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Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 17th 18, 02:12 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 69
Views: 2,033
Posted By sticks
Router

On 4/16/2018 7:48 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
How long should a router last? Mine is over two years old. Twice
today, I had to reboot it in order to access any Web pages.

My experience has been...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 12th 18, 10:51 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 21
Views: 363
Posted By sticks
Blocking ALL Window$ Update servers

On 4/12/2018 9:29 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 12/4/2018 2:07 AM, sticks wrote:

You really make it hard to converse with you by continually snipping all
the relevant information. So I guess...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 11th 18, 11:10 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 21
Views: 363
Posted By sticks
Blocking ALL Window$ Update servers

On 4/11/2018 3:07 PM, Sam E wrote:
On 04/11/2018 01:07 PM, sticks wrote:

[snip]

YOU already gave your "approval and consent" to updating when you
accepted your Microsoft license...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 11th 18, 07:07 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 21
Views: 363
Posted By sticks
Blocking ALL Window$ Update servers

On 4/11/2018 10:41 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 11/4/2018 10:27 AM, Roger Blake wrote:

You can only be charged under DMCA if you live in the United States.


You don't need to argue...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 21st 17, 05:49 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 1
Views: 297
Posted By sticks
office and acrobat buttons not showing

Kind of a weird problem started about a week ago. In office picture
manager, the boxes for the next and previous arrows are there, but only
visible when moving the mouse over them. The arrows...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 13th 16, 12:32 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 6
Views: 748
Posted By sticks
Copying iPhone6 Files to a PC

On 6/12/2016 12:55 PM, Boris wrote:
Hi,

I'm basically a 'wintel'/Android user, but my daughter has asked me
about her iPhone. I'd like to be able to help her.

She has a 16GB iPhone6,...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 7th 16, 01:31 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 9
Views: 935
Posted By sticks
Microsoft Forcing Ungrades to Windows 10

On 2/6/2016 5:11 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Bert:
No need to disable Windows Update, and it's probably a bad idea anyway.

Just change the setting for "Important updates" to "Check for...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 23rd 16, 05:59 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 4
Views: 776
Posted By sticks
GWX Control panel

After reading about this great utility, I've put it on 5 of the family
computers so far. I did set all of them up originally, and they were
all set for windows updates to be checked for, but not...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum May 7th 15, 04:32 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 40
Views: 1,708
Posted By sticks
Network Phone???

On 5/7/2015 10:12 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:


After much searching and playing with router access I find that there
are numerous phones showing up in Network through the day, so I can
...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum May 5th 15, 05:04 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 40
Views: 1,708
Posted By sticks
Network Phone???

On 5/5/2015 10:58 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 5/5/2015 10:23 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Tue, 05 May 2015 10:10:25 -0500, Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Well I have...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum December 27th 14, 01:55 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 7
Views: 699
Posted By sticks
win 8.1 backup and disk questions

On 12/26/2014 1:19 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:

In windows 8, the restore partition does not show up in the File
Explorer, you must go to the Disk Management function to see if it is
still there. ...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum December 26th 14, 11:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 7
Views: 699
Posted By sticks
win 8.1 backup and disk questions

On 12/26/2014 12:37 PM, Paul wrote:
sticks wrote:
Hello all,

MIL poured coffee over her laptop and purchased a refurbished Asus.
i3 processor with 6gig ram and 500 gig HD. I have not...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum December 26th 14, 06:38 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 7
Views: 699
Posted By sticks
win 8.1 backup and disk questions

Hello all,

MIL poured coffee over her laptop and purchased a refurbished Asus. i3
processor with 6gig ram and 500 gig HD. I have not had any prior
experience with win 8 machines, except for...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum December 13th 14, 04:20 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 33
Views: 1,138
Posted By sticks
Communicating with MS

On 12/13/2014 8:41 AM, Gordon wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:31:23 -0600, Gordon
wrote:

I finally got my wife to call Microsoft and get my Office Home &
Business...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum December 11th 14, 06:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 33
Views: 1,138
Posted By sticks
Communicating with MS

On 12/11/2014 11:41 AM, Gordon wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:07:57 -0500, Paul wrote:

Gordon wrote:
Is there any way to communicate with Microsoft about a problem with...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum June 1st 14, 04:45 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 11
Views: 372
Posted By sticks
OT - SSD & Autocad

On 5/31/2014 9:19 PM, pjp wrote:

She runs newest Acad with regular updates (company/contract insists) and
what little I've noticed is she complains about redraw times. I assume
there's a fair...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 4th 14, 11:12 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 55
Views: 896
Posted By sticks
Smartphone to PC file transfer?

On 4/4/2014 5:11 PM, Ken Springer wrote:

To solve your problem, you simply need a cross platform file management
program that works with all your equipment. The 3G has iOS 4, ancient
in...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum March 7th 14, 06:00 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 21
Views: 1,725
Posted By sticks
Whoever recommended Agent Ransack for file searching, thanks

On 3/7/2014 10:52 AM, tb wrote:
On 3/6/2014 at 3:47:30 PM Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 1st 14, 06:27 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 11
Views: 352
Posted By sticks
Google Question ...

On 2/1/2014 10:23 AM, Hägar wrote:


"Ron" wrote in message ...

On 1/31/2014 7:20 PM, Hägar wrote:


"sticks" wrote in message...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum January 31st 14, 04:14 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 11
Views: 352
Posted By sticks
Google Question ...

On 1/30/2014 9:00 PM, Hägar wrote:
Whenever I opened Google in Windows XP, there was a black 1/4 inch
bar across the top of the page with a number of shortcuts to things
such as Images,...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 21st 13, 05:45 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 80
Views: 2,637
Posted By sticks
Cross-posting

On 9/21/2013 11:22 AM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
In alt.windows7.general, Paul in Houston TX wrote:

IIRC, Netscape 4x did mark cross posted items as read, so for unknown
reasons the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 20th 13, 10:48 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 81
Views: 1,572
Posted By sticks
VoIP vs Landline

On 4/20/2013 4:09 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:22:39 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:57:57 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

Having...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 20th 13, 05:52 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 81
Views: 1,572
Posted By sticks
VoIP vs Landline

On 4/20/2013 11:39 AM, richard wrote:
On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:57:57 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

Having called VoIP a kind of landline, I was taken to task by a couple
of you here, Doing more...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 14th 13, 07:37 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 29
Views: 733
Posted By sticks
Upgrade to Win 8 questionable

On 4/14/2013 1:07 PM, Scott wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:51:58 -0500, sticks
wrote:

On 4/14/2013 12:29 PM, Scott wrote:

If criticising Windows 8 on this...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 14th 13, 06:51 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 29
Views: 733
Posted By sticks
Upgrade to Win 8 questionable

On 4/14/2013 12:29 PM, Scott wrote:

If criticising Windows 8 on this group full flame proof protection is
highly recommended.


The ability to get thicker skin is part of the usenet experience. ...
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