hi! i was just wondering if anyone knew of a good way to mult-task, like is there a website where i can email, chat, surf the web, and watch videos all at the same time? thanks!

i dont know much about that but if your video card can support two monitors then its easy to watch video on one screen then do something else on another. i do a few things at once with my computer ie listen to music and work on files or work on one file while there is another waiting in the back ground for me

You can multi-task on any computer, up to the limit of the RAM memory. Open programs run in RAM memory and the more open programs there are, the more RAM is required.


Determine how much RAM memory your computer has:
1) Right-click on the My Computer Icon, either on the Start menu or the Desktop display.

2) Choose "Properties" from the right-click menu.

3) In the System Properties window, look for the amount of installed RAM that you have.

See this example

4) Having about 2 Gigabytes would be great, but your system may not be able to handle that much.

You can visit http://crucial.com and see how much your system can take and how much it would cost to install more. I find that Crucial.com's prices are fair and their service and installation instructions are excellent.

Muti-tasking

You can "muti-task" in many different ways, but what this basically means is doing more that one thing at a time. So, for starters, open more that one program, running them from your taskbar or using keyboard shortcuts.

Let's use as an example, getting your email from two different accounts while looking at Answerpool.com at the same time.

Let's say for instance that you have an email account at hotmail.com and another one at yahoo.com, both of which are accessed via the Web.

So open two Web browsers. For instance open Internet Explorer, then when it opens, open another by just clicking on the icon in the taskbar. (Taskbar?).

Take the first browser to hotmail.com and the second one to yahoo.com. Log into each email in turn and while they are loading, open another Web browser and go the http://answerpool.com address. At answerpool.com, click on the Find link and then the "new since your last visit" command. While the search engine works, go back to your hotmail account and then your yahoo.com account to read your mail. Reply to any messages that you wish.

When ready go back to answerpool.com to read any new posts that have been posted since your last visit to the site.

You can bounce back and forth between the various pages using any of several keyboard shortcuts. For instance if you press the Alt key + the Tab key at the same time, you can toggle between two windows. If you press and hold the Alt key, then press the Tab key, you will see a window like this one:



This shows what programs are currently running on your system. Pressing the Tab key (while continuing to hold the Alt key) will scroll between programs. When you have found the one you want, release the keys and the window will be visible on the screen. There are many other quick and very usefully keyboard shortcuts. I have a page that shows some of my most commonly used ones; if you would can to see it Click Here.

If you want to print out the page for quick reference, please read the instruction about reducing the text size so that the main ones will all fit on a single page.

With practice, these techniques become very easy. There are many others and if you have a specific operation(s) in mind that you would like to do, post again for additional information.

Dwight

At the most basic level Multitasking can be seen working on a web portal home-page such as AOL or Yahoo,Excite,Lycos,Jeeves....
or looking further in Google Desktop in a good example without opening overlapping Windows
FYI You are limited to 20 Windows then a warning notice appears

As Dwight says it is unecomomic to open too many as the Processing does slow down sharply
unless your computers memory resources (RAM and Virtual Memory) can deal with the Load
Try running 2 video clips off the same link together? My 1GB Ram and 2 Ghz Processor can barely run these and am on a 2GB DSL connection
However I can run a Streaming radio link,surf the Web and Have a game running together with out much jerkiness ....It's a case of load it up and see what it can do
Clue to an overload.. right click on the bottom border and select "Task manager" on the list.. this is invaluable in finding out how the computer is under load and B) Gets you of a "crash" 9 out of 10 times
But it is a bit complex to the Newcomer
All I want you to do is Minimise the Window
and look to the icons by the clock There is a green square Yes?
Next open up Windows 1 by 1 and the square will turn red A Half red/green square is the linit for your computer
Now close all those windows you opened
Next click on the Task Manager to restore the Window and click the tab marked Performance
(middle of row)
There is 2 scrolling traces on this Window.
The Top one (CPU usage) show the current load on the processor Green box to left theres maybe a bit of red is the Housekeeping the Prosessor is doing all the time, drag a window around ans it "Jumps" up

If no red trace is seen click View and click "Show Kernal times"
The other Trace is the Virtual Memory and the number There in the left box shows the demamd on the RAM chips Sometimes can spot a partial memory chip failure here(experienced user)

Back to the present...
Open up windows and programe as before ans the Red trace will top out and then the bottom box will increace in numbers sharply as the reserves are called on as a buffer
When the Peak number(can be founf beneath the scrolling traces (on left in "Commit Charge(K)") is reached a warning (out of memory) May be displayed or it stalls the computer in a crash?
Ps Welcome to Answerpool

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Originally posted by iamjrosey:
hi! i was just wondering if anyone knew of a good way to mult-task, like is there a website where i can email, chat, surf the web, and watch videos all at the same time? thanks!

Methinks you'll be right at home with AOL Openride. It provides web browsing, email, instant messaging, and media (theres an impressive collection of video and audio) in one interface.

Most AOL features (including those in Openride) are now free to everyone, provided you have registered for a free AOL/AIM screenname.

Hope this was helpful!

Excellent suggestion JW
Only thing I should add is Do keep a watch on the connection software which come with it
It does conflict with already installed AOL setups so avoid
However if you do want a version that works and has no connection software
try AOL Explorer
PS If you are an Non AOL member they are giving you a 2 GB mailbox and access to most of AOLs features... the Browser is a Parody of the IE7 browser page and the Mailbox is a copy of Gmail .. Well worth a look at