc. I felt a bit of an attitude the other day when it took longer to perform my task.
I am wondering, am I just too slow? Is completing 400 or more reports (on average half page reports) a week slow, including transcribing these special request reports? I feel so stressed all the time now; their phone calls for insurance purposes are becoming more constant. I am wondering if they realize that I am not an employee, but an IC, and that there is a difference. How may reports do most full time IC’s complete within a week, plus deliver 2-3 times per week?
Thanks for any and all advice.
2 part time (totaling 40+/-) 1 pays weekly/1 biweekly.
Weekly for food. Biweekly for bills.
C-phone speed help! PLEASE! Speed key!
I am in tears - typing speedy gonzalez - a total knee replacement, not a standard, dictated in under 1 minute - FULL REPORT! Can you imagine? I have a C-phone that is just hanging in there, but lost all its programming. Isn't there a # key on the number part of the phone that reduces speed? I need it way slooooooooooow!! I'm afraid to just start hitting numbers, though, cause I've lost reports that way!! Anybody have a # to hit for me???
I remember in Weekly Reader the article discussing "pay TV" and how we didn't see that anyb
would ever pay money to watch TV. I always thought it would be in a coin box on top of the TV set. I couldn't imagine having enough money to do that.
Weekly Reader also predicted that one day we'd go to the store and pay with a card instead of money, that our money would be "virtual" and stay in the bank.
That was about 1960. It was actually a pretty close prediction.
Curosity- I am curious if I am making the normal amount of money weekly for MT. Would anyone care
to share their weekly amount of pay?
Quick question or poll - What does one consider "good money" for weekly bring home income? sm
Would you consider $1000 a week, IC status, working 5 hours a day, 5 days a week "great money"?
What do you make a week and how many hours do you work?
This is for informational purposes only and not to belittle or degrade anyone or boast and put anyone on a soapbox about their income.
Thanks for your help!
spyware
the spyware site you are referring to is www.ewido.net/en/
I went there and tried free version...did not find anything my present spyware program had not found. try emptying your temp. internet files, empty your cookie cash, and defrag. see if that helps. oh. and maybe empty your history folder too. sometimes that gets bogged down after awhile too.
spyware
try spybot, search and destroy, free download, free spyware, or spyblaster.
spyware
Happened to me today when I started working - took almost four hours to get it straigtened out with Dell - glad I paid the $300 for IT support - otherwise my computer would be a goner and I just bought it in August.
Which spyware did you use.
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spyware
Adware SE and Spybot actually installs Spyware onto your computer. I used them for a while and could never get certain spyware off my computer because they belong to Adware SE and Spybot. I downloaded the free beta spyware program from www.microsoft.com and no longer have any spyware. You can also program this to run every morning. Good luck!!!
spyware
Try Spyware Doctor - I have found it to be a great program. lc
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