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I am currently looking through their site for relevant FAQs.

I've not even tried again sorting this website thing out...and the hosting company has gone suspiciously quiet about helping me now that I have signed up. Not too hopeful about this but I will try again contacting them.

(Below is just really me venting my frustration, so no-one need read any further!)

But I have had a frustrating time this morning with a couple of computer issues that has me tearing, what little hair I have left, out.

One is a work related issue that's (hopefully) being worked through by their IT people (I am now back to IE8 as this is the most recent version of the browser where they know things work!!), but the second is an issue I have been having for a few days with eMusic, the online subscription-based music store. Online stores' so-called "downloader managers" are great when then work but they are mind-numbingly problematic when they don't - and so-called helpdesks are terrible at trying to sort out issues: just issuing uninstall/re-install suggestions at every opportunity.

It used to be that, whenever you bought a track and downloaded it from eMusic, the manager would kick into life and the track(s) would be downloaded. Good stuff. But the last few days there seemed to be a break in this process and a whole series of emails went back and forth trying to resolve the issue. I couldn't even get the most recent manager to install and so had to roll back to an earlier one just to get it installed. But, no matter what the suggestions were, I could not get it to work. I managed to work out how to install the most recent version of the manager but that was just as problematic and just would not work. Then when I tried to uninstall the manager the uninstall process seemed to have a problem (a file called "Au_.exe" or something similar would not run properly).

Then I had a brainwave and it fixed the whole issue with only a couple of clicks - I cancelled my eMusic subscription. The problem is now solved. I noticed too that it's really difficult to find any direction to the place on the eMusic site that tells you how to cancel. It is there - I found it via a Google search - but it is tucked away in the depths of their site.

Anyway, rant over. I may leave trying to fathom the website I am trying to get up and running for another day.

Try and update/install QuickTime.
That usually fixes this (unless you get a specific error message?)



Yyyyyeaaahhhhh, but that's pretty generic and can be found even on the Wordpress download site.
I'll just tell you what I did (for whatever that's worth):

- I downloaded the wordpress installation from here.
- Then, following the instructions here, I unzipped the package, made the proper changes to the wp_config file
- Then I used an FTP program (Ipswitch WS_FTP in my case) to upload the entire content of the unzipped directory to the root of my hosted web. Where that root resides differs per provider. Normally it's in the "public_html" folder, sometimes it's directly where you are allowed to connect to.
Easy way to find it is to find a file called "index.php" or "index.html". That's where your (visible) root should be.

That's it.
It's really as simple as that.

Prerequisite:
* access to MySQL on your web server to be able to create a database and a database user for Wordpress!
You will need to put that info in the wp_config file!
Normally this option should be part of the "administration console" (or whatever it's called) that you got access to when you ordered the hosted service.

I can only answer from a 'common sense' approach: it's not part of iTunes proper, and when you removed it, the program started normally again.

So, well, yeah. It does seem to be the cause.

Technically he scrobbler and iTunes are interlinked. So one would definitely influence behaviour of the other (if only that one startes together with the other).
If you're attached to the scobbler (I know I am) you might have tried deinstalling Last.FM completely and see if iTunes then starts normally again. I'm willing to bet that a full de-installation/reinstallation of Last.FM would solve the problem as well.

But if you're happy as it is now, by all means throw out the dll and let things be.

Thanks for the effort you have put into this for me, Martijn.

I've been trying to get to grips with web sites and how they are generated - in the context of my hosting company - and it seems that I may have placed the WordPress part in the wrong place.

If you type in www.woundcaresol.co.uk/wordpress into a browser then you do actually see what I have been trying to do. It's at an early stage at the moment, but it is there. What I need to do is to have what's in the wordpress folder in the root woundcaresol.co.uk folder, i.e., in the "public_html" folder.

I'm just trying to find out whether I can just cut-and-past all that is in the ""public_html/wordpress" folder and move it up a level to the "public_html" folder. Or whether I need to uninstall Wordpress and re-install in the correct folder.

Correct!



Exactly!
But here's the good news: you don't need to do a reinstallation: here's how to go about it.

Yes, it'll mean a bit of fiddling around with your FTP program, but at least you won't have to start all over again!

God, that looks complicated! I may just uninstall and 're-install.

Any suggestions on simple, free video trimming software? (Windows 7)

Think of Audacity, when editing audio files. One can simply highlight an area and press delete and one can cut out as many sound bites as one wants. I'd like something like that for videos. I prefer if it doesn't have tons of features that I'll never use, as I like small, neat programs that don't take up loads of resources, but all programs today seem to be huge and overly complicated, so perhaps that's not possible. And I prefer not to get malware of course.

Anyway, before it's suggested, I know that Windows Live Movie Maker can trim into smaller bits and then join them into a video, but that's a lot of work and more importantly the videos it produces don't play properly on my computer.

I've looked at many programs, but it seems impossible to find one that fits my needs. I'm sure it's due to my ignorance with programming, but I don't understand why it has to be so difficult to simply delete some data in the middle of a file.

Anyway, I would hugely appreciate any software suggestions. Oh, and format is less important. It would be nice if the program could edit several formats, but I have a program to convert between different formats.

Peter

Great thanks, Jim! I've landed on Avidemux. It has its share of bugs, but it works just fine if I don't try to do anything too fancy.

Peter

Can anyone recommend some free DVD software for my laptop. I ditched WMP ages ago and for the rare times I needed to view a DVD I used VLC Media Player.

However, recently the VLC player hasn't been working, crashing even when I try to run it to play a DVD. When it does start (on the second attempt) it refuses to do anything at all. I had an old version so uninstalled the old version and installed the newest version. Same problems.

I never liked the interface with VLC so I have uninstalled it again and am now looking for some other DVD-playing software.

Any suggestions? (Laptop runs Windows 7)

So I tried to install my ancient IBM Scanner on my Windows 7 to no avail (no driver to be found anywhere).

But an unexpected consequence of these efforts is that there was suddenly a bar at the bottom of my Explorer window which I can't seem to remove. See this screengrab:

http://celluloidtunes.no/non-website/annoying.jpg

To all you Windows 7 experts out there -- how on EARTH do I remove this?

Awesome, thanks! Phew...I thought I was stuck with that thing forever and ever.

Does the scanner come with Driver CDs? Maybe try installing the INF file?

Face it: You need a new scanner. They are slim and fast. You will love it.

Volker