Forum promotion

[graham.lv]

Maybe there needs to be a small graphic with an html link code that members, or anyone could use to post on their blogs or elsewhere?

Just a thought..

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Visit Windows 7 beta Forums

 

[NoviceBoy]

Find a member with reputation.

Hello people. Every one out there with a pc needs help with the box now a then. Yes?
Face it, If ya own a pc, ya gota keep it running good whether ya know how to or not.

Focusing on the "reputation building" concepts found here at these windows based forums.
Can I make a suggestion to admin and the knowledgeable Higher-up's and the forum owners?

Create a special section of the forum for finding "Private help" and offers to help.
A place for members to build - Secure One-on-One remote Services and relationships.
Remote services, nice tool from windows & over looked for helping in my opinion.

Many suggestions for help can be made on these forums yes, and taking matters to a
PM level in my opinion would be recommended at times, but When it comes to -
- The machine & I - Some people simply do not have the know how to do some things.

Find a member with reputation. - Find and rent a "Remote Helper" if I may say.
Trust worthy. - The "get over here & fix my machine" type of person's.
Testimonies from such services could be rewarded with "Rep. points".

I know where there is hundreds and thousands of pc's online much of there lives.
Many running windows products running into pc troubles daily. Asking for help too.
There time is consumed with other things in there life's and would gladly pay for,
some setting up of, and a secure remote special services helper.

Excuse me for the extra blab'en on hear, but I do believe these forums are worth
pointing folks to, in there searching for the proper answers to there pc troubles.

From the number of folks I happen upon at various other forums, requesting help with
there troublesome pc, I myself wanting to help, do not find the time to get involved.
As I do find people out there giving good advice, I cant help but think that any
are as knowledgeable as the members found here at the Vista & Windows7 forums.

We could all use a Trusted warm blooded virtual technician at times.
Real people helping real people. Earning reputation and helping others.

If any one else thinks this is a good idea or could expound on the concept,
Please add your ideas and suggestion. Or your two cents. lol.

"The better the plan, the better the program."

Thank you and it was only a suggestion.
Paul'y

Note to Admin, if this should be a bad idea/concept, Please delete.

 

[davehc]

Your input is interesting and has merit, Novice Boy, but is not the whole forum dedicated to such, or do I misunderstand?
To have requests for help openly on the site, can result in good and, admittedly, bad input, but this could occur in a dedicated forum also.
Should your suggestions reach fruition, there is a danger for those who achieve the required "reputation" standard, of being overwhelmed. As you yourself have admitted, it needs a great deal of time and dedication.
Maybe not directly relevant to the discussion, but I had a unique experience, in this context. in the very early days of testing Vista. I was luck enough to be picked out for Beta testing and, in my retirement, I dedicated myself to testing the OS, pretty much as a hobby. As a result, my output to the help forums was enormous. A lot of those offers and hacks are still being passed around to this day.I was using a different pseudonym then, and, by accident or design, my (Hotmail) was revealed. From that moment on, I became increasingly flooded with Email to the point where, eventually, I had to change my pseudnym and abandon my Hotmail address. I also felt, at the time, that anything I had to say on a subject should be there for the world to read, correct, or duff, info.
Bottom line, to stop my ramblings, I think it would be a retro idea to confine the help requests to one person or section, if that is what you are suggesting.

 

[davehc]

I have to bore you a little more - sorry.
In spite of what I have just burbled, there is one thing that could be added to the site. After posting the above, I wanted to add another post in an "advice" or help" category. I found, for the first time, there is no such category.
Maybe something of the nature Windows 7 Help, or Windows 7 Hints.etc, would be useful?

 

[dmex]

Your input is interesting and has merit, Novice Boy, but is not the whole forum dedicated to such, or do I misunderstand?

Forums are designed so an issue affecting a person now, can be found months or years later and then help that someone help themself without having to constantly retype the same procedures and information or waste time solving the same issues over and over again

300 people needing help with the same issue over and over again can be overwhelming and annoying especially when you want to begin solving a new issue and the one everyone keeps requesting help with has already been solved...

