Comments on: Acer Aspire One – what about messenger, skype and email?

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:27:57 +0000

Further to the last comment, access to Hotmail works on my home LAN, but not at work where I use this computer. I took it home last night for the first time and discovered this. I have an old Acer Travelmate that’s over 10 years old and it can connect to the Wi-Fi and access Hotmail.

Thanks

Jim

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:08:11 +0000

Hi. My new Acer netbook, Aspire one, will go to the hotmail login page, but will not log in. I see others have this problem, but I can’t seem to find the solution. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jim

By: Andreea

Andreea — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:43:57 +0000

Hi, I have a problem with my acer (aspire one,linux)…when I try to sign in to the messenger,this program “tell” me: “Your Yahoo Messenger account…is error
Login failed, no reply”. I don’t know what it is…I want to stay online on messenger,but this take a few seconds. I think I try to update something,but I don’t know where to find it.Anything I want to download,it save the file,but when I try to open that are just some letters,without any logic…Help me about my messenger !!!

By: Safia Asfand

Safia Asfand — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:57:34 +0000

Hey
When I try to open My Documents, I receive this msg: Could not open ”folder name”. Nautilus File Manager is not running”!

Safia Asfand

By: safia asfand

safia asfand — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:10:45 +0000

Hey!

The cam is still not working and now ‘My Documents’ doesn’t open! I have all my pictures, uni lectures and other important documents in it! Please help.

Regards
Safia Asfand

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:49:26 +0000

I have managed to download Skype from thhe website and have managed to get the button onto the Connect menu through your very handy guide, yet when I click on the button, I can’t get Skype to open. I can’t access it through right clicking the desktop and going through Network either.

Any ideas?

By: Safia Asfand

Safia Asfand — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:36:02 +0000

Hey Michael! that’s alright. I had used it only with msn. and I don’t have Skype in my notebook. The web cam would some times work on msn and sometimes not but I could always use it to take photos or make videos. But now I can’t even do that. Every time I click it, it says ‘video capture device not found’ and when I try to use it with messenger it says something like ‘your web cam and speakers are already in use…..etc’

Thanks for your help =)
Safia Asfand

By: Michael Walsh

Michael Walsh — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:21:52 +0000

@Safia Asfand – Sorry about the delay. Took advantage of Christmas break to change a whole bunch of things which took me offline for a while.

Not sure about the reasons but I’m remembering something strange with Linux/Messenger/Webcam. What messenger service are you using? If I’m not mistaken, it’s not compatible with Yahoo – not sure about the rest.

Also have you tried the webcam with Skype? Or an online service like Seesmic? If it works with either of these but not Messenger, the problem is with the software.

http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/07/getting-skype-on-the-aspire-one/

By: Safia Asfand

Safia Asfand — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:47:47 +0000

Michael????

By: Safia Asfand

Safia Asfand — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:14:02 +0000

Hey Michael!

I have done the system recovery finally. Your video is too good. The messenger is now working but the web cam still says ‘no supported video capture device found’! Can it be my netwrok connnection problem?

Many Thanks
Safia Asfand