Running win7, fully updated afaik, on a Dell laptop, model available on request. :-) Thing has been working fine. Hibernate before I left this morning....

Hi All, I am staring at a w7-sp1-pro Widows Explorer with no Trash box on the left pane. And, "Folders and Search Options", "show all folders" is...

there is a system variable %DATE% that i have used in win 7. it does not show up in command SET that i can see. It should be in the parent environment...

On 2/27/19 4:23 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: Yes: when this problem manifests itself, I've found plugging in a USB keyboard makes no difference - or...

is there a better way to get to the system event log than using eventvwr.msc at a c prompt?

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I didn't think they still sold these, I had internal Scuzzy drives on the security computers way back when, and one on my home system, Never gave me any...

Why does Explorer show external/portable disk drives as Hard Disks rather than Removable Storage? Seems to me they should be considered removable storage as...

In message , Eric Stevens writes: C is a write-only language. :-) Like all...

If that's the right name. At present, if the battery runs down when I'm not looking, on restarting the machine (by pressing the power button) after...

MariJuana wrote: This is not a binary newsgroup.

Firefox has dropped support for the older XUL add-on extensions in favor of the new WebExtensions format, and has removed database access to the older...

I just updated to version 12.1 and spent an hour or two going over it. Man, what a huge selections of features you can change, add to or delete in Windows,...

On 2/27/19 5:05 PM, Ant wrote: That sounds awfully messy. Why not clean install/restore from scratch and reinstall everything? Too much intellectual...

I have heard about VPNs, Virtual Private Networks, I think, which might enable me to view a USA website for which I currently don't have "permission", even...

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:33:56 -0800, OHM wrote: I have a valid email account on a different PC. Trying to add it to my lapotop (Win XP Pro). I do...

In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 2/21/2019 3:57 PM, John Corliss wrote: As I surf around trying to find...

The "net view" command took about 10 seconds to finish in my system. Is there a way to decrease the time it took to list the computers? PS) How many seconds...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-7-users-you-need-sha-2-support-or-no-windows-updates-after-july-2019/ from...

Probably not just thunderbird but any email or similar app. I had Thunderbird running in email mode. I started a VPN to access a newsgroup site that seemed...