I do use a Link to my Main messenger account so others can contact and speak with me directly about any issues or problems but I always refer them to the relevant threads so they can post their problem and resolution and in-turn help others months or years later and so others can learn from their experience

If you want to have a chat just click the little messenger icon below

 

[garysgold]

Maybe something of the nature Windows 7 Help, or Windows 7 Hints.etc, would be useful?

Aren't the forums the Help and the tutorials the Hints.

Gary

 

[z3r010]

Thats how I see it Gary

 

[echrada]

Aren't the forums the Help and the tutorials the Hints.

Gary

Exactly!

 

[davehc]

I see your point. Looking at other sites where I roam, I can see they are all very much the same.
But, for example, there has been an interesting discussion ongoing, regarding "Hints" or "Help" concerning the tansfer of the sidebar from Vista to 7. I am probably looking at this from the wrong point of view, but, let us say, a newbie enters the site and is wanting to read up on any ideas people have posted. Would he be likely to look under "General Discussion" to find such interesting and useful updated material on 7? Or?

 

[Mark]

Well I have to say that is my Fault and it SHOULD be moved to a more appropriate location, Most likely place would be in tutorials, so I might make a tutorial on this tonight.

 

[dmex]

Well I have to say that is my Fault and it SHOULD be moved to a more appropriate location, Most likely place would be in tutorials, so I might make a tutorial on this tonight.

Its there

 

[Mark]

Thanks Dmex

 

[garysgold]

If I'm looking for info on a particular feature or problem and don't know where to find it, I use the search tab at the top of the page. Search is good. Mr GRim's tutorial is at the top of the list and the other threads are also listed. Thanks Mr GRim.

Gary

 

[NoviceBoy]

Yes, These forums are the high light of my year. I am very happy & my pc thanks you.
Best help I've found to bringing results to a pc that needs a Brick thrown at it. LOL.

Thank you each and all for your replies. I have the highest respect for others and
the things they have gone thru to know what they know now. The nightmares of learning.
When it comes to knowledge and the learning curves, I'll stick to me being known as;
The NoviceBoy. Yes, I am here to learn and learn from others I will. Thank you.

In efforts to bring the thread back to it's original topic, "Forum promotion",
I recommend, build your members profile page and pass it around to peoples you know.
This is the place each member can tell everyone, who they are and what they do.

As the forum grows in popularity, using your profile page to refer peoples, I feel,
it will, help the forum owners maintain there list of where the traffic comes from.
We are in the world of fighting spam, yes? Help admin by promoting your profile page.

Note to admin. - In each members profile page, among the available "Tabs" to view,
add a tab for a members "Blogging". This is only a suggestion as I have seen it work.
I have seen Google activity "sky-rocket" with this idea and it dose bring the traffic.

As an example of a forum I am a member of, built much the same as we have here.
Please, let me introduce you to and share my profile page over there. The forum is
very active with over 100,000 members and has over 1,000 logged in at any given time.
Do take notice of the members "Profile Page". One of the available tabs is a blog.

The forum I refer is called, The "Warrior Forum". My user name over there is, Pho-neme,
Here is my Warrior Forum profile page - note; i only add this here for an example.
- link; WarriorForum - Internet Marketing Forums - View Profile: Pho-neme
I speak the truth, with each member blogging, the search engines will go Crazy.

Other then that, Content is king. Posting and reply's with good content, - Rules.
Tis the reason I found this site at first and made it back here "in the time of need."
On my First page of Google resutls w/search terms - "Vista services settings".
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And with that, I would like to add my extra bla, bla, content. Problems with my pc.
For a brief past couple weeks of horror with my machine, continue reading if you must.
A guy sometimes might prefer a quick button, - Click -"Vista, Fix thyself". lol.

Here's my story and I'm stick'en to it. Stuck with it more like it. lol.

My most resent two week adventure with my Vista/ie7 seems somewhat of a joke for me.
clueless to my searching of what could bring any resolve to my current troubles.

What started out as "ie" unable to respond and closing each and every time I used it,
very frustrating, As soon as I thought I may have found an answer - ie shuts down again.
Come to find out, maybe nothing wrong with ie. Something else using up the resources.
I was also receiving reports from my ATI graphics software that there was conflicts.
keeping the "Box" online long enough to find out that there was no ATI updates needed.

