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Bill how about something like.... e=mc2, so why is it the bigger I get the less energy I have?

Meanwhile, in NY State, we still have flood warnings and the spring fed well we thought we plugged up is now causing a small marsh in the far back yard near the woods which makes for excellent breeding for mosquitoes.  I was hoping to enjoy this Sunday, but it looks like more rain.  They say we should enjoy it while it lasts though.  This summer is supposed to dry out in July.

I'm glad to hear a few of you had a good time, despite the weather!    I hope your tent held up better than Zurf's awning, with you in it UJB!  I recall camping in a particularly nasty storm with the hubster one year.  We were good, but our friends gave up on us and went to a motel in the middle of the night.  Tent stakes, waterproofing, tarps, and blow up mattresses make a huge difference to staying dry sometimes.    That's a good story for another day though.

Sounds like an excellent excuse for a second acoustic.  Besides, everyone should have at LEAST two. 

My directions from above, quoted here, might help some of you that have been back recently trying to put songs from Chordie into the Songbook program.    I don't think you can import an entire "Chordie Songbook" into the Songbook app.  I think you have to do it one song at a time.  But... I'm not sure.  I haven't used that software in forever.  I tend to just print songs and keep a paper filled binder (or save screenshots to view on the tablet - or have wifi available and look them up on the fly).  Good luck!  I suggest checking with the program creator if you're still having issues.  Doug's info will be helpful.  Chordie is more of a search engine.  The songs are not hosted here, just displayed here (my best analogy is that Chordie is much like searching Google images.  You can see the pictures through Google images, but Google doesn't have them hosted on their servers.  They just show you what's been indexed)

Doug - Good, easy enough to understand, info about the different hard drive types.    I thought the hybrid drive wasn't really a big deal.  I know I can add WAY more RAM than I should ever need and devote a portion to cache.  As I was reading about them, that's pretty much what I thought.  I still question if, for what I do, an SSD would make a big difference to me or not. But like you, I don't have unlimited money.  I like to use my external hard drives as back up as well, not as the main source and if I'd have gone the SSD route, it wouldn't have been pretty.  A SMALL SSD drive costs near as much as a HUGE standard hard drive. 

Again, good info.  Thank you!

You're welcome, and yup - to echo the rest - It's a family thing.    Glad to have you with us, Bill.

TF - yes, one of my new toys is a Nikkon DSLR.  That little swallow built her nest in that box that's sitting on my porch, about 7 feet from where I have my morning coffee!  She scares me a little sometimes when she comes bustling out of there, but it's been fun watching her and her little boyfriend.    The nest is currently full of feathers!

Dino - we've been promised a "hotter and dryer than usual" summer.  I'm sure glad I can always walk down the road a bit and jump in the lake!  Next they'll be bringing back the whole "if it's yellow let it mellow..." on ya. 85 in the MORNING?  GAH!  I guess I'll stay here and complain about the snow in the winter for a few more years.  I'm not ready to turn to mush before I even wake up.    If we hit 100 here, it's almost always a record.

DE - sounds like we're looking at a dry Summer all around huh?  Good think you know where the water holes are all hiding.  Shhhh... don't tell Dino!

Ok, Russell, next thing I'd check is the start up programs.  These are the programs that get themselves ready to go during the start up process.  There's a few ways to do this, but since you have CC Cleaner installed, we'll go that route since it's fairly easy. 

When you go into CC Cleaner, you'll see "tools" on the left, and then once you click on that, click on "Start up" and make sure you're in the "Windows" tab at the top - you're going to probably see a whole HUGE list of things that start up when your computer starts.  Now, some of those things are important and you don't want to disable them, but others are not so much!  ie: Adobe Reader does not need to start up when you start your computer and run in the background (unless you spend every day reading PDF documents).  If you don't ever use google drive, but it's starting at start up you can disable that too.  This doesn't mean that they won't work when you want them to, it just means they won't be open and ready to go first thing (hogging your start up time unnecessarily).  If you want, you can take a screenshot of what you see here and email it to me, I'll happily look though the list and let you know what you can safely disable on start up.  I tend to be very cautious, and only disable things that I'm 100% sure aren't necessary.  As much as I like the ease of use of CC Cleaner, I do disable the monitor on start up also by the way.    For example, I use a few image editing programs on my laptop, but I have them disabled on start up because while I use them often, I do NOT use them every day.  I'd prefer to wait while they load when I'm ready to use them, rather than have them slow my system down on start up. 

The built in Windows "Snip it" tool is great for taking screenshots!

Windows 10 promises faster start up times.  I hope that it does work well on your laptop!  In the meantime though, having a lot of stupid things starting that aren't needed will go a long way to speeding up not only your start up, the the whole computer in general because - if they don't open on start up, then they won't be open in the background as your using it either (until you need them). 

*I'd have turned this into a private convo. many posts ago - but I think it's good for people to be able to find useful info.  I'm also hoping that if I steer Russell wrong, someone will correct me so I can learn something new too!    Thanks to Doug for the support, and I forgot to mention that I appreciate the info about the SSD's.  I had read a little about the mechanics of them and had a bit of concern re: spinning etc.  Good to know that I chose wisely by not wasting money on one!  I am curious though, what you think about the hybrid drives (500 gb + 8GB SSD).  I didn't get one of those either, seemed kind of gimicky.  I think I'll try Linux when I get some extra time to fiddle around on the computer (who knows when that'll be).  I'm pretty curious! 

Do you mean this page, to request songs be added to the Chordie.com search index?  http://www.chordie.com/addurl.php

Or were you trying to post a link in the forums?  If that's what you're referring to, and you mean in the song request section of the forums, this is spam control.  You will need to post more on the forums and get to know how the forums work by contributing a bit more before you are allowed to post links in the forum.   Sorry, but it's for everyone's safety, and to keep the forums cleaner from spam links.  So... post away!  Reply to this post and others, and you'll be able to post links in the forum in no time.