The next faze of trouble, came on sudden and very violent, the "Box" simply shut off.
Worse then the blue "screen of death". I thought the electric bill needed paying.
As it appeared to be at the time a Windows/ATI/monitor conflict of some kind,
I tried plugging in a different monitor to rule out a monitor hard ware failure. Not so.

After a view hours of recovery with boots and restore sessions and safe mode starts,
making it to the desk top, I immediately change the performance settings under, -
- Performance Information Tools/Adjust Visual Effects/Performance Options -
From "Let Windows choose what's best for my computer" To "Adjust for best performance"

Making it over to the windows "service", I started kick'en a few of them "on".
Not Knowing for sure what services should or shouldn't be running. (OEM Settings).
Regaining and finding stability with the "Box", I hit the web in search of help.

I would like to add that my - Google search results for "Vista services settings"
and from there first page of results, linked my back to these Windows7/Vista forums.
Here is the link I landed at and I highly recommend to any, follow the advice given.
Link; Services - Vista Forums

Simple and to the point, Go give your Machines a "services tune up'.
I set the services to the OEM recommended settings and the "Box" runs like new.
Thank you once again for the "tune-up" guys. Nice work over there.
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Now that things are running sweet again, the next thing on the agenda is, WHY.
I believe there is a couple things that may have caused my box to go into convolutions.

First, I had recently changed my isp. Cant say how or why that might make trouble,
unless for maybe some reason, some "Windows feathers" got ruffled. lol.
Looking at the stock marking regarding the isp big boys, brings me to wonder.
Let me avoid and skip this subject for now, reason, I don't have my facts together.

Along with this, well, you want the short version? some GOOD ADVICE FOR ANY?
NEVER RUN ANY TWO ANTI-VIRSE PROGRAMS AT THE SAME TIME. YOU-ASK FOR TROUBLE.
Yes, I was on a mission to burn up the board. lol. Let'em fight it out. lol.

Here is my example; My "Not up-to-date" Norton (that came free with the box),
claims they caught a worm or something. After they supposedly isolating the trouble,
I introduced the Beta Trend-Robot-search-tool(TM) to my system. Braking my own rules,
I found that the leaders in the anti-virus software, Norton & Trend, accompanied with
SpyBot-"Search & Destroy" and Windows Defender, did actually do fairly well together.
Not to add insult to my injury, (Piece of Hafe-Broken pc), I gave the mess, McAfee.

In my opinion, McAfee's system suite works the best regarding system performance with;
Microsoft Windows Defender, Windows Vista and Windows 7. (Have working proof).

I Shredded the complete Norton program, (Infected so they said). Trashed the Trend,
and stopped the service from SpyBot. - Light-up the Windows Defender and McAfee.
With the OEM service setting from Services - Vista Forums
and "Bam", I do have a nice performing box again. Only sharing what worked for me.
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I will remind any, I am the Novice Boy. Here's my extra babl'en on if any interested.

The real problem here-is, I myself like many out there, think differtly then many of ya'll.
Most of you think, live and breath in different languages. I'm still stuck in English.
Many of you folks can do this stuff in your sleep. I loose sleep till I "get it"done.

I guess mostly where I am coming from stems from the many hours I've spent fix'en my box's.
Straight up, the wife and kids are mad. Any time there's trouble w/one of the units,
"There goes daddy again." "Shouldn't see him till he get's it figured out." LOL.
I personal have a problem over here. I don't stop till I've gotten the problem resolved.

I cant tell ya how many times I've crashed the xp units to know what I know now day's.
I've been in there ya'hoo'en with the regedit, not understanding a bit I was doing, lol,
and now there's vista. The hours spent searching for resolves to things now and then.

- Well,
with my post above and this one I say, A guy sometimes might prefer a quick button,
- Click -"Vista, Fix thyself". LOL.

Good Day Ya'll. Once again, Thank you for your help guys.

Paul'y

Note; I wrote this post a week ago but did not post it until now. Testing time.
Update - The Box is performing very well. Still having some troubles. "I'll be back".

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Black Viper

Hello Paul'y.

Some say this is the best (subjective word I know) guide to figure out services and what to set them to.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Service Configurations by Black Viper












Later :shock: Ted

 

[garysgold]

At this point, Seven is running very well for me. I'm not going to mess with any services unless I start having a problem with something.

Gary